We’re starting the block on side control in fundamentals. Show up at 6 am and get your body moving for the day. CU@6AM!

Clamps. Clamping with the knees while on my side. 

I’ve been getting my opponent off to one side of me and breaking their posture. I know there are reverse arm locks, omoplatas, and wrist locks from there. I would like to know what else! 

Thinking outside the box. I know, cliché. 

I’ve always been a head on kind of person and Jiu Jitsu has taught me that going head on isn’t always the correct answer. Sometimes there’s an alternate route that gets us to the same ending. 

Getting to the back can be difficult

This week’s fundamental classes have 3 options to get you there. 

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The cool word is perseverance. 

The not-so-cool phrase is embrace the suck. 

Some days you’re the hammer, some days you’re the nail, and some days you’re the board with the nail in it. 

There is definitely a cycle of I know what I’m doing, I don’t know what I’m doing, I shouldn’t even be attempting this. 

The hard times is where it’s nice to have a great community to bounce ideas off of and help get through the hard times. 

2 chokes, a submission and a sweep! This weeks fundamental classes are jam packed! 

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2 great escapes on Tuesday and 2 great attacks on Thursday. The week can’t get much better than that! 

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If someone is serious about joining I’ll offer to go with them to their first class. If they say they want to lose some weight before starting I quote (I believe) Rener Gracie “You don’t lose weight and then join, you join and then lose weight”

Breathe by rickson Gracie. 

Born a champion is a pretty good BJJ movie. 

I don’t eat an hour before I’m going to train. Definitely try to be hydrated coming in. 

On the days that I teach the 6am class I come in fasted. I wake up and drink a large glass of water with my morning supplements. After class I have my first cup of coffee……and it’s glorious.