Nov 11/15 BJJ

I remember…

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MY OBSESSION, WILL BECOME YOUR ADDICTION!!!

Got to LEMMA around 5:45 pm… got some rolling in. First big Willy, then with the Pirate.

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LONG ASS ROUNDS lol 

Great stuff tough long sessions with some bigger boys lol.

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Thor ran the class with a warm-up that consisted of doubles and sprawling…

Back and forth back and forth for like 15 minutes lol or was it 20?? wait was it 10?

I partnered with the beast St Amand.

My foot was still mangled lol… wish we had the option to pull guard. Hah!!

Thor had us review the elbow push escape to counter the double under-pass, as well as from a transition while your opponent in top side control moves the outside anchor arm to across the body for better positioning. Marcelo Garcia used this all the time. Excellent escape when you can time this well. Very powerful once your arm locks out… below is a nice clip for further review with Marcelo demonstrating this from side control.

Rolling: (3 mins, 30 sec break)

  1. St Amand
  2. Fuji
  3. Big Steve

Thank god for the open mat prior… 3 min rounds just ain’t enough some times lol… especially if your trying to execute the technique we reviewed in class and the white belts are trying to eat you alive for dinner and with other agendas on their mind lol…

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I did manage to hit the gym this morning to get some cardio in… rowing for about 40 mins… results below.

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Made a visit to LEMMA this morning as well…

NICE TO SEE MY ADDICTION BECOMING OTHERS OBSESSION… ahahhaha

Bunch of guys working on a knee/shin guard sweep, some rolling and drilling.

We went to the Thai Kitchen afterwards… fun stuff!!!

My Gi was soaked after the class, washed after every use BTW…

Time to rotate and use one of my other beloved GI’s from my little collection.

Nov 9/15 BJJ

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Caught up!!

The cage was full again with open mat homies!

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Show up… train. Sometimes it’s hard.

Heck it’s always hard, not gonna lie.

There will always someone there to push you.

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All we did was roll tonight…

Fantastic lol.

Rolling: (5 min, 60 sec breaks)
1. Rock Climber (Flow)
2. Fuji (Flow)
3. Reevo
4. Thor
5. Fuji
6. Fuji
7. Curly locks
8. Snell

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Patience’s guys… and gals.

The Rock Climber caught some cool clips of me rolling… will post another time! 🙂

Great rolling tonight!!

Jammed my toe… ouch. Lower back is sore to wtf…lol I need to stretch my hamstrings out. dafuck…

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Osss,

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Nov 8/15 Sun BJJ

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One more day to go lol… then I’m all caught up. The little guy is sick again… in fact for a few days. Projectile vomiting… poor little thing… puked at BK yesterday, a few times at home, and a few times today. Just have to keep his liquid intake up I guess. Wish I could take all his pain. Must be teething again. Apparently the pain is soo unbearable it would make a grown adult go insane, but I guess that’s what drugs are for… unfortunately not allowed for little babies.

I did manage to get in earlier again Sunday morning, like every Sunday morning lol … with no real motivation but a Tim’s medium black and a note I saw on the white board lol… so instead of 10 mins, I did 20 mins of rowing, then some 24 in box jumps, push ups and crunches in. 4 sets BTW… Oh and an additional 28 in box jumps, 10 or twelve lol. 

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Felt great afterwards… especially after the stretching and foam roller before the guys started galloping in… cute clip below.

A lot of non regulars showed up this morning which was nice…

I invited a few other new white belts who kept asking questions about a sweep I kept hitting them earlier during this week, in hopes that we could further review their issues, instead of preoccupying class rolling time which was very precious due to the others that required the mat space right after us at 7:30 pm…

Didn’t show… Hopefully next time.

Nathan ran the warm up… which was pretty standard with running, bear crawls, lunges, rolls, shrimping, break falls and technical stands etc… quick clip below… 

Quick clip of us working on some basic drills with armbar’s, hip bump sweep’s, kimura’s, and omaplata’s…

Then we reviewed the scissor sweep from closed guard, first with the knee against the chest or neck, and then the belly with a deep cross collar and sleeve grip…

Yes then some rolling rolling lol… 6 min rounds. fun fun!!

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Photo credit to my buddy Travis Duncan… well done homie.

Training and taking cool pictures at the same time is difficult… but that’s why your a brown belt homie.

Making it all look very easy.

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Bjj Eastern Europe – No Gi World Stats: 10th Planet (Only No Gi) vs Atos (Gi & No Gi)

Interesting… maybe a bigger competition with ADCC rules would be appropriate to get the submission wrestlers and catch guys out for a better research analysis.

http://www.bjjee.com/articles/no-gi-world-stats-10th-planet-only-no-gi-vs-atos-gi-no-gi/

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Nov 6/15 Open Mat

2 down… 3 more BJJ related sessions to blab about… nothing special. Got behind, you know family life… a 10 month demanding further daddy time. Oh and the dog… yep kinda cute.

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Got a tonne of rolling in… yep. A tonne

Clips of the rolling sessions below…

We did manage to get a crew out to the Sushi Station… horrible experience btw.

Not enough ribs, slow service, what else… slow service… oh and slow service. Food that got out was satisfactory. But yes… slow service. I guess I could say I’m super patient… but man was that ever slow lol… common lol… we go there all the time.

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Nov 5/15 Kids BJJ

Jumped in to help up with the kids class tonight… slowly developing patience lol… slowly.

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Thanks to Arin, Katrina, Philippe, and Travis, though… without the help not sure how to deal with little people trying to take limbs from you… especially 20 of them.

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YES 2O little monkeys in Gi’s… well a few in Gi’s lol… slowly but surely… my addiction will be everyone’s… 🙂

Standard warm-ups…

Self-defence with the double neck grab, single wrist grab, then a 2 on 1 wrist grab drill with 2×2 min sessions, they then got to do a 10 min zombie game with them up kicking and guarding their face to protect their brain…

Then in 2 groups we had them sock flag wrestle for 10 mins… yes fun fun.

These guys have soooo much energy so… in their same groups I then got them to do king of the mat with first just working on getting a mount for 5 mins, then just working for a back take for 5 mins, then finishing with either mount or back take for 5 mins to be king of the mat.

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Nov 4/15 BJJ

Open mat was yet full again… wow.

Awesomeness to all that showed up.

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Warmed with the fellow Eric, the buddy with the shiny blue Fuji Gi again… great stuff. Long ass round lol.

BTW… he didn’t spaz… well a couple of times he did. But great stuff. Much improvement since our last roll.

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Travis ran the class today… I warmed the guys up with the standard running around the mat, lunges, bear crawls, forward and reverse rolls as well as some shrimps.

Travis had us review a few side control escapes 3 in fact. First was a re-guard with a forearm to the neck with a z type guard, second was a bridge roll sweep, & third was a similar sweep with a deep belt grip and body lock.

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Had a visiting black belt… didn’t get his name… Logan. Apparently he is in for about 4 days… I’m was hoping to get some rolling in with him… not sure what club he trained with… I had to bounce… fa family lol

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Seriously though… if you missed out. Your loss…

Great stuff!

We then rolled… first with The Duncan, and the Mitch… 5 min or 4 min rounds.

My homie Mitch… if you are reading this lol

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Hahahah!

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