But dammit I went in… did it again… went to BJJ, in which I shouldn’t have.
Oh well… I felt in in the morning…
The sprawling may have slightly loosened my ankle while some rolling may have tweaked it in a positive manner.
You know how we know you learned something… cause we saw you doing it under pressure while rolling… the mat doesn’t lie.
If you learned it… we saw it… tatami don’t lie.
Shall see in the morning I was thinking to myself lol… either way I had slapped on a bunch of tiger balm, tape, and even two types of braces… soft cotton with a semi hard neoprene style brace with velcro…
Plenty of ankle support…
I partnered with Dr Shat Hatton… we drilled old man style. yep I said it.
Old man drilling lol… it exist.
Great class, Rolled with Shat, Eric, Beast Sushi, hmmmmm who else?? man… oh! Jack… 6 foot skinny boy Jack. Wow long time since he’s been on the mat.
Ooooo yah, baby and wife are sleeping… glass of scotch tonight.
Weird raining today…
#winteriscoming?
All caught up…
Got to LEMMA around 5:30 pm lastnight… pitch black out.
Damn-it… pitch black.
Taped my foot up… tones of tape. Didn’t wear my contacts… ibuprofen, oh and coffee. Yep training blind lol… gotta keep showing up. You always learn something new.
Trying to just roll instead of watching stupid shit lol…
-9 & -9 Astigmatism… yeppers.
Had a nice long as roll with Eric… fun times. He’s improvement is remarkable. Must be the natural wrestling abilities lol.
Butt scoot wrestling haha!
Thor had us review the X-pass, smash-pass, to knee-slice sequence using your head to the floor, under hook far side and near side arm grip to finish… badass.
He even added pursay if your opponent didn’t open up with the under-hook on the far side to turn the knee outwards then attack the mount instead… I believe the idea was that you had options, pending on how your partner and how they reacted on the bottom, instead of just trying to force one pass.
You have a multitude of options by redirecting yourself from one side of the body to the other with that knee, using grips with pressure to stabilize their upper body, and using your opponents direction to dictate the path of least resistance for the best possible solution.
Nice clip from the x-pass to smash-pass transitioning.
Nice clip with drilling and the ability to be mobile moving side to side for more options.
The following clip is nice because it actually discusses how you bury the head and reach for the under-hook to flatten your partner to finish the knee slice. It also reviews other grips as well as my favorite the collar variation lol
Word… up!!
Any way great class… loved the light rolling with wrestler Eric… great job buddy. Focus on the technique your doing great!!
Got to LEMMA around 9:00 am… yep downed a coffee, ibuprofen, taped the foot up and rowed.
My right toe and ball of my foot was sore like a mofo… a 225 lbs white belt missing a single leg and smashing his knee into your foot, wearing a hardened knee pad… great. Second time in a row within a week, greatness… what are the odds, next time, I’m pulling guard.
My 2003 black Jeep is archaic as it comes, standard, no power windows, no power locks, power steering though… oh got a car starter installed a few years ago… lets just say shifting sucked lol. Your toe and ball of your feet are very important lol… but heck!
No rest for the wicked… need to get some kind of cardio in before BJJ…
I didn’t want to be that guy… hahahah
Any who, Nathan ran a 10 min warm-up, then I got the guys and gals to do a few partner drills involving the butterfly butt scoots and maintaining your hooks while your partner walked backwards. After that, drilling consisted of 2 min sessions, each of scissor sweeps, pendulum sweeps, then the flower sweep. The advance guys had to finish with a submission. Technique mainly was the tripod, aka hook sweep… great times. They then repped it out for 2 min sessions with full on resistance twice each. After that we rolled… six 5 minute rounds. Yep lots of rolling lol…
Cute clip of our class…
One of the few errors i keep noticing is that everyone is trying to do the reviewing fast and hard….
Sorry its true… focus on getting the technique correct, before accelerating it… lol crawling, walking, running??
Between my foot, my eye’s and lack of sleep from the baby being sick, reality is, I should have taken Friday off lol… not to mention the long ass day at the office playing mental catch up with paper work that was piled on my desk throughout the 5 months off on parental leave… but hey, life sucks sometimes…
Roll with the punches or die?…
Or, is it paddle or you drown?
