Frodo's Grappling Log

4-5-2007

Went to Judo class. Sucked it up and put on a kneepad so I could roll. We did:
We finished with some shiai. I was too stiff against Rich today.

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Went to Jiu-Jitsu class. We did:
We finished with some shiai. I got my goofy harai goshi twice today, and I worked on being looser too.

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Went to the Panther Grappling Club. I had Aaron show some takedowns:
Then we did half a deck of cards from guard:
Then we rolled for a little bit. I did some greco with Brendan... and got smashed too. LOL! Good thing I can still kick his ass in submission wrestling.
 
4-6-2007

Went to SCMA for free roll. Had some good matches with Jason and Duke. Also reviewed the low hook guard standup from base sweeps.

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Went to the Pitt BJJ Club and we covered some self defense first:
Then we did some groundwork with those sweeps:
Randy helped Warren and Brendan with their escapes on the side while I showed those sweeps. Then we did a lot of rolling. I stalemated with Randy, so we both get to keep our honor today.
 
4-8-2007

Easter. Rolled with Jon (white belt at SCMA, in the Reserves, has a hot girl friend) at Pitt in gi. I showed him some stuff he was doing wrong. Then we rolled in no-gi. During the second roll, he got hurt when he tried to defend an armbar by muscling it, and slipping. There was a loud crack, but the next day his arm was just tight and hurt a little bit.
 
4-9-2007

Really sickity sick sick sick. I was really disoriented and felt a mighty chill. Took the day off.
 
4-11-2007

Went to SHJ. Randy showed:
I need to work that star sweep around the arm. I can do it around the leg, or around the arm to set up the omoplate/triangle. But I can't actually sweep with that "arm-star" sweep! Afterward the technique section, we rolled for a few rounds. At the end of practice I wrestled against Rick too. My cardio sucks.
 
4-13-2007

Went to SCMA for open roll. It was a fun practice, like usual.

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Afterwards, did a presentation on BJJ for the Brazil Nuts Club with a few members of the Panther Grappling Club/Pitt Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Club. The Brazil Festival was actually a general Latin America variety show, with a lot of acts by various singers, dancers, and some clubs at Pitt. We went on pretty late, but some of the Brazilians there were hot so I didn't mind. Brian was a pimp. HAHA!

First Warren gave a short speech about the history of Jiu-Jitus. Then Warren, Phil, Brendan, Brian, and I took turns showing a bunch of throws and submissions on (Steel City) Jon's mat. We mainly followed my plan with a few additions.

Standing techniques:
  • Straight punch defense with seoinage to armbar.
  • Standing rear naked choke.
  • Standing rear naked choke defense with seoinage to armbar.
  • Standing guillotine choke.
  • Standing guillotine choke defense by throwing him over you.
  • Standing bearhug from back over your arms defense with sukuinage.
  • Standing bearhug from back under your arms defense with kneebar.
  • Flying Armbar.
From mount:
  • Americana.
  • Armbar.
  • Escape to guard.
From guard:
  • Armbar.
  • Armbar to triangle choke.
  • Flower sweep to mount.
  • Star sweep (over leg).
Then Warren and Phil rolled for a bit while I said a little more about Jiu-Jitsu at the end.

We got some woos and wows from the crowd with our big throws and some head nods in approval when I mentioned Helio and Rickson. Nicole (the organizer) thought we gave a good demonstration, and a few of the audience members seemed interested in learning the art (tho only one of them actually trained a little in BJJ... odd).
 
4-14-2007

Took day off to regain my cardio for the judo tournament tomorrow.
 
4-15-2007

Went to another inner-club judo tournament at Kim's. Got 3rd place, but I should have got first. Lost my first match by ouchi gari, but won all the other tournament matches. I almost threw up because of this damn cold. I armbarred someone, and he tapped but the ref didn't see so I had to tell him he tapped.

Afterwards, I fought like 3 matches against Nolan. First I gave him his rematch that he was asking for, which I won (forgot how). Then he wanted another match, so we fought again and he uchi matted me this time. Finally he asked me if I wanted a rematch... I really didn't want to go at it again, but I took his "do you want a rematch" as a challenge and accepted. This time I won because I got 1 shido and Noland got 2 shidos. LOL

Ricky, Don and the blue belt from shj were there too. Ricky helped score points while don and the other blue belt fought. I fought the blue belt from shj. I beat him but forgot how. I do remember almost choking him out twice... I was close but he wouldn't tap.

I tried NOT to use tani otoshi and counter throws this time, so I can get experience with other throws and strategies. Ricky says I need more combos. However, my main problems in judo is that I am trying to be what I think a good judo player is. I just have to do what feels natural even if that's ugly judo to everyone else. Randy agrees, I need to do my ugly judo and then when they lose be like "stfu noob." HAHA.
 
4-17-2007

Went to last Judo Class. We did:
And finished with some shiai.

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Went to the last Jiu Jitsu Class. We did:
  • block punch to osoto gari.
    • to kesa gatame.
    • to yoko shiho gatame.
    • to kami shiho gatame (north-south).
And finished with some shiai.

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Went to SCMA.
We drilled working from all three positions for a little bit before free rolling.
 
4-18-2007

Went to the Grappling Club. Just rolled with Jason for a little bit before retiring.
 
4-19-2007

Went to the Grappling Club. Brendan, Pat, Matt (Pat's friend), Justin (from Brazil club), and Dave Galati came too. We did a lot of games:
  • Sumo.
  • Tag team grappling.
  • Partner grappling.
Then we finished with regular rolling. Dave beat me twice, but each time took like 30 minutes of rolling straight. I'm getting closer to getting him consistantly... I already dominate positionally, now I just got to work on finishing him. Dave is the most stubborn fighter I know...
 
4-20-2007

Woa. Went to the Pitt BJJ Club for our last official practice for the semester. Did a lot of games with Tall Mike, Phil, and Brendan:
  • Sumo.
  • Chicken fighting.
  • Judo.
  • BJJ.
  • No-gi grappling.
Good year overall.
 
4-22-2007

2nd year anniversary of when I started grappling for the first time at the CMU Grappling Club. I start counting from when I posted this thread on their forum inquiring about grappling at CMU. I think I started at their next practice.

Today, I went to Bill's to train. We went over lockflows 1,2,3,4. We didn't do much else today. Sometimes you just need a break, though!
 
Two years? man dude you are intense 3 sesions a day sometiems? What are you a philly version of BJ? :p

Oh and lol at the win by one shido
 
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