My personal game at the moment is as I have been writing about a lot recently, mostly it has been about triangles and omoplata combinations. The big factor is that I am more and more starting to view guard as a place to get submissions first and sweeps second, where previously I had always swept primarily. The result I guess is that I have developed a reasonably good sweep game over the last few years, but haven’t done a lot of work on subs, I think I have John Wills recent seminar on Omoplata to thank for my new found offensive guard game though.
Anyways, I have also been playing with a new top game as well and been covering it in my Wednesday night Intermediate classes. I have been working off different options and submissions from S-Mount, I am playing with the name “Rubber Mount” at the moment for the game as I do a lot of grabbing my own feet and pulling them all over the place, much like Eddie Bravo does with his Rubber Guard.
Basically I have been working on going to High Mount, then Pivoting to S-Mount and pulling my foot really tight into my opponents far arm pit with my lower arm. From there I have been going through this progression;
Ÿ Upright Near Arm Bar
Ÿ Far Figure 4 (to break grip for arm bar)
Ÿ Insert lower shin through arms (to break grip for arm bar)
Ÿ If grip wont break go to mounted triangle.
Ÿ From there go to upright arm bar if they don’t tap to the triangle.
I’ll get some pics of this up soon, and mention more about it as things come up in my rolls.
C ya
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Triangle Graduation
After a fair bit of work over the last year (and no doubt aided by the fact that I am 22kg lighter and a lot more flexible) I have started to get a lot more triangles than in the past. I am confident to say that I am no longer a "Triangle Spastic", I am by no means an expert, but I am a lot more comfortable with them than I was. I think that it is mostly about tightening and finishing the triangle as I have always had a million ways to set them up, I just used set them up and arm bar everyone from the failed triangle. Another thing is that I have gained confidence to try them more often now as I am getting reasonably good at sweeping people by under-hooking their leg if they stack me when triangling them.
The flow on effect of this of course is that I am now getting a lot more Omoplatas as well, as the two tend to go hand in hand. Especially with the game I have recently been playing. This is to go for triangles and to use a reverse triangle to clamp down if the opponent turns away from their deltoid to avoid the choke, this either gives me a control grip to reset the triangle up with or goes straight to the Omoplata, either is cool.
Anyway I intend to get some vids of this stuff up here soon, I'll see what I can do.
ta ta
The flow on effect of this of course is that I am now getting a lot more Omoplatas as well, as the two tend to go hand in hand. Especially with the game I have recently been playing. This is to go for triangles and to use a reverse triangle to clamp down if the opponent turns away from their deltoid to avoid the choke, this either gives me a control grip to reset the triangle up with or goes straight to the Omoplata, either is cool.
Anyway I intend to get some vids of this stuff up here soon, I'll see what I can do.
ta ta
New Bells
As you will have no doubt read I have been using Bells for about 2 years now primarily since rehabing my major should reconstruction. I went from an 8kg bell to a 12kg bell and until recently have been using one 18kg bell (Ozbell), I have decided recently though that the time has come to move on.
So, I splashed out and bought some new bells the other day, very exciting times!
I have had the Blue 18kg bell on the far right for a while but had been thinking about getting a pair and was also thinking that I was ready to move up to a larger bell. So I figured I'd get a pair of bigger bells while I was at it. I got the 2 new 25kg bells (the black ones) and the new 18kg to match my existing one from Mike Patterson, my Osteo, who designs and makes Ozbells. Ozbells by the way are the best Kettlebells in the world, bar none. They come in 1 and 2 kg increments as well as some made from bronze in some really ornate designs.
Anyways I am finding lots of evil doing double clean and presses etc on the 25kg bells and am loving doing double rows as well. I recently purchased Mike Mahler's Beginner Kettlebell Workshop DVD which is great and also got with it Mike's Kettlebell ebook. They are both fantastic and worth having. I found most of Mike's ideas useful including ideas on Nutrition, Mike's ideas helped to form part of my nutritional plan that has allowed to lose 22kg over the last 5 months or so (116kg to 94kg approx).
I am have always been simple with bells, basically just doing swings, Cleans, Clean and Presses and Rows. I have started now to add in Windmills and Turkish Get ups all though I am only doing the last 2 with the 18kg bells as I still need to build a little more post operation stability in my shoulder, but I am getting there.
Anyway like I said, very exciting times!
So, I splashed out and bought some new bells the other day, very exciting times!
I have had the Blue 18kg bell on the far right for a while but had been thinking about getting a pair and was also thinking that I was ready to move up to a larger bell. So I figured I'd get a pair of bigger bells while I was at it. I got the 2 new 25kg bells (the black ones) and the new 18kg to match my existing one from Mike Patterson, my Osteo, who designs and makes Ozbells. Ozbells by the way are the best Kettlebells in the world, bar none. They come in 1 and 2 kg increments as well as some made from bronze in some really ornate designs.
