Got some decent fun rolls in last week… yep I’m behind again lol… oh well.
A tonne of guys OTM which was great.
Warmed up with Travis…
Trying to take it easy for the next little while with the eye issues.
Rolled with a few others as well… forget whom… Big Steve, his son, possibly others. Either way a few clips below of last weeks open mat session.
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Fri the 13th…
Damn…
Full mat yet again.
Where these homies coming from.
MY ADDICTION WILL BECOME YOUR OBSESSION… hahhaha
Unconscious I was at one point… crazy when you lose a few seconds of memory.
Rolling rolling… we were rolling.
First roll was with Beef… light roll. Really light warm-up roll…
So light I went nighty night with a very fast single armed triangle.
I tapped… just not fast enough, and worst off in a manner that could not be communicated to my partner. I believe, I may have tapped myself… Ironically enough, I give everyone else shit for not tapping fast enough. Guess humility OTM every so often is a good personal reminder that everyone is not perfect including, obviously myself first and foremost. Embarrassed, a little… but hey this is my blog and honesty is key. Like on the mat our weaknesses will be exposed in one way or form. My gibberish is my gibberish no masking of the truth. Last time I fell asleep was at our old club on James St… during an open mat on a Saturday, triangled by our Professor and head coach doing Nogi via triangle… in 2009 lol… yes. That long ago lol, I vowed to my myself to tap early enough to never fall asleep again… back then all I remembered was stars, seeing a bunch of stars, then my body went limp… he released, and bong, I acted as if nothing happened nd that I was alright lol. Low and behold I was not… I went to sleep in his triangle yep… damn triangle and guys with long legs… damn-it.
Regardless, it was a good reminder that no one is invincible, especially myself. Not taking away from my partner, technically it was sound, no pain, not even the stars that I saw the last time, that’s how fast it went on lol… The head and arm was secured prior to the transition over me… which is where I recall tapping and unfortunately it must have been on my own chest with my free arm lol… which makes sense based on the position he had me in… reality is I should had tapped with my feet or yelled out vocally… then I recall vividly entering my house doors to an angry wife… then Beef’s face yelling my name and asking what my name was… Beef mentioned when I woke up I grabbed his lapel and set up for an arm drag… yep… setting up my grips lol. Felt really out of it… drunk in fact, guess I was out for a few minutes, maybe less.
Lesson learned tap!
Tap early…
Really early, if its with someone that is technically sound…
In my head I was like… I gotta keep rolling, or else coming out to the gym was for nothing lol… yeah weird.
Next I rolled with Black Belt Keith, a roll with Morgan, then a really long ass roll with Nathan, 3 or even 4 rounds straight through… still feel a little woozy… eyes are really bad… capillaries must have ruptured from the pressure.
We did manage to hit up the Tokyo house after for Sushi lol… the wife wasn’t impressed with my eyes though.
Saturday morning…
Sunday after Sunday BJJ
Tuesday…
We cannot find perfection within ourselves without making countless dumbass mistakes… and yes, that is my statement if you are wondering.
TAP EARLY!
Osss!
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I remember…
MY OBSESSION, WILL BECOME YOUR ADDICTION!!!
Got to LEMMA around 5:45 pm… got some rolling in. First big Willy, then with the Pirate.
LONG ASS ROUNDS lol
Great stuff tough long sessions with some bigger boys lol.
Thor ran the class with a warm-up that consisted of doubles and sprawling…
Back and forth back and forth for like 15 minutes lol or was it 20?? wait was it 10?
I partnered with the beast St Amand.
My foot was still mangled lol… wish we had the option to pull guard. Hah!!
Thor had us review the elbow push escape to counter the double under-pass, as well as from a transition while your opponent in top side control moves the outside anchor arm to across the body for better positioning. Marcelo Garcia used this all the time. Excellent escape when you can time this well. Very powerful once your arm locks out… below is a nice clip for further review with Marcelo demonstrating this from side control.
