Sunday class started without a warmup. I got there 30 minutes early though, and warmed up in the back anyway, so I was fine.
A younger guy came up to me and asked me if I could defend a jumping/standing guillotine. I said I don't know, let's try. I did, and we kept going. I managed to get side control because he stayed committed to trying to finish it, after which I ended up in north/south and finishing with a kimura. Good warm up.
Class started and with a 1 minute timer we live drilled escaping from side mount, while the top person tried to submit or advance position. I only really knew one side escape, which was kick off and push your knee through the belly, which only worked once or twice on my opponent. After that, he used his hand to block my other hip, which stopped me from getting my knee into his stomach.
My top game was ok, I had tried things I haven't before, just to see where where I shouldn't be and I got swept a few times. Lesson learned though!
After the live drilling, we circled up and asked questions, in which multiple escapes were shown by different people. A blue belt named Nelson showed us an escape he learned from when he wrestled, which was putting your inside arm to the far hip, exploding up and turning to your knees and pushing forward. There is a choke he doesn't get up, otherwise you can drive into his leg.
Another escape was an Eddie Bravo technique which he coined as the 25 cent. Elevate your inside knee, turn your body toward your opponent and scoope his leg and bring your outside leg under and establish half guard. The Flo, which can bring you to butterfly guard was discussed, but we didn't do it.
Leg locks were next on the agenda and with that being Andrew's specialty, we learned quite a few positions. We drilled from holding both legs, then standing up and grabbing a leg. My brain is too frizzled to write it down at the moment, so I'm assuming that means I need to drill them more.
Rolled with Nelson at the end and I'm pretty sure he tapped me, I just don't remember how. We were mostly just messing around with some Rubber guard techniques. I do remember having half guard, trying to get the Electric chair sweep, missing the opportunity, then getting the Old school sweep. I let go of his leg too soon, and ended up in his butterfly guard I believe. Like I said I don't remember what happened after that.
My biggest accomplishment is that I am no longer just flat on my back in side control or half guard. That was something that other people have pointed out, but I just couldn't get into my head. It is just finally coming to me. Can't explain the feeling when you just get something, but it's a great feeling!
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Great Saturday Jiu Jitsu class!
Class yesterday was started by Ethan, a purple belt whom I met on my first trial class and haven't seen since. We started with some stretching, which included a few yoga stretches that I have never done before, which I enjoyed and will make a part of my routine. We then did 5 sets of 10 pushups and sit ups. After that was done, we did an armbar drill to get our hips set. I was a little sloppy during it and got some pointers.
Brandon then enters and we started from side control. Bottom person uses their outside hand to reach over the back, grab the far lat, then take their inside hand and push off the hip. Bring your feet out then bring your inside knee into their stomach to start reclaiming guard.
Top guy then takes his outside hand, reaches it over, to where the bottom guy's inside leg is, grab the foot/ankle, press it in, then flatten your hips and pass back into side control.
If the top person does not do this, and leans his weight over the bottom guy(say, by putting his foot up to pass), then the bottom guy sweeps into knee on belly.
From knee on belly, you execute the baseball bat choke. Take arm under the neck, and insert thumb into the Gi collar. Bring that towards the same side of that arm. Keep your other hand posted out or on the bottom guy's leg, to keep him from moving. Then you bring your outside leg out a little more for base, take your outside hand and feed it up the collar, palm up, behind the neck. Keep your elbow down and the pressure at a slant. Quickly spin towards north/south and the choke should be finished before you ever land in north/south. If not, head on chest, flatten hips and pull away and down? (don't recall the exact posture, because I finished the choke before ever getting there)
After class, we were given the opportunity to roll. I stayed with the partner I had, a guy in his late 40's, 50s maybe... A blue belt named Vecilli. He asked me if I wanted to help him drill something, I said hell yeah I did! He wanted to find the hole in a set up he had, where our instructor kept rolling out of when he got him in that position. We start in side control, me on bottom, where he has my arm in a figure 4, setting up for an armbar. He executes, and I roll out and into side control. We worked on it for about 10 minutes and after him fixing small positions and readjustments, he finished with either the arm bar or the kimura, rolling at about 50%.
He then asked me if I wanted to drill anything, and I then drilled the Scissor sweep. He gave me some pointers right away, and put me into positions where I couldn't use it. I naturally switched to grabbing the other side, going for a kimura, and he was impressed. He blocked it, but then I went for a guillotine. We somehow ended up with me on his back, and we worked on some positional stuff from there, which included when the top guy gets stacked from his back, how you can release your hooks and drop him back down, etc.
All in all, it was a great session and it celebrated my 3 month marker for training here.
Brandon then enters and we started from side control. Bottom person uses their outside hand to reach over the back, grab the far lat, then take their inside hand and push off the hip. Bring your feet out then bring your inside knee into their stomach to start reclaiming guard.
Top guy then takes his outside hand, reaches it over, to where the bottom guy's inside leg is, grab the foot/ankle, press it in, then flatten your hips and pass back into side control.
If the top person does not do this, and leans his weight over the bottom guy(say, by putting his foot up to pass), then the bottom guy sweeps into knee on belly.
