Author: #Bjjfourlife

Wed Sept 23/15 5:30 pm BJJ

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Got to LEMMA around 6:00 pm… some big boys OTM inside the cage rolling.

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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.

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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…

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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.

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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!!

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Great class… fun and tough rolls at the end.

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Oh… yes I managed to get a pull session in at the Complex… results below.

Ossu!!

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Mon Sept 21/15 5:30 pm BJJ

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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

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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.

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I partnered with my white belt buddy Mitch.

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Rhino then had us roll for the remaining 15 mins… lol

Oh… he also got promoted! Congratulations big guy… kinda important. Lol

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Sun Sept 20/15 11 am BJJ

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As you can see… I’ve been procrastinating.

Well not really lol… baba has been keeping me busy.

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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…

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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…

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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…

Don’t blame you, summer is summer…

Always great to take a break!

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Bunch of newer faces too… great to have you.

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Hope to see you back!

OSSU!

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Fri Sept 18/15 Open Mat

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Rolling: (5 min, 60 sec)

1. Daluca
2. Jared
3. Marco
4. Mitch
5. Mitch
6. Mitch
7. Mitch
8. Mitch
9. Big Red

Quick clip below…

Wow everyone is improving nicely… rolls getting more technical and defences tighter.

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Great time fun rolling… see you soon OTM.

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Thurs Sept 17/15 8:30 am BJJ

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Yep kiddo puked on his Gi lol…oh well.

Could have been worse.

Got to the gym around 8:30 am…

The fitness guys were in doing their thing.

About 4 or 6 of then doing some kind of tabata variation of exercises.

Thor was in at roughly the same time, discussed the leg locks and flow sequence I wanted to review. Scotty arrived shortly after.

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We drilled a leg lock sequence from a straight ankle lock, to an achilles slicer, a toe hold cork screw, a heel hook, a toe hold, then switched the leg to the reaping side. Applied the same techniques, then switched to the other side again, this time applying the same techniques with one foot spreading your opponents legs and hold it in place so they don’t roll out.

I feel at a loss with leg locks… so many wholes, however yet opportunities.

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Very important to protect your own legs. The leg knot…

A nice reference for positioning the saddle…

A nice reference for heel hooks…

Below is a reference to other leg locks from Jason Scully I eventually want to get a handle on…

We drilled for 5 mins each the sequences then we worked on the Estima lock for about 5 mins each… pretty much a toe hold or straight foot lock depending on where you place the foot.

Great reference below…

After drilling the Estima Lock, we rolled. 3 min rounds. Shark tank style since there was only 3 of us lol.

Rounds: (3 mins, 15 sec Break)

  1. Myself & Thor
  2. Thor & Scotty
  3. Scotty & Me
  4. Myself & Thor
  5. Thor & Scotty
  6. Scotty & Myself
  7. Myself & Thor
  8. Thor & Scotty

Then the baby cried… lol sooo that concluded my short rolling session lol…

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Wed Sept 16/15 5:30 pm BJJ

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Awesomeness some homies OTM ready to scrap…

Wait only Trina and Katrina here…

Mitch came in pretty much when I arrived at 5:30 pm.

Josh and Mike working on clinch and wall cage MMA stuff.

Morgo and Scotty leaving from the early training sessions prior.

I got to roll with my buddy Mitch.

Wow his defence has improved significantly… awesome. Rolled and played around with him till class started. I mainly just focused on countering his passing with sweeps, arm drags and his attacking nature. Kid is fast, resilient, strong, a natural ability to move out of a troubled position, and he can scramble… love it. His fighting tooth and nail out of chokes is typical a white belt spaz kill joy thing, but his temperament is calm and collective even while in a horribly troubled tight position.

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Quite enjoyable to roll with for a white belt… 18? Maybe 20? years of age… not as spazzy as most beginners.

Class started at 6:30 pm head Coach Matt set us up with a decent warm-up. Running around the mat, forward shoulder rolls, backward shoulder rolls, shrimping, butterfly butt scooting with a partner, then following your partner walking backwards with hooks. Great warm-up.

Veal was in for the technique. He got us to review the technique we worked on last week from a flattened out butterfly. A knee tap counter, and then a over hook with a cross lapel grip finish with a knee pressure straight arm lock or an omaplata…

Video below for further reference… entries were obviously different, Veal showed it from butterfly, but the finish is similar… and you can see the omaplata, from the failed arm-bar attempt if you think about it…

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After technique, Veal then got everyone to roll… 4 min rounds, no submissions. Just spit them out and continue. Even take risks, work on things you never would normally do. Be fast quick and to work with your partner… Sounds like flow rolling. What do you know… my favorite kind lol… easy on the body, and you can be technical.

Told Veal that 4 mins is dah bomb. The no submissions is cool and that the guys needs to learn how to flow, from one submission to the next and these kinda rounds will really help in the development of their BJJ.

He explained that, there’s big issues with that and this provides the opportunity to take chances because people will shelf their egos some what when there’s are no submissions involved.

I told him that I absolutely agreed… that grinding is cool, but there are always other options then spending 2 mins to rework a failed arm-bar.

Seeing opportunity in a failure will makes us grow.

Rolled with Jesse, Mitch, Nathan, and Big Willy… boy was I f-n drained…

Yes I did some conditioning earlier in the day…

Results below…

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Woooo!

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Great class… I love it when I don’t have to coach.

I can just focus on training!!

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