Month: August 2021

Shoutout to everyone that made it to see Jaylin off. He’ll be back, and I’m sure he’ll have plenty to show us when he gets back in a couple years. Also shout out to Moon for covering plenty of classes whilst we had some instructors out last week. We have some more out this week and Joe gonna be getting fucked up as the Uke plenty. Bless up.

With it being September, and kids are finally back to school, many kids are feeling the pains of being back to school and are targets and we should see an influx of sign ups this month. Let’s make sure our current kids are getting what they need for Jiu Jitsu in a self defense realm. There should be some kind of standing every single week. but we will progress to the ground and everything will be strike based even if it’s defensive.

Beginner Kids:

Work on standing up for themselves verbally. This is how KIDS are attacked. Unlike in a combative environment where often we don’t know we’re in a fight for our life until it’s on, kids have some kind of character, even when they’re pieces of shit. They do it face to face.
-Bully walks up on kid talking shit; Kid creates a verbal boundary (stop, or back up) and creates a physical boundary with high hands . takes up to two steps back and begins to move laterally.

-When the Bully gets within hands distance, give a push; Bully comes back at them with the punch, blast double leg.

Even if the kids do the move, it’s not real unless the intent in the double leg is there, be ready to break out the crash pad.  The “bully” in these cases should be prepared to do a break fall and wrap up the Jiu Jitsu kid in a closed guard. This will help us go into the weeks coming forward.

 

Day 2: Getting up  From the closed guard. Having them do what they did day 1 as a warmup. have the closed guard individual get up from a knee shield scenario. then as a second option work back up to the feet, this can be done with a standing or looming adversary . Eject them with feet on hips leg press. and butt scoot to the wall and do a technical stand up. other bully can rush them with the kick shields to add some “chaos”

 

Advanced Kids: MMA

I want their Self defense to start the same, but I would like this month to be more like an MMA fight for them, the walls are similar to that of hallways with lockers etc. We will have them doing more punching offensively and defensively. This month will be cool

 

Adults: Self Defense Punch block to safety clinch, Underhook & post/frame, or Body Lock

know your strengths. Monday I will have us do lots of options. It will lead into many things we’ve been doing lately and have a “sport”(whatever that means) feel to it like leaping to the back mount, and guillotines and front headlock. If you don’t know too much about punch blocks, and you’re teaching or even assisting kids, please come Monday.

Monday Cole’s Class Sequences

-Punch Block >Underhook & Frame> Knee to Osoto Gari >KOB>Back Mount>RNC

-PB>U&F>Knee>Guillotine

-PB>U&F>knee>Standing Guillotine to Ground Guillotine
-Options for stack or bail defense

-After Standing Guillotine >Snap Down>

-Spin behind, or Guillotine, or anaconda/arm in front head lock

 

Tuesday/ Thursday was the above but also prepped with Side break fall from dead lift position into re-guard and ejection from feet on hips to technical stand up.

Advanced Adults: Deep Half guard

So this week is Jaylins last week. We are going to get together and have a going away party for him Saturday Night. No idea on details yet, those will come as the week goes.

 

6PM Saturday going to Tap & Pour for food/drinks

Afterward likely going downtown macon, or Charlies, or Wild Wing, whatever Jaylin wants to do.

 

Listen to your body during this season of the delta variant.

The WRPD starts with us this week! Let’s make a difference.

Fortitude: Ask students to tell their own story of fortitude and/or ways they can display it when things get tough during their lives and have them give an example of when they can display this trait.

Monday Sequences

-Sl

-SL>Kick Pass>back >RNC

-SL>Kick Pass>Far side arm bar or Kimura

-SL>HQ>Knee Weave>Back >RNC

-SL Defense>snap down front headlock>Guillotines and front headlock stuff we’ve been doing in the past

Beginners: Mount

Last week we did KOB. show movement to the mount and then get into holding of mount and escaping mount.

