What can I say… the odds Sunday BJJ fell on a Valentines.
🙂
Guess its good… lol since it happened!!
Yes I’m behind 11 days??… just gotta plug away when I can, just like Jiu-jitsu. Will be more behind after this weekend lol… hitting up Vegas with the wifey for our long overdue honeymoon.
#Gibberish
#BJJ4life
#BJJfourlife
Sure… I was allowed to come in… lol.
In the morning anyways…
BJJ in the morning on a Sunday?
Why not?
Ain’t different then any other day, aside that you get to spend the rest of the day hanging with the other favourite people on earth…
Other then our BJJ mat rats.
You bet I came in to row, and do some conditioning stuff… 4×10 box jumps, 4×25 push-ups, 4×4 tire flips, all as fast as I could.
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Clip below…
Come on. I’m bored. Video taping encourages me to perform. 🙂
At least I’m doing something… NO?
Class was fun though… I actually took it easy on the homies today… been noticing guys really messing up side rolling. I see it every Sunday and during the week during our movement exercises.
#Messedup
Homies train everyday in the morning but can’t do a fundamental side roll, its like shrimping, helps with guard retention and escaping.
PRACTICE practice practice, DRILL drill drill lol
#Seriously
Told the homies that we will be reviewing it during class this day.
I use to suck at side rolling, heck!! rolled over my head.
Even found them a wonderful clip to help them improve while sitting at home watching TV… was hoping specific people showed up… that didn’t, that really suck at them and keep saying they can’t do it. Oh well can’t get them all.
Nice reference for building that flexibility I found for them below.
Even one for Granby Rolling… great reference below.
Either way, our morning class consisted of a standard warm-up with movement exercises, reviewed side & Granby rolling, 5×5 min rounds of rolling.
You bet… clip below.
Heck I still feel like I suck at BJJ, especially when life intervenes off the mat.
Between being sick, injury, the sick baby, and work stuff… I have been keeping in lower on the attendance scale…
Clip of the training before bjj… yep got some in…
4×1 km Rows, 4×10 31in Box Jumps, 4×25 reps of push-ups, random stupidity, stretching, and mat cleanliness.
Added 2 of those damn 45 lbs cross fit plates for a box jump max lol. Repped 2 of them. Not even sure how thick they are… Will measure next time.
Clip of us training…
Warm-up with movement exercises with help from my homeboy Nathan Hatton. We then worked on open guard partner exercises, positional sweep drilling, reviewed the scissor sweep to mounted crossed collar choke, and then we rolled 5 rounds of 5 minute rounds.
Yep… on the rush lol, picked the little homie up, fed him quickly, wife got home then out the door.
Got to LEMMA round 5:00 pm… holy shoot. Tonnes of guys there doing things, from lifting, privates to working on the bag… wow. The heat was hilariously hot. Oh well good for me… bad for everyone else?
Got the little homie’s to follow me around with some running around the mat, side steps, outside/insides, then switching every 2 side steps. Had them bear crawl then a bunch of lunges around the mat.
Nathan and Marco came in to help out,and even Justin, which was fantastic lol… Marc had them do a few cool things as well as Nathan.
Either way its always great o help out with the kids BJJ… only wished I had more time.
Maybe one day I’ll have a club where I can have time to teach BJJ to kids.
Worst is the drivers in Tbay lol… live in the north and can’t drive in the snow… hilarious.
Ah whatever… but really though.
All you gotta do is signal and slow down.
Either way, I picked up my little homie from daycare, fed him, wife got home then out… oh and packed the nicely washed GI for the newbie…. yep sure did. Dan Thor’s buddy from his work.
Downed some coffee… made sure to down 3 bottles of water throughout the day.
#H2O
I know I know. Not enough lol.
Got to LEMMA around 5:15 pm, taped my wrist up… yep class at 6 lol.
Tonne of guys too… quiet a few advanced guys, great!!
