Thursday night's class at the Xuhui Gymnasium. Unlike the Tuesday crew, these guys make me look tall by comparison. We were in the presence of greatness today. Kirk (center to my right) the best wrestling coach I know in Shanghai stopped by. We also had Pablo Coonan (to my left) from Pacheco Jiu-Jitsu in Sydney Autralia visiting today.
Lot's of positional sparring today. Lots of clinch sparring.Worked on a sweet takedown combination stringing my patented figure 4 clinch throw with the osoto gari as a secondary option. Posture breaking tricks: reciprocal pulling, snap downs, pivot steps. Sanda sparring: lots of good throws and takedowns. I got to use the dreaded leg scissors again. Julian pulled off a really nice tai otoshi throw- considering he did it with boxing gloves on, it's even more impressive. Huge improvements in the last couple of months from this guy.
Lot's of positional sparring today. Lots of clinch sparring.Worked on a sweet takedown combination stringing my patented figure 4 clinch throw with the osoto gari as a secondary option. Posture breaking tricks: reciprocal pulling, snap downs, pivot steps. Sanda sparring: lots of good throws and takedowns. I got to use the dreaded leg scissors again. Julian pulled off a really nice tai otoshi throw- considering he did it with boxing gloves on, it's even more impressive. Huge improvements in the last couple of months from this guy.