The week of small wins

This week felt good, I still have some pain on my right wrist. During light-medium sparring, no issues, but some movement are painfull, eg. taking up a bottle filled with water in a certain way. Not sure what is going on, but well.. it felt good to conquer the mind which was telling me: "don't go, it's not good and it hurts". Well sometimes you need to listen, but now it felt like an excuse. Training is always possible, don't use the hand..

Monday Leglocks only - no fundamentals this time (I did regret as it was open guard; more versatile). Leglocks was a very nice training. I picked up some nice details and was able to find some spots of improvement. Also, we learned some variations of a sweep (not sure how it's called).

Tuesday No-Gi training, shoulder crunch this time from closed guard instead with open/butterfly guard. Guard can be opened to perform an armbar, several sweeps or even triangles I would say from looking back at some sparring sessions.

Last weeks it seems stuff is starting to click again, and I am able to see more and more opportunities for openings, retention, pinning and eventually sweeps or submissions. Feels good this idea. One day I will be purple :D

Thursday Advanced techniques, this time a deep dive into the guillotuine - several grips and ways of finishing, focused from the position after sprawling. Also having a focus on the sprawl first, than go for the guillotine, or when standing grab a quicky from a snap down. Very interesting lesson. Much to process, and much details in momentum and timing here. Especially in sprawling, waiting and going for the neck. Timing here is crucial.. as always, but with the sprawl, there is no real recovery is somebody is going for a double leg takedown or single to double shoot and you ain't on time. Also, feels tempting to grab someone's neck directly. This seems not the way, as it this enables the opponent to move to the side where is neck is safe and even pass the legs as you hold on to the neck. Therefore, pushing him down untill the power is out of the shoot/ takedown attempt, than grabbing the neck, or even going to the side for a possible back-take is more sensible to do here.