Didn’t feel like going in Friday mad tired…
Had to meet up with a few friends at the Marina for 6:30 pm for the Brew Ha…
Hot as hell… 37 degrees Celsius in the house.
Still went in to Openmat and got some training.
Rolled with only Morgan for a few 10 min rounds… we reviewed leg lock defences and choking stuff.
Us playing footsies below… I should have grabbed the other lapel to defend.
Heck… I still went in lol…
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Wow the guys all rolled really hard tonight lol… #whitebelthard hahahah
Thought I was gonna roll nice and light tonight, oh well…
Bottom game is light…
Right until you get a 200 lbs white belt how wants to smash pass you hahahah…
First time in a long time someone threw me in a head lock and tried to squeeze my head until it popped lol…
Don’t think they were too happy when I kept taking there back and threatened a choke…
Great practice of technique for me though, to repping out basic counters to basic human aggression at its fullest offence.
Even the mindless guard passing attempts with trying to run around my guard… like really.
Thought they would learn by now…
JOKE…
Rolling:(4 min, 1 min breaks)
1. Philippe
2. Josh
3. Steve
4. Travis
5. Katrina
6. Kyle
Interesting rolls tonight… got ample of opportunity to work my basic BJJ game of surviving with an assailant going 150 percent on top of me… heck even got the old school head lock and squeezing my head with all his might, grunting I might add lol… #whitebeltproblems lol
On a gooder note lol…
Rowing in the morning at level 6… with minor to decent results.
Had time to make a stash of one my favorite dishes kimchi…
Yes kimchi. Pear and honey used as a sweetener.
Hope to see you monkeys out Friday, Saturday and Sunday…
If your not too worn out from all that hard rolling lol.
Oss!
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Yep… rowing. Level 5… 500 m 4 sets… trying this out at level 5…
Ironically my warm-up round was the best lol 2:07 mins… I need to get this down lol. Next is level 6.
Great job today Rupert Klein, Justin St-Amand, Katrina Jones, & Brittany McNeice!
Choke is king!!!
While everyone else was out enjoying the beautiful Sunday morning… you guys were sweating OTM.
Drill, drill, drill… hahahah
Got them to warm-up with 2 min rounds each on arm bars, kimuras, hip bump sweeps to arm bar, knee slice pass to under hook arm bar, and then finally the toreando pass to back take bow chokes.
We then reviewed the bow choke, rolling bow choke, and then the x-collar choke from while your opponent is in turtle guard.
Rolling: (5 min rounds 45 sec breaks)
1. Sat out
2. Sat out
3. Katrina
4. Justin
Stretching: (10 min)
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Got to LEMMA around 1:45 pm… only myself, Morgan, & Travis was in…
We warmed up with a bunch of 20 rep exercises, with shrimping, rolling, lunges and even planks. Yes, planks. LOL
We ended up reviewing a passing concept, a monkey stance standing guard breaking concept, a x-collar choke variant that I watched on an old Japanese black and white judo video, and then defending against a reverse scarf side control hold. Learnt a few things.
Clip of us reviewing a pass
Clip of us reviewing the guard breaking
Clip of us reviewing the x-collar choke
Oss,
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Yeah buddy… got to LEMMA around 5:30 pm… bam.
Got a few tips on hyping up my rowing game… BOOM.
ABSOLUTELY!
Rolling: (5 min rounds)
1. Travis
2. Morgan
3. Adrian
4. Adrian
5. Luke
6. Nathan
7. Mitch
8. Darren
Clip of me rolling with Mitch blow…
Friday OpenMat: https://youtu.be/uDm1642vB7Q
Yeah, I got a few rounds in…
Went out for PHO with the wife afterwards to one of the few restaurants that serves it up here… no dice.
What BJJ has taught me… improvise, adapt, and overcome.
Had “bun thit” instead…
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Got to LEMMA around 6:15 pm…
Finger was still mangled… what-eves.
Tape hahahah… sometimes you just gotta train a little injured. You never know when you have to actually fight.
Yep… got to the Complex this morning.
Morning conditioning… 4 sets, 10 min each… didn’t hit my 2.0 km mark but hey… 4th set was still the best.
6:30 pm BJJ was fantastic @leadingedgemma!
Takedowns and some shark tank drilling. My favorite… Iron sharpens iron.
Boy, was I ever gassed at the end.
