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Thanks xo, break a leg would normally be fine. But in regard to a grappling tournament, may be not so much. 5/5 Had cop grappling tourney in Chicago. 3, 3 min rounds at full go that ended with me getting the win and due to the way the brackets fell, the championship. Video coming soon. 5/6 Full on rest day. With much binging. Really, like lots.

Well done! Congrats!

The ability to function on an automatic level without consciously making a decision is imperative in martial function. If you think of it in terms of the OODA loop, by training to make the Decision portion of the loop automatic you move thru your loop faster than the other guy. By moving thru our loop quicker and slowing your bad guys you drastically increase your chances of winning. This is why stimulus response training is so important. It ingrains immediate action into a fighter. It helps lessen the time one spends at the decision part of the loop. That may or may not be the same as the concept you're talking about above. I've never been one for traditional conceptualization. I doesn't really matter what you call it as long as you're training effective tactics with enough repetition and realism to create action rather than to respond to it.

Well, in fairness, I've set on a testing board or two over the years and I can't think of too many from the circles I've ran in. So at least I'd say that yes, it is uncommon. But, unfortunately, not unheard of. Generally, I think everyone knows ahead of time who is or isn't going to fall victim to this sort of behavior, but I guess it could surprise someone.

5/4 90 min free roll. 2 mile run. Should be at weight if I'm careful for small tourney tomorrow.

Congrats!

Yeah, GS, he'll do that. Lol. 5/3 Drilled over cross guard variant. Worked sweep from there, moved to triangle/ arm bar. Finished with omo plata from same position. Follow roll out of omo to arm bar. Covered hop over omo defense as well. 15 min of guard v. pass 45 min free roll.

5/2 In addition to the reps of teaching the ongoing course at the dept. I got in 30 min of grappling at the end of the day while wearing duty gear and red guns. Very instructive. 3 mile run.

5/1 60 min free roll. Some work on arm bar from guard, triangle. All no-gi.

4/30 BJJ nite: 105 min free roll

4/29 2 miles on treadmill abs light chest/ shoulders

4/26 Drilled side control with gi lapel. Moved to knee in. Two baseball bat chokes from position to finish. Counter to partner rolling belly down to single leg from same posture. 8, 2 min rounds of side v. escape 45 min free roll.

Really interesting set of questions. [quote name="Shizentai" 1 Have you ever trained with a different style of martial arts? Yes' date=' quite a bit. Even informally I think this is a good idea. I was part of two different martial arts clubs on two different campuses that was excellent for learning what other arts were all about. Now, I spend most of my time in BJJ, so training in different arts is more the norm any more than not. 2 Have you ever trained in another country? Not yet, but it's on my wish list. 3 Have you ever trained outdoors? Yes. This gets overlooked by many people. You need to be out occasionally in the environment that you're going to work in. 4 Have you ever trained so hard you couldn't stand? Once, maybe twice, to that entirely spent point. Like GS, they were both belt tests. 5 Have you ever had dreams about training? Training, maybe, but defiantly about fighting. 6 Have you ever been knocked unconscious during training? Yes. A couple of times I recall from strikes. Once from choke. 7 Have you ever intentionally lost a fight? No. Not a fight. I've fed things to others while training, but that's training, not a fight. 8 Have you ever run from a fight? No, but my profession kind of prohibits it, which is about the only time I'm in fights. 9 Have you ever cried during training? No. 10 Have you ever saved your own life with martial arts? This is hard to say. I've been in some hairy situations on the job where my unarmed skills allowed me to win some very bad situations that would fall into the "deadly force" category. The one I remember that truly falls into this category was wrestling with a bad guy over my partner's gun. However, it was never pointed at me, ect. In fact, we kept it from getting out of his holster altogether. Would that be "saved my life" I'm not sure. But it's pretty darn close I'd guess. 11 Have you ever saved another person's? Same as above. I don't know that it fits the dramatic description, but I sure didn't want to find out. [/quote]

4/25 am: 30 min cop focused ground escapes 30 min free roll w gear pm: 2.5 mile run

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Welcome aboard!

I can only echo what everyone else has said. If you even have an inkling that you want to try one, do it. You'll learn a lot, they are a ton of fun, and you get to see what other guys are working. I don't think comps should be mandatory for promotion. Even Rickson Gracie, they guy in the family that was constantly fighting in his day, says that competition jiu jitsu is only about 30 percent of the art. However, I think that competing at least once in a while is a good gauge for you. I usually end up with two or three per year.

4/23 Training block at the department for control tactics. Takedowns to weapons retention, it's all here for a day long refresher. Luckily, I get some reps as well. Thus begins a 4 week stint of teaching. And drinking heavily afterwards in some cases.

4/22 90 min free roll.

Tough spot. I think it depends on what you're looking to teach for. If you want to teach your students techniques and tactics that you feel will keep them safe, and you feel that those won't...then it's an easy call, best to cut them, or modify them to make them meet your standards. You're the one putting people out your doors if you've told them that the things they are learning have the potential to defend them. To teach them something you deem as out of line with that (or fluff) then I think you HAVE to get rid of it. Now, if you're teaching to keep a passed on tradition alive, just as it was envisioned by those who created it, fluff or not these days, then teaching them is fine. Just be up front about why your teaching the system or at least those parts of it you deem fluffy. If you're up front, I feel you're off the hook for falsely giving advice on winning combative encounters. Pushing an existing system in a new direction is not a bad thing. There is new information all the time coming out of learning science, physiology, combat studies, ect. that should all effect how we're doing martial arts. Also, circumstances of one's own individual needs come into play to shape how we each do our own version of our system and then pass it on to others. New directions are good. I was lucky to come out of a system that encouraged such things. Keep the same name, with just modification in your direction shouldn't be a big deal. This also lets you avoid the hassle of totally building from scratch. Depending on your systems administration, and how close with it you are, this may or may not be a problem. Interesting question, keep us posted on the decisions you make.

4/20 Drilled positional control from inverted. Pulling guard from standing. 30 min free roll.

4/19 Drilled hip bump sweep from closed guard. Hip bump to sit out. Hip bump to triangle. 8, 2 min rounds of closed guard v. posture. Guard worked above attacks plus cross collar choke. 45 min free roll.

4/18 3.5 mile run

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This is also true! I've found to a certain extent that a certain amount of oddness occurs just prior to any belt change. I see it now in BJJ, a blue knows he's pushing purple and he gets a little more committed to hitting things. A purple gets to the point where he knows he's a brown, he makes sure just a little bit more that others can see it. Ect.