13/02/2019 - Sickle sweep

Teaching #836
Artemis BJJ (MYGYM Bristol), Can Sönmez, Bristol, UK - 13/02/2019

Short Version:

• Turn your hips right out, putting you on your side
• Put your 'top' foot to their opposite hip
• Other leg behind their other leg, ready to chop
• Grab their trouser leg with your same side hand, on the hip-push side
• Knock them over, drawing your hip foot back to help come up, ready to pass

Full Version: The tripod sweep I always teach in a previous lesson combines well with the similar sickle sweep: as usual in BJJ, that almost certainly has other names (the most common alternative is 'hook sweep'), but I'm using the term from Theory & Technique (page 226). A good time to try this is if when you attempt the tripod sweep, they kick their leg free from your hooking hand. You could attempt to readjust to recover your position, but it is probably easier to pull yourself towards their other leg with your hooking foot, grabbing the heel on that side. Turn your body toward that newly grabbed leg, swinging your pushing foot over to that hip. With what used to be your hooking foot, chop back low on their other leg to knock them over.

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Of course, the sickle works on its own too. Indeed, Rener teaches this before the tripod on Gracie University. The entry he shows is to hook their leg, pulling yourself in to grab their ankle, then switching into the sickle position: opposite foot on the ankle-grabbed side hip, then chopping low on their other leg with your remaining leg, using your calf or possibly your heel.

In order to get the angle, you'll have to turn towards them, or hook their leg to pull yourself in. If you're going from the tripod, you'll already have their leg hooked. Note that when you follow them up after knocking them to their back, compared to the tripod sweep, your other knee will be raised. That means you'll need to make sure to shove their leg down and step over, enabling you to complete your knee slide.

While grabbing the heel is a perfectly viable grip, it is probably better suited to the tripod, as then you can use Kev's trick of jamming the heel against your hip. With the sickle your body is turned, so that's not easy to do. I'd therefore recommend grabbing the trouser leg for the sickle. That's because it means that once you've knocked them over, you can pin their leg to the mat while also pushing it away. That stops them from closing their guard. This is important, because the sickle sweep will generally put you in a position with one leg in between theirs. Wait as long as possible to let go of the trouser grip: ideally, you want to wait until you've slid your leg out.

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For finishing the sweep, I think with the sickle sweep, technical stand up works especially well. Base on the hand that's grabbing their trouser leg, also basing with your opposite foot. Use that to then bring your same side leg back and stand up. As you stand, thrust their leg into the air with your hand (you can bolster that by grabbing with your other hand too) and move around. It's really hard for them to do much if their leg is way up in the air like that, so passing should be fairly easy.

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Teaching Notes: I didn't include the switch from tripod to sickle this time, as I think that confuses people. I focused on getting up, with the simple option where you just come up into a kneeling position. I still need to recheck the Aesopian details on getting up from guard, that sequence of lessons was useful (plus he did a video). Holding onto the foot helps, using that as a post. I'm not sure about technical stand up from here, but I need to try that again, rewatch some videos. It's been a bit of a stressful week, so I haven't focused as much as I'd like to. ;)

Also, getting on your side, that's important. The retracting of the foot thing really helps for getting up, I find, but you need to make sure you do knock them over enough to get the sweep in the first place. Some more drills could be useful? I remembered to do the breakfalling stuff, at least.

11/02/2019 - Teaching | Open Guard | Tripod sweep

Teaching #835
Artemis BJJ (MYGYM Bristol), Can Sönmez, Bristol, UK - 11/02/2019

Short Version:

• Grab their foot, putting your same side foot on their hip
• Hook behind their other leg with your remaining foot
• Ideally, grab their hip-side sleeve with your opposite hand
• Push and pull with your legs to knock them over
• Come up immediately as they start to fall back

Full Version: You can set up the tripod sweep in lots of ways. I usually teach this from the simple option of hooking behind both their knees, using that to pull yourself in towards them and grab their other leg with your other hand. When you grab for the ankle, you can control it in two main ways. Simply grabbing their heel is the quickest, but that means there is a chance they can kick their foot forwards and dislodge your grip. If you grab the trouser cuff instead, that escape becomes much harder for them, but it does give them more opportunity to turn their foot (i.e., for a knee cut pass).

