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I haven’t trained much lately and I’m just coming back to training.  My goals process has really sucked lately. March 2009 ended and I was able to train somewhat regularly.  I missed a few training sessions, but I went to most of them. I had no goals for April 2009 since I didn’t train at [...]

Early afternoon gi class.  It was a really great class. After a heavy warm-up, we paired off and were told to work on game plans.  It was really awesome as I paired up with a purple belt.  We worked on a game plan from stand up, working up to submission, with variations based on how [...]

I’ve been rather busy lately and haven’t trained or blogged as much as I would’ve liked to. And so – -  given that I’m over a month late for my January goals, I’ll just do a quick review.  And since  I didn’t even make any goals for February, I won’t do a review for that. [...]

Early afternoon gi class.  Warm-ups were followed with a bunch of cross guard and reverse shrimping drills.  Techniques were variations of the same techniques as in the last few classes.  We’ve been going on one technique and have been adding variations and counters to it.  Today we added variation number 5.  From the position, your [...]

Given that I won’t be able to train for the rest of the year (sounds like a long time, right?) and the month, it’s time for me to go through my December goals.  They were: December 2008 training goals: Guard Passes Roll more with guys my weight and above I feel that I progressed further [...]

Finally, some real snow in the city!!  After weeks of just flurries or sleet, it’s nice to see some real snow that sticks and actually accumulates.  I love winter!! I missed the jits after monday due to snowboarding (totally worth it) and a last minute scheduled job interview.  The interview was no longer than ten [...]

Skipped my mid-week training session to finish up my last requirements for the fall term at school. Finally the term is done and school is over for the year. Now I can fully enjoy my unemployment!! Today’s class was no-gi. I arrived early and managed to stretch my shoulder a bit, which is good as [...]

Hey, I’ve reached class 123…I like that number, having the digits arranged in order.  I’ve gone through all the the double digits already: 12, 23, 34, 45, 56, 67, 78, 89.  After 123 the next number is 234.  That sounds like a long-time away, considering it’s taken me two and a half years to get [...]

My goal for November was to work on my guard game.  I managed to do that by aiming to play bottom as much as possible.  I did improve a lot and got some kudos on it, but I’m sure it would’ve improved a lot more if I did more drilling outside of class on specific [...]

I’ll be training more often now as I was laid off last week due to a combination of changing job expectations and the bad economy. To maximize my time, I’ve changed my training schedule to the early afternoon class so I can use my evenings to spend time with my fiancee and use the rest [...]