I got the chance to go out to the Brazil Academy the other day and try out their BJJ class. It was awesome. I really enjoyed the atmosphere. We got to work on some basics armbar drills and some mount escapes. We did an escape from mount that I had never done before, so that part was really cool. I only rolled two rounds at the end of class, even though they did 3 rounds. I was so tired from doing Judo and X-Camp at the studio already.
I worked with a woman who is also a blue belt and seemed to be about the same weight as me. Then I rolled one round with her and one round with Ninja. Ninja's transitions were awesome. I really enjoyed rolling with him and I think if I go up there more often I will probably learn a lot.
The class is lead by two purple belts. Ninja, the main instructor, is also a Contra Mestre in Capoeira. I have known him through events and other capoeira events for many years. Overall, I was very excited about the class. I think when I start working, not till September :-(, I will probably go to class there about twice a week.
We did Judo and X-camp before I went to the Brazil Academy. Judo was pretty good. We did the step in warm-up, which I really like. Then we worked on an Osoto set up. We finished off the class with a refresher and update on how to do straight ankle locks straight from the guard.
X-Camp was freakin crazy. My ass still hurts and that class was two days ago. I think it's getting worse by the day. Anyway, we did 3 min rounds of drills. We did bear crawl around the perimeter of the kickboxing area, then flying bananas, advancing burpees, walking lunges, mountain climbers, reverse pushups, hops on one leg then the other while holding the non-hoping leg up at 90 degrees. We did a ton of push ups and sit ups too but I can't remember it all. It was crazy though.
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Sparring
I did stand up sparring for almost the entire workout tonight. It was good practice. My cardio really needs some work. We were doing 5 min. rounds though. I will only be doing 3 min rounds for my fight in August. There was a guy named Jordan there tonight who weighs roughly the same amount as me, 130. It was cool going with someone about the same size as me. I mean he is still a man so he's strong but the rest of the guys I was sparring with tonight were all at least 180 I think. At the very end, for the last 3 min of sparring, I sparred with Sara. She trains a lot of muay thai so it was fun.
I rolled for a few min with Sara, until her band aid came off and she had to go grab some tape. I rolled with Jordan for at least 6 minutes, it might have been longer. Neither of us tapped the other. I sure was getting tired, but instead of making sure I used technique I think I ended up muscling a lot. It's weird when you get tired and end up doing the opposite of what you should. I was just laying there letting him squish me some of the time, when I should have been trying to scramble a little more to stop him from being able to squish me and make me more tired. Oh well maybe next time I recognize it before I am blogging about it and be able to swish it up a bit in training. :-) We will see. BJJ tomorrow night!
I rolled for a few min with Sara, until her band aid came off and she had to go grab some tape. I rolled with Jordan for at least 6 minutes, it might have been longer. Neither of us tapped the other. I sure was getting tired, but instead of making sure I used technique I think I ended up muscling a lot. It's weird when you get tired and end up doing the opposite of what you should. I was just laying there letting him squish me some of the time, when I should have been trying to scramble a little more to stop him from being able to squish me and make me more tired. Oh well maybe next time I recognize it before I am blogging about it and be able to swish it up a bit in training. :-) We will see. BJJ tomorrow night!
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
A Little Extra Cardio
I don't think I blogged about class on Monday. Josh and I showed up about 30 min before kickboxing so that we could run the loop. It's a roughly 3.4 mile run close to the Studio. It took us a little less than the 30 min. I think we ran a little more than the 3.4 miles because we went a little further down the road than usual. Anyway, about 10 minutes into Kickboxing I was thinking "oh shit, I think I shouldn't have run before class." After the initial exhaustion went by I was good though and we had a great class. I got to work on my head kicks some more.
No one showed up for the women's class on Monday and we had someone over for dinner so Josh and I left pretty quick after kickboxing finished.
On Tuesday, Noe and I were both there by 5 because Noe helps with the children's Tae Kwon Do class. While she was doing that I did 25 min on the stairclimber on level 10. I didn't think I was going to make it. Then I just lifted weights for about 20 min., until traditional class.
