Thunder Bay Jiu-jitsu

Nov 15/15 Sun BJJ

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Word… I’ll be back Friday…

Yep I went in on Sunday lol… its funny though, missed Monday and Wednesday this week because I decided to take a little self healing break because of the subconjunctival hemorrhages or bleeding in my eye’s…

BUT seriously though… haven’t been away for too long and it feels like its been forever.

BJJ is soooo freaking addictive… just my opinion though…

#FEELSLIKEFOREVER

#BUTREALLYITSONLYACOUPLEDAYS

#WEIRD

Rolling on Sunday was a big no no lol… felt like my eyes were gonna pop outa its socket with Brittany on top… Taking breaks here and there is a big must. Especially when your getting older, just can’t seem to bounce back like I used to. Oh well back OTM Friday… the hemorrhages appear to be receding. 

#OOOPS

#MYADDICTIONWILLBECOMEYOUROBSSESSION

#BJJ4LIFE

#BJJFOURLIFE

 

The baby is finally gonna start daycare next week for an infants program. Its funny, when I chose to do this 6 months of parental leave, I thought I was gonna be training BJJ everyday, hitting the gym every morning, sleeping in all the time, and just plain hanging out with my baby… unfortunately that wasn’t the case lol. I guess babies demand more attention then much expected. I sure have an appreciation for woman and my mom though… much respect. Not as easy as I suspected… talking baby all the time, thinking like a baby all the time, talking to the baby all the time. I feel like I’ve lost a few IQ points and brain cells lol… GOING NUTS, forgetting things I normally don’t forget, drawing blanks in the mornings from getting up between dreams, to change or feed the monkey… yep 6 months and it went fast lol… fortunately I’ve been going into work at least once a week to work on some paper work that seems to just keep piling on the desk lol to get ahead once I get back… yep back soon… hurray!! Definitely pros and cons… but you know what… the time I got to spend with the monkey was priceless… never will he ever be this big again… ever. Thank goodness… lol. Now I know why the wife wanted to go back to work when she did… a good compromise I guess… the grass isn’t greener on the other side, for you men contemplated on going on parental leave… however, if you do decide to take the plunge, at least your wife will know that if they were to die, you will be able to handle things on your own.

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Thank god for BJJ, been keeping it as consistent as I can… 4 to even 5 days a weeks of actual training. 5 days, if I time everything accordingly and the stars align…

wpid-fb_img_1432778563800.jpgSunday Sundays… Early Sunday. Sundays is always fun days… had a few drinks to wash away the pain in the eyes the night before. Not sure if that was smart. Even drank a whole pot of coffee lol… not sure that was smart too… think all of that thins your blood… especially, if your trying to HEAL LOL?

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Nuts… eyes were still red. Looked like a Zombie.

The shows still gotta go on… either way, I went in…

20 mins of rowing…
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4 sets of 30 push ups, 10-28 in box jumps, 100 crunches, and the 1 set of 12-30 inch box jumps lol… this may have worsened the hemorrhages in my eyes lol… quick clip below…

Got Nathan to run the warm-up, which also include some drilling… a quick clip below…

We then reviewed the pendulum sweep…

A video for further reference of our technique…

Then of course we rolled…

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See you OTM soon!!

OSSS!!

 

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Fri Nov 13/15 Open Mat

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Fri the 13th…

Damn…

Full mat yet again.

Where these homies coming from.

MY ADDICTION WILL BECOME YOUR OBSESSION… hahhaha

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Unconscious I was at one point… crazy when you lose a few seconds of memory.

Rolling rolling… we were rolling.

First roll was with Beef… light roll. Really light warm-up roll…
So light I went nighty night with a very fast single armed triangle.
I tapped… just not fast enough, and worst off in a manner that could not be communicated to my partner. I believe, I may have tapped myself… Ironically enough, I give everyone else shit for not tapping fast enough. Guess humility OTM every so often is a good personal reminder that everyone is not perfect including, obviously myself first and foremost. Embarrassed, a little… but hey this is my blog and honesty is key. Like on the mat our weaknesses will be exposed in one way or form. My gibberish is my gibberish no masking of the truth. Last time I fell asleep was at our old club on James St… during an open mat on a Saturday, triangled by our Professor and head coach doing Nogi via triangle… in 2009 lol… yes. That long ago lol, I vowed to my myself to tap early enough to never fall asleep again… back then all I remembered was stars, seeing a bunch of stars, then my body went limp… he released, and bong, I acted as if nothing happened nd that I was alright lol. Low and behold I was not… I went to sleep in his triangle yep… damn triangle and guys with long legs… damn-it.

