Not much to say…
I’m still behind lol… keeping it super short.
I was still hurting.
I went in lol….
#wooo
Fun fun!! 5 min rounds, 3 with TBT Steve, 2 with Kait, 4 with Kole…
Homies are getting better!!
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Brazilian Jiu Jitsu
Feb 4/16 Kids BJJ
Yep… on the rush lol, picked the little homie up, fed him quickly, wife got home then out the door.
Got to LEMMA round 5:00 pm… holy shoot. Tonnes of guys there doing things, from lifting, privates to working on the bag… wow. The heat was hilariously hot. Oh well good for me… bad for everyone else?
Got the little homie’s to follow me around with some running around the mat, side steps, outside/insides, then switching every 2 side steps. Had them bear crawl then a bunch of lunges around the mat.
Nathan and Marco came in to help out,and even Justin, which was fantastic lol… Marc had them do a few cool things as well as Nathan.
Either way its always great o help out with the kids BJJ… only wished I had more time.
Maybe one day I’ll have a club where I can have time to teach BJJ to kids.
All about the growth of BJJ!!
Oss!!
Feb 3/16 Wed BJJ
Seriously though I’m like 10 days behind.
Between sickness, injuries, baby and him getting sick, family stuff and other work life opportunities this blog is behind… not that it matters. Only random BJJ gibberish anyway.
Homies be like what what… got to LEMMA around 5:15 pm this day….
In my head I was like what was the point… wasn’t gonna roll anyway. Either way, I bought a new wrist support brace system from Shoppers… thought I was gonna roll. Popped ibuprofen before I headed to the gym, which was great… ibuprofen, helped out for the warm up and pretty much throughout the course of the night actually.
#ibuprofen
Mike ran the warm-up, with standard running around the mats, inside/outside karaoke, forward/reverse shrimps, forward/reverse rolling, bear crawls, and possibly others… I forget lol.
Thor then had us review lateral drop throw… got a nice video below for reference.
Partnered with Tony and repped that out… tonnes lol
Thor then had us review the inside leg trip when your partner defends by stepping around to defend the throw… nice reference video below.
Partnered with Tony and repped that out… tonnes again lol
Thor then got us to review the flower sweep which we repped out… one of the newer white belts joined us for this session of review. Poor guy still trying to figure this out. Complete resistance of working technique lol… white belt stuff. Being a horrible training partner. It was ok for me, definitely won’t help other white belts lol, by resisting that much, especially when all you are doing is trying to figure out the movements. Yes I told him…
#theyalllearn
lol
The reference I always use for my variation of this sweep below…
Then it was the rolling arm bar when your partner post to defend the flower sweep… a good video reference is below.
We then rolled… I’ll be honest, I wasn’t planning on rolling, but one of our black belts invited me to roll. When a black belt ask you to roll, you roll, regardless. Our rolling session below.
Jan 25/16 Mon BJJ
Wow tone of new guys and gals OMT…
https://www.instagram.com/p/BA_MI8DpgIe/
Show up and train…
#greatclass
Class was a great… had a visitor from Toronto, Natasha. Trains at Body of Four, with Mike Aviado and those group of killers. Have only met him a few time at the Ontario Open, seems like a great guy, even have him a a BJJ Facebook friend lol… hoping to roll with him one day.
Thor had us do a standard warm-up, then he got us to review a closed guard back take, then a closed guard arm-bar. Fan-freaking-tastic. I didn’t roll, due to my wrist. Could barley do a few of the warm-up exercises… still tried.
Partnered with Mitch… kid is picking up things quick. Training hard and a lot had his first competition not too long ago… i commend him. Competition isn’t for the weak. We repped out the back take, then the arm-bar quite a few times.
#everyonehasaprice
Word… Thor’s recruited a few potential BJJer’s from his work. Fan-freaking-tastic, had an extra Gi to lend one of them. That I’ve only worn once. I have the identical Gi in an A0 and all patched up… It’s an A1 in case I ever gain the weight back and need it to be IBJJF legal.
