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From sitting guard, do a technical lift to your knee, when the sucka reaches out to grab you,  angle outside of his outreached arm.  shoot your nearest leg in between your opponents, wrap over the arm with yours and shoot that arm down  in between his legs  and roll through (like a basic shoulder roll).

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I’ve been working on this sweep for a few weeks now… it has been successful for me, so i thought i would pass it on.  Most of you have worked on it in class.  The fact is that  there are alot of little details to figure out if you want it to work for you, too!  The video is not exicting, at all, and i even spelled it “Kwazi” instead of “Kazi” on the intro, but the Tech Time is there!

I’ve never seen it before, never been taught it either.  That being said, i can’t claim that i made it up? lol!

The Kazi Sweep is a misdirectional, combination, sweep. The only way it will work effectively, consistantly, is if you “sell” your basic Butterfly sweep. So, if i am sweeping to my right, i have to fall to my right side and sweep my arm along the mat to catch the foot. As i fall, i open the opponents guard with my left hook, which allows me to drive my right leg in to position (behind their right leg). If i fail to open the person up and get them to base out, the sweep will fail. As the opponent bases with their left hand they will be exposed to the direction change, from left side fall to left/backwards fall. As soon as they base i make a Scissor Sweep motion with my legs. I continue to extend and push them back with my left arm, left shin/knee and hips. At the moment they begin to change directions, i make sure that they can’t base out their right leg by sweeping it out with my own right leg.

so, basically:

1. Set up in Butterfly Guard

2. Establish left hand grip and keep right hand free

3. Drop to your side and sweep your arm to trap foot

4. Lift their base, with the “psuedo” Butterfly Hook sweep, and shoot your leg through(into a half guard position)

5. As they base, to prevent the initial sweep, pull their foot in towards your chest, push them away with your hips, knee and arm and sweep your leg back against their calf. creating a 90-180 degree spinninng motion, depending on execution, preference and situational variants, you take them over to their back or side from their “based out” postition.

Anyways, this video is a muti-view, multi-speed, demonstration of the intricacies involved.  At first glance it appears to be just another butterfly guard sweep. But, as you watch the video you can notice quite a few details that make it more than “just another butterfly guard sweep”.

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I will keep developing this sweep and post further techniques in the near future!

Peace,

Jimmy

www.ttownmma.com

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T-Town MMA Training Journal Tutorial & Glossary

Copy & paste them into your word processor & they should come out right. You can either keep track of them on your computer or on paper? for 1 week print out 1 of the weekly/Monday and 6 of the daily/tues-sun ones & so on & so forth…. anything on them that can be answered on a scale of 1-10, then answer it with 1 being horrible or super easy & 10 being great or super hard! Any questions just msg me! This is a great way to track your training & all of the things that come along with it. It’s also a great way to keep yourself from getting over trained, stay true to your diet, pay attention to your hydration and keep track of stuff that you learn, all in one place! if you keep a true journal & review it from time to time you will get to see what is working for you & what isn’t. You will also have documented your progress and you will be surprised at how much you’re hard work has paid off! if there are any areas that I have neglected, send me a msg & we will talk about it. It’s the first draft, so I’m sure I’ve missed a few things!!!

Goals: 

Set some weekly & daily goals! Make them hard but realistic! You should also have a separate page for your long term goals: super long term, yearly, 1/2 yearly and monthly
Training Cycle:   every single body works on cycles, so you should train in cycles! After about a year you should see if you work best on 4 week or 6 week cycles. You will be able to tell by reviewing your journal, if you don’t lie to yourself. try starting off with 4 week cycles.

Morning Heart Rate:  

If you don’t have a HR monitor, think about getting one! A sustained fluctuation means something is wrong!!! If it starts to gradually go down it means that your cardio is getting way better and that your heart is pumping out more blood per beat. It also means that your body is eating up the oxygen in your blood more efficiently. But, if you are in good shape and it goes from being at 51bpm to 44bpm, for a while, it usually means you are over-training. Using a HR monitor can tell you a lot about what parts of your energy system you are using, the higher it is the more you are going into the anaerobic areas. Since MMA is mostly anaerobic people think that building a good long distance base is a waste, when it in fact is the building phase for having a great anaerobic capacity! it needs to be built up & maintained, but you do less long period/lower intensity training & more short period/high intensity training as you are getting ready for that type of event. Without a huge base, a huge high end level will get you over-trained pretty quickly!

Morning Weight:  

Weigh yourself in the morning, before you have ingested anything and always in the same thing (naked is usually best!). If you weigh in at 171lbs on Monday and 166lbs on Tuesday, you are not keeping hydrated!!! If you weigh in at 171lbs on Monday and 169.5lbs on Saturday, then you are probably losing weight!

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If you are having mood swings you are probably dehydrated, eating poorly, getting over-trained or you need to go talk to your shrink! lol.

Soreness:

If you are always sore look at the intensity of your weeks workouts. You shouldn’t be sore all of the time! You have to address that by your diet, hydration, and hrs of sleep or finding supplements to attack the free radicals that you are creating during training. If none of that works you need some “easy” time and possibly some time off.

Fatigue:  

Pretty much the same as above!

Techniques Taught & Learned:

It’s a very much personal thing. How did you think the techniques will apply to you? Did you learn them? If you are getting low #’s then talk to your trainer!