First day back to jiu jitsu. I made a huge mistake today, while rolling with my professor. Started out seated to him standing. Entered shin on shin and sit up guard, then rolled into single X. Swept him down and he started inverting to take my back. I reversed it and took his. Then stretched his arms over his head and subbed him with lapel choke less than 1.5 minutes in. From there, we both just messed around to finish round. I then moved to a big purple belt for a hard 5. Afterwards he put me in center of mat. Turned a loud song on and set time for 7 minute shark tank. Every time I got an advantage or subbed someone tapped in. Most brutal seven minutes ever. Lesson learned, don’t sub your professor.
Been really really bad. Haven’t trained since last tuesday. Just been super busy with getting house ready to be listed and finishing up at my last job. Fortunately, home is now listed and I’m in between jobs.. new one officially starts tomorrow.
Tuesday Morning class
Had solid rounds. Did a really good job of pressure passing from tripod and butterfly sweeping. I feel very confident in these two, as was able to hit on 3 purple belts.
Went against another blue belt who is my size. I had never seen him before. I just waited patiently while he tried to pass my half guard, before butterfly sweeping, then clamping down in side scissor, threatening armbar, before taking lapel and finishing the choke.
Rolled with him again and threatened that butterfly sweep, he posted with his leg, so I grabbed onto his arm and hit my first realy Choi bar (not on a white belt). Was a great setup for it faking what I had just successfully hit.
Immediately rolled with a purple belt I train with a lot. It’s become my move to cycle through leg entry, underhook to back, choi, overhead sweep, butterfly, etc. from half until one o them works. Hit the butterfly, he started to come up, I took side scissor and finished him with lapel choke again.
I’m 100% WFH until I move in a few weeks, so should be able to get garage sessions in each day. Weight has been as low as 226, which is good. Diet has been solid, with exception of two Dos Equis one night.
DB Pushups
5x15 - Performed after each working set of above
Tricep Pulldowns
50
OH Tricep Ext
50
Good first workout back
Trying to stay consistent, but lots happening with preparing to move on May 1
Will be going to an open mat today (Friday). Will be last time I see a bunch of the guys
Keeping diet tight. The 5/6th abs are starting to be more visible. With so much happening, I really need to keep diet perfect. Might need to start throwing KB and med balls around just to get quick work in.
My general goal every day is drinking protein shakes when hungry and only eat a breakfast/lunch if it’s part of a meal with friends/family. Otherwise, I don’t want to eat too many calories early in day, then get caught with a big meal at night with friends saying goodbye. Ex was yesterday. I had a ribeye and rice for lunch, then got caught last minute with dinner with friends and ate more than I wanted. I want to keep protein high, then if nothing happens at night, make myself something that will be satisfying and keep me under on calories.
Spontaneous self organized daddy day care at jiu jitsu. Had a good group of guys, 1 brown belt, 5 purple, myself and a white belt and all our kids. Set up some cones for kids to play on mats, ordered pizzas, snacks for kids and we all rolled for 2 Horus.
Definitely felt great today. Didn’t give up any subs and got quite a few myself. Most of my subs coming from that side position. It’s getting well refined. I get there hit the lapel choke, arm bar or take the back and roll through. Alternatively, I told myself I wanted to start hitting ankle locks. I got 2 of them. Normally, I’ll enter leg entanglements and use the position to pass guard.
I also started working a high step pass, which open a lot of doors against the BTT brown belt. Normally he does Adam Ward shit to me and sweeps me from half. High stepping until I could advance to a pressure pass allowed me to actually pass his guard once and other time enter SX, where I locked in a straight ankle lock.
Overall great rounds. Will try to hit back or legs this evening.
Forgot WNO was on last night, so no additional workout. Got baby to sleep and went into our media room for first time since living in home and watched it. Definitely should have used this space sooner.
Saturday
treadmill walk at 3mph
3 minutes with 40lb vest and 40lbs in each hand
7 minutes with just 40lb vest
Simulated a mount escape by putting 100lb med ball on chest, pendulum swung my legs and sat up with ball in racked position and press
4x10
2x1x150lbs
Quick thoughts: Over the weekend had a bunch of guys out a friends property, as a going away thing for me. It’s going to be to so hard to leave these group of guys. There’s about 7 of us who train together consistently and go to Origin together. I’ve mentioned I hate stripes in the past, but they coordinated getting my belt there and had one of the black belts show up late and surprise me with two stripes on my belt. Meant a lot to have them think about me and honored in that way.
Tuesday:
Went to morning class. We worked on my favorite topic, points of leverage for rolling. Specifically, moving from tailbone to shoulders and working on using natural leverage to our advantage.
Had some great rolls. I’ve found that side-scissor/clamp position to be my game. Getting there is easy, and then I own them for sweeps and subs.
Right groin is pretty tender. It’s sore from opponents trying to pin it to the ground, while passing. Need to let it heal before I do squats. I tried a few days ago, but was painful on descent. I might try and do leg ext and lunges, as that doesn’t seem to impact it.
Been hit or miss as expected. Got in a chest workout today, then went to my last class at gym. Was pretty dominant on mat today. Started on back in half guard, got my sweeps, then finished opponents in Mount or back control. Was working Ezekiels today. There’s a cool one I’ve wanted to hit with underhook lapel grip, from back control. It’s normally non threatening, as undertook prevents the full choke, but taking the far arm and grabbing sleeve completes the choke.