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today- back/bis/forearms abs 2, 3 min rounds on BOB- hand combo, focus on getting the upper cuts digging. Drilled hip work between the rounds.

today- Warmed up with light (10-15%) roll for 15 min. Moved on to working the hip bump/kimura series. Defense and counters for kimura. 3, 3 min rounds of escape/hold drills. Guard, side mount, mount. Free roll for 35.

I think that they are actually disallowed under the current rules, which are derived (I think) from the New Jersey Unified Rules under that state's Atheltic Commission. I personally don't think that it will ever see a comeback in MMA. The sport has moved on to its own identity and seperarted itself from the arts it grew from.

today- 1 mile run chest/tris abs 15 min of hip drills and work on Boomer. Focused on specifics of kimura and working around defenses to it. Finished with some reps on triangle to armbar I wasw going over in my notes last night.

today- circuit of rounds 1- mitts 2-takedown work 3-boxing repeat twice 2, 2 min rounds of mitts, have thrid party initiate a takedown 20 min free roll 3, 3 min rounds of ground n pound 2, 3 min rounds of sparring, mma focus

today- BJJ: Drilled hip bump sweep and kimura. Moved to rear mount and did a position drill from there followed by working though a rear naked. Then, we did a drill that repped all the movements for the day. Finished with 40 min free roll.

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I think (empahsis on think) what they are doing is trying to preserve the sport a unique identity. They want to keep if from starting to look like wrestling, BJJ, no gi, ect. With the big influx of mma themes and ideas, there is alot of blurring of different arts, espicially grappling ones. I think they just want judo to look like judo in competition. I'm not saying this the the best way to make it effective or integrate it into a comprehensive defensive plan. It's just a way to keep the art seperate from all others, at least in competitive arenas. I can understand it from a sport aspect. Schools will likely go on teaching all the tactics anyway from an art perspective.

today- 1 mile run legs/shoulders 1 mile on treadmill at a walk

yesterday- BJJ nite: Drilled thru kimura series, working it in various combinations with the hip bump sweep, defenses and counters to defense. Wokred rounds of guard work. Finished with 40 min free roll. Now we'll just have to see if I can manage anything today or not.

Yes, at the descrition of the Dan member.

I love BJJ. I've loved grappling even before I took up it's study. However, if you're on the ground agaisnt multiple attackers, you're at a disadvantage. A big one. I came ot of a JJJ based art. Good tools, but again, if you're working any kind of joint manipulation on one guy your at a disadantage agasint the other three who are punching you in the back of the head. Of course, the arguement can be made that the same is true when you're punching one guy on your feet and his buddies are ganging up on your flanks and back. Tough all the way around. I sugest retreat and/or escalation of weaponry. Still, it's good to be versed on teh ground because sometimes, and by that I mean often, things won't go as planned. So you could go to run, trip and have one dude jump on your back. Better have a plan and you'll only develop that by training in a grappling art. On that, the better the grappling school you're at the more you'll learn and the more you'll be able to integrate. I'd look at what's in your area and what you do already, see where there are holes and decide what best will fill them.

This is a good thing to note now. Consider that most people you'll actually have to use your skills against will be in some sort of mental state that approximates this. So, when things really count, you'll be in a situation like the one you describe. This is a place you can't aford to lock up. However, the good news is you've realized that this is happening and more importantly, you've acknowledged it. A tiered program of phyical skilll prep and mental conditioning will go along way to overcoming this. First up, with successful skill performance you'llgain confidence. With the confidnece, you'll be more prone to be successful. It's cycle that you want to get into. To build into it, start with simulations that mimic reality of fighting someone. It's hard to say if you've been exposed to this "live" training or not. If you haven't, start. By building skills into a more comprehensive, realistic scenario, you'll start to work through your issues. As your skill and confidnce with a particular set of movements, move into more realistic simulations. This can include and should included partners acting like attackers. Too often I see people trianing agaisnt people squared off in proper stances and such that kiai and throw a prefect and single attack. They never develop the sort of combat mindset needed to overcome actual confrontations. You're attacker should shove, punch, yell, curse- all the sorts of things that will really happen. Of course, you have to build into this, frist by slowing everything down and taking small bites of skills and working them like this. Then, by intergating them. Armor works great for allowing you to start getting past the fear of becoming the aggressor. This way, you can pound away a bit more on your "bad guy". You'll probably find it liberating. With some training like this, espicially when you get to the level that you can work it spontaneously, your confidence will go up. With that, the freeze respone you're talking about will also decrease. By mimicing the adreinline dump response you'll get from facing this sort of attacker you develop the mindset of a "pre combat vetern" where mentally you've already dealt with the attack. A couple of good reads on mental programming are "On Combat" by Grossman and "Sharpening the Warrior's Edge" by Siddel. I reccommend both. Lastly, consider doing mental rehearsals vs. that enraged opponent. Make them exercises, not daydreaming, and make them real. Make them scary, mentally, you'll start to desensitise to the event. Just some suggestions. There's nothing wroing with being afraid of attackers like the type you describe. It's human. By prepping ahead of time and training with those factors in mind you should be able to overcome it.

today- 4, 3 min rounds on BOB. Focused on hitting my angles and precision striking. Workedon forcing the opening to the throat. 1, 5 min round of mat drills. Shrimping, movement, ect. chest/tris/forearms ab work 1 mile run

Yeah, shoveling should count. I hate it. today- 1.25 mile run chest/tris abs .75 miles of interavals on the treadmill

today- Warm up of light rolling. Moved into drill rounds from mount, side, and full guard. Worked triangle basics. Free roll for 30 min. Drilled basic ground and pound work. 3, 3 min rounds of free roll with strikes.

Congrats and nice work!

today- back/bis abs 1 mile run

I agree with the above. Things evolve, MA's included. Maybe in Asia they are looked at with an equal emphasis on both, I'm inclided to believe that they are based on the reading I've done and the discussions I've had. However, by moving cultures the essance of such things will changed when view through a new lens. Neither is "wrong" or "right" in this case, it just is based on the lens of the person or culture looking at it. Go back far enough, even in Asia, and you'll probably find MA's designed for nothing but combat. That's the source, for my part, that's where I like to keep it.

today- chest/tris abs 1 mile run

New Spartan gi in blue for BJJ, nice. Some stuff for the garage to tool on my stuff with. Glen Cook's new pair of books "Instrumentalities of the Night". Some DVD's I've been looking for. Pretty good haul.

I'd like to continue to press my BJJ forward.

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12/28- 4 hour marathon of training at my home school. Started of with a few rounds of light warm up sparring. Moved into some contact. Went to a few rounds with the infight. Did some techincal work in the gi. Drilled modified spider guard position and sweep/triangle series from there. Free roll for signifigant time in gi. 12/30- 3 hours of work. Started with weapons work. Knife defense, club defense, gun defense. Free work with knife and club. Worked on pumelling drills. Moved to grappling, no gi. Rolled for several rounds. Went on into sparring, MMA focus to exhaustion. Despite all that, I think I'm putting weight on while back home with my family . Hope everyoe is having a happy holiday season!