Wolf's training notes

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A notes and technical journal hybrid/source dump

Master list of solo drills:

Standing:
Leg kick check holds and reps
1-2 stepover, 1-2 carry
Duck under armpit, add visualisation of opponent left/right punches
Jab/straight adequate head off-centering
Stance and Motion, feints, circling, stagger and square
1-2 switch-single leg-finishes on wall

Spoiler: Details

Options:
1. Pin shoulders to wall with heavy head/shoulder pressure under the head, stay on single. Right hip/leg wide so hip forces their weight off their left leg. Face body left, bring back leg up to a narrower squat and squat to fully standing, kosoto hook with wall leg onto their standing leg. On ground: right hand around waist, head pressure onto them, left arm punching. If they build onto arm, grab wrist with punching hand, forearm with waist hand, pull their wrist and especially elbow down towards you (like making their forearm point to their chest, not pulling it under them), keep hold with waist hand, punch more, head under their chin. Potential fight finisher.

2. Pull them a tiny bit, switch to bodylock. Pin their shoulders to wall with shoulders/head - head pressure against side of their jaw (can pressure higher than for single leg because closer in w/bodylock), split their legs with your knee, then pull their head down to your back leg's ankle.

3. If the manage to step their left leg out while finishing above throw, take them backwards with ura nage/tani otoshi, land with hips facing down and while landing hook your left leg under their left leg to top half guard, or if no hook achieved, khabib squeeze with legs gnp, or slide shin onto adductors.

Single leg defence sequence against wall
Ankle pick circling to switch step
Standing to floor:
Low single standard
Low single misdirection
Low single head too far finish
Sweep single entry
Ankle pick circling to shot
Floor:
Triangles from guard
Brace while hitting own stomach and breathing, 1-2 minutes
Switches from bottom side turtle
Neck bridges
Butt scoot-forearm face across-hip heist-overhook to top side turtle

Spoiler: Details

butt scoot purpose: legs straight. Inside forearm bone against face. Deep overhook. Heavy on them. Drive into, pull with overhook, cup chin with hand, switch overhook to far hip at side turtle. Finish with leg up to drive into them. Punch

Knee-elbow bottom side to clamp grips
Tech get up

Video study:
Low single in comp
Mateus Gamrot (UFC/KSW)
Sakuraba (Pride)
John Smith (wrestling)

Sweep single in comp
Rei Higuchi (wrestling) - finishes on the mat

 

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Sweep single

Spoiler: note

shoulder needs to hit them before your knee hits the ground. Head stays on the inside and down while walking around getting the angle

Recovery poor shot

Knee tap underhook

Ankle pick underhook

Spoiler: note

Throw by to ankle pick if their overhook isn't heavy, snapdown while circling to ankle pick of their overhook is heavy

 

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Scoring from bad positions

Notes:
-If hands locked around one leg: inside eye to inside arm's bicep to get more power. Build up height with body rather than pulling in. Drop to outside hip, take the angle.
-If can't lock hands: grab on inside of thigh, plant inside hand on floor next to own chest, build height and take the angle.
-If one arm on but can't get angle after building up: same as above (keep one arm on, other hand on floor near chest, build up). Shoot inside knee to underneath chest, then come up straight through the back door, keeping hand on leg and turning towards leg as coming through to put other arm over and around it (pivot on inside leg's knee).
-Front headlock: lachlan giles guillotine defence ie grab their elbow and pull it in towards chest, then switch to other hand to pull in more with a grip higher up on their tricep. Really look out to thr side/into their armpit. Rotate out flinging free arm over their back, and driving off outside leg. Head comes out first when rotating out.
-If both hands on, no headlock: peekout to opposite side as the leg you shot on. Both knees come through to kneeling position, as arm on that side drives back into their armpit (see video). Peekout IMMEDIATELY after failed shot if both hands planted, not waiting.
If they have an underhook: write later, not a focus

Headquarters passing

Notes: later

 

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When double legged backwards (butt scoot) 8thoct25:
Sit up with hands on floor behind you with both hands pointing backwards as support to not fall to back if driven into. Butt scoot backwards until both legs straight, bring both your heels to butt on the side where their head is, then use inside of forearm to push their face over to the over side of your hips while doing a hip heist in that direction, then the same arm becomes a deep whizzer, other hand grabs under the chin, then circle around behind them to side turtle for gnp.
Why straight legs: so it's harder for them to grip your legs than if your knee was a crux for their arms.

