Buna echipa.
Wow! April already.
TECHNIQUE OF THE MONTH
In February a few people asked for a month of guard passing. It’s been a lot of fun despite us being put back on lockdown in the last week. I know I have particularly enjoyed watching all the situational sparring and seeing everyones progress. We looked at passing from the following positions:
Closed Guard
Open Guard
De la Riva Guard
While these are only a few of the guards you will encounter there are some fundamental rules from each that you can take into any guard passing situation. Wether you are a pressure passer or a more dynamic passer the fundamentals can be seen as:
Removing the opponents structure
Changing direction
Maintaining pressure
One of my favourite concepts that I have learned this month is Balling vs C-Spine which I picked up from Nick Salles and Danny Maira on Jiu Jitsu X. It’s worth revisiting as a concept for understanding how your oponents’s body can change your passing.
https://jiujitsux.com/courses/modern-passing-mindset/lessons/balling-vs-c-spine/
If you want to understand the difference between Pressure and Dynamic passing take a look at these videos.
Pressure Passing by Bernardo Faria
Dynamic Guard Passing with Leandro Lo
Attendance Leaderboard
This month Robi and Razvan Catilina topped the table. Great work from both of the heavy team. I know that b y the end of the month I definitely felt like those two had been most often!
1.= | Razvan Catilina | 13 |
1.= | Robert Kis | 13 |
2. | Alex Valea | 12 |
3.= | Raresh Pa | 11 |
3.= | Alex Enache | 11 |
3.= | Andrei Molnar | 11 |
4. | Razvan Mihonesc | 9 |
5. | Bianca Todo | 8 |
6. | Alexandru Cioran | 7 |
7. | Razvan Furdui | 6 |
8 | Andrei Lazar | 5 |
9. | Alex Mezei | 3 |
10. | Darius Imbrea | 2 |
11. | Octavian Margineanu | 1 |
Finally
Thanks again to Raresh for running the Judo class last month. We will make this a regular thing when we are back in the gym but I want to show my appreciation to Raresh for taking the class and teaching some great Judo fundamentals!
De Ashi Bari
Osoto Gari
I look forward to welcoming you all onto the mats wherever we are in April!