Brazilian Jiu Jitsu

Wed Sept 16/15 5:30 pm BJJ

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Awesomeness some homies OTM ready to scrap…

Wait only Trina and Katrina here…

Mitch came in pretty much when I arrived at 5:30 pm.

Josh and Mike working on clinch and wall cage MMA stuff.

Morgo and Scotty leaving from the early training sessions prior.

I got to roll with my buddy Mitch.

Wow his defence has improved significantly… awesome. Rolled and played around with him till class started. I mainly just focused on countering his passing with sweeps, arm drags and his attacking nature. Kid is fast, resilient, strong, a natural ability to move out of a troubled position, and he can scramble… love it. His fighting tooth and nail out of chokes is typical a white belt spaz kill joy thing, but his temperament is calm and collective even while in a horribly troubled tight position.

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Quite enjoyable to roll with for a white belt… 18? Maybe 20? years of age… not as spazzy as most beginners.

Class started at 6:30 pm head Coach Matt set us up with a decent warm-up. Running around the mat, forward shoulder rolls, backward shoulder rolls, shrimping, butterfly butt scooting with a partner, then following your partner walking backwards with hooks. Great warm-up.

Veal was in for the technique. He got us to review the technique we worked on last week from a flattened out butterfly. A knee tap counter, and then a over hook with a cross lapel grip finish with a knee pressure straight arm lock or an omaplata…

Video below for further reference… entries were obviously different, Veal showed it from butterfly, but the finish is similar… and you can see the omaplata, from the failed arm-bar attempt if you think about it…

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After technique, Veal then got everyone to roll… 4 min rounds, no submissions. Just spit them out and continue. Even take risks, work on things you never would normally do. Be fast quick and to work with your partner… Sounds like flow rolling. What do you know… my favorite kind lol… easy on the body, and you can be technical.

Told Veal that 4 mins is dah bomb. The no submissions is cool and that the guys needs to learn how to flow, from one submission to the next and these kinda rounds will really help in the development of their BJJ.

He explained that, there’s big issues with that and this provides the opportunity to take chances because people will shelf their egos some what when there’s are no submissions involved.

I told him that I absolutely agreed… that grinding is cool, but there are always other options then spending 2 mins to rework a failed arm-bar.

Seeing opportunity in a failure will makes us grow.

Rolled with Jesse, Mitch, Nathan, and Big Willy… boy was I f-n drained…

Yes I did some conditioning earlier in the day…

Results below…

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Woooo!

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Great class… I love it when I don’t have to coach.

I can just focus on training!!

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Mon Sept 14/15 6:30 pm BJJ

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Bomb digity…

Got to LEMMA around… 5:45 pm.

Some of the boys be rolling… some of them real hard lol

Homeboy big Willy was in… stole this like I steal other peoples memes lol Seemed fitting.

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Haven’t seen him out… since like January or December. Yep… huge return from a really long hiatus, glad he is back.

Rolled with ma daddy long legged buddy Travis, focusing on transitioning. Fun fun…

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My lower back felt real good today, especially with all the stretches and rolling out I’ve been doing while my kid is doing tummy time… I pushed my transitioning a little to see how fast and smoothly I could execute them… no I didn’t land shit, but my transitioning made me feel like I was a Super Saiyan God!!!

Diesel had us warming up with a leg drag pass with no stapling of the bottom thigh… partnered with Tyler.

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I love drilling… HINT HINT HINT

Diesel then got us to review some X-guard sweeps… love them.
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Straight up love them.

Rolling: (3 min, rounds)
1. Tyler
2. Mitch
3. Daluca
4. Mitch

Had a discussion with Veal over the weekend about the 3 min rounds…
His explanation that sometimes you need shorter ones too, makes sense. He explained that with the 3 minute short rounds, it will help you close out a match, if you are down, as well as help keep a steady pace. With the intensity of shorter rounds and the 30 seconds rest, it makes you maintain your higher heart rate while constantly having to adjust to the different styles with very little time to adapt.