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With the heel grab, a good tip from my instructor Kev Capel is to pull that ankle onto your hip, clamping it there. This should also help with off-balancing them. You can also simply sit on it. Either way, remember to keep your other hook behind their knee tense, as you don't want them to free that leg and step around, because that will enable them to regain their balance. You can also put it lower on the leg, or even right behind their foot, but be careful, as just like the heel grip, that can increase the risk that they'll step out and avoid your control.

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Once you knock them down, because you have that grip on their sleeve, you can pull yourself up as they go back, moving through into side control. It also stops them basing with that hand, as you're sweeping in that direction (which is why you use a cross grip, rather than same side). Should you lose your sleeve grip, the sweep is still there, but it will be harder to sit up and move through to side control.

If you're having trouble knocking them down, angle the direction of your push a little, in the direction you want them to fall. It is important that you react decisively after you've knocked them down. Otherwise, they'll simply get up first, returning to your guard. That would mean you were back where you started.

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As ever, there are a couple of options. My preference is to come up and slide your inside knee over their leg, leaning your body towards them: you may find it useful to keep hold of their foot (which means you are both basing on your hand and maintaining control of their leg) to stop them moving, but you can still pass without doing so. Your other foot will step over their other leg, like a typical knee slide pass. From there, you can grab their sleeve, underhook their far armpit, then slide through into modified scarf hold. If for some reason you get your knee stuck in their gi, which has happened to me in the past, change your grip to their elbow, drop your bodyweight and move into side control. Here's Kev demonstrating the full sweep:



You'll notice the finish is different in that video: instead of the tight knee slide, you can do a sort of technical stand-up which ends up with a looser pass. For the stand-up, after you've knocked them down, put your hooking foot on the floor, bringing your other leg behind you. So, the hand that was grabbing the heel now pushes into their leg, pinning it to the floor and becoming your basing hand. Your other leg becomes your second base point, then you stand up from there. You remaining hand may or may not be gripping their sleeve, but this works either way.

From there, stand up, still holding on to their trouser leg (you could also keep hold of the sleeve, which will enable you to pull on both limbs for the pass, but it makes it harder to stand up), pulling up. That will make it difficult for them to recover, as you move around to a dominant position like side control or knee on belly. Standing up when someone has your foot in the air is hard.

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Teaching Notes: As ever, getting up is the important thing, I will keep focusing on that. I remembered to do breakfalling drills, but I didn't do the simple getting to combat base type position drill (though I did remember it for the sickle sweep part). That's important, do that next time. Getting up is the hard part for this sweep.

20/07/2018 - Open Guard | Attacking | Tripod Sweep

Teaching #791
Artemis BJJ (MYGYM Bristol), Can Sönmez, Bristol, UK - 20/07/2018

Short Version:

• Grab their foot, putting your same side foot on their hip
• Hook behind their other leg with your remaining foot
• Ideally, grab their hip-side sleeve with your opposite hand
• Push and pull with your legs to knock them over
• Come up immediately as they start to fall back

Full Version: You can set up the tripod sweep in lots of ways. I usually teach this from the simple option of hooking behind both their knees, using that to pull yourself in towards them and grab their other leg with your other hand. When you grab for the ankle, you can control it in two main ways. Simply grabbing their heel is the quickest, but that means there is a chance they can kick their foot forwards and dislodge your grip. If you grab the trouser cuff instead, that escape becomes much harder for them, but it does give them more opportunity to turn their foot (i.e., for a knee cut pass).

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With the heel grab, a good tip from my instructor Kev Capel is to pull that ankle onto your hip, clamping it there. This should also help with off-balancing them. You can also simply sit on it. Either way, remember to keep your other hook behind their knee tense, as you don't want them to free that leg and step around, because that will enable them to regain their balance. You can also put it lower on the leg, or even right behind their foot, but be careful, as just like the heel grip, that can increase the risk that they'll step out and avoid your control.

