The Miseducation of Jimbo Slice

I love the way people only comment on my log to complain these days…

Barry.Oglesby wrote: »

If you're going to Thailand it had better be for the hookers cos a month's training anywhere would be as good.

It's gonna be for the experience... I never did a J1 in college so I want to get away and experience another culture. And if I can combine that with a sh*t load of training in a hot country... all the better.

I plan on taking a couple of months off pretty much everything once my contract with work is finished and just chilling out. So a month in Thailand, and a month rolling 2x a day in IP?

Barry.Oglesby wrote: »

If you do your month in IP in the summer you'll have:

Me
Foxy
Shafty
Anesh
Rohan
Neil
Treebeard
Hughie
Conor
Lukasz

All there with you in the mornings if it's anything like last summer. Me, Shafty, Anesh and Rohan there all the time, the other lads work shift or slop about like students. Wanna **** up your ears good and proper then that's the way to go.

Yeah it kinda depends on what I end up doing work wise, but if I can find some schmucks stupid enough to give me money to train them then that could work....

Sangre wrote: »

Didn't want to derail other thread further. Best of luck with personal training! Brave move.

I think it's kind of 'safe' at the moment because I'll just have it as something to do on the side, if i can get people - super, if not, I've accounting as a 9- 5'er anyway (and by 5, I mean 7 and after).

Expect lots of requests for people to whore me out when I get going

Coming to end of a solicitors training contract myself. Seriously long slog!

I hear ya - I won't be sorry to see 31/3/12

Extremely random, but just occurred to me other day seeing a pic of you that you kinda look like someone I was in Irish college with way back in day. Can't remember name of it though to ask you.

Only Irish college thing I ever did was in St. Pats in Dublin - never did the gaeltach stuff. So if you were there, it coulda been me!

<<I'm on the practice field running two-a-days....>>

Warm Up

1 half hearted attempt at the IP warm up

Bag rounds - 3x 3 minute rounds w/ 1 minute rest

BJJ

"T3I!<!<3R5 - 70ish minutes
-warm ups
-kneeling guard passes - same as Monday accept keep the elbow tucked, knee comes thru to pin leg, go to side control.... or something along those lines
-when a guy goes to jump guard and bear hugs you, flick elbows out to make space, one hand on hip, one on knee, push on the knee to break, he goes to matt, use that guard pss above
-few drills of the above stuff
-few light rolls for position

R0LL1|\|4 - I dunno... like 7/8x 5 minute rounds?
-got my kimura from guard that Barry showed me on Monday... delighted with that
-pulled a few arm bars again... I need to tighten up my S-mount a lot tho
-took a few guys backs nicely
-defended decently against Shane, just need to widen my knees out when going for spider guard, two sleeves (instead of collar and sleeve) and one foot on the bicep seems to work well when the guy's on the ground
-really nice roll with Grant... swept him from scarf hold ala last weeks class, swept him with some form of butterfly hooks, he swept me straight back, ended up sitting on my hips w/ no base so I just grabbed the back of his jacket and swept him backwards
-I need to figure out how Conor keeps sweeping me when I'm in his half guard or mount.... he's the only one doing it
-School boy swept'd a couple of times, used the left heel grab and right foot to left hip push/pull sweep LOADS tonight

Random stuff...
-north/south choke from side control... reach around head, drop shoulder, ribs and hip towards the mats to stop his head turning back towards me, sprawl, head goes to the mat and try to go under dude's shoulder to lift it up and then walk myself back and around
-Shane's snakey side control/scarf hold crank-choke..... from reg side control/scarf hold grab the back of dude's collar flex the arm to push his head off centre and then step across his head and use around your Achilles/calf to pull his head back and choke against your forearm - miss it and no big deal cos you still have the scarf hold
-baseball choke too, either using gi or hands for no gi... that was a super simple one to do from side control
-nice arm bar set up from guard... if he gets slack with his elbows, deep underhook, pull his arm down and pin between your head and shoulder, hip out towards that sides hand, knee on shoulder, pinch them and push the arm down

Squares

-1x disappointing performance


Good sesh tonight...

The bag work at the start was ok. I think. Was bopping about a bit more today... in and out, trying to create angles... dunno how well it'll work with a real person tho

Happy out with the BJJ. Feeling slightly more competent each class. Rolled really soft tonight. Pretty much just kept pulling guard and trying to prevent myself from being passed. Only really attacked if I swept the guy using a school boy sweep, something from spider guard or that heel grab/hip kick sweep (just realised I was doing that and throwing a butterfly hook into the other leg the odd time too).

