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Apr 6/16 Wed BJJ

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Yes lol I know behind.
#Word

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We had our final gradings for the week… a lot of over due belts a few kids, blues, a purple and a few degrees on browns.

Wooo congrats to all!!

#TrainintheGI, say’s Marcelo Garcia, your jiu-jitsu will get better.

Train in the GI, say’s T-son, not only will your BJJ  get better, but the belts you level up with, you can actually wear to hold together your GI jacket and up your pants lol 🙂

Cute picture my homie Travis took from a Sunday class yipping BJJ BS…

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Promotions, gradings, and belts mean different things to everyone.

Everyone’s journey is different!

We all train BJJ for different reasons… gotta respect the reason’s. Without the reasons, there wouldn’t be people training. Without the people training, there would’t be BJJ.

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This blog has been good to me, an opportunity to reflect, think, and grow on opportunities I wouldn’t have rather if I didn’t blog. A reflection of my BJJ and its continued evolution. Tracking personal progress, changes, attitude, learning experiences, and just random gibberish, kind of like a painting or self portrait that could in turn be reflective of my mat time which of course can never be taken away, ever… especially when its in my blog lol.

Been harder lately with chasing my kid around lol… more eh??? Yah more eventually lol.

Random chaotic beauty… Gibberish, which is a good reflective representation of what a none BJJ practitioner would see lol.

#Gibberish

Thor had us do 5 mins of arches and 5 mins of forward/backwards shrimping. He also made us do butterfly sweeps as well as turn over re-guarding for 5 mins each.

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Then we rolled. 5 mins with Luke, Juneau, Deseil, Josh, and then bigger Josh lol… yes there is a bigger Josh. Blue belt too, Haha.

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Great stuff!!!

Wooo!

Mar 25/16 Fri Open Mat

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Slowly catching up lol.

🙂

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You bet lol… even with the late flight in.

3 am late lol

Still gotta train.

#word

Us jamming below…

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Mar 23/16 Nashville BJJ

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Had the opportunity to visit Nashville from March 21st to the 24th…

Homies were very welcoming. I got smashed by a Pans Purple belt medalist, and a massive brown belt who was as big as our lovely Gare Bear…. wow.

Great stuff

#nashvillemma
#bryantidwell

Travelling and training go hand and hand lol…

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Mar 16/16 Wed BJJ

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DON’T want to train… but it was BJJ Wednesday!!

#8cupsofcoffee

TBH, I was dreading going in to train today… tired, sore, and the dumping of snow wasn’t encouraging.

#sleeplessnights

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The little guy has been sick, so tending to his coughing or waking up while the wife tends is crazy. Hard to believe our parents went through this.

#respectourelders

If they can do it, we absolutely have the ability to lol.

Thank god I went in though.

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Thor ran the class, warm-ups with some running, forward/reverse shrimps, break falls to technical stands, sit outs, then arm drag flow drilling and takedowns. I partnered with Aussie Mike…. We then rolled with 5 min rounds.

Clip or our class below…

Aussie Mike, Juneau, Mitch’s buddy tall big new guy Evan??, Brent from Geraldton, some big guy Mike from St Catherine’s that trains with Gracie Barra who forgot his GI, and then Josh… homeboys grilled me lol.

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I lived lol

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Feb 21/16 Sunday BJJ

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#overamonthbehind

Soooo what?

Got to LEMMA around 8:30 am… got the following in prior to the homies showing up.
4x200m/2x1000m rowing, 4×10 box jumps, 4×25 push-ups, 8×4 tire flips, 40 sec head stands, sweeping/mopping, & some stretching… banged my shins on the box lol

Here it is slowed down lol… yep. Shin is all scraped up lol.

Yes that sucked. I walked it off!! lol
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Either way, we had a standard warm-up, some positional sweep drilling, reviewed taking the back from mount from the hook sweep, 5×5 min rounds of rolling, and then 10 mins of first to points. The guys and gals did well, some were a little competitive but eh… a little competition never hurt anyone.

Clip of our grinding morning below.

 

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Feb 24/16 Wed BJJ

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#behind
Like whoa… got a cold. I really shouldn’t have went to BJJ this day.

