Northern Monkey Teenage Twister Uppers!

 It's hard to believe these units are all teenagers, I was nowhere near this big at their age, just a skinny little kid, must be something in the food these days :)

Two fifteen year olds, two at sixteen and one seventeen in the photo, four rugby players and one rower and now they're well on their way into their Jiu Jitsu journey; last night I put them through a full hour of shark tanking, specifics and rolling, three of them for the first time and not one complaint or giving up from any of them.

An hour dealing with every adult in the class, myself included, truly character building stuff and everyone at the club were very proud of their beasting last night, with many many more to come, they are the future of the club and I'm looking forward to seeing a few more of them compete in the new year.

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Last night's class

 Ended the month in style with a spooky pre Halloween No Gi session at Northern Monkey HQ; took the class through opening the closed guard and one high percentage pressure pass and the entry to the old school Judo Sangaku when the opponent turtles up.

As always, keeping it old school here at SW19 :)

Congrats Max!

 HUGE congrats to young Max who was promoted to grey/white belt on Wednesday night, hard to believe he's only fifteen years old, he's an absolute beast for his age, with a rugby background to boot (pardon the pun) so I better start being nice to him before he gets bigger in a few years time :)

Wednesday night class

 Another Gi session at SW19 on Wednesday night, focussing on more Judo related takedowns and a few dirty wrist locks for good measure :)

Northern Monkey World Seminar Tour of the UK - Gosport!

 Had a great day out on Saturday with four of my students down Gosport way in Portsmouth, back at Colin Foster's Zentai Jiu Jitsu dojo, delivering a Catch session to his students; lots of hard work from everyone on the day, going over the fundamentals of Catch and covering a few takedowns and a number of ways of pinning your opponent by way of the quarter nelson, face bar and half alch from the turtle position and no Catch seminar wouldn't be complete with out the Grovit technique :)

Specific training ended the session with the students putting what they'd learn into practice, getting to grips with pinning their opponent and all too soon the session was over and it was mats away and a few Indian crawls over to the local pub for a few well earned beers and burgers.

I really enjoy going down to see Colin, he and his students are very open minded in their training and will take on many other disciplines and take what they can and add it to their own training; it's also nice taking the students out to other gyms, helping me out and making new friends and making lots of fun memories.

Look forward to seeing the Pompey Massive again in the New Year :)

New You Tube video!

 Just uploaded a short video showing a high percentage way to mount your opponent, Northern Monkey, give it a watch and try it out in your next class :)

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Bse91F0zqsA

Judo 4 BJJ @ SW19!

 Something a little different last night, with a Judo themed session in the technical session, before an hour of rolling; went over stripping collar grips and went over a few of my favourite takedowns, looking forward to seeing the monkeys pull them off in future competitions :)

Wednesday night class

 A little bit late with this post from last Wednesday's class, but better late than never :)

A great session as usual, nice to see the newly promoted blue belts moving onto the front row :)

Last night's class

 Another busy class last night at SW19, with a huge front row line up of coloured belts, the biggest number so far in the history of the club :)

FAIXA AZUL!

 Once again, last night gave me immense pleasure in promoting another four monkeys to their very well deserved blue belts :)

In total, eight new blue belts, looking forward to many more in the future :)

FAIXA AZUL!!

 Last night gave me great pleasure in promoting four monkeys to their well earned blue belts :)

HUGE congrats to all from everyone at Wimbledon BJJ :)

Last night's class

 Another busy session last night at SW19, went over the hip bump sweep with a fine tooth comb, plus a few submission options, plus lots of shark tanks for the monkeys :)

No Gi next week :)

More bling for Erik!

 Another good day at the office at the weekend at the Caged BJJ event for Erik, coming away with a silver medal in the GI division; robbed in the finals but that's the way things go at times, so it's onwards to the next comp in November :)

Monday night's class

 This week we have been back in the Gi and another killer session was had on Monday night, getting ready for our next set of comps in November :)

Seven years a black belt!

 Seven years ago today I was promoted to black belt in BJJ by Luiz Ribeiro in front of one of my all time heroes Leo Vieira at London Fight Factory, a very special day indeed :)

No Gi Night!

 Another hot and sweaty No Gi session last night at Northern Monkey HQ :) Lots of hard work from everyone, shark tanks and rolling all round, plus a few old school techs and subs, back in the Gi next week :)

No Gi at SW19!

 Kick started a new month with another killer No Gi session at Wimbledon BJJ; currently sharpening up the monkey's closed guard and went old school with a double arm bar technique and onto a triple submission threat from the diamond position.

Shark tanks for the coloured belts and rolling all round ended a great night of Jiu Jitsu, more of the same tomorrow :)

Great to see my right hand man George back on the mats and twisting up fools :)