A great night of training. I got to roll and train with Rodrigo and Cindy, as well as doing some good flow work with a white belt, Justin as part of the Advanced/Competition Training.
Technique-wise we were ducking jabs and stepping in for the body lock in the Self-Defense Component, and passing the guard in the Fundamentals. The first guard pass was a ground pass with the knee-in-the-middle wedge opener and the armblock backstep (or walkaround). This was the A-frame pass where you have your grips high on the thighs and use downward pressure with your forearms to take the legs to one side. From here, back step around the legs while dropping your outside shoulder in to the guy's stomach/solar plexus area.
The other pass was the half guard pass the BJ Penn is so fond of, the one where you transition directly into mount after bringing up the free leg and hooking it on top of the guard player's leg triangle.
A nice, familiar session on Monday, with Brock, Nate and Rene also there training. There are times these days when I look around and wonder where some of the folks I used to train with only a few years ago have gone. But with some mat time with Jesse last week coupled with training Monday night, things were once again feeling a lot like home.
