Great class Monday… got to LEMMA around 6:00 pm. Rolled with Thor till start of class. “Fun rolls,” he says… me replies, “yeah a lot of inverted funny back take stuff going on… oh and that damn crucifix” lol
Rhino was in to run the class. Had us work on take-downs.
All starting from over and under clinch positioning. The first, was with a back step, with an elbow or sleeve grip with the over-hook, then a fast knee bump on the under-hook side of the retracting leg. Taking them down on the under-hooks side. Second, was with an over-hook, after freeing the under-hook to palm push your partner in the chest and grabbing that wrist with the over-hook, to take them down on the over-hook side. A lot of pressure on the shoulder, throw your partner hard and their shoulder could snap… ouch. Great throws… hard take downs. Learn to break fall or counter lol.
I partnered with my white belt buddy Mitch.
Rhino then had us roll for the remaining 15 mins… lol
Oh… he also got promoted! Congratulations big guy… kinda important. Lol
About 4 or 6 of then doing some kind of tabata variation of exercises.
Thor was in at roughly the same time, discussed the leg locks and flow sequence I wanted to review. Scotty arrived shortly after.
We drilled a leg lock sequence from a straight ankle lock, to an achilles slicer, a toe hold cork screw, a heel hook, a toe hold, then switched the leg to the reaping side. Applied the same techniques, then switched to the other side again, this time applying the same techniques with one foot spreading your opponents legs and hold it in place so they don’t roll out.
I feel at a loss with leg locks… so many wholes, however yet opportunities.
Very important to protect your own legs. The leg knot…
A nice reference for positioning the saddle…
A nice reference for heel hooks…
Below is a reference to other leg locks from Jason Scully I eventually want to get a handle on…
We drilled for 5 mins each the sequences then we worked on the Estima lock for about 5 mins each… pretty much a toe hold or straight foot lock depending on where you place the foot.
Great reference below…
After drilling the Estima Lock, we rolled. 3 min rounds. Shark tank style since there was only 3 of us lol.
Rounds:(3 mins, 15 sec Break)
Myself & Thor
Thor & Scotty
Scotty & Me
Myself & Thor
Thor & Scotty
Scotty & Myself
Myself & Thor
Thor & Scotty
Then the baby cried… lol sooo that concluded my short rolling session lol…
Mitch came in pretty much when I arrived at 5:30 pm.
Josh and Mike working on clinch and wall cage MMA stuff.
Morgo and Scotty leaving from the early training sessions prior.
I got to roll with my buddy Mitch.
Wow his defence has improved significantly… awesome. Rolled and played around with him till class started. I mainly just focused on countering his passing with sweeps, arm drags and his attacking nature. Kid is fast, resilient, strong, a natural ability to move out of a troubled position, and he can scramble… love it. His fighting tooth and nail out of chokes is typical a white belt spaz kill joy thing, but his temperament is calm and collective even while in a horribly troubled tight position.
Quite enjoyable to roll with for a white belt… 18? Maybe 20? years of age… not as spazzy as most beginners.
Class started at 6:30 pm head Coach Matt set us up with a decent warm-up. Running around the mat, forward shoulder rolls, backward shoulder rolls, shrimping, butterfly butt scooting with a partner, then following your partner walking backwards with hooks. Great warm-up.
Veal was in for the technique. He got us to review the technique we worked on last week from a flattened out butterfly. A knee tap counter, and then a over hook with a cross lapel grip finish with a knee pressure straight arm lock or an omaplata…
Video below for further reference… entries were obviously different, Veal showed it from butterfly, but the finish is similar… and you can see the omaplata, from the failed arm-bar attempt if you think about it…
After technique, Veal then got everyone to roll… 4 min rounds, no submissions. Just spit them out and continue. Even take risks, work on things you never would normally do. Be fast quick and to work with your partner… Sounds like flow rolling. What do you know… my favorite kind lol… easy on the body, and you can be technical.
Told Veal that 4 mins is dah bomb. The no submissions is cool and that the guys needs to learn how to flow, from one submission to the next and these kinda rounds will really help in the development of their BJJ.
He explained that, there’s big issues with that and this provides the opportunity to take chances because people will shelf their egos some what when there’s are no submissions involved.
I told him that I absolutely agreed… that grinding is cool, but there are always other options then spending 2 mins to rework a failed arm-bar.
Seeing opportunity in a failure will makes us grow.
Rolled with Jesse, Mitch, Nathan, and Big Willy… boy was I f-n drained…
Yes I did some conditioning earlier in the day…
Results below…
Woooo!