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Once you knock them down, because you have that grip on their sleeve, you can pull yourself up as they go back, moving through into side control. It also stops them basing with that hand, as you're sweeping in that direction (which is why you use a cross grip, rather than same side). Should you lose your sleeve grip, the sweep is still there, but it will be harder to sit up and move through to side control.

If you're having trouble knocking them down, angle the direction of your push a little, in the direction you want them to fall. It is important that you react decisively after you've knocked them down. Otherwise, they'll simply get up first, returning to your guard. That would mean you were back where you started.

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As ever, there are a couple of options. My preference is to come up and slide your inside knee over their leg, leaning your body towards them: you may find it useful to keep hold of their foot (which means you are both basing on your hand and maintaining control of their leg) to stop them moving, but you can still pass without doing so. Your other foot will step over their other leg, like a typical knee slide pass. From there, you can grab their sleeve, underhook their far armpit, then slide through into modified scarf hold. If for some reason you get your knee stuck in their gi, which has happened to me in the past, change your grip to their elbow, drop your bodyweight and move into side control. Here's Kev demonstrating the full sweep:



You'll notice the finish is different in that video: instead of the tight knee slide, you can do a sort of technical stand-up which ends up with a looser pass. For the stand-up, after you've knocked them down, put your hooking foot on the floor, bringing your other leg behind you. So, the hand that was grabbing the heel now pushes into their leg, pinning it to the floor and becoming your basing hand. Your other leg becomes your second base point, then you stand up from there. You remaining hand may or may not be gripping their sleeve, but this works either way.

From there, stand up, still holding on to their trouser leg (you could also keep hold of the sleeve, which will enable you to pull on both limbs for the pass, but it makes it harder to stand up), pulling up. That will make it difficult for them to recover, as you move around to a dominant position like side control or knee on belly. Standing up when someone has your foot in the air is hard.
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Teaching Notes: I tried emphasising that you get to a passing position, rather than pulling through into a pass. I could demonstrate the momentum problem, but need working knee for that. Making it clear which sleeve you grip. On cupping the heel, there is also the grip option of keeping hold of that, lifting the heel as they fall. Similar idea to grabbing it with both hands and standing, a visiting brown belt was doing it when he drilled this. Builds on how Kev pulls the heel in to the hip, the brown belt kept that motion going to pull back and lift the heel.

06/12/2017 - Teaching | Open Guard | Sickle Sweep

Teaching #734
Artemis BJJ (MYGYM Bristol), Can Sönmez, Bristol, UK - 06/12/2017

Short Version:

• Turn your hips right out, putting you on your side
• Put your 'top' foot to their opposite hip
• Other leg behind their other leg, ready to chop
• Grab their trouser leg with your same side hand, on the hip-push side
• Knock them over, drawing your hip foot back to help come up, ready to pass

Full Version: The tripod sweep I always teach in a previous lesson combines well with the similar sickle sweep: as usual in BJJ, that almost certainly has other names (the most common alternative is 'hook sweep'), but I'm using the term from Theory & Technique (page 226). A good time to try this is if when you attempt the tripod sweep, they kick their leg free from your hooking hand. You could attempt to readjust to recover your position, but it is probably easier to pull yourself towards their other leg with your hooking foot, grabbing the heel on that side. Turn your body toward that newly grabbed leg, swinging your pushing foot over to that hip. With what used to be your hooking foot, chop back low on their other leg to knock them over.

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Of course, the sickle works on its own too. Indeed, Rener teaches this before the tripod on Gracie University. The entry he shows is to hook their leg, pulling yourself in to grab their ankle, then switching into the sickle position: opposite foot on the ankle-grabbed side hip, then chopping low on their other leg with your remaining leg, using your calf or possibly your heel.

In order to get the angle, you'll have to turn towards them, or hook their leg to pull yourself in. If you're going from the tripod, you'll already have their leg hooked. Note that when you follow them up after knocking them to their back, compared to the tripod sweep, your other knee will be raised. That means you'll need to make sure to shove their leg down and step over, enabling you to complete your knee slide.

