Between sickness, injuries, baby and him getting sick, family stuff and other work life opportunities this blog is behind… not that it matters. Only random BJJ gibberish anyway.
Homies be like what what… got to LEMMA around 5:15 pm this day….
In my head I was like what was the point… wasn’t gonna roll anyway. Either way, I bought a new wrist support brace system from Shoppers… thought I was gonna roll. Popped ibuprofen before I headed to the gym, which was great… ibuprofen, helped out for the warm up and pretty much throughout the course of the night actually.
#ibuprofen
Mike ran the warm-up, with standard running around the mats, inside/outside karaoke, forward/reverse shrimps, forward/reverse rolling, bear crawls, and possibly others… I forget lol.
Thor then had us review lateral drop throw… got a nice video below for reference.
Partnered with Tony and repped that out… tonnes lol
Thor then had us review the inside leg trip when your partner defends by stepping around to defend the throw… nice reference video below.
Partnered with Tony and repped that out… tonnes again lol
Thor then got us to review the flower sweep which we repped out… one of the newer white belts joined us for this session of review. Poor guy still trying to figure this out. Complete resistance of working technique lol… white belt stuff. Being a horrible training partner. It was ok for me, definitely won’t help other white belts lol, by resisting that much, especially when all you are doing is trying to figure out the movements. Yes I told him…
#theyalllearn
lol
The reference I always use for my variation of this sweep below…
Then it was the rolling arm bar when your partner post to defend the flower sweep… a good video reference is below.
We then rolled… I’ll be honest, I wasn’t planning on rolling, but one of our black belts invited me to roll. When a black belt ask you to roll, you roll, regardless. Our rolling session below.
I did managed to head out to Friday open Mat on Jan 22/16… didn’t roll. Just helped J-rock out with some questions. #Injuries can’t be like that forever… rest rest rest lol. Actually promised the wife I would not roll. She let me out of the house to hang out which was nice. Sitting at home after work from sitting all day at the office sucks especially when you got the bug for BJJ…
Either way Sunday was an awesome morning… got to LEMMA around 9:05 am.
Opened up the door and boom… the air hit my face yes hot air… lovely, actually wasn’t too bad once I got in the door. Not as bad as the past few times, obviously perceptively it may change lol.
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Average was below 2:30 mins per 500 m which was good enough for me lol. I’m showing up… Not bad for an old man who’s training irregularly now due to injuries and life lol. 90 percent of success is just showing up.
Clip of some box jumping after the row session… 3 sets of 10 reps. 30 inch box jumps? Think my ankle is better, felt better so I thought I would get some box jumping in… Not even sure of the actual box height, but the highest for the boxes we got around.
Got some good advice from Veal about some technique to improve the jump. Used it… and it works, got more explosion for sure!!
lol boredom gets you video taping workouts… plus its good for media content for a blog. Just irritable and long to edit though lol.
A clip of all our training below… fun fun lol
We have a 49 year old dude that trains with us and shows up pretty regularly, when hes not working… I commend him. He just got his Blue Belt last year, seriously respect. A lot of time on the mat for that!
BJJ can be tough, especially when you get bitten by the bug and you have other life obligations like the wife, kids, work, or other hobbies you end up putting on the shelf lol yes other hobbies.
Can we define life in just one thing we do?
Is the yearning to live defined by scope like attempts by being choked out by your training partner or while competing?
Training BJJ is highly commendable. Very commendable. Takes patience, extreme awareness of emotional intelligence and a freaking long time to just learn… you might think your getting good at one thing, then whoop, bam… your not lol. Soo much time on the mat to end up re-evaluating your skills after a horrible roll session or competition, yep wiped out. When your knocked down, do you not get back up?
