jiu jitsu

Dec 18/15 Open Mat

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Rolling is soooo important… its the magical glue that melds all of what you feel as your grappling intuition into the desired responsive sensitivity you wouldn’t normally develop just from working on, or drilling technique.

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Man just show up lol… your training partners will push you.

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Thank god for open mats and rolling we get… It gives us an opportunity to practice what we think we’ve learnt on live training partners. Sometimes too live hahahah LOL

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Either way… got to LEMMA around 5:15 pm Friday. Morgo and Marco were OTM. Working on something, wasn’t even sure. I taped my week ass foot up, coffee was already downed. Rolled with Morgo, Marco, Kait, Kyle, Kevin & Mitch. A couple times with Marco, Mitch, Kait & Kyle… time flew by. 10 min rounds… yep great times. Good rolls and a lot learnt.

Quick clip of our 2 hour jam session below…

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Dec 16/15 BJJ

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Word… crappy weather, lol Oops two words.

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Wanted snow… just not all this damn wet slushy stuff lol.

Got to LEMMA around 5:30 pm…

Yes tape.

Yes ankle wraps.

Yes naproxen.

Had a long ass roll with Thor. Short easy flow round with young Leath. Then a fun round with Tyler. Great stuff… Thors is always a tough roll, making me work my ass off on bottom. Leath is just a new and a very young white belt. Tyson… damn Tyler… we need to work on your passing lol… who’s teaching you to do funny stuff like that… lol… we need to talk!

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Warm-up was good!!

Arching and shrimping lol… yes shrimping.

Bad ass don’t hate brah!!

Thor had us review knee circles to negate the butterfly fantastic… shins are sore.

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Went to Kelsey’s… wing today night.

Holy crow… too 20 mins for someone to take my order.

Ridiculous… lol half price wings worth it I guess lol.

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Either way last night class was great!

The long ass roll was good… lots of time to think, adjust and improve on the previous errors.

Coach is gonna up the time to 90 mins instead of 60, which is fantastic!

More rolling and drilling which is awesome!!

No tip pho you Kelseys waitress sorry… didn’t even hook me up blue cheese like I ordered… missing carrots and celery lol.

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Dec 13/15 BJJ

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Smaller class Sunday morning…

Don’t blame no one.

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6 guys and gals?

Either way I got in around 9am… missed Friday open mat for a Christmas Party… yep staff Christmas party.

Nuts!!!!

Tones of prime rib, food…. and quite a few drinks lol.

Great time… didn’t feel it too bad in the morning. Must have been all the food lol.

yep I went in… great time.

Completed 2 sets of rowing… 20 mins. 4 km each… fun fun.

 
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Class consisted of a warm-up, some drills, isolated drilling, some tech (tomahawk/sickle sweep), some resistance drills, then 6×5 minute rounds of rolling… great stuff.

Lots of fun…

Cute video clip below, enjoy…

I did manage to slip out and watch EBI 5 at the Frenchmans house … of course it was to no surprise who the winner would be lol… Garry Tonon. Just killing it.
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Dec 9/15 BJJ

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This one was only 5 days behind… oh well.

Between holidays, colds, and injuries we do what we gotta do…

Cause we do lol

Got to LEMMA around 5:45 pm…

Tape, YES!!…

Tiger Balm, YES!!…

Naproxan, YES!!!…

Stupid damn cold/cough, YES!!

Am I getting over this damn cold??, YES!!!

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Did I show up to roll… yes lol…

The cage was full, tone of other homies rolling… awesome.

Noticed Kait and a very young fellow by the name of Leath sitting by on the fence… guess no one wanted to roll with them homies.

Hey…

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They need time OTM too… BJJ is for everyone. LOL

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We were all white belts once… rolling with them helps us position our selflessness in the world of BJJ, teach others, as others have taught you!

After rolling with Leath, I believe I rolled with Eric and then Thor. Yes last round felt like forever stuck under Thors mount. Not fun… not fun at all.

Either way, Thor ran the warm-up, I partnered with my homie Caleb… who’s a newb.

Thor had us review a heel pick, the knee-slice pass as well as the back-step pass… love them all.

Either way, fantastic class… I’m 5 days behind… oh well.

Will be caught up soon!!

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Dec 7/15 BJJ

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Wow lol from last Monday…

But dammit I went in… did it again… went to BJJ, in which I shouldn’t have.

Oh well… I felt in in the morning…

The sprawling may have slightly loosened my ankle while some rolling may have tweaked it in a positive manner.

