WEDNESDAY BJJ

WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2014 Class today consisted of an hour and a half rolling session with me, Nick, Jason, and John. I grappled with Jason and John. I also focused on getting John to use his weight to apply pressure more forcefully during practices. If he gets really good at that, I think I will wish that I had not encouraged him to do so.

MONDAY JUDO AND BJJ

MONDAY, 26 MAY 2014 It was me, Jason, and John today (Nick had to work). We worked for a long time on sasae tsuri komi ashi, and then Jason and I worked on a combination technique that incorporated sasae to o-soto-gari. The crash pad makes life a lot easier. When we finished, we rotated and had a BJJ session of live rolling. All in all, it went well.

SATURDAY BJJ

SATURDAY, 24 MAY 2014 This past Saturday consisted of me, Nick, Jason, John, and Kyle. It was a question and answer session, along with a spirited rolling session, that lasted about 2 hours.

SATURDAY BJJ & JUDO

SATURDAY, 17 MAY 2014 We had all five belt ranks represented on the mat this morning. Well, except for coral and red, but how often do you see those? We went over a sweep and a guard pass, and spent a good amount of time live rolling. Jason, Kyle, and I practiced judo; the others sat very close by and ran their mouths. Regardless, the three of us worked on o-uchi-gari, both static and with movement. Jason and I randoried for about 20 minutes, with each of us securing takedowns of varying degrees.

FRIDAY NIGHT BJJ & JUDO

FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2014 On Friday, 17 May, we had a quiet party at my home for the Wolfpack Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu group. Nick N., Jason C., John J., Kyle S., and I watched Animal House and talked Jiu-Jitsu for a few hours.

"PROMOTIONS" ON THURSDAY, 15 MAY

Nicholas N. received the second stripe on his brown belt and I received the white "instructor tips" on my black belt this past week from Charles Dos Anjos.

FIRST PRACTICE OF THE NEW YEAR

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.