The Miseducation of Jimbo Slice

<<If I told you...>>

Conditioning

Edge: Clontarf Strongman Day

1 - Prowler Suicides
2 - Backward sled drags
3 - Arm over arm rope pull & fireman carry
4 - Farmers walk and tornado ball smashes
5 - Tug of war

Prowler suicides f*cking sucked. They were done on grass. High handle out, low back.

The backward sled drag coming off it with my quads already cramping was no fun.

The arm over arm pull was handy, as was the farmers walk block.

Happy out to win the tug of war. I spent a lot of the time anchoring just sitting back and waiting for a chance to start a heave once there was som slack on the rope...

<<Oh god damn...>>

New IP Warm Up - 1 round

Strength

Trap Bar Deads (no belt):
70kg x8
120kg x8
170kg x5
190kg x5
200kg x5
210kg x5

BJJ
-warm up

Butterfly guard drills
-stepping over towards the head and rotating around, control the leg, hip bump and elvis step
-as above with ankle held
-squatting down w/ toes pointed out and pushing one knee to the mat, pushing the other leg to follow and going for side control

Rolling - Think I did 5x 5 minute rounds

-First roll w/ Andy, got fairly pwn'd
-Second w/ TJ and did a bit better, tried a few sweeps with him in mount but like that was obviously never gonna happen with someone his quality. moved him about a bit tho Started grabbing his wrist, or underhooking, or trying to at least before attempting the sweep again, but he was still able to prevent. The other take away there was to avoid pushing on th shoulders in mount nd attack the hips instead.
-Rolled w/ Rowan next I think, and got arm barred 2x in a row. Got hip bump swept about 70x and generally just sat in guard not knowing what to do.
-Tom was up arfter, aka "the destroyer" I like rolling with him cos he makes **** difficult. There was one sweep towards the end where I basically rolled him onto his head... NO idea how I got him there but I'm starting to try sweep from different positions now. Kind of understanding how to plan my leg and drive off it to get dudes moving about
-Last roll w/ Brian. Got a really nice sweep from guard to mount and went to an americana for the tap.

Had a chat with Barry about what to do from mount as well and basically the pass he showed me went as follows:
-right hand on belly button ramming it up into the ribs
-left hand on hips
-elbows inside, or putting pressure one the legs
-lock the guy's hip in with your right knee so he can't move about
-step back and around with the left leg to break guard as you ram your elbow in
-pass to side control on the left

Obvs opposite side works too.

Was pretty smashed during all the rolls from working too hard and trying to muscle outta stuff.

Dublin open on Feb 20th... Munster open some time in March... Gonna put in some serious mat time between now and then. Can't wait!!

Killme00 wrote: »

Getting thrown onto my head was fun, good work..keep fighting when you're mounted no matter how tired you are

Glad you enjoyed it. I was trying to "escape" from mount like that all night!

I make **** difficult because in competition you'll be rolling with big guys, so dealing with that heavy pressure from me and also being more technical (ie not beasting stuff) will make you much better in the long run.

One little thing: You dont sweep when someone has you mounted, you escape.

Haha I'm not complaining about you making it difficult. It's fricking exhausting rolling with ya. Looking forward to competing now.

And no, it's definitely a sweep when I do it. I said it on the internet, so it must be true

<<Acting real nice...>>

BJJ - 80ish minutes of warm up and drilling, 45 (??) minutes of guard passing

-warm up of jogging, tumbles, sit thrus, shrimping and head butting Tom in the balls

Drilling Half Guard Passes
-The "twist"
-starting with underhook from the guy on the bottom, reach across, grab pants and twisting away and getting armpit onto their tricep and smash knee into hips, frame their knee and work your knee out by walking up the mat
-same again but with half guard being released and having to swing your leg back to prevent the sweep
-same again pulling your leg out by grabbing your pants
-same again faking the kimura to get your elbow inside their body and bringing your elbows up to the head to be in better control
-flying rolling bad ass high percentage kimura sub from that position

Rolling/Guard Passing
-MUCH improved today, in my opinion anyway!
-got some great tips of Neil re: breaking grip and guard, tried to apply them and was moderately successful
-got a few nice sweeps, tried a few more and got killed
-I don't consider Grant's guard passes legit cos he just runs around and confuses me
-my fingers are REALLY f*cking sore from grabbing gi all night

A lot of positives to be taken from today anyway I think.

<<I need...>>

FRIDAY

BJJ w/ Gi

Passing Z guard
-forgotten most of this, but the basic of it was to grip under the belt, get elbow/shoulder pressure on the middle of the dude's leg, smash the knees together, grab the knee on the ground, step to the sie and fip the knees over, grab under the tricep, lift and pass

And loads of stuf about he importance of pressure.

