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9/8 Drilled passing the butterfly guard. Push/pull/ and pressure. 30 min free roll. Drilled PTK "M" footwork. Moved into bridging isolating cuts 1 and 2 9/9 Short work on PTK forms. Fluid 5 and Multiple strike.

9/5 Drilled knee over pass and knee slide. 30 min free roll Night of PRK footwork single stick, followed by knife form and close quarter drills. 9/6 Drove to St. Louis to present jiu jitsu seminar work to a karate group there. Also did a short segment on PTK basics. 3 hours of training, great fun seeing old faces, but 10 hours of drive time. 9/7 Much needed day off...

9/3 Drilled combat base to double under and over/ under guard pass. 30 min free roll. 30 min bridging work out of flow from PTK.

That's a cool run down of your TKD career, Brian. Liked it a lot.

Congrats! Thanks for the heads up on the name as well. It's actually interesting to see that sort of thing.

9/2 Worked on fluid cutting, bridging. Ranging out to largo.

Thanks guys. ps1, that means a lot. Wastelander hits the nail on the head, it's the body that does the work. Sensei8, the beauty of Jiu Jitsu is that it gets worked against resistance as a MAJOR facet of its training. There is rarly a theoretical tactic in the system. Is it easy? Not against a skilled opponent who knows what he's doing but the maneuver works without question. It's a matter of moving your body into the space the you create rather than pulling.

9/1 90 min open mat. Focus on butterfly guard.

Hey all, here's a short video we shot to recap one of the most fundamental movements we covered over the course of last week. The theme of the week was top side and some associated attacks. However, to really utilize these we have to first properly establish and hold a good technical position. Here's how we start that process. For those who spend most of their time in another art and only cross train in BJJ or another grappling art, I've found that some of these details can get lost in favor of the gross motor functions of the movement rather than what actually makes it all possible. So, some food for thought:

8/30 Day of PTK training. My coach ran a 4 hour seminar on Close Quarter knife. Awesome day with lots of technique, tactics, and flowing.

That's great! Congrats!

8/29 Drilled side mount to high side to knee in. Near side armbar. The use of knee in to set up crucifix series entry. 35 min free roll. PTK night: Forward and reverse triangle footwork. Striking single and multiple on the beats. Hourglass footwork. Fluid strikes 1-4 followed by bridging free flow.

8/27 Drilled side mount progression thru crucifix. Moved into arm attacks from there. Americana, Kimura, Straight arm bar.

8/25 Drilled side mount control followed by crucifix series. 35 min free roll Drilled fluid attacks 1-4 in bridging patterns in PTK

8/22 Drilled triangle to two armbar transitions. 35 min free roll. 2 hours PTK working fluid attacks focusing on 1 and 2 and bridging. Lots of flow work. 8/23 30 min free roll. Picked up with last night PTK material and built into full bridging with attacks 3 and 4 as well.

8/20 Drilled fundamental armbar. Transition to alternate armbar off of escape and pass effort. 40 min free roll. PTK technical sparring for 30 min

8/18 Drilled closed guard to high guard transition. Moved into arm bar, leg over arm bar, and shoulder crank series. 40 min free roll. Moved into PTK flow with the fluid 5 series. Then bridging. Then varying the bridging on different beat. Then some distance sparring and a few short rounds of technical sparring.

Interestingly, I've found places on the BJJ side of things VERY open to having drop ins. A couple of times I've ran across mat fees, but even in these cases it's been pretty to cheap to train for a night or two. I've had good reception at FMA places as well. That said, I've had less successful response from karate schools. On more than one occasion I've stopped in or called about dropping in to train and been met with "I'm not sure how that would work out" answers. It made me either want to lie and say I was trying out class or just not go. I laned on just not going. Luckily, most of my interest have gone to the first two concerns so the problem has taken care of itself for me. I think that problem in karate circles might ave been aliviated if I had been part of a large national level organization.

Welcome aboard KF! Glad to have you.

8/15 90 min free roll. PTK: drill fluid 5 cuts, forward and reverse triangle work w strikes. Bridging. 8/16 Drilled arm bar transitions. 30 min free roll. Moved into PTK fundamentals. Review of forward and reverse triangles. Mixed up striking patterns. Added L footwork. Bridging, requiring work. Finished with fluid bridging.

It really depends on where I'm at in my martial arts at the time and where I'm at physically. Like ps1 said, if there's no school I don't train. On the other side, if I'm a bit burnt out I don't train. I take the time and get some distance. I find that this often lets me come back with fresh insight. However, if I'm not at that point I keep driving on. It just depends.

8/13 Drilled guillotiine choke. Tripod defense to choke. Single side weave sweep to counter. 20 min free roll. 30 min PTK footwork and cutting attacks to bridging fundamentals.

8/12 Some form work out of PTK. Footwork and striking drills. Some free flow training.

Rock solid ! Nice job ! I concur! Nice work! 8/11 Drilled defense to chokes and choke set ups at the early/ mid point phase. Seatbelt grip, guillotine, D'Arce. 30 min free roll.

8/9 Drilled bottom counters from side control. Set up and sweep, head hunter sweep, reverse RNC. 30 min free roll. PTK training group. Worked male/female triangle foot work strikes from teh fluid 5. Combined the two and talked about solo training drills.