Brazilian Jiu Jitsu

Easter Sunday BJJ

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Yep the patellar tendon is still sore… limping like a pimp villain. However it is much better then yesterday… tensor bandage for sure and heck even got some lifting in… felt great once I was warmed up! I know the the lifting ain’t much, but I don’t give a freck. There will be gains, slowly and surely. Haven’t worked on any weights consistently since we found out the wife was pregnant…  May 28th 2014?? the last official logged date was Dec 16th 2014 lol…. wow. Crazy, sleep deprived for sure lol… since May. Unfortunately the wife had preeclampsia and hyperemesis gravidarum (HG) which is extreme involuntary vomiting. It occurred variably throughout the nights…  and yes every night sometimes 4 or 5. All I did was wash sheets lol. let just say the only consistent thing was BJJ, and goin on 4 hours sleep on average a night. Something had to give… the lifting unfortunately. Irony was before all that I hadn’t lifted like since 2008… mainly due to the shoulder problem predominate… when I first decided to start BJJ… lol

Essentially only 3 guys OTM this morning… Rupert Klein, myself, & Scott Hall. Glad they showed up lol. Boom! Easter Sunday and still we got some training in…

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Lifting: (9:15 am to 9:45 am, 30 min )

Essentially 4 sets, with 12 reps for each

  1. Squats, 135 lbs
  2. Bench Press, 2 sets at 155 lbs, & 2 sets at 135 lbs
  3. Bent over Barbell Rows, 115 lbs
  4. Some Crunches to work on my vainness, 4 sets of 50 Reps

BJJ Warm-up:

Pretty standard stuff… got a quick clip below…

Technique Review:

Worked on posture inside someones close guard, as well as a wing strangle… got the quick clips below…

Positional Sparring: (With Full Resistance)

Unfortunately, I forgot to click the fast recording… so it turnout to be 23 mins long… way too much to edit for the sake of this blog and up load onto Youtube at a mega size of 3 gigs… yes 3 gigs…lol

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Just take my word for it we went hard lol. 1 min jumping from one guy to another as a warm up. then a 3 min session. There was only a total of 3 guys. Common lol…

Easter sunday! hah

Rolling: (5 min rounds, 45 sec break)

  1. Scott Hall
  2. Rupert Klein

Some quick clips of us rolling below…

Not much rolling this morning… but logged in Fri, Sat, then Sun for BJJ… oh and some lifting… boom-diggity-datta lol.

Clean up:

As you can see we did manage to sweep and disinfect the mat before we left… I feel like only the BJJ nerds clean the mats… dafuck lol.

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Our GI’s don’t mop them enough I guess?

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Rupert Klein is the bomb… Haagen Daz brother!

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Hope to see you nerds sometime this week!!

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PS… Scotty, a nice clip below for further reference!

Ossu

Sat Jiu Jitz

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Sat April 5 BJJ

Not a big class yesterday… Albino Rhino, Morgan, Big Rig, TBT Steve, Marco and myself on site to punish ourselves… the knee was still sore… Guess everyone went a little hard on Friday hahaha.

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Quick clip of the warm up below…

Drilled some closed guard hip bump sweeps, to a mount x-collar choke, quick clip below…

Drilled some closed hip bump sweeps to a mount, then armbar while your partner pushes off, the a hitch hiker escape, with a stiff arm or collar tie to re-guard, quick clip below…

Worked on some positional back take submissions at full resistance with the seatbelt harness, some clips below:

Myself with Morgan. then Marco…

Myself and the Albino Rhino below…

The boys then did some topless yoga… after. I didn’t get a picture, had to get home to hang with the family.

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Ossu

3rd & Final Day for Grading

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last day of the grind was last night… I counted about 35 guys maybe even more last night, definitely a few guys missing from the first day, and second day… again a good portion I don’t even know lol… but hey more bodies yeah!!

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Morgan ran the 10 min warm up… a short clip below…

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Coach got the guys to roll for this final day with guys rolling with specific guys… short clip below.

Yay… then promotions… another short quick clip below…

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 Went to the Sushi Station after with the wife… pigged out on sashimi to celebrate… damn it was good… also had like 15 cross cut ribs… delish!!

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I posted a beautiful Facebook post I published this morning… below:

Well it happened last night… A few more steps to the ultimate goal.

Thanks again, to Professor Matt Richer, Coach Keith MacGillivray, all and everyone I currently train with, past and present. Soooo many to damn list. You know who you are. I’ve either been choked, strangled, joint or compression locked, crushed, mounted, or literally just been sat on by you an vice versa… we all train with similar intents.

Again you all know who you are, BJJ is a tough Martial Art… we spend a lot of time away from regular life, OTM, with you guys. You have either inspired me or motivated me in one way or form… my second family.

Oh, most importantly thank you to my Son, my dog Chucky Lee Norris, & my loving wife. In that order… :p for letting me go off and train as much as I do and even with only 4 hours sleep a night these past 3 months, …without your support I may have wasted all my money on that Green $3000 SYR GI I saw posted on that Facebook group website the other night and many others… clearly over priced?

Congratulations to the others on their achievements as well!!

Still feels like yesterday we were just on James Street… BJJ has grown so much here in Thunder Bay with our Team.

The ultimate goal. Future… BJJ Black Belts.

