This was our first confirmed jam last weekend. Working outa town weekly has been keeping from posting regularly. Not that anyone cares. But eh its my gibberish…. #consistency #Boom-digity?
Saw this on my buddies page… had to rip it.
#hardenthefuckup
Life never goes the way its planned. Our construction work was scheduled to finish around Sept. Nope… just wished there were homies around wanting to roll. Tried to bait around when I first got there. Only guys interested were only people looking to learn… with late late nights, coming home at 8 or 9 pm lol… yeah no. Knewbs means fights to the death, a lot of knewbs means more fights to the death and potential of me not going in to work functionally the following day. I’m 38 right now… my career is still in the works and eh nothing will ever go as planned… thats life. Gotta still work to pay for BJJ Gi’s lol.
Today was a little awkward and different. Special, none the less, with us doing our first training session at the new location at the Sport Dome.
Eitherway it was #fantastic
Nathan ran a 15 min standard warm-up, I got our heart rates going with 50 squats, 30 push-ups, 30 crunches, 10 knee downs, 10 belly to butt turning drills. Coach Matt got us to review a couple of self-defense techniques. I then got us to drill arm-bars, hip-bump sweeps, the omaplata’s 10 each as fast as possible. We then reviewed the lapel control from closed guard, with the wing choke variant when your opponent defends. We then finished with 20 minutes of king of the mat. Started in someones closed guard. It was cold, toes cold lol.. forgot to bring a rash guard, lol always going to be growing pains with a new place.
Last Sunday morning training session at the Hillcrest site. 20 min warm-up by Nathan. I got us to bang out 50 squats, 30 push-ups, 30 crunches, 15 knee downs, and 10 belly to butt turning drills right after. Then we drilled hip bump sweeps, kimuras, arm-bars, and then omaplata’s. A total of 10 each. For technique we reviewed a cross lapel control from closed guard which we’ve been working on for a few weeks, the defence, and then a counter to which it gets reversed, to transition into a wing choke or back take.
I hurt my rib last week rolling with a few bigger boys. Yes bigger boy’s. No excuses, just the pressure and crushing power some of these guys have developed is a complement to our training regime. Big boy jiu-jitsu players… what what!!
#a3enforcers lol putting my little ass in place… body triangle crush. #Word
We then rolled for 2×5 min rounds, flow rolling in fact, didn’t look like it lol dafuck. Then finally we played king of the mat for 20 mins starting in closed guard. Guys looked burnt out lol.
Yes a little behind… working outa town weekly has been keeping me kinda busy.
Pays the bills though…
Pays for GI’s to train…
Working for the money makes the wife happy. BJJ bum… not so much.
Happy wife, happy life.
Then I get to train #BJJ
Unless I get something in town full-time just as comparible, this shall have to do lol. Beggars can’t be choosers and I’m kinda like a specialist in my field. Video below… 20 mins warm-up run by Nathan. Then I got us to do 50 squats, 25 push-ups, 25 crunches, then 25 knee-downs as fast as possible. Got everyone to rep arm-bars, hip-bump sweeps, kimuras, then omaplata’s. We then reviewed the cross the back lapel control from closed guard. Second, was a sweep from the same control, right into mount. Third, was a base ball bat choke, if you missed the sweep. We then rolled for 5×5 min rounds.
Warm-up, stretching with the wife and baby hanging out. That fun… 🙂
Decent class with a nice warm-up from Nathan. Then the 25 push-ups, 50 squats, and then 25 knee-downs from me.
Interesting split this particular day lol… but we always cater to our crowd. Got a few of the guys to drill a pass with chaining positions and submissions we’ve been working on, while Nathan showed the newbies some basics.
#newbs
I remember when I was a white belt… Kid Lightning and our head Coach choking and triangling the crap outa me.
We reviewed the paper cutter choke/strangle again since this was a different set of guys. Then we finished with 20 mins of king of the mat where you start in someones closed guard. Winner stays in OTM on his back for the first 10, then it was inside someone’s guard for the next 10 for the winner.
#winnerwinnerchickendinner
I won’t be in tomorrow for Sunday morning, my flight from Toronto isn’t till noon… but I got Nathan Hatton and Travis Duncan, sooo all my homies will be in good hands.
Irony was that the class was full of the heavy weights lol. 15 mins hard warm-up, 45 mins of with the knee slice pass and chained submission drilling. 15 mins review of 2 paper cutter variations, first from the north south, then second from knee-on-belly. We then finished with 3 x 5 min rounds of rolling, think they were fairly tough rounds lol.
Either way it was a productive class.
Ossss
#hopefullyIhavenomentalissues
Just a guy blabbing about BJJ and his personal useless journey lol…
Got in early, swept the mats, warmed up and stretched for 45 mins. I really need to started rowing again… seriously. Hard getting a good work out town, especially in the summers, with 12 to 16 hours of your day on the job lol…
Ended up doing a hard 20 min warm-up run by Nathan, 20 mins reviewing 2 variations of the paper cutter strangle, then a 20 mins shark tank starting for the Bday boy.
10 mins for him on the bottom starting with closed guard, then 10 mins for him inside others closed guard until either the first point or submission for the next person in line.
3 with Thor, then 1 with Mike, Kait, Brandon, Nathan, and Kyle… great night, got subbed numerous times with a toe hold. Gotta revise for these scenarios, either way it was super humid and fun!!
