Sat June 6/15 2pm BJJ

Should have come out homies…

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3 Purple Belts and 2 Blue Belts on the mat… just saying!

Had my boy for the weekend. Could have only partaken when he wasn’t fussy or when some else held him so I could drill…

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Photo credit to my boy Travis Duncan!

No excuses just gotta show up, you learn different things every time.

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Alex, Morgo, Diesel, and Travis were positional working on the sweep drill… I was working with my 5 month lol

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Morgo went through the knee slice pass, with a variation on the grip, as well as Diesel showing his variation.

Great class, great perspectives…

sore meme

Man I was sore from lifting Sat morning and Friday Open Mat!

This morning was brutal at the Complex… phew.

Lifts: (135 lbs, 5 Sets, 14 Reps)

  1. Squats
  2. Bench
  3. Crunches, 5 Sets,100 Reps

Conditioning: (Stationary Rowing, L10)

1. 10:09 mins, 1859 m
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2. 10:06 mins, 1924 m
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Love the day care thing

Oss!

Watch “The secret session: Renzo Gracie vs. Paulo Miyao” on YouTube

Cool!! oldy but good…

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Sun May 31/15 BJJ

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Beautiful sunny morning…

Got my Java, of course… Timmy who who’s?

Got to the gym at roughly 9:30 am…

Nathan, Scotty P, and even my boy Justin St Amand showed up earlier wow… fellow lifters!

BOOM!

Lifting: (135 lbs)

  1. Squats, 14 reps, 5 sets
  2. Bench, 14 reps, 5 sets

Conditioning:

  1. Box jumps, 12 reps, 4 sets
  2. Crunches, 100 reps, 4 sets

 OMG last set banged my shin on the BOX again…

DAFCK same shin arrrggghhhh!!

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 Nice to see a larger crew out, today…

Brittany, Hassan, Katrina, Scotty, Travis, Justin St Amand, New Travis,, and Nathan Shat Hatton.

Warm Up: 

A few laps jogging, 1 lap lunges, 1 lap bear crawls forwards 

  1. Forward shoulder rolls, alternating shoulders, 1 x across mat
  2. Reverse shoulder rolls, alternating shoulders, 1 x across mat
  3. Side shoulder rolls, 1 x across mat left side & 1 x across mat right side
  4. Forward butt scoots, 1 x across mat
  5. Reverse butt scoots, 1 x across mat
  6. Backwards shrimping, 2 x across mat
  7. Forward shrimping, 2 x across mat
  8. Backwards break fall to technical stand, 2 x across mat
  9. Forward break falls to technical stand, 2 x across mat

Drilling: (1 min each, then switch)

  1. Arm bars’, 1 min each, then switch
  2. Hip bump sweeps’, 1 min each, then switch
  3. Kimuras’, 1 min each, then switch
  4. Triangles’, 1 min each, then switch
  5. Marcelotines’, 1 min each, then switch
  6. Omaplatas’, 1 min each, then switch
  7. Scissor sweeps, 1 min each, then switch
  8. Spider guard switches’, 1 min each, then switch
  9. Side control switches’, 1 min each, then switch
  10. Modified single leg, with a lapel grip break, 2 min each, then switch
  11. Modified hip judo throw, 2 min each, then switch
  12. Guard pull with one foot on hip, 2 min each, then switch

A quick clip below with us warming up and drilling…

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Technique:

We continued to work on collar chokes, diving into further details on the cross collar while your attacker is in your guard. details discussing the wrist, and shaving the face if you couldn’t attacked with both palms up and not to use strength.

A quick clip below working tech below…

Rolling: (5 min rounds, 30 sec break)

  1. Hassan
  2. Katrina
  3. New Travis
  4. Brittany

Clip of us rolling below…

Great rolling guys…

Scotty P ran a quick stretch…

Then off to get some dim sum at a place I’ve never been to…

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Oss

Sat May 30/15 BJJ

Word… got to the gym at 1:45 pm.

Some guys on the weights

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Morgo was in with a guest from the US.

Warm up was short with a a few variation of an ankle pick with a collar tie. Technique involved a slip collar choke transition switch to preposition to the opposing size when your partner defends by moving to the opposite side of the over hook and with your partner turtling to defend. Keith was in for a bit, and he showed us a few variants of the take down which was nice. My favorite was collar tie to a mount guillotine.

Myself, Morgan, Aria, Scotty P, Big Rig, New guy white belt Alex with the nice blue GI…

Luke was late missing the warm-up per usual.

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LOVE CHOKE’s

For the remainder of the class we position-ally drilled the back exercise with 2 minute rounds, you on me, then me on you exercise, until everyone had an opportunity to go with everyone. Similar to Submission Challenges or even EBI’s sudden death or over time rounds.

We tried with full lapel grips first… no dice.

Figure got shot except mine of course..:P 

Then moved to just starting with the full harness…

Positional Strangling: (2 min rnds, then switched roles)

  1. Aria
  2. New guy white belt Alex
  3. Big Rig
  4. Scotty P
  5. Morgo
  6. Luka

Yep Lots of Choking!

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You missed out… caught him in the wild!

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Oss,

Fri May 29/15 Open Mat

Got to LEMMA around 5:30 pm…

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Holy-shamoly tonnes of home boys OTM…

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lets see, if my memory serves correctly:

  1. Brock
  2. Nathan
  3. Luke
  4. Morgan
  5. Aria
  6. Travis
  7. Katrina
  8. Alex
  9. Scotty
  10. Some random guy with a brand new blue GI and fresh white belt
  11. Another random guy with a brand new blue GI and fresh white belt
  12. Patrick the collar bone glass
  13. Marco
  14. Hassan

Anyone else?

