thats cute,I make that for my kids 
It’s not that I haven’t been training for the last week. It’s just been emotional, when your social life implodes, sleeping and watching Bewitched is all you want to do when you get back from class.
So, highlights from last week…
I’ve been playing around with dips to go with my chin-up attempts. I really suck at them and don’t even think I have the ability to activate the motor neurons to properly do them. To deal with this I’m going to do baby ones with my feet supported in front of me. I’m also really upper back dominant, and so to help activate my lats before I try pull ups I’m going to add in some dumbbell pull overs. Oh, and while trying to do SL DLs I was having a hell of a time balancing, so I took my shoes off. It made a world of difference, so I’m going to attempt ‘leg’ movements in my socks until they tell me I can’t.
On the BJJ side of things, I missed last Wends, but made all the other classes. We worked on the feet on Sunday and Monday, which is one of my huge issues. I’m really working on being comfortable on the feet. I need alternatives to jumping guard! Sunday we focused on shooting in for double legs or single legs. We drilled the drop step back and forth across the mats quite a bit.
I really enjoyed it, I occasionally feel like everyone but me has a history in wrestling and this is already second nature to them. I still have to say out loud to myself: lower level, shorten step, driver over knee, bring leg around, push off foot and turn hips to run. I’ve gotta stop caring about how ridiculously ungraceful I look doing this and start drilling it on my own.
Monday we did an ankle pick. It took me a while to get it, but after I did, I really liked it. We started with a deep overhook and then pitched them forward and took an ankle. When they stepped your first option back you just switch the angle of your hips and go for the other. I like it because when you break their posture they are in an arm in guillotine sort of position and that feels really natural to me.
Ok, I’ve gotta run, but I’ll update on Thursday and Sat before class tonite so I don’t fall too far behind.
I just did sl dls today…balance is key!
I always do em sock less…
repeating the movements until they are second nature will lead you to gracefullness pch2.
[quote]mom-in-MD wrote:
I just did sl dls today…balance is key!
I always do em sock less…[/quote]
BJJ is all barefoot, and I try to be shoeless as much as possible so having something on my feet at the gym feels really wrong in general. Though it makes me wonder why people are so adamant about having good arch support and other fanciness in their shoes? I much prefer fancy on the outside of my shoes. I’ll have to look it up.
[quote]nlmain wrote:
repeating the movements until they are second nature will lead you to gracefullness pch2. [/quote]
Yeah, I can’t wait until that day when it just clicks. Eventually …
Oh, I was feeling so clever yesterday. I was going to write a post on how ideas in BJJ translate into bigger ideas that you can use in life in general; that everything is in fact the same thing. Today though, I’m exhausted, so you’re going to have to do you own philosophizing.
The maxim I was going to expound on was that when you get to a good place and can’t get the finish you want, you shouldn’t give everything up, but rather be adaptable and go for something else. See how it works in real life too?
So, how’s it work on the mats? Thursday’s class! HA HA! (Remember… exhausted, forgive my lack of clever) On Thursday we did submissions from side control. I can usually get to side control, but initially I just focused on getting position rather than submission. So, when I get to side control my instinct is to find mount or take the back. To compete though, one must submit.
First we went over the basic Americana from side control. It’s not a difficult submission in theory, but a lot of times they start to defend before I can settle into the submission. Usually I try for the arm bar, but had never actually learned it so I just scooted into north south or tried for mount. Thursday we got details that will really help me finish it, and also help me keep the arm. We even went over how to keep the arm if they defend by bending the arm down giving you the Kimura from side control. After going over the details of each submission, and how to keep the arm throughout the flow, we drilled the progression a few times.
I didn’t really roll. My schedule’s shifted so that I have to be up at 6:30, rolling until 1 am and getting home at 2 isn’t a consistently viable option.
The picture is a Kimura from side control.
[quote]pch2 wrote:
[quote]mom-in-MD wrote:
I just did sl dls today…balance is key!
I always do em sock less…[/quote]
BJJ is all barefoot, and I try to be shoeless as much as possible so having something on my feet at the gym feels really wrong in general. Though it makes me wonder why people are so adamant about having good arch support and other fanciness in their shoes? I much prefer fancy on the outside of my shoes. I’ll have to look it up. [/quote]
I always do my lower-body training without shoes. If your gym will let you, try it out (or just try it out until they tell you to stop - then ask them how a sneaker is going to protect your foot if a weight drops on it).
pch2 nice work… maybe I can help?
your adding too many steps to shooting
initiating from the clinch will make it allot faster/more sucessful
drop a level
penetrate
pop the hips
ankle picks are a great start.
your Gi or no Gi…?
you can google russian tie or two on one for some great set ups
into an ankle pick ( and lots of other things)
Judo/wrestling/bjj does stimulate other thinking
Id be curious
[quote]RBlue wrote:
[quote]pch2 wrote:
[quote]mom-in-MD wrote:
I just did sl dls today…balance is key!