Think this is kinda the essence of life. It ain’t perfect. Things get in the way. Do you quit? do you move forward? or are you just content on your current well being? There is a lot of sports or hobbies that could give you this same sensation. Especially combat sports like MMA, Muay Thai, Boxing in general? any fighting really… longevity, life expectancy, incurring long term physical damage another story. Obviously we’re talking about competitive training… not the excercising and physical workouts required to complete the acts, like boxercising or that kickboxercising dance stuff, like man.
Your not a Muay Thai, Boxer, or even a Karate fighter unless you actually spar or fight with someone… or are you?
You train in a combat art for killing by which you don’t actually train against a resisting opponent? how effective would that be in real life which such a variant of circumstances? kinda what Gracie University was doing for a while with guys submitting video logged of technique to attain a belt on non resistant opponents. Right?
lol a Blue Belt without ever training with a resisting opponent… excellent ideals… washing out BJJ for a bunch of money. Consumerism and capitalism at its greatest. Sure they learn BJJ, sure they learn some kinda self-defense. But really do they? I get this may be helping BJJ grow, which in the end is great… but is it really? Look what happened to Karate. Sell the belt, make Karate a product, make it grow… Karate is an effective art. Just washed out… everyone one has a black belt, 2 years for a 13 year to get a black belt? Dfck lol… seriously… washing out the actual meaning of Black Belt.
Karate!!
Found this karate rash guard for my buddy… hahahah
For Muay Thai the life expectancy of a fighter is what 30 years old in Thailand? not even sure… fighters live for the fight, live the living, and die training to support themselves.
Reality is if you get out alive, there is long term damage from getting hit in the head repeatedly lol… Boxing I would imagine is another lol.
“Over time, professional and amateur boxers can suffer permanent brain damage. The force of a professional boxer’s fist is equivalent to being hit with a 13-pound bowling ball traveling 20 miles per hour, or about 52 times the force of gravity.
According to the Journal of Combative Sport, from January of 1960 to August of 2011, there were 488 boxing-related deaths. The journal attributes 66 percent of these deaths to head, brain or neck injuries; one was attributed to a skull fracture.
There are boxers with minimal involvement and those that are so severely affected that they require institutional care. There are some boxers with varying degrees of speech difficulty, stiffness, unsteadiness, memory loss and inappropriate behavior. In several studies, 15-40 percent of ex-boxers have been found to have symptoms of chronic brain injury. Most of these boxers have mild symptoms. Recent studies have shown that most professional boxers (even those without symptoms) have some degree of brain damage.” Verbatim from the article I read below,
Can you actually really train these kind of combat sports effectively, competitively to not sustain this kind of actual damage? I’m sure you can make those decisions on your own… lets get punch drunk!! Either way scary like the above article indicates. I commend all those that fight for a living, its a hard knock tough life, which the path is ridiculously hard.
#respect
Either way I read somewhere that Rickson Gracie got involved with his nephews shenanigans and now they are revamping their logic… gotta roll guys lol, not rocket science or what, at least physics, applied physics? Money ain’t everything.
#Fantastic
lol
BJJ compared to the rest of these combat sports is definitely the gentle art within the combat realms in comparison.
I choose BJJ, continue to train BJJ. I can go 150% with willing partners or just compete and not sustain the long term damage to my head as compared to a competitive striker of any other Martial Art… unless I get need or accidentally punched in the face, hopefully not ever loose an eye from eye gouging.
#knockonwood
Not mocking it, whatever floats your boat and gets you off the couch… I used to make fun of the wife for her Zumba. Reality was, I didn’t mind, as long as it made her happy and feeling good.
She doesn’t need to know that… making her think that I think that I am the man… reverse psychology lol. hah!
My satrire somewhere up there? lol
#gibberish
#BJJfourlife
#BJJ4life
#endrant
Eitherway, regardless of my gibberish… continue to do what you like doing. Its just my gibberish.
Got to LEMMA around 9:10 am… no Keith the paramedic guy. Oh well at least it was a quite morning like most for the past few years lol. Aside for when Nathan used to join me to lift which burnt time for sure. Always been a good opportunity to reflect. Zoning out is hard when someone is trying to talk to you lol.