All the heavy weights showed up tonight lol. O.o
I went for the takedowns…
I even had to fake guard pull then sweep…
Some guys were so hard to takedown… fighting tooth and nail, I even failed…
Drilling when your gas tank is empty reveals weakness… overcome an adapt!
See you OTM!!
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One day I want to do Masters Worlds as well… all about Karma.
Keep pushing Mike!
Daddy day care over here will keep training.
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Didn’t think many would show… beautiful day, however I was in around 9:30 am.
Hung over lol… too much scotch last night but hey… need to get conditioning in…
Let just say my last set was horrible… 3rd set almost 2 mins lol woooo… getting better will never be easy.
I was right not many people in… only Nathan and Brittany showed up…
Kinda glad…
Got Nathan to run the show. He ran through a short warm-up, then reviewed a take down from a duck under, to a brabo choke and then a arm triangle choke.
Lucky Brittany essentially got a private lol.
We had her ask questions with what she had problems and issues with.
Tried to answer them as best as we could.
Then we had a few small 5 mins rounds on her with me coaching her while she rolled with Nathan…
Apparently she loved that… hah!!
After BJJ I made sure to get my intake of meatballs in from Italian Fest!!
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Got to LEMMA around 1:45 pm… Steve was in, Winston popped in and then Kyle the blue belt from Halifax.
Steve reviewed a few half guard set sweeps with the hook of doom, and a low x-guard or single leg x-guard sweep from half guard. I repped them out with Steve, while Winston worked with Kyle… good times. With Steve out we did a shark tank style rolling session. 5 min rounds, with only staying in for two rounds each. I sat out for the first round.
Rolling: (5 min rounds, 1 min break)
Boy did I ever wish I warmed up lol… but the first roll with Kyle, oh boy! warmed me up lol, then Winston right after Hah…
Winston buddy…
Kyle was rolling really smooth. Which was great… tough roll.
A welcomed addition to our training.
Will be nice to have more experienced competition blue belts around, especially with long legs and arms lol… hopefully he continues to train with us.
Felt bad for Winston… he wasn’t tapping. Really fighting the submissions. He got put to sleep… Snoring… sleep.
Thank god I noticed… cause Kyle didn’t… if no one was there to notice, Winston would have issues.
Got to tap homie!
Leave the ego at the door… it will slow down your learning process…
It isn’t a battle to the death
BJJ 4 Life homie!
Wow, I was not motivated to go to the gym tonight…
Chugged some coffee and went anyways.
Especially, hanging out with my 7 month old and my 16 lbs Chiweenie all day lol…
Yes, things can get pretty cumbersome.
Hit the Complex yesterday morning again… yay on my way back down to 155 lbs lol…. walking around 165 to 170 lbs weird… hahahah
Always someone to help motivate you lol…
Got this in the mail today… unfortunately the baby kept me too busy to even skim through it. Oh reading material on a boring day Ha!!
Got in around… 5:15 pm ishy…
Rupert, Nathan, Morgan, Colin, Jesse, Winston, a newb blue belt from Halifax, Justin, and then Matt Veal showing up a little later.
Rolling: (10 min, 1 min breaks)
1. Rupert
2. Rupert
3. Jesse
4. Justin
Got Rupert to warm me up…
Yes my finger was still mangled…
Taped the shit out of it lol. Boy did he grind on me lol…
All I could think about was man… I could have sworn it was for me to warm up… lol… so I literally had to up my pace stay safe.
Oh well lol… he kept trying to do an over under pass inside my guard, which I thought was weird, because it opened up an opportunity for me to triangle him. Which rarely happens for me.
Yes almost triangled someone wooo…
Especially with my 26 inch inseam hah!!
FUN TIMES LOL
Later myself and Morgan asked him why he kept doing that… turns out he watched it on YouTube… a drill in which he tried in live rolling. Myself and Morgan tried to correct his pass… reviewing approach and when to use this pass. Unfortunately, however in turn fortunate. He learned a few ways, corrective was to use this pass while rolling with me. I’m hoping he remembers to send me the link to the video he watched this drill from… that way I can correct his initial intent. Not saying I an expert but hey. Any help, is better then no help…
Take it from me… I was a 4 year white belt lol…
Rolling with Jesse and Justin was fun as usual heck it was all fun! great day…
I’m glad I went in…
Clip of me and Justin rolling below…
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