Damo Marino's spindly apendages

[ngarauru]

Thursday
Skip and press ups to get warm.
NoGi, main man not in, brown man takes class:
When uke in your open guard and their right across your chest, your left grasp elbow, your right grasp wrist, keep elbows in, shrimp out to left and sit up, right arm over back and into uke armpit, keep elbow as tight in as possible, pull and roll to left switching hips back in the opposite direction, you should still have a trapped arm. You should have some kind of mount and be able to 'gift wrap' the trapped arm and snake your free arm in the gap between their chin and trapped arm, push down on snake arm and squeeze everything else up for dar'ce/ ezekiel type choke.

Randori
Mr Brown has the preshhhhhhhhhh..........Didn't die.........

 

[ngarauru]

 

[ngarauru]

Sometimes you're the hammer, sometimes you get your shit pushed in

 

[ngarauru]

Friday Gi Class
Sweep from Z Guard

Be in Z guard, sit up, underhook uke near arm and post own far arm out and behind, swap leg hooks and drive near leg toward own buttocks to cause uke discomfort, close your hips to theirs and pull out their far posted knee, if top man whizzers and posts far knee up onto foot to drive you down, under hook their hammy with your far arm and pull back toward you all the way over, come to side control.

Randori
Daaaaamn, got ruined today, gotta figure out how to use my new toy (gi), still being reactive which is ok for loose rolling but fucks me for guys who don't fuck around, I guess I also need to not fuck around.


Roll more
Roll more
Roll more

 

[ngarauru]

Monday
Slow bike, gusty wind makes me nervous
3 min skip, 1 min rest, 3 min skip, 1 min rest, 3 min skip

3 min knee on belly, 1 min rest, 3 min sprawl, 1 min rest, 3 min throw bag and come up, 3 min rest

5 min throw bag and move to knee on belly, 3 min rest
5 min hip escape and come up, 3 min rest
5 min play with double, 3 min rest
5 min sit out and move play

Chat to dude today, reckoned he doesnt like jits coz keeps getting smashed and sometimes it fucks his whole day up, gotta admit bro I feels the feels

I observe what I did good in randori and hammer it on days I dont roll
Also look at what I suck at and drill easy peasy but for longer

 

[ngarauru]

Tuesday
Did 8 to 1 then 5 to 1 chins = 51, reasonable form, got distracted could always do more.
Will start at the end, with my feelings, feel good man, feel reeeeaaaallll good, usual partners taking it easy and giving me an opportunity to advance my position so don't feel as ruined.
Prof showed details of mount escape, the main thing I've been missing is grapevining the leg to control the half guard and switching hips further out to get my legs into better guard position.

 

[ngarauru]

Wednesday, fuck around and kick bag, had a sleep in, right whip feel good mang

 

[ngarauru]

Thursday
No Gi.
Cycle, foam roll.
Pummel and single leg to warm up.
Prof tech: continuation from previous class, top man steps to S mount, drive up onto bottom elbow to create space, use top hand to block shin and move to your half using leg entanglement, switch hips to move to guard.

Randori
All from standing, tried some passes today, they worked ok but not as tight as they should have been, being crushed on bottom sucks balls so I need to learn how to make space.
Also need to stop doing plam, as everyone keeps their hips away it negates movement.
Body lock is better, sprawls need to be done on the daily.
Feels: got reprimanded for not being heelak for the first time in rolling, I did a zig when I should have zagged and guy was pissed off, guy is pissed off anyway so neva mind.......pissed off guy

 

[ngarauru]

Friday Gi Day
Up at 4, caffeine is my mate today
Skipped for ten flailed my arms about and yoga'd (sic) my back

Kind of miffed still about pissy dude from yesterday as he really cranked on the subs post whoopsey, he also took that few extra seconds to release, looked super satisfied too lil fucker lolol, would still like to roll with as he's competitive and I could learn off him, dude seems a little conceited too though so maybe he can get a big old fucked, there's also plenty of other peeps to roll with soooooooo.........we'll see what happens......

