BJJ Zero

North south drills as the person underneath. Push your hands into their hips and "bump" up their head by pumping your legs to bring your hips up. Push them away until you are more or less straight armed. If their head bobs up, pull your knees up to just under their shoulders and grab their belt/trousers and pull your arms in. Elbows outside your knees. An upside down turtle position. From here, pass one arm under their belly to the other side, use it to turn slightly and and manoeuvre yourself around until you end up in butterfly guard. If when you have straight arms, they don't bob up, you can roll backwards to escape. You can almost roll into a back mount position. An alternative is to pendulum your legs. Keep them straight and low to the ground. Bring them to one side and then as they swing to the other, let go of one hip, bring the hand through and turn to your stomach, push your hands forward initially and then scramble.

I can't believe it's been so long since I trained. Life got in the way. Death in the family. Lack of motivation. My gym moved and it made it more difficult for me to train. More difficult, not impossible. But I wasn't prepared to spend the extra time getting to training. The occasional class. Dusting off the gi. Not really finding another gym where I felt comfortable training. Lots of places seem very competitive. People want to win more than they want to learn. And for a sport where ego is supposed to get checked very early, lots of people seem very very attached to winning at all costs. Contact sports have their share of injuries, but when everyone in a gym is broken....well it's just not for me. I'm not tough. I tap early. I would rather learn how not to be in a position where you can arm bar me than fighting my way out of an arm bar that's already pretty tight. It's odd to view the BJJ world online. Everyone seems deep into the sport. I often feel like