Owner: Slidey's Training Log URL:http://www.slideyfoot.blogspot.com/ Join Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 10:01:39 -0500 Rating:0 Site Description: Detailing (mainly) my Brazilian jiu jitsu training, which I began in Nov 2006 at the Roger Gracie Academy. To a much lesser degree, also includes my experiences in a few other martial arts, particularly Zhuan Shu Kuan. Site statistics:Click here
05/04/2007 - BJJ 2007-04-05 17:03:00 Class #48Roger Gracie Academy (BJJ), Felipe Souza, London, UK - 05/04/2007Not quite so empty as yesterday, but still only around seven or eight people, so much smaller than usual. I was reminded yet again of the eternal truism that it never hurts to work the basics, this time getting really basic: shrimping. I’ve never seen Felipe teach shrimping as a technique before, but that’s exactly what he did today, and I realised that I have in fact been doing what is probably the most fundamental move in BJJ wrong for the past five months. I’ve been pushing off one leg on the inside, rather than pushing off the outside leg, or off both legs.The reason why we did some extra work on shrimping soon became clear, as the rest of class focused on side control escapes. Felipe went through two, both of which we’ve done before, but as my side control sucks it was good to see them again. First, he showed how to recover full guard – bridge, shrimp away from the person on top, grab a knee and pu
04/01/2007 - BJJ 2007-01-04 17:12:00 Class #18Roger Gracie Academy (BJJ), Luciano Cristovam, London, UK – 04/01/2007When I arrived, I was rather surprised to see the advanced class still getting changed. For a moment I thought the class times might have changed or something, but turns out the power only came back on 10 minutes before I got there, having been off since 16:30. This meant that the advanced class and the beginners class were running side by side for about 40mins with a few belts down the middle to divide the groups. A little cramped, to say the least, but we mainly did warm-ups, so wasn’t too bad.Luciano ran class again, which pleased me because it meant I should have another chance to drill the omoplata. He began with the ‘self-defence’ thing again, which I’m not too keen on, but moved swiftly on to the kimura. I’ve done this before in MMA, but quite some time ago, and the set-up this time was much better. Person B grabs Person A’s right wrist with their left hand, sitting up and bringing their
03/01/2007 - BJJ 2007-01-03 17:35:00 Class #17Roger Gracie Academy (BJJ), Luciano Cristovam, London, UK – 03/01/2007The black belts were all still on holiday, apparently, which meant Luciano (a purple belt) took both the beginner and advanced classes, helped by Oli G as usual. I’d found him helpful when he assisted at previous lessons, so knew he’d be a good substitute for Felipe and Jude. I think his surname is Cristovam, though I've also seen a Luciano Cristocam when googling 'Luciano' and 'Roger Gracie Academy' - as vam gets more hits than cam, I'm assuming the latter is a typo. Then again, Oli G can tell me for certain.Mungkorn Dam had PMed me earlier mentioning he was keen to try out the armless triangle, having come across the move in a book recently. Fortunately for us, there was no kids class today, meaning the mats were free for drilling. As Person A underhooks both legs in an attempt to pass the guard, Person B brings their left leg up behind Person A’s head. Instead of trapping an arm and bringing
Training Log: ZSK & Judo - INJURED!! 2005-10-27 00:21:00 26/10/05 – Zhuan Shu Kuan, University of WarwickI skipped ZSK and KJJ yesterday as I thought I’d give my illness one more day to recover, though of course that didn’t stop me being one of a whole three people who turned up to the social last Saturday. Still, even with just three of us (one of whom was simply an old friend of mine who’d never been anywhere near a martial arts class), we had a pretty good time – I even managed to get them to dance inanely to the 60s/70s/80s pop played at ‘Time Tunnel’!As usual, Paddy wasn’t able to make it this Wednesday – sounds like he has fallen ill in the same way I have. I went through a quick warm-up (i.e., couple of jumps, star-jumps etc), stretched, and then got straight onto the heavy bag. I’ve got into a routine of doing five of each kick from the back and then front leg, moving on to punches, and finally combinations, where I try to treat the bag like a sparring partner rather than a big fat pad. I’ve been having trouble Read more:Training
