Arrived at LEMMA at roughly 5:15 pm to hit up some Open Mat.
5:00 pm Open Mat
1. 3 x 10 min rounds with Luke, 1st round warm up, 2 rounds working top pressure game
2. 1 x 5 min Round with Trina, working bottom guard retention with back take
3. 2 x 10 min with Steve, hard technical rounds
6:30 pm Class
Rhino ran the class tonight and went through collar tie counter with a 2 on 1 with pressure on the arm/shoulder and elbow into a take down.
Below is the closest video I could find similar on YouTube for further reference. Its also called a Russian tie up apparently.
Rolling (3 min Rounds)
Never been a fan of short rounds, as people tend to give you all they got… and gas out…
1. Trina with focus was on close guard.
2. Young new white belt guy with focus was on back take… this guy had blood in his eyes… good thing I didn’t give him any space… he wanted to smash me lol. New spazzy white belts… respect, you gotta start somewhere.. and heck he has his own GI, respect.
3. Juneau with focus was on back take.
4. Rhino with focus on defending his chokes.
5. Another young new white belt guy with focus on maintaining mount.
Got a text from Professor Nathan Hatton at roughly 8:00 am… sure enough he’s back from his layaway since his wrestling coaching has ended…to Sunday early training awesomeness… “Free time baby, means more training woooo” he says… Nathan came in early as well to get some lifting in awesome.
Got some news about a training partner who moved down south about their promotions with Gringo BJJ… Ashley getting her purple and Johnny getting striped up fan-freaking-tastic, always great to those committed and train soo much progress. Crongrats guys. Miss these peoples. You train in the GI… it’s easy. You will get promoted in the GI… Ossu!!
9:00 am training consisted of tabata styled movements with the grappling dummy. 60 secs per movement, with 5, different exercises as hard and as fast as possible. 5 sets total 60 sec breaks between sets. Yep the same… next month will be something else… just have to figure that out. Most definitely will keep the push ups to knee belly.
5 Sets of:
1. 60 sec, knee belly switches
2. 60 sec, side control switches
3. 60 sec, mount to s-mount, alternating sides
4. 60 sec, standing up side control switches
5. 60 sec, side control, push-ups to knee belly, alternating knees
Below is a 1-2 min sped up video clip x 4, of me drilling with the grappling dummy at 9 am this morning enjoy!
15 min Warm-up:
1. forward shoulder rolls, alternating shoulders, 2 x across mat
2. Reverse shoulder rolls, alternating shoulders, 2 x across mat
3. Side shoulder rolls, 1 x across mat left side & 1 x across mat right side
4. Forward butt scoots, 2 x across mat
5. Reverse butt scoots, 2 x across mat
6. Backwards shrimping, 2 x across mat
8. Forward shrimping, 2 x across mat
9. Backwards break fall to technical stand, 2 x across mat
10. Forward break falls to technical stand, 2 x across mat
11. Outside Z walks, 1 x across mat forward
12. Single knee drops, 2 x across mat
Below is sped up clip x 7 of the class warm we did this morning enjoy…
String Drilling:
Passing, x-passing to back take and submission, 1 min each
Passing, toreando to back take and submission, 1 min each
Sit outs from arm in head lock, 1 min each
Modified single leg takedown (chest pressure & heal pick, from cross-lapel double fist grip break, switch to maintain a wrist grip placing between partners leg), once down leg drag to leg drag mount, then side control to s-mount, bait the cross collar choke then partner defends, pop the elbow through to hook the arm, switch the arm and hook the leg with the far arm to execute an arm bar while your partner is still on his side. 1 min each
Knee slide pass through partners butterfly, to knee belly, work for arm bar, baseball bat strangle, or paper cutter. 1 min each
Modified Judo hip throw, retaining the far side arm hook with a deep under hook, set up a north south head mount kimura/wrist lock to a spinning arm bar/wrist lock. 1 min each
Lapel, arm sleeve control guard pull, leg on hip to arm bar. 1 min each
Below is sped up clip x 7 of the drilling we did this morning enjoy…
I asked everyone if anyone had something they wanted to work on… Nathan brought up the baseball bat strangle… I said perfect. We then noted the difference between a choke and a strangle… as to some may use choke interchangeably between the two. Choking is by attacking the wind pipe, its painful and your opponent may comply with a scramble to escape et-cetera. Strangle is by attacking your opponents carotid artery on the side of their neck to restrict blood flow to the brain and putting him to sleep, non compliant.