While grabbing the heel is a perfectly viable grip, it is probably better suited to the tripod, as then you can use Kev's trick of jamming the heel against your hip. With the sickle your body is turned, so that's not easy to do. I'd therefore recommend grabbing the trouser leg for the sickle. That's because it means that once you've knocked them over, you can pin their leg to the mat while also pushing it away. That stops them from closing their guard. This is important, because the sickle sweep will generally put you in a position with one leg in between theirs. Wait as long as possible to let go of the trouser grip: ideally, you want to wait until you've slid your leg out.

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For finishing the sweep, I think with the sickle sweep, technical stand up works especially well. Base on the hand that's grabbing their trouser leg, also basing with your opposite foot. Use that to then bring your same side leg back and stand up. As you stand, thrust their leg into the air with your hand (you can bolster that by grabbing with your other hand too) and move around. It's really hard for them to do much if their leg is way up in the air like that, so passing should be fairly easy.

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Teaching Notes: Main thing is foot placement, bringing that leg back to avoid getting tangled. Is the switch confusing people? Only makes sense when they've already done the tripod already. Breakfalls are important, as ever coming up is an issue. I tried just popping up this time round, so next time I'll try the whole technical stand up thing again and see how that goes. Remember to check the notes from that lesson I taught about Aesopian's points on standing up from closed guard, that might be a lesson worth teaching again too.

04/12/2017 - Teaching | Open Guard | Tripod Sweep

Teaching #733
Artemis BJJ (MYGYM Bristol), Can Sönmez, Bristol, UK - 04/12/2017

Short Version:

• Grab their foot, putting your same side foot on their hip
• Hook behind their other leg with your remaining foot
• Ideally, grab their hip-side sleeve with your opposite hand
• Push and pull with your legs to knock them over
• Come up immediately as they start to fall back

Full Version: You can set up the tripod sweep in lots of ways. I usually teach this from the simple option of hooking behind both their knees, using that to pull yourself in towards them and grab their other leg with your other hand. When you grab for the ankle, you can control it in two main ways. Simply grabbing their heel is the quickest, but that means there is a chance they can kick their foot forwards and dislodge your grip. If you grab the trouser cuff instead, that escape becomes much harder for them, but it does give them more opportunity to turn their foot (i.e., for a knee cut pass).

With the heel grab, a good tip from my instructor Kev Capel is to pull that ankle onto your hip, clamping it there. This should also help with off-balancing them. You can also simply sit on it. Either way, remember to keep your other hook behind their knee tense, as you don't want them to free that leg and step around, because that will enable them to regain their balance. You can also put it lower on the leg, or even right behind their foot, but be careful, as just like the heel grip, that can increase the risk that they'll step out and avoid your control.

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Once you knock them down, because you have that grip on their sleeve, you can pull yourself up as they go back, moving through into side control. It also stops them basing with that hand, as you're sweeping in that direction (which is why you use a cross grip, rather than same side). Should you lose your sleeve grip, the sweep is still there, but it will be harder to sit up and move through to side control.

If you're having trouble knocking them down, angle the direction of your push a little, in the direction you want them to fall. It is important that you react decisively after you've knocked them down. Otherwise, they'll simply get up first, returning to your guard. That would mean you were back where you started.

As ever, there are a couple of options. My preference is to come up and slide your inside knee over their leg, leaning your body towards them: you may find it useful to keep hold of their foot (which means you are both basing on your hand and maintaining control of their leg) to stop them moving, but you can still pass without doing so. Your other foot will step over their other leg, like a typical knee slide pass. From there, you can grab their sleeve, underhook their far armpit, then slide through into modified scarf hold. If for some reason you get your knee stuck in their gi, which has happened to me in the past, change your grip to their elbow, drop your bodyweight and move into side control. Here's Kev demonstrating the full sweep:



You'll notice the finish is different in that video: instead of the tight knee slide, you can do a sort of technical stand-up which ends up with a looser pass. For the stand-up, after you've knocked them down, put your hooking foot on the floor, bringing your other leg behind you. So, the hand that was grabbing the heel now pushes into their leg, pinning it to the floor and becoming your basing hand. Your other leg becomes your second base point, then you stand up from there. You remaining hand may or may not be gripping their sleeve, but this works either way.

