No need to apologize @QuadQueen I’m more than happy for this to become the people’s log!
Murph today, first time I’ve hit this up since I did it for 30 days straight I think?
I just wanted to go sub 40 minutes but hit a good pace early into the first mile so just went with it
34:47 which is pretty close to a PR I think?
Celebratory flex
Plot twist, I’m the guy in the background
LOL there you go creeping in on others photos again.
I just spit my water out when I read that! 
I’ve watched a lot of instructionals - I even own half a shelf load of jiu-jitsu books.
Every one of them has given me something worth thinking about; just last week I was looking at Jean Jacques Machado’s book for some ideas on toreando passing. Even a so-so instructional can have more than its fair share of treasure.
But at the end of the day, to wear out the metaphor, there’s only so much gold we can carry out of the gulch. The rest has to be left behind. There’s no doubt that the better you get, the fewer the number of techniques you will rely on - though the ones you do rely on will probably develop tons of variations that might seem from the outside to be many different techniques.
I like conceptual thinking and have a weakness for it. What I absolutely love about Danaher’s videos is that they combine conceptual thinking with a “left foot blue, right hand red” level of movement specificity. I watched him demo the over/under pass, for example, right before training tonight and managed to hit it against a fellow black belt in Live Training - almost exactly as explained. I knew exactly what I was supposed to do and why, what each next step was and how I knew if I accomplished it satisfactorily enough to move on.
I’m rambling after a great night of training - and probably too few calories! I hope some of this makes sense! Great to hear about your success with the guillotine. A good guillotine is one of the best tools in the shed and yours will only get sharper.
Circuit today
3 rounds
20 kb snatches - 16kg
50m kb carry - 32kg
20 kb deadlift - 32kg
50m kb carry
20 kb thrusters - 16kg
50m kb carry
Single kb for snatches, double for everything else
Did like a chest day I guess for a bit of fun
5x5 bench
5x8 incline db press
4x12 incline db fly
4x12 flat db fly superset w standing plate squeeze
4x20 dips
Bit of fun and a huge pump. I can see why people like bro splits
Strength endurance day
5x12 chins
5x20 db rows
5x8 wide grip chins
5x12 inverted bw row
Circuit 1
20 hand release pushup
Dips to failure
4 rounds
Circuit 2
15 double kb clean and press
15 kb press
15 kb upright row
4 rounds, do not set kb down until full round complete
Was supposed to do a chipper at the end but ran out of time
Thoughts and prayers to the families of the brave QLD police who were murdered by cowards. Rest easy.
1.5 mile run at 10 min mile pace
Rest 2 min
1.5 mile run, best effort
10:05 for the second 1.5
Not too bad, I just started out slower than I realized
First reasonable push at the 1.5 too. Never gone below 9 minutes so that is definitely a goal.
My fastest pace was actually the final 800 and it definitely ended up being more of an RPE 7/8
Frankly unbelievable. Thoughts to the families but also to those who risk their own lives to serve their communities. Thank you for you service sir.
It’s honestly my great honour to serve brother
5 rounds
800m run
15 devil’s press
15 chin ups
Bit rude, looked simple enough on paper
Man this one just went on and on haha
Circuit 1
50-40-30-20-10
Kb goblet squats
Sand bag toss
Hand release pushups
Rest 3 min
Chipper
100 single arm deadlift (50 per side)
80 kb swing
60 kb clean and press (30 per side)
40 kb reverse lunge
20 kb goblet squat
These workouts sound exhausting.
Awesome open mat, lots of hard rounds with higher belts.
Had some awesome leg exchanges with a very flexible and fast purple belt where I was able to wrestle and scramble like mad to avoid the attacks, and then re-attack one disengaged.
Worked a lot on my bottom game too, and started most rounds from seated open guard (much to my chagrin and my coaches amusement)
My guard attacks are okay, but my retention is garbage. I’m too confident in my ability to escape and reverse side control and usually just let people through my guard. Definitely something to work on.
Guillotine proving again and again to be my KO punch, and I did a reasonable job of using the threat of it to attack other submission and passes. At this point I have been told by many people and other coaches that my coach is sandbagging me but tbh I don’t really care about belts, I only care that I’m improving. I chalk that up to my decade of weight training, no one gives you a belt for squatting 200kg.
At work the other night we had a guy going off in the padded cell and I was able to easily take him down, handcuff him and then ride his legs to control him. I rode his lower body for an hour while we waited for an ambulance to sedate him (he kept trying to headbutt, but I put a folded blanket under his head)
Inspector was present and I got some great praise for it. There is no way I could have controlled someone for that amount of time without grappling practice, especially without hurting them.
I was on this goal not long ago, and want to rekindle it. Got to 9:17 and couldn’t get any lower. As you inch closer to 9 minutes, shaving off even a couple seconds more becomes harder and harder.
Xmas show for BJJ school today. Unfortunately I couldn’t be there but picked up the award for most notorious submission for my guillotine haha. Pretty cool
Gone a little quite mate, everything OK?