You know how we know you learned something… cause we saw you doing it under pressure while rolling… the mat doesn’t lie.

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If you learned it… we saw it… tatami don’t lie.

Shall see in the morning I was thinking to myself lol… either way I had slapped on a bunch of tiger balm, tape, and even two types of braces… soft cotton with a semi hard neoprene style brace with velcro…

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Plenty of ankle support…

I partnered with Dr Shat Hatton… we drilled old man style. yep I said it.

Old man drilling lol… it exist.

Great class, Rolled with Shat, Eric, Beast Sushi, hmmmmm who else?? man… oh! Jack… 6 foot skinny boy Jack. Wow long time since he’s been on the mat.

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Nov 30/15 BJJ

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Ooooo yah, baby and wife are sleeping… glass of scotch tonight.

Weird raining today…

#winteriscoming?

All caught up…

Got to LEMMA around 5:30 pm lastnight… pitch black out.

Damn-it… pitch black.

Taped my foot up… tones of tape. Didn’t wear my contacts… ibuprofen, oh and coffee. Yep training blind lol… gotta keep showing up. You always learn something new.

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Trying to just roll instead of watching stupid shit lol…

-9 & -9 Astigmatism… yeppers.

Had a nice long as roll with Eric… fun times. He’s improvement is remarkable. Must be the natural wrestling abilities lol.

Butt scoot wrestling haha!

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Thor had us review the X-pass, smash-pass, to knee-slice sequence using your head to the floor, under hook far side and near side arm grip to finish… badass.

He even added pursay if your opponent didn’t open up with the under-hook on the far side to turn the knee outwards then attack the mount instead… I believe the idea was that you had options, pending on how your partner and how they reacted on the bottom, instead of just trying to force one pass.

You have a multitude of options by redirecting yourself from one side of the body to the other with that knee, using grips with pressure to stabilize their upper body, and using your opponents direction to dictate the path of least resistance for the best possible solution.

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Nice clip from the x-pass to smash-pass transitioning.

Nice clip with drilling and the ability to be mobile moving side to side for more options.

The following clip is nice because it actually discusses how you bury the head and reach for the under-hook to flatten your partner to finish the knee slice. It also reviews other grips as well as my favorite the collar variation lol

Word… up!!

Any way great class… loved the light rolling with wrestler Eric… great job buddy. Focus on the technique your doing great!!

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Osss

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Nov 15/15 Sun BJJ

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Word… I’ll be back Friday…

Yep I went in on Sunday lol… its funny though, missed Monday and Wednesday this week because I decided to take a little self healing break because of the subconjunctival hemorrhages or bleeding in my eye’s…

BUT seriously though… haven’t been away for too long and it feels like its been forever.

BJJ is soooo freaking addictive… just my opinion though…

#FEELSLIKEFOREVER

#BUTREALLYITSONLYACOUPLEDAYS

#WEIRD

Rolling on Sunday was a big no no lol… felt like my eyes were gonna pop outa its socket with Brittany on top… Taking breaks here and there is a big must. Especially when your getting older, just can’t seem to bounce back like I used to. Oh well back OTM Friday… the hemorrhages appear to be receding. 

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#MYADDICTIONWILLBECOMEYOUROBSSESSION

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The baby is finally gonna start daycare next week for an infants program. Its funny, when I chose to do this 6 months of parental leave, I thought I was gonna be training BJJ everyday, hitting the gym every morning, sleeping in all the time, and just plain hanging out with my baby… unfortunately that wasn’t the case lol. I guess babies demand more attention then much expected. I sure have an appreciation for woman and my mom though… much respect. Not as easy as I suspected… talking baby all the time, thinking like a baby all the time, talking to the baby all the time. I feel like I’ve lost a few IQ points and brain cells lol… GOING NUTS, forgetting things I normally don’t forget, drawing blanks in the mornings from getting up between dreams, to change or feed the monkey… yep 6 months and it went fast lol… fortunately I’ve been going into work at least once a week to work on some paper work that seems to just keep piling on the desk lol to get ahead once I get back… yep back soon… hurray!! Definitely pros and cons… but you know what… the time I got to spend with the monkey was priceless… never will he ever be this big again… ever. Thank goodness… lol. Now I know why the wife wanted to go back to work when she did… a good compromise I guess… the grass isn’t greener on the other side, for you men contemplated on going on parental leave… however, if you do decide to take the plunge, at least your wife will know that if they were to die, you will be able to handle things on your own.