#Truth
I Gi hoard, truth i think of weird stuff like that. Especially if you like the style and brand. Fact is the A0, I still use in my rotation regularily, so you never know. But… I had an extra Gi to lend.
Turned out homie wanted to borrow it for a week. lol
That’s like lending your under wear out… yeah no lol.
Either-way, I told the new guy that I’ll be taking it home and washing it right after. He asked if he could borrow it for a week or so until he figured out buying a Gi . In which I said no… I like my Gi’s cleaned regularly with after every use. I remember my first Gi as a white belt. It sure as hell wasn’t and I bought it, if I was lent one… I would have treated it worse. I ended up throwing it away, a Royal blue Reevo, very old model with no patches lol. He then asked if whether I would sell it… the following things popped into my head.
- I have this exact GI one in a A0…
- I wasn’t really gonna gain any extreme weight back…
- I wore this particular Gi only once…
I offered it to him for $150 Canadian, which I thought was fair under the circumstances, I wasn’t in no way going to lend it to him for a week lol weird… especially since I didn’t even know him or whether he would return, or how he would actually treat it… He said that he would think about it and let me know after class. I agreed. I also lent him a white belt, which was my very first one… I told him he could get a GI online for $100 Canadian. I wasn’t intending to sell it or lend it out for a week lol. Shoot that’s weird, especially when you know how much you perspire while training BJJ and the idea that it would be well taken care of made it easy to say no, I’ll just take it home.
I bought that puppy brand new for $104.00 USD, with shipping and handling at $25.00 USD & taxes $16.77 USD … that being said, totaled $145.77 USD.
The exchange rate not even sure back then… the bill on my paypay indicated 145.77 USD. However, currently…
$206.86 Can lol…
They GI I plan on selling doesn’t exist anymore at $150 CN… but these are very similar prices.
soooo… $119 + $25 Shipping + $18.72 tax = $162.72 USD
$230.91 Can lol
That being said my original offer of $150CN was legit… he got a deal. My white belt however… guess he didn’t want the hassle of buying one online… I wasn’t going to sell it to him, but when he said $200 for both…
#deal
I was gonna give my kid that white belt… but for 50 bucks, I can buy 10 of them lol.
#everyonehasaprice
One of my homies said I was a ruthless business person… I think it was pretty realistic that my original price of $150 CN was more then fair lol…
The logic and numbers don’t lie…
Truth is when you talk about a fair price, its always dependent on what the consumer market has the ability to spare. If they can afford it, they will pay for it. People don’t buy Rolex’s because they are dependable… they buy them because they can lol. However, unfortunately price can also be a delusion of dependability, and hold a high standard.
If they can’t afford it, and still want to pay for it, you offer them a solution… which I did. The belt could be bought online for $10 bucks and I even explained that he could find a Gi online for $100.
BJJ related ranting gibberish over…
#over
Ossssss!!
Jan 24/16 Sun Morning BJJ
I did managed to head out to Friday open Mat on Jan 22/16… didn’t roll. Just helped J-rock out with some questions. #Injuries can’t be like that forever… rest rest rest lol. Actually promised the wife I would not roll. She let me out of the house to hang out which was nice. Sitting at home after work from sitting all day at the office sucks especially when you got the bug for BJJ…
Either way Sunday was an awesome morning… got to LEMMA around 9:05 am.
Opened up the door and boom… the air hit my face yes hot air… lovely, actually wasn’t too bad once I got in the door. Not as bad as the past few times, obviously perceptively it may change lol.
You bet got on the rower at 9:20 am.
2 sets of 2 km, then 1 set of 4 km.
Average was below 2:30 mins per 500 m which was good enough for me lol. I’m showing up… Not bad for an old man who’s training irregularly now due to injuries and life lol. 90 percent of success is just showing up.
Clip of some box jumping after the row session… 3 sets of 10 reps. 30 inch box jumps? Think my ankle is better, felt better so I thought I would get some box jumping in… Not even sure of the actual box height, but the highest for the boxes we got around.
