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First morning back to work and didnt sleep in but feel like i'm getting nothing accomplished today... the dogs sleep and I wait to eat. Where oh where is an interesting post from Mona... living vicariously through Stan's post is not what I was looking forward to :P
YouTube says they now pay out over $100,000 per year to “thousands” of creators on the site. This is very good news, it is very cool. I am very pleased to be one of those creators.
In order to make $100,000 off of the success of YouTube, you could either be one of those...
This actually makes me want to add a monthly goal of just "making" something..... what I'm not sure, but it just seems like having that goal and philosophy would give me a warm fuzzy.
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We only worked on the first one - but this is the best video I found at the time for it - and it had a bunch of other sweeps that look interesting.
Mark Massey demonstrating the Tripod Sweep from Guard. Gracie Barra Idaho www.masseybjj.com
Wednesday's Class reminder: Lesson 1 Tripod Sweep
Wednesday windup
Wednesdays are normally pretty good as I have bjj and make no excuses not to go as it's the one day my bro has off to go train. So he cancelled because he was sick. Which meant I was flying solo. It was good though I got to train with a bigger blue belt who got to make me look silly even if I put my weight into it. He's taller though so it was difficult to do a couple of moves with the concern about knee on groin but it worked. He on the other had got full cup. A couple of times. Cut in thank you to Joe Rogan and the diamond cup as I didn't feel a thing. Anyway we did 4 basic things Half guard to side control basic Which involved 2 collar grip before moving down to a gable grip double leg to allow u to step over. All while using head/shoulder to maintain their spine on the mat. The other method involves and underhook and head to head control while scooting up This was where u would put knee on chest to allow it to slide out. And pull out ankle or "kick" it out. I'll probably work on the first one more. As the second is harder for me ATM especially vs someone tall Then we did side control and mount escape drills nothing new but I got a heavy sweat on and didn't stop. I got swept a lot quicker than last time obviously The lesson was patience though both the instructor discussed slowly advancing and imposing your will and even seeing how Jeff was so easily able to transition and sweep me by locking in one part at a time. Was good. And now it's time for tuf:Canada. Later R.
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Yesterday's Entry was delayed
Wednesday's are always good as I have managed to convince my younger brother (2 years) to come out and roll with me @ the white to blue BJJ class. Its his only day off of the week so I appreciate the effort.
There's a weight disadvantage but he's real good about it.
We worked on standing Guillotine attempts and counters before doing some side control escape attempts, so mostly new things. After that we got to drill some mount escapes.Â
The typical "sparring" drill is always difficult for me since i'm much heavier than 2/3 the class - so i feel a bit odd and i have to carefully select opponents and behave - I was happy to roll with a taller blue belt that was content to work his escapes, i was able to get out of a couple triangle attempts and block a decent arm bar before finally shucking him and getting into side control - i immediately lost to my brother next but I was a bit spent from that.
Here's the Renzo Gracie Video that describes the guillotine work:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mUx5kjBhTS0
unrelated, but funny.
If you’re a serious grappler, you’re in for a treat this week. Whether you’re a long-time grappler or new to the sport, these 7 articles by our athletes and coaches will help you train, compete, and build some muscle along the way.
Adding Muscle With Kettlebells: How I Build Up My Grapplers (Andrew Read)
At times I’ve worked with fighters and grapplers who need to put on weight due to their desired competition weight class. This is the program I used to put muscle on them with kettlebells.
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4 Ways To Be a Good Grappling Partner: Getting Started in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (Valerie Worthington)
One thing I have become pretty good at is helping people feel comfortable drilling and training with me; this, in turn helps me have a more enjoyable training experience.
3 Workouts to Build Explosive Strength for BJJ (Sally Arsenault)
These 3 workouts are designed specially for BJJ and MMA athletes to build strength and explosiveness for sport-specific movements. Work these into your strength and conditioning days.
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The Chore's you Hate, but once started mostly love.
It's still cold out, but it reminds me that while I do hate most chores that there are a select few that I enjoy once I start them. And by select few I mean mainly walking the dog(s). When it is not freezing cold and you're concerned with black ice then often a good walk can dull any bad mood I have. It only occasionally enhances it when it takes him over an hour to go though.
Today was a quick day:
I played 30 minutes of Rocksmith Finally just to stretch out my fingers again - I think that switching from note to note and the awkwardness of hand/finger positioning is going to be my first major hurtle.
5x5 was restarted on day A
45/45/65 (yes i know i can probably start with more but I'm using the phone app and wanted to just start).
I didn't get to BJJ because i had goofed off for too long today, so that is bad - but am trying to schedule time to go out with my brother for some BJJ tomorrow.
Until next time, stay froggy my friends.
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Rest is over
It's Monday, and I'm about to go to bed. I really did not accomplish much this weekend in terms of my goals, but I did finally do some house chores that needed to be done - not many but enough to satisfy the woman, I hope. It didn't help that this was a big Saturday for sports... first a UFC, then Canada losing, then the Chiefs losing, then the Saints winning...
I really should find something to do that is useful if another marathon session like that comes up. Maybe a grip exercise would work, anything would be better than playing on my phone.
I really need to get back into the new schedule i'm trying to work up to, and add guitar practice in.
1 week of vacation is left but I really want to use it to setup the next few weeks with good habits and a "no need to catch up" feeling.
I'm going to also try and make a conscious effort here not to delve into anything personal as much as possible (relationships, family etc) - if you want a soap opera blog I suggest somewhere else.
So yes that was my weekend in a nut shell, and a welcome warning for anyone thinking that this will be a opportunity to get insider information.
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Friday Night BJJ
White-Blue @ the local location.
First class of the new year, and really first class since I signed up. I got to work a lot of different things.
First was more of the Upa Escape: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH82cdfY1H0Â
We also drilled the person in the mount curling their hand out to avoid getting that arm trapped. Which leads me to thing the thought that it would be a good escape for someone my size, that it may be harder to execute than I thought.
Second was the Elbow Escape: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wxr5RqtYZ_cÂ
I need to drill this a lot because I found that it was harder to have proper technique than buck my partner and scramble to achieve the same result of getting a knee high and into half guard vs having the proper hand technique.
Finally we had just mount control and escapes - of which its hard to tell how well I did, my partners second class of the day and a weight difference of 100lbs... I knew just enough to surprise him and press down on him to cause him difficulty... most of it being queasy from his late meal before the first class...
It was good to get out even though I was angling to not go to class.
Until Tomorrow.
Today's BJJHQ.com (Black) GI that is now sold out looks amazing and definitely competes with the Aurora Gi above in white. I would have bought the Black one for sure if it was allowed at the gym.