Advanced: Instructors choice with regard to what we’ve been going over lately

 

*FYI: K recently came to us, informed us Brandon McGowan made her feel uncomfortable with a social media DM or something, this was like a year ago or something just before or during Brandon’s deployment. However now he is back.  Regardless, she came to us and said she feels fine being in the same room and taking classes with him, its nothing, but she would not like to be matched up with him to roll at all. So if we could just make sure that doesn’t accidentally happen when were all looking for partners. So keep this in mind for on and off the mats when we are leaving the gym or BS’ing in the parking lot after training.

Fortitude: Has anyone here ever tried to do something, and failed when it counted? taken the lessons learned and moved forward and put those lessons to use when it counted on a later date? tell the kids about it.

 

I’ll be out of town Thursday afternoon through the weekend for a JJ camp/seminar portion I have to instruct: we still have training TWTH am for the instructors who want to help Jesse and Amun prepare for their bouts. 11:15 amT/Th and 10:15 am W.

 

Curriculums later for beginners:

Beginners: Bull Fighter, Gorilla Pass, or Leg Drag to the knee on belly, or back position

Advanced: Instructors choice

Striking : incorporate being first, with counter striking with combos we’ve been going over

Couple Things.

Solid Turnout from the Tournament this weekend. Kids and Adults did great(more on that in a moment). We could. not have done this without you guys. The performances were a testament to the quality leadership they are receiving on the mats.

Kids did great

Gold: Joziah, Jaleesa, Mikayla, Brad

Bronze: Carissa(im very excited about her future)

Morgan just went out there and didn’t care nor really try, but he’s getting better…hard to be good when you don’t care about competing.  He’ll get there.

Adults:

Gold: Rex(gi), Jason G.(gi), Dee(Gi no gi absolute for her belt), K(double), Cody E. (Gi, no gi, absolute for his skill set).

Coach Tim R. competed as well. I was coaching when he did his no gi match, I came over in the middle of it.He was so far down on points there wasn’t much to do but watch. He nailed a sick takedown and was passing well when time ran out.

Gi: Some brazilian young man walked the dog on him in the first half of the match. Im not entirely sure points were done correctly , but same story. After escaping a flying triangle attempt the points were so ran up that when he was hard pressed to be able to win on points. He nailed a sick spider “deadlift” pass and then got the back but failed to finish the RNC. finished strong. Tim, Im proud for you representing and you showed moments of brilliance. I think the key to getting past being a slow starter is to just compete more often to be able to learn to channel that get up and go at any time.

Other than Dee, the commonality here is those that competed and crushed were those that come to the more advanced classes….even when its only once a week. Anyone thinking about competing, lets make sure they’re getting the most out of fundamental classes and def coming on Monday nights and open mats os they get the rolls in…anyone that is 2 stripes and above on white belt, they gots to come to the get down classes.

T/Th 11:30 we should be live helping moon and Jesse until their fights drills, pads, light sparring

Wednesday 10:15am pads

Monday Nights sequences for my fundamentals class were
1.Head Inside and Outside Run the pipe

2.Duck under >Fail RBL>head outside SL run pipe

3.Head inside single run the pipe>failed>Tree top  SL

4.Do any they give the back, take the back conventional over the shouilder

5.above but they turn in>far side chair sit to choke

6.They turn in to 3/4 mount,  swing step over the head and get front head lock submissions

Fortitude. : This week share a story of your own personal fortitude.

Guard Passing: Off of the SL takedown Pass the guard and teach some side mount reversals, or escapes that go directly into an attack.

Play some pass/retention games vs a standing opponent

 

Advanced: Leg Drag from De la Riva Guard and Feet on hips> Side mount>submissions vs escapes

 

Hey guys hope all is well for everyone. Summer is coming to a close and we’ve all done great this year keeping the interest of the students (adults especially)this year more than the previous. We will still have adult class and open mat this weekend, however a very small group is competing so I’ll be wherever the fuck the AGF tournament is going to be taking place.

 

Beginners: Single Leg Run the Pipe & Defense

Single Leg Entry Run the Pipe>Knee Cut (Headquarters for the bigger kids)>Side Mount escape

SL>Leg Drag (After they square up)>SM escape

SL>Failed Leg Drag>Gorilla Pass>SM escape/reguard

Advanced: Single Leg Passing Spider/Lasso/De La Riva to submission