Thor ran the class… Morgan did a standard warm-up, we repped a a few various of a single leg. By I mean repped, like 30 mins worth lol…. Partnered with Justin the Beast Sillymon. Yeah I was sore. Well at least it didn’t effect my wrist, as I made my partner take my down by attacking my only my left side lol, that way I can slap the mat with my good wrist. At some point I could feel my left fingers fall asleep… oops tape was too tight lol… made sure to loosen that up before technique. Thor got us working on the flower sweep… excellent!! repped them out… like a million of them lol…. a good 30 half hour says Morgo lol… great stuff. We then played some first to points. Myself, Veal, Aussie Mike, Morgo, Marco and Army Chris got grouped up. The white belts and a few others got grouped into a few other groups lol, good stuff, homies worked me lol…. sore, washed it all away last night with some rye… lovely.
Between sickness, injuries, baby and him getting sick, family stuff and other work life opportunities this blog is behind… not that it matters. Only random BJJ gibberish anyway.
Homies be like what what… got to LEMMA around 5:15 pm this day….
In my head I was like what was the point… wasn’t gonna roll anyway. Either way, I bought a new wrist support brace system from Shoppers… thought I was gonna roll. Popped ibuprofen before I headed to the gym, which was great… ibuprofen, helped out for the warm up and pretty much throughout the course of the night actually.
#ibuprofen
Mike ran the warm-up, with standard running around the mats, inside/outside karaoke, forward/reverse shrimps, forward/reverse rolling, bear crawls, and possibly others… I forget lol.
Thor then had us review lateral drop throw… got a nice video below for reference.
Partnered with Tony and repped that out… tonnes lol
Thor then had us review the inside leg trip when your partner defends by stepping around to defend the throw… nice reference video below.
Partnered with Tony and repped that out… tonnes again lol
Thor then got us to review the flower sweep which we repped out… one of the newer white belts joined us for this session of review. Poor guy still trying to figure this out. Complete resistance of working technique lol… white belt stuff. Being a horrible training partner. It was ok for me, definitely won’t help other white belts lol, by resisting that much, especially when all you are doing is trying to figure out the movements. Yes I told him…
#theyalllearn
lol
The reference I always use for my variation of this sweep below…
Then it was the rolling arm bar when your partner post to defend the flower sweep… a good video reference is below.
We then rolled… I’ll be honest, I wasn’t planning on rolling, but one of our black belts invited me to roll. When a black belt ask you to roll, you roll, regardless. Our rolling session below.
Class was a great… had a visitor from Toronto, Natasha. Trains at Body of Four, with Mike Aviado and those group of killers. Have only met him a few time at the Ontario Open, seems like a great guy, even have him a a BJJ Facebook friend lol… hoping to roll with him one day.
Thor had us do a standard warm-up, then he got us to review a closed guard back take, then a closed guard arm-bar. Fan-freaking-tastic. I didn’t roll, due to my wrist. Could barley do a few of the warm-up exercises… still tried.
Partnered with Mitch… kid is picking up things quick. Training hard and a lot had his first competition not too long ago… i commend him. Competition isn’t for the weak. We repped out the back take, then the arm-bar quite a few times.
#everyonehasaprice
Word… Thor’s recruited a few potential BJJer’s from his work. Fan-freaking-tastic, had an extra Gi to lend one of them. That I’ve only worn once. I have the identical Gi in an A0 and all patched up… It’s an A1 in case I ever gain the weight back and need it to be IBJJF legal.
#Truth
I Gi hoard, truth i think of weird stuff like that. Especially if you like the style and brand. Fact is the A0, I still use in my rotation regularily, so you never know. But… I had an extra Gi to lend.
Turned out homie wanted to borrow it for a week. lol
That’s like lending your under wear out… yeah no lol.
Either-way, I told the new guy that I’ll be taking it home and washing it right after. He asked if he could borrow it for a week or so until he figured out buying a Gi . In which I said no… I like my Gi’s cleaned regularly with after every use. I remember my first Gi as a white belt. It sure as hell wasn’t and I bought it, if I was lent one… I would have treated it worse. I ended up throwing it away, a Royal blue Reevo, very old model with no patches lol. He then asked if whether I would sell it… the following things popped into my head.
