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Evening gi class. Didn’t get to take part of the first class at all.
After a light warm-up and some stretches we went straight to techniques, which were two wrestling type throws. The first was a modified, sliding sideways type of fireman’s carry and the second a sacrificial type of throw from the typical [...]

One and a half, plus a little extra gi class.
I came in, warmed up a little and rolled with the same guy for an hour and a half. We started light, no strength, just technique, and progressed to regular rolling gradually. Afterward, I rolled with another guy for about 10 minutes. Learned [...]

One and a half no gi classes. I’m feeling a little unsatisfied with this class.
I didn’t perform so poorly or anything. Everyone I got paired with had been training for less time than me, so I didn’t get much out of the drills, techniques and rolling.
So this post is short. Nothing to [...]

Evening gi class. I came in early for the second class (or late for the first). And started warming up on the side.
I was able to joined in on the second class, which simply flowed from the first. We were doing the BJ Penn sweep and following that with a quick transition to [...]

This class was a treat because it was a red belt seminar. 9th degree Brazilian Jui-jitsu red belt Master Francisco Mansur was in town and gave a seminar at my BJJ academy.  He’s one of the only six men given a red belt by the legendary Helio Gracie. See his On The Mat Wiki [...]

I have no consistency with going to BJJ.  Ok, I do – I am consistent at missing classes!
Went to a class and a half of no-gi.  Today was big on “that woulda worked on gi”, “I/you woulda tapped if we had the gi”, “that’s a gi move” and so on…
In my frustration, I can’t even [...]

Can’t believe I missed class all this week…it’s not like I was busy and had stuff to do, I was just lazy.  What a bummer…
Anyway, I made a no-gi class, so I should be happy…
I came in late and caught just the tail end of warm-ups.  Technique was a butterfly sweep counter that lands you [...]

No gi class.  I came to BJJ with a stiff neck and a sprained elbow.
Warm-ups then a side-control escape drill, then about 20 minutes of rolling.
The side control escape is the one where you get the outside arm underhook, protect your neck with your other arm hooked on your opponents bicep.  You may have to [...]

Mid-week evening gi class.  A lot of new blue belts today.  A big congratulations to all who got promoted over the weekend!!
I joined the first class very late, but just in time for rolling.  The second class started as open mat, then we reviewed the sweep from the last class.  Then the class went back [...]

Almost thought I wouldn’t get to make jiu-jitsu last week, but fortunately I was able to sneak in a friday night class.
It was a marathon of a class, with long epic rolls. After a good short warm-up, we paired off and worked on the mount elbow-escape to half-guard to a deep half-guard sweep. We [...]