Excellent… a must read.
http://acesjiujitsuclub.com/bjj-vs-traditional-martial-arts/
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Dec 16/15 BJJ
Word… crappy weather, lol Oops two words.
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!
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.
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.
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
Smaller class Sunday morning…
Don’t blame no one.
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.
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.
Dec 4/15 Open Mat
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
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!!!
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…
They need time OTM too… BJJ is for everyone. LOL
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!!
Dec 7/15 BJJ
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.
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…
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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Thrashing Seasons: Sporting Culture in Manitoba and the Genesis of Prairie Wrestling
My buddy Nathan Hatton’s book coming out in May 2016…
Look for it!
Mine better have an autograph…
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Dec 2/15 BJJ
Its nice with this blogging thing to be able to blab about random thoughts, things that occur and what I feel portraits my slight addiction to BJJ… very slight.
Is this a reflection of my reality? Or is it a reflection of what I want people to see. Is this life? Or is it what I want people to see… lol well proof is in the pudding I guess… mat time is mat. None of that can be taken away. Blood sweat, tears of joy from being choked out and pushed by your fellow training partners.
Between the foot, and ankle now lol… life is life, maybe its telling me to relax?
Then I snap back to reality and boom… am I dead?
So… picked up the little guy after work, limped around the house with him, fed him and got myself ready for BJJ lol.
Tape… plenty of tape, tiger balm, and ibuprofen lol. Yep
Dedication or stupidity… probably closer to stupidity. Either way I went to BJJ lol… didn’t want to miss learning something someone else would have without myself being OTM…
Caleb was in which was nice… he’s been telling me that he want to train every Wednesday now. He showed up second week in a row!
Coach got us to do a few takedowns… 2 in fact. Thor reviewed the double. The single, and a heel pick. He also got us to review a guard jump to an arm-bar, crazy cray cray!
I wanted to roll… my body was telling me no. Noticed coach Keith eating chocolate covered nuts… went over to enjoy a few while the white belts rolled. Yep a lot of white belts OTM…
Fan-freaking-tastic
Reality is… the destination is the same. No need to rush. I need good ankles and feet to continue this journey lol.
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No, We Do Not Do Belt Tests
Great read… on point.
Source: No, We Do Not Do Belt Tests
Nov 30/15 BJJ
Ooooo yah, baby and wife are sleeping… glass of scotch tonight.
Weird raining today…
#winteriscoming?
All caught up…
Got to LEMMA around 5:30 pm lastnight… pitch black out.
Damn-it… pitch black.
Taped my foot up… tones of tape. Didn’t wear my contacts… ibuprofen, oh and coffee. Yep training blind lol… gotta keep showing up. You always learn something new.
Trying to just roll instead of watching stupid shit lol…
-9 & -9 Astigmatism… yeppers.
Had a nice long as roll with Eric… fun times. He’s improvement is remarkable. Must be the natural wrestling abilities lol.
Butt scoot wrestling haha!
Thor had us review the X-pass, smash-pass, to knee-slice sequence using your head to the floor, under hook far side and near side arm grip to finish… badass.
He even added pursay if your opponent didn’t open up with the under-hook on the far side to turn the knee outwards then attack the mount instead… I believe the idea was that you had options, pending on how your partner and how they reacted on the bottom, instead of just trying to force one pass.
You have a multitude of options by redirecting yourself from one side of the body to the other with that knee, using grips with pressure to stabilize their upper body, and using your opponents direction to dictate the path of least resistance for the best possible solution.
Nice clip from the x-pass to smash-pass transitioning.
Nice clip with drilling and the ability to be mobile moving side to side for more options.
The following clip is nice because it actually discusses how you bury the head and reach for the under-hook to flatten your partner to finish the knee slice. It also reviews other grips as well as my favorite the collar variation lol
Word… up!!
Any way great class… loved the light rolling with wrestler Eric… great job buddy. Focus on the technique your doing great!!
Osss
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