I have this exact GI one in a A0…
I wasn’t really gonna gain any extreme weight back…
I wore this particular Gi only once…
I offered it to him for $150 Canadian, which I thought was fair under the circumstances, I wasn’t in no way going to lend it to him for a week lol weird… especially since I didn’t even know him or whether he would return, or how he would actually treat it… He said that he would think about it and let me know after class. I agreed. I also lent him a white belt, which was my very first one… I told him he could get a GI online for $100 Canadian. I wasn’t intending to sell it or lend it out for a week lol. Shoot that’s weird, especially when you know how much you perspire while training BJJ and the idea that it would be well taken care of made it easy to say no, I’ll just take it home.
I bought that puppy brand new for $104.00 USD, with shipping and handling at $25.00 USD & taxes $16.77 USD … that being said, totaled $145.77 USD.
The exchange rate not even sure back then… the bill on my paypay indicated 145.77 USD. However, currently…
$206.86 Can lol…
They GI I plan on selling doesn’t exist anymore at $150 CN… but these are very similar prices.
That being said my original offer of $150CN was legit… he got a deal. My white belt however… guess he didn’t want the hassle of buying one online… I wasn’t going to sell it to him, but when he said $200 for both…
#deal
I was gonna give my kid that white belt… but for 50 bucks, I can buy 10 of them lol.
#everyonehasaprice
One of my homies said I was a ruthless business person… I think it was pretty realistic that my original price of $150 CN was more then fair lol…
The logic and numbers don’t lie…
Truth is when you talk about a fair price, its always dependent on what the consumer market has the ability to spare. If they can afford it, they will pay for it. People don’t buy Rolex’s because they are dependable… they buy them because they can lol. However, unfortunately price can also be a delusion of dependability, and hold a high standard.
If they can’t afford it, and still want to pay for it, you offer them a solution… which I did. The belt could be bought online for $10 bucks and I even explained that he could find a Gi online for $100.
I did managed to head out to Friday open Mat on Jan 22/16… didn’t roll. Just helped J-rock out with some questions. #Injuries can’t be like that forever… rest rest rest lol. Actually promised the wife I would not roll. She let me out of the house to hang out which was nice. Sitting at home after work from sitting all day at the office sucks especially when you got the bug for BJJ…
Either way Sunday was an awesome morning… got to LEMMA around 9:05 am.
Opened up the door and boom… the air hit my face yes hot air… lovely, actually wasn’t too bad once I got in the door. Not as bad as the past few times, obviously perceptively it may change lol.
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Average was below 2:30 mins per 500 m which was good enough for me lol. I’m showing up… Not bad for an old man who’s training irregularly now due to injuries and life lol. 90 percent of success is just showing up.
Clip of some box jumping after the row session… 3 sets of 10 reps. 30 inch box jumps? Think my ankle is better, felt better so I thought I would get some box jumping in… Not even sure of the actual box height, but the highest for the boxes we got around.
Got some good advice from Veal about some technique to improve the jump. Used it… and it works, got more explosion for sure!!
lol boredom gets you video taping workouts… plus its good for media content for a blog. Just irritable and long to edit though lol.
A clip of all our training below… fun fun lol
We have a 49 year old dude that trains with us and shows up pretty regularly, when hes not working… I commend him. He just got his Blue Belt last year, seriously respect. A lot of time on the mat for that!
BJJ can be tough, especially when you get bitten by the bug and you have other life obligations like the wife, kids, work, or other hobbies you end up putting on the shelf lol yes other hobbies.
Can we define life in just one thing we do?
Is the yearning to live defined by scope like attempts by being choked out by your training partner or while competing?
Training BJJ is highly commendable. Very commendable. Takes patience, extreme awareness of emotional intelligence and a freaking long time to just learn… you might think your getting good at one thing, then whoop, bam… your not lol. Soo much time on the mat to end up re-evaluating your skills after a horrible roll session or competition, yep wiped out. When your knocked down, do you not get back up?