Or, ummm sink or swim?
AH WHATEVER LOL
That’s why this is my gibberish… can write whatever I want lol…
Can’t stay off the mat.
GOT TO TRAIN
Noticed a fellow OTM that I really haven’t seen since we moved to this location, probably since 2011? maybe 2012?… guessing only a few people remember what happened that night OTM… strange and awkward it was…
With our core of current guys definitely haven’t had a situation like that since or even ever.
Surprised to see him there for open mat last night… oh well.
Rolled with Jrock, Rock Climber and then Sillymon… dudes were turning it up lol… great job!
5 to 10 min rounds great stuff.
Rolling with the Jrock below…
Rolling with the Rock Climber below…
Rolling with Sillymon below…
My battery ran out soo… missed my other few rounds with a few others not even sure… #babybrainexists
Toe is still mangled lol… butt scooting is key and trying to roll light. lol
Picked up G from Daycare today… dude was sick. Scratching his ears, coughing. Presumably an ear infection at the time… yep shitty.
Picked up Indian food from the Monsoon… their food was freaken off the hook… I highly recommend. Other then the damn, dining location and the tandoori chicken that was raw and overly under cooked, which just required extra time in our oven. Everything tasted exquisite, light and very delightful!
10 outa 10 for taste, but definitely could have been spicier lol
We didn’t sleep all night on Wednesday. Poor kid, definitely picked it up from daycare. Crying, screaming, and coughing… a lot of Tylenol, and sleeping sitting up to relieve pressure. I had to take the day off to take him to the clinic. Yeppers Wednesday night kinda sucked.
On the flip side…
BJJ was fantastic lol… got to LEMMA around 5:45 pm.
Rolled with the big June buggy before class.
Thor ran the class…
Partnered with Caleb. He had us review the X-pass, smash-pass, then the arm-triangle…
GLAD I TOOK PARENTAL… would have never experienced his early child hood as I did lol.
I’m almost caught up…
The monkey started day care today so I’m back to work. Yep. back to work… excellent as that I get to have full conversations with actual adults. Well conversing period will up my reduced IQ lol… love it.
Rhino was in running the class… I partnered with Eric the wrestler or what I’ve called him in the past Blue Fuji… damn toe was still jammed lol.
Rhino got us to review the stance, sprawling and doubles… then I believe we rolled. Quite a few rounds.
5 mins each… rolled with Eric, Alex, Rock Climber, June Bug, and Eric again lol… oh well, good rounds, and fun. Technical at times… others, like rolling with spazzy white belts lol…
Spazzy, spazzy… jamming a jammed toe… damn thing, will it ever heal lol.
Fighting tooth and nail for a take down with no mat space… love it. Learning curve I guess lol…
Got to LEMMA around 9:15 am… toe was mangled. Must have jammed it Friday rolling with one of the bigger guys lol.
Yep dismantled…
Oh well still showed up…
Got some rowing in…
Tried to box jump, but my mangled toe got in the way… ended up only doing 30 push-ups then worked on the heavy bag for a few 4.0 min rounds.
Bag work is fantastic for getting the upper body to move with all those fast twitch muscles you rarely use while when your just grappling lol… sometimes I do miss striking and stuff, but when I think about getting punched or kicked in the face that all seems to change lol
Yep got a video clip below…
The homies got in around 11…
Even got work in with dribbling and shooting on the basketball night… fun fun lol before things got going.
Yep I went in on Sunday lol… its funny though, missed Monday and Wednesday this week because I decided to take a little self healing break because of the subconjunctival hemorrhages or bleeding in my eye’s…
BUT seriously though… haven’t been away for too long and it feels like its been forever.
BJJ is soooo freaking addictive… just my opinion though…
#FEELSLIKEFOREVER
#BUTREALLYITSONLYACOUPLEDAYS
#WEIRD
Rolling on Sunday was a big no no lol… felt like my eyes were gonna pop outa its socket with Brittany on top… Taking breaks here and there is a big must. Especially when your getting older, just can’t seem to bounce back like I used to. Oh well back OTM Friday… the hemorrhages appear to be receding.
