New Fight Sports T-shirt

I'm now a proud owner of the new Fight Sports T-shirt, thanks Luiz!!

Tom Halpin at LFF!

Fight Sports black belt Tom Halpin has been at London Fight Factory this week and I was able to get down to the lunchtime class yesterday and join in the fun with one of my students.  

Huge thanks to Luiz once again for making this happen, you never know who's going to be on thetas at LFF, there's aways a surprise in store, with a few more special guests lined up before the end of the year...

Oooss

Wednesday night Halloween class

A spooktacular session last night at Wimbledon BJJ, packed with ghoulish guard passes and spooky submissions....

Monday night class

A busy session on Monday night with the Monkeys, going over three high percentage lapel chokes from closed guard; using the lapel whether it's yours or theirs is one of my favourite parts of Jiu Jitsu, there are some very creative submissions out there and there's nothing more satisfying than getting that lapel around someone's neck and squeezing tight!

Last night's class

Another busy session last night with the Monkeys, covering three high percentage lapel chokes from the closed guard...

James Saks in the house!

Huge thanks to my student Satinder in arranging last night's visit from South African black belt James Saks, who's in town for a few weeks and took time out of his busy schedule to take last night's class.

James is a double Worlds silver medallist, multiple IBJJF and NAGA medallist and a pro MMA fighter and James delivered a masterclass in the Old School ways of Jiu Jitsu, of which I'm a massive fan.

An awesome session to which I am very grateful to James, for delivering such a solid class, rooted in the basics and makes me know I'm teaching the right kind of things to my students.

Looking forward to class tomorrow to go over last night's gold...

BJJ Digest - Buchecha special

Precision Self Protection Facebook Page

Both myself and Gary Hilton would really appreciate you dear readers to also take time out and hit the 'Like' button on the Precision Self Protection Facebook Page, you support is much appreciated :)

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Wimbledon BJJ Facebook Page

I've finally got round to creating a new page on Facebook for the club...I'd appreciate it if any of you dear readers could take a minute of your time and hit the 'Like' button if you use Facebook, I'd really appreciate the support :)

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Wednesday night class

Bit of a quiet one on Wednesday night, people injured, working late, full of Man Flu, life getting in the way of training...however, we still had a great time on the mats, going over ways of breaking the grips when someone is defending an arm bar, plus a few pointers garnered from the recent competition at Dartford.

Looking forward to a busier class tomorrow :)

Oooss

Hard work duly rewarded

HUGE congrats to Charles and Ali on their well earned stripes on Monday night, both guys are a credit to Wimbledon BJJ and Fight Sports London...

Ooos!

Monday night's class

Monday night was back to the drawing board after the competition on Sunday, with a thorough debrief of events that occurred on the mats; things we did well were commented upon and things not so well were also looked into, with ways of improving them, which is of benefit to all students.  This type of instructor feedback plays an important part in the coaching process and makes the instructor look hard into the mistakes made in competition and then look for solutions to make sure they don't happen again, so in turn, everyone at the club has the chance to improve their own training.

A very productive session indeed, with lots of things to drill out and put into practice in the specifics portion of each class, then apply it in live rolling; always a constant flow of structured improvement, more of the same this evening, looking forward to it!

Oooss

Street Fighter 2 event

Had a great day out at the Street Fighter 2 event at Dartford Judo Club on Sunday; two students competed on the day, Charles and Ali and Charles came away with a gold in his weight division and a silver in the absolute division.  Charles is the epitomy of Old Man Jiu Jitsu, aged 58 years and fighting people young enough to be his sons and grandsons!

Ali was making his competition debut and had a really good first fight and succumbed to an arm bar four minutes in to the fight; what makes this fight more remarkable is that Ali is profoundly deaf, so he really is on his own out on the mats, yet he fought really hard and pulled off a few things we've been drilling in class and he's only been trying for ten weeks, so lost more to come this remarkable young man.

I made my debut at black belt after a long lay off from competing against a seasoned competitor and sadly things didn't go my way, but it felt good to be back competing and look forward to competing again in the near future.

All in all, a good day out, a few medals in the bag and another great training camp under our belts, where everyone has improved, so it's time to go back to the drawing board, take on board things that happened in our fights and work hard to correct the mistakes we made and look forward to the next competition.

Oooss

Last night's class

Our last session before the competition on Sunday; all the hard work, shark tanks and rolling are over, it's been another great training camp, no new injuries for all competing, so it's time to rest up and get ready for action on Sunday...

1,2,3, FIGHT SPORTS!!

Last night's class

Another busy turn out last night at Wimbledon BJJ, throwing in a little bit of self protection to mix things up a little...working a couple of moves from the double collar grab, techniques I've used many times on the doors, so I know they work...

Saturday class

Bit of a quiet session yesterday but one of the most intense competition classes to date, everyone was pushed to their limits, myself included, with lots of specifics, rolling and shark tanks for everyone.

Very proud of the lads yesterday for the hard work they put in, no one gave in when the going got tough, a really productive class. Only two more sessions to go before the competition next weekend...

King of the Mat champion...

Had the pleasure of presenting the King of the Mat trophy to the winner in class yesterday...congrats George, it's your trophy to keep for a week and then tine to defend your title on the next one...

King of the Mats

I resurrected a little fun game I used to run at my old gym up North, the good old King of the Mat challenge and thanks to one of my generous students Ger, we now have a little trophy for the winner, who will be allowed to take it home for a week and post photos of themselves with the trophy on social media :)

Last night's class

Another busy one last night, only a few classes left before the Street Fighter 2 event is upon us, so lots more hard work from everyone, it's a real team effort getting people ready for competition...next session this Saturday afternoon :)

Last night's class...

Had a great session last night to help celebrate my birthday and my last year as a forty something...great fun sharing the mats with my students, got dragged into a shark tank and the return of King of the Mats contributed into a superb session for everyone, a small trophy will be up for grabs for the next KOTM...