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Great to see both returning trial members and a new one on the mat tonight. It was a throw-heavy Wednesday: grab and strangle defences for our new trial members, hip throws for the white belts, and a…
Read more: Wednesday Session LogThis week we have been working on defense against grabs. Aka, what to do when someone attempts to move you to a second location. Defences involve a lot of grappling and striking, with an emphasis on
Read more: Wednesday Session LogGreat to see several new members trying it today. Today we had to finish early but still was intensive: warm up arm drag drill knee ride drill front kick (Mae Geri) novices: safety breakfall sideways…
Read more: Wednesday Session LogWe continued Monday's training with escaping from mount (kata shiha gatame), to then looking at sweeping from closed guard with scissor sweeps. We then resumed baton defense training with ippon seoi…
Read more: Wednesday Session LogGreat to see our latest new comers ramp up their breakfalling skills today. We continue ne waza (ground work) escape training by learning how to escape from mount. We then moved to defending from an…
Read more: Monday Session LogGreat to see two digits number of Jiu-Jitsukas at the Wednesday session and welcoming a new trial member. We started as usual with warm-up, followed by strength and conditioning exercises. The…
Read more: Wednesday Session LogBack on the mat! This week we are working on ground hold escapes and dealing with strong attacks and momentum. The latter is specific to self-defence: how to protect one self and use their momentum…
Read more: Monday session logAfter our usual warm up, break falling and striking practice, we revised Monday's practice of attacks from behind. We added a follow-up to using wrist lock Kote gaeshi after wrist release. We then…
Read more: Wednesday session logVery exciting to see all new comers with fresh new gis. Thank you to the grades for helping new comers with their breakfalling! This allowed us to ramp up throwing for this session. Today we focused…
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