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Thank god for BJJ, been keeping it as consistent as I can… 4 to even 5 days a weeks of actual training. 5 days, if I time everything accordingly and the stars align…

wpid-fb_img_1432778563800.jpgSunday Sundays… Early Sunday. Sundays is always fun days… had a few drinks to wash away the pain in the eyes the night before. Not sure if that was smart. Even drank a whole pot of coffee lol… not sure that was smart too… think all of that thins your blood… especially, if your trying to HEAL LOL?

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Nuts… eyes were still red. Looked like a Zombie.

The shows still gotta go on… either way, I went in…

20 mins of rowing…
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4 sets of 30 push ups, 10-28 in box jumps, 100 crunches, and the 1 set of 12-30 inch box jumps lol… this may have worsened the hemorrhages in my eyes lol… quick clip below…

Got Nathan to run the warm-up, which also include some drilling… a quick clip below…

We then reviewed the pendulum sweep…

A video for further reference of our technique…

Then of course we rolled…

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See you OTM soon!!

OSSS!!

 

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Fri Oct 16/15 Open Mat

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BUSY BUSY… trying to keep up with everything… monkey getting sick, wife getting sick…

Got to LEMMA around 5:30 pm on Friday, rolled for an eternity with Big Steve, then with Clint Hollet a visiting black belt from Calgary under Gracie Barra.

Have been a little stressed out on the preparation of the in house tournament, which by the way was opened up to other local gyms… no one wanted in.

Oh well… next time. Bad timing I guess.

Bought some new GI’s… at least to me lol… a SYR Xcomp, purple from my Homie Morgo, then a SYR Absolute which I had delivered to the border. Got Morgo to grab it during his travelling… Went to the gym with no GI, assuming he would drop them off… no dice lol had to borrow Tony’s GI hahahaha.

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The roll with big Steve was straight up was like with a typical with a bigger white belt, he worked for a takedown, I got smashed, then I had to work my way out of bad positioning… wished he would have tried to pull guard sometimes.

Working off your back is key, especially when your opponent is bigger then you and you get put on your back…

Fighting tooth and nail for the top position can be an inefficient way to burn up energy, maybe its just when rolling with me… the target lol.

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lol…

I guess it could also be the intrigue that sometimes I’m smaller and that the 50 to 75 lbs I sometimes give up to the bigger guys, its more efficient for him to work for the top… not sure… game development, I guess.

Either way, its always a great way for me to warm up by struggling on the bottom with a bigger guy on top and me gasping for air… lol

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Big Steve has improved since his first time OTM, a lot of growth, it was a fun roll… he just needs to open up his game and try using different strategies, like pulling guard and setting up attacks from there…

The rolling with the Black Belt from Gracie Barra was awesome.

Dude was in full control, used a guard that I’m definitely not too familiar with.

A full body x guard, which was interesting.

His pressure passing was on point!

Felt the whole time he was trying to set me up for specific things, but changed it up in mid transition which was just lovely… lol

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I definitely was just a pawn today while rolling with him lol… He was just toying with me.

Caught a quick clip of us rolling below…

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Great night of rolling!!

Osss

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Mon Oct 12/15, Thanksgiving 1:00 pm Open Mat

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After being away for little, with G being sick and the miniature vacation. All that driving… yes 15 hours to Windsor taking the US route, 3 hours to Kitchener, 5 hours to Sudbury, then 10 hours back to Tbay.

All I gotta say is Chicago sucks… Minneapolis, Michigan, and Wisconsin are simple drives.

Oh Detroit also gets a 5 thumbs down…. man. a third of your life sepnt on the highway waiting to drive 5 km…

WTF. Driving in Toronto was like that… what a waste. would rather be training BJJ…. thank god for BJJ, lol…

Thank god! It would help with the traffic congestions… get out and roll!! OSSS

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Yep went in to work to do a few things… will be doing that for the a couple days.

Things keep piling up on the desk lol.

Parental leave eh?? Lol

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On a better note… Me and the monkey went into open mat for 1 pm!

Cute pic of my homie the Albino Rhino hanging with G star!!

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Rolled with Veal, which seemed like an eternity… kinda was lol… great warm up, though. 25 to 30 mins of rolling.

Baby needed some attention… then rolled with the Albino Rhino for another eternity lol.

Baby needed more attention.

Left the gym at roughly 3pm… yep great time! great rolling!

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