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Sun Aug 23/15 11am BJJ

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Monday nights are where I can catch up on my BJJ gibberishy adventures from over the weekend… yes adventures. Always something new and exciting from each class. Either being pushed, or the one being pushed. Nothing wrong with grinding, especially when you have nothing left, thus nothing to lose. You will have gained a lesson for the next, if your goal wasn’t met. Thus, never a loss.

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I was suffering from a hang over… BOOOO…

Baby was up a few times as well lol. YAY…

HECK…

I still came in YEPPERS!!

Having a baby really is a testament to what you are willing to maintain as goals… I really really appreciate what my mother did for me. Truth…

For all those single mother out there with no support… WOW…

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Gotta keep training… no matter what.

3 sets of 500 m rows. I need to keep it under 2 mins for consistency.

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3rd set was the best… glad I showed up and just did it. 90 percent of success is just showing up… lol

I got the guys to review a loop choke variant that I love to hit while guys go for a single leg. It is a goodie… in fact requested by Justin.

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I swear, I made them rep it out like 100 times each lol… sore their necks will be… hah

quick clip of us reviewing the loop choke

We then worked on the choke with resistance. 2 min rounds then alternated. Then switched partners and did it over again. Yep sore necks hah!!

quick clip of us positional drilling the loop choke at 50 to 75 percent resistance

Rolling:(6 min rounds, 30 sec breaks)
1. Justin
2. Hassan
3. Katrina
4. Justin

quick clip of us rolling

Boy was Katrina giving me pressure… wouldn’t let up for the whole 6 mins. Good for you! Train hard, train lots, and train smart… just keep showing up and you will get better!

quick clip of Katrina giving me the pedal

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It ain’t easy…

Oss,

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Sat Aug 22/15 2pm BJJ

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Morgo was in today… man, classes with people have been hit or miss. For the past month only 3 or 4 people on Saturdays. Guess when its Sunny, people just want to enjoy the sun lol. Not me. Hah… BJJ word.

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Quite a few showed up for the 2pm grinder today though … shity for them. Morgo had us to do the circle of death hahahah.

20 reps of whatever. Twice around the circle, third rep, was a partner drill. Hahahaha. Albino puked. Hadn’t seen him out in over a month for actual training. Anyways, I loved it.

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We reviewed the spider guard… to a few sweeps. With a single legged x-sweep into a combat base stand up, a hip/heel push/pull, & a shin sweep with spider guard to a triangle. Just hoping we work on these for a while before to other techniques. I partnered with Travis. His legs were twice as long as mine so the combat base sweep t stand up was really hard when he spread his legs out lol… had to modify it a tad. Hahahah.

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quick clip below

Rolling wasn’t much… I guess everyone was spent from the warm-up. Lame… only 6 min rounds.

Rolling:(6 min)
1. Travis D
2. Luke
3. Hassan

Quick clip of everyone rolling

Quick clip of only me and Hassan rolling, while everyone was spent… hahahah

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Osss,

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Fri Aug 21/15 OpenMat

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I train a lot… or at least I’d like to think that I do.

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Now I’m not comparing myself to those in their early 20s or even late 20s but hey… those, that are in their mid to late 30s, have a full time job, mortgage child or worst a baby. Love my baby… really do or else I wouldn’t have done a 6 month parental leave… and here in my head head I thought it would mean more BJJ.

Baby talk all day… really BJJ keeps me sane. Oh, the fine scotch helps too.

Someone once told me that they had all these friends that use to train all the time… gym, weights, cross fit and stuff. Then out of nowhere they quit. Common denominator… a baby lol. So, apparently I’m doing OK.

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Sundays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturday’s. Rowing or lifting only in the early mornings on Sundays, Tuesdays, & Wednesdays…

Getting out OTM can be tough… when I’m out. I train.

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Sometimes I really don’t feel like it when I out OTM… truth.

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Heck I still went… or wait maybe it was an excuse to leave the house. Great excuse either way.

