Relaxed under attack

I've been working on my defence so that I feel save against partners half on my age... 20 somethings:-) Ryron showed me that it's possible.

83,8 - New grandchild:-)

I did not get to grappler today, but watch a lot of videos. Also my daughter had a girl. Baby born on Sunday is happy:-)

84 - stretch to get stronger

Very important. After your gym workout do a good stretching routine. Various studies show that two months of stretching can boost your your strength from 5 to 30 % compared to not stretching. I take a protein shake after training and effect is 1-2%. Yesterday I started to include stretching. After I do legs, I stretch lower body. Then upper body workout and stretching. I don't want to leave all the stretching to the end, I'll skip it:-)

83.3 - flat on belly guard:-)

This was new to me. In BJJ partners don't stay flat on belly and I did not have tools to attack. Here is an answer.... one of many from sensei Youtube.

I need setups:-)

I need situations where I understand what is happening. I need to take control of positions and also find setups for techniques. ...and drill them a lot. I like Saulo's teaching. Techniques are something that I think I can manage - not too acrobatic:-)

to Judo practise today

I've been planning to go to judo for a while. Today I don't have an excuse for skipping practise. Intimited, but I'll bite the bullet and go. Rumour says that they like to show to BJJ guys that Judo is effective...I hope they respect my age and white belt...

84,4 - time for intermitten fasting:-)

Idea in diet is to eat proteins every day, but cut on carbohydrate on days when I DON'T  go to gym.

Functional movements or basic movement skills for BJJ needs to be figured out. Maybe skills could be something like:
1) moving ... under a heavy load (partner) .. how to create space?
2) balancing over a moving partner
3) rolling - (under load and ukemis?)
4) preventing partners movements - blocking, gripping...
5) Escaping or freeing from blocks etc.
6) combining multiple skills

84,1 - Start with "why"

Yesterday I did two training sessions. In the morning I did a 3 km jog and a heavy bag and a stretching session and at afternoon I did a almost 2 hour bjj session to drill the techniques from Pedro's seminar.

Two very interesting ideas about BJJ. First is just to have one answer or go to technique from every position. That's for starters. It's faster to react, when you have just one alternative. I think this is a very good strategy for me. Next step would be to select more "positions" - kind of more "if" about your rolling partner like if he grips your leg or puts weight on left and so on...

Second very important issue is to start with "why". I found a very nice explanation of countering a single leg over pass, where "why" is explained clearly.

Golf tournament today

Very likely it's going to be the last of the season... Weather is perfect.

I did some bjj in the morning and after golf I have my gym.
Video under has one important point - order of switching hands or controls!
If you miss it, you'll be smashed.

Did my morning exercises

I ran 4 km and did some heavy bag and stretching.

Today's big inside is "It's difficult to think with other persons brain". I've been looking for online instructions, but I'm full of technical videos - I just can get interested in different techniques any more. I want something that works:-)

To make a technique work, you need to own it. Have your own setup and know what your partner will do to pass, escape, counter or what ever.

So I'll start looking for step to get in to my setup positions. (Well, I 'm not sure what the actual setups or techniques will be, but I'll start with some kind of leg control... the one that Pedro showed us. It's a lot like Lovato Jr's leg smash in pressure passing.)

Pedro Duarte Rio Rolling Camp was here:-)

It's time to start to blog again. I've asked people about how to learn and teach grappling - Did not ask Pedro. I think his idea would be to learn to control your partner and learn just some passes, escapes and submissions. Not too many, but learn them well. I hope to connect the idea of natural movement or functional movement patters to learning BJJ. I don't know how, but it's an idea:-)

Probably I'll be writing about this in IMAS after I've written about stretching, mobility, agility and martial arts... and maybe how to learn an ukemi.