Rolling: (3 mins, 30 sec break)
Thank god for the open mat prior… 3 min rounds just ain’t enough some times lol… especially if your trying to execute the technique we reviewed in class and the white belts are trying to eat you alive for dinner and with other agendas on their mind lol…
I did manage to hit the gym this morning to get some cardio in… rowing for about 40 mins… results below.
Made a visit to LEMMA this morning as well…
NICE TO SEE MY ADDICTION BECOMING OTHERS OBSESSION… ahahhaha
Bunch of guys working on a knee/shin guard sweep, some rolling and drilling.
We went to the Thai Kitchen afterwards… fun stuff!!!
My Gi was soaked after the class, washed after every use BTW…
Time to rotate and use one of my other beloved GI’s from my little collection.
Caught up!!
The cage was full again with open mat homies!
Show up… train. Sometimes it’s hard.
Heck it’s always hard, not gonna lie.
There will always someone there to push you.
All we did was roll tonight…
Fantastic lol.
Rolling: (5 min, 60 sec breaks)
1. Rock Climber (Flow)
2. Fuji (Flow)
3. Reevo
4. Thor
5. Fuji
6. Fuji
7. Curly locks
8. Snell
Patience’s guys… and gals.
The Rock Climber caught some cool clips of me rolling… will post another time! 🙂
Great rolling tonight!!
Jammed my toe… ouch. Lower back is sore to wtf…lol I need to stretch my hamstrings out. dafuck…
Osss,
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One more day to go lol… then I’m all caught up. The little guy is sick again… in fact for a few days. Projectile vomiting… poor little thing… puked at BK yesterday, a few times at home, and a few times today. Just have to keep his liquid intake up I guess. Wish I could take all his pain. Must be teething again. Apparently the pain is soo unbearable it would make a grown adult go insane, but I guess that’s what drugs are for… unfortunately not allowed for little babies.
I did manage to get in earlier again Sunday morning, like every Sunday morning lol … with no real motivation but a Tim’s medium black and a note I saw on the white board lol… so instead of 10 mins, I did 20 mins of rowing, then some 24 in box jumps, push ups and crunches in. 4 sets BTW… Oh and an additional 28 in box jumps, 10 or twelve lol.
Felt great afterwards… especially after the stretching and foam roller before the guys started galloping in… cute clip below.
A lot of non regulars showed up this morning which was nice…
I invited a few other new white belts who kept asking questions about a sweep I kept hitting them earlier during this week, in hopes that we could further review their issues, instead of preoccupying class rolling time which was very precious due to the others that required the mat space right after us at 7:30 pm…
Didn’t show… Hopefully next time.
Nathan ran the warm up… which was pretty standard with running, bear crawls, lunges, rolls, shrimping, break falls and technical stands etc… quick clip below…
Quick clip of us working on some basic drills with armbar’s, hip bump sweep’s, kimura’s, and omaplata’s…
Then we reviewed the scissor sweep from closed guard, first with the knee against the chest or neck, and then the belly with a deep cross collar and sleeve grip…
Yes then some rolling rolling lol… 6 min rounds. fun fun!!
Photo credit to my buddy Travis Duncan… well done homie.
Training and taking cool pictures at the same time is difficult… but that’s why your a brown belt homie.
Making it all look very easy.
2 down… 3 more BJJ related sessions to blab about… nothing special. Got behind, you know family life… a 10 month demanding further daddy time. Oh and the dog… yep kinda cute.
Got a tonne of rolling in… yep. A tonne
Clips of the rolling sessions below…
We did manage to get a crew out to the Sushi Station… horrible experience btw.
Not enough ribs, slow service, what else… slow service… oh and slow service. Food that got out was satisfactory. But yes… slow service. I guess I could say I’m super patient… but man was that ever slow lol… common lol… we go there all the time.
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Jumped in to help up with the kids class tonight… slowly developing patience lol… slowly.
Thanks to Arin, Katrina, Philippe, and Travis, though… without the help not sure how to deal with little people trying to take limbs from you… especially 20 of them.
