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2pm, Sat, Training Inspiration

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I plan on bringing my 3 month old baby out to 2:00 pm BJJ at LEMMA today. I do have a GI for him but its sized fro 6 month to 1 year.

If your training today, some inspiration I found today on YouTube…

Published on Feb 28, 2015 by Mr Buckskin, a jiu jitsu montage he made featuring the rants of Joe Rogan and friends….

Hopefully we see a few of you out… at 2 pm or Sunday at 10 am… Enjoy!!

Ossu

Friday Open Mat

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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…

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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

A short clip of us rolling last night!

Stretched for 15 mins last night… below is proof.

Hope to see everyone Sat 2pm or Sun 10 am

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Ossu!!

Tues 8pm Jiu jitz

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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…

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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:

  1. Arm bars from closed guard, 10 reps alternating sides
  2. Hip bump sweep from closed guard, 10 reps alternating sides
  3. Kimura from closed guard, 10 reps alternating sides
  4. Omaplata’s with over hook, from closed guard, 10 reps alternating sides
  5. Triangles from closed guard, 10 reps alternating sides
  6. Spider guard to triangles switches, 10 reps alternating sides
  7. Marcellotines, 10 reps alternating sides
  8. Side control switches, 10 reps alternating sides
  9. Spinning arm bar, from side control, with under hook when partner turns into you. 10 reps alternating sides
  10. 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
  11. Drop Seoi Nage, with under arm pit grip, 10 reps alternating sides

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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!!

Jason Skully with 51 Sweeps

See you Friday!!

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Ossu.

Some Drills from Sunday

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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.

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Ossu!

Dafack, Sunday Day Light Savings? this Sunday!

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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…

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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…

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Ossu!

Watch “Sat BJJ” on YouTube

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Brown Belt Mike ran the show today at 2:00pm… reviewed the de la riva with some sweeps as well as passing this guard

Rolling consisted of 3 minute rounds…

Below is a short clip up us rolling…

Maybe we’ll see you out tommorrow morning at 10:00 am…

Ossu!

Finally Friday, Open Mat Baby!!!!!

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Finally Friday Open Mat

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:

  1. 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.

  1. 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.

  1. Scott Paradis, always fun and harder rounds with him on top of me. 10 min round. Viddy is below.

  1. 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.

  1. 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.

  1. 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…

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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.

See you for Sat 2pm or Sun 10 am BJJ!!

Ossu!!

Mon Jiu-Jitz

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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.

6. The French Man, Philippe, working my top game.

Out and home by 7:55 pm

Have a great night all!!

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Ossu!

Sunday Funday, 10 am BJJ

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Got a text from Professor Nathan Hatton at roughly 8:00 am… sure enough he’s back from his layaway since his wrestling coaching has ended…to Sunday early training awesomeness… “Free time baby, means more training woooo” he says… Nathan came in early as well to get some lifting in awesome.

Got some news about a training partner who moved down south about their promotions with Gringo BJJ… Ashley getting her purple and Johnny getting striped up fan-freaking-tastic, always great to those committed and train soo much progress. Crongrats guys. Miss these peoples. You train in the GI… it’s easy. You will get promoted in the GI… Ossu!!

9:00 am training consisted of tabata styled movements with the grappling dummy. 60 secs per movement, with 5, different exercises as hard and as fast as possible. 5 sets total 60 sec breaks between sets. Yep the same… next month will be something else… just have to figure that out. Most definitely will keep the push ups to knee belly.

5 Sets of: 
1. 60 sec, knee belly switches
2. 60 sec, side control switches
3. 60 sec, mount to s-mount, alternating sides
4. 60 sec, standing up side control switches
5. 60 sec, side control, push-ups to knee belly, alternating knees

Below is a 1-2 min sped up video clip x 4, of me drilling with the grappling dummy at 9 am this morning enjoy!

15 min Warm-up:
1. forward shoulder rolls, alternating shoulders, 2 x across mat
2. Reverse shoulder rolls, alternating shoulders, 2 x across mat
3. Side shoulder rolls, 1 x across mat left side & 1 x across mat right side
4. Forward butt scoots, 2 x across mat
5. Reverse butt scoots, 2 x across mat
6. Backwards shrimping, 2 x across mat
8. Forward shrimping, 2 x across mat
9. Backwards break fall to technical stand, 2 x across mat
10. Forward break falls to technical stand, 2 x across mat
11. Outside Z walks, 1 x across mat forward
12. Single knee drops, 2 x across mat

Below is sped up clip x 7 of the class warm we did this morning enjoy…

String Drilling:

