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Welcome aboard KF! Looking forward to hearing your thougths on the subject matter here. Congrats on the publishing luck as well.

Thank you. Had a great time down there with everyone. As soon as I get the footage uploaded I'll post a link so everyone can get access to it. 8/11 Aforementioned clan sized workout at my original school. About three hours all said and done. Most of my time was spent rolling. 8/12 1.5 mile run body weight routine abs Excessive drinking with the crew that I will now spend two weeks working off.

8/10 1.5 mile run body weight regimen abs

8/8 Back to training after a couple of days of wrenching on the Jeep instead of lifting. BJJ nite: Drilled open guard passing 6, 2 min rounds back mount v. escape 20 min free roll

8/5 abs pull ups neck work bench curls squat 2 mile run

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8/4 20 min swim

8/3 Drilled moving to mount from standing pass, then triangle. No arm drills on triangle to armbar to omo. 6, 2 min rounds of open guard pass, eyes closed v. open guard with no hands. 40 min free roll

I caught a cross at the end of a combo one night that played out as follows: At the time of the shot, I went down, got up, and finished the bout. Finished class on wobbly legs before chatting with everyone and driving an hour back to college. I then carried on a conversation with my roommate before taking a shower and heading to bed. Nothing unusual, right? Here's the thing, I learned all this second hand. I woke up the next morning with no recollection of anything that happened after that cross. Go figure. By far my best beating. As a honorable mention, the same dude caught me with a back spinning side kick during a belt test that cracked three ribs, made me think I was going to die since I couldn't breath, and put me out for about three months. I was younger then, the same things now might right out kill me .

Martial denotes some form of combat. Either it's directly designed for fighting, or it's derived from fighting. The line gets blurry and we can put oriental suffexes around it all day long, but most people with broadly define "martial arts" as one of the two situations above. Free running and such is an impressive athletic event. It's cool to see done well. But it does not seem to be direclty related to combat or derived from combat anymore than cross country or track is. Now, it is more fun to watch than either of those two, but that does not make it "martial". A stonger argument would probibly be for it to fall in somewhere as an "art".

I'm in agreement with you Adonis, I'm just not sure that's what he's saying here. Regardless, it's hard to tell without being actually present to see the day to day vibe of his classroom. I agree that at this pace he'll kick out a wold champ team for sure. I just don't think I'd be that interested in training with him. The attitude and feel seem to be competitive focused. It's just not my cup of tea. Not saying it's wrong, because I agree he'll turn out a world champ before long, just it's not for me. I'm pretty much into the art side of BJJ, with a secondary interest in competition. It doesn't hurt the stuff helps me considerably with my job. According to Groinstrike, I've become very much the "jiu jitsu hippie" so the hard core motivations of Irving just don't do it for me. Now, I'll never argue the man doesn't know or understand the game. Just that his brand of BJJ and motivation aren't for me.

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I use lifting and running both as secondary workouts to hitting the mats. The incentive is the more days I manage mat time, the less days I have to do one or both of lifts or run. During run ups to comps, I'll make sure and get lift days in regardless. I'll swap up protocol every few months on the lift. I'll rotate in some kettlebell work as the weeks go by to either warm up or work out with. One thing I do like to do is use a belt for pull ups and the like here and there to work grips or do two man conditioning exercises on the mat that are more sport specific.

8/2 Worked takedowns. 10 min round of double/ singles. Moved on to drilling double, position work, lift. Drilled single v. resistance. Shots (double and single) to T-body locks. Final round of doubles and single variants. 60 min in all. 20 min of free roll, closed guard v. posture. Specific work on off-setting the guard for offense.

8/1 BJJ nite, yet another 100 degree night on the mats. Worked on taking mount from standing v. open guard followed by movemet to triangle from same position. Worked into no arms triangle drill followed by no hand triangle to arm bar position drill. Lot o hip work. 6, 2 min rounds of no hands open guard v. pass live 20 min free roll

I've seen a lot of stuff and been on the floor with a lot of people in the last 22 years, but I couldn't pick up a fresh, unrelated art, ground up, from a video. Not and understand it beyond the most basic movements and strategies. Having delved into BJJ almost completely for the last 4 years or so, I can say I've seen this first hand. Despite having grappled as part of MMA training for years, I had to admit that I was missing huge amount of details in the most common movements. And that's even related. Learning via video is less than ideal. Again, supplimentally, I think it's excellent if you're familiar with the material. Looking at BJJ, it's easier now for me to look at say an armbar video and look at different set ups and methods of controlling it. But to learn specifics of where everything goes and understand the leverage is something else altogether.

Chicago and the environs are pretty large. Any specific area?

Congrats, LP!

Certainly, it's most useful as a supplemental form of training. It's a good thing if you're already familiar with material and are just looking at variant movements or strategic differences. Because of this, it's usually best reserved for those with more experience. It can also be useful if you're in an area where there is just NO live instruction in a specialty that you're interested in. Where I'm from, there are no, and I mean zero, BJJ academies within at least 1.5 to 2 hours of drive time. At least at the time I grew up there. Given that, I'd have killed to have the much maligned Gracie Combatives DVDs. It would have been insightful. Even then, I think the idea of ranking via distance learning is a bit of a stretch at this time. But for information and tactics, they do have a place.

7/31 Part 2 of Charuto's time here. 2 more hours of work today. Focus on sweeps. Started with a variant of scissor sweep. Moved to transition to cross guard to De La Riva. Then hit multiple sweeps from the same foot pattern there. Finished with a mechanically similar sweep out of a guard pass effort. 30 min of free roll.

Well said, Patrick. Congrats bushido man for 5 years of service on staff. It is a please to be part of this community with you.

Welcome to KF! Looking forward to hearing your thoughts on the subjects that get brought up here. The colored belts are a reflection of post count nothing more.

7/30 2 hours of seminar with Charuto today. Drilled controlling and then passing the spider guard to knee in. Same with open guard. 45 min free roll

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