Thursday 9 27 GOLDS GYM JUDO

Ok so we met up for a workout at golds gym. me timmy and matty

we were kinda aiming to keep it on the short side and did ok with that. the intensity was definately high. I had a sweat going the whole time and was very comfortable with it.

first we did 3mins of uchi komi each. I focused a lot on uchimata.

i snuck some extra rounds in with matt when timmy needed a break.

the we did 2 mins of atack/counter attack we did that a few times

then in between those 2 mins we would do newaza with matt.

did that a few times then did gripfighting rounds 2 mins

in between grip fighting we would do newaza with matt

then we did ashiwaza randori and inbetween we would do newaza with matt

i also did some burpees.. these whooped me good.. got to do more of them.

then we finished all doing newaza.

ok so thats what we did. I really want to workout like this more and more. the old way of just doing static uchikomi is not what i want to do. i want to do more workouts like this and like chris runs. I need to make that happen too.

the uchikomi was good.. i feel my technique is ok. the newaza was def. good. i need to use that in the tournament. take people to teh mat. either tire them out a bit, make them worry or just beat them.

my grip fighting is good.. def. made some improvements against tim today gripping.

gonna do it all again tonite at golds.. sat might be an off day... well i get something in like a run or something..

Wed sept 26 YMCA

Ok I wanted to get as much cardio type stuff in today and i wanted to get alot of clydes drills in again so people would remember them and we can keep focusing on them. we started with the following partner drills:

attack/counter attack
combinations

then we went on to do a bunch of 2min newaza rounds

then a bunch of 1min grip fighting randori

at this point the instructor got to class.. it was about 825 or so.. we talked a lot about some upcoming events and then got back into newaza rounds.. these were nto timed and went much longer.. i went one real long round with stephen.

i think i also went with tim

then we did standing.. i went with a bunch of kids and mike.. not sure about anyone else..

so i really didnt get much in after the drills.. im really liking them and hope to do them at the next workout i have with Matt and tim.

it was cool cause those drills are real new to the YMCA crowd but i could already see some improvements in there randori after doing them.

in other news at west point on oct 27 there is a 2day judo clinic that will focus on partner drills.. strange.. coincidence..who cares it should be awesome.

ive been dieting real hard for the east coasts and im now within 'suana' range. i still want to get abit lower just to make things easier but being this close this far out is nice.. it will allow me to eat better after workouts which makes things much nicer.

Another blog worth reading

not that my blog is worth reading but if you got another minute or two in your day..

check out Matt's Blog here http://mmarcinek.blogspot.com/

Matt is one of my best friends and training partners.

PMJC

PMJC

another great workout at Chris Costellos Judo club: Pocono Mountain Judo Club. Just incase anyone is reading this and has a free saturday or tuesday and is within a driving distance to stroudsburg, pa I highly advise stopping by if you want to improve your sport judo.

anyway. we did some choke drills, some armlock drills and chris really helped me with the arm lock drill and that got me to help myself had some of my best transitions. really focused on controlling the arms quickly with my legs/hips!!!

crash pad i worked uchimata its coming along but i wil probably never use it in a tourny.. oh well.

newaza. first i went with tim. I can honestly say that we have both improved a ton in newaza. which is why i was so happy when i got an armlock on him. after that he stayed on the attack and i was able to defend. we go back and forth in randori basically someone gets guard and is the attacker and the other one is looking to pass guard. my guard passing is getting much better.. i pulled off a sweet guard pass. if you want to see a vid of the guard pass i used check out this vid i posted on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqrpD1kP73g

then randori.

Tony: got some seonages a right uchimata to left kataguruma and a huge tegurama type throw... kinda stealing this from ryan reser

Tim: still having trouble getting off righty attacks on tim. i avoided 1 tomonage, got throw with 1 or 2 HUGE uchimatas but i got him with 1 guruma gake.. endurance and mental focus was a big issue during this fight

louis: i survived!!!!! seriously thats enough when you fight this guy. i got 1 seonage to kouchi and almost got a teguruma and a kataguruma.

brent: got some seonages, a teguruma and a nich uchimata to kataguruma.

Great Great Great judo workout!!!

Monday YMCA

ok i new i wasnt sure how much time i would have so i started things quick. we did partner uchikomi drills again. Moving attacks, counter attacks, and random attacks. then we went and did a bunch of newaza and then randori.

this workout had me smoked. I ran the first half of class and kept it very aerobic to say the least.. everyone was sweating good. i also kept the kids together for the most part, I stayed with tim and then had everyone else switch on there own. last time i tried these advanced type drills the partner switching was becoming a problem so i just eliminated it.

I did a lot of randori. forget details but recently ive been getting seonage, guruma/gake, and te guruma. ive been working on an ouchi-kosoto, tomonage and uchimata.

i also fought nonstop..normally that wouldnt even get to me but i was hurtin by the end of class.. i hope the endurance comes back quick

PMJC

Ok so I really cant remember anything about this workout. Sorry.. i know it breaks your heart.