I want to zone out when I train… I want to be in a state of constant metacognition, subconsciously learning during a really long roll. Is that even a thing? Can you zone out while driving, running, rolling and continually be able to function while doing such things effectively? am I speaking outa my ass? how is this possible? I used to train Muay, play soccer, tennis, snow board, lift weights regularly, and a lot of freaking basketball.
Zoning out while performing those activities was easy… in the moment.
Yep all these activities while I was younger… pretty good at them in fact, or at least I thought lol.
While rolling it is even easier, that is, when all the stars are aligned lol… great temperature, trance beat, great vibes, seriously the here, the now.
No injuries, great flow, surviving, moving from one position to the next, countering your opponents counter and not even thinking about it.
Just doing it.
Just do it!!
Beautiful!!
Metaphysical?
Or
Metacognition?
Thinking about the best way to be thinking?
A higher order thinking?
Control over the cognitive processes engaged in learning?
Must be talking out my ass…
Zoned out while rolling…
Shit can’t be real…
But being in the moment… is real.
Attuned
I need this…allows my internal state to resonate within my inner self to reconnect with the world and feel alive.
#Darnit.
I did roll.
Not good though wrist got grabbed and banged up, even though it was taped. Man. messed… stupid me.
A clip of us training this past Sunday morning…
Took Monday to Friday off this week… hopefully it will help.
Rest is part of your BJJ journey… ain’t a sprint homie, make it last!
Got to LEMMA around 5:00 pm… only a small crowd OTM.
1 more day to catch up on BTW lol…
Signs that peoples NYE resolutions are starting to subside? Lol
Maybe its just injuries?
Could it be sickness or colds?
Darnish… I Got it!!!
Bad road conditions!
Let me just say this past Fridays weather just sucked… been through worse up here though. Been lucky this year so far. But for this year, it sucked. Sucked bad… considering the very mild conditions as of late. By mild, I mean 20 Celsius. I remembered last year -45 degrees Celsius now… yes lol nuts. Friday just happened to be a lot of snow lol. Soooo….much, I found out my 4×4 on my Jeep was blown… or seized. Whatever lol… got stuck in my works parking lot from about 7:00 am to 7:15 am trying to dig it out until the fellow we rent the office from came by to help nudge me out… hilarious. LOL
Honestly, this past Friday was a tell tale that I shouldn’t have gone to open mat lol.
#injuries #badweather #blown4x4
Reality is I should have taken a dose of my own advice.
When your injured stay off the mat. Seriously though…
Hard to say, “you walk the walk, when you don’t walk it” lol…
Maybe it’s an ego thing even though. Especially when your injured. The best advice ever I’ve received from an experienced black belt.
“When you are injured, don’t show up to class… the temptation to roll is persuasive.”
2 steps forward, then 4 steps back lol… Too macho to realize it. Consequential, stay injured or make your injuries worse. Been kinda lucky with my ankle with all the reinforcement, ibuprofen, tape, and battle balm helping out. But man, between the toes, & now my wrist… body is telling me to take a little break… seriously. Lol
Ain’t I getting younger?
Either way I had somewhere I had to be for 7:00 pm… so I quickly set the rounds for 10 mins.
Only guys there were partnered up… again on 4 guys. Small group lol.
