Omaplatas and a New Game

531 squats and presses tonight. Nothing special, just moving weight.

Class was same escape side control technique, with regaining butterfly guard, full guard, and then going into an omaplata. Tons of drilling tonight with Ron and Jason.

We rounded class out with another sparring game and 3 person groups. It’s a ladder of full guard, side control, mount, back. Jason started in guard with Ron, and swept. Ron is out, I’m in…and I start in Jason’s side control. He mounts, I’m out and now Ron is back in…with Jason in mount. Winner stays and advances position like that until he looses. Then the new winner starts with full guard on his own ladder.

I never made it to the second stage (IE sweeping or submitting from full guard), but I stopped Jason’s ascent twice when he was mounted on me by popping out the back door. Ron and I had a couple of good battles too in the lower stages. It was a pretty fun game that forces you into bad positions.