Month: September 2021

Close out on Humility: humbling times. finish with “Have humility, or be humiliated” with the older group.

Self Defense September has been good to us. We’ve done alot.

1. Getting up from the bottom
2. Punch blocking closing distance and initiating a clinch
3. Strikes to offense from Underhook and post
4. offensive options from double under and over under
5. Defending rear attacks
6. utilizing a barrier to get up and how to get off of one
7. dealing with the sucker punch
8. Attacks and Defending strikes in the closed guard
9. Creating distance with verbal boundaries
   and more…

This week review some or all of these key points in sequencing or collaborative Q & A. This was not a month of technique we want going in one ear and out the other.

Next Word of the month for October to think about: Sacrifice.

We are a little understaffed Monday so thank you all for bearing with me. Also, no help from Jara this week just FYI she has covid and so does Kaydyn. They are quarantined in the house, Me & Link do not have it as of now. Keep them in your thoughts.

Last week was intense without some of you able to be in, I appreciate everyone picking up and filling in like a Team!

Really Tough for Amun to put in all of that work and effort like a pro, and his opponent no show like that. Obviously we hope nothing was wrong with his opponent, and if that’s indeed the case, I’m sure the athletic commission will deal a worthy Suspension. Like I say, we can not control other people, we can only control ourselves. Amun, keep doing your thing like a professional despite Georgia’s incapability to produce anyone to show up on weight, or show up at all to weigh ins. You know what to do. I’m sure there will be an event here on the horizon soon.

 

This week with beginners and advanced kids Let’s do getting attacked from behind standing but then find a way to turn in and face the opponent and loop what we’ve been doing.  Like standing short choke, standing over arms bear hug, standing under arms rear body lock, standing sucker punch from behind, etc.  find ways to hip toss, place against the barrier, under hook and post/frame to attacks, get dropped  and find a way to get back up, etc.

Really proud of how Self Defense September is going.

Advanced Deep Half Guard continues. I have a meeting and some training in ATL Wednesday, but I’ll be back in the evening.

I think Katelyn did a solid job last week, Let her know if you think so when you see her. She still has to take the instructor training module, and I’ll get to that as soon as I can guys. I appreciate the patience.

 

Alright guys, going to be a tight week this week, but props to Katelyn for stepping up to assist this week while we need her so Amun can cut weight without snapping at children. With Regard to Self Defense so far we’ve covered distance management, standing entries to punch blocks clinch, Double legs (youth), and closed guard was last week primarily from the knee shield with a collar tie and arm control where we did TSU, Scissor Sweep, and Triangle choke. The guard is very important, so important we need to stay a Second week in a row on it. You can go your own way with the same material with groups that really had a hard time comprehending, however I am going to do that as a warmup for my morning class but move Into, Kimura, TSU, and Hip bump Sweep. You can see that it is very important to have the ability to GET UP to get away or to other tools, GET ON TOP  where you can control the fight, or have a FINISHING MOVE to end things even from the bottom.

 

Advanced Jiu Jitsu will still be Deep Half Guard. Let’s have lots of energy for classes this week.

 

I hope to see some of you in Atlanta for Coach Moon’s Fight. If not we will have a viewing party at the academy. Please announce that. I believe its 7PM but we will make a team app post regarding that. Amun has worked super hard and I’m excited to see him do what he does best.

 

Little Thrashers Kids Class flow. Let’s try this.

Head coach walks the first set of kids back. Assistant takes the kids finishing class to the front>Front Desk worker hands kids to the parents, and does NOT let them go outside on their own>Assistant takes the next set of kids to the back for their class. Instructor begins class while the assistant can go get kids that may be straggling. Also a reminder, we do not take kids into the bathrooms for any reason, anything like that, we get the parent from outside.

Humility: Share a story that was inspirational to you about someone you know or looked up to (could be famous) that exercised humility. For me, I would see someone like Cal Ripken Jr. always thank the fans and give the credit to his team. He’s just one baseball player, but I used to see all of these ole timers getting inducted into the HOF and they were just so humble and always gave the credit away to everyone else.

 

Also I’ll be going back in in the previous Week post to fill in what all I did with my Monday sequence class which is likely what I’ll focus on with my morning class just at a slower more technical pace. Tune into that in case you need inspiration.

Beginners: Guard

Review Last week as a warmup if need be like TSU’s and such.

Posture Control, Punch Blocking,Triangle Choke

Scissor Sweep, Technical Stand up could also be done in order to blend back into a punch block to takedown from previous week.

Tuesday Am

-TSU warmup

-TSU from closed guatrd

-Scissor sweep

-failed scissor sweep to TSU

-Failed TSU to Triangle Choke

 

Advanced Kids:

 

Adults Adv: Deep Half Continued