First thing’s first, congratulations to Charlee on her blue belt. She’s been training off and on for about 3 years, but has really kicked it into high gear lately and it shows. And check out this video that Matt Hickney put together for Rick. Very cool: BJJ training is moving right along. I’ve been training [...]
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Black Belt, baby. Yeah!
That’s right. Today, I bought my black belt in BJJ right off the interweb. It was SO easy. Okay, okay. April fool’s day or not, I can’t bring myself to fake it. Instead, check this article out on Cracked.com. It’s all about 7 guys who tried to fake it and got busted. It’s an article [...]
Competition revisited
Reading Dev’s latest post really got me thinking again about competition. I wrote a rather longwinded article on this very subject almost two years ago (holy crap! I’ve been blogging for THAT LONG???). In that article, I gave five reasons that I believe competition is important to one’s BJJ training, even if I hate doing [...]
Pressure in Jiu Jitsu
Jiu Jitsu is a lot like Shrek. Layers. Lots of layers. Ogres have layers. Jiu Jitsu has layers. I’ve been working on deep half guard, along with a specific technique or two from each position. Bullfighter pass here, deep half guard there, yada, yada. Also in the form of disclaimer, these are my blue belt [...]
Sunday Class
As things start to ramp up for the March 13th Revolution grappling tournament, our guys are pushing harder and harder in sparring. This is a fun time at class, where the mood is both lighter and more intense at the same time… if that makes sense. Warmups tend to be lighter, and technical instruction seems [...]
Ordered Orange Dye for Bingo
Maybe I’ll be dying Orange Crush for Bingo this weekend. I’m also going to dye Ryan’s Teko gi, too. I think gray for him, although he’s given me carte blanche to dye it whatever color I want. Maybe I’ll surprise him with a Gene Lebell special. I’m planning to take pictures of the process. I’ve [...]
Quick Post of Jamie’s Purple Haze Gi
I’m still on vacation, but wanted to put up a quick picture of Jamie and the Purple Haze gi I dyed for him a few months back. Picture was taken with my iPhone, so it’s not that clear.
Cool Article about MMA
http://www.sbnation.com/2010/2/10/1300771/meeting-mma-outsiders-encounter While not surprising to MMA fans, the article’s author, Andrew Sharp, captures the essence of what probably drew us all in.
Wednesday Class
Good class last night, Bing. Scott, our newest brown belt, ran warmups, and then we split up for technique. Trevin worked with the newer white belts on side control escapes, and I’m not sure what Rick was doing over with the 3 and 4 stripe white belts. We did some sparring drills, starting with guard [...]
