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.
Will be adding 200 m sprints, with 1 min rest, tabata sets, and the 30s on 30s off to mix things up…
Results BELOW
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)
Scott Hall
Big Red
Scotty too Hotty
Travis Duncan
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.
All you gotta do is show up… someone will push you. You will 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.
Got to LEMMA around 6:00 pm… some big boys OTM inside the cage rolling.
Rolled with Travis till 6:30 pm… fun fun!
Head Coach Matt ran the warm-up… standard running around, forward and reverse rolling, technical falling, and shrimping. He then got us to rep duck-unders to back-take, the double legs, then the single leg.
I partnered with Hassan… Coach got us drilling 30 sec speed rounds then sprawling, when your partner counters with a takedown attempt… thought it was interesting.
My Gi was drenched by now…
Then he got us to drill the no hands, fist only, passing and guard retention exercise…
Yonk. I’m stealing that… heck all of those.
Then got us to rep for a few minutes on a timer, alternated from leg to leg the seated guard then switched… one of my favorite’s of course. Then we reviewed a sweep with a belt grip diving through the back side when your opponent places a hand on your collar behind your head.
BOOM low and behold… it was an exercise to drill an entry to 50/50….neat. Very neat!
Got a few 4 minute rolls in… first was with Hassan. Next was with big Willy!!
Great class… fun and tough rolls at the end.
Oh… yes I managed to get a pull session in at the Complex… results below.
Great class Monday… got to LEMMA around 6:00 pm. Rolled with Thor till start of class. “Fun rolls,” he says… me replies, “yeah a lot of inverted funny back take stuff going on… oh and that damn crucifix” lol
Rhino was in to run the class. Had us work on take-downs.
All starting from over and under clinch positioning. The first, was with a back step, with an elbow or sleeve grip with the over-hook, then a fast knee bump on the under-hook side of the retracting leg. Taking them down on the under-hooks side. Second, was with an over-hook, after freeing the under-hook to palm push your partner in the chest and grabbing that wrist with the over-hook, to take them down on the over-hook side. A lot of pressure on the shoulder, throw your partner hard and their shoulder could snap… ouch. Great throws… hard take downs. Learn to break fall or counter lol.
I partnered with my white belt buddy Mitch.
Rhino then had us roll for the remaining 15 mins… lol
Oh… he also got promoted! Congratulations big guy… kinda important. Lol
Well not really lol… baba has been keeping me busy.
Got to LEMMA around 9:30 am on Sunday. Yes sir, me rowed…
2 sessions of 4 km… great day and a few calories burned.
Results below…
Quite a few guys showed up this morning… summer must be ending lol.
Newer white belts Kevin, Cole, Scotty Hall and Travis were in attendance. Hassan, Brittany, Justin St Amand, Scotty too hotty, and Nathan were as well…
Felt kinda bad… called Cole Kyle… ooops
Big up to the new faces for a Sunday showing.
I know its hard to come on an early Sunday to train BJJ.
Hard work will pay off!!
Quick clip of our warm-up below…
Somebody requested drilling with chained techniques… coaching is cool. Feedback is even cooler when it will improve the quality of the class. This I do love… chaining takedowns, passing the guard to full on submission attack… love.
So I got the homies to do a bunch… 2 mins for each chain, then alternate. First, was the X-pass, knee on belly, then spinning arm-bar. Second, was the knee slice pass, to kesa gatame, straight arm lock on the near side arm, to a kimura on the far side arm while stepping over to sit on the face, then possibly attacking wrist, or arm-bar if choosing so. Lastly, was a deep hip throw, with a belt or under hook grip to attack the far side arm again.
I threw all that into the warm-up lol.
Technique… we continued to review the 96 choke, as well as the Brazilian Neck Tie from the 96 choke fun fun…
Quick clip below…
We then rolled. 5 min rounds…
Rolling:
1. Shat Hatton
2. Scotty too Hotty
3. Hassan
4. White belt Travis
5. Justin St Amand
6. Shat Hatton
Quick clip of us rolling below…
Great rolling…a few faces I haven’t seen all summer…
About 4 or 6 of then doing some kind of tabata variation of exercises.
Thor was in at roughly the same time, discussed the leg locks and flow sequence I wanted to review. Scotty arrived shortly after.
We drilled a leg lock sequence from a straight ankle lock, to an achilles slicer, a toe hold cork screw, a heel hook, a toe hold, then switched the leg to the reaping side. Applied the same techniques, then switched to the other side again, this time applying the same techniques with one foot spreading your opponents legs and hold it in place so they don’t roll out.
