Rolling is soooo important… its the magical glue that melds all of what you feel as your grappling intuition into the desired responsive sensitivity you wouldn’t normally develop just from working on, or drilling technique.
Man just show up lol… your training partners will push you.
Thank god for open mats and rolling we get… It gives us an opportunity to practice what we think we’ve learnt on live training partners. Sometimes too live hahahah LOL
Either way… got to LEMMA around 5:15 pm Friday. Morgo and Marco were OTM. Working on something, wasn’t even sure. I taped my week ass foot up, coffee was already downed. Rolled with Morgo, Marco, Kait, Kyle, Kevin & Mitch. A couple times with Marco, Mitch, Kait & Kyle… time flew by. 10 min rounds… yep great times. Good rolls and a lot learnt.
Wanted snow… just not all this damn wet slushy stuff lol.
Got to LEMMA around 5:30 pm…
Yes tape.
Yes ankle wraps.
Yes naproxen.
Had a long ass roll with Thor. Short easy flow round with young Leath. Then a fun round with Tyler. Great stuff… Thors is always a tough roll, making me work my ass off on bottom. Leath is just a new and a very young white belt. Tyson… damn Tyler… we need to work on your passing lol… who’s teaching you to do funny stuff like that… lol… we need to talk!
Warm-up was good!!
Arching and shrimping lol… yes shrimping.
Bad ass don’t hate brah!!
Thor had us review knee circles to negate the butterfly fantastic… shins are sore.
Went to Kelsey’s… wing today night.
Holy crow… too 20 mins for someone to take my order.
Ridiculous… lol half price wings worth it I guess lol.
Either way last night class was great!
The long ass roll was good… lots of time to think, adjust and improve on the previous errors.
Coach is gonna up the time to 90 mins instead of 60, which is fantastic!
More rolling and drilling which is awesome!!
No tip pho you Kelseys waitress sorry… didn’t even hook me up blue cheese like I ordered… missing carrots and celery lol.
Either way I got in around 9am… missed Friday open mat for a Christmas Party… yep staff Christmas party.
Nuts!!!!
Tones of prime rib, food…. and quite a few drinks lol.
Great time… didn’t feel it too bad in the morning. Must have been all the food lol.
yep I went in… great time.
Completed 2 sets of rowing… 20 mins. 4 km each… fun fun.
Class consisted of a warm-up, some drills, isolated drilling, some tech (tomahawk/sickle sweep), some resistance drills, then 6×5 minute rounds of rolling… great stuff.
Lots of fun…
Cute video clip below, enjoy…
I did manage to slip out and watch EBI 5 at the Frenchmans house … of course it was to no surprise who the winner would be lol… Garry Tonon. Just killing it.
Between holidays, colds, and injuries we do what we gotta do…
Cause we do lol
Got to LEMMA around 5:45 pm…
Tape, YES!!…
Tiger Balm, YES!!…
Naproxan, YES!!!…
Stupid damn cold/cough, YES!!
Am I getting over this damn cold??, YES!!!
Did I show up to roll… yes lol…
The cage was full, tone of other homies rolling… awesome.
Noticed Kait and a very young fellow by the name of Leath sitting by on the fence… guess no one wanted to roll with them homies.
Hey…
They need time OTM too… BJJ is for everyone. LOL
We were all white belts once… rolling with them helps us position our selflessness in the world of BJJ, teach others, as others have taught you!
After rolling with Leath, I believe I rolled with Eric and then Thor. Yes last round felt like forever stuck under Thors mount. Not fun… not fun at all.
Either way, Thor ran the warm-up, I partnered with my homie Caleb… who’s a newb.
Thor had us review a heel pick, the knee-slice pass as well as the back-step pass… love them all.
Either way, fantastic class… I’m 5 days behind… oh well.
But dammit I went in… did it again… went to BJJ, in which I shouldn’t have.
Oh well… I felt in in the morning…
The sprawling may have slightly loosened my ankle while some rolling may have tweaked it in a positive manner.
You know how we know you learned something… cause we saw you doing it under pressure while rolling… the mat doesn’t lie.
If you learned it… we saw it… tatami don’t lie.
Shall see in the morning I was thinking to myself lol… either way I had slapped on a bunch of tiger balm, tape, and even two types of braces… soft cotton with a semi hard neoprene style brace with velcro…
Plenty of ankle support…
I partnered with Dr Shat Hatton… we drilled old man style. yep I said it.
Old man drilling lol… it exist.
Great class, Rolled with Shat, Eric, Beast Sushi, hmmmmm who else?? man… oh! Jack… 6 foot skinny boy Jack. Wow long time since he’s been on the mat.
Its nice with this blogging thing to be able to blab about random thoughts, things that occur and what I feel portraits my slight addiction to BJJ… very slight.
Is this a reflection of my reality? Or is it a reflection of what I want people to see. Is this life? Or is it what I want people to see… lol well proof is in the pudding I guess… mat time is mat. None of that can be taken away. Blood sweat, tears of joy from being choked out and pushed by your fellow training partners.
Between the foot, and ankle now lol… life is life, maybe its telling me to relax?
Then I snap back to reality and boom… am I dead?