Great class… I love it when I don’t have to coach.
Some of the boys be rolling… some of them real hard lol
Homeboy big Willy was in… stole this like I steal other peoples memes lol Seemed fitting.
Haven’t seen him out… since like January or December. Yep… huge return from a really long hiatus, glad he is back.
Rolled with ma daddy long legged buddy Travis, focusing on transitioning. Fun fun…
My lower back felt real good today, especially with all the stretches and rolling out I’ve been doing while my kid is doing tummy time… I pushed my transitioning a little to see how fast and smoothly I could execute them… no I didn’t land shit, but my transitioning made me feel like I was a Super Saiyan God!!!
Diesel had us warming up with a leg drag pass with no stapling of the bottom thigh… partnered with Tyler.
I love drilling… HINT HINT HINT
Diesel then got us to review some X-guard sweeps… love them.
Had a discussion with Veal over the weekend about the 3 min rounds…
His explanation that sometimes you need shorter ones too, makes sense. He explained that with the 3 minute short rounds, it will help you close out a match, if you are down, as well as help keep a steady pace. With the intensity of shorter rounds and the 30 seconds rest, it makes you maintain your higher heart rate while constantly having to adjust to the different styles with very little time to adapt.
Makes total sense for preparation with a competition styled rolling format, especially when you have the right amount of bodies OTM.
Overall great class, great peeps, great vibes…
Caught these homies below in discussions of my secret triangle escape while I was leaving… Yes Thor first step, is to become an Ewok.
Video my buddy Travis did during our drill session in the morning using his drone and GoPro below…
Got to LEMMA around 9:30 am… you bet me got some rowing in. Hit some better then last time marks. 2 sets, 20 mins goals, of 4 km… slowly getting better.
Warm-up consisted of arm bars, kimuras, Marcelotines, omaplata’s, triangles, hip-bump sweeps, spinning arm-bars from side control, & then loop chokes from the front head lock. They had to complete these exercises going 2 mins straight each, then alternate with only 30 sec breaks in between.
Clips below…
Then we reviewed some techniques I ripped off of Jiu-jitsu Magazine… yep. A 96 Choke, which is an oldschool Judo choke and the Brazilian Neck tie all starting from side control…
Yep always learning and evolving…
After technique we then did a bunch of positional sparring…
Escaping or submission while having back control or your back controlled.
2 mins, alternated, then switched partners until everyone was with everyone. Yep, a lot of rounds in…
Quick clip below…
Then of course the circle of thank you for choking the F-outa moi…
Great class big turn out… Katrina, Travis, Big Red, Hatton, Scotty, St Amand, Brittany, Marco and Colin were in attendance.
Got to LEMMA around 5:30 pm… a couple guys in the cage scraping.
Partnered with Mitch a newer white belt… and showed him how to tie his belt.
Veal had us warm up for 10 mins working on pummeling… then he had us review a few butterfly sweeps with a belt and knee Gi grip. The first, attacking the arm with the deep over hook and grip on the belt. The second, switching to the other side when your opponent steps to counter the original sweep. Veal did mention for me to move in deeper with my head and be like a ball… not sure if he was being condescending, but typically my whole game is supposed to be like a ball.
If I wasn’t, then it makes sense… especially when I really haven’t had anyone be critical of my technique, in a long time, which is really what I need and are missing since I started coaching the Tuesdays and Sunday classes.
I’m not a black belt… far from it… let alone feel qualified to coach classes.
We then scrapped… Veal said to the death. Which was condescending lol.
The white belts may take it seriously… and they do. Seriously though, they beat each other up, then they don’t come back.
Delimiters on growth of BJJ, especially if only the bullies continue to bully and are allowed too… It really dampers the retention of new white belts if they get killed on their first few lessons on the mat.
A wise man once told me that white belts make or break BJJ in a club and continued growth is what we need for longevity
Had an incident, heck multiple where guys were applying finger locks… yep not cool.
Rolling:(3 mins, 1 min breaks)
1. Mitch
2. Hatton
3. Veal
4. Jones
5. Newer guy with a shiny white Gameness Gi… or was it an Atama?
Overall decent class… rolling could have been longer rounds.
Like 6 to 10 mins. 3 mins is all about the push.
Everyone goes way too hard because of the short rounds and forgets about focus on actual technique.
Constructive criticism on my technique is nice, as I normally don’t get the help from the classes that I normally coach.
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