However, had to… going to Vegas early Friday morning for our delayed honeymoon lol. Miss it cause we found out we were having G a few days after the festivities lol. Don’t plan on training this visit… time with the wife is more important for this trip.

Won’t be back till late Monday night. Grandma and Grandpa are in town watching G and the munchkin dog.

🙂

Whew though… still had the boogers lol.
I apologise for anyone that got sick cause of me…

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Hopefully I didn’t give anyone a cold… selfish me.

Aussey Mikey ran the warm-up….

Thor made us rep a double leg variation, then we drilled a hip bump sweeps, then an omaplata switch from the hip bump sweep.

Very nice!

Felt like I did it about a few hundred times.

#GIWASSOAKED
Then we rolled… 5 min rounds. Thor, Eric, then with Jared. Fun fun!

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Again, I apologise for anyone that got sick cause of me…

..Wait

#notsosorry

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Feb 17/16 Wed BJJ

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#Stillbehind

Yep got back from Vegas last night round 12:00 pm.

Great time, a lot of sun and wonderful shows.

Beautiful concrete jungle…  a lot of gamble and literally just spending money.

🙂

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lol… either-way BJJ on the 17th was another night I shouldn’t shown up. Wrist, ankle, what else.

Class was great… consisted of a warm-up with take-downs, isolated side control escapes with 5 min drilling, and then 5×5 min rounds of rolling.

I partnered with Aussey Mike for the duration of the class to work drills. Rolled with Mike, Tyson, Mitch, the Rock Climber,  and then Juneau.

Tough crowd.

Homies pushed me lol.

Clip of our class session below…

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Feb 14/16 Valentines BJJ

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What can I say… the odds Sunday BJJ fell on a Valentines.

🙂

Guess its good… lol since it happened!!

Yes I’m behind 11 days??… just gotta plug away when I can, just like Jiu-jitsu. Will be more behind after this weekend lol… hitting up Vegas with the wifey for our long overdue honeymoon.

#Gibberish

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#BJJ4life
#BJJfourlife

Sure… I was allowed to come in… lol.

In the morning anyways…

BJJ in the morning on a Sunday?

Why not?
Ain’t different then any other day, aside that you get to spend the rest of the day hanging with the other favourite people on earth…
Other then our BJJ mat rats.

You bet I came in to row, and do some conditioning stuff…  4×10 box jumps, 4×25 push-ups, 4×4 tire flips, all as fast as I could.

Tried doing the 200 m… wanted to puke. Only got 3 sets in lol… now on to box jumps and other random things. BJJ soon!

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Clip below…
Come on. I’m bored. Video taping encourages me to perform. 🙂
At least I’m doing something… NO?

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Class was fun though… I actually took it easy on the homies today… been noticing guys really messing up side rolling. I see it every Sunday and during the week during our movement exercises.
#Messedup
Homies train everyday in the morning but can’t do a fundamental side roll, its like shrimping, helps with guard retention and escaping.

PRACTICE practice practice, DRILL drill drill lol

#Seriously

Told the homies that we will be reviewing it during class this day. 

I use to suck at side rolling, heck!! rolled over my head. 

Even found them a wonderful clip to help them improve while sitting at home watching TV… was hoping specific people showed up… that didn’t, that really suck at them and keep saying they can’t do it. Oh well can’t get them all.

Nice reference for building that flexibility I found for them below.

Even one for Granby Rolling… great reference below.

Either way, our morning class consisted of a standard warm-up with movement exercises, reviewed side & Granby rolling, 5×5 min rounds of rolling.
You bet… clip below.

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Heck I still feel like I suck at BJJ, especially when life intervenes off the mat.

Just gotta keep showing up and plugging away!

Cause we love BJJ!!

Ossss!

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Feb 12/16 Open Mat

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Yep still out of it… but I came in.

#ibuprofin

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5 min fun rounds… Thor, a couple with Jrock, a few with Adrian, a couple with Marco, & like 5 with Kyle.

Clip of the jamming session below…

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Feb 5/16 Open Mat

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Not much to say…

I’m still behind lol… keeping it super short.

I was still hurting.

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I went in lol….

#wooo

Fun fun!! 5 min rounds, 3 with TBT Steve, 2 with Kait, 4 with Kole…

Homies are getting better!!

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