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…
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. Hmmm…
I’ve had an interest in martial arts since seeing a movie trailer for a film called “The Chinese Boxer” in my mid-teens. Shortly thereafter, I went to the cinema to see “Five Fingers of Death.” Serendipity took a couple of years to bring David Crook into my life, or mine into his. I trained Kung…
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…
Ido Portal’s 30/30 squat challenge
I took this up on a whim, perhaps out of boredom and a certain lack of goals since I took a break from online university courses. Described pretty much completely in this image: I didn’t feel I had any major issues with this posture, though my ankles are a bit stiff, I had one knee…
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…