Yep went to the Complex in the morning and rowed…

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Yes pulled 2 km under 10 mins. Fantastically, fantastic…

Had enough gull to go to open mat…

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Sooo much truth… all you have to do is show up… lets just say I wanted to take it easy. Mitch was in and he mentioned he wanted to roll with me a lot. Mitch is newer… heck he even invested in a Gi, which kinda means he maybe a keeper. Younger athletic, moves like a wrestler, very natural in negating attacks, and is friends with Devon. Yep, Devon Richer. Our head coaches son. Soo, you can guess he has had some rolling time… which is fantastic and he is game.

Rolling:(10 mins, 1 min breaks)
1. Mitch
2. Mitch
3. Mitch
4. Mitch
5. Jesse Veltri

For some reason he kept wanting to roll, especially after the bell, soooo I kept going lol… and hey, I don’t segregate my rolling time to specific people. I was the same way… always wanted to roll with the best. Back in the day when there was only a few of us in a GI at the older location, that meant anyone lol.

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Rolling with Jesse is nice cause he’s always setting up attacks and combos. Unfortunately, we’ll be losing him to Winnipeg as a training partner. His competition Nogi, 10th Planet, trucker stuff will be missed. TBH, without him I would have never been able to learn how to defend those kinds of attacks.

Different styles makes different scenarios, making different strategies, and different approaches.

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You will be missed here buddy, cheers to your next chapter!

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Osss,

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Aug 19/15 6:30 pm BJJ

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Nice class from grasshopper brown belt Matthew Trudeau visiting from BC and showing us some spider guard trickery, with a nice transition into x guard, a nice sweep, and then a cool calf slicer from bottom x.

Matt had us start with a warm-up with some shrimping, hip switch stuff to work the core, some forward and backward rolls, then backward extensions.

Quick clip below…

Rolling: (5 min Rounds, 1 min Break)

  1. Matt Trudeau (Flow, no submissions)
  2. Josh Daluca
  3. Emma Horner

This morning was great… with rowing at the Complex.

Boy was I ever tired at BJJ lol

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Your teammates will push you…

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Aug 18/15 5:30 pm Nogi

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Homies be like what… yep, Complex in the morning for my 4 sets of rowing.

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Got my 2km in the last set…

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Got to LEMMA around 5:15 pm… Dave was in to run the class, yep NOGI… Similar takedowns from last week as a warm up. I got sacked in the nuts by my partner… Kyle the blue belt from Halifax… fuck did that hurt lol… haven’t been sacked like that during a drill since like ever hahahha. oh well. After the warm up we reviewed a few back takes and a few escapes then rolled.

Rolling: (5 min rounds, 1 min breaks)

  1. Kyle
  2. Nathan
  3. Philippe

Tough class after being sacked lol…

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Received a message from an old friend in Kitchener asking about BJJ clubs in Kitchener… He told me that he loves the videos I post and he wants to give it a try. If my blogging and BJJ gibberish can inspire a few people to give it a try. BJJ speaks for its self… you will get addicted

Osss,

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Sun Aug 16/15 11 am BJJ

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Had to bring Chucky Sunday morning to his Vet to get his rabies shot and check up… A++ she says especially with what happened to his back a few years ago.

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Didn’t get to the gym until 10:15 am. I only had time to roll out my back muscles.

Decent attendance, with Justin, Kyle, Nathan, Katrina, and even Emma. Especially for this morning… beach weather lol. Was it ever starting to get hot out side. The Gym was super hot.

Warm-up was with the standard 15 mins of running around, lunges, bear crawls, rolling, shrimping, butt scooting etc… quick clip below.

We also got a bunch of 2 mins drilling in with arm-bars, hip-bump sweeps, kimuras, Marcelotines, and triangles all from closed guard. Additionally, I got the guys to rep string attacks, with passing the butterfly guard with the toreando pass to knee on belly the your opponent counters with a turtle and you take the back to work your favorite submission. I then got them to work a knee slice-pass, to work an under then arm-bar. Quick clip below…

Got Nathan to show a few submissions from side control. Kesa Gatami.
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The straight arm-lock with the top leg, then the key lock with the bottom leg. and head control. Quick clip below for further reference.

