Month: April 2021

Curriculums: Close out on whatever themes you guys were working on with every group

Word of the Month: Close out on theme of Loyalty and ways to be loyal and ideas you have touched on already

Announcements: The Special guests are booked, please let the students know about the Seminars, Limited Slots, The level of the fighters, and that this is the last week of the current schedule.

10:30Am-12pm: No Gi Jiu Jitsu

12:15pm-1:45pm: MMA

2pm: BBQ/Party at Ted Wright Memorial Park

Prices: $75 for one Session and $125 for Both

If you guys are free and would like to help set up with anything just get with Jara.

I can afford to get you guys 25% off for this Seminar Set if interested in attending and I hope you guys are.

Congrats to Moon on his victory this weekend. 2-0 as a pro now. The guys at Rush did great as well going 3-1 for the night too. Good day for the Middle GA Fighters. Now we’re gonna have to ramp back up to train for future adversaries and get some of our students grappling and Kickboxing, but lets cool down for the next week or two and relax and just focus on some of the other things we got going on. 5/1 – 4 year anniversary going to have Thiago Moises and maybe another individual doing some seminar(s) as well as a big outdoor gathering/ bbq at Ted Wright Memorial Park on Moody just up from the academy. It’ll be a great way to celebrate the academy and its students. We also have a Combatives Seminar I’ll be doing on Interior Defense, everything you need to protect your home against an intruder or an unfortunate active shooter scenario.10am-4pm on that one 5/15. Let’s let the students know what’s happening with that. Also I may go to Colorado toward the end of May  to aid with a Combatives course for the Air Force 5/10-6/3. Ill only go for a week -2 max and it’ll likely be toward the tail end. I appreciate you guys covering for me as I get more details.

Also here’s just M-W. I’ll get the schedule fine tuned and techniques in the AM. we’re a little under manned TH/F, but not a big deal, im just too tired to think as im writing this. I hope everyone had a great weekend. I saw some good JJ on the mats last week. Keep up the good work.

 

Beginners: Hook Sweep Continued

-Shrimp to guard from half guard

-Steering wheel hook Sweep we’ve been working on

-Shrimp to guard from half guard into hook sweep

-Half Guard pass to side mount

 

Advanced: Butterfly guard to top position continued

Alright guys, lets push the word of the month loyalty hard this month. go in deep on the importance of loyalty and share some insight on who and what you’re loyal to.

Moon is fighting Saturday, Lets fucking go!!!!! I know many of you will be at the fight, as you can see on the schedule we will have a viewing party at the academy for him…no cost. It’ll be on the mats, Projector screen, 8pm is when we will start that. he will likely fight around 10 or after I bet, being the main event, I think 10:30. Please be there if you can’t make it in Atlanta, Let’s really show the love and support to our first MMA Fighter of 2021.

Moon, I threw you on the schedule very little this week, cause I don’t need cranky weight cutting week moon snapping on someone asking you “are you excited” when you’re 141 lbs . With Jara gone on Mondays now, grab that front desk when Jesse is on the mat and sit and hang out. IF you need anything just ask. Ill be around alot as well.

With that said, HOOK SWEEP!!!!!! Since this sweep lands you in the top position, where we recently worked from, continue your half guard passes into mount or side mount wherever you finished up with your crew in march ( I know for instance morning crew goes places the evening crew doesn’t, so thats what I mean) This will be the only time I say this, ever….I’ve seen the 7-9s get this sweep better than I saw the adults in that evening fundamentals….They’ll get it, I call it the scissor sweep of the butterfly guard to put their minds at ease, give it  a try if you’re looking for any edge you can get :).

 

Sorry for putting this up late tonight, I tried earlier today but we had a web issue. All fixed now thanks to Isaiah.

Hey guys, We got alot coming up. Moon fights in two weeks. This is a taper week for him and “cut” week is next week. Give him the training he needs, but don’t do things that are unsafe. Victory is soon. This month I’m going to operate in the butterfly guard. Week one, hook sweep. For beginners I like to have them start one leg up, one leg down collar and sleeve and steering wheel them over.

Once you get on top, side mount, you guys can move into submissions, even the stuff you did last week to cap off half guard passing to submission. You can also show shrimp to guard  from bottom half guard and how that goes right into this hook sweep we are talking about. I think thats a good setup.

 

If anyone asks or shows incredible interest in this guard. This month im offering a 5 part Butterfly Guard lesson. I will adapt it for the student, but basically I’ll give them a game. filled with escapes to, retention, attacks, and a game plan. Don’t push it, don’t announce it at class. But after this month, my mind is going to go elsewhere and I won’t want to show this probably. The cost is $500 cash money if you mention it to them. I have one student (franko) who Im going to turn into a savage starting this week. If you’re an instructor and want to sit in Ill have you be camera man or Uke, or fly on the wall. Happy to help.

 

Word of the Month Loyalty.

giving or showing firm and constant support or allegiance to a person or institution.

Ask them who or what they should be loyal to?

family, parents, church, country, JJ school, school team sport, may come up, please encourage them to be loyal to self. This ties into respect, and discipline(self). One should always be loyal to self and we can do this by not letting others distract or encourage us to deviate to things that aren’t true to our focus.