BJJ4life!

Oss.

— with Mikey Arms and 43 others at Leading Edge MMA.

Hope to see yall out Fri, Sat, and hopefully Sunday!

Oss…

 

Tues 8pm BJJ

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Honestly thought some of the guys would take a break and wait for the final grading day on Wednesday but nope!!

A lot of peeps OTM tonight with Brittany Mcneice, Morgan Frazer, Alex Waiwa, Gary Maki, Jared Maki, Jayden Decker, Hassan Hashmi, and Marc Perrier. Hespect!!

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Wow did I ever feel drained while rolling today… no gas bro… no gas… Sleep is most definitely catching up or I’m getting out of shape or the guys are getting that much better or am I just giving myself dumb excuses? lol

Warm Up (with Drilling & Takedowns):

  1. Arm bars from closed guard, 10 reps alternating sides
  2. Hip bump sweep from closed guard, 10 reps alternating sides
  3. Kimura from closed guard, 10 reps alternating sides
  4. Omaplata’s with over hook, from closed guard, 10 reps alternating sides
  5. Triangles from closed guard, 10 reps alternating sides
  6. Weighter sweep, 10 reps alternating sides
  7. Tripod or Hook sweep, 10 reps alternating sides

A quick clip of us drilling below…

Rolling (5 min rounds, 45 sec breaks):

  1. Jared Maki
  2. Jayden Decker
  3. Morgan Fraser
  4. Hassan Hashmi
  5. Sat out… tired as freck

Rolling with Jrock, Jayden, then Morgy below…

Rolling with Hassan, Then Marc rolling with Hassan below…

First to points (20 mins):

This lasted about 15 min… until Morgan got sacked by Alex during a back take attempt… thought it was a broken wrist… pop and scream… screamed like a man that lost his man hood…. he really did.

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See yall later for tonight’s final grading!!

Oss!

Monday Night BJJ Grading’s, Day 2

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LOL, when I got home last night from work, my wife was like, I’m going for a long walk with the dog lol… if she only new my secret!

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Between the dog and the 3 month old… the combination is deadly. Been trying to convince her to train BJJ ever since… no dice. One day… one day! Whenever she decides… I will feel safer at home hahahaha!

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Below is a picture of the hairy little turd, 13 lbs… kinda cute eh? with the bat-like ears… half Dachshund, half Chihuahua… a Chi-weenie, lets just say he gets away with a lot…

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Goodbye Mondays and Wednesdays… I use to go to Open-Mat at 4:30pm or 5:00pm, then attend a class at 6:30pm every week. Yep, Sundays, Monday, Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Fridays… now Mondays and Wednesdays area mid-day breaks for my counterpart lol. Currently my training has been limited to Sundays, Tuesdays, Fridays & Saturdays on a good week… if I get permission… then maybe Wednesdays too!

Obviously, last night… I was there for the Gradings…

Tonight was hilarious… sorry lol… I totally saw myself OTM as a White-Belt, back in the day, when looking at some of the new guys that showed up. Heck, even with the guys that normally only attend the the Mondays and Wednesdays.

Did anyone dodge the grading tonight?

Definitely a good amount of guys OTM tonight… wish some of these guys would start attending the other classes… new bodies are always good. Look at me talking like they are resources. Maybe, I guess, 1 or 2 nights a week is what others can only commit too… the part time BJJer. Until you get hooked, of course like myself and even I still consider myself as a part time BJJer. I do it for stress, keeping in shape, or that just because I have an obsessive compulsive nature where I think I will suck if I don’t continue to train… the magical  hands that churns personal motivation and gains… looking shity while you roll. #bjjproblems.

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BJJ ain’t easy, 1 or 2 nights a week can be time consuming if you have other hobbies or activities… luckily I don’t have a life, aside for my wife and my 3.5 months old baby… wait did I just call them a hobby? hope they don’t ever read this lol neglect OTM… Oss.

We are on day 2 of 3 day for the grading grind… this coming Wednesday being the last and 3rd.

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A small warm up was run by Standard Steve, AKA Big Rig… a short clip below… Notice the fellow rolling like a log during the inverted side rolls. I seriously showed him like multiple times before… guess BJJ is different for everyone, learn and absorb what you want to absorb… the rest meh, pretend and survive…. #whitebeltproblems lol

The guys and gals had to execute a bunch of submissions while someone was in their closed guard, I noticed guys making stuff up… nioce, not keeping their hips high while working a typical closed guard arm-bar, while others being very technical, smooth and focused. Lots of growth and potential for growth. BJJ is growing in Thunder Bay, Northern nowhere and its beautiful… below is a short clip…

 

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Coach then got everyone to roll with specific people… short clip below. Boy some of these guys were going hard… must be grading time. Sometimes with a goal in mind we forget about our training partners. Without them BJJ would be nothing and we do need them to return… heck, I was there at one point, almost quit at one point. oh well… we live and we learn, BJJ will only make us stronger, those that aren’t will leave… wait doesn’t that comment hinder growth? don”t be sooo negative T-son!!

Everyone rolled so hard we got Crystal to do a quick stretch…

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Don’t mind my gibberish… I have lots of downtime with the wife and baby sleeping.

Great work tonight guys!

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See you guys for 8:00pm BJJ or tomorrow for the final day of Gradings!

Ossu!