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7/12 am: golf 18 holes pm: gym 60 minutes all sets 3x10 reps about 70%.

7/11 am: golf 18 holes pm: Bjj class 90 min. Some closed guard technical rolling and new passing techniques, but most of the time free rolling.

7/8 am: gym 60 minutes - 3 x 10 reps with 80% intensity pm: BJJ Class only 60 minutes. (Legs were not recovered from gym.)

7/6 Old man cross training outdoors (light workout 60 min) BJJ Class - slow roll:) and cross choke and slow roll... 7/7 golf 18 holes (and reading Ribeiro's book)

7/5 golf 18 holes (only mental bjj - reading Ribeiro's book:)

7/4 old man cross training outdoors: Walk for 45 min and stretch 15 min walk 30 min Medicine ball workout 10 min Long jump 10 times Shot put 10 times both hands

Got the drill to win book today. And no one was interested in Gracie RDD. I'll have to try the lessons somewhere else - maybe with people that are new to bjj. Now I have a bundle of stuff to try at bjj class - like Ribeiros stuff:)

7/2 60 minute gym - not much energy 7/3 18 holes golf

Got the book "Jiu-Jitsu University, by Saulo Ribeiro". Looks very understandable. I also tried out the gracie lessons, but looks like I can use only the "reflect development drills". At least first lessons are so basic that people don't have the passions to watch them. RDD can be used as warmup:) For first session I got one partner and tomorrow is the next one.

7/1 golf 18 holes and Not going to BJJ - not recovered enough and tomorrow is a gym day. (No use missing on both. So today resting and tomorrow a better workout.)

6/30 bjj open mat. We did reflection reaction drills from Gracie compatives lessons 1 - 3 and light rolling. I liked todays session. 2 hours:)

Yep, it's a good club. We had 4 competitors in Los Angeles Mundials and 1 got silver. It's good for a small town of 100 000 habitats and very far from "bjj knowledge". It just might be too good for me. I'll try to hang in for half a year and at the same time get some people interested in BJJ. I think that Han Moo Do people might be interested in adding self defense type of bjj to their program. It has grappling in their free fighting so bjj might be ok for them. Han Moo Do is a style that likes to include anything ... that works. (Of course their is a Korean head instructor, who might disagree, but I just have to clear it first.)

Very interesting turn in my Gracie project. Our dojo owner said that I can use the place for unofficial gracie lessons. If I open an official Gracie garage, I am not welcomed even to practice at the dojo. He said it's a team issue. Can't have a member from an other team hanging around. In a way this makes sense, but garage does not produce competitors. It's only self defense. I don't know if I want to open an official gracie garage, but I am not happy with the "ultimatum". On the other hand our club is the only place to practice bjj. I can go back to Judo, Han Moo Do, Karate, boxing and continue bjj in a garage - or stick to the rules and roll with the guys are better and fitter than I am. They are just a little bit too good for my body. I'm not getting younger and they train for competitions. Slow roll has a bad reputation at our club - it's for sissies:) I don't have to make up my mind yet, but I should do something before Autumn. (Maybe the hard line for official garage is a business decision. Gracie garage might be competition of drafting new students? At he moment it has not been a problem to our club. They can take 50 new students to a class and classes have waiting lists. Problem is that only 5 continue after the basics.)

6/29 golf 18 holes bjj class 90 minutes - some new techniques and rolling

6/27 golf: 18 holes (worst round in two years) BJJ: 90 minute class half guard and lots of rolling. I am feeling it every where:)

I've checked some Roy Harris's teaching. He seems to have three escapes for each submission: early, mid and late. Always the best escape is the early, when the attack starts and you counter it. So when we are backing up after submission, we are learning the late escape - kind of last resource "do or tap"-version. Did you mean this "Pittbull"? or did you have something else on your mind?

I think I need to include Scully's solo drills to my gym workouts as warm-up moves. Usually I do a 5 minute bike as a warmup, but maybe I could do a 10 minute solo drill instead. (10 minutes as it's more useful to do drills - I could learn something - cycling is not much demanding for motor skills:-) Ordered the book "drill to win by andre galvao". It might be very useful for me as I am trying to get partners to drill - Now I have something new to share:) (Ok - also Gracie combatives lessons are something new even thou it's also same old basics.)

Makes one feel young again:) I started karate 40 years ago and practiced 3 - 4 hours a day, but it was so much easier. You just needed to stretch, do push ups and shadow boxing or katas. Learning bjj between classes is very much more difficult - unless you have a training partner.

6/25 golf 18 holes gym: Squat 10 + 8 + 7 reps 70kg Barbell Bench Press 10 + 8 + 6 reps 55kg (legs elevated over bench) Bent Over Row 3x10 reps 55kg Stiff Leg Deadlift 3 x 10 reps 55kg Ab Exercise 3x20 elevated sit ups

Actually I am so new to BJJ that I am still looking for the fundamentals. I've tried to understand concepts and principles, but there is so many ways to "see the elephant". It's so big and every body sees it from a slightly different angle. Me - I am looking at the elephant under it most of the time:) I sure you guys - most of the senior belts tell me to do more fancy tricks, but I just try to get to a better position and survive. Positive note is that I am getting better in seeing what is happening - or atleast understand what just happened and that's progress, too. I am not looking for submissions. I am looking to survive. That's good enough for a 54 y old against bigger and stronger 20 somethings.

Ordered Jiu Jitsu University from Amazon.

I've done a similar thing - like slow roll, but you do a submission and back up a little so that your partner can do an escape? I call this "catch and release".

Lessons 1 and 2 done - only 34 to go:-) (Well the curriculum says that every lesson should be done 6 times, but once is good for me and some repetitions for issues I find more difficult - maybe I'll do the reaction drills that are included in every lesson more often.)

Thanks ps1 - this answer means a lot to me. I've tried to get partners to drill with me between classes. (We can use our clubs tatami or our sports centers tatami for free.) Your answer means I just need to try harder to get people to drill with me. I come from karate background and drilling is something that I am very used to.

Dobbersky and ps1, I'll check the book "Jiu-Jitsu; Theory and Technique". Gracie university has a free ebook for combatives 36 lessons, but I would like to read more about concepts and principles ( and learn to use them:-)