Got to LEMMA around 5:00 pm…
Tonne of guys out Friday night!!
First session below…
Second session below…
Rolling: (7min rounds, 1 min breaks)
We got a lot of rounds in…
A lot of technical battles…
My forearms haven’t been sore in a while… thank od for he extra beef and PHO visit we made tonight. lol
Yep downed a pot before heading to LEMMA, wow… sooo many guys OTM, for open mat. Guess its that time of the year where hanging out in the sun isn’t really an option. Come out to the gym and roll… booom shakalaka… lol
Barely any room in the cage… which was fantastic.
“My obsession will become your addiction…” in a deep Darth Vader voice.
hahahahaha
Some regulars missing though.
Rhino was in for the class and he made us review shooting a double leg with a very nice break down which were in 5 stages with the following… note that you have to be close enough to touch your opponents shoulders. I partnered with my homie Juneau.
Loved this… this was awesome!!
I included a wiki link below with more detail for further reference
http://www.wikihow.com/Do-a-Double-Leg-Takedown
He then got us to roll… the most important part of BJJ
5 mins rounds, 1 min breaks.
Rolling: (5 mins, 1 min break)
Great class, love reviewing stuff I’m not remotely good at…
Little by little.. continue to attend classes with guys that have strengths that shadow your weakness… your BJJ and grappling will improve!!
Loved the tough rounds at the end!!
Oh and I did manage to get some rowing in… 40 mins straight… results below.
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Got to LEMMA around 6 pm…
Got a really long warm-up round of rolling with one of the newer guys…
He had a new shiny new Fugi GI on… awesome… Chris? Tom? John? not even sure… so many new faces and white belts lately. Hope they stay.
Great movements by this kid, smaller so a lot more technique then you would normally expect in lieu of a bigger newer white belt.
Great long session, fantastic rolling and a great vibe!
He was completely the opposite of the meme below lol…
Great class… nice review of self-defense from our head Coach… I partnered with Trina.
Crazy though how when she asked me to partner with her, immediately after she stated, ” you don’t have to, if you don’t want yo, and that I understand…,” I immediately replied, “that its all good, white belts are human too,” then giggled.
Training with newbs help your game. Period…
Dumbing things down, making you have to articulate movements you never would have normally to someone that gets the technique, learning how to coach, so to speak…
All good homie! We learn and grow together.
There is a place for everyone OTM!
Got a chance to get some rowing in this morning… yep.
Still got it.
Been so busy lately… seriously, when I say busy… I’m busy.
But I still need to keep up with my rowing. Results below…
Thor ran the warm-up and also had us review the single legged x-sweep from a shin guard entry.
Awesome class!
A lot of repping technique, my favourite classes!
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I’m still trying to get caught up on my gibberish…
All I have to say was wow… was I ever a headless chicken.
We hosted a Open/In house GI, Submission Only BJJ Tournament with IBJJF rules for uniform with illegal submission techniques that included slams, fish-hooks, eye-gauging, biting, any-slicers, heel-hooks, toe-holds, knee-bars, knee-reaping, neck-cranks, & small joint manipulation (finger locks). Having such a smaller pool of guys that train BJJ up here makes it harder to set up a bigger tournament. Let alone travelling to compete… 8 hour drive to Minneapolis, fight to Chicago, 18 hour drive to Toronto… in some cases $2000 to go win or lose, just for a shiny medal lol… so having a miniature in-house tournament makes sense, especially so some of the guys can gain some kind of experience if they chose to join the competition circuit. Experience is everything when competing, from the training required to the legalities of your GI, then the competition jitters. What a better way to gain some of that competing safely, cost efficiently inside your own house.
Our format consisted of a 6 min, round robin matches, with at least 4 matches for each competitor. 1st, 2nd, & 3rd place awards and then cash awards for absolute division only… noted that it wasn’t much, but it was something to encourage more guys to compete in the division. A win was worth 10 points, draw 5 points, and a loss 0 points. I included sudden death rounds in the event there was a tie in points for awards, competitors had to fight another fight to decide placement in a 6 min round in which by the way we only had 1. In the event that the fight for placement turned into a draw, there was to be sudden death rounds starting with a full back take, harness and hooks (first submission, or fastest combined of 3 escapes, or fastest of 3 combined submissions)… yes I ripped it off EBI and Submission Challenge. So Sorry…
We had 4 divisions which was tentative and based on the participants with the following:
From getting the guys weighed in, to reffing… thank god for Travis, Scotty, Gary, Jayden, and even Hassan for the help… no way could this ever only take one person.
I’ll be honest I tried to put myself in the matches… with the amount of guys and the way it worked out. It would have made no sense considering the even playing field of guys in the brackets…
22 guys and everyone worked their but off in their matches… great stuff guys.
Next time it will be bigger!!
