This week has been a rough one for me. I did my normal conditioning, technique and sparring classes, however, it really felt like not much clicked. One night we learned some half-guard sweeps that just didn’t seem to gel to me. Another night we worked some escapes from half-guard bottom, and while I could perform …
Monthly Archives: February 2014
New Blog Layout and Patches?
Just a quick note, I’ve updated the blog layout. The main reason for this is because I finally got a custom logo. It was done by a former coworker, Mike Hix. As always, he did an amazing job. This was largely his design with me providing a bit of info about BJJ to help provide …
Playing a Mental Game Against Myself
This past December I competed in a local BJJ tournament. I got a silver in my division of gi, but overall I was not pleased with my performance, I was 1-and-done in all my other divisions. As I reflected back over my performance I felt that I wasn’t as prepared as I should have been. …
“How do you do it?”
For the past few months, my BJJ schedule has been relatively the same: Monday: 6-6:30 fight fit (conditioning) 11:30-12:30 No-gi technique 5:30 – 6:30 Technique 6:30-7:30 Sparring Tuesday 5:30 – 6:30 Technique 6:30-7:30 Sparring Wednesday 6-6:30 fight fit Thursday 11:30-12:30 No-gi sparring Friday 6-6:30 fight fit 4:30-6pm Open mat That comes out to about 9 …