I’ll be honest… I had no motivation today. Doing these blogs forces me to do something… went out to hang out at a buddies house… a few of our friends bdays lol, didn’t go out dancing but had a few drinks… and didn’t get home till about 12:00 am. Baby was restless yesterday night and well as last, growing pains poor guy… BJJ does help me keep going.
Happy bday Crystal & Simon!
Grabbed my boy Nathan… at about 8:45 am. Got to the gym… swept, repped out some sit ups and push ups… and then people started showing up…nice 15 mins early… weird. Must be the weather out, 6 degrees Celsius out.
Yes using sweeping as part of my conditioning lol…
2 sets, 50 Crunches & 30 push-ups…
Another 2 sets, 50 Crunches & 30 push-ups I know its nothing… but with no motivation its a tad better than nothing…
Warm up: (16 min Warm up with Take down’s below)
Technique:(Reviewed Open Guard Sweeps, fast clip below)
Weighter Sweep, Tripod or Hook Sweep, Star Sweep, Tomahawk/Hammer/Sickle, and the Balloon Sweep
I’ve attached a video from YouTube by Jason Skully for futher reference with 51 other sweeps… enjoy!!
I’ll be honest… every Friday, I sit at my desk at work thinking about open mat on Fridays and what I want to work on while rolling. I believe stretching after the rolling, and open guard sweeps… bam…
Plenty of people OTM last night rolling and boy did I get pushed… Nathan Hatton, Matthew Thorburn, Matt Veal, Big Rig, Gary Maki, Jared Maki, Alex Wawia, Phillipe Jekker, Michael Hinsperger, Brock Peters, Juneau Barnett, newer guy big Henry, Henry’s buddy, & an older gentleman Don that came by to try it out!
Rolling: 10 min Rounds
1. Matthew Thorburn
2. Matt Veal
3. Jared Maki 17 min round
4. Matthew Thorburn
5. Juneau Barnett
6. Jared Maki, 15 min round
Arrived at LEMMA for roughly 7:00 pm… …yay… dropped off Kathy’s pie pan on by the desk. Some guys got here early, warming up, rolling, awesome weather BJJ4Life…
Patrick (New guy), Brittany, Hassan, Caleb (New Guy), Jayden, Marc, John, Alex, Gary, and Jared… were all on site for some BJJ…
Warm-up Consisted of the Following Drills:
Arm bars from closed guard, 10 reps alternating sides
Hip bump sweep from closed guard, 10 reps alternating sides
Kimura from closed guard, 10 reps alternating sides
Omaplata’s with over hook, from closed guard, 10 reps alternating sides
Triangles from closed guard, 10 reps alternating sides
Spider guard to triangles switches, 10 reps alternating sides
Marcellotines, 10 reps alternating sides
Side control switches, 10 reps alternating sides
Spinning arm bar, from side control, with under hook when partner turns into you. 10 reps alternating sides
Modified single leg takedown (chest pressure & heal pick, from cross-lapel double fist grip break, maintain the lapel grip once placing between partner), 10 reps alternating sides
Drop Seoi Nage, with under arm pit grip, 10 reps alternating sides
Below are some very short clips of us working on a few sweeps… ahem lol enjoy, sped up x 7.
Tripod or Hook Sweep
Tomahawk/Hammer/Sickle Sweep
Technique: Sweeps
Reviewed these sweeps again…
1. Weighter Sweep @ roughly 1:15
2. Tripod or Hook Sweep @ roughly 1:12
4. Star Sweep @ roughly 1:22
5. Tomahawk/Hammer/Sickle Sweep at roughly 1:28
I’ve attached a video from YouTube by Jason Skully for reference with 51 other sweeps we will take a run through… enjoy!!
Clip of Drills from Sunday… Took 15 to 20 mins with the breaks
1. Pummeling, 2.0 mins, alternating
2. Modified single leg takedown, 2.0 mins, alternating
3. Drop Seoi Nage, 2.0 mins, alternating
4. Modified hip throw with submission, 2.0 mins, alternating
5. Duck unders to sacrifice takedown, then taking the back, 2.0 mins, alternating
I’ve been letting the videos run longer especially when I get a chance to work in some drills, accidentally of course… the my phone editor won’t handle 15 to 20 min… so I had to find something to get it to work… its sped up by 6… or 7… maybe even 9. The viddy is below.
Hope to see a few of you out tomorrow… was a little ill today… baby was up a few times last night. Didn’t even go to work.
Thank god I moved my clocks ahead last night… with the day light savings time modification, we lost an hour to our day lol… at 8:00 am the dog didn’t per usual lick me in the face to get up lol… I had to pick him up myself to encourage him to go out, get fed, and watch me have my coffee… hilarious…
Got to the gym at roughly 8:45 am and I was most definitely not motivated to do anything. I popped a few ibuprofen & man was I ever sore from the past few days… No repping movements or anything on the grappling dummy… so i thought eh… if I’m not motivated… lets change it up and do some stretching and other exercises… till someone pops through the doors… sure enough daylight savings time change lol some of the guys were late… expected I guess… if no one showed up I would have got into the weights…
I really tried, I really did… just not motivated…
Sweeping bro…mad sweeps..
Got some stretching in, 2 sets of 25 push ups, 2 sets of 50 crunches…
Had to get more in… 2 sets of 25 push ups, 2 sets of 50 crunches…
Lifting soon!!