Main man wasn't in so one of the other black belts took class, he showed us a sweep from deep half which was preceded by half, about two minutes into the demo I was like 'wtf??' but with a little help from the homies I got enough to make some crude notes, I think I have the gist of the sweep but if I attempted it in randori it would be uuurrrgly.....like everything else.
To get to deep you must reach up to under-hook uke's arm, and drive your other arm up between uke's legs, getting your head tight to their hip, this is key to protecting you from collar chokes.
From within the deep half there are several grip changes that will help you unbalance uke getting them to shift their weight one way and then 'tother and come on top, these include:
1)a hand on the lapel 2)a hand on monkey'ed (sic) sleeve 3)a hand on the back of uke's belt and 4)a hand on uke's stripped out lower jacket lapel...............how the hands swap I cant recall but the guts is: 1)helps break uke's posture, 2)disrupts balance from uke's posted hand, 3)helps drag uke's hips to the mat and 4)breaks uke's posture
The lapel grip will also stop uke from triangle choking you as you come up as your arm wont be inside, it will be underneath.
The leg position also changed, initially you have legs triangled, prior to the tipping point of the sweep you must shift your over foot to under uke's shin, the sweep occurs when you simultaneously pull uke from behind via the lapel or belt and kick the aforementioned foot upward, you should come to the top with both hands under uke's legs.

Randori: I was a little less shit today largely because of the homies. I also mouthed off a bit today which I found amusing. When stacked I need to get on my shoulder.......

 

[ngarauru]

Monday
Limped around all weekend, ankle, knee and back PAIN
Might see if I can get a sports massage, be cheaper than an MRI and keyhole......whuuuuuuuuuu.
Head wind made the ride stiff.
1min skip, 1 min check drill, 1 min skip, 1 min check drill, 1 min skip.
Wrap hands and move.
5*3min rounds of hands with 1.30min rest.
15min teep and whip.

Feels good to throw hands.
Mr average would find himself doing the stanky leg.
Also good to give the hips a stretch and have a general fuck around.

 

[ngarauru]

Ratu: He tino mauiwi toku pepi, i noho ahau kei to maua kainga i awhina i a ia.

Rapa: I haere au ki te whare mekemeke mahi ana ai.
I piupiu ahau mo rua miniti, a, i atarangi mekemeke ahau mo rua miniti.
Katahi ano au i mahi kakari papa i te ra nei, anei te mahi:
Turi ki runga i te puku ma te peke mekemeke, a, mahia te nonoke kei runga i te wharaki.

Big homie hamo to provide soft copy of syllabus tomorrow, will type it up here and use as a check list for non rolling days.

 

[MilkManUK]

Ratu: He tino mauiwi toku pepi, e noho ahau kei to maua kainga i awhina i a ia.

Rapa: I haere au ki te whare mekemeke mahi ana ai.
I piupiu ahau mo rua miniti, a, i atarangi mekemeke ahau mo rua miniti.
Katahi ano au i mahi kakari papa i te ra nei, anei te mahi:
Turi ki runga i te puku ma te peke mekemeke, a, mahia te nonoke kei runga i te wharaki.

Big homie hamo to provide soft copy of syllabus tomorrow, will type it up here and use as a check list for non rolling days.

Had to use Google translate to even somewhat understand this. Are you Samoan or Maori or something mate?

 

[ngarauru]

Had to use Google translate to even somewhat understand this. Are you Samoan or Maori or something mate?

Hey milkman, yep I'm Maori, like anything if I dont use the language I lose it

 

[MilkManUK]

 

[ngarauru]

righto...........
I say Maori, you say once were warriors
Pretty fucked up breah

 

[MilkManUK]

righto...........
I say Maori, you say once were warriors
Pretty fucked up breah

Sorry mate, no offense intended. Just love that movie and it's about the only Maori related thing I know. Apologies if I caused offense.

 

[ngarauru]

Thanks for the apology man, I really appreciate it, oww is based on how some Māori live, I jumped the gun because a lot of people glamorise the life/ scenes in the movie, if you can find them try 'turangawaewae', 'whale rider' and 'utu'

 

[Flash_Monsta]

Maori's make great rugby players. And your warrior culture shows on the pitch, no fear and straight up badassery. Big fuckers, too.

 

[ngarauru]

Maori's make great rugby players. And your warrior culture shows on the pitch, no fear and straight up badassery. Big fuckers, too.

Yep, rugby is a huge part of New Zealand culture and there have always been Māori who play well, the warrior part of our culture is really popular, people find it fascinating because it's exciting, painting with a broad brush but Pacific Islanders such as Tongans and Samoans are usually bigger than Māori ie Mark Hunt, a lot of big league and union players have big fuck off physiques because theyve spent so much time building armour to play their positions ie Sonny Bill Williams, the biggest Māori in the ufc was Jamie Te Huna who was a 205er

 

[ngarauru]

Welshmen and Englishmen are pretty good rugby players too apparently lolol