Hilarious…
Either way homie showed up around 5:15 pm… so we started our roll at 5:30 pm. Naturally, I always acquaint my very first roll with a cool, lets warm up… which was cool. The first 9:30 mins was cool… nice and light until the last 30 seconds. I felt a very deep collar grip sink in with all the hooks, looking at the clock 15 seconds left… no problems, defense kicked in, turned away, loosened up, buzzer went off and boom the collar grip went tighter… dfck? I spent a another 4 minutes defending that choke, then finally I got it cleared just above my chin when suddenly I could feel his body arch back with almost every muscle in his body trying to rip off my head… damn, with 30 seconds left… seriously, he wouldn’t let go… by this time after the escape, I was furious, spent, wrist, ankles and toe were not happy with me. During the escape I ended up in his closed guard… buzzer went off again and he started squeezing his legs lol…. like trying to squeeze the air outa me… wow, in my head I was like WTF lol… maybe try bringing in your knees to your body to off balance me… either way I was angry. Really angry, spent another 6 to 8 mins working out of his furious closed guard lol… BOOM it finally breaks. I finally made my way to pass the guard, mount, worked for a top side cross collar and even a weak attempt on a arm-bar only to re-position myself with a deep collar grip with my right hand thumb in, good wrist by the way, while waiting for his away super powerful bridge and turn into me escape… I managed to grab deep under his left arm pit a very thick grip over his left shoulder which secured one of my favorite chokes…
Weak side of course!
The paper cutter…
Which I’ve been subbed with numerous times by an old friend.
Dude moved to the dirty south for BJJ in Ontario, yep the MECCA Toronto lol…
A visit soon I suppose is indeed required… hard with the now baby duties.
Missed those days. learned from the best, highly technical tactician for sure.
All for what I ask?
Seriously what?
What did I manage to do… beat my training partner?
Heck my white belt training partner. To be fair though, he does have a few stripes, has been training off and on for a few years, so he kinda has skills… heck he could definitely defend himself against a bigger unskilled opponent off the street. He’s fitter, much younger, runs, strong legs and has a similar build to myself. I’ll tell you, I have more problems rolling with guys with my build then others… yep lol hardest roll is always against yourself… Maddens me though… not that my training partner didn’t listen to the bell and let go or effective try to roll technically… but I didn’t rise to the occasion and stop it but instead lectured him afterwards.
Dude…. the bell went off stop!
Instead I prolonged the roll and continued to progress for a better position and work for a win?
Win what? Dfck… where did it get me? How did I just improve my jiu-jitsu by doing what I did? Nadda I say… nadda.
I did nothing to improve my jiu-jitsu aside from further injuring myself!
#truth
You are your own worst enemy T-son!!!
Regardless, I guess, the exercise was ok… even though I know I won’t be able to roll for a while to non-healing, reoccurred injuries… yep.
Gotta take some rolling time off.
Doesn’t mean I still can’t train BJJ in other ways or forms lol
Sorry… I start these things then either the 2 little monkeys wants my attention.
lol. Yes the dog, fur baby and my actual human baby lol.
#furbabiesneedlovetoo
Got OTM with Thor for only a few minutes left lol.
Either way, Thor ran the class… warm up consisted of us working on shrimping on the spot, then exercises to warm up the neck. Wrestling styled stuff.
Uuuuhh my neck was sore the next morning lol.
Not to mention my wrist… dfck.
I partnered with Josh for the tech review. We worked on the arm bar with the pit stop first… Rep those out like a few hundred times. We then reviewed the switch when your opponent rips out the arm… to switch to the far side arm when they attempt to pass your guard, which should be obvious, repping it out a few hundred times.
OR NOT hahahah?
Forget my tape and neoprene reinforcement for my ankle and wrist…
No dice on rolling fck… seriously fck!
Probably smart of me due to my injuries anyway.
Really though… my wrist is busted up.
I shouldn’t be rolling anyway.
Must have subconsciously been doing myself a favor. No rolling till your hundo!!
Rhino was in to run the class. He had us running around, bear crawling, lunges, then a bunch of wrestling take down kind of warm-ups.
I partnered with Juneau to partner drill the double leg… lol dude knee toe stomped me again lol…
Yeah buddy… a few other times as well.
The spazzy white belt strikes again lol hahahah ouch that hurt.
I did manage to yelp like a little girl… shit hurt. JUNEAU is like 200 lbs
Lol dfck, especially when it wasn’t expected… we were just repping the movement lol.