  1. Passing, x-passing to back take and submission, 1 min each
  2. Passing, toreando to back take and submission, 1 min each
  3. Sit outs from arm in head lock, 1 min each
  4. Modified single leg takedown (chest pressure & heal pick, from cross-lapel double fist grip break, switch to maintain a wrist grip placing between partners leg), once down leg drag to leg drag mount, then side control to s-mount, bait the cross collar choke then partner defends, pop the elbow through to hook the arm, switch the arm and hook the leg with the far arm to execute an arm bar while your partner is still on his side. 1 min each
  5. Knee slide pass through partners butterfly, to knee belly, work for arm bar, baseball bat strangle, or paper cutter. 1 min each
  6. Modified Judo hip throw, retaining the far side arm hook with a deep under hook, set up a north south head mount kimura/wrist lock to a spinning arm bar/wrist lock. 1 min each
  7. Lapel, arm sleeve control guard pull, leg on hip to arm bar. 1 min each

Below is sped up clip x 7 of the drilling we did this morning enjoy…

I asked everyone if anyone had something they wanted to work on… Nathan brought up the baseball bat strangle… I said perfect. We then noted the difference between a choke and a strangle… as to some may use choke interchangeably between the two. Choking is by attacking the wind pipe, its painful and your opponent may comply with a scramble to escape et-cetera. Strangle is by attacking your opponents carotid artery on the side of their neck to restrict blood flow to the brain and putting him to sleep, non compliant.

Technique: (Baseball Bat Strangles)

  1. Baseball bat strangle, with a knee slide from side control to finish in north south and head placement on the opposite side.
  2. Baseball bat strangle, starting from inside your closed guard, baiting the pass or forcing the pass with a sweeping hook, to finishing on your belly.
  3. Baseball bat strangle, using your opponents lapel, with a knee slide from side control to finish in north south and head placement on the opposite side.
  4. Baseball bat strangle, starting from inside your closed guard, using your opponents lapel, baiting the pass or forcing the pass with a sweeping hook, to finishing on your belly.

I even showed a reversal from top side if your opponent defends the knee slide…

 Rolling: (4 x 5 mins Rounds)

  1. Sat out, had no one to roll with
  2. Rupert Klein, 1 x 5 min, hard round
  3. Nathan Hatton, 2 x 5 min hard round

Stretching: (10 mins)

Had Nathan Hatton run the stretching… popped a few ibuprofens… yep… stretching lol… short clip below lol… we even swept the mat after… respect the mat!!

Nathan… Below is the guy is a clip I found on Youtube about the guy I was talking about today… with the baseball bat strangle… enjoy

Hope I see everyone sometime this week… rumor has it there may be promotions…

Ossu.

Tues 8pm BJJ

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A pleasant surprise tonight with the amount of guys and gals that turned up, especially with this horribly cold weather… truth!! the gym is super warm though!! the memories from last year lol… brrr. socks while warm up. ewwww.

Got to LEMMA at roughly 7:30pm had three newbies show up… Liz, Ryan, & Devon I believe. Got them to put on a loaner GI, and belt… yes… introduction to belt tying… love it guys… just love it.

Below is a video clip on how to tie a belt by Stephan Kesting… enjoy hahaha.

Brittany, Gary, Jared, Jayden, John, Alex, & Hector, showed up shortly after…

Warm-up Consisted of the Following Drills:

  1. Arm bars from closed guard, 10 reps alternating sides
  2. Hip bump sweep from closed guard, 10 reps alternating sides
  3. Omaplata’s with over hook, from closed guard, 10 reps alternating sides
  4. Scissor sweeps, with cross lapel from closed guard, 10 reps alternating sides
  5. Triangles from closed guard, 10 reps alternating sides
  6. Spider guard switches, 10 reps alternating sides
  7. Marcellotines, 10 reps alternating sides
  8. Side control switches, 10 reps alternating sides
  9. Butterfly guard sweeps to kesa gatame side control, 10 reps alternating sides

 Technique:

  1. Arm bar from bottom closed guard

I’ve attached a video found on YouTube by Stephan Kesting for further reference.

  1. Flower sweep to mount from closed guard

‪Below is a cool clip of Braulio Estima showing this sweep from BJJ Weekly Issue 113 found on YouTube for further reference.

 Rolling:  

  • 6- 5 min rounds tonight

To the newbies… be patient nothing wrong with rolling slower… it’s not a fight to the death! Ryan and Liz I hope you continue your journey with us… thanks for trying it out!!

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Devon, the new guy to rolling in a GI… I hope you continue your journey with us… you got some grappling skills. If your reading this I’ve attached a reference video I found on YouTube of defending strangles and chokes with a GI… Below… enjoy hahahahah!

Ossu.