#OOOPS
#MYADDICTIONWILLBECOMEYOUROBSSESSION
#BJJ4LIFE
#BJJFOURLIFE
The baby is finally gonna start daycare next week for an infants program. Its funny, when I chose to do this 6 months of parental leave, I thought I was gonna be training BJJ everyday, hitting the gym every morning, sleeping in all the time, and just plain hanging out with my baby… unfortunately that wasn’t the case lol. I guess babies demand more attention then much expected. I sure have an appreciation for woman and my mom though… much respect. Not as easy as I suspected… talking baby all the time, thinking like a baby all the time, talking to the baby all the time. I feel like I’ve lost a few IQ points and brain cells lol… GOING NUTS, forgetting things I normally don’t forget, drawing blanks in the mornings from getting up between dreams, to change or feed the monkey… yep 6 months and it went fast lol… fortunately I’ve been going into work at least once a week to work on some paper work that seems to just keep piling on the desk lol to get ahead once I get back… yep back soon… hurray!! Definitely pros and cons… but you know what… the time I got to spend with the monkey was priceless… never will he ever be this big again… ever. Thank goodness… lol. Now I know why the wife wanted to go back to work when she did… a good compromise I guess… the grass isn’t greener on the other side, for you men contemplated on going on parental leave… however, if you do decide to take the plunge, at least your wife will know that if they were to die, you will be able to handle things on your own.
#BABYBRAINEXIST
Thank god for BJJ, been keeping it as consistent as I can… 4 to even 5 days a weeks of actual training. 5 days, if I time everything accordingly and the stars align…
Sunday Sundays… Early Sunday. Sundays is always fun days… had a few drinks to wash away the pain in the eyes the night before. Not sure if that was smart. Even drank a whole pot of coffee lol… not sure that was smart too… think all of that thins your blood… especially, if your trying to HEAL LOL?
Nuts… eyes were still red. Looked like a Zombie.
The shows still gotta go on… either way, I went in…
20 mins of rowing…
4 sets of 30 push ups, 10-28 in box jumps, 100 crunches, and the 1 set of 12-30 inch box jumps lol… this may have worsened the hemorrhages in my eyes lol… quick clip below…
Got Nathan to run the warm-up, which also include some drilling… a quick clip below…
Got to LEMMA around 5:45 pm…got some rolling in. First big Willy, then with the Pirate.
LONG ASS ROUNDS lol
Great stuff tough long sessions with some bigger boys lol.
Thor ran the class with a warm-up that consisted of doubles and sprawling…
Back and forth back and forth for like 15 minutes lol or was it 20?? wait was it 10?
I partnered with the beast St Amand.
My foot was still mangled lol… wish we had the option to pull guard. Hah!!
Thor had us review the elbow push escape to counter the double under-pass, as well as from a transition while your opponent in top side control moves the outside anchor arm to across the body for better positioning. Marcelo Garcia used this all the time. Excellent escape when you can time this well. Very powerful once your arm locks out… below is a nice clip for further review with Marcelo demonstrating this from side control.
Rolling:(3 mins, 30 sec break)
St Amand
Fuji
Big Steve
Thank god for the open mat prior… 3 min rounds just ain’t enough some times lol… especially if your trying to execute the technique we reviewed in class and the white belts are trying to eat you alive for dinner and with other agendas on their mind lol…
I did manage to hit the gym this morning to get some cardio in… rowing for about 40 mins… results below.
Made a visit to LEMMA this morning as well…
NICE TO SEE MY ADDICTION BECOMING OTHERS OBSESSION… ahahhaha
Bunch of guys working on a knee/shin guard sweep, some rolling and drilling.
We went to the Thai Kitchen afterwards… fun stuff!!!
My Gi was soaked after the class, washed after every use BTW…
Time to rotate and use one of my other beloved GI’s from my little collection.
Sunday Sundays… Early Sunday. Sundays is always fun days… had a few drinks to wash away the pain in the eyes the night before. Not sure if that was smart. Even drank a whole pot of coffee lol… not sure that was smart too… think all of that thins your blood… especially, if your trying to HEAL LOL?
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