What the heck is a Mat Snob, you ask? A Mat Snob is a mercifully rare creature who, for whatever reason, thinks their jits/academy/style/entire being is better than most other folks. They only roll with certain people, they often skip drills with their nose in the air, or drill something entirely different and they’re about as huggable as Joffrey Baratheon on the throne once they earn their blue belt. The Mat Snob isn’t always a snob on the mats, either. This is the person you hear stirring up forums with crap like “Gi is real BJJ, No Gi is catch wrestling/you have to train in the Gi”, they can go on at length about how superior their academy is while throwing shade all over you for your academy and generally tries to tear folks down around them in relation to BJJ.
My suspicion is that these folks are already pretty…
Morgan was in to run the class yesterday… happy with my performance. Other then waking up this morning and my right knee feeling off weird… will blog about this mornings BJJ shortly…
Yeah my knee… blah!!!!
Told Morgy to run a harder warm-up. 24 mins long lol… not overly hard actually, but harder then normal hahahah.
Below is a quick clip of our super easy warm-up…
Technique: (4 min per rounds, 2 rounds each)
1. Pendulum sweep with a over the shoulder belt grip.
2. Hook of doom sweep, with an arm entrapment, after your partners defends the pendulum sweep with a step.
Quick clip below…
Rolling: (5 min Rounds, 5 rounds each)
1. Scotty too hotty
2. Travis Duncan
3. New guy, nogi white belt Patrick, hope he returns… went pretty hard for a guy with no experience in a GI. Guess his nogi kicked in once being stangled a few times. A lot a strength, crushing, and inappropriate use of strength, typical I guess. He tried to escape an armbar by turning me over literally… being 6 ft 4, throwing me around was simple.
4. Morgan Razer Frazer
5. Nathan Shat Professor Hatton
Some really tough and fun rounds…
A few quick clips of us rolling below…
Scotty Too Hotty
Travis Duncan, then New Guy Patrick
Nathan Shat Professor Hatton, then Morgan Razer Frazer
That wasn’t a reference to anyone lol…
Talked to our head coach Professor Richer after class… Sundays will be moved to 11 am for obvious selfish reasons lol… more time for me to work on my strength and conditioning lol. Too bad you didn’t come in morning…
Hah… got to the 6:30 pm class a little early lol… rolled with a little kid… the way he moves, if he continues with it, he will be a beast… plus he was my height hahaha…
I actually don’t mind self-defense at all. It’s where BJJ began… the roots. Jiu Jitsu was fun last night… Big Tony ran a small warm-up. Pretty short and standard. Loved the one drill with the backwards walking and shoulder throw with the sleeve and lapel grip… I will steal this for my Sundays warm-up drilling lol.
Coach went through a few self-defense techniques with front grip breaks when someone grabs both your wrist with a break to an under hook/shoulder bringing your opponent to the ground, using your free hand to direct the head and set up a Muay Thai style knee to the head. Then there was a sweep with while getting your back taken, as well as ground stuff to negate getting punched in the face with a variation of up-kicking & shrimping. Thought it was funny though… 2 similar body types lol… short stubby legs, arms, big shoulder, barrels for chest and both husky. Me being smaller of the 2 lol… yes hilarious.
After the self-defense, Coach had us work on 2 kinds of arm-bar swings, with no sleeve grips. 2 sets, 1 min each, swinging and alternating sides. First, was the standard arm-bar swings using the inside of your leg to push you to the other side. The second, I call the lazy man arm-bar with placement of your foot onto your partners hip, while with the other leg moving it upward using your inside thigh to redirect while inside their armpit, and pivoting your body towards that leg. Lets just say lazy once you get a hang of it. Doing this drill slowly and technical really works on the inside of your thighs lol.
Technique:
1. Closed guard retention, with control using your legs and elbow popping or pop and chops.
2. Closed guard, with a sit-up bait sweep to break a grip posture, reach over to grab the belt, trap the arm on one side to prevent the post and sweep to that side. Genius lol shear genius hah, word…
3. Closed guard, like above… then if your opponent gets there arm free to post, set up “the London Guard” or “the Williams Guard” on the already free arm, for control then attack for the oma-plata, back-take, shoulder lock or even inverted arm bar.
Below is a nice link for further reference on the London guard…
Eddie Bravo discusses a reason why he removed it from his system… with your own arms being caught while someone disengages while cartwheeling to the other side to escape, which is a good argument.
Below is a video link for further reference…
That being said, to me it’s more of a transitional guard. Not saying I’m a Black Belt or anything but hey, like with everything in BJJ there is always a lock and a key, nothing is ever a sure thing in BJJ… being adverse to all of it would be idea given the circumstances.
Hope to see you out at open mat Fri! can’t wait to get some lifting, rowing, and rolling in tomorrow… this week has been a bruiser mentally. Work I’ve been biting my tongue and trying my best to be professional, also the Contractor want to start up ASAP to get out and elsewhere on my project… yes gonna get busy for the little while… oh and the little guy is going through a growth spurt, nuff said, lol baby brain…
Got to the gym at roughly 9:00 am, got some lifting, a short vanity workout and some rowing in boom, trying to get ready for this competition!
Lifting:(9:05 am to 9:40 pm, 4 sets, 12 reps )
Squats, 135 lbs
Bench Press, 135 lbs
Then some crunches to work on my vainness, 4 sets of 100 Reps
Conditioning:(Stationary Rowing, Level 6)
1000 m, 4:30 min
1000 m, 4:45 min
1000 m, 5:00 min
Kind of not impressed with the increase in time, but hey… I moved it up to level 6 lol… next is level 7.
Again beautiful day out, 16c to 18c , sunny… great forecast of the size of our class with Myself, The Frenchman, Big Red, new white belt Travis and Professor Shat. The Frenchman had to take off earlier due to other commitments.
Got a quick clip of one of our standard warm up we do below from Sunday…
Quick clips of us working some takedown drills from this morning…
3:00 mins each, alternate once you reach the end of the mat…
2 mins each, alternating…
Technique:(10 mins on each)
Wing Choke/Strangle
Sliding Collar Choke/Strangle
Note that both a choke or a strangle are effective… however one is non compliant as Coach Keith MacGillivray has brought up in the past. Most chokes are applied to the trachea which will restrict airflow, can be painful, and most people will fight back. Strangles restrict blood flow to the brain by applying pressure to the carotid arteries in the neck, lets just say, you don’t get much fighting back except for the foam and your partner seeing stars, then out cold lol.
Small class yesterday for 2 pm BJJ… must be the sunny 15c weather outside lol. Mike Maronese ran the show… started with a nice fighter fit style warm up with only 2 sets of 3 minutes with an obstacle course of side to side z-running, lunges, hops, then push up side-walks.
Definitely got the blood flowing, Hassan got in late lol… wished me had more rounds, was just getting warmed up. 😛
Big up to Jayden Dekker, Hassan Hashmi, and TBT Steve for showing up though… we reviewed some bombass stuff we went through last week and some.
Reviewed a closed guard hip bump sweep, with your partners hand on your belly. Fake one side, work the other, to a mount x-collar choke… nice of Coach Keith MacGillivray to add some pointers on actually focusing with slapping the mat with elbow contact during the shaving portion to add discomfort and a tighter finish. Worked on the closed guard hip bump sweep to a mount, then armbar while your partner pushes off. Worked on a variation of an inverted arm bar while mounted, then a cool gogoplata… yes real cute lol, then we rolled.
Rolling: (5 min rounds, 45 sec break)
Jayden Dekker
Hassan Hashmi
TBT Steve
Mike Moronese
lol… quick clip of Mike and TBT Steve Rolling below…
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