Rhino had us review a closed guard sweep variation that starts with a arm drag, to a sweep similar to a pendulum sweep, but instead reaching deep for the far side leg, and to execute the arm-bar while sweeping or once swept.
These are all very simple fundamental movements you need to understand as a white belt.
Simple and very effective… the bread and butter of BJJ.
To survive against a bigger non-skilled BJJ opponent.
Especially while your opponent attempts to break the guard by wedging a knee into your butt.
Either way we finished with 10 min rounds sessions of rolling.
Rolled with Juneau, Eric, and then Travis the beast Caldwell.
Thanks for the push kids… lol I was really burnt out, wrist, ankle and toe were messed up.
Weird though, a fellow by the name of Keith came in shortly after I turned on the lights. He mentioned his shifts got switched around and that his only available time to train was at 9 am… great, I replied…
I believe he mentioned that he was a paramedic? which makes sense, random shifts and hours. I told him I’m in every Sunday at 9 am should always be open… so see you here again.
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Got some stretching and a few other things done before all the homies started showing up.
Boy did a few people show up!
Astonishing on how many homies we got… the mat was full.
A lot of new faces and a visiting face from Kenora…
#whitebeltarmy
Its slowly growing!!
All you guys and gals gotta do is show up!
Oss!
Warm-up was standard, a bunch of partner drills, then the positional sweep drilling.
We reviewed a knee push sweep I ripped off of Emily Kwok and Stephen Kesting… one of my top 2 favourite online black belt resources. Differentiation of hers with mine starting from closed guard, then transitioning to the seated guard and then the knee push.
Seriously, all part of the training… or else injuries occur.
Regularly in fact…
Days off are gooooood.
Obviously I’m a hypocrit… lol seriously we train BJJ. We train a lot.
Who needs a day off?
On my days off from work… guess what I’m doing?
Putting time OTM lol
My obsession will become your addiction… hahahahah
BJJ is easy right?? Duh lol
Anywho lol Yesterday after getting home Baba was fed, as fast as I could lol… this time no coffee when I got home. Just water and some chicken with the monkey.
Busy at the office yesterday and today BTW lol… worked on our company website fun fun… getting good at this stuff. Using my Digital and Marketing capabilities I picked up after spending 4 years at Lakehead University to get my HBcomm.
Hard to believe I didn’t shift into this specific line of work. Nuts… even though I love this shit. Ironically enough the Civil Engineering Technologist Diploma side of my education has been keeping me ridiculously busy. Both have their benefits. All I can say is the transferable skills developed from my Business degree have been a facet for other developments within my Engineering career.
Management, best Business practice’s etc… ironic lol… one of the University Engineering graduates asked me what I was planning to do with my Business Degree while only being a technologist and College Diploma in Civil Engineering. I replied that the reality is, an Engineering Firm is a Business, what better way to be able to work for one, is by understanding how it actually functions.
Twisted eh?
Trying to find some kind of rationale to analogize between work and BJJ lol…
#gibberish
My gibberish ahahahah … kinda like my BJJ belongs to me and no one else. A personal self expression OTM
Understanding the core techniques and the real function of the movement, which are built of tiny movements of once we were initially taught, to what we know now, for example a closed guard arm-bar… to me now, its just move. However, it has mechanics to get from one position to the next, as a white belt you need these mechanics, a base line, a reference point, or even how to punch or jab. The crawl before you walk shapeel… lol
Start with your partner inside your guard
Cross your feet to close your guard
When you close your guard, lift your hips up, off the ground
Break your partners posture by pulling your knees to your chest
Pick an arm (ie, right arm) and grab the tricep (GI) with your same corresponding hand (ie my right hand to grab his right tricep (Gi).