Think this is kinda the essence of life. It ain’t perfect. Things get in the way. Do you quit? do you move forward? or are you just content on your current well being? There is a lot of sports or hobbies that could give you this same sensation. Especially combat sports like MMA, Muay Thai, Boxing in general? any fighting really… longevity, life expectancy, incurring long term physical damage another story. Obviously we’re talking about competitive training… not the excercising and physical workouts required to complete the acts, like boxercising or that kickboxercising dance stuff, like man.
Your not a Muay Thai, Boxer, or even a Karate fighter unless you actually spar or fight with someone… or are you?
You train in a combat art for killing by which you don’t actually train against a resisting opponent? how effective would that be in real life which such a variant of circumstances? kinda what Gracie University was doing for a while with guys submitting video logged of technique to attain a belt on non resistant opponents. Right?
lol a Blue Belt without ever training with a resisting opponent… excellent ideals… washing out BJJ for a bunch of money. Consumerism and capitalism at its greatest. Sure they learn BJJ, sure they learn some kinda self-defense. But really do they? I get this may be helping BJJ grow, which in the end is great… but is it really? Look what happened to Karate. Sell the belt, make Karate a product, make it grow… Karate is an effective art. Just washed out… everyone one has a black belt, 2 years for a 13 year to get a black belt? Dfck lol… seriously… washing out the actual meaning of Black Belt.
Karate!!
Found this karate rash guard for my buddy… hahahah
For Muay Thai the life expectancy of a fighter is what 30 years old in Thailand? not even sure… fighters live for the fight, live the living, and die training to support themselves.
Reality is if you get out alive, there is long term damage from getting hit in the head repeatedly lol… Boxing I would imagine is another lol.
“Over time, professional and amateur boxers can suffer permanent brain damage. The force of a professional boxer’s fist is equivalent to being hit with a 13-pound bowling ball traveling 20 miles per hour, or about 52 times the force of gravity.
According to the Journal of Combative Sport, from January of 1960 to August of 2011, there were 488 boxing-related deaths. The journal attributes 66 percent of these deaths to head, brain or neck injuries; one was attributed to a skull fracture.
There are boxers with minimal involvement and those that are so severely affected that they require institutional care. There are some boxers with varying degrees of speech difficulty, stiffness, unsteadiness, memory loss and inappropriate behavior. In several studies, 15-40 percent of ex-boxers have been found to have symptoms of chronic brain injury. Most of these boxers have mild symptoms. Recent studies have shown that most professional boxers (even those without symptoms) have some degree of brain damage.” Verbatim from the article I read below,
Can you actually really train these kind of combat sports effectively, competitively to not sustain this kind of actual damage? I’m sure you can make those decisions on your own… lets get punch drunk!! Either way scary like the above article indicates. I commend all those that fight for a living, its a hard knock tough life, which the path is ridiculously hard.
#respect
Either way I read somewhere that Rickson Gracie got involved with his nephews shenanigans and now they are revamping their logic… gotta roll guys lol, not rocket science or what, at least physics, applied physics? Money ain’t everything.
#Fantastic
lol
BJJ compared to the rest of these combat sports is definitely the gentle art within the combat realms in comparison.
I choose BJJ, continue to train BJJ. I can go 150% with willing partners or just compete and not sustain the long term damage to my head as compared to a competitive striker of any other Martial Art… unless I get need or accidentally punched in the face, hopefully not ever loose an eye from eye gouging.
#knockonwood
Not mocking it, whatever floats your boat and gets you off the couch… I used to make fun of the wife for her Zumba. Reality was, I didn’t mind, as long as it made her happy and feeling good.
She doesn’t need to know that… making her think that I think that I am the man… reverse psychology lol. hah!
My satrire somewhere up there? lol
#gibberish
#BJJfourlife
#BJJ4life
#endrant
Eitherway, regardless of my gibberish… continue to do what you like doing. Its just my gibberish.
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