Technique: (Baseball Bat Strangles)
Baseball bat strangle, with a knee slide from side control to finish in north south and head placement on the opposite side.
Baseball bat strangle, starting from inside your closed guard, baiting the pass or forcing the pass with a sweeping hook, to finishing on your belly.
Baseball bat strangle, using your opponents lapel, with a knee slide from side control to finish in north south and head placement on the opposite side.
Baseball bat strangle, starting from inside your closed guard, using your opponents lapel, baiting the pass or forcing the pass with a sweeping hook, to finishing on your belly.
I even showed a reversal from top side if your opponent defends the knee slide…
Rolling: (4 x 5 mins Rounds)
Sat out, had no one to roll with
Rupert Klein, 1 x 5 min, hard round
Nathan Hatton, 2 x 5 min hard round
Stretching: (10 mins)
Had Nathan Hatton run the stretching… popped a few ibuprofens… yep… stretching lol… short clip below lol… we even swept the mat after… respect the mat!!
Nathan… Below is the guy is a clip I found on Youtube about the guy I was talking about today… with the baseball bat strangle… enjoy
Hope I see everyone sometime this week… rumor has it there may be promotions…
Got to LEMMA around 1:30 pm… funny though Crystal was like, “dafack its sooo hot in here” lol… Morgan went through a de la riva entry, a sweep, and back take… I feel like this still is an area were our team up here need improvement… going to tournaments presented with guys that have mastered this guard offensively really hinders my approach for my top game, that being said training it and training with guys that are learning it to be one of their main go to guards will help my offence improve dramatically…
Partnered up with Luke… bad idea… dude has thick legs… myself short thicker legs… no dice my ankle kept feeling like it was getting ripped off… had to switch my angle too much for it to even be appropriate when faced with an opponent similar to Luke… I ended up working with Jared… that has longer thinner legs… a little easier to insert the hooks…
Rolling: 5 min rounds (45 sec breaks)
I recorded some rolling at super speed… 4 x times the norm… enjoy lol
1. Jared Maki, 1 x 5 min round
2. Mike Maronese, 1 x 5 min round
3. Luke Augustine, 1 x 5 min round
4. Travis Duncan, 1 x 5 min round
5. Morgan Frazer, 1 x 5 min round
6. Gary Maki, 2 x 5 min round
My rolling viddy with Gary is still editing in Youtube you may or may not have issues trying to view it… apparently the song writer doesn’t allow people to add their music to videos… BS… I ‘ll attach the video once its been edited with a YouTube approved song lol…
Weird today… maybe it was all the ibuprofen I popped in the morning… I felt like I could roll forever. I was definitely looking to roll if you know what I mean… Morgan mentioned that was going to get the class to shark tank me… I was a little perturbed that it didn’t happen at the end of class, guess it was sarcasm… lol.
Yep, I’m 36 and feeling it… sometimes I feel like i’m 20 weird eh… watch for it… I will be blogging shortly about BJJ after 30… once I’m 40… I will do one then… enjoy your Sunday… I’ll be heading to Sunday morning BJJ shortly… hopefully I see you there!!
Numm… num… went to Quizno’s right after I got home with the wife prior to going out to a friend’s house tonight with the baba… ordered the a 12 inch steakhouse beef dip… love the side of good oh wonderful aus jus, man I love aus jus… fast quick and delish, I could drink it at room temperature. TRUTH.
Been popping ibuprofen since Wednesday like candy… tweaked my lower back somehow… not even sure what happened. Got to to LEMMA at roughly 3:45 pm… Jesse, Brock were on the mat… Jesse was talking about the truck and other 10PJJ stuff stuff with Brock. Marc was reviewing some notes.
Warmed up with the first few rounds with Marc Perrier for about 3 x 10 min rounds… he wanted to work on a few things he picked up from the CD Morgan lent him with Liera Jr who trains with Atos… and the arm drag to back take from closed guard.
His movements and positioning slowly intensified… I always have to match… dude continues to have gas. The mat was dirty yet again… kept getting hair in the eyes… Respect the mat homie’s, it’s where we train.
Below is a viddy of me and Scotty too hotty rolling at supa speed x 4… from tonight
Rolling:
1. Marc Perrier, warm up & hard rounds, 3 x 10 min rounds, gas man… he wanted to work on some de la riva stuff lol
2. Alex Wawia, technical flow round, 1 x 10 min rounds
3. Brock Peters, hard round, 1 x 10 min rounds. Dude was out for blood… I was in defense mode the whole time especially with the back.
