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Wed June 4/15 BJJ

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Got to LEMMA around 6:00 pm…

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NIOCE…

Got some mat time with big white belt Colin… 220 lbs.

He’s improving damn, so strong and big. Grips and strength are BOOM-digity-DATA.

30 minutes with this big boy!

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Open mat prior to class was in the cage…

He definitely has cage awareness lol,

kept putting me into the fence. Used it well lol

Coach Matt was sore today, so good old David Letourneau aka “Diesel ” ran the show last night…

I partnered with Nathan the Professor X… slick dude slick…

Minus the fact your stubble sticks to my GI hahahaha

Class Warm-up: (Arm-bar Drilling, 2 mins each)

  1. Standard Arm-bar, from closed guard
  2. Fat Man arm-bar, from closed guard

Lost in arm-bars… in fact 4 variations, mainly fat man ones, at least that what i call them, with different entries, grips, and options in attacking the the opposite arm for the omaplata and even just sweeping. Then we rolled with 3 min rounds. I find the 3 min rounds are the bruisers… everyone seems to go sooo freaking hard crazy crazy…

Rolling: (3 min rounds, 30 sec break)

  1. Diesel
  2. Travis Duncan
  3. Brittany
  4. Michael Maronese

Someone had the most stanky ass GI… thought it was me.

NOPE!

Not sure who… Wash that shit homie!

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Kinda sore lol… smashed by bigger dudes hah?

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Great news!

My boy the Frenchman is back from his Brazil trip and he has news…

Brazil was lovely… hahaha

If you continue to follow you will find out!!

Oss,

Watch “The secret session: Renzo Gracie vs. Paulo Miyao” on YouTube

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Cool!! oldy but good…

Published on Jul 15, 2013

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Watch the exclusive footage of Renzo Gracie training with Paulo Miyao in Abu Dhabi, UAE. The session took place in the palace of Sheik Tahnoon bin Zayed, one of the most exclusive mats in the world. We’re not allowed to film for long, but what we got was serious good stuff. Here’s Renzo Gracie training with Paulo Miyao

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Sun May 31/15 BJJ

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Beautiful sunny morning…

Got my Java, of course… Timmy who who’s?

Got to the gym at roughly 9:30 am…

Nathan, Scotty P, and even my boy Justin St Amand showed up earlier wow… fellow lifters!

BOOM!

Lifting: (135 lbs)

  1. Squats, 14 reps, 5 sets
  2. Bench, 14 reps, 5 sets

Conditioning:

  1. Box jumps, 12 reps, 4 sets
  2. Crunches, 100 reps, 4 sets

 OMG last set banged my shin on the BOX again…

DAFCK same shin arrrggghhhh!!

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 Nice to see a larger crew out, today…

Brittany, Hassan, Katrina, Scotty, Travis, Justin St Amand, New Travis,, and Nathan Shat Hatton.

Warm Up: 

A few laps jogging, 1 lap lunges, 1 lap bear crawls forwards 

  1. Forward shoulder rolls, alternating shoulders, 1 x across mat
  2. Reverse shoulder rolls, alternating shoulders, 1 x across mat
  3. Side shoulder rolls, 1 x across mat left side & 1 x across mat right side
  4. Forward butt scoots, 1 x across mat
  5. Reverse butt scoots, 1 x across mat
  6. Backwards shrimping, 2 x across mat
  7. Forward shrimping, 2 x across mat
  8. Backwards break fall to technical stand, 2 x across mat
  9. Forward break falls to technical stand, 2 x across mat

Drilling: (1 min each, then switch)

  1. Arm bars’, 1 min each, then switch
  2. Hip bump sweeps’, 1 min each, then switch
  3. Kimuras’, 1 min each, then switch
  4. Triangles’, 1 min each, then switch
  5. Marcelotines’, 1 min each, then switch
  6. Omaplatas’, 1 min each, then switch
  7. Scissor sweeps, 1 min each, then switch
  8. Spider guard switches’, 1 min each, then switch
  9. Side control switches’, 1 min each, then switch
  10. Modified single leg, with a lapel grip break, 2 min each, then switch
  11. Modified hip judo throw, 2 min each, then switch
  12. Guard pull with one foot on hip, 2 min each, then switch

A quick clip below with us warming up and drilling…

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Technique:

We continued to work on collar chokes, diving into further details on the cross collar while your attacker is in your guard. details discussing the wrist, and shaving the face if you couldn’t attacked with both palms up and not to use strength.

A quick clip below working tech below…

Rolling: (5 min rounds, 30 sec break)

  1. Hassan
  2. Katrina
  3. New Travis
  4. Brittany

Clip of us rolling below…

Great rolling guys…

Scotty P ran a quick stretch…

Then off to get some dim sum at a place I’ve never been to…

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Oss

Sat May 30/15 BJJ

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Word… got to the gym at 1:45 pm.

Some guys on the weights

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Morgo was in with a guest from the US.

Warm up was short with a a few variation of an ankle pick with a collar tie. Technique involved a slip collar choke transition switch to preposition to the opposing size when your partner defends by moving to the opposite side of the over hook and with your partner turtling to defend. Keith was in for a bit, and he showed us a few variants of the take down which was nice. My favorite was collar tie to a mount guillotine.

Myself, Morgan, Aria, Scotty P, Big Rig, New guy white belt Alex with the nice blue GI…

Luke was late missing the warm-up per usual.

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LOVE CHOKE’s

For the remainder of the class we position-ally drilled the back exercise with 2 minute rounds, you on me, then me on you exercise, until everyone had an opportunity to go with everyone. Similar to Submission Challenges or even EBI’s sudden death or over time rounds.

We tried with full lapel grips first… no dice.

Figure got shot except mine of course..:P 

Then moved to just starting with the full harness…

Positional Strangling: (2 min rnds, then switched roles)

  1. Aria
  2. New guy white belt Alex
  3. Big Rig
  4. Scotty P
  5. Morgo
  6. Luka

Yep Lots of Choking!

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You missed out… caught him in the wild!

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Oss,

Fri May 29/15 Open Mat

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Got to LEMMA around 5:30 pm…

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Holy-shamoly tonnes of home boys OTM…

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lets see, if my memory serves correctly:

  1. Brock
  2. Nathan
  3. Luke
  4. Morgan
  5. Aria
  6. Travis
  7. Katrina
  8. Alex
  9. Scotty
  10. Some random guy with a brand new blue GI and fresh white belt
  11. Another random guy with a brand new blue GI and fresh white belt
  12. Patrick the collar bone glass
  13. Marco
  14. Hassan

Anyone else?

8 mins rounds was set up!

BOOM!

No lifting…

No time had to get out by 6:45 to get the wife and baby…

Yes priorities, the PHO with some BJJers…

WORD…

Lets just say my first roll he brought the thunder lol…

Thunder from Thunder Bay BOOM!

No warm up roll for me lol…

Heck I should have did some squats…

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Rolling: (8 min rounds)

  1. Justin the Beast Sillyman
  2. Aria the pitbull
  3. Katrina the beast sushi
  4. Morgan King Razor Frazer
  5. Marco Polo
  6. Some random new guy white belt, with a brand new GI and fresh whit belt.. fan-frecken-tastic
  7. Patrick the collar bone glass

Wow some of our white belts have picked up their game… awesome, or is it just me and lack of sleep…?

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Naw, its our crew evolving… always getting better!

Oss