We worked on two different throws. I think we started off with osoto gari (I'm not sure I am putting the right names of the throws). The second throw we did was harai goshi. The harai goshi was off the failed attempt at osoto gari. My footwork is in serious need of some help. I didn't get to try that many times because the first time Noe threw me on the harai goshi technique she messed up her finger. I wasn't sure what she did but she left the mat. When she came back her finger was all swollen up. She dislocated her ring finger. This morning it was still pretty swollen but she has been icing so hopefully it won't take long to get healed up.
I did the jiujitsu class last night. We drilled butterfly position, the armbar drill where you swing back and forth, working on the hip movement, and a kimura/bump sweep sit up position. After that short warm up we started working on passing the guard. Shawn had us working on getting the posture and then going to the pass. It was good to drill some posturing because usually when working on passing the guard we always start with posture established.
I rolled with Shawn for two rounds. He tapped me about 4 times. It was fun. He is much bigger than me but he is good at letting me move around and try stuff. I am going to try another class, probably next week that is taught by a purple belt, who also does capoeira. I just want to have a good number of people to roll with. When I start working I will probably pay the fees at the other gym I tried out KCBJJ so that I can train with the black belt up there.
No one showed up for the women's class on Monday and we had someone over for dinner so Josh and I left pretty quick after kickboxing finished.
On Tuesday, Noe and I were both there by 5 because Noe helps with the children's Tae Kwon Do class. While she was doing that I did 25 min on the stairclimber on level 10. I didn't think I was going to make it. Then I just lifted weights for about 20 min., until traditional class.
We worked on two different throws. I think we started off with osoto gari (I'm not sure I am putting the right names of the throws). The second throw we did was harai goshi. The harai goshi was off the failed attempt at osoto gari. My footwork is in serious need of some help. I didn't get to try that many times because the first time Noe threw me on the harai goshi technique she messed up her finger. I wasn't sure what she did but she left the mat. When she came back her finger was all swollen up. She dislocated her ring finger. This morning it was still pretty swollen but she has been icing so hopefully it won't take long to get healed up.
I did the jiujitsu class last night. We drilled butterfly position, the armbar drill where you swing back and forth, working on the hip movement, and a kimura/bump sweep sit up position. After that short warm up we started working on passing the guard. Shawn had us working on getting the posture and then going to the pass. It was good to drill some posturing because usually when working on passing the guard we always start with posture established.
I rolled with Shawn for two rounds. He tapped me about 4 times. It was fun. He is much bigger than me but he is good at letting me move around and try stuff. I am going to try another class, probably next week that is taught by a purple belt, who also does capoeira. I just want to have a good number of people to roll with. When I start working I will probably pay the fees at the other gym I tried out KCBJJ so that I can train with the black belt up there.
Monday, June 14, 2010
Tension
We worked on the bags on Sat. for the first 30 min or so. Then we got in the cage to help one of the Muay Thai guys get ready for a fight he has coming up. We all sparred about 3 rounds, without clinching, and then did 3 rounds with clinching.
My elbow is still a bit stiff from being hyper-extended again on Fridday night. I think I was protecting my elbow too much and I ended up making my back to tense and by the end of the stand-up work I basically couldn't move. My whole right side of my back was very tight and I spent the next hour laying on my back trying to relax. I watched Noe and Josh roll and work on sweeps and kimuras. :-( I hate having to just watch class.
On Friday night I showed up to the gym for Shawn's class but I guess no one showed up so Shawn left around 6:30. I did some cardio for a little while then I ended up rolling with this guy Justin, who usually does Shawn's class. He and I rolled for about 15 min. Then I got to roll with Jeff. Justin and I worked with the gi and Jeff didn't have a gi so we worked more MMA style grappling. I really need to work on my spider guard sweeps and some attacks from there. I always get spider guard but it makes no sense because I don't have any moves from there. I can usually control the other person somewhat but that is not a good reason to be in a position. I really need to work on stuff from there.