Grant told me I was getting good. That was nice.

Recently I've been rolling a lot with the lighter guys and working on my sweeps, passes and submissions from there and just trying to survive with guys heavier than me. The way it seems to be distributed in IP is that most guys are <80kg or >105kg and I'm stuck right in the middle at 92kg as of today. I think I need to get more aggressive wit the heavier guys and start to attack and go for subs. If I get smashed, I get smashed!!

Squares was awful. Shocking performance.

itsallaboutheL wrote: »

Did you get a 90kg snatch after like a week of training!?

Bodyweight snatch and 130kg power clean inside of 4 weeks afaik.

Yesterday.... knew I was tired and need a break. Got home from work at 7.30pm. Decided to have a quick nap before getting down to some study. Woke up at 4am.

<<Fast women and cheap drinks...>>

Bag rounds - 3x 3 minutes w/ 1 minute recovery

Team Conditioning

Block 1 - 15 minutes(ish)
5 man team, 60kg prowler, up and down til time runs out

Block 2 - 15 minutes
2 man team... your rest if your partners time
-24kg KB, 4 row e/s, 8 squats, 4 presses e/s
Think I got like 8 rounds

Block 3
Half spider race- 5 left, 5 right
5 man team, your rest is the other 4 dudes time

Block 4 - 15 minutes
2 man team, go in sync
-10 T-push ups, 10 tuck jumps, 10 partner rows

Grand little sesh this morning. Not too hard. EVerything was manageable. Last block was the worst. No rolling cos of a stupid exam.

Will Heffernan wrote: »

You are testing first full week or April...i.e between the 4th and the 10th. So have a think about when you want to do it.

In Tipperary with work April 7th and 8th, IP no-gi comp on the 9th... so maybe the 6th?

You just want me to test to see how weak I've gotten right?

<<All of the lights..>>

Boxing
8x 90 second rounds w/ 45 second recovery

Felt alright today. Got smashed a few times in the face badly enough but just took it and kept going. Slowly but surely geting used to being tagged. Movement was a bit better. Starting to notice tendancies and stuff mid round so hopefully that'll continue w/ new guys. John could pretty much smash me at any point he likes, but it's nice having a moving target to hit.

BJJ

Tekke(n)((rs)) - 45ish minutes
-warm up and then drills from side control
-partnered up with Bruno for this, Barry had been talking about rolling 'technical' during the week and he was the right guy to pair up with to see it, a lot of what he does seems effortless, I was conscious of not squeezing too much or trying to smash at any point cos I know his back's at him, so was a good warm up for taking it easy on Barry later too...
-Side control drill was mostly about pressing into the near side of his ribcage and underhooking the far arm and head and amost elevating the elbows off the mat to lift his head and put him in a nasty position
-Guillotines from there.... if he rolls in reach around and as you chin strap step thru, link hands and twist your wrist.
-If he rolls to his knees use like a reverse short choke forearm position to stop him popping his head out, swing a leg over his back to prevent the roll if needs be
-If he tries to roll to his back, step over w/ hands still locked into mount, post with head and get up on toes, twist
-Picked up a few other tips from Bruno bout just controlling guys from that position with minimal effort

Rolling - like 8x 5 minute rounds w/ 1 minute recovery?
-Nothing extreme or outrageous to report, just chipping away and trying to use some positional control today
-Scarf hold is rapidly becoming my favourite position. Seems to be fairly easy and relatively 'safe' in regards being swept from it. Can be locked in quite tight without any major stress to hold it, can do sh*t all from there at the mo.... but hey I'll learn
-The roll with Tom was good today.... defended a bit better, gave up my left arm cheap AGAIN but its something I'm doing less of
-Think TJ only tapped me 2 or 3x in 5 minutes... which is definite progress. He was owning me all over the shop, but even if I couldn't defend, I had an idea on what I SHOULD be doing
-Traded guillotine and ankle lock attempts with Grant for a round, rolled out of a side ride and just played about with some stuff
-Then spent a round ankle locking, and being ankle locked by Will and his shiny legs