Training Log: Hapkido 2004-11-27 01:05:00 (It was in September that I discovered Achaea, and got rather geeky about it, playing this marvellous text RPG...er...quite a bit. Still, managed to fit in some training back at uni with my ZSK club, and more recently popped down to a Hapkido class advertised in the Metro newspaper that you get free on British public transport. Kickcatcher joined me to experience HKD...)Chang's Hapkido Academy, (Hapkido), Tammy Parlour, London, UK - 26/11/2004Last night, Kickcatcher and I went down to try out Tammy Parlour's club at Top Notch in Blackfriars, due to a free taster session adverstised in an article in 'Metro'.Tammy is very pleasant and friendly, keeping her class relatively informal and trying to be as helpful as possible. She was clearly well-intentioned, not conceited, and believed in what she was doing. Unfortunately, what she was doing fulfilled Kickcatcher's pre-conceptions of the class - typical TMA 'self-defence', focusing on wrist-locks, non-contact and compliant drills.As Read more:Training
My Martial Arts Background 1999-09-30 08:03:00 30/09/1999 – My Martial
Arts BackgroundFull MA experience listed hereFor anyone that wants to know my background in martial arts (as usual, this will be a little long-winded…), I started off with a year of fencing at Yarm School. Up to that point, I had never been especially interested in sports, mainly because I was crap at them all. Fencing appealed to me largely because I’m a geek: I saw it as a way of connecting with the fantasy books I read avidly (and still do, when I get the chance outside of PhD reading) throughout my youth. The same impulse would lead me, somewhat bizarrely, to a brief stint at horse riding in another school. I think I started fencing lessons around 1993/1994, but not completely certain - I do remember it was just before I moved down South.Unfortunately, I wasn't able to keep up the fencing at my new school, so had to wait until 1999 to get back into martial arts. In September of that year, I began my English Lit BA at Warwick University, having spent t Read more:Martial Arts
28/06/2007 - BJJ (Beginner) 2007-06-28 17:25:00 Class #68Roger Gracie Academy (BJJ), Felipe Souza, London, UK - 28/06/2007 – Beginner
sI thought that I’d caught my breath back after the long chat with Grant, but as the class went on, I soon felt pretty knackered. That could just be crap fitness on my part, of course, but nevertheless, was definitely feeling it when it came to sparring.Techniques today focused on escaping side control, starting with coming up to your knees. You lift up your partner, using your forearms against their neck and ribs, using that space to shrimp out. Your arm comes under theirs, reaching back for their gi, enabling you to come to your knees and go for their legs. Your head and leg go up the same side as the knee you’re grabbing, then you drag their knee back and drive through with your head and knee, ending in side control.Felipe followed that with the counter, which was simply to sprawl, grab around their neck and under one arm, drive them to the ground by walking back (which should also free any gr
28/06/2007 - BJJ (No-Gi) 2007-06-28 17:16:00 Class #67Roger Gracie Academy (BJJ), Felipe Souza, London, UK - 28/06/2007 – No-GiMy eye turned out to be ok this morning – either it wasn’t as serious as I thought in the first place, or the ice after class and before bed helped reduce the swelling. I looked a little like I’d had an accident with some dark red mascara, along with some random marks on my nose and lip, but not especially sore in the face (though I could feel it a little in my teeth).Class today focused on takedowns from open guard. Starting from your closed guard, your partner stands up. As they open it up, shift your leg down and push into their knee, at the same time wrapping your other leg around their’s, then finally rising up to wrap an arm around that leg too. Jason emphasised I should try and keep that brace against their knee as long as possible, pushing out in order to break their base. As they move round to try and pass, you should swivel in place posting your hand on the floor. Picking your moment c
