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Two killer classes last night at Wimbledon BJJ in the beginners and main classes; great to see coloured belts coming into the beginners class and helping out with the beginners, always a great help.
All the belts from white to black on the mats in the main class, where I delivered a closed guard masterclass, with lots of high percentage submissions for everyone to enjoy :)
Last night I had the pleasure of promoting my student Craig Lawson to a very well deserved Old Man Jiu Jitsu purple belt at London Fight Factory after the Joao Miyao seminar :)
Craig lives in Leicester and trains with me on my Saturday classes and Bank Holiday classes and always supports the seminars at LFF and trains hard in Leicester at Wayne Lakin's gym and Leicester Shoot.
Congrats Craig from myself and everyone at Wimbledon BJJ :)
Once again, HUGE thanks to Luiz at London Fight Factory for hosting Joao Miyao last night for a masterclass on the Baratoplata (and throwing in one cheeky Tarikoplata as well :) )
Two of my students came along as well and I and my team mate Craig where most probably the oldest on the mats and boy did we feel old, as we tried to invert in baratoplatas, rock up into K guard and lots more Young Man Jiu Jitsu moves :)
I certainly felt it this morning when I got out of bed, but it was whole lot of fun and great to catch up with old friends and made a few new ones too :)
The weeks are flying by at a rate of knots, back here again kick starting another week of BJJ mayhem at Northern Monkey HQ :)
Great fun with the L'il Monkeys and thanks to Gorgeous George for taking the evening classes, whilst I was at London Fight Factory attending the Joao Miyao seminar :)
Another action packed session today at Wimbledon BJJ, lots of No Gi action, boxing sparring and MMA sparring, something for everyone!
Next session April 26th :)
In this third video filmed at Wimbledon BJJ, I show an option of controlling the opponent from the half guard position, with the same arm tie up in the MMA 4 BJ Part 1 video...works a treat in both positions!
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KI2bYfNZouY
Killer No Gi classes as always at Northern Monkey HQ last night in both the beginners and int/adv classes; lots of drilling and rolling, lots of hard from all the monkeys :)
Hit a little milestone for the Wimbledon BJJ You Tube channel today, with 500 subscribers to the channel...a heartfelt thanks to every one that's subscribed to the channel, here's to the next 500 :)
You can subscribe here - https://www.youtube.com/@wimbledonbjj
In this second video, I show another option to control your opponent from side control, with a wrap around of the arm; when done properly this is super tight and opens up the side of the body, ready for strikes and you can easily move to mount and carry on striking too :)
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ULXNeS0Ueoo
Filmed a few videos the other night to show how positions common in BJJ can transfer over to MMA.
In the videos, I show a few options on how to control your opponent, which gives you the opportunity to unleash punches, open palm strikes and hammer fists from side control, half guard and mount.
They are high percentage positions that with a bit of time spent drilling, will easily assimilate into your game, setting up strikes, dominant positions and submissions.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ULXNeS0Ueoo
A quiet class for the int/adv class last night, but that didn't stop the knowledge bombs dropping, as Gorgeous George prepares for another MMA matching two weeks.
With that in mind, I showed a number of ways of applying BJJ positions in an MMA match, which allows one to pin the opponent and then unleash a reign of terror on one's opponent by way of hammer fists, palm strikes and punches, either from side control, half guard or mount.
Medieval style brutality for 2025 :)
Another action packed start to a new week at Wimbledon BJJ, kicking things off with the L'il Monkey class, before a little break and starting the evening off with the Beginners class and finishing the night off with intermediate/advanced class :)
Kilelr Catch Wrestling session last night as always, lots of drilling and wrasslin :)
Two killer sessions last night at Northern Monkey HQ, a really productive Beginners class and dropped some technique bombs in the int/adv class, as follows...
The Georgian Roll
Kataguruma entries from the Russian Tie and Braulio Estima entry (iykyk)
Obi Ashi Guruma from overhand Russian grip
Suma gaeshi from overhand Russian grip
Two butterfly sweeps
DEADLY one handed Brabo
Had a great time teaching and rolling with the monkeys, more of the same tonight in the No Gi classes :)
Yesterday we mixed it up No Gi style with lots of Catch Wrestling drills and rolling, keeping the art alive here in the Big Smoke :)
Last night I had the immense pleasure and honour to promote two of my teenage mat savages to blue belt; Matt and Niall turn up week in week our, rarely miss class and have both done well in competition, bagging a good few golds between them, so it was time for them both to step up last night :)
Huge congrats from a very proud coach and all the monkeys at Wimbledon BJJ, Dog House MMA and Petherwick Jiu Jitsu :)
A quiet one last night, but lots of fun teaching the arm bar from S-mount and finishing from the Spiderweb position and plenty of rolling of course :)
Lots of hard work from everyone in the Beginners class last night, improvement all round week in week out, it's been a Godsend having these Beginners classes separate from the main classes, I'm ironing out all the bad habits before they become bad habits :)
As always, lots of fun and laughs with the L'il Monkeys on a Monday afternoon, numbers slowly picking up now, looking forward to building up the Monday class, as well as the Wednesday class :)
Lots of fun as always at Northern Monkey HQ at the weekend, with another Super Saturday Session in the bag :)
Next session will be April 12th, 2-4pm :)
Two killer classes last night at Northern Monkey HQ, starting with the beginners class and an action packed Catch Wrestling class after that :)
Lots of Catch drills and rounds of pin to win before rolling, great fun and a massive cardio booster to boot, only need around a minute of action and everyone's breathing hard :)
Now the weather is sunnier and warmer, it's great to get out and hit the mats and it was another action packed day yesterday at Northern Monkey HQ :)
The day started with a brilliant session with the L'il Monkeys and a really tough beginners class, dropped in some shark tanks and extended rolling for them, which they all enjoyed and an intimate advanced class, just two on the mats and went over some old school step over arm bars, which finished them both off after thirty minutes drilling :)
Lots of fun for everyone :)
A short video filmed on Tuesday night in the Catch class, showing a standing half alch takedown; if this was a Catch match the man on top would be declared winner via a pin, in Gi and No Gi Jiu Jitsu comps, it's a great takedown that will take the BJJ purist by surprise :)
Plus you've landed in side control, completely avoiding the guard, straight on the attack :)
Killer Catch session last night at Northern Monkey HQ, drilling duck under and half alch takedowns and a solid hour of rolling, lots of fun and hard work as always :)
Kick started another week off in fine style with an action packed day and night of Jiu Jitsu :)
Lots of fun with the L'il Monkeys class, a solid turn out for there beginners and a killer advanced class, teaching some solid techniques and plenty of specifics and sparring.
No Gi Madness tonight :)
Fellow black belt and student Gorgeous George ran his first Sunday Service Session at Northern Monkey HQ yesterday; George runs Dog House MMA and took the students through his own style of No Gi and MMA training and will be running sessions every few weeks, details of which will be posted on social media :)
Another action packed day of Jiu Jitsu at Northern Monkey HQ, starting off with the L'il Monkeys class, then the beginners class and really fun advanced class, packed full of fun moves such as the helicopter choke, the Gator roll guard pass, vaporisers and rolling bow and arrow chokes :)