Rolled as well for a while after that, worked on getting back to guard quite a bit.

<<Ain't that a kick in the head...>>

IP Warm Up - 3 rounds

Shadow Boxing - 20 minutes
-worked on movement
-boxed in mirror working 1-2's, jab-right-left hook and jab-fake right-left uppercut-straight right
-moved in and out of nd around the bags for aaaaaages
-repeated throwing the combos above

Strength

Dumbbell Bench:
32.5kg 'bells 2x8
47.5kg 'bells 5x5

Front Squat:
60kg 2x8
100kg x5
110kg x5
120kg x5

Gonna go to 50kg 5x5 next week and then just start adding a rep per session to each set.

I'd take 140kg x5 on the front squats and be stoked with it at the end of this cycle. It's pathetic when you compare it to my PR, but with all the BJJ and conditioning, and weight loss - I'll happily take it!!

BJJ - 1 hour warm up and drilling, 5/6x 7 minute rounds

Drilling - arm bars and triangles from guard
-****ed if I know what was going on today... will try to get some points
-guillotine the back of the head and underhook the shoulder
-pin arm between head and shoulder
-shrimp out to your side creating an angle, side up that has the arm
-extend
-same for triangle, but shrimp more to the side to get create an angle to get your leg out
-go almost 90 degrees to the guy so you're looking at their ear, arm across throat
-Barry showed another cool one where you basically just smash one of his wrists to his gut and snake that leg out and go from there

Rolling
-I feel better with every roll, more competent like
-did the cheapest sub ever on dylan - got a high guard, then wrapped my arms under and crushed him, just did it for the craic cos the little brat was too slick to get with anything else
-had a great roll with Tom, managed to hold mount for a while and get back to guard a good few times as well, then he smashed my onto my back and I self-choked
-had a really good role with Martin too, he did a serious job in avoiding my everything even tho I had mount for bout 4-5 minutes, tried to kimura and he avoided, multiple times, tried to take back control and he avoided, eventually was WRECKED and needed a rest so went real heavy and took a cheap self choke.
-Lasted a bit longer with Rowan this time too, avoided his arm bar and hip bump attempts
-Got mutilated by Neil, as you'd expect.
-Gotta remember not to try flower sweeps from mount cos it's f*cking stupid, "paint the floor" with my kimura's and get a underhook from half guard and sweep to that side if the opportunity comes up.

Spent well over 3.5 hours training today... only gonna get 2 sessions in this week, so have to squeeze a lot in.

<<Highway to the dangerzone...>>

Today...

Rolling - 2 x3 minute rounds, 8x 5 minute rounds (5 on, 1 off, 5 on, 6 off... repeat)

After driving from Kinsale, to Celbridge, and then IP... I showed up with just a pair of shorts and the clothes I was wearing. Awkward!!

Anyway it was a good roll... Picked up some more good tips and more importantly got some additional mat time in.

Jimmy Bottlehead wrote: »

Jesus, how many nights a week are you training?

If I can get Sunday bonus rounds in, every day!

Barry.Oglesby wrote: »

This log has the best grammar of any I've seen. You can tell we went to the same school.

Did we actually?

As a small warning, roll as often as possible but just make sure you're following the map. Think your way through things as much as possible and rather than taking 10 tips or techniques away from a session, take one and make it stick. If everyone could do that then my job would be easier.

What is this map you speak of? Serious question!

In regards the tips I’m taking away, I’m talking about really simple stuff like;

-whatever your opponent is trying to do, don’t let him do it
-getting on your side when mounted and working from there
-mount>half guard>guard>break their posture
-guard>half guard>mount/side control

I’m not even looking for complicated submissions or any of that stuff, literally just survival and getting to dominant positions when the opportunity presents itself. Is that the sort of stuff I should be going after like?

I’ll try throwing in the odd triangle, choke or key lock if the opportunity presents, but they’re all so shockingly ineffective that they’re fairly useless.

Barry.Oglesby wrote: »

According to Shaun, yes, we did.

There's no roadmap, only in my head. Basically what I mean is that you're trying to do the right things all the time, be in the right postures in the right positions and keep trying to do the right things all the time.

BJJ is simple. It only gets complicated when you let it.

So basically I just need to know what's going on in your head? Alright, doesn't sound too bad.

But yeah... shout at me when I'm in the wrong positions, at the wrong time. You might not want to shout all the time - your voice will suffer if ya do.