Got some good advice from Veal about some technique to improve the jump. Used it… and it works, got more explosion for sure!!
lol boredom gets you video taping workouts… plus its good for media content for a blog. Just irritable and long to edit though lol.
A clip of all our training below… fun fun lol
We have a 49 year old dude that trains with us and shows up pretty regularly, when hes not working… I commend him. He just got his Blue Belt last year, seriously respect. A lot of time on the mat for that!
BJJ can be tough, especially when you get bitten by the bug and you have other life obligations like the wife, kids, work, or other hobbies you end up putting on the shelf lol yes other hobbies.
Can we define life in just one thing we do?
Is the yearning to live defined by scope like attempts by being choked out by your training partner or while competing?
Training BJJ is highly commendable. Very commendable. Takes patience, extreme awareness of emotional intelligence and a freaking long time to just learn… you might think your getting good at one thing, then whoop, bam… your not lol. Soo much time on the mat to end up re-evaluating your skills after a horrible roll session or competition, yep wiped out. When your knocked down, do you not get back up?
Think this is kinda the essence of life. It ain’t perfect. Things get in the way. Do you quit? do you move forward? or are you just content on your current well being? There is a lot of sports or hobbies that could give you this same sensation. Especially combat sports like MMA, Muay Thai, Boxing in general? any fighting really… longevity, life expectancy, incurring long term physical damage another story. Obviously we’re talking about competitive training… not the excercising and physical workouts required to complete the acts, like boxercising or that kickboxercising dance stuff, like man.
Your not a Muay Thai, Boxer, or even a Karate fighter unless you actually spar or fight with someone… or are you?
You train in a combat art for killing by which you don’t actually train against a resisting opponent? how effective would that be in real life which such a variant of circumstances? kinda what Gracie University was doing for a while with guys submitting video logged of technique to attain a belt on non resistant opponents. Right?
lol a Blue Belt without ever training with a resisting opponent… excellent ideals… washing out BJJ for a bunch of money. Consumerism and capitalism at its greatest. Sure they learn BJJ, sure they learn some kinda self-defense. But really do they? I get this may be helping BJJ grow, which in the end is great… but is it really? Look what happened to Karate. Sell the belt, make Karate a product, make it grow… Karate is an effective art. Just washed out… everyone one has a black belt, 2 years for a 13 year to get a black belt? Dfck lol… seriously… washing out the actual meaning of Black Belt.
Karate!!
Found this karate rash guard for my buddy… hahahah
For Muay Thai the life expectancy of a fighter is what 30 years old in Thailand? not even sure… fighters live for the fight, live the living, and die training to support themselves.
Great blog below.
Here’s a good forum discussing of the life expectancy below.
Here’s a good article for life of a Muay Thai fighter below.
Reality is if you get out alive, there is long term damage from getting hit in the head repeatedly lol… Boxing I would imagine is another lol.
“Over time, professional and amateur boxers can suffer permanent brain damage. The force of a professional boxer’s fist is equivalent to being hit with a 13-pound bowling ball traveling 20 miles per hour, or about 52 times the force of gravity.
According to the Journal of Combative Sport, from January of 1960 to August of 2011, there were 488 boxing-related deaths. The journal attributes 66 percent of these deaths to head, brain or neck injuries; one was attributed to a skull fracture.
There are boxers with minimal involvement and those that are so severely affected that they require institutional care. There are some boxers with varying degrees of speech difficulty, stiffness, unsteadiness, memory loss and inappropriate behavior. In several studies, 15-40 percent of ex-boxers have been found to have symptoms of chronic brain injury. Most of these boxers have mild symptoms. Recent studies have shown that most professional boxers (even those without symptoms) have some degree of brain damage.” Verbatim from the article I read below,
Crazy!! no? Seriously though, what kind of damage is sustainable damage to the head? These articles below speak for themselves.
