I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how to move on from my strength fight when someone’s passing my guard. This doesn’t only have to do with last night’s conversation about bigger guys, it has to do with players in general. Small or big – because small guys have games of their own. The principles […]
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ)
I've been training Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, otherwise known as BJJ, since April of 2008. I currently hold the rank of black belt. I was awarded this rank in March of 2020 at The Foundry in Maine, one of the oldest and most respected clubs in New England. I continue to train regularly and teach once a week at our school. In this blog category, you'll find commentary on events I've attended, my perspectives on milestones I've experienced, and some of my opinion that I've developed during the time I've trained. I also like writing about technique and theory and offer many posts on those subjects. Add to that a few fairly old videos of yours truly rolling and you've got yourself somewhat of a full-fledged BJJ scene. For the record, I've trained Jiu-Jitsu full time in Glastonbury, CT, St. Augistine, FL, and in Farmington, ME, along with visiting appearances around Palm Coast, FL, Middletown and Hartford, CT.
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Side Escape Concept by Dan Faggella
He calls it a “weird” tip for escaping side control, but it’s really not weird at all. It’s a concept and it’s the type of thing all of us should really be focusing on more than we are. I’m sure you’ve seen my ramblings about how there’s not enough discussion on concepts in BJJ. If […]
How To Get Better At Jiu-Jitsu
This is terrible. I’m going to write a post that people simply aren’t going to want to read. They aren’t going to want to read it because, unfortunately, it ends badly. I’ll even give you the punchline to the title of this post right here, so you can close this page if you want to. […]
How Do You Stop Bigger Opponents From Passing Your Guard?
Okay, first order of business – I wanted to quickly talk about how I’m having good luck with Saulo’s running side escape. I’ve been practicing this side escape for two classes now and I’m telling you, it works. I can’t believe I took so long to put this in my bag of goodies. Here, watch […]
Saulo Ribeiro Works!
I’ve been reading Saulo Ribeiro’s “Jiu-Jitsu University” very closely. I’m not taking notes or anything like that, but I’m digesting what the man’s trying to tell me. At first, I didn’t think I’d remember anything because there’s a lot of content and I’m reading fairly quickly, but I’ll tell you this – somehow it’s being […]
Lasso Guard Training Pictures
Good news. I finally remembered to bring my camera in last night. I handed it to Christy and she took it from there. Took it so far that I have at least 200 really good pictures of training from last night. I edited them slightly – cropping and stuff like that and then saved them […]
Goals For Tonight’s Class – June 20, 2013
Alright, I’m back to working my grip game. On Tuesday night’s class, we went over two back escapes with minor variations of each. Thank you Kevin for covering this in class. Defending back is extremely tricky business, so the more practice, the better. I think not freaking out is probably the best thing to learn […]
Goals For Tonight’s Class – June 18, 2013
Tonight is all about back. I intend to put much more focus on taking back from guard as well as allowing partners to take my back in order to practice my escapes. Also, if I see someone go to turtle, I would like to practice taking back from there as well. I may even throw […]
Ordered My Origin Gi Jacket
Just a quick update to let you know that I ordered my Origin Gi Jacket. As I may have mentioned before, I only need a jacket because I already have about 6 pairs of pants. Some old, some brand new. The last thing I need is more gi pants. FYI – Origin doesn’t have an […]
Defending and Escaping Back Control
After you’re finished reading this post, check out two more really nice back escapes. Last night, we did a few passing guard, defending the back and defending turtle position drills. Passing and defending guard is a given. Those are probably two of the most common situations we come across in Jiu-Jitsu. It’s really a no-brainer […]
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