BJJ

Sat Aug 22/15 2pm BJJ

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Morgo was in today… man, classes with people have been hit or miss. For the past month only 3 or 4 people on Saturdays. Guess when its Sunny, people just want to enjoy the sun lol. Not me. Hah… BJJ word.

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Quite a few showed up for the 2pm grinder today though … shity for them. Morgo had us to do the circle of death hahahah.

20 reps of whatever. Twice around the circle, third rep, was a partner drill. Hahahaha. Albino puked. Hadn’t seen him out in over a month for actual training. Anyways, I loved it.

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We reviewed the spider guard… to a few sweeps. With a single legged x-sweep into a combat base stand up, a hip/heel push/pull, & a shin sweep with spider guard to a triangle. Just hoping we work on these for a while before to other techniques. I partnered with Travis. His legs were twice as long as mine so the combat base sweep t stand up was really hard when he spread his legs out lol… had to modify it a tad. Hahahah.

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quick clip below

Rolling wasn’t much… I guess everyone was spent from the warm-up. Lame… only 6 min rounds.

Rolling:(6 min)
1. Travis D
2. Luke
3. Hassan

Quick clip of everyone rolling

Quick clip of only me and Hassan rolling, while everyone was spent… hahahah

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Osss,

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Fri Aug 21/15 OpenMat

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I train a lot… or at least I’d like to think that I do.

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Now I’m not comparing myself to those in their early 20s or even late 20s but hey… those, that are in their mid to late 30s, have a full time job, mortgage child or worst a baby. Love my baby… really do or else I wouldn’t have done a 6 month parental leave… and here in my head head I thought it would mean more BJJ.

Baby talk all day… really BJJ keeps me sane. Oh, the fine scotch helps too.

Someone once told me that they had all these friends that use to train all the time… gym, weights, cross fit and stuff. Then out of nowhere they quit. Common denominator… a baby lol. So, apparently I’m doing OK.

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Sundays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturday’s. Rowing or lifting only in the early mornings on Sundays, Tuesdays, & Wednesdays…

Getting out OTM can be tough… when I’m out. I train.

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Sometimes I really don’t feel like it when I out OTM… truth.

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Heck I still went… or wait maybe it was an excuse to leave the house. Great excuse either way.

Yep went to the Complex in the morning and rowed…

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Yes pulled 2 km under 10 mins. Fantastically, fantastic…

Had enough gull to go to open mat…

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Sooo much truth… all you have to do is show up… lets just say I wanted to take it easy. Mitch was in and he mentioned he wanted to roll with me a lot. Mitch is newer… heck he even invested in a Gi, which kinda means he maybe a keeper. Younger athletic, moves like a wrestler, very natural in negating attacks, and is friends with Devon. Yep, Devon Richer. Our head coaches son. Soo, you can guess he has had some rolling time… which is fantastic and he is game.

Rolling:(10 mins, 1 min breaks)
1. Mitch
2. Mitch
3. Mitch
4. Mitch
5. Jesse Veltri

For some reason he kept wanting to roll, especially after the bell, soooo I kept going lol… and hey, I don’t segregate my rolling time to specific people. I was the same way… always wanted to roll with the best. Back in the day when there was only a few of us in a GI at the older location, that meant anyone lol.

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Rolling with Jesse is nice cause he’s always setting up attacks and combos. Unfortunately, we’ll be losing him to Winnipeg as a training partner. His competition Nogi, 10th Planet, trucker stuff will be missed. TBH, without him I would have never been able to learn how to defend those kinds of attacks.

Different styles makes different scenarios, making different strategies, and different approaches.

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You will be missed here buddy, cheers to your next chapter!

