Day 11/354

Off day.

Day 10/355

AM training- Spin Class again.

Afternoon, checked out Shawn Williams academy. Great guys, really good class's there. 

day 9/356

AM training- Spin Class, great workout

no training tonight. 

day 7/358

I will not be doing my regular training this week. I injured my knee a couple of weeks ago, and it has not healed completely. so I will be taking the week off from JJ. and from my regular conditioning training. we will be trying spin class to keep up the conditioning.

No training today.

Day 8/357

A.M.- Weight training upper body. No legs due to knee injury.

There will be no P.M. session.

Game Changer: There is No One Way to Do a technique.

Daily Challenge: Do you have 3 solid triangle escapes? If not learn them and drill them

Day 6/359

No conditioning today or tomorrow.

Trained at South bay jujitsu. This is my Home; I’ve been training and teaching here for the last Decade. I use to run the Saturday class, now my friend and Training partner (Kristian) runs the class. We trained Nogi today, I was dragging the whole morning feeling really slow. Building new patterns is always frustrating, sometimes if I’m not getting the finish or sweep, I want to go back to the old pattern. But I let go of my ego, accept if I get caught or swept or passed, and keep working at my new pattern till I get it to flow like my old ones.  

Game Changer- Build your patterns. These are 3 or 4 step moves – takedown, pass, submit. Etc. Build and create your own patterns and drill them.

Daily Challange- Did you do your 100 reps yet?

Day 5/360

No AM training, still very tired from the week of training.

P.M.- Trained at Mojica Judo, Great place to workout. Coach Tony is a Former olympic coach, and really push's the class. They are really good at getting the numbers with throws, 5 crash pads on the floor and bodies flying everywhere !

Game Changer- Are you getting your numbers in? only you know if you are or not, so be honest with yourself. If you want to have that killer pass, or flying armbar- you have to get your numbers in EVERY WORKOUT . If you want to compete at the pan am's or world's then it becomes EVERYDAY !

Daily Challenge - 100 repetition's of a technique of your choice. you can break the 100 up how every you want( 10x10, 20x5, etc.)

Everyday is the Way !

Day 4/361

                No A.M. training session- workout partner cancelled and I was tired, slept in.

                No P.M. training session- due to work.

                I refer a lot to wrestling, when I talk about training. In BJJ, training sessions tend to be more relaxed. This makes BJJ a lot of fun. – Until you want to compete. At the Worlds this year I saw a black belt from Japan. This guy had the best guard of the tournament. He was very flexible, and he played a very relaxed and lose game. His opponent simply had no idea how to pass his guard. But the guy from Japan lost by Advantage points, why?

Because he had no offense. Even though his opponent had no answer to his guard, his guard game was based Only on reacting and countering. In the last minute of the match he was still waiting for his opponent to make a mistake and be over committed. It never happened. His opponent realized this and simply stayed busy and never committed to any attacks since he was ahead on advantage points.

This is why I always tell people to Model the “wrestling mind set”. In competition you simply have to be Proactive, I cannot tell you how many match’s I watched this weekend where the winning points where scored in the first minute.

Develop a balanced game.

Checkout this site- www.flowrestling.org

Day 3/362

Thought for the day- Make every workout count. Have a goal to achieve, that way every workout becomes a mission. Losing or winning does not happen during the match, it already happened in your training.

Wednesdays, have been our morning yoga session. But due to an early boot camp class now at the same time we could only stretch on the gym floor, we are going to have to get to the gym earlier on Wed. , since it’s the only day of the week  I take off.

A.M. Training session- 20 minutes light cardio warm up, Yoga/Bar stretchs.

No P.M. Workout.

Day 2/363

A.M. Training session 7a.m.- To many people on the basketball court to film our workout.

           “Game Time Workout”

-          1 minute full court sprints

-          1 minute plank row and pushups with dumbbells

-          1 minute full court sprints

-          1 minute plank row and pushups with dumbbells

-          1minute rest

-          4 Rounds, total – 20minutes

  This is our hardest workout, each sprint is a race to see who can do more, and the planks really get your core and upper body working. We always finish our workout with stretching.

P.M. Training session 9p.m.- 10^th Planet Van Nuys. – 5x5 minute rounds of free training.  I was focusing on making sure I was working through the whole round. I was always attacking and looking to take the back when I played guard, and kept constant pressure when I was passing. Great workout.

Day 1/364

                                                           Its Alive !!!


 Jiu Jitsu- A martial art and a method of close combat for defeating armed and unarmed opponent.
 Machine- A device that uses energy to perform some activity.

                Jiujitsu Machine - Experimenting and Exploring the Jiujitsu life style.

                     Wow, Three Days of the most intense Competition  you can find in BJJ. I had a Blast.
                                                                         
                   
                                                      A.M. MetCon Session-

                  Just a short video of the morning conditioning sessions that I have mon - fri. 

             P.M. Workout-Trained to night at Southbay BJJ,  Great time just getting some rolling in with friends,  looking forward to getting my Drilling and position training going in the coming weeks.


                                     My saying is - EVERY DAY IS THE WAY !

  Im counting down to next years world championships. I came up with this blog while I was at the worlds(Mundial). I invite you to my 365 day living experiment - Jiujitsu Machine !!!