From there, stand up, still holding on to their trouser leg (you could also keep hold of the sleeve, which will enable you to pull on both limbs for the pass, but it makes it harder to stand up), pulling up. That will make it difficult for them to recover, as you move around to a dominant position like side control or knee on belly. Standing up when someone has your foot in the air is hard.
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Teaching Notes: Must include breakfalls in the warm-up. Question of how to get up, what's a good drill? Simply getting up from the floor would be worth drilling, there is also the classic diagonal slide. Other options too, like technical stand-up, but people tend to get confused on that. Grip is opposite sleeve not the same side. Come in close with your hips to their foot, you can use trouser grab. Also the Kev method, push a bit while clamping their foot to the hip. So as ever, warm up drills are the thing to think about before next time.

12/06/2017 - Teaching | Open Guard | Sickle Sweep

Teaching #673
Artemis BJJ (MYGYM Bristol), Can Sönmez, Bristol, UK - 12/06/2017

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Live streaming the grading Kev did for us last weekend (I will get a full write-up done on this blog in future, but for now, I have a write-up on the Artemis BJJ website) has inspired me to finally start filming my teaching. I'm starting off with a class I've been teaching for a long time, which I also live streamed in its entirety over on Facebook. That meant I could then chop out the drills and instruction for Instagram, in the videos embedded above.

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The tripod sweep I always teach in a previous lesson combines well with the similar sickle sweep: as usual in BJJ, that almost certainly has other names (the most common alternative is 'hook sweep'), but I'm using the term from Theory & Technique (page 226). A good time to try this is if when you attempt the tripod sweep, they kick their leg free from your hooking hand. You could attempt to readjust to recover your position, but it is probably easier to pull yourself towards their other leg with your hooking foot, grabbing the heel on that side. Turn your body toward that newly grabbed leg, swinging your pushing foot over to that hip. With what used to be your hooking foot, chop back low on their other leg to knock them over.

Of course, the sickle works on its own too. Indeed, Rener teaches this before the tripod on Gracie University. The entry he shows is to hook their leg, pulling yourself in to grab their ankle, then switching into the sickle position: opposite foot on the ankle-grabbed side hip, then chopping low on their other leg with your remaining leg, using your calf or possibly your heel.

In order to get the angle, you'll have to turn towards them, or hook their leg to pull yourself in. If you're going from the tripod, you'll already have their leg hooked. Note that when you follow them up after knocking them to their back, compared to the tripod sweep, your other knee will be raised. That means you'll need to make sure to shove their leg down and step over, enabling you to complete your knee slide.

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While grabbing the heel is a perfectly viable grip, it is probably better suited to the tripod, as then you can use Kev's trick of jamming the heel against your hip. With the sickle your body is turned, so that's not easy to do. I'd therefore recommend grabbing the trouser leg for the sickle. That's because it means that once you've knocked them over, you can pin their leg to the mat while also pushing it away. That stops them from closing their guard. This is important, because the sickle sweep will generally put you in a position with one leg in between theirs. Wait as long as possible to let go of the trouser grip: ideally, you want to wait until you've slid your leg out.

For finishing the sweep, I think with the sickle sweep, technical stand up works especially well. Base on the hand that's grabbing their trouser leg, also basing with your opposite foot. Use that to then bring your same side leg back and stand up. As you stand, thrust their leg into the air with your hand (you can bolster that by grabbing with your other hand too) and move around. It's really hard for them to do much if their leg is way up in the air like that, so passing should be fairly easy.
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Teaching Notes: I didn't remember to take notes,unusually for me, but meh, I have a complete video record of the class I can analyse for next time instead. ;)

07/06/2017 - Teaching | Open Guard | Tripod Sweep

Teaching #671
Artemis BJJ (MYGYM Bristol), Can Sönmez, Bristol, UK - 07/06/2017


You can set up the tripod sweep in lots of ways. I usually teach this from the simple option of hooking behind both their knees, using that to pull yourself in towards them and grab their other leg with your other hand. When you grab for the ankle, you can control it in two main ways. Simply grabbing their heel is the quickest, but that means there is a chance they can kick their foot forwards and dislodge your grip. If you grab the trouser cuff instead, that escape becomes much harder for them, but it does give them more opportunity to turn their foot (i.e., for a knee cut pass).

