Judo Throw of the day: Ippon Seo Nage. It was demonstrated by Sayaka. She is  a Judo Kodokan 2nd dan. She also teach a woman only Judo class at Epsom on Wednesday 5-6 pm. http://www.judokong.com/#!/ Then we split the class into beginners and intermediates. Beginners went over mount retention, mount escapes (upa, elbows escape), mount submissions (American, Ezekiel). Intermediates went over S mount and double attack submissions. Situation rolling from mount (we kept the group separated). Then training concluded with normal rolling from the knees. Thursday class will be back.        

What does an Irish man does in his honeymoon in New Zealand? Train at Aucklandbjj.com. Joke aside, it was great to meet John from Dublin. Tuesday night training was basically a private class with 2 students. I just covered any questions they had as it was the Q&A topic of the program. I taught some mount escapes and arm drag from butterfly guard and heaps more from my personal repertoire. Training concluded with some rolling and guard pass drilling. While Thursday night had a better turn out, I am not sure if the reason is that it is our nogi night. Topic of the day: Arm drag single leg takedown Straight ankle lock sub. Training conluded with 30 minutes sparring. It was a pleasure to watch Judo Paul decimating via ouchi gari. At the moment, we are considering having our last class on Thursday 19 December 2013 and restart on Tuesday 14 January 2014 Stu supervising our single guys dancing class on Thursday night

This week, we covered the topic of Knee on the belly over 2 classes. Knee on the belly gives 2 points if held properly for 3 seconds. We covered far side arm bar, near side arm bar, couple of chokes, americana and kimura. For warm up, we did a couple of drills for guard recomposition for the turtle, reversal from side control and turtle as well. The throw of the week was osoto gari. training concluded with 2 minutes stand up and 3 minutes grounds. We now will training Nogi every Tuesday. Have a good weekend.                    

Arm bar Light warm up, we did roll flow to open our game  and test techniques that we usually do not use when we roll full on. Topic of the day was Questions and Answers. Every 6 weeks, we like to ask the students what type of questions they have so you can address their issues on a more detailed and specific appproach. see below some you tube videos that are relevant to the questions. Training concluded with situational rolling from guard. Roll call for the competition: stu, serge, luan, mark and Jose. Tomorrow is your last day to register   see below details http://nzgrappler.co.nz/bjj-gi-tournament-registration/ BJJ Gi Tournament with IBJJF Scoring Registration ends 11:59pm Thursday 15th August ( REGISTER ONLINE ) This is your last chance to register for this NZ Grappler's first ever Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Gi touranment 17-18 August 2013. Registration is $60 for Adults and $50 for kids. The deadl...

Quick warm up.  Epsom best looking BJJ instructor Couple of drills for countering the sprawl. Topic of the day was the mount. best position in BJJ (4 points). I also found a really good video from www.aesopian.com which covers the technical stand up from the guard. It is a topic which I covered couple of weeks in the past. You do not have to be playing guard all the time. Especially in a fight, you are better off getting up instead of being at the bottom. Even in a competition, your opponent is running the clock as he is leading by points, get up.

We take our Jiu Jitsu very seriously!   Light warm up. Topic of the day was focused on competition training. Takedowns and guard pass drills. Guard Pass techniques for the beginners.       Ezechiel Chokes for intermediates.           Guard Pass rolling. Then our usual 5 minutes sparring (2 minutes stand up, 3 minutes ground). 

Our usual warm up for 20 minutes Techniques of the day: Ouchi-Gari also known as major inner reaping. We did 15 minutes of repetitions Please click on below link for more information on this throw http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%8Cuchi_gari http://judoinfo.com/new/techniques/throwing-techniques/350-ouchi-gari  Then we did 2 half guard sweeps. Training was concluded with our usual 4 rounds of sparring which consist of 2 minutes stand ups and 3 minutes ground. also known as Tachi Waza and Ne Waza in Judo Terminology.

 Cool down training with Asashi Beer Our usual warm up. Techniques of the day:  Tai Otoshi Half guard passes 30 minutes rolling.   Add caption . 

Warm up. Topics of the day: double leg takedown, arm bar from guard and arm bar defence.  Rolling: 4 rounds of 5 minutes sparring: 2 minutes stand up, 2 minutes ground, 1 minute stand up.  Picture of the day was from the last competition. 

Techniques of the day: Guard Pull and Tomoe Age Guard passes (Double underhook stack pass, stand up leg drag pass). Sparring: Couple of rounds of takedowns and rolling from our knees. See you at open mats on Saturday. Please see below link for the competition on Saturday 17 august. http://nzgrappler.co.nz/