I read matts blog http://mmarcinek.blogspot.com/ and then remembered that we did some partner drills and i worked uchimata.

ohhhhh K now its coming back.. this is the night i hurt my neck.. sucked.. i had to take 6 days off because of this. but i feel pretty good now.

Monday at the Y

Ok I found out I was going to run the whole class on monday. So basically I just did as many of the drills we did at Clydes with this club.

It was kinda difficult the main problem was switching partners. we have a much different mix then at clydes so that slowed it down a bit but we got a lot in.

speed uchikomi, moving uchikomi, counter attacks, random attacks, newaza, tachiwaza.

Best Saturday ever

Ok this is super late but I needed to get back into blogging again

anyway September 22 was a great day. tons of judo

started out at clydes and it was a great workout. he showed me some drills that i have never done before and they were great. we did:

speed uchikomi: 10 reps as fast as you can.. partner does 10 repeat
Counter attack: partner attacks.. as he exists you enter for attack ... repeat
combination uchikomi: you attack then follow up that attack
moving uchikomi: moving around trying your favorite throw then partner goes
random uchikomi: clyde would yell out 1 or 2 at random when he yelled your number you attack if he called the other number your partner would attack

then we did newaza, grip fighting, ashiwaza randori and then standing randori

ridiculous the gripping to ashi waza had me pukey..

good stuff



then we ate and drove back to PMJC in stroudsburg and had another workout

this one was killin me but i made it through.

cant remember details but i know i hit a bunch of tegurumas. i need to get these more.

I teach at the Y

Wed YMCA

Ok no instructor so I ran the show. First I paired everyone off and had them work there favorite technique. I let the 4 kids get a few sets of osoto gari in. After that I taught them Sasae Tsuri Komi Ashi. At first it was rough but then they all got it.

I got like 20 uchikomi in if that.. figured i wouldnt get to practice for a long time while trying to teach a new throw and while trying to help everyone else. George had some nice questions regarding his harai and his makikomi. He also fought really good that nite.

Ok so then we moved onto the fighting.

I shouldve written this earlier but oh well...

I didnt fight tim.. my leg was hurtin so skipped that...

George: he fought really good.. nice and intense but more controlled and more attacks with movement.. he just needs 1or2 more things to click and he will be doing great. only 1 score and that was when i got him with a lil guruma gake

fought dana/vito/brandon/jen/tank/aaron/steve all of them are improving..

dana is attacking more and fighting very hard

vito is coming along smoothly

brandon is doing more upright judo and starting to relax and play more..spaz less..he had a real nice pin escape last nite against me.. unfortunately for him.. good for me is that i transitioned right into a triangle..

Jen is attacking more.. doing more upright judo less counters.. still goo matwork..

tank is working harder.. has a few throws now.. really likes judo and is even paying attention a bit more.. hes like 7 ...

aaron.. i almost felt bad.. almost.. i threw this kid really really fast. with a ridiculous taio.. didnt mean to.. he was way relazed.. and i really had a nice setup.. but his ukemi was perfect.. then he turned it up and got some nice scores as well...

steve same.. doing better paying attention more trying harder.. all good things

ok sorry its jumbled and stinky.. just wanted to get it out

PMJC

PMJC

PMJC is Judo. It is the best thing I have been a part of for a long time. Everyone there has improved SO much it is impossible to describe. From the 'lowest' rank there Frank a 40-50yr old yellow belt to the instructor Chris Costello. Everyone today is much much more effective then they were a year ago. The club has change a bunch but mainly stayed the same.

Last night I got to talk to Chris a bit about some things with my training and I am really excited about trying his approach out and see how it works.

Anyway..

Newaza Uchikomi. Chris walked us through a little newaza clinic yesterday. Showed about 5-10 chokes when someone is turtled and 5-10 turnovers when someone is turtled. Real good stuff!!!

Chris's philosophy in matt work is just to keep it fast and simple. Judo is Not Brazilian JuJitsu. In judo you have only a few seconds on the ground to get things going if you are ot really progressing after 3 - 5 seconds you will get stood up. So all the techniques were based around this principle.

Newaza Randori:

Chris: 1st time after a bit I messed up he passed my guard and then pinned me. 2nd time he passed.. i kept half guard and went between half guard and him taking my back..sortof.. for like 5mins.. no subs or pins though..

Matt:ok it mightve been luck.. i mightve been ON or matt mightve been a bit off but if not.. i think i made some serious progress in my armlocks last nite. Ive ALWAYS for YEARS AND YEARS now have had problems with my armlocks.. normally my legs are not controlling the person.. well last nite i switched up how i had my legs and i felt much much stronger. I hope its something real.. not some luck or what not.. lets see.

Randori: just some highlights...

Chris didnt throw me :) thats an accomplishment..

