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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.

Cruise control week guys. With kids out for school, this should be a break week for many of you as far as output, that said, our adult students its normal to them for the most part, so no matter what you’re doing with your late nights, make sure to put on point classes this week. Offense, Defense, Offense sequences on content this month. Of course know the audience and be willing to call the audible. You can never make it too simple. Let’s make sure to get them at least 3x3min rounds In fundamentals, we could be doing better on that. if they only get two thorough detailed techniques, that’s plenty. they got to get better on the mat. Schedule change will be revealed 4/1, for it to begin 5/1 so everyone will have ample time to know about it. ill make a post in here as well.

I hope you guys had a great weekend.

Thank you to everyone that stopped in to help our academy with it’s makeover. John was definitely the MVP , thank you. We have a new way to enter the mat, so just help the students understand what we’re doing. Adults will take shoes off and clean feet, walk across the mat, put shoes back on, and then get dressed in the back, then they will clean their feet on the other end of the mat and re-enter. Kids can do what you tell them. Let’s try some different things. For instance. the intermediate kids class is today. Maybe we line the little kids up coming in after along a perimeter right after they enter the mat? Let’s follow Jara’s lead on this one.

Let’s continue sequencing and end in a submission. Obviously know the audience. If they do not have the singular moves lets slow it down

Beginners: Sequencing

Focus on putting together some Offense chaining like

-Run the pipe single to 1/2 guard pass to Side Mount Escape >Armbar or triangle from guard

-Run the Pipe Single to Half guard pass to Key Lock/Americana

– Half Guard Pass >shrimp to guard>Scissor Sweep>Xchoke from mount

Intermediate: Samesies (These are simply examples. know the room)

-Double leg>SM>butterfly reguard>Pass>Key Lock

-Double Leg >Butterfy Guard>hop over Pass>Back to choke

-Run Pipe Single>Half guard>Crazy Dog pass hopover>back >guillotine

Cole’s Class with the Kids: Continue Kiss of the Dragon to the Back chokes. If any of the instructors feel comfortable with this, you guys can teach this as well

Make sure this week you tell a story of a time in your life where you needed to show extreme discipline. When we let the students know how it is through our lens, they definitely capture the message more. Combatives Seminar this Saturday. Free for you guys again. Hope to see you there. Remind the students this week there’s no Combatives class nor open mat. That this Combatives class is Open for Enrollment at $100. 10-2pm. All Skill Levels. 10 Spots max. This will be part 2 of the clinch series, yet is much more simple than the body lock series. We will get deeper into knife defense.

Beginners: Sequencing

Focus on putting together some Offense chaining like

-Run the pipe single to 1/2 guard pass to Side Mount Escape

-Run the Pipe Single to Half guard pass to Key Lock/Americana

– Half Guard Pass to Regard to Armbar or Scissor sweep. Something from previous months

Intermediate: Samesies (These are simply examples. know the room)

-Double leg>SM>butterfly reguard>Pass

-Double Leg >Butterfy Guard>hop over Pass>Back to choke

-Run Pipe Single>Half guard>Crazy Dog pass hopover>back >guillotine

Continuation week:

I’m seeing the pace needs to be slowed down. Especially for the beginners. Let’s have another week of passing half guard and escaping side mount. Lots of specific training before regular training. So it’s good it’ll be alot of live. After a guard pass you can do a submission like a key lock. after a replacement you can have them do a sweep like the scissor sweep, or a submission like the arm bar just so they don’t lose the stuff we did in January and February. But this way we get a little bit of offense/defense combo.

Intermediate classes I’d like to continue as well. with the kids I was doing butterfly guard pass chaining of duck walk to hop over. Now I want that same movement taught with the crazy dog half guard pass to hop over via the same counter from the person on bottom. This is a great way to begin taking the back which ends up in the “last second” drop back to guillotine when you can’t get the far hook in for the extra four points. That’s the Friday/saturday move at least for kids. Adults, if you’re teaching intermediate, just play around with what we’ve been working on and add your stuff in.

Word of the Month Discipline! Complete the Triforce. Talk about Discipline and how and why its different than a punishment. Discipline comes from a place of caring and wanting our youth to succeed and be better. Punishment is done out of anger and frustration. Our parents, teachers, and coaches only want to see them all succeed and that’s why Discipline is our word of the month….plus some of these kids NNEEEEEEED to hear that shit.

Good Month of February guys. Classes are still going strong. We signed up some more students. The students seem to really be into the content despite struggling with that Omoplata. We got some new shirts in this week and last week. We’re comping everyone one of the new uniform Tee’s so if you haven’t gotten yours yet, see anyone at the front desk and they’ll make a note of which color and size you got.

Combatives is 3/20. Free for you guys. Just let me know if you’re attending because its going to be limited spacing as always and I don’t want to oversell it. 10-4pm again. Tie Clinch scenarios with the same focuses. Access to our weapons. Retention of our weapons. Aquisition of theirs and prevention from their draw. Knife integration. and of course  Scenarios. There will be overlap where we do some of the same things in all the classes. That’s good, that allows us to build a strong skill set and foundation. Moon, Jara, Jesse, if you’re collecting cash from a student that attended last time, its just $60 for them like i promised for this second part (just this once). For every other student its $100…outsider is $250.

Moon is in Training camp starting this week, fighting next month, April, in Atlanta. Let’s give him the bodies, pad holders, and coaching that a pro athlete needs to succeed.

Product of the month is Rash Guards: Buy any Rash guard 10% off, get the shorts or Spats(buyers choice) at 30% off.

Additionally we are starting a Little Thrashers class on M and W. We now have an A group and  B group for those 4-6 year olds.

Beginners:

Head inside Run the Pipe Single Leg

Knee Cut-Could be from Standing HQ or from grounded half guard depending on how one lands

Side Mount Escape

Intermediate:

Passing Butterfly Guard

This Saturday 11-12pm will be the monthly drills where we make sequences of all of the techniques we taught this month.

Curriculums up tomorrow. But you’ll be wrapping up closed guard attacks from the bottom. Make any closing adjustments you’d like on these things.

Courage: Let’s tell a story of where we had to dig deep and use courage ourselves, we can ask the students if they ever had scenarios they’d like to share with us where they had to use courage as well.

Saturday: I am running a Combatives class 10am -4pm all of the instructors may attend for FREE if you’d like. I’m offering it to our students for $60. This is a $250 course easily normally. I just feel like doing something nice for us. We will be learning how to do weapon integration with our Martial Arts. This is an all around course, a little bit on the ground ( not much), little on the feet, little on the barrier. We will break out the training knives, the air soft weapons etc. If you have a blue gun that replicates your carry weapon, bring it. If not, bring your carry weapon in, and holster. We will flag(zip tie) the firearms rendering them inoperable. This course will be insightful to those who have minimal training in this regard. It is an intermediate course. Must have some firearms and grappling experience to attend. You don’t have to be an Operator, so don’t think its too advanced for you. you don’t have to be Wyatt Earp to shoot someone 0 feet away from you. But if you don’t know how to load your gun, maybe watch a little and sit this one out.

If you are doing it, Please tell me. Don’t just show up. I’m doing 16 total spots ONLY. This will be very eye opening.

Curriculums:

We know what Sub to Sub offenses we’ve been doing these past weeks. Now lets start to incorporate Sub to sub, sub to sweep, and sweep to sub based off of what you’ve been working on in each of the programs