Month: December 2015

Dec 18/15 Open Mat

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Rolling is soooo important… its the magical glue that melds all of what you feel as your grappling intuition into the desired responsive sensitivity you wouldn’t normally develop just from working on, or drilling technique.

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Man just show up lol… your training partners will push you.

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Thank god for open mats and rolling we get… It gives us an opportunity to practice what we think we’ve learnt on live training partners. Sometimes too live hahahah LOL

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Either way… got to LEMMA around 5:15 pm Friday. Morgo and Marco were OTM. Working on something, wasn’t even sure. I taped my week ass foot up, coffee was already downed. Rolled with Morgo, Marco, Kait, Kyle, Kevin & Mitch. A couple times with Marco, Mitch, Kait & Kyle… time flew by. 10 min rounds… yep great times. Good rolls and a lot learnt.

Quick clip of our 2 hour jam session below…

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Dec 16/15 BJJ

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Word… crappy weather, lol Oops two words.

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Wanted snow… just not all this damn wet slushy stuff lol.

Got to LEMMA around 5:30 pm…

Yes tape.

Yes ankle wraps.

Yes naproxen.

Had a long ass roll with Thor. Short easy flow round with young Leath. Then a fun round with Tyler. Great stuff… Thors is always a tough roll, making me work my ass off on bottom. Leath is just a new and a very young white belt. Tyson… damn Tyler… we need to work on your passing lol… who’s teaching you to do funny stuff like that… lol… we need to talk!

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Warm-up was good!!

Arching and shrimping lol… yes shrimping.

Bad ass don’t hate brah!!

Thor had us review knee circles to negate the butterfly fantastic… shins are sore.

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Went to Kelsey’s… wing today night.

Holy crow… too 20 mins for someone to take my order.

Ridiculous… lol half price wings worth it I guess lol.

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Either way last night class was great!

The long ass roll was good… lots of time to think, adjust and improve on the previous errors.

Coach is gonna up the time to 90 mins instead of 60, which is fantastic!

More rolling and drilling which is awesome!!

No tip pho you Kelseys waitress sorry… didn’t even hook me up blue cheese like I ordered… missing carrots and celery lol.

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Dec 13/15 BJJ

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Smaller class Sunday morning…

Don’t blame no one.

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6 guys and gals?

Either way I got in around 9am… missed Friday open mat for a Christmas Party… yep staff Christmas party.

Nuts!!!!

Tones of prime rib, food…. and quite a few drinks lol.

Great time… didn’t feel it too bad in the morning. Must have been all the food lol.

yep I went in… great time.

Completed 2 sets of rowing… 20 mins. 4 km each… fun fun.

 
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Class consisted of a warm-up, some drills, isolated drilling, some tech (tomahawk/sickle sweep), some resistance drills, then 6×5 minute rounds of rolling… great stuff.

Lots of fun…

Cute video clip below, enjoy…

I did manage to slip out and watch EBI 5 at the Frenchmans house … of course it was to no surprise who the winner would be lol… Garry Tonon. Just killing it.
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Dec 4/15 Open Mat

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Friday open mat… Friday Open Mat.

In lieu of ibuprofen, I stepped it up… popped naproxen.

Yep good stuff lol… 5 or 6 min rounds?

Anywho got a few rounds in… fantastically awesome.

That is until I could feel the pain in my foot and ankle to slowly creep in.

Got some footage of my rounds… and only with Jason unfortunately lol. Jason is like a taller version of me… Definitely fitter, and longer legs.

I’m working towards being just as fit. lol

First clip was a long ass 2 or 3 round session.

Second clip is just the 4th round with him again. Dudes got some power and great hips.

Oh well… at least I showed up…

We also hit up the Sushi Station beautiful I might add… lots of food. It all managed to actually make it to the table at a decent time.

Boom-digity!

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Dec 9/15 BJJ

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This one was only 5 days behind… oh well.

Between holidays, colds, and injuries we do what we gotta do…

Cause we do lol

Got to LEMMA around 5:45 pm…

Tape, YES!!…

Tiger Balm, YES!!…

Naproxan, YES!!!…

Stupid damn cold/cough, YES!!

Am I getting over this damn cold??, YES!!!

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Did I show up to roll… yes lol…

The cage was full, tone of other homies rolling… awesome.

Noticed Kait and a very young fellow by the name of Leath sitting by on the fence… guess no one wanted to roll with them homies.

Hey…

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They need time OTM too… BJJ is for everyone. LOL

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We were all white belts once… rolling with them helps us position our selflessness in the world of BJJ, teach others, as others have taught you!

After rolling with Leath, I believe I rolled with Eric and then Thor. Yes last round felt like forever stuck under Thors mount. Not fun… not fun at all.

Either way, Thor ran the warm-up, I partnered with my homie Caleb… who’s a newb.

Thor had us review a heel pick, the knee-slice pass as well as the back-step pass… love them all.

Either way, fantastic class… I’m 5 days behind… oh well.

Will be caught up soon!!

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Dec 7/15 BJJ

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Wow lol from last Monday…

But dammit I went in… did it again… went to BJJ, in which I shouldn’t have.

Oh well… I felt in in the morning…

The sprawling may have slightly loosened my ankle while some rolling may have tweaked it in a positive manner.

You know how we know you learned something… cause we saw you doing it under pressure while rolling… the mat doesn’t lie.

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If you learned it… we saw it… tatami don’t lie.

Shall see in the morning I was thinking to myself lol… either way I had slapped on a bunch of tiger balm, tape, and even two types of braces… soft cotton with a semi hard neoprene style brace with velcro…

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Plenty of ankle support…

I partnered with Dr Shat Hatton… we drilled old man style. yep I said it.

Old man drilling lol… it exist.

Great class, Rolled with Shat, Eric, Beast Sushi, hmmmmm who else?? man… oh! Jack… 6 foot skinny boy Jack. Wow long time since he’s been on the mat.

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