So… picked up the little guy after work, limped around the house with him, fed him and got myself ready for BJJ lol.
Tape… plenty of tape, tiger balm, and ibuprofen lol. Yep
Dedication or stupidity… probably closer to stupidity. Either way I went to BJJ lol… didn’t want to miss learning something someone else would have without myself being OTM…
Caleb was in which was nice… he’s been telling me that he want to train every Wednesday now. He showed up second week in a row!
Coach got us to do a few takedowns… 2 in fact. Thor reviewed the double. The single, and a heel pick. He also got us to review a guard jump to an arm-bar, crazy cray cray!
I wanted to roll… my body was telling me no. Noticed coach Keith eating chocolate covered nuts… went over to enjoy a few while the white belts rolled. Yep a lot of white belts OTM…
Fan-freaking-tastic
Reality is… the destination is the same. No need to rush. I need good ankles and feet to continue this journey lol.
Ooooo yah, baby and wife are sleeping… glass of scotch tonight.
Weird raining today…
#winteriscoming?
All caught up…
Got to LEMMA around 5:30 pm lastnight… pitch black out.
Damn-it… pitch black.
Taped my foot up… tones of tape. Didn’t wear my contacts… ibuprofen, oh and coffee. Yep training blind lol… gotta keep showing up. You always learn something new.
Trying to just roll instead of watching stupid shit lol…
-9 & -9 Astigmatism… yeppers.
Had a nice long as roll with Eric… fun times. He’s improvement is remarkable. Must be the natural wrestling abilities lol.
Butt scoot wrestling haha!
Thor had us review the X-pass, smash-pass, to knee-slice sequence using your head to the floor, under hook far side and near side arm grip to finish… badass.
He even added pursay if your opponent didn’t open up with the under-hook on the far side to turn the knee outwards then attack the mount instead… I believe the idea was that you had options, pending on how your partner and how they reacted on the bottom, instead of just trying to force one pass.
You have a multitude of options by redirecting yourself from one side of the body to the other with that knee, using grips with pressure to stabilize their upper body, and using your opponents direction to dictate the path of least resistance for the best possible solution.
Nice clip from the x-pass to smash-pass transitioning.
Nice clip with drilling and the ability to be mobile moving side to side for more options.
The following clip is nice because it actually discusses how you bury the head and reach for the under-hook to flatten your partner to finish the knee slice. It also reviews other grips as well as my favorite the collar variation lol
Word… up!!
Any way great class… loved the light rolling with wrestler Eric… great job buddy. Focus on the technique your doing great!!
Got to LEMMA around 9:00 am… yep downed a coffee, ibuprofen, taped the foot up and rowed.
My right toe and ball of my foot was sore like a mofo… a 225 lbs white belt missing a single leg and smashing his knee into your foot, wearing a hardened knee pad… great. Second time in a row within a week, greatness… what are the odds, next time, I’m pulling guard.
My 2003 black Jeep is archaic as it comes, standard, no power windows, no power locks, power steering though… oh got a car starter installed a few years ago… lets just say shifting sucked lol. Your toe and ball of your feet are very important lol… but heck!
No rest for the wicked… need to get some kind of cardio in before BJJ…
I didn’t want to be that guy… hahahah
Any who, Nathan ran a 10 min warm-up, then I got the guys and gals to do a few partner drills involving the butterfly butt scoots and maintaining your hooks while your partner walked backwards. After that, drilling consisted of 2 min sessions, each of scissor sweeps, pendulum sweeps, then the flower sweep. The advance guys had to finish with a submission. Technique mainly was the tripod, aka hook sweep… great times. They then repped it out for 2 min sessions with full on resistance twice each. After that we rolled… six 5 minute rounds. Yep lots of rolling lol…
Cute clip of our class…
One of the few errors i keep noticing is that everyone is trying to do the reviewing fast and hard….
Sorry its true… focus on getting the technique correct, before accelerating it… lol crawling, walking, running??
Between my foot, my eye’s and lack of sleep from the baby being sick, reality is, I should have taken Friday off lol… not to mention the long ass day at the office playing mental catch up with paper work that was piled on my desk throughout the 5 months off on parental leave… but hey, life sucks sometimes…
Roll with the punches or die?…
Or, is it paddle or you drown?
Or, ummm sink or swim?
AH WHATEVER LOL
That’s why this is my gibberish… can write whatever I want lol…
Can’t stay off the mat.
GOT TO TRAIN
Noticed a fellow OTM that I really haven’t seen since we moved to this location, probably since 2011? maybe 2012?… guessing only a few people remember what happened that night OTM… strange and awkward it was…
With our core of current guys definitely haven’t had a situation like that since or even ever.
Surprised to see him there for open mat last night… oh well.
Rolled with Jrock, Rock Climber and then Sillymon… dudes were turning it up lol… great job!
5 to 10 min rounds great stuff.
Rolling with the Jrock below…
Rolling with the Rock Climber below…
Rolling with Sillymon below…
My battery ran out soo… missed my other few rounds with a few others not even sure… #babybrainexists
Toe is still mangled lol… butt scooting is key and trying to roll light. lol
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