Old school… I guess. Effective but not used much. I may start using these submissions more often.

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We then worked on the back-take positional sparring… love these. Everyone was going hard. Submission and reset. Escape and reset. 3 min rounds.

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PLEASE NO MORE F’n Finger locks, not rocket science… just don’t do them.

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Fri Aug 14/15 Openmat

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Didn’t feel like going in Friday mad tired…

Had to meet up with a few friends at the Marina for 6:30 pm for the Brew Ha…

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Hot as hell… 37 degrees Celsius in the house.

Still went in to Openmat and got some training.

Rolled with only Morgan for a few 10 min rounds… we reviewed leg lock defences and choking stuff.

Us playing footsies below… I should have grabbed the other lapel to defend.

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Heck… I still went in lol…

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Wed Aug 12/15 BJJ

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Wow the guys all rolled really hard tonight lol… #whitebelthard hahahah

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Thought I was gonna roll nice and light tonight, oh well…

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Bottom game is light…
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Right until you get a 200 lbs white belt how wants to smash pass you hahahah…

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First time in a long time someone threw me in a head lock and tried to squeeze my head until it popped lol…

Don’t think they were too happy when I kept taking there back and threatened a choke…

Great practice of technique for me though, to repping out basic counters to basic human aggression at its fullest offence.

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Even the mindless guard passing attempts with trying to run around my guard… like really.

Thought they would learn by now…

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JOKE…

Rolling:(4 min, 1 min breaks)
1. Philippe
2. Josh
3. Steve
4. Travis
5. Katrina
6. Kyle

Interesting rolls tonight… got ample of opportunity to work my basic BJJ game of surviving with an assailant going 150 percent on top of me… heck even got the old school head lock and squeezing my head with all his might, grunting I might add lol… #whitebeltproblems lol

On a gooder note lol…

Rowing in the morning at level 6… with minor to decent results.
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Had time to make a stash of one my favorite dishes kimchi…

Yes kimchi. Pear and honey used as a sweetener.

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Hope to see you monkeys out Friday, Saturday and Sunday…

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If your not too worn out from all that hard rolling lol.image

Oss!

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Tues Aug 11/15 Nogi…

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Lol…

Yep… rowing this morning at the Complex.

Level 5… next is 6… experimenting. Forgot to take a picture of the first round.

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Got to LEMMA around 5:15 pm… Warm-up was pummeling for 5 to 10 mins.

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Partnered with Jesse. Reviewed the over under, body lock takedown. Then the inside foot sweep when your opponent counters with an outside step. Matt got a newer guy to join our technical review… then another guy joined. Both greener then grass. Ouch lol… I slowly transitioned myself to work in with Travis and Nathen yes. The purple belt nerds.

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Hey I got needs too lol… needy to learn more BJJ. Coaching is cool… but I attend these classes to learn. Hah!!

We then reviewed a gilliotine from the sprawl with a hook to sweep. After that we worked on the darce choke and then the Peruvian necktie… yes the neck tie, with my short ass legs lol.

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Excellent class with review of submission techniques I only hit on very special occasions.

Big class… prime time. Wish these homies would man up… buy a GI and attend my classes. Need more bodies… for the training. Oh well… future bodies I guess. Once they figure out where their game needs to evolve.

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Wed Aug 5/15 6:30 pm BJJ

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Got to LEMMA around 6:15 pm…

Finger was still mangled… what-eves.

Tape hahahah… sometimes you just gotta train a little injured. You never know when you have to actually fight.

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Yep… got to the Complex this morning.
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Morning conditioning… 4 sets, 10 min each… didn’t hit my 2.0 km mark but hey… 4th set was still the best.

6:30 pm BJJ was fantastic @leadingedgemma!

Takedowns and some shark tank drilling. My favorite… Iron sharpens iron.

Boy, was I ever gassed at the end.
All the heavy weights showed up tonight lol. O.o

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I went for the takedowns…

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I even had to fake guard pull then sweep…

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Some guys were so hard to takedown… fighting tooth and nail, I even failed…

Drilling when your gas tank is empty reveals weakness… overcome an adapt!

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See you OTM!!

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