27/06/2007 - BJJ (Advanced) 2007-06-27 17:30:00 Class #66Roger Gracie Academy (BJJ), Jude Samuel, London, UK - 27/06/2007 – AdvancedUnusual class tonight, for several reasons. First of all, as there was an odd number of people in the beginners, Jude asked if I fancied doing a bit of sparring in order to even up the groups. I did guard passage with a guy called Roberto, who I think I’ve spoken to before: as usual, I went for the tailbone pass and scissor sweep, also trying to keep the flower sweep and sit-up sweep in mind. Sit-up didn’t work, but it did set me up for a kimura from guard against Roberto. The same thing happened with my other sparring partner, Chet: however, both of those guys are comparatively new. Still, nice to get a few sweeps and passes along with the kimura.That class was drilling the flower sweep before I joined in, which reminded me how Jude does it a little different from people like Rowan Cunningham. Jude grabs an arm first, draws that across the body, bumps them forward and then secures a hold behind t
13/06/2007 - BJJ (Advanced) 2007-06-13 17:39:00 Class #61Roger Gracie Academy (BJJ), Jude Samuel, London, UK - 13/06/2007 – AdvancedI was in two minds about jumping straight into the advanced, as I hadn’t eaten since 13:30, but decided that as this effectively works out as a two hour class in total, might as well go for it. I’m glad I did, as it turned out to be a great first experience.The drills were, unsurprisingly, more complicated. Jude focused on passing spider guard, especially fun as I’ve never come across spider guard before. Well, that’s not quite true: it turns out I have, as Owen has used it on me a lot, I just didn’t know what it was called. Spider guard, as far as I can tell, is a form of open guard in which the person on the bottom has their feet pressed right into the crooks of the top person’s arms, also holding onto their sleeves. In order to pass, the first technique is that Person A brings their arm round and underneath one of Person B’s legs, then pushes that downwards. Person A then walks around
12/07/2007 - BJJ (Beginners) 2007-07-12 17:36:00 Class #72Roger Gracie Academy (BJJ), Jude Samuel, London, UK - 12/07/2007 – BeginnersBad news for my bashed up chin in the beginners class, as the session was all about scarf hold escapes, some of which end with a rear naked choke. However, my training partners Ben and Grant took it easy on the submission, so hopefully the growing bruise on my chin will now have some time to heal before next week.The lesson was an exact repeat of the Big Brother session we had back in January, though minus the cameras and in a slightly different order. Good to get a refresh on those scarf hold escapes, as I realised I’d forgotten a rather essential part of the first one: making a frame.For the first, you pull your trapped elbow to the ground, then grab your other wrist to make a frame against your partner’s neck. Move your legs towards your head, then sit up and bring your leg over their head, driving through to put Person A on their side. Swing your leg right over, then slide your heel right int
12/07/2007 - BJJ (No-Gi) 2007-07-12 17:31:00 Class #71Roger Gracie Academy (BJJ), Jude Samuel, London, UK - 12/07/2007 – No-GiMy chin has got a bit bashed up recently, and I’ve developed a friction burn, probably from rubbing against my own gi collar. Rather annoying, but at least no-gi meant the friction was a little reduced.Felipe had to leave before class started, so Jude took over – I thought he’d already gone on holiday, but I guess his flight must be a little later on. We began with double-legs and ‘pummelling’, which I’ve heard of before but not sure if I’ve actually done (if I have, then it would have been years ago at one of the Kevin O’Hagan classes in Bristol). Basically, each person has one arm overhooked around their partner’s arm, while their other arm underhooks in order to grip round the back. Pummeling is where your switch from arm to arm, the eventual aim being to get both underhooks, which enables the takedown.That takedown is what Jude showed us next. Having got the double underhooks, you p
11/07/2007 - BJJ (Advanced) 2007-07-11 17:02:00 Class #70Roger Gracie Academy (BJJ), Jude Samuel, London, UK - 11/07/2007 – AdvancedI was thinking about going along to the beginners class, but the department meeting made the decision for me: it ran until six something, meaning I was only able to make the advanced session as usual.All the techniques tonight followed on from the same set-up. From closed guard, you start by opening up their gi, then pulling them down towards you. Simultaneously, grab the fabric of their lapel edge down the bottom of the gi with your same side hand (let’s say the right). Pull that up and around their neck, switching your grip to the left hand and dragging down tightly. Having got them in close, you then feed the lapel back to your right hand, getting a deep grip on their collar. Your left hand grabs the material behind their head firmly. Maintaining that hold, you bring your left forearm over, then press it into the other side of their neck, tightening for a cross choke using the lapel (if I'm usin
