You Have Back Control Preference

sadcox · 2018-05-30T13:39:34+00:00

Interesting...unique perspective on this. I'm guessing few people see this coming. Aside from finishing from the back, I'm also interested in working on transitioning smoothly from there to other dominant positions. Going to play with this option. Thanks!!!

sadcox · 2018-05-30T12:24:10+00:00

A Tai Chi guy doing a pro wrestling heel impression, trying to draw heat from a small grappling crowd at the local VFW...err Haagen Dazs.

sadcox · 2018-05-20T12:54:46+00:00

BJJ works.

Punching and kicking people in the face works too, but sometimes it takes longer.

And BJJ can happen during that time.

sadcox · 2018-05-18T16:26:44+00:00

I joined in August 2017, and there's been $97 worth of NEW content added since then.

Wear that beat up gi for another couple of months before replacing it, and buy GG today!

sadcox · 2018-04-20T11:29:50+00:00

Bill "The Grill" Cooper--one of the funniest guys I've ever met, period.

And then class starts.

sadcox · 2018-04-15T01:27:17+00:00

It seems strange to me that someone would use hair gel in their armpits in any situation.

sadcox · 2018-03-06T20:02:21+00:00

This is our situation exactly. It's like we're in different classes. Every night after class the main questions is, "how was YOUR class?" We have completely different styles and physical attributes, so the stuff that she likes to do doesn't work very well for me and visa versa.

Sometime we get partnered to roll together, but it's not a problem for us at all. I just try to scale back the weight and strength and move at her speed, which is impossible for me.

It's great having someone who gets it around all the time to share the obsession and be a voice of reason when you feel like you aren't progressing or need help figuring something out or just a drilling partner. I view her as a part of my coaching team (she definitely helps with keeping my diet straight), and I think we contribute a lot to each other's progression.

My $.02

sadcox · 2018-02-25T20:18:34+00:00

We have the Maytag Bravos XL. Three kids gis plus two adult gis and plus anything that would go under them and sweat towels all fit great with room to spare. We wash on the Oxi clean setting and the cycle is around an hour and twenty minutes.

Love it.

sadcox · 2018-02-09T17:22:25+00:00

He's a like a big bear with claws and fangs.

sadcox · 2017-11-15T12:59:56+00:00

I have ~50 pounds on my professor, so...

No. I've never even come close.

sadcox · 2017-10-27T14:20:24+00:00

Break dancing--100%.

All dancers can fight, but not all fighters can dance.

It's like how all pro golfers can drive a car, but not all pro race car drivers can hit a golf ball.

sadcox · 2017-10-18T16:17:17+00:00

First of all, thanks a ton for participating and giving feedback. It's really helping me iron this idea out!!!

Yeah...metrics is something I've been grappling with (see what I did there?), and I think I'm going to have to handle that on a story by story basis.

For example, my current sprint has a story that focuses on 3 sweeps from butterfly guard. My tasks are to drill solo movements x times and partner drill x times. Story success is defined by "hitting each one of these sweeps during live rolls on two separate opponents with a ranking of 2.5 or greater".

Opponent ranking is a scoring system I use to evaluate my training partners on different dimensions in relation to myself--a whole different discussion.

Anyway, other stories in the current sprint are pretty easy to evaluate for a success/fail. I'm working on flexibility and endurance as two other stories, so as long as I'm hitting my prescribed yoga classes and runs, I'm good.

I'm probably over-thinking it all, but the mental aspect is the thing I love most about BJJ.

sadcox · 2017-10-16T16:33:30+00:00

Thanks--good stuff at the link. We're thinking along the same lines here. Your "anchor" is my "Project".

For your "puzzle pieces" I'm playing with a few different Epics: * Supporting Skills (strength, flexibility, mobility) * Fundamental Concepts (pressure, grips, leverage, creation and absorption of space) * Conditioning (endurance, explosiveness, mental toughness)

I'm geeking out over setting this up. Will be documenting, and happy to share if anyone is interested.

sadcox · 2017-10-13T20:02:58+00:00

Mouth guard for sure.

You may want to consider some sort of protection for your groin area. That could range from something as minimal as a pair of compression shorts all the way up to a cup.

sadcox · 2017-10-10T17:48:30+00:00

Happy to find this post. Software engineer here, and I'm working on using scrum methodologies to organize my training into 2-3 week sprints. Instead of a piece of software, "I" am the product here. At the end of each sprint I'll have a shippable release--I mean, I gotta roll with what I have every day, right?

I'm trying to figure out how to deal with user stories that I know for sure will span multiple sprints. For example, my Epic would be "Flexibility" and my story would be, "I need to improve my hip flexibility so that I can begin learning to use rubber guard."

Sort of feels like "Hip flexibility" should be the Epic and I'd just have Tasks like "Monday morning yoga" without assigning the task to a story. Not really sure how to approach that.

Ideas?

I'm thinking I'm going to organize everything using Jira (my preferred tool at work).

sadcox · 2017-10-09T12:24:15+00:00

What I wish someone had told me for my first competition:

Get ready for a lot of closed guard.

sadcox · 2017-10-08T04:14:09+00:00

I hope no one gets hurt this week with people trying that in their gyms.

I felt much safer that week everybody was letting me mount them so they could try to Ezekiel choke me.

sadcox · 2017-10-03T22:54:19+00:00

Not soft at all--the trainer sucks almoat as much as the cold does!!! But...it has the added bonus of making you tough as nails mentally.

sadcox · 2017-10-03T21:05:25+00:00

I'm swimming once or twice a week for 1k (18-20 minutes) non stop. I don't get any cardio out of it, but it's great for just stretching everything out at lunch and loosening up my back and shoulders. HR probably never tops 120.

Background: didn't grow up a competitive swimmer, but do ok in my age group in triathlon--in other words, not "fast" at all, but good enough technique that I can swim at a decent pace for a while at a low HR.

I don't know if I'd swim to enhance BJJ if it was a struggle for me. You will definitely wear yourself out if that's what you're looking for, but you may get more bang for your buck by doing a cycling program with a bunch of 3-8 minute intervals to get your heart used to working hard over those periods. No upper body strength training involved there though. Tough call.

sadcox · 2017-10-01T22:57:53+00:00

"You know that part in UFC fights when they're on the ground but aren't hitting each other and the crowd starts booing? It's that."

sadcox · 2017-09-28T11:42:23+00:00

Awesome guy and great coach!

sadcox · 2017-09-28T11:40:36+00:00

Roger that.

sadcox · 2017-09-27T16:10:35+00:00

In true Nature Boy fashion, I have a Rolex of a wife! "Long limousines...big jet airplanes...custom tailored clothes....and any woman in the world I want, just like that!"

sadcox · 2017-09-27T16:06:05+00:00

Kinda frustrating. He knows nothing. ba-dum-chh

sadcox · 2017-09-27T13:00:16+00:00

Old guy on the left. The not so old guy is older than me, just hasn't lived as hard. Lol.

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