Scary Monsters

a good walk , and a kettlebell session

Lovely walk around mt eden , some kettlebell presses

big session f the year

Darren deadlifts 180 kg for 2 (ACK!!)

Chris deads 90 kg (cant remember reps but was a solid set)

I squatted 160 4 10
then 165 4 2
then 170 for a single

great progression for all this year

bjj , warm ujp and rolling , lightish session

BJJ

killer warmup , they refer to it as a warm up , but I think tis specifically designed to kill . lots of line work shrimping variations , squat jump sprawl combos , oh and ……

Paulo thought abs would be a good idea , with 17 folks in class each choosing one excercise of 100 reps , yup 1700 repititions and over an hour later we started training ….. only one mistake so we only did 50 jump sprawls to finish …… well as many as I could get out … why does the body not work anymore ……

awesome work ethic , and tough group , yeah I did stop , but then start , then stop and start , basically you just keep pushing through . The body is already adapting but have a long way to go .

the dexterity these guys have in use of there core muscles is astounding , Im not weak in that department , but cannot fire so individually and effeceintly im just too specialised , and just do not have the skills , very muching learning to walk again . Did find some usefull crossover from the grapplers toolbox work though with quad hops etc , was very good at a similar cariation in the warm up

Class was good , very interesting guard pass variation , involving the arms and upper body and sprawling out the legs , some good instruction , tips and rolling was fun .

exhausted but elated , will not pretend this sint one of the hardest things ive ever done .

but feel great 2day , even if a little sore .

knife work with Dazzle , and some overhead pressing

taking it wasy and resting the side

but still squats

160 kg for 8 reps

Staurday Uehci style knife work with Darren , supposedly light … ended up hard including the ground and weapons ….

thursday Juijitsu

apart from the warm up that left me dead …….

mostly gi chokes utilising your own gi , somewhat juijitsu specific , but was suprisingly usefull conceptually , good informaion on isolating and as said , chopping the tree down , and tips on improvising , rolled well , getting good feedback , working a lot on guard as a transition , fighting from sitting position and not so much on the back (when dominated) .

fun , physically tough , going better than expected technically .

Friday

Shoulder press on the machine , 100 KG 4 8 Reps

have definately got some muscle damage in my side the core is just beat up right now ……

Juijitsu , warm up killed me , working on fitness , will get there

did sweeps , scissor sweep and single leg sweep , transition to scarf and choke to side control ,rolled a few times , another good session