Like I never left.

So due to the Washington Snowpocalpyse, we had no class all last week.  What did I do with my time?  Well, I did what any gaul-dern red-blooded recently-separated 23 year old veteran would do:
I drank, and I caught up on quality time with people who are on course to be lifelong friends.
And after this week-long bender, it was excellent to step back on the mats.  We had some visitors from a local MMA gym, which was cool, but really made me see the difference between our instruction and other's.  One of the guys who was visiting (who claimed to be training for the last 7 years) ran over the double-under pass like this:
"So you swim both hands under his legs, Gable your hands, suck his hips up to you, shuck hard and land in side control."
Then Benn taught it like this:
"So to start this pass, you need to get both your hands inside his legs, swim them over his thighs, and lock your hands over the top.  You can hang out here for a second, then when he stops spazzing, your bring your knee to his buttcrack and use it as a ramp to slide his hips up to your chest.  Then you lean forward, crunching him up.  Make him uncomfortable, but don't put his knees on the mat, because he can roll through.  Now depending on how he reacts, you pick a side, and use the same-side arm to block his bicep.  Once you've opened up that arm, you start opening and turning your hip, inserting the same-side knee into the armpit of the arm you are blocking.  Now you slide your bottom knee up to block his hip, release his bicep, and wrap the head.  Once you are here, you can bring your opposite arm out from under his leg and around his body, into the seatbelt control."

Incredible difference.  Especially for an audio learner like myself.

Also, hit my first kneebar tonight.  I kind of just decided that I want to start doing leglocks, and I feel I am at a level where I won't spazz on people and cause injuries.

Bending a knee the wrong way?  Yeah, it will get a tap about as fast as you'd imagine.