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Watch “Aug 14/16 11 am Sunday BJJ” on YouTube

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#matcleanlinessisgodliness

Warm-up, stretching with the wife and baby hanging out. That fun… 🙂

Decent class with a nice warm-up from Nathan. Then the 25 push-ups, 50 squats, and then 25 knee-downs from me.

Interesting split this particular day lol… but we always cater to our crowd. Got a few of the guys to drill a pass with chaining positions and submissions we’ve been working on, while Nathan showed the newbies some basics. 

#newbs

I remember when I was a white belt… Kid Lightning and our head Coach choking and triangling the crap outa me. 

                  #ibuprofen #ohboy #didigetdecentattriangledefense?

We reviewed the paper cutter choke/strangle again since this was a different set of guys. Then we finished with 20 mins of king of the mat where you start in someones closed guard. Winner stays in OTM on his back for the first 10, then it was inside someone’s guard for the next 10 for the winner.

#winnerwinnerchickendinner

I won’t be in tomorrow for Sunday morning, my flight from Toronto isn’t till noon… but I got Nathan Hatton and Travis Duncan, sooo all my homies will be in good hands. 

#Ossssss

Watch “Aug 7/2016 Sunday BJJ” on YouTube

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#heavyweights

Irony was that the class was full of the heavy weights lol. 15 mins hard warm-up, 45 mins of with the knee slice pass and chained submission drilling. 15 mins review of 2 paper cutter variations, first from the north south, then second from knee-on-belly. We then finished with 3 x 5 min rounds of rolling, think they were fairly tough rounds lol.

Either way it was a productive class.

Ossss

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#hopefullyIhavenomentalissues

Just a guy blabbing about BJJ and his personal useless journey lol…

Watch “July 31/16 Sunday Morning BJJ” on YouTube

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#Word

My homie Andrew’s BDay… 
Got in early, swept the mats, warmed up and stretched for 45 mins. I really need to started rowing again… seriously. Hard getting a good work out town, especially in the summers, with 12 to 16 hours of your day on the job lol… 
Ended up doing a hard 20 min warm-up run by Nathan, 20 mins reviewing 2 variations of the paper cutter strangle, then a 20 mins shark tank starting for the Bday boy. 
10 mins for him on the bottom starting with closed guard, then 10 mins for him inside others closed guard until either the first point or submission for the next person in line.
Marc definitely loved it lol.
Yes we all lined up lol… fresh for the bday boy.

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Happy birthday buddy!!

Great stuff!!

Hahahah

Watch, “July 29/16 Open Mat” Youtube

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#humidaf

5 min rounds… some went over lol.

#ooops

3 with Thor, then 1 with Mike, Kait, Brandon, Nathan, and Kyle… great night, got subbed numerous times with a toe hold. Gotta revise for these scenarios, either way it was super humid and fun!!

Ossss

Watch “July 24/16 Sunday Morning BJJ” on YouTube

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15 min warm-up run by my homie Nathan Hatton. 30 mins of micro drilling knee slice-passes chaining to knee-belly arm-bar, kimura, then arm-bar with kimura control. 15 mins review of the double lapel control to cross collar strangle. Finished with 3 mins rounds starting from closed guard, then switched from either top to bottom or from bottom to top.15 min warm-up run by my homie Nathan Hatton. 30 mins of micro drilling knee slice-passes chaining to knee-belly arm-bar, kimura, then arm-bar with kimura control. 15 mins review of the double lapel control to cross collar strangle. Finished with 3 mins rounds starting from closed guard, then switched from either top to bottom or from bottom to top.

Watch “July 22/16 Open Mat” on YouTube

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Apologies for the camera work…

Had a few guys bump into it and didn’t bother to fix it lol.

#datslife 

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#thankshomies

For crushing me that is…

Watch “Sun July 17/16 11am BJJ” on YouTube

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Today was a shity day lol… but hey,

#thatslife

Key got stuck in the door, broke inside it, had to get a key from my homie Nathan. Big Matt came in to verify and make a few calls…

#westillgottotrain

Clip of some mat cleanliness, 15 min warm-up by Nathan, passing to submission micro chain drilling, reviewed the closed guard cross collar strangle, then a few 5 min rounds of hard rolling.

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Watch “July 16/16 Sat Nogi” on YouTube

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Behind? yes lol…

Seriously though, my kid wasn’t having a great day, not sure why… he wouldn’t let me go this day.

Guess he was still in some kinda pain.

Eitherway,  I got a good warm-up in… time with him most importantly, time on the punching bag, and even a few rounds in lol.

Yes I got to roll a few rounds while Aria distracted him lol.

Clip of me chilling with my boy lol on the bags… only thing that kept him kinda entertained in lieu of holding on to me lol

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Watch “July 20/16 Wed Night BJJ” on YouTube

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#Yeswetrainedtoday

Morgan was still here and he ran the class, warm-ups 15 or 10 mins of kinda of tabata excercises with 3 stations, miss tabata stuff. 

  1. Push-ups, squats, and crunches
  2. Burpee’s, and backwards break fall to technical stands 
  3. Knee downs, frog jumps

We then moved to repping and reviewing back escapes with 2 variations, standard then rolling through. We then finished with rolling starting in closed guard, 3 min rounds, top then bottom, essentially first to points then reset to inside closed guard, then we switched partners.

Great class… miss being in class lol.
Clip of us jamming below.

Watch “July 21/16 Thurs Night Nogi” on YouTube

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#catchingup

I ain’t no one special #keepposted

Got a wonderful opportunity to do a prerelease review on a cool and slick BJJ instructional video collab by…

BJJ Blackbelts Nicolas Gregoriades & Mike Bidwell’s!

#marketingintel

Was in town due to baby not allowed to be in daycare…

Obviously I went to Nogi, unfortunately I spent it running the class.

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Pros and cons, pros and cons… I want to train.

I also want BJJ to grow, so I can train more lol… arhhggg lol

I swear when I ask, “if there are any questions or concerns??” please ask then then lol… to all you newbs, ASK!!

Don’t corner me in or before a roll lol

Either way, got the homies to do a standard 15 mins warm-up. We then repped and reviewed a hip throw from an under hook, to knee-belly, the arm-bar. We then finished with 5 mins rounds of rolling.

However… can I say wow on the attendance.

#Nogiwow

Wished these guys trained over the weekends…

In due time I guess untill thier actually hooked.

5:30pm classes are kinda prime time for free time after work and before dinner…

Unless you are hardcore, live, work only to train, and weekends become BJJ time too!!!

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#Osss