One of the blue belts is training for another MMA fight, so last night the other blue belt that regularly shows up and I liberally coated ourselves in water and took turns grappling and punching him while wearing just shorts. It is as different a game to no-gi (with a rash guard or t-shirt) as no-gi is to gi, probably more so ( Read more... )

I hadn't felt the need to make notes about what I was learning, so I haven't posted for ages ( Read more... )

This week in the private I asked for some techniques for clearing an arm so that I can proceed to Triangle or Armbar or whatever from Guard ( Read more... )

Sprawl you fool. Don't pass out. Sprawl ( Read more... )

Last week I hurt my ear at training. The next morning I noticed there was some blood building up under the skin (about the size and shape of the end of your thumb ( Read more... )

It's been a little while since we went over this (4 days or so), hope I'm remembering it right ( Read more... )

The monthly-ish lesson taken by my instructor's instructor was last night ( Read more... )

Haven't posted in quite some time. I had gotten to a point where we tended to be going over stuff in class that I already knew, so there was less and less point in writing it down as an aid to memory ( Read more... )

It's been about 4 days since we covered this so it's probably going to be a bit sketchy, but here goes ( Read more... )

For the last few classes we've been doing some stuff from hooks concentrating on using an underhook ( Read more... )