From knee on belly, you execute the baseball bat choke. Take arm under the neck, and insert thumb into the Gi collar. Bring that towards the same side of that arm. Keep your other hand posted out or on the bottom guy's leg, to keep him from moving. Then you bring your outside leg out a little more for base, take your outside hand and feed it up the collar, palm up, behind the neck. Keep your elbow down and the pressure at a slant. Quickly spin towards north/south and the choke should be finished before you ever land in north/south. If not, head on chest, flatten hips and pull away and down? (don't recall the exact posture, because I finished the choke before ever getting there)
After class, we were given the opportunity to roll. I stayed with the partner I had, a guy in his late 40's, 50s maybe... A blue belt named Vecilli. He asked me if I wanted to help him drill something, I said hell yeah I did! He wanted to find the hole in a set up he had, where our instructor kept rolling out of when he got him in that position. We start in side control, me on bottom, where he has my arm in a figure 4, setting up for an armbar. He executes, and I roll out and into side control. We worked on it for about 10 minutes and after him fixing small positions and readjustments, he finished with either the arm bar or the kimura, rolling at about 50%.
He then asked me if I wanted to drill anything, and I then drilled the Scissor sweep. He gave me some pointers right away, and put me into positions where I couldn't use it. I naturally switched to grabbing the other side, going for a kimura, and he was impressed. He blocked it, but then I went for a guillotine. We somehow ended up with me on his back, and we worked on some positional stuff from there, which included when the top guy gets stacked from his back, how you can release your hooks and drop him back down, etc.
All in all, it was a great session and it celebrated my 3 month marker for training here.
Friday, May 21, 2010
Got the rest of my package today, which included a 75cm Stability ball, a 15lbs. medicine ball and a wrist roller.
I didn't get to mess around with them, because it arrived just before I had to go to work, but I am eager to try them tomorrow. I do have to buy a couple of 5 and 10lbs. plates, so I can attach them to the wrist roller.
My next project is to go to the car shop across the street and see if they have any giant tires lying around for me to take. Good ol' fashion Thor workout with a sledge hammer!
Next month I plan on purchasing a 10'x10' mat to set up in the back yard for BJJ. These are the ones that I am currently interested in buying Realjitsu Mats.
Lastly, I ordered my kettlebells a week too early it seems, because Budovideos have a 20% discount sale on the very ones that I purchased. Oh well! If anyone is interested here is the e-mail:
I didn't get to mess around with them, because it arrived just before I had to go to work, but I am eager to try them tomorrow. I do have to buy a couple of 5 and 10lbs. plates, so I can attach them to the wrist roller.
My next project is to go to the car shop across the street and see if they have any giant tires lying around for me to take. Good ol' fashion Thor workout with a sledge hammer!
Next month I plan on purchasing a 10'x10' mat to set up in the back yard for BJJ. These are the ones that I am currently interested in buying Realjitsu Mats.
Lastly, I ordered my kettlebells a week too early it seems, because Budovideos have a 20% discount sale on the very ones that I purchased. Oh well! If anyone is interested here is the e-mail:
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Thursday, May 20, 2010
Working out at home
I made a purchase at Budovideos the other day and while the entire contents have not arrived, I did get the two 26lbs. kettlebells today.
Because today was such a beautiful, sunny and warm day, I decided to take my 4 month old son outside so he could watch his father have a small workout.
I have been babying my knee for the past 4 days, because I injured it over the weekend, rolling (not drilling like what I wanted to do in a previous post), so I made sure that I warmed up properly. I haven't put together a gameplan for my workout sessions, so I decided to just wing it.
3x10 cleans with each arm
3x10 press with each arm
3x10 swing (under legs to mid chest) with each arm
3x10 squat, holding both kettlebells at my chest
My rest period consisted of me jogging around the diameter of my back yard. After my last set, I walked with my son in his stroller.
The workout was short, but it felt good. I haven't done any sort of squatting since last October, and while this isn't a heavy load I'm working with, I sure as hell felt it.
I will try to formulate a gameplan for Friday's workout, and really a whole week. I'm thinking Mon/Wed/Fri with the Kettlebell, the Medicine ball that's in the mail, and the wrist roller that I also purchased. I want to work the stability ball in, but since it's not something that is as extreme as a kettlebell workout, I could do it on Sat/Sun and possibly a third day.
Because today was such a beautiful, sunny and warm day, I decided to take my 4 month old son outside so he could watch his father have a small workout.
I have been babying my knee for the past 4 days, because I injured it over the weekend, rolling (not drilling like what I wanted to do in a previous post), so I made sure that I warmed up properly. I haven't put together a gameplan for my workout sessions, so I decided to just wing it.
3x10 cleans with each arm
3x10 press with each arm
3x10 swing (under legs to mid chest) with each arm
3x10 squat, holding both kettlebells at my chest
My rest period consisted of me jogging around the diameter of my back yard. After my last set, I walked with my son in his stroller.
The workout was short, but it felt good. I haven't done any sort of squatting since last October, and while this isn't a heavy load I'm working with, I sure as hell felt it.
I will try to formulate a gameplan for Friday's workout, and really a whole week. I'm thinking Mon/Wed/Fri with the Kettlebell, the Medicine ball that's in the mail, and the wrist roller that I also purchased. I want to work the stability ball in, but since it's not something that is as extreme as a kettlebell workout, I could do it on Sat/Sun and possibly a third day.
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
List of drills for Saturday
On Saturday, May 15, I would like to drill the following after class:
I hope to spend 10 minutes drilling each of these for a total of 30 minutes.
- Flower Sweep
- Scissor Sweep
- Side Mount escape
I hope to spend 10 minutes drilling each of these for a total of 30 minutes.
Monday, May 10, 2010
The start of my journey
I am in my second month of training in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (Gracie Jiu Jitsu to be exact). For a few weeks now, I have been documenting my mat time after class. Obviously, I do not show great technique, but only glimses of it. I know that I have a long way to go on my journey down this road, but I am intent on BJJ being a part of the rest of my life.
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