I always do em sock less…[/quote]
BJJ is all barefoot, and I try to be shoeless as much as possible so having something on my feet at the gym feels really wrong in general. Though it makes me wonder why people are so adamant about having good arch support and other fanciness in their shoes? I much prefer fancy on the outside of my shoes. I’ll have to look it up. [/quote]
I always do my lower-body training without shoes. If your gym will let you, try it out (or just try it out until they tell you to stop - then ask them how a sneaker is going to protect your foot if a weight drops on it).
[/quote]
I think I’m going to start just taking my ballet flats, they’re like no shoe. Just socks in the squat rack is too slippery. Last time I was doing lunges on the carpeted area.
I couldn’t really find anything on why we should wear shoes. This article on barefoot running was kinda interesting Health Journal: Is barefoot better?
[quote]pch2 wrote:
[quote]RBlue wrote:
[quote]pch2 wrote:
[quote]mom-in-MD wrote:
I just did sl dls today…balance is key!
I always do em sock less…[/quote]
BJJ is all barefoot, and I try to be shoeless as much as possible so having something on my feet at the gym feels really wrong in general. Though it makes me wonder why people are so adamant about having good arch support and other fanciness in their shoes? I much prefer fancy on the outside of my shoes. I’ll have to look it up. [/quote]
I always do my lower-body training without shoes. If your gym will let you, try it out (or just try it out until they tell you to stop - then ask them how a sneaker is going to protect your foot if a weight drops on it).
[/quote]
I think I’m going to start just taking my ballet flats, they’re like no shoe. Just socks in the squat rack is too slippery. Last time I was doing lunges on the carpeted area.
I couldn’t really find anything on why we should wear shoes. This article on barefoot running was kinda interesting Health Journal: Is barefoot better?
[/quote]
wrestling shoes are decent to lift in although I go barefoot lifting and rolling…thats just how I roll
[quote]kmcnyc wrote:
pch2 nice work… maybe I can help?
your adding too many steps to shooting
initiating from the clinch will make it allot faster/more sucessful
drop a level
penetrate
pop the hips
ankle picks are a great start.
your Gi or no Gi…?
you can google russian tie or two on one for some great set ups
into an ankle pick ( and lots of other things)
Judo/wrestling/bjj does stimulate other thinking
Id be curious
[/quote]
I see what you’re saying about shooting. The whole layout was mostly for when it’s a line drill. It’s how we’re supposed to do it. In actuality from the clinch simple makes sense. It’s that getting to the clinch part that sucks. That grip fighting grey zone is nerve racking.
Most of rolling is gi. Maybe 10% of my rolling is no gi, though of course I’d like anything I learn to be applicable to both.
I looked up the Russian. I do like that a lot. It’s really similar to the ankle pick we learned. I’ve just gotta become a much better grip fighter. We (well my coach, I was just standing there) was talking to Hillary Williams at Arnolds about girls fighting and apparently she feels as though girls in general suck at grip fighting. So, if I could get good at it, I’d have a huge advantage over other girls.
I googled two on one. I need more specific key words, everything I got was NSFW.
For those who don’t know who she is, a video of Hillary Williams rolling. She’s the one in the Black gi.
We’ve established that I like cookies, so I’ve been experimenting with good cookie recipies. I think I’ve found one that’s vegan, and contains no refined flours.
I got it from this site http://www.101cookbooks.com/archives/nikkis-healthy-cookies-recipe.html i took the picture from her too.
Cookies!
3 large, ripe bananas, well mashed (about 1 1/2 cups)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 cup coconut oil, barely warm - so it isn’t solid (or alternately, olive oil)
2 cups rolled oats
2/3 cup almond meal
1/3 cup coconut, finely shredded & unsweetened
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon fine grain sea salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
6 - 7 ounces chocolate chips or dark chocolate bar chopped
Preheat oven to 350 degrees, racks in the top third.
In a large bowl combine the bananas, vanilla extract, and coconut oil.
Set aside. In another bowl whisk together the oats, almond meal,
shredded coconut, cinnamon, salt, and baking powder. Add the dry
ingredients to the wet ingredients and stir until combined. Fold in
the chocolate chunks/chips.The dough is a bit looser than a standard
cookie dough, don’t worry about it. Drop dollops of the dough, each
about 2 teaspoons in size, an inch apart, onto a parchment (or Silpat)
lined baking sheet. Bake for 12 - 14 minutes.
