hi liter posted:

Do ya'll train with any cops?

The Darlok posted:

Can't! No heel hooks in amateur in Florida.

The Darlok posted:

No heel hooks and pretty sure no toe holds either. Yeah West, and PH usually once a week. All at night classes though can't make any mornings.

e: Just read the the actual rules, apparently the only legal leg attack is a knee bar

"(b) In addition to the aforementioned fouls, fouls/illegal techniques while on the ground include:"
"3. Any submission attacking the legs ankles or feet other than a straight knee bar (Heel hooks or any angled leg locks);"

The Darlok posted:

https://www.facebook.com/bamboo.wissmann/videos/355916321471950/

The Darlok posted:

145

Xguard86 posted:

Whats up MA thread, I'm a brown belt now.

Music Theory posted:

Cool, thanks. Probably going to end up with capoeira, then, because of the acrobatics thing.

Xguard86 posted:

It didn't look like you did, it confused me how that happened, given it looked like you went down pretty flat. Sucks dude :/

The Darlok posted:

Oh really? Haven't seen that myself. I would imagine it had to already have fractured quite badly at that point for that happen...

The Darlok posted:

Thanks man - you been training at PH recently? I'm going to try to get back to classes soon just to rep stuff that doesn't require usage of my arm.

kimbo305 posted:

Lost pretty bad. Huge knockdown that I barely made the count on, and was way too one dimensional after that, knocked down twice more. Well, couldn't have been more two knockdowns cuz 2 in a round would be fight over.
Have video; will share.

old.flv posted:

no, you can do as many steroids as you like

generatrix posted:

Hi, I'm not new to posting here, but I'll introduce myself anyways. I'm Trevor Childs, and I train under Ron Dupuis at Windsor Brazilian Jiujitsu (in the warmest place in the frozen north, Windsor, Ontario, Canada).

Ron and I are in L.A. to train with his instructor: Jean Jacques Machado. We got to do classes and roll in the main HQ in Tarzana, 805 Jiujitsu, and the JJM school in Malibu. On the first night Jean Jacques and Ron promoted me to black belt.

All the lovely people who tried to tear my arms off (I'm the tall goofy looking guy in the panda gi)

It was my first time rolling with multiple black belts, and going in I was mildly terrified. But I was able to hold my own and play my game (half-guard with lockdowns from the bottom, grinding to mount from the top). I have some tricks they aren't used to, and they have some that were a test for me. It was a great way to gauge my skills against a wide array of styles, aggression levels, and body types, and really solidifies where I am in my BJJ journey. I got to train and roll with Greg Hamilton, Mike Armstrong, Jay and Mike Zeballos, and a number of other great people.

I started training just over nine years ago. At the time I was 315 lbs, 26 years old, and hadn't done anything seriously athletic for over a decade. I had seen BJJ on an early season of The Ultimate Fighter (back when the show was mostly focussed on their training), and passed by WBJJ every day on my to and from work. One day I wandered in, and after that first lesson I never wanted to leave. I trained every hour they were open, and got my blue belt fairly quickly because of the hours I put in.

An avulsion tear took me out for a few months, but I went back as soon as I was medically able. That patten repeated twice more, for patellar tendonosis at purple belt, and traumatic tennis elbow (i.e. I slipped while in an armbar) requiring surgery at brown belt. When my knee was healing I decided to finally start eating properly, and now I'm at about 210, which looks a bit skinny on my frame.

The cliché quote is that "a black belt is just a white belt that kept showing up." That's me. I'm not naturally athletic, and I'm nowhere near as strong as other guys. My physical gifts end at being tall, and more flexible than big guys usually are. It doesn't really matter though, because I kept showing up. I kept learning, and training. Now, after this last week I'm confident that I am where I should be for this rank. Things that were major problems for me at white and blue belt are now things I can weave around, because I kept showing up and learning for nine years.

(Note: I did try açaí for the first time this week, so it could just be the magic jiujitsu berries that carried me)

So, yeah, this is getting pretty long, but that's my story so far. A fat, weak, computer programmer living far from the major training hubs can become a tricky and technical black belt. Just keep showing up.



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Mursupitsku posted:

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You're a guy that's completely in love with the idea of looking for fights in the wild against bike thieves.