15 min warm-up run by my homie Nathan Hatton. 30 mins of micro drilling knee slice-passes chaining to knee-belly arm-bar, kimura, then arm-bar with kimura control. 15 mins review of the double lapel control to cross collar strangle. Finished with 3 mins rounds starting from closed guard, then switched from either top to bottom or from bottom to top.15 min warm-up run by my homie Nathan Hatton. 30 mins of micro drilling knee slice-passes chaining to knee-belly arm-bar, kimura, then arm-bar with kimura control. 15 mins review of the double lapel control to cross collar strangle. Finished with 3 mins rounds starting from closed guard, then switched from either top to bottom or from bottom to top.
Mike the “Spider-Ninja” Bidwell is a BJJ Black belt under Phil Migliarese and Ken Kronenberg. Mike Bidwell is also well known as full time BJJ blogger, check out his website BJJ After 40 or his Facebook page. Mike was a BJJ Brown belt from 2001 to 2014! Clip of his path from Brown to Black belt was an unbelievable voyage… below.
Below is a sneak peek on what Jiu-Jitsu Brotherhood, Black belt Nicolas Gregoriades and Mike Bidwell’s collaboration have to offer…
Some Video Content Reviewed
I’m not an expert, however, devil are in the details and buying this would be a good addition to any BJJ video content collection. I love the small detail about the bicep forearm pump to finish for a better grip from the baby restraint which appears to be a variation of the typical seatbelt grip.
I love the inside kimura grip control from a hinged breakdown, from closed guard concept. This appears to be similar to an arm drag control, but without pulling the arm through. Mike Bidwell then shows a bunch of chaining from a closed guard hip bump set up to various control positions and submission… basic and very optimal on some uses of reactions.
Might I add, easy to understand?
Sweep to mount
To face or gift wrap
To back take
To baby restraint
To bow and arrow or RNC for Nogi
etc…
Some nice details for standard Americana and chaining to other various submissions
Arm triangle
Wrist lock
Bow and arrow variations
Gi Submissions… #boomdigity!
Again I’m not an expert, but I love these kind of submissions. #gistrangles4life! For those that know me and how I roll lol. Gi, Gi & Gi. They might not work on a everyone, but they will absolutely work on a non-trained opponent, if put into a random scenario to do so… you never know. The more tools in your tool set to deal with variant situations eh??… shit is slick, #word, like his video’s he post on his Facebook page, in which others may criticize. Clip of Mike’s Kimura sweep counter sweep’s below from the instructional.
Live Rolling
During open mat, I managed to execute the hip bump sweep with the reverse kimura grip control, to attack the back, and an obvious bow submission was the conclusion. I tried one of the Gi lapel subs on a brown belt… with no luck, just got legged locked lol. But hey, if it were in the street, dude had no grappling experience, had me in an awkward position and I got a hold of their jacket, being if he was wearing one, which usually they are in northern Canada, especially in the winter… boom!!! Strangling will occur! A lot can be learned if you open your mind!!
Mounted Ninja lapel attack?
Just saying… get the video lol or show up to one my Sunday morning BJJ classes, and I may be doing a rundown on this strangle.
Conclusion
One thing to note is that I’m not a Black belt, I’m only a drop in the ocean regarding my expertise in BJJ, hence a great choice of demographic to review what an expert of the field has decided to provide regarding a choice of their instruction to a non-Black belts!
I have a few advanced level buddies that hate his content… but eh, to each their own? it’s their loss. I once read somewhere from a very high level…Very very high level BJJ practitioner who is actually Brazilian and BTW trains and teaches Jiu-jitsu, state that,
“the first rule to perfect your Jiu-jitsu is to never be death to other people’s knowledge,”
Wonder who that may be?
I’ll tell yah, I have learned from White belts lol… so why not him?
Open the mind brah… open the mind!!
For beginners though?? ummmm No dice, due to the elements of chaining, from one attack to another playing on reaction, to the others, usually built upon sensitivity in the time built from rolling on the mat, however the video is basic enough to cover execution on the classic hip-bump sweep and mount attacks, which may eventually, in turn, help develop a foundation to move into other movements, multiple chaining of positions and submission attacks. Awesome thing was that he also showed Nogi scenarios as well, and the zooming in was cool! Video was clear and crisp. I guess at the end of the day, repping or drilling them out a million times wouldn’t hurt, then drilling them with different levels of intensity wouldn’t hurt niether.
Big picture is your still training BJJ…
I’m not getting any younger homies. Been training since 2008, in fact 38 years of age currently as of a few days ago. This is a great video for those that want to continue their BJJ journey and open other insights creatively in their self-expression of their Jiu-jitsu. I may never be a world champion Black belt, I train sometimes like a world champion Blue belt, however Jiu-jitsu is for everyone, learning from everyone will only help its continued growth nad its just plain fun!
Overall, I thought it was clear and concise on what was being taught, definitely not for White belts, but a good resource to have when you’ve developed the fundamentals and want to branch out from the norm to help structure the development in being creative for your own game and development of strategy. Not going to lie, I have watched his videos on Facebook numerous times lol, I won’t be hitting any advance BJJ guys with it, but you never know, just gotta rep them out a million more times. However, at least I have some new tools in my game when an opportunity ever arises with a solution for the right scenario. But seriously though, I think his shit is pretty slick!!
Again, devil are in the details, and buying this would be a good addition to anyones BJJ collection for reference.
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