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BJJ Session # 23 – Bottom half
Back to class and into drilling techniques from bottom half guard. Our prof outlined some of the structure of the curriculum that we’ll be covering over the next few months, the weekly/monthly cycles,...
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BJJ Session # 24 – Rinse, Repeat
Since I’m really only able to attend classes twice a week, aside from the occasional open mat, the ideal set up would be if the first class would be on either Tues/Wed and the second on Thur/Fri. The...
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BJJ Session # 25 – RNC
We continued this week with working from bottom half guard, with the focus on taking the back. Previously, after we had worked to overcome 1 ) being flat on our back, 2) the cross-face and 3) the...
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Edmonton Women’s open mat #2
Round 2 of the (hopefully) ongoing Edmonton women’s open mat series has been announced. Here’s the link to our gym’s website for more detailed information, along with the link to the Facebook event...
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BJJ Session # 26/27 – Survive
One perspective which you could look at life from would be this: life is about reps. The more reps you get at something the better you get. The fewer reps you have at something, the worse you are. The...
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BJJ Session # 28 – Break
I was sick last week and as a result had about a 10 day break between BJJ sessions. Sometimes it’s good to take a break from something that’s ongoing. They say a break is as good as a change, probably...
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BJJ Session # 29 – Return
After my last break due to illness I had a brief (thankfully) stomach flu that wiped away another week of BJJ. I was only really (violently) ill for about 8 hours, but it took a few more days to feel...
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BJJ Session # 30 – Happy
We watched a documentary last night after BJJ called “Happy“. It’s a look at what it means to be happy, it’s importance to individuals and communities and the science behind how it all works. I...
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BJJ Session # 31, 32 & 33 – Bump
The rest of my life has been really inconsiderate lately and thus I’ve got behind on a few things. I’ve been working out again. Only twice a week, but have a program in place in advance of Maui in May....
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BJJ Session # 34 – Opposable
The last couple of days have been a lesson in just how important some things are that we take for granted. Coffee mugs, door knobs, cell phones, frying pans… it’s a long list of things that become very...
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Ease
In the midst of a busy domestic schedule, I staged a heroic BJJ comeback from a life-threatening thumb boo-boo injury. I was worried that this was going to derail any momentum I had built up, but with...
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Progressive
Unbelievably, we’re coming up on the 6 month mark since starting BJJ. It’s funny to think that at this point last year, BJJ was nowhere near our radar, but now it’s become a pretty central organizing...
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Why combatives?
I found Kelly Starrett’s blog about a year ago when I started to get back into strength training and I was having some anterior hip issues. Long story short, his blog is a gold mine for those that are...
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June Women’s Open Mat and ‘Free The Girls’
June Women’s Open Mat and ‘Free The Girls’. Filed under: BJJ
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Retreat
Except that instead of the subject being a German-Turkish crime lord, Verbal Kint is talking about my ability to get to (or write about) BJJ regularly. Lots has happened since April (!), mostly just...
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PFD & ship building
Waaaaay back at the end of April we had our semi-annual (but a first for us) grading and seminar. The Master of the BJJ lineage we train under, Mater Sylvio Behring, comes to town a couple times a...
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Dose
I’m honestly pretty impressed with people who are able to write/blog regularly while leading a “normal” life (i.e. they don’t write for a living). I’ve had the best of intentions but free time tends to...
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Assume
I didn’t live in Japan for very long, just under a year and a half, so I can’t really claim to have all this worldly insight from my time there. It was really good for me, and it opened my eyes to the...
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