Make sure the elbow is crossed over the center-line of the body, the further the better, with maintenance of the broken posture
Your partner should feel really uncomfortable at this point if the elbow is pulled over far enough
With your left hand grab his left shoulder
Open your guard, keeping knees pinched, bringing your left leg over the right should with the other stopping slightly under the outside shoulder
Cross your feet again, you should be in a what we call a “Pit stop,” from here the arm could be attacked, in a more advanced point of view it and can be finished, fulcrum, hips high elbow joint is with a dangerous location
However we’re gonna put my left foot on right hip, making sure that my right knee is right next to his left shoulder and that I’m still pinching my knees
Slide your right leg further up his back, behind their shoulder to when where your right heel will meet his left shoulder (clamping down so you don’t give him space)
Let go of their left shoulder with my left hand
Swing your left leg over his head to the point where the crook behind my knee is about even to his ear. Make sure this is a smooth transition with no space and constant contact with them while doing this, the clamp down on both legs, I pinch my knees and look into their ear. your calves should be flexed and point upwards
Then you lock his wrist (so their thumb is pointing to the ceiling) and lift your hips upward.
At this point you can switch grips and under hook the right leg to sweep or finish the submission with them on their side.
Yeah a lot of steps eh?
The technique discussed is what we worked on before rolling… yep.
A lot of actual steps that I take for granted…
Anywho..Thor ran the class… fun stuff. Warm-up, some take-down styled drilling. The closed guard arm-bar with a pit stop. then rolling…. man sooooo many peeps OTM dfck lol.
About 90% green…
Nuts, fantastic though…
Fresh meat for the bluebelts lol hahahah
Either way great stuff!!
I partnered with Big Rig. Nice seeing him out from his break from back injuries. Yep sooo many injuries. Including myself. But hey, just show up and you’ll learn something!!
Nice clip of all the newer and currents homies that showed up Wednesday night below… even caught the boxing class after in action crazy!!!
It’s gotta be a new year’s resolution thing… prove me wrong and don’t thin out in a few months…
Downed some coffee lol… drank coffee all day though.
…Maybe I should have just drank water.
#hindsight?
Got to LEMMA 5:45 pm-ishy lol… the cage was full. oh well, life.
#dfck
My addiction is slowly gaining ground…
“Hahahahhahah” in a deep Vader voice.
Wrist, ankle, and toe… yep tape. Dudes have been attacking hard like their hungry… hey I was a white belt once lol. Tape appears only to give them more of a reason to go harder lol. Great? Damned if you do or damned if you don’t. Whatever.. reinforcement is better then non…
Rhino was in… he made us do a little warm-up. the mat was full. Crazy! So happy with the amount of guys that attend Sundays. So many guys that attend to during the week… nutty. Hopefully we can get more guys to step it up and help out with soooo many green homies!
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Surprised at all the faces that showed up this morning.
Thought that everyone would be trying to recover from all the festivities… I was fortunately mistaken. Our regulars are warriors!!
Hey hey… what a better way then by sweating it out OTM!
Detoxification if all the evil food and alcohol consumed from the holidays… relieve that built up stress from sitting in front of the television all day.
Glad i showed up… looked like the others were somewhat glad as well lol.
#H2O
Got the guys to follow me through a standard warm-up. Running around the mats, bear crawls, lunges, forward/reverse/side rolls, forward/reverse shrimping, forward/reverse break falls with technical stands, forward/reverse butt scoots, partner butter fly scoots, & finally following your partners legs with leg hooks. We then worked on the isolated sweep drills, then we reviewed my favourite sweep, the lasso sweep. Afterwards, we then rolled.
Guys are getting it… slowly but surely, the regulars!
Homies got a lot of drilling in… hip bump sweep, scissor sweep, flower sweep, hook sweep, tomahawk sweep, star sweep, then the pendulum sweep. 2 min sets, then they switched. Lol
I partnered with Katrina for the drilling until I jammed my wrist again damn…
Yep! I forgot to tape it.
Dumb dumb…
Rolled with Gary, Hector, Justin, and Hector…
5 min rounds and 30 sec breaks. Clip below…
Even worked on my head stand lol before one of the guys showed up…
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