YES 2O little monkeys in Gi’s… well a few in Gi’s lol… slowly but surely… my addiction will be everyone’s… 🙂
Standard warm-ups…
Self-defence with the double neck grab, single wrist grab, then a 2 on 1 wrist grab drill with 2×2 min sessions, they then got to do a 10 min zombie game with them up kicking and guarding their face to protect their brain…
Then in 2 groups we had them sock flag wrestle for 10 mins… yes fun fun.
These guys have soooo much energy so… in their same groups I then got them to do king of the mat with first just working on getting a mount for 5 mins, then just working for a back take for 5 mins, then finishing with either mount or back take for 5 mins to be king of the mat.
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Open mat was yet full again… wow.
Awesomeness to all that showed up.
Warmed with the fellow Eric, the buddy with the shiny blue Fuji Gi again… great stuff. Long ass round lol.
BTW… he didn’t spaz… well a couple of times he did. But great stuff. Much improvement since our last roll.
Travis ran the class today… I warmed the guys up with the standard running around the mat, lunges, bear crawls, forward and reverse rolls as well as some shrimps.
Travis had us review a few side control escapes 3 in fact. First was a re-guard with a forearm to the neck with a z type guard, second was a bridge roll sweep, & third was a similar sweep with a deep belt grip and body lock.
Had a visiting black belt… didn’t get his name… Logan. Apparently he is in for about 4 days… I’m was hoping to get some rolling in with him… not sure what club he trained with… I had to bounce… fa family lol
Seriously though… if you missed out. Your loss…
Great stuff!
We then rolled… first with The Duncan, and the Mitch… 5 min or 4 min rounds.
My homie Mitch… if you are reading this lol
Hahahah!
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Open mat was full again… awesome.
Rolled with Big Willy… dude ain’t getting smaller lol.
Having big guy’s on top of you make you focus on technique… using strength is a waste of wonderful resources, especially when there is such a large difference in size and obviously that he will beat me on the strength battle.
Roll like a mouse and wait for opportunity if there is a large size difference …
Strategy is the way to go when up against an opponent bigger and definitely more skilled then the average blue belt.
Although I did manage to tweak my lower back somehow, probably from the lack of posture while trying to escape a big man single leg lol… or maybe he sprawled on me.
Not sure.
Glad I’m not training for a tourney at the moment… still trying to gather myself mentally with all this time off from parental leave. Work hasn’t been really letting up… as paper work still appears when I make my weekly visits lol…
Partnered with the Rock Climber… Rhino ran the class, had us review the double leg at the 5th stage, then added sprawling to the top guy to defend.
He initially had us drill the double starting at the 5th stage with resistances… then had us sprawl while in the 5th stage with resistance… yep wrestling ain’t easy so much effort for a take down.
Definitely wasn’t good for my back especially with the warm up rolling with big Willy…
Rolling: (5 min rounds)
1. Rock Climber
2. Daluca
Guys weren’t letting up… good push. great tough rounds!!
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Got to LEMMA around 9am… yep downed a pot of coffee.
Halloween had a few beers and too many chips lol.
Honestly I didn’t want to train… no excuses. just show up.
Results from my row session below… my brain still hurts lol
It was 100 percent the coffee that motivated me!!
Also completed 4 sets of 25 push-ups, 10 box jumps, and 100 crunches…
Put together a quick cute clip below…
Quite a number of guys and a few gals showed up this morning… wonderful.
A few new faces…
I see potential Sunday regulars!!
Quick clip of the warm-up below…
Quick clip of us drilling some fundamentals below…
Quick clip of us reviewing the rolling bow choke below, the drilling it…
We also did the circle of death, which is basically just a positional drill from side control with the top person attacking for a submission or maintaining position, and the bottom person working an escape or re-guarding.
4, 2 minute rounds on the top, then 4, 2 min rounds on the bottom.
Everyone that showed up worked their butts off… just show up, and I’m sure someone will push you.
Great stuff!
Great class!!
A lot of work OTM by you homies!!
BJJ would be nothing without you!!
Osss!!
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