Competition is always good… helps you grow, its just a format for you to practice, especially in front of your peers.
The matches that were put together below…
Results below!
I’m hoping to put up all the videos of the matches at some point… quite a lot lol… not even sure if that’s feasible. Maybe just a DVD and then get everyone a copy??
Any who… peace out, I still have to catch up on the other days of training!!
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BUSY BUSY… trying to keep up with everything… monkey getting sick, wife getting sick…
Got to LEMMA around 5:30 pm on Friday, rolled for an eternity with Big Steve, then with Clint Hollet a visiting black belt from Calgary under Gracie Barra.
Have been a little stressed out on the preparation of the in house tournament, which by the way was opened up to other local gyms… no one wanted in.
Oh well… next time. Bad timing I guess.
Bought some new GI’s… at least to me lol… a SYR Xcomp, purple from my Homie Morgo, then a SYR Absolute which I had delivered to the border. Got Morgo to grab it during his travelling… Went to the gym with no GI, assuming he would drop them off… no dice lol had to borrow Tony’s GI hahahaha.
The roll with big Steve was straight up was like with a typical with a bigger white belt, he worked for a takedown, I got smashed, then I had to work my way out of bad positioning… wished he would have tried to pull guard sometimes.
Working off your back is key, especially when your opponent is bigger then you and you get put on your back…
Fighting tooth and nail for the top position can be an inefficient way to burn up energy, maybe its just when rolling with me… the target lol.
lol…
I guess it could also be the intrigue that sometimes I’m smaller and that the 50 to 75 lbs I sometimes give up to the bigger guys, its more efficient for him to work for the top… not sure… game development, I guess.
Either way, its always a great way for me to warm up by struggling on the bottom with a bigger guy on top and me gasping for air… lol
Big Steve has improved since his first time OTM, a lot of growth, it was a fun roll… he just needs to open up his game and try using different strategies, like pulling guard and setting up attacks from there…
The rolling with the Black Belt from Gracie Barra was awesome.
Dude was in full control, used a guard that I’m definitely not too familiar with.
A full body x guard, which was interesting.
His pressure passing was on point!
Felt the whole time he was trying to set me up for specific things, but changed it up in mid transition which was just lovely… lol
I definitely was just a pawn today while rolling with him lol… He was just toying with me.
Caught a quick clip of us rolling below…
Great night of rolling!!
Osss
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After being away for little, with G being sick and the miniature vacation. All that driving… yes 15 hours to Windsor taking the US route, 3 hours to Kitchener, 5 hours to Sudbury, then 10 hours back to Tbay.
All I gotta say is Chicago sucks… Minneapolis, Michigan, and Wisconsin are simple drives.
Oh Detroit also gets a 5 thumbs down…. man. a third of your life sepnt on the highway waiting to drive 5 km…
WTF. Driving in Toronto was like that… what a waste. would rather be training BJJ…. thank god for BJJ, lol…
Thank god! It would help with the traffic congestions… get out and roll!! OSSS
Yep went in to work to do a few things… will be doing that for the a couple days.
Things keep piling up on the desk lol.
Parental leave eh?? Lol
On a better note… Me and the monkey went into open mat for 1 pm!
Cute pic of my homie the Albino Rhino hanging with G star!!
Rolled with Veal, which seemed like an eternity… kinda was lol… great warm up, though. 25 to 30 mins of rolling.
Baby needed some attention… then rolled with the Albino Rhino for another eternity lol.
Baby needed more attention.
Left the gym at roughly 3pm… yep great time! great rolling!
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Got to LEMMA on Sunday around 9:30 am…
Kathy was in to lift…
Me rowed. yep 2, 4 km sessions. Did alright…
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)
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!!
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Got to LEMMA at about 5:30pm last Friday
Reviewed a bunch of leg locks positions, the closed guard with Nathan Shat Hatton, & a very cool crucifix to loop choke with Thor… link below.
A video posted by Show the ART [ALLTECHNIQUE] (@xshowtheartx) on Sep 22, 2015 at 5:47pm PDT
Rolling: (5 min, 30 sec breaks)
1. Scotty
2. Scotty
3. Hassan
4. Hassan
5. Mitch
6. Mitch
7. Mitch
8. Mitch
Quick Fri open mat session below…
Me and Mitch rolling…
Fun rolling… great times!!
Just show up… you will always 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.
The Choke is King!!
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As you can see… I’ve been procrastinating.
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…
Don’t blame you, summer is summer…
Always great to take a break!
Bunch of newer faces too… great to have you.
Hope to see you back!
OSSU!
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Yep kiddo puked on his Gi lol…oh well.
Could have been worse.
Got to the gym around 8:30 am…
The fitness guys were in doing their thing.
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)
Then the baby cried… lol sooo that concluded my short rolling session lol…
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