8 mins rounds was set up!

BOOM!

No lifting…

No time had to get out by 6:45 to get the wife and baby…

Yes priorities, the PHO with some BJJers…

WORD…

Lets just say my first roll he brought the thunder lol…

Thunder from Thunder Bay BOOM!

No warm up roll for me lol…

Heck I should have did some squats…

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Rolling: (8 min rounds)

  1. Justin the Beast Sillyman
  2. Aria the pitbull
  3. Katrina the beast sushi
  4. Morgan King Razor Frazer
  5. Marco Polo
  6. Some random new guy white belt, with a brand new GI and fresh whit belt.. fan-frecken-tastic
  7. Patrick the collar bone glass

Wow some of our white belts have picked up their game… awesome, or is it just me and lack of sleep…?

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Naw, its our crew evolving… always getting better!

Oss

Sun 11am BJJ May 24/15

Beautiful morning, I suspected no one would show up for the grind.

Picked up a coffee at Tims, grabbed Professor Shat Hatton and got to LEMMA at roughly 9:30 am.

Nathan has been away for about a month. I guess traveling with his girlfriend was more important then training BJJ. LOL

Lifting: (135 lbs)
1. Squats,13 reps, 5 sets
2. Bench Press, 13 reps, 5 sets

Surprisingly new guy Travis, Brittany, Katrina, & even Ugo showed up  for the morning BJJ…

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Warm up:

A few laps jogging, 1 lap lunges, 1 lap bear crawls forwards 

1. Forward shoulder rolls, alternating shoulders, 2 x across mat
2. Reverse shoulder rolls, alternating shoulders, 2 x across mat
3. Side shoulder rolls, 1 x across mat left side & 1 x across mat right side
4. Forward butt scoots, 2 x across mat
5. Reverse butt scoots, 2 x across mat
6. Backwards shrimping, 2 x across mat
8. Forward shrimping, 2 x across mat
9. Backwards break fall to technical stand, 2 x across mat
10. Forward break falls to technical stand, 2 x across mat

Quick clip below…

Drilling: (1 min each)

  1. Arm bars from closed guard, alternating sides
  2. Hip bump sweeps from closed guard, alternating sides
  3. Kimuras from closed guard, alternating sides
  4. Marcelotine’s, from closed guard, alternating sides
  5. Omaplata’s, with over hook, from closed guard, alternating sides
  6. Scissor sweeps, with cross collar grip, alternating sides
  7. Spider guard switches, from closed guard, alternating sides
  8. Side control switches guard, alternating sides
  9. Turtle guard switches, alternating sides

Technique:

1. Reviewed the wing choke, bow choke, sliding collar choke, and even some defenses.

Quick clip below…

Rolling: (5 min Rnds, 45 sec break)

  1. Nathan
  2. Katrina
  3. Newer Travis

Wow some tough rounds with these guys lol… great job!

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Got Nathan to run the cool down and stretch!

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Ossu!

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Sat May 23/15 S&C morning then 2pm BJJ

My boy is 5 months today… crazy lol. TIME flies. Soon he’ll be crawling or standing. Grabbed my coffee at 8:30 am. Got to the Complex at 8:40 am.

The little guy was restless. Must have been excited to see the girls.

Didn’t even have my coffee was too damn hot and left it in the car lol.

Honestly, I didn’t want to train…

Especially without my medium black coffee…

I pushed through though, lol.

I even upped the stakes…

BOOM!!

Lifting: (135 lbs)

1. Squats, 5 sets, 14 Reps
2. Bench Press, 5 sets, 13 Reps
3. Vanity Crunches, 5 sets, 100 Reps

Conditioning: (10 mins, L6)

1. 1660 m
2. 1756 m

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Morgan was in Minneapolis for the Submission Challenge so I covered the Saturday rundown….

Alex the bear grizzly, Jesse the machine doogle, and Katrina showed up… I really can’t blame anyone for not showing up. It was sunny and beautiful out.

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The rest… lets just say in BJJ your partners and coaches will push you to make you better!

Warm Up: (Drilling)

  1. Arm bars from closed guard, 20 reps alternating sides
  2. Hip bump sweep from closed guard, 20 reps alternating sides
  3. Kimura from closed guard, 20 reps alternating sides
  4. Marcelotine’s, from closed guard, 20 reps alternating sides
  5. Omaplata’s, with over hook, from closed guard, 20 reps alternating sides
  6. Spider guard switches, from closed guard, 20 reps alternating sides
  7. Side control switches guard, 20 reps alternating sides

Technique:

1. Cross collar grip, from closed guard, shave the chin, or wait for your opponent to grab your forearm in their defense, pop the elbow, then transition into arm bar using heel in the far side and hips really high. 20 reps alternating sides.

Great clip below showing this technique as well as finishing other choke variants…

2. Cross collar grip knuckle on the mat, from mount, pop the elbow,  slap the mat, shave the chin, or wait for your opponent to grab your forearm in their defense then pop the elbow, switch to s-mount, switch arm hooks, hook a leg or grab pant Gi, leg over the head then finish on top or seat down extending arm bar. 20 reps alternating sides.

The following clip discusses the topside cross collar with both the over and under grips… he even touches on the transition for the topside arm bar…

Great clip discussing the seated arm bar from s-mount…

I got the guys to rep this out multiple times… and even reviewed the finer points on making sure you slapping the mat and shaving the face on the top, and shaving the face while someone is in  your guard .

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I want to congratulate Morgan, Hassan, and Jesse on their performances SAT at Submission Hunt in Minneapolis…

The fact that you went and competed, I wish I could have been there…

Always successful in my eyes!

Everything else is just icing on the cake…?

Ossu!

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