Sure enough Philippe, Mike, Nathan, then finally Travis arrived…
Warm Up: Took 15 mins
1. Pummeling, 2.0 mins, alternating
2. Modified single leg takedown, 2.0 mins, alternating
3. Drop Seoi Nage, 2.0 mins, alternating
4. Modified hip throw with submission, 2.0 mins, alternating
5. Duck unders to sacrifice takedown, then taking the back, 2.0 mins, alternating
I’ve been letting the videos run longer especially when I get a chance to work in some drills, accidentally of course… the my phone editor won’t handle 15 to 20 min… booo… will have to find a video editor to do such a thing… soon… very soon!
Technique: Sweeps
lol… I asked everyone if they had any issues, something we could trouble shoot or any techniques or stuff they wanted to work on… sure enough the guys wanted to review or asked for some open guard sweeps. The ones we worked on this morning are as follows:
1. Weighter Sweep @ roughly 1:15
2. Tripod Sweep @ roughly 1:12
4. Star Sweep @ roughly 1:22
5. Tomahawk/Hammer/Sickle Sweep at roughly 1:28
Mike, I’ve attached a video from YouTube by Jason Skully for reference with 51 other sweeps we will take a run through… also an awesome breakdown from Emily Kwok… her BJJ is the bomb, she doesn’t switch the foot placement to the hips… so I guess it doesn’t really matter… or does it, pending on the angle of approach by your opponent? guess only mat time will help iron out the kinks… enjoy!!
Jason Skully with 51 Sweeps
Emily Kwok Tomahawk/Hammer/Sckle Sweep from BJJ Weekly
I’m hoping Leo Oja’s self defense class for mothers and daughter went alright… had to cut the class earlier.
Hope to see everyone out… Mon, Tues, Wed, Fri or Sat… maybe even Sun…
Had some scotch, “Glenfiddich 15 year aged in Oak barrels” and some beer “Shock Top” tall boys… and oh homemade Pho… bomb di-shizzel…
Got to LEMMA at roughly 4:00 pm with my boy Nathan… awesome!! I should have popped some ibuprofen before BJJ, but whatever, lower back still feels shot and awkward, but it’s been since Tuesday for any BJJ… did some stretching in between rolling sessions… I definitely had some harder rolling sessions today… lower back and drinking excessive water… yep knee bellies didn’t help… oh well lol.
Most definitely got some solid rolling in tonight… we got warriors here… all are welcome when in Northern Ontario while visiting to train… TRUTH.
Rolling:
Nathan Hatton, warm up round, starting with pummeling to get the old man shoulders worked up… yep not warmed up yet lol. 10 min round. Viddy is below.
Marc Perrier, though it was gonna be a warm out round… turned into a rougher than expected round… my contacts almost fell out that’s how rough it got… I was gassed… chugged tonnes of water. I sure felt it in my later rolling sessions…. 2 x 10 min rounds in a row. Viddy is below.
Scott Paradis, always fun and harder rounds with him on top of me. 10 min round. Viddy is below.
Devon. Newer guy with wrestling, and some Nogi skills, tough round, dude is really athletic, similar to Marc… progression may be faster than others, but need to still focus on the basics. Gogo-plata is cool… defending my GI chokes is more important. Viddy is below. 10 min round. Viddy is below.
Matt Veal. Got caught with a Gerbi Choke (Peruvian Kneck tie with a GI) and a 10 finger Guillotine. I always get intertwined in using strength with him… no dice. I’m smaller, not as strong and definitely not as quick or athletic… must improve my techniques and execution… chugging water and not taking ibuprofen did not help. 10 min round. Viddy is below.
A nice reference I found online from Youtube to the Gerby Choke I got caught with is below from BJJ Joe.
Nathan Hatton, the last round, with an unintended harder round, before I signed out for the night. Got caught with in a reverse kimura from turtle, not surprised his top game and side control game is elite, especially with his wrestling core. Accidentally knee him in the head ouchy, while passing his guard… sorry big guy. Had to defend this kimura attempt again, went back to turtle and made some adjustments… close to getting the bow, but the buzzer rang… 10 min round. Viddy is below.
Left LEMMA at roughly 6:15 pm to go home and finalize the meal for tonight!! Yes… love me ma PHO…
Hard to imagine how hard you train… or how much time we spend OTM… especially when you work full time have kids and other priorities…until you actually start documenting it… video documenting your game will help immensely.
Can’t wait, Kathy is making a chocolate cheese cake with these crème sugar eggs things on top of them for me… fatty and high in calories she says, for Sunday… got to live lol, my competition training will commence after this Sunday.
Arrived at LEMMA at roughly 5:15 pm to hit up some Open Mat.
5:00 pm Open Mat
1. 3 x 10 min rounds with Luke, 1st round warm up, 2 rounds working top pressure game
2. 1 x 5 min Round with Trina, working bottom guard retention with back take
3. 2 x 10 min with Steve, hard technical rounds
6:30 pm Class
Rhino ran the class tonight and went through collar tie counter with a 2 on 1 with pressure on the arm/shoulder and elbow into a take down.
Below is the closest video I could find similar on YouTube for further reference. Its also called a Russian tie up apparently.
Rolling (3 min Rounds)
Never been a fan of short rounds, as people tend to give you all they got… and gas out…
1. Trina with focus was on close guard.
2. Young new white belt guy with focus was on back take… this guy had blood in his eyes… good thing I didn’t give him any space… he wanted to smash me lol. New spazzy white belts… respect, you gotta start somewhere.. and heck he has his own GI, respect.
3. Juneau with focus was on back take.
4. Rhino with focus on defending his chokes.
5. Another young new white belt guy with focus on maintaining mount.
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