10/07/2007 - BJJ (Advanced) 2007-07-10 16:01:00 Class #69Roger Gracie Academy (BJJ), Felipe Souza, London, UK - 10/07/2007 – AdvancedI took last week off due to flu, but felt sufficiently recovered to try out the new Tuesday one hour advanced gi class. I wasn’t 100%, but thought that as it was only an hour, that should be a good way to get back into training. Unfortunately for me, this wasn’t an ordinary session. Pretty much the whole of that one hour was spent sparring.Things kicked off with specific sparring from side control. I was with Owen, who normally gives me a good beating with his open guard. Tonight, I was either squashed underneath his side control, or flung about on top. At least this thorough arse kicking gave me a chance to work escapes from underneath, which is exactly what I’d been hoping to focus on. I was remembering to get my forearm into position pressing against my opponent’s neck, with another forearm digging into their ribs. However, I had trouble pushing up to make any space, generally remaining tr
18/07/2007 - BJJ (Beginners) 2007-07-18 16:37:00 Class #73Roger Gracie Academy (BJJ), Marcio Gomes, London, UK - 18/07/2007 – BeginnersEnded up not making the Tuesday sparring class after all, because I forgot I had a dentists appointment that day. Finally got my third wisdom tooth extracted, which has been bothering me for years, but that meant that I apparently couldn’t do “vigorous exercise”, as that would raise my blood pressure and therefore cause excessive bleeding.Today I had yet another excuse, though somewhat random: I had to bake a cake. No, really. It’s a thing my department does every week, which due to the size of our branch means that people generally end up doing it once a year each. This week its my turn.Still, I could at least fit in the beginners, and that would give my tooth (or rather, my gum) a bit more time to recover. Class was taken by Marcio, unusually, who I first met back at the Brighton Throwdown. I was looking forward to seeing what a typical Gracie Barra Brighton class would be like: as it turn
19/07/2007 - BJJ (Beginners) 2007-07-19 17:15:00 Class #74Roger Gracie Academy (BJJ), Maurição Gomes, London, UK - 19/07/2007 – BeginnersI’ve been having a very absentminded week. Started off by leaving my flip flops in Birmingham, then almost missing a bus despite leaning on the bus stop. I proceeded to sign the kids register, then today I forgot to pack my rash guard, so could only make the beginners session tonight. At least I remembered to bake that cake yesterday…although my mum did kinda take over (probably out of frustration at seeing me plod through a recipe she’s been doing long before I was even born).Anyway, onto the BJJ. It’s a shame I had to miss the no-gi, as Maurição was teaching. However, on the other hand that did mean I was fully rested for the beginners, so could really concentrate on what he was saying. This lesson reminded me once again of Jude’s description of his teacher Maurição as a fine wine: one of the great things about training at RGA is the opportunity to learn from world-class people l
25/07/2007 - BJJ (Advanced) 2007-07-25 17:00:00 Class #76Roger Gracie Academy (BJJ), Roger Gracie, London, UK - 25/07/2007 – AdvancedI was feeling sufficiently ok to go for the advanced class. Roger ran a fairly similar session, again starting off with an armbar from guard. However, this was done rather differently, as more of a speed drill rather than the technical demonstration in the previous class. Roger wanted everyone to get through as many repetitions as possible in 30 seconds for each arm, then switched to the same thing but with a leg up. Instead of shrimping to get the right angle, you grab the arm, then underhook the leg and swivel into place. Will be good to see the technique demonstrated, though it looks pretty similar to the variation from standing guard I’ve seen.Roger then moved on to armbar from mount, and this time did go into detail. Keeping your hands tight to either side of their head, you walk you knees up to high mount. Slip a hand into the opposite collar, while shifting your knee up to their head, trappi