With the heel grab, a good tip from my instructor Kev Capel is to pull that ankle onto your hip, clamping it there. This should also help with off-balancing them. You can also simply sit on it. Either way, remember to keep your other hook behind their knee tense, as you don't want them to free that leg and step around, because that will enable them to regain their balance. You can also put it lower on the leg, or even right behind their foot, but be careful, as just like the heel grip, that can increase the risk that they'll step out and avoid your control.

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Once you knock them down, because you have that grip on their sleeve, you can pull yourself up as they go back, moving through into side control. It also stops them basing with that hand, as you're sweeping in that direction (which is why you use a cross grip, rather than same side). Should you lose your sleeve grip, the sweep is still there, but it will be harder to sit up and move through to side control.

If you're having trouble knocking them down, angle the direction of your push a little, in the direction you want them to fall. It is important that you react decisively after you've knocked them down. Otherwise, they'll simply get up first, returning to your guard. That would mean you were back where you started.

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As ever, there are a couple of options. My preference is to come up and slide your inside knee over their leg, leaning your body towards them: you may find it useful to keep hold of their foot (which means you are both basing on your hand and maintaining control of their leg) to stop them moving, but you can still pass without doing so. Your other foot will step over their other leg, like a typical knee slide pass. From there, you can grab their sleeve, underhook their far armpit, then slide through into modified scarf hold. If for some reason you get your knee stuck in their gi, which has happened to me in the past, change your grip to their elbow, drop your bodyweight and move into side control. Here's Kev demonstrating the full sweep:



You'll notice the finish is different in that video: instead of the tight knee slide, you can do a sort of technical stand-up which ends up with a looser pass. For the stand-up, after you've knocked them down, put your hooking foot on the floor, bringing your other leg behind you. So, the hand that was grabbing the heel now pushes into their leg, pinning it to the floor and becoming your basing hand. Your other leg becomes your second base point, then you stand up from there. You remaining hand may or may not be gripping their sleeve, but this works either way.

From there, stand up, still holding on to their trouser leg (you could also keep hold of the sleeve, which will enable you to pull on both limbs for the pass, but it makes it harder to stand up), pulling up. That will make it difficult for them to recover, as you move around to a dominant position like side control or knee on belly. Standing up when someone has your foot in the air is hard.
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Teaching Notes: I went with a different scenario this time, attempting to tie it into the long range thing of the maintaining open guard class. I'm not sure that was as effective a way to teach it as my usual hook behind the knees. Next time, I should connect that hooking instead during my open guard maintaining, somehow add that to the metaphor? Maybe even start the tripod lesson by talking about my battlefield metaphor, then noting that as well as spears, swords and shields that primarily push, you can use billhooks to pull them off their horse too? Yay for excessively complicated extended metaphors! :P

I also tried to avoid emphasising that you have to grab the sleeve, in favour of saying you just have to get up. I don't want people to rely on the sleeve too much, as you often won't have that because people won't let you. I also should have drilled knee cut, as that's the common pass to follow when you pull yourself up, though I don't want people to think they can only go for that (still good to have an option, though). A few people ended up just flying forwards, which looked as though in sparring they might fly all the way past. In that situation, useful to emphasise knee cut, control, etc. I'll be teaching it as a pass later anyway, as that's my core pass for open guard month.

Breakfalls are important for this class too, given the point of a sweep is to knock people over. I'm fortunate in that I have two judo black belts at the club, so asked one of them to demonstrate as I talked through the motion. Awesomely, Donal popped in tonight as well. Really good to see him, hopefully he'll be able to do that more often. :D

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