Makes total sense for preparation with a competition styled rolling format, especially when you have the right amount of bodies OTM.

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Overall great class, great peeps, great vibes…

Caught these homies below in discussions of my secret triangle escape while I was leaving… Yes Thor first step, is to become an Ewok.

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Peace and Shaka… lol

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Sun Sept 13/15 11 am BJJ

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Video my buddy Travis did during our drill session in the morning using his drone and GoPro below…

Got to LEMMA around 9:30 am… you bet me got some rowing in. Hit some better then last time marks. 2 sets, 20 mins goals, of 4 km… slowly getting better.

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Warm-up consisted of arm bars, kimuras, Marcelotines, omaplata’s, triangles, hip-bump sweeps, spinning arm-bars from side control, & then loop chokes from the front head lock. They had to complete these exercises going 2 mins straight each, then alternate with only 30 sec breaks in between.

Clips below…

Then we reviewed some techniques I ripped off of Jiu-jitsu Magazine… yep. A 96 Choke, which is an oldschool Judo choke and the Brazilian Neck tie all starting from side control…

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Yep always learning and evolving…

After technique we then did a bunch of positional sparring…

Escaping or submission while having back control or your back controlled.

2 mins, alternated, then switched partners until everyone was with everyone. Yep, a lot of rounds in…

Quick clip below…

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Then of course the circle of thank you for choking the F-outa moi…

Great class big turn out… Katrina, Travis, Big Red, Hatton, Scotty, St Amand, Brittany, Marco and Colin were in attendance.

BJJ would be nothing without good teammates!!

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OSSS!!

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Fri Sept 11/15 5:00 pm Open Mat

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Rolling:(9 min rounds, 1 min breaks)
1. Frazer
2. Thor, partial round through break
3. Thor
4. Marco, partial round through break
5. Marco
6. Big Red, partial round through break
7. Big Red
8. St Amand , partial round through break
9. St Amand

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You will always learn something new.

Reviewed some defenses to Thors crucifix submission, then had a discussion on triangle defenses with everyone.

Lets just say I’ve been triangled a lot… built some kind of awareness from it.

Best defense is not to get put into one lol.

Great open mat, my lower back and my index finger is like slowly starting to feel better… that way I can work a little harder.

Left LEMMA around 7:15 pm…

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BTW, I did manage to get some rowing in the morning completed… results below.

2 sets, 4 kms, 20 min pull sessions.

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Wed Sept 8/15 5:30 pm BJJ

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Got to LEMMA around 5:30 pm… a couple guys in the cage scraping.

Partnered with Mitch a newer white belt… and showed him how to tie his belt.
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Veal had us warm up for 10 mins working on pummeling… then he had us review a few butterfly sweeps with a belt and knee Gi grip. The first, attacking the arm with the deep over hook and grip on the belt. The second, switching to the other side when your opponent steps to counter the original sweep. Veal did mention for me to move in deeper with my head and be like a ball… not sure if he was being condescending, but typically my whole game is supposed to be like a ball.

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If I wasn’t, then it makes sense… especially when I really haven’t had anyone be critical of my technique, in a long time, which is really what I need and are missing since I started coaching the Tuesdays and Sunday classes.

I’m not a black belt… far from it… let alone feel qualified to coach classes.

We then scrapped… Veal said to the death. Which was condescending lol.

The white belts may take it seriously… and they do. Seriously though, they beat each other up, then they don’t come back.

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Delimiters on growth of BJJ, especially if only the bullies continue to bully and are allowed too… It really dampers the retention of new white belts if they get killed on their first few lessons on the mat.

A wise man once told me that white belts make or break BJJ in a club and continued growth is what we need for longevity

Had an incident, heck multiple where guys were applying finger locks… yep not cool.

Rolling:(3 mins, 1 min breaks)
1. Mitch
2. Hatton
3. Veal
4. Jones
5. Newer guy with a shiny white Gameness Gi… or was it an Atama?