Guillotine and darce off sprawl 6thoct
Sprawl hard and get legs back so can't be grabbed.
When sprawling, push down on their backs of their shoulders with hands pointing outwards. Then keep pressure on with legs back and put left arm through under chin from the left side (directly, not trapping their arm) and put right arm through over their other tricep, connect hands in gable grip, adjust your choking arm as far across to the right as possible. Using this grip, drive them back so their butt is on their heels. ONLY after that, switch to a guillotine grip. Then pull them up and to the left so their head and arm both are on to the left of your hips (otherwise it won't work), then shoot your left knee to the front of their hip on the same side (their right hip), put right leg over their back, oblique crunch to left to finish.
Darce from here: slam foot leg back down from their back, straighten left while turning onto your left side. Then switch to darce grip: right arm on their lat, left arm on your right bicep, then keep the side of your hips on the ground and close your hips into them. It's a neck crank as well as choke (be careful driving too much into training partner, get there and then slowly close the space more).
Guillotine grip is: inside of forearm against throat/neck, other hand overhand grips under the choking wrist to pull it up.

Wall takedowns 13thoct25:
1. Overhand right with stance switch, grab single leg. Drive to wall with head inside under their head. When reach wall use my head and right shoulder to pin their shoulders to the wall. Pull them slightly away from wall to switch to bodylock, drive head against side of their jaw (can now drive higher up because have a closer grip). Then put right knee between their legs, knee against wall. Drag them down towards my left ankle.
2. If they step their left leg out while taking them down, can switch to ura nage, making sure to land hips down on top of them and hooking with left leg into a half guard for punching, or if miss that land into mount khabib style (knees pinching together). If you go behind for ura nage but they step their left back behind you, return to dragging them to your left ankle.
3. Same entry, but keep single leg grip. Get right knee to wall. Use right hip to elevate their left hip to force their weight onto their right leg, then turn to left and bring left leg nearer to a narrow squat position, then squat up. Hook their right leg with my right leg as taking them down, so land in a top half guard. Then use head pressure on them and punch them, right arm bodylock grip. When they try to build up, pull their arm with both hands (left on wrist, right on forearm near elbow) - pull down it towards you as much as possible like it finishes perpendicular to them, not pulling it under them. This is very uncomfortable for them. Keep hold with right hand, left returns to punching, when they block use space to put head under their chin, then keep punching. Potential fight-ending sequence.

Guillotine sweeps from bottom side (if they pass around guillotine) 23rdoct
Options depend on their movement
1. If they move to side control hips facing down and drive into you, oblique crunch like finishing guillotine while bridging to flip them across your body, then flip into mount, hips in and oblique crunch to finish choke.
2. If they pass to side control but sit onto the side of their hip, can't sweep them across your body but can sweep them directly overhead instead with same oblique crunch and bridge, then knee slide to get to mount and finish choke
3. If they don't drive into you and are sitting back more in side control, put leg nearest to them in air so quad against their ribcage, then shrimp away a little into your side as you bring leg back to floor and scissor legs (so bottom leg (the leg you originally lifted) will finish further away from them, top leg closer to them) and use this scissor to get up and to front headlock again)