My elbow is still a bit stiff from being hyper-extended again on Fridday night. I think I was protecting my elbow too much and I ended up making my back to tense and by the end of the stand-up work I basically couldn't move. My whole right side of my back was very tight and I spent the next hour laying on my back trying to relax. I watched Noe and Josh roll and work on sweeps and kimuras. :-( I hate having to just watch class.
On Friday night I showed up to the gym for Shawn's class but I guess no one showed up so Shawn left around 6:30. I did some cardio for a little while then I ended up rolling with this guy Justin, who usually does Shawn's class. He and I rolled for about 15 min. Then I got to roll with Jeff. Justin and I worked with the gi and Jeff didn't have a gi so we worked more MMA style grappling. I really need to work on my spider guard sweeps and some attacks from there. I always get spider guard but it makes no sense because I don't have any moves from there. I can usually control the other person somewhat but that is not a good reason to be in a position. I really need to work on stuff from there.
Thursday, June 10, 2010
First Women's Class
Last night I did John's Kickboxing class. :-T I always feel like I'm in shitty shape when I do that class. We basically did a very similar workout to the Monday workout. The only thing that was different was that my mom was over on the eliptical machine working out like a mad woman. She just signed up for the fitness challenge that we have going on at the gym right now. I am excited that my mom will be at the gym with us. It's nice to have more family members up there. The burn-out, which is the last bit we always do at the end of kickboxing was rough. We had to do 100 punches, any combos, 100 kicks and 100 push-ups.
While we were doing the last part of the kickboxing class, I had the two students who showed up for the women's class get started on the warm up. I had them do 20 sets of stairs, with the hall way. I think that might have been a bit much, upon further reflection, which means after talking to Noe.
We basically only worked on basic positions for most of the class then we did the most basic armbar from guard. We started off by doing shrimps. I really wanted to make sure they got the details of the shrimp down because it seems like no matter where I have gone, I always see tons of people doing shrimps with pretty bad form. I think it is one of those things that people kind of over look because it is so basic but that is precisely the reason I think it is so important. It is the basis for a number of escapes and it helps develop the hip movement necessary for so many positions.
Anyway, after we did shrimps, we worked on just shrimping with someone in your guard and then the same thing but with a safe get up. I mostly wanted them to get comfy with the feeling of being in someone's guard, with good posture, and having someone in their guard. We moved on to the arm bar after drilling variations of shrimping movements and getting up. We ended up working on the arm bar for about 35 - 40 min., with the two women just going back and forth doing arm bars on each other and on me. We initially planned on the class going from 7 - 8 but I am thinking now that we might end up going until 8:30. We'll play it by ear and see how the students like it.
I started a meet up group for the women's class. We are planning on making some fliers, I just have to find the time. Until then Facebook, face to face, word of mouth, and this meet up group are going to have to do.
Here's a link to the meet up group. Join the group if you want :-)
Women's MMA / Self-defense Meet up Group
While we were doing the last part of the kickboxing class, I had the two students who showed up for the women's class get started on the warm up. I had them do 20 sets of stairs, with the hall way. I think that might have been a bit much, upon further reflection, which means after talking to Noe.
We basically only worked on basic positions for most of the class then we did the most basic armbar from guard. We started off by doing shrimps. I really wanted to make sure they got the details of the shrimp down because it seems like no matter where I have gone, I always see tons of people doing shrimps with pretty bad form. I think it is one of those things that people kind of over look because it is so basic but that is precisely the reason I think it is so important. It is the basis for a number of escapes and it helps develop the hip movement necessary for so many positions.
Anyway, after we did shrimps, we worked on just shrimping with someone in your guard and then the same thing but with a safe get up. I mostly wanted them to get comfy with the feeling of being in someone's guard, with good posture, and having someone in their guard. We moved on to the arm bar after drilling variations of shrimping movements and getting up. We ended up working on the arm bar for about 35 - 40 min., with the two women just going back and forth doing arm bars on each other and on me. We initially planned on the class going from 7 - 8 but I am thinking now that we might end up going until 8:30. We'll play it by ear and see how the students like it.
I started a meet up group for the women's class. We are planning on making some fliers, I just have to find the time. Until then Facebook, face to face, word of mouth, and this meet up group are going to have to do.
