The Miseducation of Jimbo Slice

<<At first I was afraid...>>

BJJ - 2 hours 15 minutes

TJ ran us thru some judo stuff tonight and I REALLY enjoyed it. First up was Kouchi Gari. Took about half an hour for it to click, but once it did i started to hit it with some success.

Ran thru drop seoi nage, I definitely wasn't stepping thru enough with it, but every now and again I'd get one crisply.

Next was drop seoi nage followed with kouchi gari if he steps out. Got shown and follow up so that when he steps out of kouchi gari, your lapel grip goes to the back of the guys thigh, you hook they're leg and push forward to finish.

Saw a cool drop seoi nage variation where you step outside instead of in, rotate all the way around and transition to a double leg from the side squeezing the knees together.

Asked TJ about o soto gari and he showed it to me (step in line with sleeve side foot, deep collar grip, pull on the sleeve to get them moving back over their foot, crowbar with collar arm to increase that effect, lapel side foot comes thru and sweeps). I like it.

I REALLY enjoyed today. I'd love to find somewhere local that does Judo on Tuesday or Thursday nights. I'm sure I could grab someone to do a bit of drilling in Kyuzo too. Would like to be more confident standing up anyway...

<<It's not your fault...>>

SATURDAY

KB Clean and Press Ladder:
24kg KB x10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1

Time: 8something
HRs: Max - 179, Average 172

That was pretty tough. I'd like to be able to go 10 to 1 and all the way back up. That'd be cool. First step's going 1 to 10, did 1 to 8 without much hassle recently.

MONDAY

2.15km run - 10 minutes 33 seconds
HRs: Max - 179, Average: 163

Whoop - sub 5 minute km pace. Pretty sh*t but it's something I've been looking for for a while. Gonna run 2km every morning before cracking into study for the next month just because I want to get my body used to higher mileage so I can go for longer runs going forward.

Off to climb the sugar loaf now!

<<just as much as she can...>>

Run:
2.15km - 11 minutes 32 seconds - average HR 146

BJJ tonight.

<<Don't follow their lead...>>

BJJ - 3 hours

MORNING - 1 hours
-great 60 minute roll with Grant
-worked on some cross collar set ups and was shown a nice arm bar set up which I pulled off later in the evening rolling

EVENING - 2 hours
-coach Neil showed us some half guard passes
-emphasis on using cross face, shoulder, and head to control opponents posture
-use like a semi butterfly hook to pin leg and take offline with shouldre pressure to get guard open
-miss the underhook, use far side lapel
-good roll afterwards, finished a nice americana but still really struggling with cross collar chokes

My hands are fried, gonna be interesting to see what sorta state I'm in tomorrow. 2,700 kcals in today. Gonna wait for a week of recording intake and average out to see what's happened.

<<Tight jeans, daisy dukes...>>

BJJ - 3 hours total

MORNING
-fairly intense session this morning with lots of conditioning drills to warm up, tough but I liked it
-5 of us training and did 20 minute guard passing, 2 out, 1 waiting. Horrible.

The guard passing was with Neil, Lucaz, Barry and Grant so a really high standard and lads where I had to work really hard. Had a decent time of it and tried to give as good as I got. Certainly tried to be more active and not rest.

EVENING
-fairly intense warm up ala the morning session
-butterfly guard passing... hand fight, hands to ankles and stand, pull the legs so the dude goes flat on his back, hip in, push the legs forwrad and sit on his hamstrings like they're a seat, pick a side from there and get your knee to the mat, underhook the far side
-30/45 (?) minute guard passing drills from there... 3 out, 5 waiting
-cool down

Strange session tonight. Was really on form at the start. Managing to score the first point consistently on a lot of my rolls, went 3 for 3 at least 3 times, maybe 4. And then the wheels fell off and I could just do f*ck all and was getting served consistently. Think it was fatigue and overthinking. Bleurgh!!

Barry.Oglesby wrote: »

I always thought you were a bit of Streisand but you were really rocking the shít in that first half hour.

Errr.... thanks. I think?

Barry.Oglesby wrote: »

No problem. Any time you want abstract words of encouragement, you come to me. You're not used to double sessions that's why you fell apart. You recover somewhat but the branium just can't.

So it's a downhill slope for the rest of the week. Super.