8. Options against rear body lock 22oct:
1. Fight hands with thumbs inside their grips. Easiest to break grip in centre of your hips, harder to side (towards where a trouser pocket would be). Your wrist while breaking grips is stronger if you curl it towards yourself/towards the grip slightly. Always switch to thumbless grip if going for kimura, after kimura grip established (for thumb injury safety).
2. Granby roll: fight hands, hip out to one side, roll towards other side, trying to get your hip to their shoulder. Eg hip out to right, jump and roll onto left, trying to get my right hip to their left shoulder
3. Hit a switch. Eg if switching to left, sit through with left leg straight, right leg bent with foot out to side (inner thigh down), while grabbing with left arm behind their left leg. Then hip heist so both of my legs get to other side of their left leg, as my left arm gripping their leg slides down to their achilles. Then grab with right arm in crux of knee. Attack single leg.
4. Quadpod. Choose turning out to. Drive that elbow back to start the switch (not sure if this one is a switch actually, or more of just a hip heist), aiming to get around behind them.
5. Standing Kimura

 

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Japanese necktie

From guillotine grip

 

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Head inside single leg finishes (orth vs orth)
entry: step rear leg through to turn stance 90 degrees/to bladed, facing opponent, their body between your legs. Shoulder should hit them first to push through them to push their weight off their lead leg and make it easy to pick up.
1: lift opp's lead leg to between your legs (right hand further up than left hand), head to opp's lead leg. Keep tight to leg, Pull back with right leg only to rotate, one big step (not lots of small steps), while hinging hips to drive head down.
2. Same as #1 (addition to #1 basically), but if they hop back let go of leg with left arm and put arm behind their leg, at back of knee (to block it). Can also work well if they quickly get a strong whizzer and their head low to block you getting tight to them.
3. pull leg to outside with right arm, hand like stabbing own heart. Left leg O-uchi reaps their standing leg. left arm pushes from right side across their neck (with outside or forearm). Maybe good option esp if they start to push your head across with crossface. Keep head near their shoulder as they go down.

Possible entries? : anything that pushes them in the direction away from their lead leg. Eg 1-2. Or strart double leg, keep in wrestling stance and drive off rear leg 45 degrees towards them with overhand or a right collar tie club or maybe just pushing them sideways at shoulder, then into single leg. Drill this frequently until seamless.

 

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Wolf, the Shaolin Monk.

 

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Knee Level Get ups/sweeps from bottom half guard for mma

Starting in bottom half guard, opponent trying to get a cross face:

Basically you want your feet to be near their knee. The first variant (before they get the cross face/chest to chest) is to get their hand in the pocket between your body and their body, which can be if they're punching and their hand ends up in there or if you frustrate them by stopping the cross face under-the-head arm and they use their other arm to try to strip your grip or something. You grip it with both your hands and do the knee lever by moving your knees from being pointed more towards them to pointed away, while pulling that arm basically (easier if they're pressuring into you) and sweep to end up on top. If you shift down to being more underneath their body it can be done a bit easier too, with a bit of a bridge added.

The second variation was if they already have the cross face in top half guard. You pinch their underhook arm with your elbow (pinching your elbow to your own body and use a c-grip on the outside of their other shoulder. You then do the knee lever.

Either the knee lever works as a sweep or they base out with their arm, in which case:
They base out with their arm and you get an underhook on that arm (and ideally get your hand over their back to the opposite obliques). Then you shuffle down to get into as deep a half guard as possible and cover your head with your other arm (to guard from punches and to keep your wrist hidden so it can't be grabbed). You then use your top leg (the one in the direction you tried to sweep in, but you're now on your side so it's the "top" leg), and with it hook their near leg and bring your heel towards your butt, and then straighten your other leg and get your hips facing down, with you on your knees. As you do this you want to be driving into them already, and your non-underhooking arm pulls back elbow-first (like a row) so that it takes a trajectory under your body so they can't grab it, then you base out wide with it (again so they can't grab it and pull it back in to drive you over). Then you turn your near-to-them knee to be pointing towards them, and step your far leg up near your head and drive over with a knee tap (underhook hand goes to their knee).

OR

when you get the underhook and then do the heel to butt part, instead you keep your heel to your butt and pinch your knees together, trying to torque their knee a little. Then with the non-underhook arm you grab inside their leg (like an underhook on their hamstring). Then you put the toes/balls of your far/top foot on the floor and sort of knee lever (and maybe bridge a little?) and drive them over with the leg grip too. If you can't generate enough force you can circle your legs more towards them before pushing and then it'll be stronger.