25/07/2007 - BJJ (Beginners) 2007-07-25 16:00:00 Class #75Roger Gracie Academy (BJJ), Roger Gracie, London, UK - 25/07/2007 – BeginnersThere was a lot of talent in the room when I walked in, as a bunch of black belts – including both Felipe and Roger - grappled on the mats, while Maurição looked on. I recognised Leo, who I’m still sure must have some kind of judo in his background: he landed a number of throws on his sparring partners. The other Brazilian I’ve noticed over the past few weeks with blonde hair was also on the mats, and as I’d suspected is yet another black belt.Roger took the class today, and kicked off with the basic trip, osoto gari. He taught it slightly differently to how I’ve seen before, as normally the process is to step past your opponent, then drag them in that direction, pulling down on their arm and up on their shoulder. Roger’s version was to step through and then pull your partner tight into your chest, so you end up standing parallel, before sweeping the leg to take them down. Always good
26/07/2007 - BJJ (Beginners) 2007-07-26 17:00:00 Class #77Roger Gracie Academy (BJJ), Nick Gregoriades, London, UK - 26/07/2007 – BeginnersOnly just noticed my link to fellow RGAer Will’s blog was broken – now fixed, so if anyone clicked earlier on Bill Koplitz and got a 404 error, should now work. If you’re into travel (with a bit of surfing thrown in), then I’d strongly recommend you check it out: seems Will has been just about everywhere!I decided against the no-gi tonight, as I was still feeling fairly bashed up from yesterday. The elbow remains a little bruised, but I mainly want to rest the left bicep, which felt really sore most of today. Probably from drilling - and then getting caught in - lots of armbars yesterday.Nick G took the class today, which is always interesting. First, he went through an arm throw, as a response to if they grab the collar by your chest. With your same side arm, you come around and over and grab their collar. To reduce the force of their hold, Nick instructed us to drop our elbow into our
05/08/2007 - Bristol Open (BJJ) 2007-08-05 17:00:00 UWE Centre for Sports, Bristol
Open (Competition), Pedro Bessa, Bristol, UK - 05/08/2007First tournament, first loss. Not that any of these affected the eventual outcome (I lost because the other guy successfully applied his technique, whereas I didn’t), but I do wish I had a better two weeks in the run up to the event. Kicked off with the minor irritation of losing my gumshield on the Thursday, followed by the rather more serious irritation of finding my parent’s house had been burgled on the Friday. I then managed to fall ill during Monday, which I hadn’t quite shaken off by the time the competition rolled around on Sunday.I think its likely my illness - which is the second I’ve had in a fairly short space of time - was brought on by cutting weight. I’ve been maintaining between 60-61.5kg for over a month now, which probably wasn’t healthy. So next time, I reckon it would be more sensible to simply try and eat properly, not merely eat less, and then compete at whatever we
09/08/2007 - BJJ (Beginners) 2007-08-09 17:20:00 Class #80Roger Gracie Academy (BJJ), Maurição Gomes, London, UK - 09/08/2007 – BeginnersI was considering skipping the beginners, but decided that I didn’t feel too terrible after sparring so could handle another 45 minutes of training. After going through the arm throw (of which I only caught the tail end, having picked the wrong moment to pop to the toilet), we moved onto techniques from knee on belly. First, Maurição showed the armbar from knee on belly, although I’m not quite sure I understood it correctly. As far as I can tell, popping up to knee on belly, you drag their arm up, then bring your leg over and fall back. Making sure you pull that arm right up is important, as otherwise they can slip their elbow down and escape.That was followed by a sliding choke from knee on belly (at least I think that’s the right term). I was a little confused initially, as I thought it would be the same set up as for the usual cross choke, but hand positioning is a little different. A