- http://www.livestrong.com/article/507149-boxing-and-brain-damage-statistics/
- http://www.traumaticbraininjury.net/boxers-and-brain-injuries-a-scary-study/
Interesting article about the load a boxer can produce when punching someone in the face. Pretty remarkable.
Can you actually really train these kind of combat sports effectively, competitively to not sustain this kind of actual damage? I’m sure you can make those decisions on your own… lets get punch drunk!! Either way scary like the above article indicates. I commend all those that fight for a living, its a hard knock tough life, which the path is ridiculously hard.
#respect
Either way I read somewhere that Rickson Gracie got involved with his nephews shenanigans and now they are revamping their logic… gotta roll guys lol, not rocket science or what, at least physics, applied physics? Money ain’t everything.
#Fantastic
lol
BJJ compared to the rest of these combat sports is definitely the gentle art within the combat realms in comparison.
I choose BJJ, continue to train BJJ. I can go 150% with willing partners or just compete and not sustain the long term damage to my head as compared to a competitive striker of any other Martial Art… unless I get need or accidentally punched in the face, hopefully not ever loose an eye from eye gouging.
#knockonwood
Not mocking it, whatever floats your boat and gets you off the couch… I used to make fun of the wife for her Zumba. Reality was, I didn’t mind, as long as it made her happy and feeling good.
She doesn’t need to know that… making her think that I think that I am the man… reverse psychology lol. hah!
My satrire somewhere up there? lol
#gibberish
#BJJfourlife
#BJJ4life
#endrant
Eitherway, regardless of my gibberish… continue to do what you like doing. Its just my gibberish.
Osssss!!
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Jan 17/16 Sun Morning BJJ
#whitbeltarmy
In hopes they continue the journey!
Got to LEMMA around 9:10 am… no Keith the paramedic guy. Oh well at least it was a quite morning like most for the past few years lol. Aside for when Nathan used to join me to lift which burnt time for sure. Always been a good opportunity to reflect. Zoning out is hard when someone is trying to talk to you lol.
I want to zone out when I train… I want to be in a state of constant metacognition, subconsciously learning during a really long roll. Is that even a thing? Can you zone out while driving, running, rolling and continually be able to function while doing such things effectively? am I speaking outa my ass? how is this possible? I used to train Muay, play soccer, tennis, snow board, lift weights regularly, and a lot of freaking basketball.
Zoning out while performing those activities was easy… in the moment.
Yep all these activities while I was younger… pretty good at them in fact, or at least I thought lol.
While rolling it is even easier, that is, when all the stars are aligned lol… great temperature, trance beat, great vibes, seriously the here, the now.
No injuries, great flow, surviving, moving from one position to the next, countering your opponents counter and not even thinking about it.
Just doing it.
Just do it!!
Beautiful!!
Metaphysical?
Or
Metacognition?
Thinking about the best way to be thinking?
A higher order thinking?
Control over the cognitive processes engaged in learning?
Must be talking out my ass…
Zoned out while rolling…
Shit can’t be real…
But being in the moment… is real.
Attuned
I need this…allows my internal state to resonate within my inner self to reconnect with the world and feel alive.
#Darnit.
I did roll.
Not good though wrist got grabbed and banged up, even though it was taped. Man. messed… stupid me.
A clip of us training this past Sunday morning…
Took Monday to Friday off this week… hopefully it will help.
Rest is part of your BJJ journey… ain’t a sprint homie, make it last!
A piece of my own advice… straight up!!
See y’all OTM soon.
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Jan 13/16 Wed BJJ
Got to LEMMA around 5:30 pm Wednesday last week.
Yes I’m still behind.
Sorry… I start these things then either the 2 little monkeys wants my attention.
lol. Yes the dog, fur baby and my actual human baby lol.
#furbabiesneedlovetoo
Got OTM with Thor for only a few minutes left lol.
Either way, Thor ran the class… warm up consisted of us working on shrimping on the spot, then exercises to warm up the neck. Wrestling styled stuff.
Uuuuhh my neck was sore the next morning lol.
