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Yesterday was a first for me, I was invited to give a small talk to a room full of youth workers, a couple of student teachers and some other exercise professionals on the subject of Encouraging Exercise in Young Adults. Now why they chose me is simple, there was no one else available. But I … Continue reading
Thanks to work and family issues, I’m not 100% sure I can get to the European Championships in January. Nonetheless I’m training like I will go and I’ll know if I can get there or not in early January. Things are not going well however. Firstly, I’m frickin huge. Well, not huge but bigger than … Continue reading
I was at the Irish BJJ Cup at the weekend, but not competing. I’d been off the mat for about 5 days with my neck and limited to only light work. I’ve learned from experience that realistically I get 2 weeks hard training and one week light. I didn’t really do the light week thanks … Continue reading
In keeping with the theme of fitness for BJJ, let’s have a look at some of the things I think you need to do when you don’t have a partner to train with. Specifically we’re going to look at strength here but I’ll deal with conditioning in another post. As I stated before in this … Continue reading
Robert taught this half guard sweep (though slightly differently to the method in the video) at his seminar and while I’d seen and done it a bit before, I hadn’t really used it much. However I’ve been using it a lot since I’ve learned it and it fits very well with my sweeping game generally. … Continue reading
I’m just home from holiday, and I have a healthy tan. That is about the only thing that is healthy about me however, as I really enjoyed my food and drink on my break, and I’ve now slept two weeks on beds and floors that weren’t my own. I feel pretty broken after the Poland … Continue reading
I’m sitting in Gdansk airport waiting on my flight home from the Drysdale BJJ camp 2011 here in Poland. I’m tired, sore, but very sad to be missing the last 2 and a half days of what’s been an amazing week of jiu jitsu. I’m also enjoying a beautiful Polish amber beer which I like … Continue reading
I heard the same thing twice during the week, a sort of half compliment that really baffled me. I still can’t get my head around it, not completely. Two people complimented me on having competed at the Munster Open a fortnight ago. Not complimented my performance, mind you, just the fact that I’d competed at … Continue reading
A position that my opponents take that bugs me quite a bit is deep half guard. Since losing my match at my last competition via a deep half guard sweep I’ve decided to attack the position head on to try to come up with some new methods of combating the position, and putting greater pressure … Continue reading
Part 2 I wrote Musings on How to get Fitter for BJJ a couple of weeks back and got a lot of reaction from it. More than usual anyway. I think most people who read it misinterpreted the message as “never do any strength and conditioning work”, which wasn’t the way I intended it. I’m … Continue reading
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