Year: 2015

10 am Sunday BJJ

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Uggg… painful to get up this morning.  Not from the smashing I got yesterday but from the late night our lovely neighbors decided to have… thanks 5 am partying.

Well still got up, brewed a pot of coffee… walked Chuck Norris… had a few cups of coffee and got to the gym at 9am…

Training just 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 30 sec breaks between sets.

5 sets of:
1. 60 sec, knee belly switches
2. 60 sec, side control, push-ups to knee belly, alternating knees
3. 60 sec, mount to s-mount then transitions to arm bar, alternating sides
4. 60 sec, side control switches
5. 60 sec, turtle guard switches

Turned out to be a small group today,  which not gonna lie is always nice. Philippe Jecker, Scott Hall, & visiting Blue Belt Brian Walker from Trenton.

15 min warm-up:
1. Some jogging around the mat the insides to outside switches
2. lunges, 1 lap
3. Forward shoulder rolls, alternating shoulders, 1 lap
4. Reverse shoulder rolls, alternating shoulders,  1 lap
5. Side shoulder rolls, 1 lap left side & 1 lap right side
6. Forward butt scoots, 1 lap
7. Reverse butt scoots, 1 lap
8. Backwards shrimping, 1 lap
9. Forward shrimping, 1 lap
10. Backwards break fall to technical stand, 1 lap
11. Forward break falls to technical stand, 1 lap
12. Inside Z walks, 1 lap
13. Outside Z walks, 1 lap
14. Sit-outs, 1 lap

Resistance Drilling:
1. Modified single leg from same side lapel grip break takedown, with leg drag to straight foot lock or mount. 20 reps each side.
2. X-pass, re-guard by elbow pushing, turning to knees, then forward shrimping
3. X-pass, re-guard by turning away to turtle, then gramby roll back to guard
4. X-pass, disengaging with a technical stand-up, then pulling guard

Technique:
1. Reviewed a variation of a forearm slicer (fatosa) from top side control kimura defence.
2. Reviewed some concepts of guard development and the kimura from closed guard with Scotty-Too-Hotty-Hall.

Great morning guys… thanks for drilling with me…

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Im not an expert, far from being a professional, drilling does help make thinks automatic… then you don’t have to think… truth.

See some of you guy’s hopefully Tuesday night!!

Ossu

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2 pm Sat BJJ

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Fantastic class by Coach Keith MacGillivray of LEMMA…

Warmed up:

-20 reps left side shrimping, then 20 reps right side

-20 reps left side forward shrimping, then 20 reps right side

-20 reps left side forward shrimping with exaggerated knee to chest, 20 reps right side

Technique:

-Guard retention from side control, with forearm punch, the forearm to neck, and hide the inside arm. Get to the far side elbow to create a structure and make space with the hips. The forward shrimp leading with the knee or foot if enough space is available from the space made with the hips and re-guard.

-Escape side control, when opponent moves positions into north south or sets up a paper cutter. Inside arm reaches under to the opposite bottom side, grip the GI tight and swivel or scramble out to regroup, re-guard, or take the back.

Partner Live Drills:

-Alex Wawai, on top of me for a few mins the switched

-Coach Keith MacGillivray, on top of me for a few mins

-Marc Perrier, on top of me for a few mins the switched

-Morgan Frazer, on top of me for a few mins the switched

Hard Rolling

-5 mins round with Marc Perrier

-2 x 5 min rounds with Alex the beast Wawia

Great class lead by coach Keith MacGillivray of LEMMA, simple, sweet, fundamental BJJ with classic positional live drilling, and rolling. TBH yesterday was a tough day… I’m a little beat up, with today’s class warming up, and the tough rounds with big boy Alex, man was he ever pushing me, strong like bull, roll like bear, felt like a rag doll being tossed around , as tough as it was with him on top of me… my body definitely loosened up, even got a free back adjustment with Alex bear hugging me OTM at one point. Being technical works, even with someone gigantic onto of you. Just have to be relentless, trust in what you’ve learned and know. Just keep moving forward, just keep pushing forward. Your technique won’t fail… given the circumstances… until that monster picks up on the technical aspects of BJJ… lol watch out!

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Nice discussion afterwards regarding issues pertaining to knee wrestling and pulling guard, with talk about invisible BJJ, Henry Atkins, Billy, hitting triangles with shorter legs on stocky guys, and a secret move to finish the reverse triangle. Fun fun… Like coach Keith MacGillivray say’s the little guys unfortunately learn BJJ the right way, being underneath the big guy… being technical to get out of bad situations. Give an inch, gotta take a mile.

I hope to see a few of you guys that didn’t show up today tomorrow morning!!! we be drilling drilling fosho… with a special request from Philippe Jecker to work guard retention when someone passes. As well as the straight foot lock entries. Anything else???

Osss!!

Friday Night Open Mat at LEMMA

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Best of luck this weekend Jesse Veltri.. for those who know him he’s been training with us at LEMMA for a while now… he’s headed to Gracie Nationals Submission only event.  Wish i could attend. Priorities first i guess…

Wooo fantastic night for all that attended! Lots of peeps OTM.

Got a few tough and fun rolls in tonight… truth.
Rounds in are as follows:

2-10 min flow warm up rounds with Marc Perrier

1-10 min hard flow round with Marc Perrier

1-10 min hard flow round with Morgan Frazer to warm him up

1-10 min hard round with Marc Perrier

1-10 min hard round with Travis Duncan

1.5-10 min hard round with Lukasz Jan

1.5-10 min hard round with visiting blue belt Brian Walker from Trenton

1-10 min hard round with Matt Veal

1.5-10 min hard round to finish off the night with Lukasz Jan

Wooo, what some sleep and a great warm can do, a great night indeed… we need to have a Warriors class,  similar to what Cobra Kai has in Vegas. A class with just tough competitive long rolling rounds.

