SATURDAY, 4 JANUARY 2014
Today marked the first practice session of 2014 for me and the crew, and also the first practice at the new AFR facility. I have to say that the practice area is fantastic. It is approximately 4000 sq. ft. of contiguous mat space, so we sould have 3-4 standing judo randori sessions, and probably 10 BJJ grounds sessions, going on simultaneously.
For BJJ, it was me, Kyle, and Jason. We worked on headlock escapes on the ground. We were not working on escaping kesa gatame, but escaping pure headlocks where the opponent does not have an arm. I figure that we should work on something "simple" like that since the idiots on the street might just grab onto our heads and not let go.
For judo, Tony M. and Robert P. joined in with our "non-professional" group of aspiring judoka. We will have to use each other to see what we are doing right and wrong, and we will have to drill the throws relentlessly.
We went over a modified o-soto-gari, sasae-tsuri-komi-ashi, and ko-uchi-gari. The crash pad helped tremendously, of course, since we could throw. We did not randori.
Today marked the first practice session of 2014 for me and the crew, and also the first practice at the new AFR facility. I have to say that the practice area is fantastic. It is approximately 4000 sq. ft. of contiguous mat space, so we sould have 3-4 standing judo randori sessions, and probably 10 BJJ grounds sessions, going on simultaneously.
For BJJ, it was me, Kyle, and Jason. We worked on headlock escapes on the ground. We were not working on escaping kesa gatame, but escaping pure headlocks where the opponent does not have an arm. I figure that we should work on something "simple" like that since the idiots on the street might just grab onto our heads and not let go.
For judo, Tony M. and Robert P. joined in with our "non-professional" group of aspiring judoka. We will have to use each other to see what we are doing right and wrong, and we will have to drill the throws relentlessly.
We went over a modified o-soto-gari, sasae-tsuri-komi-ashi, and ko-uchi-gari. The crash pad helped tremendously, of course, since we could throw. We did not randori.