Anyways I am finding lots of evil doing double clean and presses etc on the 25kg bells and am loving doing double rows as well. I recently purchased Mike Mahler's Beginner Kettlebell Workshop DVD which is great and also got with it Mike's Kettlebell ebook. They are both fantastic and worth having. I found most of Mike's ideas useful including ideas on Nutrition, Mike's ideas helped to form part of my nutritional plan that has allowed to lose 22kg over the last 5 months or so (116kg to 94kg approx).
I am have always been simple with bells, basically just doing swings, Cleans, Clean and Presses and Rows. I have started now to add in Windmills and Turkish Get ups all though I am only doing the last 2 with the 18kg bells as I still need to build a little more post operation stability in my shoulder, but I am getting there.
Anyway like I said, very exciting times!
Tuesday, April 01, 2008
High Octane Cardio
After reading an article by Mike Mahler recently on his concept of High Octane Cardio I decided to change up my workout a bit and see how it felt.
The basic gist of what Mike suggested was to perform some form of cardio exercise whether it be running, heavy bag work, skipping etc and intersperse short rounds of training with a high energy calisthenic or weights burst. One suggestion was to run laps of an oval with explosive sets of 10 clean and presses at half way intervals, another alternative would be to spar with the heavy bag for one minute rounds interspersed with clean and presses. So here is my experimental workout on this theme:
(note - all push ups are done on a down hill slope with push up handles)
Rounds 1-3:
1 minute of Alternating hand Tyre Chopping interspersed with 10 explosive push ups.
Rounds 4-6:
1 minute of alternating single hand Kettle Bell swings interspersed with 2 sets of 5 Horizontal KB Rows on each hand.
Rounds 7-8:
2 walking laps of my back yard (approx 30metres per lap) with KB in Rack position, once left once right, interspersed with 10 explosive pushups.
Round 9:
1 minute of Alternating Hand Tyre Chopping (adding in single hand swings) interspersed with 10 explosive squat and reaches holding the bell.
Round 10:
1 minute of Alternating Hand Tyre Chopping (adding in single hand swings) interspersed with 5 explosive KB Presses on each arm.
Rounds 11-12:
30 Bridging Crunches interspersed with 5 KB clean and Presses on each hand.
Round 13:
2 walking laps of the yard holding the hammer in the air at arms length (alternating arms) interspersed with 5 Horizontal Rope pull ups (feet touching the ground)
and finally (buggered by this point)...
Round 14:
2 walking laps of the yard holding the hammer in the air at arms length (alternating arms) interspersed with 10 explosive push ups to finish.
So, my opinion after doing that once? Crazy hard, I am definitely going to do more of it and possibly add some snatches or even burpees to the between cardio brackets for more evil. The whole thing took about 18 minutes and gave me a good over all feeling of tired, the kind that we like after training.
Thanks all, c ya.
The basic gist of what Mike suggested was to perform some form of cardio exercise whether it be running, heavy bag work, skipping etc and intersperse short rounds of training with a high energy calisthenic or weights burst. One suggestion was to run laps of an oval with explosive sets of 10 clean and presses at half way intervals, another alternative would be to spar with the heavy bag for one minute rounds interspersed with clean and presses. So here is my experimental workout on this theme:
(note - all push ups are done on a down hill slope with push up handles)
Rounds 1-3:
1 minute of Alternating hand Tyre Chopping interspersed with 10 explosive push ups.
Rounds 4-6:
1 minute of alternating single hand Kettle Bell swings interspersed with 2 sets of 5 Horizontal KB Rows on each hand.
Rounds 7-8:
2 walking laps of my back yard (approx 30metres per lap) with KB in Rack position, once left once right, interspersed with 10 explosive pushups.
Round 9:
1 minute of Alternating Hand Tyre Chopping (adding in single hand swings) interspersed with 10 explosive squat and reaches holding the bell.
Round 10:
1 minute of Alternating Hand Tyre Chopping (adding in single hand swings) interspersed with 5 explosive KB Presses on each arm.
Rounds 11-12:
30 Bridging Crunches interspersed with 5 KB clean and Presses on each hand.
Round 13:
2 walking laps of the yard holding the hammer in the air at arms length (alternating arms) interspersed with 5 Horizontal Rope pull ups (feet touching the ground)
and finally (buggered by this point)...
Round 14:
2 walking laps of the yard holding the hammer in the air at arms length (alternating arms) interspersed with 10 explosive push ups to finish.
So, my opinion after doing that once? Crazy hard, I am definitely going to do more of it and possibly add some snatches or even burpees to the between cardio brackets for more evil. The whole thing took about 18 minutes and gave me a good over all feeling of tired, the kind that we like after training.
Thanks all, c ya.
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