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6/18 Drilled taking back from guard. Same side arm feed and cross arm feed. 35 min free roll.

6/16 Drilled taking back from bottom guard and collar choke to escape effort. 35 min free roll.

Honestly, and I hate to admit it, I'd rather see them get back up and keep the fight moving. Everyone remember Gracie v Shamrock in the first super fight? Yeah, I've been trying to forget for years as well. I appreciate a technical battle....in Jiu Jitsu. If I've paid for a fight I'd rather them keep it moving. Now, I'd rather refs wait for a bit when it's clear that paries are working than they do right now for sure. There's a happy medium, it just hasn't come to the forefront just yet.

Welcome aboard KF!

6/14 Individual Warm up with PTK knife patterns. Drilled armbars, to Omo plata for class. Armbar from Omo for end of class. 40 min free roll. 6/15 60 min free roll Break 60 min Illustrisimo sparring.

6/13 Drilled arm bar from guard. Arm bar with lapel wrap. Finished with transition to Omo plata. 35 min free roll. Finished night with double stick work from PTK. Worked on matching timing and breaking timining.

There's a couple of factors at play. I think the major issue is the proliferation of Jiu Jitsu knowledge in all fighters, not just BJJ athletes, is making domination of the ground game harder when it comes to finishing. In the early to mid UFCs guys with years of experience were tapping people with little to no experience there. This is not difficult. Now, due to the way MMA has evolved, it's rare to find the professional fighter without at least a solid defensive game on the ground. Most have purple belt p,us levels of expertise. Or collegiate level wrestling to work with. It's a far different sport at this point. Add in the slow shift of rules back to the favor of the stand up and the push for exciting entertainment over technical ground battles and you start to see how subs go down over all. Grapplers often used to gain advantage by the relaxed ground game while wearing down opponents until opportunities appeared. On this, athletes a getting better and better. This, coupled with the technical increase of your average pro fighter, and you start to see how this no longer works as well. Then, throw in a ref that stands grapplers up to keep a bout exciting and you're gonna see a dip in numbers. I think these have more of a factor that touching these things out. One can defend a poorly applied arm bar, but a good one will result in a broken arm. Now, fighters have gotten much better (again, the over all skill is higher) at knowing the difference between what is not going to trash their elbow and what will. That determines how long and well one should resist. Fighters are just better at reading that line now. As to chokes over other subs I think it has to do with the security of the lock over arms or legs. The structure of chokes locks people in, in a manner that is highly controlling. Once a RNC is set its hard to slip out. Conversely, even a well devised arm bar can get sketchy when both parties are covered in sweat.

6/12 Drilled PTK multiple strikes form. Finished with Illustisimo movement and strike work.

As another guy out of multiple arts I'd have to agree 100 percent with how you handle this. It is about respecting the art and what you do as well. There's far too much misrepresentation as it is and it's excellent to see it handled in this manner.

6/10 Drilled arm bar from cross coller grip. 35 min free roll.

Welcome to KF! Can't wait to see more of your ontributions.

6/8 Drilled 16 count pattern followed by flow drill with the sticks. Moved into some fun Illustrisimo sparring drills. 6/9 Drilled arm bar from guard. Moved into lapel wrap for control on arm bar. Add wrist lock to front of arm bar. Finished with lapel choke options to counter to armbar. 40 min free roll

6/7 warm up with footwork drills. 1 mile run Abs Arms

6/6 Drilled PTK knife work. Moved into Jitsu class for the evening and covered scissors sweep and then scissor to flower sweep. 40 min free roll. Finish with double stick and footwork from PTK.

Welcome aboard KF! Now I need to go find that thread!

Personally, I can't stand it. Some how it's crept into Jiu Jitsu as well and I think it's ridiculous. It's over formalized and rather cobra-Kai ish in my opinion. But that's just me. Lots of schools are really into it.

6/5 Drilled clich work from JKD. Had some sparring and rolling time as well.

6/4 Drilled butterfly sweep, half butterfly sweep. 40 min free roll.

6/2 Drilled set up sweep and flower sweep. 35 min free roll.

Well done!

Those are always cool deals. I always like setting on testing boards.

Congrats! Nice work!

Well done!

I agree wholeheartedly here. Shinaido is also correct, if you want a more serious look into the art you'll need more. But that's entirely dependant on your goals. Also, accept that your progress will be slower than some of your contemporaries who are training at different locals more times per week. This too is okay as long as you've done an assessment of your needs.

6/1 Warm up with stick patterns. 1mile run.