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.
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.
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!
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!!
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.
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…
Downed some coffee lol… drank coffee all day though.
…Maybe I should have just drank water.
#hindsight?
Got to LEMMA 5:45 pm-ishy lol… the cage was full. oh well, life.
#dfck
My addiction is slowly gaining ground…
“Hahahahhahah” in a deep Vader voice.
Wrist, ankle, and toe… yep tape. Dudes have been attacking hard like their hungry… hey I was a white belt once lol. Tape appears only to give them more of a reason to go harder lol. Great? Damned if you do or damned if you don’t. Whatever.. reinforcement is better then non…
Rhino was in… he made us do a little warm-up. the mat was full. Crazy! So happy with the amount of guys that attend Sundays. So many guys that attend to during the week… nutty. Hopefully we can get more guys to step it up and help out with soooo many green homies!
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Surprised at all the faces that showed up this morning.
Thought that everyone would be trying to recover from all the festivities… I was fortunately mistaken. Our regulars are warriors!!
Hey hey… what a better way then by sweating it out OTM!
Detoxification if all the evil food and alcohol consumed from the holidays… relieve that built up stress from sitting in front of the television all day.
Glad i showed up… looked like the others were somewhat glad as well lol.
#H2O
Got the guys to follow me through a standard warm-up. Running around the mats, bear crawls, lunges, forward/reverse/side rolls, forward/reverse shrimping, forward/reverse break falls with technical stands, forward/reverse butt scoots, partner butter fly scoots, & finally following your partners legs with leg hooks. We then worked on the isolated sweep drills, then we reviewed my favourite sweep, the lasso sweep. Afterwards, we then rolled.
Guys are getting it… slowly but surely, the regulars!
Homies got a lot of drilling in… hip bump sweep, scissor sweep, flower sweep, hook sweep, tomahawk sweep, star sweep, then the pendulum sweep. 2 min sets, then they switched. Lol
I partnered with Katrina for the drilling until I jammed my wrist again damn…
Yep! I forgot to tape it.
Dumb dumb…
Rolled with Gary, Hector, Justin, and Hector…
5 min rounds and 30 sec breaks. Clip below…
Even worked on my head stand lol before one of the guys showed up…
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