Here's a link to the meet up group. Join the group if you want :-)
Women's MMA / Self-defense Meet up Group
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Hard to Keep Up
It's harder to keep up with blogging ever time I workout, now that Noe and I only have to drive 20ish minutes to get to the gym.
On Sunday, Josh (my brother) and I went to the jiujitsu class at the studio. Normally, a purple belt comes up on Sundays to teach the class. This week Shawn said that the purple belt had a family emergency, so he couldn't come teach. I am thinking it doesn't pay to teach classes I want to try out, when I went to try out the class the black belt in town teaches, he had a fam. emergency (his wife got in a car accident).
Anyway, this was Josh's first official jiujitsu class. Shawn gave him a gi to wear, which was cool because Josh ended up buying the gi. Fugi, awesome gis in my opinion. We always work on very basic stuff in that class, so I am glad it was the type of class Josh tried out for the first time.
We worked on
- scissor sweeps
- armbar from guard
- sweep from armbar attempt into armbar
It was a good class. I didn't roll, I just worked on the things we did in class with Josh while people rolled.
Yesterday, Monday, I did the kickboxing class. Holy shit. One would think I am in shape because I can roll for like an hour and a half and be fine. I am not in kickboxing shape though. I thought I was gonna die after the first 3 min. round we did.
As the warm up we ran around the mat punching each bag as we ran past it. It is a good warm up, we have about 16 muay thai bags that go around the outside of the mat space.
1st round - 3 min. - 2 jabs, back leg kick, switch foot head kick
1 min full squats in between round (full squats = but touches your heels)
2nd rnd - 3 min. - 2 jabs, hook to body, hook to body, uppercut, hook to head
1 min full squats w/ a jump
3rd round - the first two combined
1 min full squats
I can't remember the rest of the stuff we did but I didn't think I was going to make it.
After we cooled down for a min. Noe, Josh and I worked on armbars and sweeps for a little while. Then we went home and I studied for the bar some more. :-T
On Sunday, Josh (my brother) and I went to the jiujitsu class at the studio. Normally, a purple belt comes up on Sundays to teach the class. This week Shawn said that the purple belt had a family emergency, so he couldn't come teach. I am thinking it doesn't pay to teach classes I want to try out, when I went to try out the class the black belt in town teaches, he had a fam. emergency (his wife got in a car accident).
Anyway, this was Josh's first official jiujitsu class. Shawn gave him a gi to wear, which was cool because Josh ended up buying the gi. Fugi, awesome gis in my opinion. We always work on very basic stuff in that class, so I am glad it was the type of class Josh tried out for the first time.
We worked on
- scissor sweeps
- armbar from guard
- sweep from armbar attempt into armbar
It was a good class. I didn't roll, I just worked on the things we did in class with Josh while people rolled.
Yesterday, Monday, I did the kickboxing class. Holy shit. One would think I am in shape because I can roll for like an hour and a half and be fine. I am not in kickboxing shape though. I thought I was gonna die after the first 3 min. round we did.
As the warm up we ran around the mat punching each bag as we ran past it. It is a good warm up, we have about 16 muay thai bags that go around the outside of the mat space.
1st round - 3 min. - 2 jabs, back leg kick, switch foot head kick
1 min full squats in between round (full squats = but touches your heels)
2nd rnd - 3 min. - 2 jabs, hook to body, hook to body, uppercut, hook to head
1 min full squats w/ a jump
3rd round - the first two combined
1 min full squats
I can't remember the rest of the stuff we did but I didn't think I was going to make it.
After we cooled down for a min. Noe, Josh and I worked on armbars and sweeps for a little while. Then we went home and I studied for the bar some more. :-T
Saturday, June 5, 2010
Fight University Wins
I am so happy Erin won her fight last night. It was awesome. She got to do exactly the stuff John had her working on the lately. Anyway, Erin won in the first round by rear naked choke. Here is a link.
