Submission Grappling Workshop (diary entry)

18.10.2024 The workshops have returned! Tonight saw four of my private clients plus one guest focus on Submission Grappling for three hours. The lesson largely consisted of constraints-led games, specifically targeting certain areas of the ground-fighting game, mainly looking at the guard in the general. We warmed up with sport-specific activities including snaking forward and backward drills with a partner increasing resistance. We used the following games:

1. Escape or maintain pin without using arms or hands

2. Break stand-up or break posture from guard (guard must remained closed)

3. Both above with the hands now being used

4. Neck, neck, shoulder

5. Begin in arm-bar position from guard - objective to transition to other side arm-bar, omoplata or triangle choke vs objective to escape

6. As above with triangle position

7. As above with omoplata position

8. Begin in reverse arm-bar - objective to get foot under chin (gogolplata) vs objective to escape

9. Begin with foot under chin - objective to get hands behind neck versus objective to remove foot

The workshop finished with some technical work on passing through or under the guard. https://clubbchimera.com/services/