in your passing game have you looked at finishing your passes with walking back towards the hips to control them? rather than just turning straight away into side control. this is something i have noticed that EVERY single high level guy i have trained with teaches and does
Cool stuff as always Gerbil!
May I ask: How many rest days do you have per week and what is your average pre-day-training ration when not injured.
Cheers and heal up quickly!
hi gerbil, nice post!
May i ask if your opponent was trying a de la riva on you and have his hands on ur foot/heels. Is this pass still an option ?
well, isn't the world just a small place? I've been reading your blog for probably a year now Gerbil, and all of a sudden Teta shows up. He's our main instructor here in Oslo, and is indeed awesome. He runs the Frontline academy which is located in a place called Majorstuen, right smack in the middle of Oslo. I average about 3 trainings a week and Teta usually instructs every one of them. Good to hear he's making someone else feel helpless for a change.
Thanks for this weeks technique, always appreciated!
thanks for the answer jeremy, u got me right,
Im often curious about how an average blackbelt was paid as full time instructors in brazil? Especially when there are so many blackbelts there.
Jeremy, not sure you know this and let me ask this question first. Have you seen Cidade de Deus? The City of God. I am pretty sure you have. Awesome movie. Well that favela was one of the first one's in Rio but it came about when the government started moving people out to the outskirts of Rio which created the City of God. Well the City of God is very near to Barra di Tijuca. In fact if you travel inland past the large mall you always talk about (i cant remember the roads name, big highway multiple lanes) toward an area called Jacarapague then just past that part of Rio hang a left and you are at the City of God, if my memory serves me right.
That's where any crime would come from in the Barra di Tijuca area. I spent a lot of time in Jacarapague and I would suggest you visit the place. Very nice normal neighborhood of Rio. The streets are not paved (at least when I was there they were not) but the people are great and the women are gorgeous!
Hey gerbil, i actually live in barra and i dont really think jacarepagua/cidade de deus are cool places.. they can be dangerous if you dont know where you are walking or going to.. there are some cool things to do there but if you want to check, make sure you are with someone that knows the area.. id rather have fun in Lapa, ipanema or barra
I'm not sure how they get paid, my guess would be the same way a great black belt gets paid. Keep in mind that there may be a lot of black belts here in Brazil but that doesnt mean that they want to teach. Sometimes teaching can be quite a burden, especially when you want to maintain your ability to be a great grappler.
Also, just because there are a lot of black belts here in Brazil doesn't mean that there are so many BJJ practitioners that an average black belt couldn't start his own club and teach without stepping on someone else's toes. Maybe not easily in Rio or SP but definitely in other parts of the country.
I know the area you're talking about, I'll have to try and make it over that way with someone that lives here. Thanks for the tips!
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It has been a long week riddled with disappointment and setback. Like many other professional athletes, the injuries are starting to rack up and now they are building off of each other. On Monday morning I injured my ankle while trying to finish an open guard sweep against one of the better black belts at the academy. As I started to come from the seated position my opponent pushed back into me and my foot was caught under his body. It was in the
some quick questions..
This is going to be hard to interpret as we all pronounce things differently and read them differently too....but...
Is the 'm' in Bom (as in Bom Dia) pronouned with an 'mm' sound or something esle ? how would one describe the sound ? I have looked on the net and found many different interpretations of how it should sound and am confused now.
Also can anyone recomend a good english to portuguese and vice versa dictionary.
Preferably one with good pronounciations in them