Fought Tim 2x he got another sumigaeshi, a nice uchimata to kouchi and who knows what else... I did get a nice guruma gake and maybe something else.

Matt: threw me left sided.. with like an ankle pick/teguruma... ive never had matt try to throw me lefty.. maybe he shoudl try more lefty stuff?????

Dana: I got some tomonages against her.. its starting to make sense!!!

fought a bunch more.. good stuff

Monday YMCA

Monday YMCA

Ok the instructor was not going to show up so I was going to run the show at the Y

We had a new kid show up so up so first I taught him osoto gari and let him work on that.

UchiKomi: worked some footsweeps,tomonage and some guruma gake and well i think thats it.

Fighting: I brought out the interval timer. Normally at the Y you have LOOOOONG fights... you never know how long either until someone drops out or the instructor decides to switch... well

Thats not the way I train at PMJC or at Golds Gym Judo. I feel that having a set time is much more efficient and just fits in better with how I want to train. So we set the timer at 3 mins. I told everyone to keep the pace up and fight hard for 3 mins.

I fought everyone except some of the females and kids.. i just didnt get to them but they all fought.. and yes.. for the TANK fan club.. tank got a bunch of fights in and is doing real well...

I worked a lot on foot sweeps and ankle picks.. and i will continue to until east coast.

I got John with a few seonages which was nice because he has been avoiding them

I got Doc G with a TeGuruma and a seonage

Got Tim with 1 or 2 throws but cant remember.. he got me with sumigaeshi

welll thats about it..Ill be teaching again wednesday so im gonna come up with some cool stuff and see how it goes.. oh and lots of fighting..

Friday Golds Gym Judo

SORRY... for the lack of posts recently.. i had to take some time away for personal/business stuff.. ill be updating the blog and try to stay more consistent.

Friday Golds Gym Judo

This was my first workout back after the tournament. I had banged myself up pretty good during the tournament ant ended up taking 5 days off...

It was strange at first.. so many different things going through my mind and there were so many things I wanted to work on.. anyway we switched it up a bit at golds gym for this one.

We started with UchiKomi. Practicing our throws. I did a bunch of seonage, seonage to kouchi, seonage to armlock, foot sweeps and kataguruma.

We did a few rounds of that and then we did a new drill for us .. it wasnt randori (fighting) and it wasnt just throwing.. we were throwing and moving with some resistance so it was kinda like 1 sided randori but going against someone who was only going like 30-50% give or take. this let you get a good idea of peoples reactions, let you realize how you will actually hit the throw in competition and give you a better sense or feel of whats going on. I really liked this drill and will add more and more of it when i train with good players.

Then we did mat work and then randori.

The mat work was good.. my first round with tim I stayed on the offensive so got to work a lot of that.. the 2nd round with tim he was on the offensive and i played a lot of defense.

Matt: Ive been focusing on armlocking mat as much as possible.. i should say trying to armlock matt as much as possible. My chokes on him just arent working mainly because he is just too tough strong and can just resist.. i dunno...now trying to armlock him is no picnic either if he clasps his arms together it aint happenin.. but that has forced me to get quicker and quicker and stay very very tight so there is no room or time for him to defend. They are coming along.

I honestly dont remember too much about the standing fights....

I was just real glad to get backon the mat.. we did a bunch of 'verbal' judo too.. just talking about transitions.. different attacks and mainly just getting ready and setting a plan up for east coasts which is about a month away...

Tournament recap...

Ok so the tournament is over. I Wish I could have 30 seconds of it back. I did ok/good/decent. I took 2nd place in my division. I really dont know what to say my standing game, throws and gripping was not on the level I want it to be. I did do good on the mat but even there I let a few armlocks go and a a few pins that shouldve ended matches my opponents escaped. not good. In the gold medal match I let 2 armlocks slip away and 1 pin. I also secured a choke... out of bounds. when you have that many opportunities to win you have to take advantage of it or else.. or else you will get thrown and loose. plain and simple.. 2nd place for me.

I am hoping it was just lack of intensity.. i took this tournament very lightly just as a tune up for east coasts (1 month away) That is a very very poor reason for losing but that is something that is easier to correct that just being a stinky judo player.. which i hope I am not.

So what now... thats all ive been thinking about.. First I have to rest up.. i got dumped onmy shoulder.. it is getting a little better and I hope to start working out by mid week...

After thats its 1 month of high intensity training..no more instructor Judo as Chris calls it.. Chris, PMJC head instructor, tells me and tim that instructor judo is one of our biggest weaknesses... I spend so much time on the mat fighting very lightly and going like 20-50% against people that I end up not going 100% at tournaments.

I didnt dominate the grips... i wasnt intense enough both physically and mentally to control the pace of the match.. everything i was yelling to my players while coaching.. gripping, setups, combos.. is what i lacked this day...

dont know what else to say really..

Personal Junk: ahh never mind.. no one cars.. more fight stuff soon... more training.. soon... and more vids soon