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Cool new choke and cool new Triangle set up...

Fabio showed us a couple of smart new moves this week. First the choke: Your opponent is turtled, you have one hook in.  We'll say, for the sake of description here, the left hook is in.  You are unable to get the right hook in, so you reach over your opponent's right shoulder, across the neck, and grab opponent's left side lapel, with a slightly looser grip than usual (right at the shoulder).   Then ,  fall back to your left side and quickly bend your right leg across your opponent's back, whilst pulling opponent's left lapel.  This is a fast choke, and because the initial lapel grip is looser than expected, your opponent will not notice the threat immediately.  BJJ Mommy and I made a pact to not tell her sis Jessica about this choke, but it's so cool I couldn't help myself.  Have at it Jess, just don't use it on me, (yeah right, she will totally use it on me). Speaking of Jessica, I want to give her a special shout out here because she just sta...

Dirt is beautiful

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Comical BJJ Compliments

You know your game is stepping up when your training partner tells you that being in your side control is like being underneath 350 pounds.  Additional side note, you know that the demons, otherwise known as the long standing mental issues with weight, are truly beginning to shrink when you discuss your weight as a tool, to be used, gained, lost, or manipulated, to achieve a goal.  Megan (Tangled Triangle) talked about this recently and I soooo wholeheartedly agree with her.  To have weight made into your servant to which you dictate your will, is freeing.   But about side control... The other day one of my training partners, Bill (purple), said to me after class, "Let's go one more, you are the only 350 pound woman I know, and I need to work on my escapes."  This comment elicited laughter and a 'thank you' from me, as well as a few heckles from classmates.  "Dude! Did you just SAY that to her?!"  But I was pleased and proud as side control has now...

Inspiration

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