Erin Brown MMA Win by Rear Naked Choke
Noe and I were also able to talk to the organizers of the Blue Corner promotion and we let them know we are looking to fight in August. There was a woman on the card last night that is in Noe's weight class and they are in talks now to get Noe set up with her.
We told them that I am looking at fighting at 125 next time. This is because I am planning on going to the Las Vegas IBJJF tournament on Aug. 14th. I hope this one doesn't fall through too. I hope I can get some tournament wins in so that I can get some sponsorships and get to go to more tournaments. I am excited about getting back in there and having another MMA fight. August is going to be an exciting month. I'll keep my fingers crossed that I actually get to go to the Vegas tournament.
Tomorrow I am planning on going to a bjj class at the studio. On Sundays a purple belt comes in and teaches a class. I am pretty excited.
Erin Brown MMA Win by Rear Naked Choke
Noe and I were also able to talk to the organizers of the Blue Corner promotion and we let them know we are looking to fight in August. There was a woman on the card last night that is in Noe's weight class and they are in talks now to get Noe set up with her.
We told them that I am looking at fighting at 125 next time. This is because I am planning on going to the Las Vegas IBJJF tournament on Aug. 14th. I hope this one doesn't fall through too. I hope I can get some tournament wins in so that I can get some sponsorships and get to go to more tournaments. I am excited about getting back in there and having another MMA fight. August is going to be an exciting month. I'll keep my fingers crossed that I actually get to go to the Vegas tournament.
Tomorrow I am planning on going to a bjj class at the studio. On Sundays a purple belt comes in and teaches a class. I am pretty excited.
Friday, June 4, 2010
Unintended But Needed Break
I didn't train or workout at all yesterday and I probably won't do anything until Sun. I am not injured or anything but as usual real life comes up. I am feeling very overwhelmed by studying for the Bar Exam so I only studied yesterday and I am planning to do the same over the next couple of days.
I am not working out tonight because some of our teammates will be fighting here in KC.
I'm pretty excited to see Erin fight again. We have all been training really hard with her and I think she is going to do awesome tonight. I might be able to get some youtube footage up tomorrow depending on the rules at the venue.
I am not working out tonight because some of our teammates will be fighting here in KC.
I'm pretty excited to see Erin fight again. We have all been training really hard with her and I think she is going to do awesome tonight. I might be able to get some youtube footage up tomorrow depending on the rules at the venue.
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Kickboxing Workout
I only did the kickboxing class last night. The first half hour we did a recorded workout, similar to the Bas Rutten workout, except John made it. It was awesome. I was so tired when we finished it. We did a lot of combos.
Some of the ones I remember are:
- the usual - Jab, Cross, Hook, commonly referred to as 123.
- Jab cross Right hook, left hook - 1234
- 4 straight punches then 3 - 5 knees
- sprawl, knee
- sprawl, upper cut
- jab, cross, hook to the head, hook to the body
There were also various combos including leg kicks and such.
After we did 30 min of that we started doing 3 min rounds of specific combos. With 1 min of squats or burpees with jumps, in between. It was rough but a great work out.
Oh yeah then we did 50 push kicks on each leg, 50 leg, head and body kicks with each leg to finish up class.
Some of the ones I remember are:
- the usual - Jab, Cross, Hook, commonly referred to as 123.
- Jab cross Right hook, left hook - 1234
- 4 straight punches then 3 - 5 knees
- sprawl, knee
- sprawl, upper cut
- jab, cross, hook to the head, hook to the body
There were also various combos including leg kicks and such.
After we did 30 min of that we started doing 3 min rounds of specific combos. With 1 min of squats or burpees with jumps, in between. It was rough but a great work out.
Oh yeah then we did 50 push kicks on each leg, 50 leg, head and body kicks with each leg to finish up class.
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
3 Day Weekend
I went to Wisconsin for a Pow Wow over the Memorial Day weekend. We left on Friday night and didn't get in to Black River Falls until Sat. morn. at about 5 am. My brother and I were going to try to do a 5K run on Sat morning but we just couldn't bring ourselves to get up at 8 am. So I basically ate like shit the rest of the weekend. Haha.