I was pondering at 7:30 pm whether I should change or keep rolling… I opted to change and go home… dinner with the wife and bonding with the baby time. Oh and some scotch… to help with the recovery for tomorrow.

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Yes we do this every Friday night… till next Friday!

Osss!!

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Openmat tonight at LEMMA

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Can’t wait… been since Wednesday since I’ve rolled… yes ages. Hah!!

5:00 pm Open mat at the Leading Edge Gym!!

A few of us will be in around 4:00 pm…

Hope to see a big crew out.

Maybe you’ll get to roll with this guy…

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Osss!!@

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Self Defense and Sport BJJ

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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 Purple Belt lol.

That being said what if you didn’t have a choice? what if you got jumped… a beer bottle crack over on the side of the head, your laying on the ground, your slightly conscious, your attacker is about to make a final blow? wouldn’t being familiar with these positions definitely help increase your probability to survive, guessing its not completely useful given the synario or context?? lol. That being said…

Food for thought below is a video of BJJ in the streets lol… not condoning it, violence and fighting is bad, but it does happen… knowing something is better then nothing?

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Osss!!

Open mat Wed BJJ

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Wow… keep telling myself I will only be training Sundays, Tuesdays, Fridays, & Saturdays…
Turns out in BJJ there are laws of equilibrium when opportunities seeks itself, when allowed your training regiment naturally just balances itself out… turns out I’ve been training Sundays,  Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays, & Saturdays. I Always seemed to get convinced by someone… ahem ‘Morgan Frazer’ to drop in for extra training, oddly enough, I easily say yes. Priorities right? I won’t be able to train this much once my child has extra curricular activities around maybe 4 or 5?? Hey… I bond with him every night… even read to him at night about BJJ techniques lol… Oh… and the Berenstain Bears one chapter so far.

  Only attended the Open mat tonight… but got there around 4pm. Rolled with Brock for 2-6 min flow roll rounds,  rolled with Morgan for 2-6 min rounds, warmed up big Alex for a 6 min round, then rolled with Morgan with what seemed to be like 3-6 min rounds… then some rolling with Trina to finish off the night before heading home to the wife and baby.
  Brock is one tough cookie and strong as an bull, his positioning is spot on, and his flow has improved immensely. If he wanted I know for a fact he can toss me… taken it easy on the old guy lol.
  Alex, on the other hand, is like rolling with a full grown cub.  Ridiculously strong and rightfully uses when he chooses. Has its pros and cons though especially when up against someone stronger and only relying on it. Definitely has improved defensively. Flow Rolling has improved as well since the very first time we rolled. Like a brick to flowing like a brick with rounded edges hahaha.
  Morgan Frazer is always a pleasure given that we don’t give too much of weight advantageously,  or dis-advantageously minus the spazz, randomized movements you get out of him when he fights his way out of something.  Kinda like rolling with a beginner. Which in a way strategically could be beneficial… poking your opponent in the eyes while scrambling hahahah. Spent most of my time working defensive positions… working out of chokes, lapel strangles and bad positions using secret techniques.  Even drilled some Dele Riva Leg Weave and leg dragging passes to knee on belly…
  Finished off the night rolling with Trina. Her passing and positional movements are improving respectfully.  Still leads with open posture while passing leaving room for defensive attacks on my end. Sometimes telegraphing attacks and movements.  Only drilling and time on the mat to develop sensitivity to avoid specific movements I guess. Not gonna lie I still do white belt transitions while rolling with more advanced grapplers.
  Ugh see the bags under my eyes below from the wonderful photos taken by my buddy Travis Duncan last night.

Ossss

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Learned Some Secret Techniques Last Night

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Next time I won’t mention the 6-rounds of 5 mins…. with 15 sec breaks hahahah!

Great night though… warmed up, some drills… not many guys tonight, but it worked out to our advantage. Pretty much got like free privates with Billy Nyman… picked his brain on quite a few techniques, and escapes then we rolled. Tapped lots. Love tapping I seem to learn faster, especially under controlled technical situations. Billy Nyman is strong, controlled strong. Kinda like rolling with Matt Richer back in the day at our old club. Someone made of leather. He has crushing power, but only used it when he got to the north south position, where his transition to an arm bar was remarkable. His guard was fantastic, past it a couple times only to get swept, as I got greedy with a potential submission. Last week while rolling with him he was catching me with tones of straight ankle locks… I’ve seemed to adjusted and negated those submissions swiftly, maybe he’s just taking it easy on me, however now only to get caught in a few arm bars… lovely just lovely. Most definitely a puzzle for next time, love human chess.

Guys next time he’s up here in Thunder Bay visiting make sure to get some privates from him… different perspectives. High level competition brown belt… plus when we go to San Diego we could hook up as a group and he’ll take us from club to club, roll with Keenan lol or Galvao…>>>>>>>>>>> Morgan Frazer

Have a safe trip Billy… keep in touch and hopefully see you soon!!

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Travis was taking action shots… Took a few quick ones while resting lol.

Maybe i’ll see some of you boys at Open Mat at 5pm

Ossss

Tues 8pm BJJ at LEMMA

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My buddy Morgan Frazer wants to go over this beautiful pass. Passing of the DeLa Riva Guard with Leg Weave Pass. for tonight. LEMMA boy’s and gal’s check it out, we will go over it next week.

With Billy only being here for another day or leaving next week… he said that he could go over his variation and set up of the bo & arrow as well as the omaplata.

Enjoy for next week.

A Nice Video by Josh Mancuso from BJJ Revolution Baton Rouge

Osss!!