MMA Half-Guard (diary entry)

25.09.2024 Tonight's 1.5 hour Mixed Martial Arts lesson brought more into focus how grappling has to be adapted. This isn't just in reference to having to deal with strikes, although this is a major factor, but also having to deal with gloves. Gloves prohibit many techniques far more readily available to wrestlers and submission grapplers. Thoughts of this point influenced our warm-up rounds. 2-minute warm-up rounds:

1. one-for-one punching

2. one-for-one kicking

3. wrestling with MMA gloves

4. submission grappling with MMA gloves

5. ditto

5-minute sparring rounds:

1. shoot kickboxing

2. half-guard right leg (objective to land five uninterrupted strikes to the head, flatten or cross-face vs achieve dog-fight position, under-hook leg or stand up)

3. ditto

4. half-guard left leg

5. ditto