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Our gym is really busy at the moment, it's great. Beginners class is consistently 15 -20 guys twice a week, I'm helping out with those just giving tips on some basic techniques. Really enjoy that.
Have been training three times a week, including one double session, so four hours of BJJ. Have dropped a weight class to 76kg without actively trying to lose any weight.
Have been going back to basics myself and looking at and drilling little details for armbars and triangles from guard and have started hitting those in sparring.
Focussing on overlook attacks now from guard... still loving it.
Nice when you can pay it back to other players as a kind of return for all the guys who helped you
Coaching others is actually really good for your own technique - makes you think through what the fundamentals of any given technique or skill actually are before you can try to teach it to others. (Even better at times when somebody asks - what happens if I try to do it this way ? )
UFC 267: Blachowicz vs Teixeira Fight Card
Jan Blachowicz (c) vs Glover Teixeira - Light heavyweight
Petr Yan vs Cory Sandhagen - Bantamweight
Islam Makhachev vs Dan Hooker - Lightweight
Alexander Volkov vs Marcin Tybura - Heavyweight
Li Jingliang vs Khamzat Chimaev - Welterweight
Magomed Ankalaev vs Volkan Oezdemir - Light heavyweight
UFC 267: Blachowicz vs Teixeira prelims
Amanda Ribas vs Vima Jandiroba - Women's strawweight
Ricardo Ramos vs Zubaira Tukhugov - Featherweight
Albert Duraev vs Roman Kopylov - Middleweight
Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos vs Benoit St Denis - Welterweight
Makwan Amirkhani vs Lerone Murphy - Featherweight
It's going to be intense; running through everything takes about 40 mins, non-stop. Fingers crossed all goes well though - will be exactly 2 years to the day since I got my current belt!
Getting a new belt is a great thing - proof you're getting better, and payback for all of the effort you put in. First night back at the club with the new belt on - even better
I've been helping with the beginners group, they are all much younger, fit, strong and mostly bigger than me and after a few months training becoming a handful.
It's actually really helped my game become much more patient, careful and opportunist. I can now handle the aggressive white belts much more easily and bait them in to doing something dumb then take advantage.
Fingers crossed I can stay on the mats and keep consistent. I'll have to do at least one competition this year too, but now I'm in the Masters 5 division, not sure that will be stacked with blue belts!
maybe I should try a comp this year, think I’d be masters 2 though.
They've revolutionised how I roll with aggressive/strong partners. It's all common sense about defending hooks, but it's really well explained. (You can easily watch at 1.5x speed as he talks clearly and slowly).
Grading took almost 45 minutes of non-stop action. Pretty knackering but well worth it.
Aiming for purple in March, and then Brown end of the year / early 2023... with black 1st dan at least 1 year after that.
Also upped my weapons training as well - going on kobudo courses, have a pair of sai now too.
I've been watching a lot of Roy Dean tutorials, they seem to work well for me.
@grungebob know exactly what you mean, feeling slightly a fraud. Some nights I can more than hold my own, other nights I get tapped a few times. I don't tend to get smashed any more except by a couple of purple belts who tie me up in knots, but even then I can defend for a while. It's hard to compare your game against a constantly improving class.
Congratulations @FarleyUK
It worked against everyone except the purple belt I rolled with, he is excellent at attacking that space, although he took my back once and I just defended hooks and he struggled to do anything. Even hit the Running Man a few times and felt completely secure. Interesting.
I find round our way, once - maybe on a very rare occasion, a second time - you get to pull off a great move against one of the Good guys, and that's it, it's over, finished, Everybody (or at least all of the experienced guys) knows the score, knows how to counter against it, and it never works again (or at least not in your own club ). It's a constantly moving battlefield out there.
One of the things that keeps it fresh.
Went back training briefly in November, but we had my mum down staying over Christmas, and I didn't think it was fair to go wrestling and possibly bring the bug back to her. Am envious of you chaps back training - hope it's going well for y'all.
I've been playing with it for a few months, the key is to transition between the positions.
I initially just used them as ways to not get tapped, now I'm trying flow from one to the other looking for openings to start my offence.
Unfortunately my coach got interested in what we were doing, watched the videos, understood them better than us & taught the rest of the gym!
So I'm back to square one!
I really like the Globetrotters videos, I think they're well put together. I'd love to do one of their camps.