Not to mention my wrist… dfck.
I partnered with Josh for the tech review. We worked on the arm bar with the pit stop first… Rep those out like a few hundred times. We then reviewed the switch when your opponent rips out the arm… to switch to the far side arm when they attempt to pass your guard, which should be obvious, repping it out a few hundred times.
OR NOT hahahah?
Forget my tape and neoprene reinforcement for my ankle and wrist…
No dice on rolling fck… seriously fck!
Probably smart of me due to my injuries anyway.
Really though… my wrist is busted up.
I shouldn’t be rolling anyway.
Must have subconsciously been doing myself a favor. No rolling till your hundo!!
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Jan 11/16 Mon BJJ
Got to LEMMA around 5:25 pm… last week on Monday.
Yes I’m behind… like last week behind.
Rhino was in to run the class. He had us running around, bear crawling, lunges, then a bunch of wrestling take down kind of warm-ups.
I partnered with Juneau to partner drill the double leg… lol dude knee toe stomped me again lol…
Yeah buddy… a few other times as well.
The spazzy white belt strikes again lol hahahah ouch that hurt.
I did manage to yelp like a little girl… shit hurt. JUNEAU is like 200 lbs
Lol dfck, especially when it wasn’t expected… we were just repping the movement lol.
Rhino had us review a closed guard sweep variation that starts with a arm drag, to a sweep similar to a pendulum sweep, but instead reaching deep for the far side leg, and to execute the arm-bar while sweeping or once swept.
These are all very simple fundamental movements you need to understand as a white belt.
Simple and very effective… the bread and butter of BJJ.
To survive against a bigger non-skilled BJJ opponent.
Especially while your opponent attempts to break the guard by wedging a knee into your butt.
Either way we finished with 10 min rounds sessions of rolling.
Rolled with Juneau, Eric, and then Travis the beast Caldwell.
Thanks for the push kids… lol I was really burnt out, wrist, ankle and toe were messed up.
#Ibuprofen
#scotch
#battlebalm
…helped relieve the soreness over the night lol.
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Battle Balm… or Tiger Balm?
Finally getting this done… got a couple more days to yip about.
Nutty lol… after worldwide traveling I finally got it last week lol…
SAN DIEGO, CA
LOS ANGELES, CA
Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS
Budapest, HUNGARY
Just saying… I’m wishing I was this product!
Couldn’t have come in a better time as my wrist is still mangled.
Anywho, got hooked up with a cute T-shirt to which I will absolutely be wearing… shoulders look huge in them btw, Oh and some really cool stickers.!!
Owner of the company trains BJJ, so he’s got my bye-in that its legit!
#Ossssss
#BJJ4life
#BJJfourlife
Ironic eh? 37 and loves stickers…
My kids… gonna love me when they gets older… I put stickers on everything.
Car, electronics, my wife if she would give me permission lol hahahaha.
Nerd dad hah!!
This stuff works… seriously. Scent is minimal, didn’t burn my partners eyes, and best of all lasted for quite, heck a lot longer then Tiger Balm. Yes you heard it, better than Tiger Balm. Way better. Doesn’t feel like it’s burning the skin… more of a deep penetrating feel, with a very long lasting approach. Maybe its just the placebo effect from the whole BJJ thing.
Regardless, I highly recommend!!
In some cases it lasted for 3 to 4 hours… mind you, I was wearing a neoprene wrist reinforcement slip with the balm on. Whereas, Tiger Balm only an hour… yep great stuff.
Price point may be higher… but hey! What kind of price do you put on your body, especially when your only born with one?
Anywho, I’ll buy it again!
Jan 7/16 6:00 pm BJJ
#caughtup
Thank god for days off… wait.
No you gotta force yourself to take days off.
Seriously, all part of the training… or else injuries occur.
Regularly in fact…
Days off are gooooood.
Obviously I’m a hypocrit… lol seriously we train BJJ. We train a lot.
Who needs a day off?
On my days off from work… guess what I’m doing?