09/08/2007 - BJJ (No-Gi) 2007-08-09 17:00:00 Class #79Roger Gracie Academy (BJJ), Maurição Gomes, London, UK - 09/08/2007 – No-GiStill felt a little dodgy during the day, but didn’t want to miss yet another advanced class: its been over a fortnight since my last one. As we were going to have the pleasure of Maurição teaching again, I’m glad I decided to turn up. Also meant I could pick up my shiny bronze medal, which is more elaborate than I expected: little picture and ‘Bristol Open 2007’ written on it, making for an attractive souvenir of my first event. He started with a technique for switching to the back from an over under clinch (which I think the name for when you’ve got one hand on their head, the other on their bicep – its in Mastering Jujitsu, but haven’t got my copy with me). Duck underneath the bicep you’re holding, maintaining that grip without moving the arm, then move round behind them and grab them around the waist.To change this into a take down and arm triangle, the technique is slightly di
08/08/2007 - BJJ (Beginners) 2007-08-08 17:00:00 Class #78Roger Gracie Academy (BJJ), Maurição Gomes, London, UK - 08/08/2007 – BeginnersI was still feeling a bit under the weather today, but decided that I should at the very least be able to do the beginners. If I felt ok at the end of that, I’d do the advanced as well, but I wasn’t about to force myself. Not to mention an excuse to wimp out is always welcome. :pMaurição took class today, which automatically means an interesting session. We started off with the basic trip (pull them to one side, step through, sweep the leg), something which I really should have tried at the Bristol Open. Instead of attempting anything, I just clung on to my opponent: if only everything was as easy as drilling. Judo would be the obvious way to improve my stand-up, but that bad experience with an injury last time I tried the sport continues to put me off for the moment.Maurição then moved on to some fundamental techniques from the guard. First off, the tailbone break he’s showed us befo
15/08/2007 - BJJ (Beginners) 2007-08-15 16:00:00 Class #81Roger Gracie Academy (BJJ), Maurição Gomes, London, UK - 15/08/2007 – BeginnerNoticed last Friday that Nick G’s class at the Vie Gym has its own site, under Roger Gracie Vie Academy. Its on 122 Clerkenwell Road, which isn’t too far from Farringdon tube station. As my department is moving to an office in Farringdon, I’d like to finally pop down to one of the classes – Nick is a great instructor, and I’m told the classes are still comparatively small so you get plenty of attention. Didn’t see Nick listed under the instructors, but presumably that’s just a mistake: I thought he and Helio were the main teachers there, but perhaps I’m wrong.Anyway, getting back to tonight’s class at RGA. Like last time, Maurição focused on the arm triangle, with a different set-up. First, he showed how to get the arm triangle from half guard. If they move to one side, you take that opportunity to wrap up their arm, gripping behind their head and thereby clamping their arm to
18/08/2007 - Belfast Throwdown 2007-08-18 11:00:00 Belfast Throwdown, Bullshido, Birmingham, UK – 17-19/08/2007I flew in from Birmingham International to Belfast International on the Friday evening – should have arrived at 18:00, but various delays meant I eventually arrived more like 20:00. At first I wasn’t sure how to get the ticket for the bus, as the desk saying ‘buy tickets here’ helpfully wasn’t staffed, but I noticed a poster saying you could get them from the driver. The stop is just outside the airport, over the road and to the left. Return to Belfast is £9, taking between 30 to 40 minutes: Europa Buscentre is normally the stop you want.Das Moose (Mark), Megalef (Johannes) and adouglasmhor (Dougie) were waiting for me at the bus station, though I somehow managed to walk past them…twice. Ahem. Anyway, once we managed to notice eachother, went back to Mark’s place and watched the awesomeness that is Flash Gordon. Forgot how kick-ass that fabulous exercise in camp really is (in fact, I think I can safely say its
30/08/2007 - BJJ (No-Gi) 2007-08-30 16:07:00 Class #84Roger Gracie Academy (BJJ), Felipe Souza, London, UK - 30/08/2007 – No-GiBasic point Felipe reminded me of today, which was to always grip under the head and arm when sprawling, as otherwise they can shift round to your back due to the space you’re leaving. That was followed by more work on the clinch, with some interesting defence against double underhooks. First position Felipe showed us was when they try to get double underhooks, before they can come in close and break your posture, you push back on their hips. Keep doing that until you make sufficient space to slip in an arm and recover your underhook.The second option was when they’ve got double underhooks and have moved round to the side. Put your left hand on their head, then with your right arm come underneath their armpit and grab your own wrist. Sprawling backwards, push their head down right to the floor. Once their, you have several options, two of which I drilled with Chris. Having got a secure grip, move ro