The totals for the whole batch are P/F/C/Ca; 98.9/247.7/186.6/2844 I made about 20 cookies, but they should be much smaller. My per cookie is 5/12.4/9.3/142.2
That cookie recipe just made me drool like a saint bernard. mmmmmm let me know how it turns out plz!
[quote]nlmain wrote:
That cookie recipe just made me drool like a saint bernard. mmmmmm let me know how it turns out plz!
[/quote]
x2
Interesting article re: barefoot running too, thanks!
Are you a vegan?
cool cookies.
its work did it for years, it got too hard with work
sorry about the NSWF I should have said ‘two on one take down set ups’
not chinsese finger torture
here is Gene Mills Im very fond of him, he was my coach for a bit.
this youtube users stuff is excellent they have a good collection.
check this out too, this is Leroy Smith, brother of a legend and such a solid coach.
this is all about set ups
I appreciat the Gi its where all the respect is
little bit formal but its where all the technique is.
I thought all the time about the gi where the seams are the sleeves,
I used to think about it while getting suited up, after tape etc putting on the jacket,
smoothing the lapels, watching in a mirror where my hands went to help get the jacket on-
yeah its weird but I started to do better when i looked at how a gi hangs on someone
where it breaks on the wrist, whats it hiding? how much lapel can I grab
can I roll the shoulder seam or grab the cuff, and take their arm.
the handfighting IS harder for women , your friend is firece by the way…
If I have any strengths its my grip is decent.
Do you pummel?
you should be.
really the russian tie/two on one can do anything- and it takes you away from someone pulling guard.
you can control them from their side
click through that user on you tube- there are tons and tons of good examples on two on one- what to do with it.
ask away… I like to help- sometimes it just takes someone’s words.
add some protein powder or eat those cookies with eggs and you got a scrumptous breakfast!!!
mmmmmmm, cookies
[quote]admbaum
wrestling shoes are decent to lift in although I go barefoot lifting and rolling…thats just how I roll[/quote]
I love the word rolling, it’s so versatile. I’ve never gotten upclose and personal with wrestling shoes, just seen them on others feet. I couldn’t imagine rolling in shoes though, wouldn’t they make ankle locks really hard to defend?
[quote]nlmain wrote:
That cookie recipe just made me drool like a saint bernard. mmmmmm let me know how it turns out plz!
[/quote]
I made them last night, they turned out fantastic. My brother ate a few, which is my ‘is this normal food’ test. I think I’ll tweak it a bit next time, but I like to try recpies as is the on the first go. I’m thinking less chocolate, I used 80% cocoa, and it was overwhelming. Also maybe more banana, it was a good flavor. You guys should try the recpie for sure too, it’s pretty much all stuff I assume you’ve already got in the kitchen.
[quote]kmcnyc wrote:
Are you a vegan?
cool cookies.
its work did it for years, it got too hard with work
[/quote]
Not vegan, a vegetarian, doing a no dairy experiment. I still eat eggs and am not going to be hypervigilante by any means. It’s always nice to find a recipe with no flour that holds mass appeal too.
[quote]
sorry about the NSWF I should have said ‘two on one take down set ups’
not chinsese finger torture[/quote]
No problem, I should probably have safe search on my google.
Awesome video, I really like the details about not reaching for his ankle, but rather scrunching him towards it and the angle of the foot. I think I’ll have to start watching more youtube videos. Even though I try to take notes after class I forget a lot, and I know I’ve learned this before.
[quote]
I appreciat the Gi its where all the respect is
little bit formal but its where all the technique is.
I thought all the time about the gi where the seams are the sleeves,
I used to think about it while getting suited up, after tape etc putting on the jacket,
smoothing the lapels, watching in a mirror where my hands went to help get the jacket on-
yeah its weird but I started to do better when i looked at how a gi hangs on someone[quote]
Interesting. I guess I’ve never actually watched a match to see how the gi moves. I’ll have to do that.
I like the gi, but I know I could use it so much more than I do. Lately a lot of guys have been using my own gi to pin my hands in place. It’s odd to have to defend those sorts of things. Maybe I’ll muse about gi’s in a later post.
[quote]
If I have any strengths its my grip is decent.[/quote]
My grip is strong… for a girl. Sometimes it means I take a death grip and don’t let go though, occasionally to my detriment.
We do this as a warm up a lot, I rarely have encountered the situation during stand up though, maybe because I rarely do stand up?
[quote]really the russian tie/two on one can do anything- and it takes you away from someone pulling guard.
you can control them from their side
click through that user on you tube- there are tons and tons of good examples on two on one- what to do with it.[/quote]
I think I may make it my goal. My problem with grip fighting is that I tend to just be defensive.
Thanks!