Head coach Matt is planning to go to little Matt’s rehearsal wedding at 5:00 pm… he needed a substitute to coach his kids class on Thursday. Travis has volunteered. Hopefully I can get some other Senior guys to help. The more the merrier… kids lol. That energy.
Thor ran it… standard warm-ups with running around the mat, shrimping forwards and backwards, break-falls, and sit-outs.
He then got us to review the sit up guard, to a sweep, to attacking the back.
LOVE this guard…
I worked in with Jared, and Juneau… fun fun.
Then we rolled.
Rolling: (3 mins, 30 sec breaks)
Some random newer white belt
Jesse MacDougall
Travis Duncan
I think a 2 stripe white belt by the name of Adrian?
Will be adding 200 m sprints, with 1 min rest, tabata sets, and the 30s on 30s off to mix things up…
Results BELOW
We warmed up with running around, bear crawls, lunges, then a bunch of chaining drills… video clip below.
We then reviewed a few wonderful paper cutter choke variations… fantastic.!!
Then we rolled…
Rolling:(5 min, 30 sec breaks)
Scott Hall
Big Red
Scotty too Hotty
Travis Duncan
Colin the beast
Boy did the guys put the pedal on me lol… rough rough hah!! Unfortunately, I forgot to record all the sets… only got the last one in which was hard as well.
All you gotta do is show up… someone will push you. You will learn something!!
Had an intense discussion with my homie Hatton about submissions, strategies, styles, games and submissions to finish a match. The grappling arts has evolved soo much, to the sport end of things that you do other wise, non typical things you would not see in futile warfare back in the day in hand to hand combat… learning specific games is great. Being a specialist of one is even better. Guys of recent have started playing the leg lock game… that is awesome, we evolve!
Live by the sword, and die by the sword…
Only a few leg locks I will open myself up to to continue learning… the ones that don’t expose my legs lol… if you know BJJ, train in any of the grappling arts you will know exactly which ones… and I will continue to learn to understand the mechanic of the others, to be able to defend.
Oss..
My game has been the GI strangles and choking, you can hit them from everywhere… Nathan mentioned that strangle/choking is the ultimate submission… I agreed.
Chokes are King, arm locks Queen, and leg locks, a thief… I think that’s a quote from Dean Lister…
Nathan also stated that choking means death… you can always break someones legs, or arms and the could by whatever means escape or live… choking renders them unconscious… which by definition is death? taking their soul? well you could pretty much do what ever if they were unconscious, not breathing… so pretty much dead.
Got to LEMMA around 6:00 pm… some big boys OTM inside the cage rolling.
Rolled with Travis till 6:30 pm… fun fun!
Head Coach Matt ran the warm-up… standard running around, forward and reverse rolling, technical falling, and shrimping. He then got us to rep duck-unders to back-take, the double legs, then the single leg.
I partnered with Hassan… Coach got us drilling 30 sec speed rounds then sprawling, when your partner counters with a takedown attempt… thought it was interesting.
My Gi was drenched by now…
Then he got us to drill the no hands, fist only, passing and guard retention exercise…
Yonk. I’m stealing that… heck all of those.
Then got us to rep for a few minutes on a timer, alternated from leg to leg the seated guard then switched… one of my favorite’s of course. Then we reviewed a sweep with a belt grip diving through the back side when your opponent places a hand on your collar behind your head.
BOOM low and behold… it was an exercise to drill an entry to 50/50….neat. Very neat!
Got a few 4 minute rolls in… first was with Hassan. Next was with big Willy!!
Great class… fun and tough rolls at the end.
Oh… yes I managed to get a pull session in at the Complex… results below.
Great class Monday… got to LEMMA around 6:00 pm. Rolled with Thor till start of class. “Fun rolls,” he says… me replies, “yeah a lot of inverted funny back take stuff going on… oh and that damn crucifix” lol
Rhino was in to run the class. Had us work on take-downs.
All starting from over and under clinch positioning. The first, was with a back step, with an elbow or sleeve grip with the over-hook, then a fast knee bump on the under-hook side of the retracting leg. Taking them down on the under-hooks side. Second, was with an over-hook, after freeing the under-hook to palm push your partner in the chest and grabbing that wrist with the over-hook, to take them down on the over-hook side. A lot of pressure on the shoulder, throw your partner hard and their shoulder could snap… ouch. Great throws… hard take downs. Learn to break fall or counter lol.
I partnered with my white belt buddy Mitch.
Rhino then had us roll for the remaining 15 mins… lol
Oh… he also got promoted! Congratulations big guy… kinda important. Lol
Well not really lol… baba has been keeping me busy.
Got to LEMMA around 9:30 am on Sunday. Yes sir, me rowed…
2 sessions of 4 km… great day and a few calories burned.
Results below…
Quite a few guys showed up this morning… summer must be ending lol.
Newer white belts Kevin, Cole, Scotty Hall and Travis were in attendance. Hassan, Brittany, Justin St Amand, Scotty too hotty, and Nathan were as well…
Felt kinda bad… called Cole Kyle… ooops
Big up to the new faces for a Sunday showing.
I know its hard to come on an early Sunday to train BJJ.
Hard work will pay off!!
Quick clip of our warm-up below…
Somebody requested drilling with chained techniques… coaching is cool. Feedback is even cooler when it will improve the quality of the class. This I do love… chaining takedowns, passing the guard to full on submission attack… love.
So I got the homies to do a bunch… 2 mins for each chain, then alternate. First, was the X-pass, knee on belly, then spinning arm-bar. Second, was the knee slice pass, to kesa gatame, straight arm lock on the near side arm, to a kimura on the far side arm while stepping over to sit on the face, then possibly attacking wrist, or arm-bar if choosing so. Lastly, was a deep hip throw, with a belt or under hook grip to attack the far side arm again.
I threw all that into the warm-up lol.
Technique… we continued to review the 96 choke, as well as the Brazilian Neck Tie from the 96 choke fun fun…
Quick clip below…
We then rolled. 5 min rounds…
Rolling:
1. Shat Hatton
2. Scotty too Hotty
3. Hassan
4. White belt Travis
5. Justin St Amand
6. Shat Hatton
Quick clip of us rolling below…
Great rolling…a few faces I haven’t seen all summer…
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