-Rolled w/ Barry for about 25 minutes afterwards in lieu of conditioning. Just doing like really light, smooth and controlled stuff. It was more technical and flowy and in my head it works as 'get the right position, or move to the right spot and you won't have to exert any significant force in doing so'. That is, no muscling, strength or going hard at all. Hopefully I got it!
-Lots done on just keeping elbow position to prevent under hooks while on the bottom
-One big take away was when mount, frame hard with arm across hips and other arms elbow to the mat inside his knee and keep framing hard while shrimping big to get out and prevent S-mount
-My shrimps and bridges are quite short and small movements, going to work on making them bigger, more explosive and w/ longer travel on Wednesday

Great session tonight. Didn't get any conditioning in cos I spent 2.5 hours on the mat and over 15 minutes in the ring, but the stuff I got done today will be more advantageous in the long run than 10 minutes of sprint blocks!!

<<I’m on it…>>

TUESDAY

Muay Thai
Teckneecuh
-using right hand to paw away jabs
-left hand to paw away rights (meet it a bit further out cos it’s more powerful)
-lifting shoulder and elbow to cup ear for hooks

Padwork
-6x 3 minute rounds holding pads
-6x 3 minute rounds striking

Sparring – 4x 3 minute rounds
-boxed for all rounds
-got beaten up for all rounds
-snapping out jabs too much for no reason (ie not hitting anything)
-head movement’s not existent
-got spinning back fisted by Dylan
-Paddy was showing me a method to slip jabs (lean back to right leg, rotate slightly to right lifting up right shoulder (gives something for a straight right hand to bounce off) and them coming flying back with a straight right to knock the guy out)…

I actually got some great advice off Paddy too… ‘Be a c*nt, just get in there and ruin his day’. Basically because I’m a shorty I’ll need to get close where technique and skill won’t come in to it as much.


WEDNESDAY

BJJ
Warm ups and guillotine technique with Deputy Admiral Grant, same as Monday.

Did the drilling with Chief Tom and picked up some good tips on how to lock it in more effectively.

Quarter-master General Bruno schooled us on some single and double leg take downs which I’m going to need to start working on if I’m gonna fight MMA. I was trying to be all fancy and technical and getting nowhere, but once I just started going for it I was having much more success.

Rolled for ages just going thru various stuff with the blue belts. Lukaz, who’s name I DEFINITELY spelled wrong, showed me how annoying it is using head control when a guy’s trying to pass. Basically just making sure their head and body remain on the same side and using it to control them.

Bruno spent yonks helping me refine spider guard and just showing me the importance of keeping straight leg control.

I felt absolutely thick after all of that because I got so completely schooled. I don’t like the gi again.

<<Baby when the lights go out…>>

Strength:
Hang power cleans:
40kg 3x2
60kg x3
70kg x3
80kg x2
90kg x2
100kg 2x1

Power Cleans:
60kg x3
80kg x2
90kg x2
100kg 3x2
105kg 2x1

Conditioning:
Prowler:
160kg 10 trips in 10 minutes

MMA:
Warm up, takeneek and pad work – 80 minutes (jabs, rights and 1-2s)

Sparring:
3x 3 minute boxing rounds
3x 3 minute muay thai rounds
2x 5 minute MMA rounds

Conditioning:
Prowler fight rounds w/ bodyweight (90kg):
3 minutes on, 1 minute off x3
a) Long strides, walking w/ prowler
b) Up the pace a bit w/ prowler
c) Sprints w/ prowler

Yeah… that was a good session.

Power cleans – man I’m weak. These were absolutely crap. All over the place and so slow. No extension, slow elbows, everything wrong!! The 160kg prowler was easy. First time with any real weight on it at all recently so happy out with how it went.

The pad work was good… need to follow my jabs more and throw from my face(elbows high) and twist with my hand as I hit. Moving in and out and side to side/slipping is still a serious work in progress, but I’m just trying to improve each day.

Sparring was great craic. Robbed one of the lads head guards to protect my face a bit and it did a good job. Got absolutely thumped a few times anyway but c’est la vie. I don’t know if the lads were taking it easy on me, or were tired, but the muay thai sparring seemed to be a bit slower paced than the boxing. MMA was quality, loved it. Put this weeks training to use and guillotine Conor, pulled off a north/south and rear naked choke too… Good fun!

Oh and in other news…. 89.9kg after training bitches!!!!. Lightest I’ve been since like April 2007 