Monday: I have been fighting a serious case of burnout. I don't know if it's from too much drinking on weekends, too much food, or maybe too much training, but I just felt like sitting on the couch.
Tuesday: Despite Mike's (and my own) recommendations, I decided to do both boxing and bjj today.
BOXING:
We jogged to warm up, maybe a round. Then we did circuits consisting of the double end bag (timing bag), jump rope, shadow box w/ weights, hitting the heavy bag, uppercut bag, and a round of mitts w/ Jamal. Each have their own 'goal'. timing bag is good for timing head motion, moving, attacking quickly and from different angles, heavy is for big body shots, heavy combos. And the uppercut bag is awesome because it spins and swings in big arcs, forcing you to use jabs and hooks and movement to get around it and control it. Mitts with Jamal is always difficult, because he pushes me to the limit of my concentration, doing combos I've never done before. Lots of double body shots, double jabs, jabs to hooks, long strings of 1-2's with head movement. A note about my jabs... I have the bad habit (I think always trying to do a 'falling jab' is to blame) of lifting my front foot and stepping with the jab, to make it stiff and heavy. Jamal kept swinging his right arm over the top, and slapping my head. He said that the jab is for range and once you're in range, it doesn't have to be used in a hard manner, just a space keeper.
BJJ:
more closed guard passing: open guard the same way as last week. as soon as guard breaks, put weight on the bottom leg, and try to get an upright 1/2 guard on that leg. As the guy tries to get his foot back in for a hook, UNDERHOOK his thigh, reaching for his belt. This nullifies that outside leg and hip. Sprawl and control to pass to the same side.
if he stops you by pressuring down w/ his thigh, reach deeper under his thigh to get the lapel, sprawl, trying to put his knee to his face, and go to other side of above pass.
if he stops you by putting a knee across your belly (I'm extremely guilty of this, and will fix it), just jam it down and hop over to the side.
if he stops you mid pass w/ a butterfly hook, using non belt grabbing hand - pop his knee, and therefor the hook out, and hop over to same side.
Raph talked about getting a competition team together. I'm obligated to be on it, I think. Both for myself, and for the gym. It's going to be good, and something to look forward to.
Wednesday: No juice to train, feeling pretty burned out. 187lbs AM weight
Thursday: BJJ
Keylock from mount; 2 on 1 grip, elbow bracing between hand and their head, other hand under, spread base out to stay stable, tuck elbow back in towards body (tightens it up big time), paint the floor with their fist, while lifting their elbow.
Kimura from guard: break grip (along lapel), 2 on 1, push arm away, grip wrist w/ same side hand, reach up and over (armpit to his shoulder), build grip, escape hips to the side that you control, pass that same leg over his back to control posture, pull arm taut, try to hide his arm behind his back.
if he defends Kimura by grabbing pants, drop that leg to trap him on that side, use that side arm to post on the mat, lift hips, and step over w/ far leg, sweeping to full mount
Guillotine from kimura/sweep: work the kimura, then if he commits to defending, release grip and pull guillotine.
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