I feel at a loss with leg locks… so many wholes, however yet opportunities.
Very important to protect your own legs. The leg knot…
A nice reference for positioning the saddle…
A nice reference for heel hooks…
Below is a reference to other leg locks from Jason Scully I eventually want to get a handle on…
We drilled for 5 mins each the sequences then we worked on the Estima lock for about 5 mins each… pretty much a toe hold or straight foot lock depending on where you place the foot.
Great reference below…
After drilling the Estima Lock, we rolled. 3 min rounds. Shark tank style since there was only 3 of us lol.
Rounds:(3 mins, 15 sec Break)
Myself & Thor
Thor & Scotty
Scotty & Me
Myself & Thor
Thor & Scotty
Scotty & Myself
Myself & Thor
Thor & Scotty
Then the baby cried… lol sooo that concluded my short rolling session lol…
Mitch came in pretty much when I arrived at 5:30 pm.
Josh and Mike working on clinch and wall cage MMA stuff.
Morgo and Scotty leaving from the early training sessions prior.
I got to roll with my buddy Mitch.
Wow his defence has improved significantly… awesome. Rolled and played around with him till class started. I mainly just focused on countering his passing with sweeps, arm drags and his attacking nature. Kid is fast, resilient, strong, a natural ability to move out of a troubled position, and he can scramble… love it. His fighting tooth and nail out of chokes is typical a white belt spaz kill joy thing, but his temperament is calm and collective even while in a horribly troubled tight position.
Quite enjoyable to roll with for a white belt… 18? Maybe 20? years of age… not as spazzy as most beginners.
Class started at 6:30 pm head Coach Matt set us up with a decent warm-up. Running around the mat, forward shoulder rolls, backward shoulder rolls, shrimping, butterfly butt scooting with a partner, then following your partner walking backwards with hooks. Great warm-up.
Veal was in for the technique. He got us to review the technique we worked on last week from a flattened out butterfly. A knee tap counter, and then a over hook with a cross lapel grip finish with a knee pressure straight arm lock or an omaplata…
Video below for further reference… entries were obviously different, Veal showed it from butterfly, but the finish is similar… and you can see the omaplata, from the failed arm-bar attempt if you think about it…
After technique, Veal then got everyone to roll… 4 min rounds, no submissions. Just spit them out and continue. Even take risks, work on things you never would normally do. Be fast quick and to work with your partner… Sounds like flow rolling. What do you know… my favorite kind lol… easy on the body, and you can be technical.
Told Veal that 4 mins is dah bomb. The no submissions is cool and that the guys needs to learn how to flow, from one submission to the next and these kinda rounds will really help in the development of their BJJ.
He explained that, there’s big issues with that and this provides the opportunity to take chances because people will shelf their egos some what when there’s are no submissions involved.
I told him that I absolutely agreed… that grinding is cool, but there are always other options then spending 2 mins to rework a failed arm-bar.
Seeing opportunity in a failure will makes us grow.
Rolled with Jesse, Mitch, Nathan, and Big Willy… boy was I f-n drained…
Yes I did some conditioning earlier in the day…
Results below…
Woooo!
Great class… I love it when I don’t have to coach.
Some of the boys be rolling… some of them real hard lol
Homeboy big Willy was in… stole this like I steal other peoples memes lol Seemed fitting.
Haven’t seen him out… since like January or December. Yep… huge return from a really long hiatus, glad he is back.
Rolled with ma daddy long legged buddy Travis, focusing on transitioning. Fun fun…
My lower back felt real good today, especially with all the stretches and rolling out I’ve been doing while my kid is doing tummy time… I pushed my transitioning a little to see how fast and smoothly I could execute them… no I didn’t land shit, but my transitioning made me feel like I was a Super Saiyan God!!!
Diesel had us warming up with a leg drag pass with no stapling of the bottom thigh… partnered with Tyler.
I love drilling… HINT HINT HINT
Diesel then got us to review some X-guard sweeps… love them.
Had a discussion with Veal over the weekend about the 3 min rounds…
His explanation that sometimes you need shorter ones too, makes sense. He explained that with the 3 minute short rounds, it will help you close out a match, if you are down, as well as help keep a steady pace. With the intensity of shorter rounds and the 30 seconds rest, it makes you maintain your higher heart rate while constantly having to adjust to the different styles with very little time to adapt.
Makes total sense for preparation with a competition styled rolling format, especially when you have the right amount of bodies OTM.
Overall great class, great peeps, great vibes…
Caught these homies below in discussions of my secret triangle escape while I was leaving… Yes Thor first step, is to become an Ewok.
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