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Osss,

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FALL SCHEDULE at LEMMA, BEGINS SEPT 8th, 2015

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FALL SCHEDULE at LEMMA BEGINS SEPT 8th, 2015

Monday & Wednesday

  • 5:30 – 6:30 pm, Fundamental Bang Muay Thai & kickboxing (Ages 12 and Up)
  • 5:30 – 6:30 pm, Free roll BJJ (Cage Area)
  • 6:30 – 7:30 pm, BJJ (Gi)
  • 7:30 – 8:45 pm, Boxing (Ages 12 and Up)

Tuesday & Thursday

  • 5:30 – 6:30 pm, BJJ for children ages 7-11 (Bully Safe Program)
  • 5:30 – 6:30 pm, Boxing for women semi private class (Message Rory Slater for Details)
  • 6:30 – 7:30 pm, Intermediate Bang Muay Thai & Kickboxing (Main Mat)
  • 6:30 – 7:30 pm, BJJ free roll Gi or No-gi (Cage Area)
  • 6:30 – 7:30 pm, One to one Boxing training with Rory Slater (Book in Advance)
  • 7:30 – 8:30 pm, Boxing, kickboxing & MMA competition class (Sparring)
  • 6:30 – 8:00 pm, Self Defense (Outside or Green Mat Area)

Friday

  • 5:30 – 7:00 pm, Open mat/sparring/BJJ free roll

Saturday

  • 11:00 – 12:30 pm, Boxing
  • 12:30 – 2:00 pm, Wrestling
  • 2:00 – 3:30 pm, Brazilian Jiu-jitsu (No-gi)

Sunday

  • 11:00 – 12:30 pm, Brazilian Jiu-jitsu (Gi)

Aug 19/15 6:30 pm BJJ

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Nice class from grasshopper brown belt Matthew Trudeau visiting from BC and showing us some spider guard trickery, with a nice transition into x guard, a nice sweep, and then a cool calf slicer from bottom x.

Matt had us start with a warm-up with some shrimping, hip switch stuff to work the core, some forward and backward rolls, then backward extensions.

Quick clip below…

Rolling: (5 min Rounds, 1 min Break)

  1. Matt Trudeau (Flow, no submissions)
  2. Josh Daluca
  3. Emma Horner

This morning was great… with rowing at the Complex.

Boy was I ever tired at BJJ lol

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Your teammates will push you…

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Aug 18/15 5:30 pm Nogi

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Homies be like what… yep, Complex in the morning for my 4 sets of rowing.

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Got my 2km in the last set…

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Got to LEMMA around 5:15 pm… Dave was in to run the class, yep NOGI… Similar takedowns from last week as a warm up. I got sacked in the nuts by my partner… Kyle the blue belt from Halifax… fuck did that hurt lol… haven’t been sacked like that during a drill since like ever hahahha. oh well. After the warm up we reviewed a few back takes and a few escapes then rolled.

Rolling: (5 min rounds, 1 min breaks)

  1. Kyle
  2. Nathan
  3. Philippe

Tough class after being sacked lol…

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Received a message from an old friend in Kitchener asking about BJJ clubs in Kitchener… He told me that he loves the videos I post and he wants to give it a try. If my blogging and BJJ gibberish can inspire a few people to give it a try. BJJ speaks for its self… you will get addicted

Osss,

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Sun Aug 16/15 11 am BJJ

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Had to bring Chucky Sunday morning to his Vet to get his rabies shot and check up… A++ she says especially with what happened to his back a few years ago.

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Didn’t get to the gym until 10:15 am. I only had time to roll out my back muscles.

Decent attendance, with Justin, Kyle, Nathan, Katrina, and even Emma. Especially for this morning… beach weather lol. Was it ever starting to get hot out side. The Gym was super hot.

Warm-up was with the standard 15 mins of running around, lunges, bear crawls, rolling, shrimping, butt scooting etc… quick clip below.

We also got a bunch of 2 mins drilling in with arm-bars, hip-bump sweeps, kimuras, Marcelotines, and triangles all from closed guard. Additionally, I got the guys to rep string attacks, with passing the butterfly guard with the toreando pass to knee on belly the your opponent counters with a turtle and you take the back to work your favorite submission. I then got them to work a knee slice-pass, to work an under then arm-bar. Quick clip below…

Got Nathan to show a few submissions from side control. Kesa Gatami.
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The straight arm-lock with the top leg, then the key lock with the bottom leg. and head control. Quick clip below for further reference.

Old school… I guess. Effective but not used much. I may start using these submissions more often.

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We then worked on the back-take positional sparring… love these. Everyone was going hard. Submission and reset. Escape and reset. 3 min rounds.

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PLEASE NO MORE F’n Finger locks, not rocket science… just don’t do them.

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