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Regardless, it was a good reminder that no one is invincible, especially myself. Not taking away from my partner, technically it was sound, no pain, not even the stars that I saw the last time, that’s how fast it went on lol… The head and arm was secured prior to the transition over me… which is where I recall tapping and unfortunately it must have been on my own chest with my free arm lol… which makes sense based on the position he had me in… reality is I should had tapped with my feet or yelled out vocally… then I recall vividly entering my house doors to an angry wife… then Beef’s face yelling my name and asking what my name was… Beef mentioned when I woke up I grabbed his lapel and set up for an arm drag… yep… setting up my grips lol. Felt really out of it… drunk in fact, guess I was out for a few minutes, maybe less.

Lesson learned tap!

Tap early…

Really early, if its with someone that is technically sound…

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In my head I was like… I gotta keep rolling, or else coming out to the gym was for nothing lol… yeah weird.

Next I rolled with Black Belt Keith, a roll with Morgan, then a really long ass roll with Nathan, 3 or even 4 rounds straight through… still feel a little woozy… eyes are really bad… capillaries must have ruptured from the pressure.

We did manage to hit up the Tokyo house after for Sushi lol… the wife wasn’t impressed with my eyes though.

Saturday morning…
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Sunday after Sunday BJJ
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Tuesday…
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 We cannot find perfection within ourselves without making countless dumbass mistakes… and yes, that is my statement if you are wondering.

TAP EARLY!

Osss!

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Nov 9/15 BJJ

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Caught up!!

The cage was full again with open mat homies!

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Show up… train. Sometimes it’s hard.

Heck it’s always hard, not gonna lie.

There will always someone there to push you.

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All we did was roll tonight…

Fantastic lol.

Rolling: (5 min, 60 sec breaks)
1. Rock Climber (Flow)
2. Fuji (Flow)
3. Reevo
4. Thor
5. Fuji
6. Fuji
7. Curly locks
8. Snell

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Patience’s guys… and gals.

The Rock Climber caught some cool clips of me rolling… will post another time! 🙂

Great rolling tonight!!

Jammed my toe… ouch. Lower back is sore to wtf…lol I need to stretch my hamstrings out. dafuck…

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Osss,

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Nov 8/15 Sun BJJ

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One more day to go lol… then I’m all caught up. The little guy is sick again… in fact for a few days. Projectile vomiting… poor little thing… puked at BK yesterday, a few times at home, and a few times today. Just have to keep his liquid intake up I guess. Wish I could take all his pain. Must be teething again. Apparently the pain is soo unbearable it would make a grown adult go insane, but I guess that’s what drugs are for… unfortunately not allowed for little babies.

I did manage to get in earlier again Sunday morning, like every Sunday morning lol … with no real motivation but a Tim’s medium black and a note I saw on the white board lol… so instead of 10 mins, I did 20 mins of rowing, then some 24 in box jumps, push ups and crunches in. 4 sets BTW… Oh and an additional 28 in box jumps, 10 or twelve lol. 

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Felt great afterwards… especially after the stretching and foam roller before the guys started galloping in… cute clip below.

A lot of non regulars showed up this morning which was nice…

I invited a few other new white belts who kept asking questions about a sweep I kept hitting them earlier during this week, in hopes that we could further review their issues, instead of preoccupying class rolling time which was very precious due to the others that required the mat space right after us at 7:30 pm…

Didn’t show… Hopefully next time.

Nathan ran the warm up… which was pretty standard with running, bear crawls, lunges, rolls, shrimping, break falls and technical stands etc… quick clip below… 

Quick clip of us working on some basic drills with armbar’s, hip bump sweep’s, kimura’s, and omaplata’s…

Then we reviewed the scissor sweep from closed guard, first with the knee against the chest or neck, and then the belly with a deep cross collar and sleeve grip…

Yes then some rolling rolling lol… 6 min rounds. fun fun!!

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Photo credit to my buddy Travis Duncan… well done homie.

Training and taking cool pictures at the same time is difficult… but that’s why your a brown belt homie.

Making it all look very easy.

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Nov 6/15 Open Mat

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2 down… 3 more BJJ related sessions to blab about… nothing special. Got behind, you know family life… a 10 month demanding further daddy time. Oh and the dog… yep kinda cute.

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Got a tonne of rolling in… yep. A tonne

Clips of the rolling sessions below…

We did manage to get a crew out to the Sushi Station… horrible experience btw.

Not enough ribs, slow service, what else… slow service… oh and slow service. Food that got out was satisfactory. But yes… slow service. I guess I could say I’m super patient… but man was that ever slow lol… common lol… we go there all the time.

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Nov 5/15 Kids BJJ

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Jumped in to help up with the kids class tonight… slowly developing patience lol… slowly.

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Thanks to Arin, Katrina, Philippe, and Travis, though… without the help not sure how to deal with little people trying to take limbs from you… especially 20 of them.

