Mornington Extreme JJG Club 3rd Birthday

Saturday 6th June is the clubs 3rd birthday and we will again head down to the Peninsula Hot Springs for lunch and the afternoon sitting around in natural hot springs scaring the other guests. Please put the date in your diary and get permission from the relevant authorities. FYI this is the Queen's Bday long weekend. I have booked and paid for lunch and bathing for 14 people @$70 each. So just like last year, its first in best dressed. Show me the money and your on the list. We will train from 12-1pm and then head down to Rye as a group starting lunch at 1.30pm. Previous years have been a great success and it is becoming somewhat of a tradition. Hope to see you there.

More Upper Body Throws

Joe Rogan talks Intelligent fighters...

Long live the Dragon!

Lesnar goes Bow hunting...

Cobrinha Armbar from Spider Guard

When the heck did the Brasilians start to use "Osu"?, must have missed that one! Nice technique from the man with the best guard in BJJ.

Randy teaching at Xtreme Couture

Good Hygiene and Mat Cleaning

For now on the mat will be cleaned after every training session which means we will finish early and share the workload. Please wash your gi's and every piece of training equipment you have including head gear, knee pads etc after each session. Please dont come to training with unclean and unwashed training gear. Please make sure you shower within 15min or so after a training session has finished and cover any open wounds whilst training. Shoes off the mat and bring slippers to training for trips to the toilet. If you have any unusual pimples, infected hair follicles, rashes etc stay off the mat as a courtesy to your training partners until it clears completely. If you bleed, get off the mat straight away and spray with antiseptic immediately and wipe it down. Skin infections are an unfortunate reality of grappling training and outbreaks are not unusual, the answer is good personal hygiene and mat cleaning. We all need to be very diligent over the next few weeks. Dont panic, be sensible. Most Staph infections are low grade and short lived, some require antibiotics from the GP and rarely it can require hospitalization if it spreads past the skin. But most importantly we need to stop re-infecting each other to break the cycle. Consider yourself warned. Good Hygiene and Mat Cleaning. Fix the problem not the blame.

Double Leg Takedown

Far side and near side duck under to takedown - Randy Couture

And here from Jeff Presley from Memphis (any relation to the King i wonder?)

Lepri v Fowler

Great technical display. Lepri is wearing the coloured belt.

Aesopian Shin Pass Detail

Plus here is a link to another pass from Aesopians website. Some good instructional clips here.

UFC 97 Predictions

Thanks Joanne.

Marco at the Vics

I have added Smithys youtube uploads as a link in the sidebar on this site, so any updated videos will be available to watch from this blog.

Half Guard Sweep

JCVD Monolgue

Van Damme was a huge karate movie star while I was growing up and he has recently done a heist movie called JCVD, set in a post office, from which this monologue is taken and it is obviously very autobiographical and emotional. Stardom, drugs and women he had it all but ultimately now has nothing or paradoxically, maybe everything, it reminded me of a chapter of an ancient chinese text which suggests that success is as dangerous as failure. Both the monologue and verse from Lao tsu are both poetic and poignant . We will resume normal blog posts shortly....



And from the Tao te Ching by Lao Tzu

Success is as dangerous as failure.
Hope is as hollow as fear.

What does it mean that success is a dangerous as failure?
Whether you go up the ladder or down it,
you position is shaky.
When you stand with your two feet on the ground,
you will always keep your balance.

What does it mean that hope is as hollow as fear?
Hope and fear are both phantoms
that arise from thinking of the self.
When we don't see the self as self,
what do we have to fear?

See the world as your self.
Have faith in the way things are.
Love the world as your self;
then you can care for all things.

More Vics 2009 Video

Here is the link to Smithy's youtube page where he posts all his video. Also am watching this weekends UFC on Sunday at 1pm if anyone is interested. Let me know. Here is the breakdown and analysis of the main card from Sherdog.

No Classes this Saturday

There will be no classes this Saturday 11th April because of the Easter break.

Alessio v Galvao Dream 8

Aoki v Sakurai Dream 8

Knees to the head change everything about the game of MMA, bring them back in the UFC. Best way to shut down a grappler as good as Aoki. Very impressive from Sakurai as Aoki has been tapping everyone.

The Mad Ranga

Well Done.

Well done to all the guys from Mornington who made the effort to compete at this years AFBJJ Vics at MSAC. I thought it was a great turn out from our small club and from all reports performances across the board were strong. I spoke to Smithy and Jason during the day, getting regular reports on our athletes progress. Rick was the stand out performer again winning an outstanding three golds, Nick won his Junior division and gave the adults a run at his weight, Niall got two silvers reaching the final in both gi and no gi and both Travis and Peter made it to the top four and possible bronze. I was really pleased that a group of new guys made the effort to compete for the first time and hopefully will continue to do so in the future. We have a strong competition culture at our club and I think it is an invaluable learning experience to test yourself against other clubs. There is the opportunity for some road trips in the coming months and also some Dominance comps to get some valuable experience before the big one in October, the Pan Pacs. Lets see if we can get there without anyone ending up in hospital BEFORE the tournament even starts! Make sure you take the time to review any video footage of your matches in the next week or so to make any adjustments to your game. I'll bring my laptop and usb key down to class for the next few week so we can swap files.