4. Scott Paradis, some fun and some technical hard rounds, 3 x 10 min rounds
Below is another viddy of me and Scotty too hotty rolling at supa speed x 4… from tonight
The guys may have been taking it easy on me… Got some stretching in with my lower back and legs for about 20 mins.. My lower back issue may be mainly due to the lack of stretching in which I have been avoiding lately to get home as quick as I can to hang out with the baba. Figured today would be the best day to restart my stretching routine as opposed to leaving right away… just means less rolling… I’m not getting any younger.
Got the big boys to roll with each other… wanted to watch some big boy technique lol… Alex rolling with Steve Ward, Philippe roll with Alex, then Philippe with big red. It was a pleasure to see Steve Ward out tonight. Hadn’t seen him since the Submission Challenge tournament in Minni we attended together…
Below is a small viddy of some of the other boys light speed x 7… Steve/Scott, Scott/Phillipe, Steve/Big Red, & Phillipe/Alex… notice me stretching lol… yes stretching… from tonight.
Philippe wanted a few corrections on execution of an escape while rolling with Mike for the front head lock escape with a sit out… I explained to him that he needed to execute the escape earlier and before Mike sprawled to maintain top side position, more development of his sensitivity.
Below is a small viddy of Philippe and Big Red rolling recorded x 6 times the normal speed lol… enjoy
Left LEMMA at roughly 7:05 pm. Overall, tonight was a good night considering my back the past few days… hopefully the condition remains minimal.
Below is a viddy compilation of 15 top BJJ matches found on Youtube…
Maybe we’ll see you out for tomorrow’s BJJ class Saturday 2:00 pm or even Sunday’s 10:00 am BJJ jam for those that are determined!
Ironically there still is controversy on how people view sport BJJ not being a realistic part of BJJ as a whole… Sport BJJ obviously is a small facet of what BJJ has to offer… pulling berimbolo or 50/50 obviously isn’t the greatest choice initially as a defense during initial confrontation or while trying to neutralize the situation and disengaging obviously.
Below is a nice discussion between Budo Jake with Rafa and Gui Mendes to talking about their school with BJJ and their take on teaching sport BJJ and self defense BJJ.
Interesting analysis regarding a recent incident on a basketball court who a buddy of mine knows that trains at Alliance Jiu-Jitsu in Minneapolis.
Below is a rant by a Gracie Black Belt… its a free country and everyone is allowed to have an opinion… personally I thought this was a little disrespectful and a little out of place… but who am I, just a lowly…
A pleasant surprise tonight with the amount of guys and gals that turned up, especially with this horribly cold weather… truth!! the gym is super warm though!! the memories from last year lol… brrr. socks while warm up. ewwww.
Got to LEMMA at roughly 7:30pm had three newbies show up… Liz, Ryan, & Devon I believe. Got them to put on a loaner GI, and belt… yes… introduction to belt tying… love it guys… just love it.
Below is a video clip on how to tie a belt by Stephan Kesting… enjoy hahaha.
Arm bars from closed guard, 10 reps alternating sides
Hip bump sweep from closed guard, 10 reps alternating sides
Omaplata’s with over hook, from closed guard, 10 reps alternating sides
Scissor sweeps, with cross lapel from closed guard, 10 reps alternating sides
Triangles from closed guard, 10 reps alternating sides
Spider guard switches, 10 reps alternating sides
Marcellotines, 10 reps alternating sides
Side control switches, 10 reps alternating sides
Butterfly guard sweeps to kesa gatame side control, 10 reps alternating sides
Technique:
Arm bar from bottom closed guard
I’ve attached a video found on YouTube by Stephan Kesting for further reference.
Flower sweep to mount from closed guard
Below is a cool clip of Braulio Estima showing thissweep from BJJ Weekly Issue 113 found on YouTube for further reference.
Rolling:
6- 5 min rounds tonight
To the newbies… be patient nothing wrong with rolling slower… it’s not a fight to the death! Ryan and Liz I hope you continue your journey with us… thanks for trying it out!!
Devon, the new guy to rolling in a GI… I hope you continue your journey with us… you got some grappling skills. If your reading this I’ve attached a reference video I found on YouTube of defending strangles and chokes with a GI… Below… enjoy hahahahah!
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