First BJJ class today!

yomchi

Glad to say I took Maeves advice and went to train with Ray Butcher today.
Had a great class, his style of teaching is very good, relaxed and very easy to understand. I think I could get used to this stuff!

Thanks Meave

Jon

columok

Once the rolling bug bites...

yomchi

columok wrote:

Once the rolling bug bites...

Yeh! Its actually alot more free flowing than I expected

Ger Healy

Noooo Jon don't say that, other wise you'll turn to the darkside

yomchi

Ger Healy wrote:

Noooo Jon don't say that, other wise you'll turn to the darkside

LOL as I've said before.. you'll never take me alive!

MaxBax

jj is good.

MaeveD

I'm really glad you enjoyed it Jon,
if you're around for Thursdays class in Swords, I'll be there... more people and great fun.
Rays is a nice guy and a great teacher... though I'm terribly biased

BJJ is great!

yomchi

MaeveD wrote:

I'm really glad you enjoyed it Jon,
if you're around for Thursdays class in Swords, I'll be there... more people and great fun.
Rays is a nice guy and a great teacher... though I'm terribly biased

BJJ is great!

I teach TKD on a Thursday myself, and then I have HKD that evening so I think the Saturdays are going to be for me.
Thanks Maeve

Colm_OReilly

Care to write up a report of the class for those who might be interested?

yomchi

Yeh sure,
We started off with some warm up exercises and stretches. Some new stretches I've never seen before, loosening up all the main muscles needed for rolling and grappling.
We then did about 20 mins of rolling, I'll try explain it, bear with me as it's all new to me- basically you're on your knee's and you reach through with say your right arm through your legs and roll over on the right shoulder and back again. This was the only role we did as there was a few beginners there. After the warm up we paired off, I got paired with one of the more experinced guys which was great. We practiced the top mount position, and bumping off - hooking the neck and arm pulling close, arranging the feet and rolling him over and then into the next positon. We did that good few times. I've done this drill before in CHKD, but to be honest the way we learned it in BJJ it worked much easier.
Following on from that postion, the person who just got rolled wrapped their feet around you and you had to come free, I think its called passing the guard? unlocking the legs and working your way in to side control. We did this over and over, as a follow on to the inital rolling drill so the two flowed together - well we were beginners so they flowed as much as we could we could make it!
After that Ray showed us the 'Kamura' hope i spelt that right! We practiced this for a while and then we practiced an arm bar, where you lie on top of your opponent with all your weight, I think it was a top mount, he pushes you up, you place two hands on his chest and jump into a kind of sitting stance, you trap one arm, spin one leg around his head and fall back keeping the arm trapped, his arm is now between your legs with your buttox tucked into his shoulder area, squeez the knee's and lift the hips, gradually working his shoulder out of its socket!

While we're doing all of this Ray spoke about the finer technical details of where to place the hands while doing some techniques etc. It was very interesting.
Then he did a question answer session for the beginners while the other guys grappled.

One question just sprung to mind, is there any protocol involved with BJJ? I forget to ask. Coming from an ITF background, we're full of protocol!