Putting time OTM lol
My obsession will become your addiction… hahahahah
BJJ is easy right?? Duh lol
Anywho lol Yesterday after getting home Baba was fed, as fast as I could lol… this time no coffee when I got home. Just water and some chicken with the monkey.
Busy at the office yesterday and today BTW lol… worked on our company website fun fun… getting good at this stuff. Using my Digital and Marketing capabilities I picked up after spending 4 years at Lakehead University to get my HBcomm.
Hard to believe I didn’t shift into this specific line of work. Nuts… even though I love this shit. Ironically enough the Civil Engineering Technologist Diploma side of my education has been keeping me ridiculously busy. Both have their benefits. All I can say is the transferable skills developed from my Business degree have been a facet for other developments within my Engineering career.
Management, best Business practice’s etc… ironic lol… one of the University Engineering graduates asked me what I was planning to do with my Business Degree while only being a technologist and College Diploma in Civil Engineering. I replied that the reality is, an Engineering Firm is a Business, what better way to be able to work for one, is by understanding how it actually functions.
Twisted eh?
Trying to find some kind of rationale to analogize between work and BJJ lol…
#gibberish
My gibberish ahahahah … kinda like my BJJ belongs to me and no one else. A personal self expression OTM
Understanding the core techniques and the real function of the movement, which are built of tiny movements of once we were initially taught, to what we know now, for example a closed guard arm-bar… to me now, its just move. However, it has mechanics to get from one position to the next, as a white belt you need these mechanics, a base line, a reference point, or even how to punch or jab. The crawl before you walk shapeel… lol
- Start with your partner inside your guard
- Cross your feet to close your guard
- When you close your guard, lift your hips up, off the ground
- Break your partners posture by pulling your knees to your chest
- Pick an arm (ie, right arm) and grab the tricep (GI) with your same corresponding hand (ie my right hand to grab his right tricep (Gi).
- Make sure the elbow is crossed over the center-line of the body, the further the better, with maintenance of the broken posture
- Your partner should feel really uncomfortable at this point if the elbow is pulled over far enough
- With your left hand grab his left shoulder
- Open your guard, keeping knees pinched, bringing your left leg over the right should with the other stopping slightly under the outside shoulder
- Cross your feet again, you should be in a what we call a “Pit stop,” from here the arm could be attacked, in a more advanced point of view it and can be finished, fulcrum, hips high elbow joint is with a dangerous location
- However we’re gonna put my left foot on right hip, making sure that my right knee is right next to his left shoulder and that I’m still pinching my knees
- Slide your right leg further up his back, behind their shoulder to when where your right heel will meet his left shoulder (clamping down so you don’t give him space)
- Let go of their left shoulder with my left hand
- Swing your left leg over his head to the point where the crook behind my knee is about even to his ear. Make sure this is a smooth transition with no space and constant contact with them while doing this, the clamp down on both legs, I pinch my knees and look into their ear. your calves should be flexed and point upwards
- Then you lock his wrist (so their thumb is pointing to the ceiling) and lift your hips upward.
- At this point you can switch grips and under hook the right leg to sweep or finish the submission with them on their side.
Yeah a lot of steps eh?
The technique discussed is what we worked on before rolling… yep.
A lot of actual steps that I take for granted…
Anywho..Thor ran the class… fun stuff. Warm-up, some take-down styled drilling. The closed guard arm-bar with a pit stop. then rolling…. man sooooo many peeps OTM dfck lol.
About 90% green…
Nuts, fantastic though…
Fresh meat for the bluebelts lol hahahah
Either way great stuff!!
I partnered with Big Rig. Nice seeing him out from his break from back injuries. Yep sooo many injuries. Including myself. But hey, just show up and you’ll learn something!!
Nice clip of all the newer and currents homies that showed up Wednesday night below… even caught the boxing class after in action crazy!!!
It’s gotta be a new year’s resolution thing… prove me wrong and don’t thin out in a few months…
Ossssss
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