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YES 2O little monkeys in Gi’s… well a few in Gi’s lol… slowly but surely… my addiction will be everyone’s… 🙂

Standard warm-ups…

Self-defence with the double neck grab, single wrist grab, then a 2 on 1 wrist grab drill with 2×2 min sessions, they then got to do a 10 min zombie game with them up kicking and guarding their face to protect their brain…

Then in 2 groups we had them sock flag wrestle for 10 mins… yes fun fun.

These guys have soooo much energy so… in their same groups I then got them to do king of the mat with first just working on getting a mount for 5 mins, then just working for a back take for 5 mins, then finishing with either mount or back take for 5 mins to be king of the mat.

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Nov 4/15 BJJ

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Open mat was yet full again… wow.

Awesomeness to all that showed up.

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Warmed with the fellow Eric, the buddy with the shiny blue Fuji Gi again… great stuff. Long ass round lol.

BTW… he didn’t spaz… well a couple of times he did. But great stuff. Much improvement since our last roll.

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Travis ran the class today… I warmed the guys up with the standard running around the mat, lunges, bear crawls, forward and reverse rolls as well as some shrimps.

Travis had us review a few side control escapes 3 in fact. First was a re-guard with a forearm to the neck with a z type guard, second was a bridge roll sweep, & third was a similar sweep with a deep belt grip and body lock.

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Had a visiting black belt… didn’t get his name… Logan. Apparently he is in for about 4 days… I’m was hoping to get some rolling in with him… not sure what club he trained with… I had to bounce… fa family lol

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Seriously though… if you missed out. Your loss…

Great stuff!

We then rolled… first with The Duncan, and the Mitch… 5 min or 4 min rounds.

My homie Mitch… if you are reading this lol

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Hahahah!

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Nov 2/15 BJJ

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Open mat was full again… awesome.

Rolled with Big Willy… dude ain’t getting smaller lol.

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Having big guy’s on top of you make you focus on technique… using strength is a waste of wonderful resources, especially when there is such a large difference in size and obviously that he will beat me on the strength battle.

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Roll like a mouse and wait for opportunity if there is a large size difference …

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Strategy is the way to go when up against an opponent bigger and definitely more skilled then the average blue belt.

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 Although I did manage to tweak my lower back somehow, probably from the lack of posture while trying to escape a big man single leg lol… or maybe he sprawled on me.

Not sure.

Glad I’m not training for a tourney at the moment… still trying to gather myself mentally with all this time off from parental leave. Work hasn’t been really letting up… as paper work still appears when I make my weekly visits lol…

Partnered with the Rock Climber… Rhino ran the class, had us review the double leg at the 5th stage, then added sprawling to the top guy to defend.

He initially had us drill the double starting at the 5th stage with resistances… then had us sprawl while in the 5th stage with resistance… yep wrestling ain’t easy so much effort for a take down.

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Definitely wasn’t good for my back especially with the warm up rolling with big Willy…

Rolling: (5 min rounds)
1. Rock Climber
2. Daluca

Guys weren’t letting up… good push. great tough rounds!!

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Sun Nov 1/15 11 am BJJ

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Got to LEMMA around 9am… yep downed a pot of coffee.

Halloween had a few beers and too many chips lol.

Honestly I didn’t want to train… no excuses. just show up.

Results from my row session below… my brain still hurts lol

It was 100 percent the coffee that motivated me!!

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Also completed 4 sets of 25 push-ups, 10 box jumps, and 100 crunches…

Put together a quick cute clip below…

Quite a number of guys and a few gals showed up this morning… wonderful.

A few new faces…

I see potential Sunday regulars!!

Quick clip of the warm-up below…

Quick clip of us drilling some fundamentals below…

Quick clip of us reviewing the rolling bow choke below, the drilling it…

We also did the circle of death, which is basically just a positional drill from side control with the top person attacking for a submission or maintaining position, and the bottom person working an escape or re-guarding.

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4, 2 minute rounds on the top, then 4, 2 min rounds on the bottom.

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Everyone that showed up worked their butts off… just show up, and I’m sure someone will push you.

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Great stuff!

Great class!!

A lot of work OTM by you homies!!

BJJ would be nothing without you!!

Osss!!

Fri Oct 30/15 Open Mat

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Got to LEMMA around 5:00 pm…

Tonne of guys out Friday night!!

First session below…

Second session below…

Rolling: (7min rounds, 1 min breaks)

  1. Mike Maronese
  2. Scotty too Hottie
  3. Kole Trenton
  4. Thor
  5. Mitch Bulmer
  6. Mitch Bulmer
  7. Mitch Bulmer
  8. Mitch Bulmer
  9. Mitch Bulmer

We got a lot of rounds in…

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A lot of technical battles…

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My forearms haven’t been sore in a while… thank od for he extra beef and PHO visit we made tonight. lol