Lifting with the Butterfly hooks

No Gi class.

Missed techniques.

rolling

felt great, much better than this morning.

one technique that seems to work wonderfully- guard sit out to takedown/guard pass. i was rolling and no points would have been scored if it were a match. i couldn't get the sweep- it was more difficult in no gi, but i sat out of guard, went back to my feet, and passed the guard to mount. an interesting strategy that could be worthwhile.

the butterfly control seems to shut down a great deal of sweeps and open guard options with no gi. the main closed guard sweeps are more difficult with no gi (pendulum, scissor), so the half/butterfly/x/open guard stuff gets more play with no gi from what i can see. it seems harder to control the legs and shut the open guard stuff down when you can't grab the pant legs. nonetheless, the tight butterfly passing could be devastating. gotta master the marcelo sprawl pass.

as usual, head control is hard to deal with. ricardo used it on me when i passed to half guard using the butterfly sprawl pass, and i couldn't do much. i ended up giving a lot of space and eventually got swept. that's DEFINITELY going to be part of my game from now on.

x-guard seems to work better for no gi for some reason. they have less options to control your legs maybe? maybe it's just a mental thing. i feel like my guard is harder to pass with no gi. or maybe my game is just well suited for the no gi game.

played a straight up marcelo butterfly this evening. got some nice sweeps, took the back a few ways.

one counter- i lift them with butterfly, they cross the legs to prevent sweep/x-guard while posting both hands. i ducked under and took the back. great success!

elevating the legs and working sweeps or transitions seems to work well. if you elevate the legs enough, they eventually have to base out with the arms to prevent the sweep. they have nothing left to attack with! very interesting.

the standup armdrag was nice when drilling. gotta commit fully to the move to make it work successfully. much much harder to use in live sparring.

started messing with the necktie control and making them step. gotta work on it and my standup game will be a lot better.