BJJ

Thurs Oct 1/15 5:30 pm Kids BJJ

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Happy Thanks Giving day Weekend everyone… yes still behind from last Thurs. lol

Good luck to all the IBJJF competitors today in Toronto today… wished I could have timed it better with our time away.

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On a better note my little buddies teeth has somewhat finally sprouted lol… yep horrible nights but hey… teeth.

Steak soon for him…

This trip has been good and bad…

Good as in the family and friends we got to see…

Bad as in the ones we missed due to lack of time…

Better when i picked up these bags of coarse dried pepper flakes for traditional Kimchi… oh and Kimchi. BOOOOOOOM Shakalaka 

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We shall catch you next time… timing.

Always fighting for time.

Wished there was 48 hours in a day. No dice however…

Holy cow last Thursday… patients, its all about patients.

Kids got energy I tell you… Energy.

I don’t envy our head coach…

I’ve had the pleasure quite a few times to fill in and help out but wow…

19 kids that night lol… quick clip below.

Lessons can be learned observing kids move and grapple, very natural. Things we avoid or learn not to do while growing up.

Watched these kids work on back taking… ridiculously flawless in attempts, the fluidity, the flow we all work on immensely to emulate the sensitivity of what a seasoned competition black belt has.

NATURAL GRAPPLERS I tell you…

Any who had these homies warm-up with some standard BJJ movements, some drilling with arm bar and kimura movements, knee flag wrestling, and the take back take back… fun fun. Got help from Scotty to hotty, Katrina, Juneau, and even Erin. All I can say is wow. Without the help how do you keep these homies in check lol… the future of BJJ.

Ossss!

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Just sticking with it will make us be…

We are who we are…

Life gets in the way sometimes…

But we have to continually try to train and strive for the best…

The struggle to make ourselves better…

BJJ does this, at least for me, that is…

#thestruggleisreal

#BJJ4LIFE

#BJJfourlifeimageMORE Time OTM I guess.

Haven’t trained since last Thursday… weird… crazy… the anxiety… the itch. Yes I brought my GI, in the chance that I could sneak out…

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Yeah sneak out… haven’t had a real opportunity yet.

However, plenty of time to prepare on our LEMMA In-house BJJ Tournament

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With so far 20 guys signed up.

Fantastically Awesome
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But seriously…

You need to start training!!!

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Wed Sept 30/15 5:30 pm BJJ

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Yes way too long… got some to catch up… traveling. Boom Minnesota, Wisconsin, Chicago, Michigan, Windsor then so far the Kdubs… busy busy. Hopefully I can get some training in with Troop in Sudbury.

Word.. got to LEMMA on Wednesday around 5:45 pm.

Rolled with Morgo… fun fun.

Diesel ran the warm-up…

Coach then had us rep the
Osoto Gari, which is an outside foot sweep…

Nice clip for reference below…

He then had us review a sit up variation to a front sweep then a de la riva to a balloon sweep… I partnered with ma homie Justin the beasty Sillymon… yes dude is back from his UK trip… cray cray…

Cool clip I caught coach doing below…

We then rolled… 2 rounds of 4 mins with Justin… I think.

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Mon Sept 28/15 5:30 pm BJJ

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Strangling your friends… crazy talk.

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Got to LEMMA around 6:00 pm…

Rolled with Thor…

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)

  1. Some random newer white belt
  2. Jesse MacDougall
  3. Travis Duncan
  4. I think a 2 stripe white belt by the name of Adrian?
  5. Katrina Jones

Fun fun…

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A lot of fast hard matches…

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All about the technique!!

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Sun Sept 27/15 11am BJJ

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Got to LEMMA on Sunday around 9:30 am…

Kathy was in to lift…

Me rowed. yep 2, 4 km sessions. Did alright…

Will be adding 200 m sprints, with 1 min rest, tabata sets, and the 30s on 30s off to mix things up…

Results BELOW

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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)

  1. Scott Hall
  2. Big Red
  3. Scotty too Hotty
  4. Travis Duncan
  5. 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.

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All you gotta do is show up… someone will push you. You will learn something!!

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Fri Sept 25/15 Open Mat

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Got to LEMMA at about 5:30pm last Friday

Reviewed a bunch of leg locks positions, the closed guard with Nathan Shat Hatton, & a very cool crucifix to loop choke with Thor… link below.

Rolling: (5 min, 30 sec breaks)

1. Scotty
2. Scotty
3. Hassan
4. Hassan
5. Mitch
6. Mitch
7. Mitch
8. Mitch

Quick Fri open mat session below…

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Me and Mitch rolling…

Fun rolling… great times!!

Just show up… you will always 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.

The Choke is King!!

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