I got to meet a dude from my tribe, who does MMA and has won a couple of belts with organizations up in Wisconsin. It sounds like he is movin on up. His name is Eddie Larrea. I'll keep my eyes peeled for info about him and keep you updated.
Yesterday, Tues., was the first time I had worked out since last week. I couldn't really do anything over the weekend because my knee was bothering me. I guess I lifted weights for a little while in the hotel gym, just upper body.
I got done really early with my bar review class yesterday so I was able to go to the noon class at the studio. We mostly rolled with Erin, her fight is on Fri. night. It was good we did worst case scenario drills with her. We took the mount and she had to escape. I was trying to work on getting into technical mount when the person bucks and almost goes all the way to their side but I couldn't quite get it. I need to continue to figure out the smaller details of that movement, I'm almost there. At the end of the class we just had to do 100 kicks with each leg on the bag to finish up.
I went to study for 3 hours and then headed back to the gym for the night class. I love being able to train a bunch. Although my body is pretty sore. Anyway, Tues. night class is traditional Judo/Tae Kwon Do class. We have mostly just been doing Judo lately, which I am happy about. We worked on a sacrifice take down set up. It is a two handed sleeve grab then drag. As the person moves to square up you go right into a sacrifice throw and end up in kesa gatame. This is the second time we have worked it so I am starting to kind of get comfortable with it. We worked a few different subs from the kesa and then did some randori, which is the term for sparring or free-style practice. It was good, I got to go with Noe first. Then I went with a teenage boy who is about my size. Finally, I went with Kevin, he's one of the black belts. I wasn't able to take him down, which doesn't surprise me. We went twice. That took it out of me and I was really tired by the time the next class started.
The next class is a BJJ fundamentals class that a blue belt, Shaun, teaches. I like going to that class because we drill for a long time. We worked on scissor sweeps. Then I rolled two times and called it quits.
Tonight will be our first all female martial arts class. I am hoping at least a few people show up. We are working on getting the website updated with the class info but here's a link with Noe and I, and some bio info.
rEvolution Bio Page
I got to meet a dude from my tribe, who does MMA and has won a couple of belts with organizations up in Wisconsin. It sounds like he is movin on up. His name is Eddie Larrea. I'll keep my eyes peeled for info about him and keep you updated.
Yesterday, Tues., was the first time I had worked out since last week. I couldn't really do anything over the weekend because my knee was bothering me. I guess I lifted weights for a little while in the hotel gym, just upper body.
I got done really early with my bar review class yesterday so I was able to go to the noon class at the studio. We mostly rolled with Erin, her fight is on Fri. night. It was good we did worst case scenario drills with her. We took the mount and she had to escape. I was trying to work on getting into technical mount when the person bucks and almost goes all the way to their side but I couldn't quite get it. I need to continue to figure out the smaller details of that movement, I'm almost there. At the end of the class we just had to do 100 kicks with each leg on the bag to finish up.
I went to study for 3 hours and then headed back to the gym for the night class. I love being able to train a bunch. Although my body is pretty sore. Anyway, Tues. night class is traditional Judo/Tae Kwon Do class. We have mostly just been doing Judo lately, which I am happy about. We worked on a sacrifice take down set up. It is a two handed sleeve grab then drag. As the person moves to square up you go right into a sacrifice throw and end up in kesa gatame. This is the second time we have worked it so I am starting to kind of get comfortable with it. We worked a few different subs from the kesa and then did some randori, which is the term for sparring or free-style practice. It was good, I got to go with Noe first. Then I went with a teenage boy who is about my size. Finally, I went with Kevin, he's one of the black belts. I wasn't able to take him down, which doesn't surprise me. We went twice. That took it out of me and I was really tired by the time the next class started.
The next class is a BJJ fundamentals class that a blue belt, Shaun, teaches. I like going to that class because we drill for a long time. We worked on scissor sweeps. Then I rolled two times and called it quits.
Tonight will be our first all female martial arts class. I am hoping at least a few people show up. We are working on getting the website updated with the class info but here's a link with Noe and I, and some bio info.
rEvolution Bio Page
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