How do YOU teach jiu jitsu??
Women’s class is coming along fairly well in terms of improvement in teaching, students progressing, Had to teach class entirely bymyself and I think I stressed about it entirely too much. This past friday was Shannon’s son birthday so I taught the Women’s Class by myself and we had a blast. Usually Shannon leads the … Read more
Pretend as if the gi doesn’t exist
Training these past few weeks have been pretty intense. Between class 8am-9:20,work 9:30-7,and training 7-till i fall I have been struggling to adjust to everything. These past few weeks Josh has had the fighters buckle down and focus solely on mma which made me kind of sad at first as my schedule doesn’t permit for … Read more
Autopilot
It has been weeks since I’ve last blogged but i can report several recent developments. First and foremost I’ve spent all of my free time preparing for my Amateur MMA debut this Saturday August 13 at Hardrock MMA 39. I”m not exactly sure who my opponent will be because of weight class stuff but I do know that there are … Read more
It’s ok to die in here
Saturday was the funeral and although it was incredible painful to bury our friend, it meant the world to spend the afternoon with everyone from the team. We had three or four booths/tables filled at O’charleys. There was a private reception at Kessinger’s family house after the funeral as well. Promptly once everyone got their drinks … Read more
A new gi, cauliflower ear, muscle men, and staph infections..OH MY!!
Super dooper tired from 3 straight days of bjj (hallelujah). Sunday I was the lone ranger from my gym and with gas at 3.38 made the hour drive to the Etown gym to train. We trained mostly back escapes and a takedown that involved standing, gable grip while taking their back and then taking your … Read more
Big Ol Lips
Last night got cut short, really short. Technique:: I was hoping the Gentle Giant would return but his knee injury is keeping him out a little longer than expected so Papa Smurf led the class instead. We did several takedowns including a series similar to a ouchi gari but modified for no gi and Papa … Read more
Drill it. Write it. Refine it.
Thursday proved to be a very technical day of training. Josh came down and showed about 6 or 7 techniques, I currently only possess the ability to fully recall on a good day 2 maybe 3 techniques that were taught. Luckily I brought my notebook and plan to share as many with you as possible. … Read more
Why seek perfection knowing that true perfection does not exist?
I have a confession to make…whenever i’m feeling down I watch Celebrity Rehab. It’s my guilty pleasure and without a doubt always makes me feel 100x better about my situation. okay. On to the topic at hand.. Went to No-Gi last night and contrary to my own expectations i felt great leaving class. My version of … Read more
“Just because you trained for something doesn’t mean you’re prepared for it.”
“Just because you trained for something doesn’t mean you’re prepared for it.”- anonymous Woe is me. The above quote is exactly how I feel after judo tonight. There were only 5 of us at class tonight, including the instructor. I paired up mostly with Debandi aka The Girlfriend, mostly because he’s the closest to my … Read more
This used to be fun.
In the past couple weeks I’ve been trying to follow the “If you don’t have anything nice to say then don’t say anything at all.” I’ve gone through my saved drafts of blogs that I meant to post in the last 9 days and once I’ve read them over a few times I must say … Read more
