After the X-Cup tournament of the previous week, we now resume training for the school age nationals. The focus is certainly on sparring now. In the last couple of Fridays, we have spent a lot of time doing full sparring and situational sparring practice.

Today we started off by drilling the front headlock sprawl to go-behinds. Two methods were explored. The first was to use the headlock to crunch the opponent down and drive with the legs behind the opponent. Grab the opponent's hip or ankle to complete the go-behind. The second was to use the headlock to set up movement towards one side, but then using your opponent's momentum to shuck their head to the other side and go behind. This second method works when the opponent defends the first method. Then we did situational sparring where one person started off in a sprawl on top of the opponent.