29/08/2007 - BJJ (Advanced) 2007-08-29 16:10:00 Class #83Roger Gracie Academy (BJJ), Maurição Gomes, London, UK - 29/08/2007 – AdvancedI felt sufficiently ok for the advanced class, unlike a fortnight ago when I dragged myself home after the beginners. The first technique was a little confusing, but I think it was a defence against a single-leg. As they go for the takedown (with a leg and an arm wrapped round), you reach back between your legs and grab the trouser of the leg they’ve got curled around your limb. You also grab the back of their gi. Pulling up on their leg, fall parallel by their side, still holding their leg, then push on their knee with your outside leg. This will provide space to bring your leg out and round, so you can then move into side control.Maurição then went through a variation where you press heavily on their leg with your knee, also pulling up on their gi collar. Drag their other leg behind you, then swing all the way over with the leg you had been using to drive down into them. Switch your base, f
29/08/2007 - BJJ (Beginners) 2007-08-29 16:00:00 Class #82Roger Gracie Academy (BJJ), Maurição Gomes, London, UK - 29/08/2007 – BeginnerAugust has been a strange month. Since dropping weight for the Bristol Open, I’ve been fluctuating from slightly woozy to bedridden, not really feeling 100% at any point in the past four weeks. I took last week off entirely to try and finally shake the sick feeling clogging up my head, which has at least partially paid off in that I felt well enough to train tonight. I had been considering training on Tuesday, but from what Owen said about the class, I’m glad I didn’t: apparently lots of over-enthusiastic aggressive noobs resulted in various injuries. I was expecting to see some kind of celebratory sign to commemorate Roger’s momentous double gold at the Mundials – as there had been after he beat Waterman in his MMA debut - but there was only a congratulatory note on the whiteboard. Also hadn’t expected Roger himself to be back so soon (though he didn’t take the class, I saw him in
20/09/2007 - BJJ (Beginners) 2007-09-20 17:00:00 Class #90Roger Gracie Academy (BJJ), Felipe Souza, London, UK - 20/09/2007 – BeginnersI felt ok after the no-gi, particularly as I’d made sure I got enough sleep last night, so moved on to the beginners. Like in the advanced, Felipe went through the side control escape drill, which I’ve always liked because both people are involved. Just to remind myself: push up, shrimp out, swivel to your front and grab the back of their knees. Felipe paused to emphasise good posture: pull yourself forward and up so your head is higher than your hips, then bring your knees into position. Put a leg up on the same side as your head, then drive through to side control using your head and leg.Felipe then followed up with the usual side control escape, where you shrimp back to guard. In sparring this worked a few times for me, especially getting half-guard first by throwing you far leg over their near leg to trap it. As I’d been hearing from Owen, the current crop of beginners are a tad aggressive
20/09/2007 - BJJ (No-Gi) 2007-09-20 16:59:00 Class #89Roger Gracie Academy (BJJ), Felipe Souza, London, UK - 20/09/2007 – No-GiHooray, finally made two classes tonight! I was a little confused by the technique, which I think was a Brabo choke, but will have to check that with someone more knowledgeable (by which I normally mean Oli). As they go for your leg, sprawl back until you break your grip, putting one arm into their neck, the other under an armpit. Move round their body, then switch the arm by the neck from the far to the near side. Grab their far elbow with your other arm, then also grab that same elbow with the neck arm. Pull it towards you and drive forward to put them on their side.This is where I got a bit lost. If I recall Chris’ directions rightly, you switch your arms, so that the left arm is now slipping underneath their arm and their neck. That reaches right through (trying to get your elbow to their neck and shoulder deep inside) for your right bicep. Grip, then bring the hand of your right arm to their side
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