I spent yesterday refereeing at the Events BJJ Initiator Crown, after a really interesting and fun day on Saturday getting together with Machado brown and black belts at Langes MMA, and doing some Jiu Jitsu training. The competition was held at Ryde Aquatic Centre. If you think it was humid where you were yesterday, consider…
Category: Jiu Jitsu
Review – Flow Jitsu – Mike Bidwell
Digital download – $49 AUS. c. 62 minutes. Available from Jiu Jitsu Brotherhood Introduction Mike Bidwell runs the BJJ After 40 blog and Facebook page. He had an interesting journey to black belt, which you can read about on this bio. He regularly posts interesting and innovative techniques and drills on Facebook, exhibiting a nimble, agile and flowing…
Review – Beyond Technique 2 – Nic Gregoriades, Kit Dale
Beyond Technique 2; BJJ Concepts Evolved, by Kit Dale and Nic Gregoriades. 75 minutes approx. Available at The Jiu Jitsu Brotherhood. Beyond Technique 2 is a follow up to the Beyond Technique video, produced by the same two gentlemen in around the third quarter of 2014. Beyond Technique (called BT1 here) approached Jiu Jitsu from…
Another Milestone on an Endless Highway
7th December, 2016
Pedro Sauer seminar 24 Oct 2016
The seminar was held at Higher Jiu Jitsu, at the City of Sydney PCYC in Woolloomooloo. This will be a difficult write up. We did some techniques, certainly, but to just write them up would be a “finger pointing to the moon” type of mistake. This really was a “this will make you think about…
John Will seminar 9th Oct 2016 – Ashi Garami, footlocks
Ashi Garami is best translated as “leg entanglement” or “leg control”. In developing leg attacks, same as with most of Jiu Jitsu, we need to work on control, and control positions, before considering how to apply submissions. John’s strong belief is that one has no business playing around with footlocks until an understanding of ashi…
More Jiu Jitsu Flow drills from Rick Spain
Drills picked up by Rick Spain from Rigan Machado at The Gathering 2016. 1. Your partner is kneeling, torso vertical. You are in turtle position, on his left next to him, facing the same direction. Roll to your R over your R shoulder to finish with him between your legs in a loose guard. Roll…
Rigan Machado Seminar 17 Sep 2016 – Jiu Jitsu Flow
The seminar was held on The Roof at Langes MMA. Rigan developed Jiu Jitsu flow to better serve his celebrity students, those who cannot afford for their faces to be marked, damaged or disfigured like the rest of us. Ashton Kucher, etc. Rigan Machado designs jiu jitsu system without sparring for celebrities The Jiu Jitsu…
Truth bombs from Langes MMA homies
A recent Facebook post I shared brought about an interesting discussion with some of my training buds at Langes MMA, brown and black belts. The original post was this one: Survive, Defend, Attack by Cane Prevost Read it, it’s pretty good, especially for us senior citizens. My shared post generated the following (edited) comments from…
Dave Camarillo seminar 3 Sep 2016 – Kimura grip, armbar
Dave Camarillo is a black belt in both judo and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, and a high profile trainer of MMA fighters, including a number of UFC veterans. He also consults on defence and tactical matters to a variety of police and military organisations. A bio of Dave from his Guerrilla Jiu Jitsu website The two…