Overall decent class… rolling could have been longer rounds.

Like 6 to 10 mins. 3 mins is all about the push.

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Everyone goes way too hard because of the short rounds and forgets about focus on actual technique.

Constructive criticism on my technique is nice, as I normally don’t get the help from the classes that I normally coach.

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Sun Sept 6/15 11:00 am BJJ

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Surprised on the attendance… homies wanted to train!!

Nathan, Morgo, newer Blue Belt Kyle from Halifax, Philippe, and Katrina were in attendance.

Long Weekend… almost cancelled the class for today… nope.

Lol came in anyway…

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Warm-up was standard… running around, lunges, bear crawls, reverse/side/forward rolls, break falls, and shrimping…

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The homies then drilled passes and a few takedowns…

We the finished off with the full harnessed positional drilling… clip below.

Everyone had an opportunity to train with everyone, with two recycling of partners… back took, then back taking, its a hard and tough drawn out drill. Either you submit or you escape. Secret is to focus on a solid technical defence… 2 mins a round.

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Yeah, I went in earlier to work on some rowing… hopefully this will help in the long run.

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Sat Sept 5/15 2pm BJJ

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Only Me and Big Rig today OTM for 2pm BJJ.

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NERDs….

Oh well… who can blame taking a break from BJJ in the summer…

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Reviewed some leg locks and their defences.

Also had a great 15 min technical roll… tested out his neck as its currently mangled… injuries always set back training.

“Scotch and ankle locks” says Veal… hahahaha

Clip of me and Big Rig rolling…

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Wed Sept 2/15 BJJ

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Got to LEMMA around 6:00 pm… Matt the grasshopper was in… gave us a nice little animal styled warm-up movements and then we did a bunch of passing drills. Similar to my Sunday classes.

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Leg drag drilling something similar to below… only to seat the knee between the legs…

Bull fighter, Matador or Toreando pass… only to keep the grips and drop the outside shoulder for pressure and connection, instead of going knee to belly. I’ll be honest, I’m a fan of the knee belly, I drop the shoulder if my opponent is really big, and I’m fighting tooth and nail…

Then x-pass…

Man was I ever drained lol

Not even sure we rolled… ah well… I was pooched.

Matt Veal showed me a cool submission… the diamond choke, which looks is similar to a standard leg triangle. But with the legs reversed… once I find a video I will post…

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Yep pulled again this morning…

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Stay away from mat bullies lol…

We need growth in BJJ…

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Tues Sept 1/15 5:30 pm Nogi

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Actually its only been a few days a week, if not only 1 day a week amongst 5 days actually training BJJ. Not bad especially when it involves a lot of wrestling. Believe me… I suck at takedowns. This class improves it…

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Got to LEMMA around 5:00 pm… I partnered with Big Rig. Thor had us work on the back step pass, then a knee through to a straight arm while in a seated mount or kimura. Rolled with Justin, a young newer white belt, & worked on stand-up stuff with Big Rig. Big Rig hurt his back a while back… gotta nurse those injuries home boy.

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Yep pulled this morning…

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Being active is hard when you have a baby…

Tough knock life lol… no sleep.

10 cups of coffee…

Every 15 mins, if not one thing, its another lol…

BJJ keeps me sane…

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Sunday Aug 30/15 11am BJJ

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Got to LEMMA around 10:00 am… yep got a 20 min session of rowing in.

Had one thing on my mind. Break falls and rowing.

Found this piece on Facebook… loved it!!

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Katrina brought up issues of break falling and fears of hitting the mat…

Us warming up below…

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Practice practice practice… the 3 P’s.

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Us working on some loop chokes below…

then we got 3 rounds of 10 mins sessions in…

I sat out for the first round… then rolled with Jarod and then Gary.

If you missed out… link to EBI 3 below!!

My results from my 20 mins of pulling below…

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