Apr 6/16 Wed BJJ

Yes lol I know behind.
#Word

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We had our final gradings for the week… a lot of over due belts a few kids, blues, a purple and a few degrees on browns.

Wooo congrats to all!!

#TrainintheGI, say’s Marcelo Garcia, your jiu-jitsu will get better.

Train in the GI, say’s T-son, not only will your BJJ  get better, but the belts you level up with, you can actually wear to hold together your GI jacket and up your pants lol 🙂

Cute picture my homie Travis took from a Sunday class yipping BJJ BS…

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Promotions, gradings, and belts mean different things to everyone.

Everyone’s journey is different!

We all train BJJ for different reasons… gotta respect the reason’s. Without the reasons, there wouldn’t be people training. Without the people training, there would’t be BJJ.

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This blog has been good to me, an opportunity to reflect, think, and grow on opportunities I wouldn’t have rather if I didn’t blog. A reflection of my BJJ and its continued evolution. Tracking personal progress, changes, attitude, learning experiences, and just random gibberish, kind of like a painting or self portrait that could in turn be reflective of my mat time which of course can never be taken away, ever… especially when its in my blog lol.

Been harder lately with chasing my kid around lol… more eh??? Yah more eventually lol.

Random chaotic beauty… Gibberish, which is a good reflective representation of what a none BJJ practitioner would see lol.

#Gibberish

Thor had us do 5 mins of arches and 5 mins of forward/backwards shrimping. He also made us do butterfly sweeps as well as turn over re-guarding for 5 mins each.

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Then we rolled. 5 mins with Luke, Juneau, Deseil, Josh, and then bigger Josh lol… yes there is a bigger Josh. Blue belt too, Haha.

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Great stuff!!!

Wooo!

Apr 1/16 Open Mat

Got some time to kill… let’s bight down on this bit by bit… the marathon lol.

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Open mat jamming, 5 min rounds. 1 with Trav, Gary, Kyle, Kole, Derek, Hector, Jared, & 2 with Andrew.

Got in a lot of rounds, I was feeling healthy.

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Boy did the guys push me… great stuff!!. Homeboys are hungry.

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Slow motion with Kyle… lol. 5 min rounds.

Great Open Mat!!!

Wed Mar 30/16 BJJ

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Second day of gradings… so many peeps lol… sooooo many.

I believe Thor ran the class this night.

Warm-up with running around, forward/reverse shrimping,  sit-outs, break-falls to technical stands, 5 mins of standing arm drags, worked on a butterfly sweep, then positional king of the mat.

Mount, back, and closed guard?

Forget been a while lol…

Love it!!

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#Promotions

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Great stuff we continued with grading’s! Congratulations to all that leveled up today and I fully apologize for my delay and procrastination.

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Mar 28/16 Mon BJJ

It’s Fri, everyone is asleep, scotch, beer and maybe one more blurb after this lol.

Maybe…

#BJJ

#TRAIN

#TRUTH

#MATDONTLIE

Sun, Mon, Wed, & Fri… seriously, I don’t train enough. 😦

I need more jiu-jitsu…

Spent the day with my monkey… cutest little thing. Chasing him around the house lol. So fast, so little lol.

#injuries

#BJJfourlife

#BJJ4LIFE

Can’t pretend to know jiu-jitsu, especially when the guy on top of you us a 240 lbs Brown Belt. Yep, defence better be good lol.

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Had gradings today… at least the first set. Been trying to advocate for our white belts. Great stuff. Guys and gals are getting better,   improving, and attendance much better.

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Train in the GI and all of your wildest abilities will come true…

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Rolled with Nathan, Rhino, Jesse, Thor, and then Jason.

5 min rounds.

All these homies always put me in check.

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Mar 27/16 Easter Sunday BJJ

Yeah… 11 am BJJ on Easter Sunday!

Absolutely!

#rowing

4×1kms

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Clip of my conditioning and being sanitary before the homies showed up. 25×4 push-ups, running around, sweeping, and mopping lol.

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Clip of our jam session below. 15 mins of a standard Warm-up, 15 mins of movement exercises, 15 mins of positional sweep drilling, 15 mins review of tech, and 6×5 mins of rolling.

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Great stuff!!

Good work guys!

Mar 25/16 Fri Open Mat

Slowly catching up lol.

🙂

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You bet lol… even with the late flight in.

3 am late lol

Still gotta train.

#word

Us jamming below…

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Mar 23/16 Nashville BJJ

Had the opportunity to visit Nashville from March 21st to the 24th…

Homies were very welcoming. I got smashed by a Pans Purple belt medalist, and a massive brown belt who was as big as our lovely Gare Bear…. wow.

Great stuff

#nashvillemma
#bryantidwell

Travelling and training go hand and hand lol…

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Mar 20/16 Sun BJJ

Am I catching up or what??

Busy freaking weekend this was lol… parents flew in Friday night, and had to be at the airport by Sunday 1:00 pm, yep it was tight lol… class then airport.

You bet… I still came in to train lol.

#traiingb4bjj
#rowing

Clip of me grinding below… 8×4 tire flips, 25×4 push-ups, forward/backward/side rolling and some sweeping.

The warm-up was by Nathan the Doc Hatton. I then got the boys & gal to sweep drill with chained submissions. We then reviewed the bow choke to arm-bar transitioning and the top mount x-collar choke. Wow a lot of questions lol… next time questions after class!. Then a few 5 min rounds of rolling. I had to drive my parents to the airport for 1pm…. yes cutting it close, the guys didn’t roll enough rounds, got heckled from my homie. lol live and learn.

Smaller class but hey!!! guys showed up!!

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Mar 18/16 Fri Open Mat

Again… Another one I started and didn’t finish. lol

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A reason why I show up to train… no matter what lol.

I’ll keep it short and very sweet.

Our Friday night jam session below… .5 min rounds, 1 with Nathan, Travis, Kara, Sandra, & 4 with Jason. Yes 4 lol…. boooom

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Ossss!!!

Mar 16/16 Wed BJJ

DON’T want to train… but it was BJJ Wednesday!!

#8cupsofcoffee

TBH, I was dreading going in to train today… tired, sore, and the dumping of snow wasn’t encouraging.

#sleeplessnights

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The little guy has been sick, so tending to his coughing or waking up while the wife tends is crazy. Hard to believe our parents went through this.

#respectourelders

If they can do it, we absolutely have the ability to lol.

Thank god I went in though.

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Thor ran the class, warm-ups with some running, forward/reverse shrimps, break falls to technical stands, sit outs, then arm drag flow drilling and takedowns. I partnered with Aussie Mike…. We then rolled with 5 min rounds.

Clip or our class below…

Aussie Mike, Juneau, Mitch’s buddy tall big new guy Evan??, Brent from Geraldton, some big guy Mike from St Catherine’s that trains with Gracie Barra who forgot his GI, and then Josh… homeboys grilled me lol.

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I lived lol

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