<<Nah nah people...>>

BJJ - 2.5 hours

MORNING
-Barry showed us some stuff on standing to break guard - wrist control, step deep to that side, hide the other leg back to prevent schoolboy sweep, break guard by pushing on inside of knee
-1 minute in closed guard, 1 minute passing with 3 partners
-did some first point rounds from closed guard

Walked out of the gym not feeling great about my performance but then thought about it and realised while I wasn't finishing stuff, I was getting some nice set ups. Got a decent cross collar set up and shrimp my hips out like Grant did to me when he had me but couldn't finish, started to experiment with loop chokes, looked for a few different sweeps and managed to set up a nice arm bar attempt that I ended up sweeping with

EVENING
-Easy enough warm up tonight
-Few bodyweight conditioning drills
-Worked on passing z-gwuard -> use top hand to grab gi at shoulder and form like an underhook style pressure by closing your elbow, sleeve control with the other hand, get the knee back to prevent them getting near it, try to get thru and up on the leg in z-guard and use elbow and shoulder to open from there, shin cut, pass
-First point rolled from z-guard
-WHIPPINGS (Andy, Finlan, Dave, Rowan)

Dunno about tonight... I wasn't really passing too well with what Barry was showing us. Probably need to just work it a bit more to understand the pressures etc. I'm starting to use deep collar grips a bit well to break posture and control, but am having a 'mare trying to finish. Nothing crazy brilliant to note from that session other than the scissors to knee push sweep I hit on top. Was very happy with that because it kinda got me thinking I was seeing transitions (albeit really obvious ones) and was starting to understand the importance of disrupting base and sweeping to where they can't re-base. Hit a few kimuras from half guard butt flop, not too sure of the technical quality of that tho.

The whippings were brutal. I feel kinda bad because I really laid into the guys. I've no doubt that when the time comes, the favour will be repaid.

<<It's not gay if it's in a threeway....>>

Thursday

BJJ - 2.5 hours

MORNING
-really light flow roll w/ Grant, we were both absolutely b*lloxed so took it mega easy
-worked a bit on my cross collar and some omoplata set ups from a missed cross collar choke, be interesting to see how practical it is during a live roll, tried it once in the evening session and got it
-I hate when someone buttflops in my guard

EVENING
-guard passing w/ Barry (knee and hip grip, post w/ head tripod style, punch the knee thru and come to side control, if snagged, bit ballet step up and back to side control, use as much pressure as possible)
-did a few drills from there and then some light rolls
-worked cross collar set up a bit more, I'm reaching too near the shoulder and not enough towards the centre line of his body, or I can go deep get my arm pit to his head and grab his belt
-triangle - similar to scissor sweep set up, but instead of getting my shin on their ribs/under their arm pit, use it to pin their leg to their chest and then shoot the triangle (option 2 is off a missed arm bar to stuff their arm thru, clear the elbow and force it from there)
-good tip: shoulders, hips and knees in a straight line to prevent stacking

The last couple of weeks of training have been really good for me. I've gotten some great opportunities to drill stuff in the morning and before class, and seem to be just getting the concepts of some positions down and see how stuff flows together a bit better. The actual application of a lot of it still alludes me, but at least I'm seeing stuff now. No doubt there's many levels of depth I'm missing in each position over what I'm seeing, but I feel I know substantially more now than I did at the start of the month.

<<Steal my sunshine...>>

BJJ - 1.5 hours
-Ran thru a quick Z-guard pass... grab both knees, pull up, move to have guard, underhook far side, overhook near arm and pin with chest, post head to mat, kick leg off and go to scarf
-Think we did 45 minutes of guard passing after that, 2 out, 3 waiting
-Drilled some batmans

The first point roll ended up being good. I'd a complete f*cking 'mare at the start. Was getting my ass handed to me all over the place but as people began to get fatigued I started to get more and more. All the arm bar drilling is starting to pay off, got 2 of them again tonight, neither were pretty but I'm kind of happier to get them that way. First one I had to bridge up like Barry was talking about last night to prevent the stack, second I had to roll thru and finish face down. Pulled a couple of unorthodox sweeps which I got because I'm starting to understand the concept of basing a bit better and realising when someone has over committed and doesn't have anyway of basing back to where I want to sent them.

A frustrating session turned good.

itsallaboutheL wrote: »

I do miss lifting.... But she really ought to be arching from her upper back.

<<Sing for the moment...>>

Sunday

Conditioning? - 2-3 hours

Loads time hiking and climbing around Powerscourt waterfall and gardens. Savage day out!