Session 7-5-09

Three of us to begin with…

2 rds shadow boxing
2 rds sparring savate
We then set up the pads in a corner of the room and did some drills
working on keeping our opponent cornered and also working on covering
and escaping from the corner. We worked on how to deal with swarmers
who do their best to overwhelm.

Our new guy showed up later and we took him through some basic stance
work, how to throw the straight lead and basic footwork. We did some
live drills and pad work after ward to illustrate why we do things the
way we do.

We then threw on our jackets for sambo…
We started with three short rounds of grip/offbalancing work  and then
went into the odbiv or grapevine throw we worked last week. I wanted
to repeat it while it was still fresh and while we were wearing
jackets.

We then took the new guy through some basic throws…back trip, old
mans shoulder throw and sambo single leg.

It is always great to have new people since it gives us an excuse to
go over the basics again.

MMA – SAMBO – JUDO Weekend Clinic Findlay OH July 31-Aug 1

Come and learn from Mark Tripp and other Instructors

Start time: Friday, July 31, 2009 at 7:00pm

End time: Saturday, August 1, 2009 at 5:00pm

I will add more details as I learn of them. Should be a good time. I always enjoy training with Coach Tripp.

Recreational Violence Weekend V

Well we are just a little more than a week away from the fith annual Recreational Violence that we sponsor. Should be a good one this year. Check the RVWeekend website for details.

Session 6-28-09

Three of us today…

Today we did nothing but work on grappling technique. My shoulder is
still a bit iffy so I took it easy yet again.

Just for a change the first half of our session today was spent on
Ott’s wrestling. Alot of this we had already been doing with the sambo
training…just small variations and grip differences but grappling is
grappling for the most part. Sort of nice to work on this after a long
long layoff and to realize that in a way we had still been working on
it.

Working sambo we went without jackets and focused on two throws from a
standing grapevine position or in Russian odbiv. one a simple back
fall and the other a nice rolling throw that ends in a kneebar. We
also worked a counter to this position. We also worked on a few leg
hook take downs.

6-14-09 Session

 

Three of us.

First I had to give a tour of the new property and show of my recntly created armoury:) It is very nice having extra space after being crammed in an apatment for 5 years.

We then threw on our jackets and went right into sambo…

2 rds grip/ofbalancing work

We then were going to do some freestyle bouts but in the first bout between Justin and I, my shoulder popped out during a takedown attempt against Justin…and it refused to go back in. We tried everything to get it back in including vodka, but no dice. After an hour or so we went tot he emergency room and while waiting to see the Dr it popped itself back in.

Needless to say not much of a training session but perhaps seeing and dealing with an injury is a fairly decent learning experience for all involved. Mighty sore today with a sambo seminar that I still want to go to being held on Saturday. I guess we will just have to see how my shoulder is then.

Three of us.

First I had to give a tour of the new property and show of my recntly created armoury:) It is very nice having extra space after being crammed in an apatment for 5 years.

We then threw on our jackets and went right into sambo…

2 rds grip/ofbalancing work

We then were going to do some freestyle bouts but in the first bout between Justin and I, my shoulder popped out during a takedown attempt against Justin…and it refused to go back in. We tried everything to get it back in including vodka, but no dice. After an hour or so we went to the emergency room and while waiting to see the Dr it popped itself back in.

Needless to say not much of a training session but perhaps seeing and dealing with an injury is a fairly decent learning experience for all involved. Mighty sore today with a sambo seminar that I still want to go to being held on Saturday. I guess we will just have to see how my shoulder is then.

Session 5-31-09

This past Sunday mark our last gathering in the LOD…next week we
meet at my new house in the Spare Living Room of Doom until the LOD
mark II is finished. I have much cleaning to do!

We started the session with sambo…
2 rds grip work
1 rd ground engagements with a stability ball as an aid
2 rds of freestyle sambo  with no time limit on the ground.
A short bit of work on sweeps from the bottom.

Next up navaja…we went over some of the concepts from M. Loriega’s
class at ISMAC. The left hand drill, jiro and contrajiro as well as
the recortes. We also did two things using the scorpion tail of the
navaja to break grips on the wrist. Over all very good stuff to work
on with more to come.

We briefly went over some of the Garrote Larense we had done before
and a few new things that Bruno showed at ISMAC.

We then drank beer. It is a tradition to close out a training hall
with a drink, well at least it is for us.

ISMAC 10

Finally felt up to writing a short review of the weekend…..

 

Justin and I rolled in about 14 minutes before 9 on Friday morning…I was scheduled to teach at 9 so we made it at my usual time if not a little earlier. The format was different this time around with some longer classes for the most part and just one track of shorter classes a day.

My first class was taught alongside my old chum Tim Ruzicki. It had the very creative name of ‘punching and kicking’ and that is exactly what we did:) Time and I took turns passing the lead back and forth to each other every 30 minutes or so. I think it went rather well considering neither of us really had a game plan or even a discussion as to what we were going to teach…we have teamed up before so this just felt like an extension of our previous joint ventures. This class was the first 3 hours of a six hour class.

On Friday afternoon I taught an hour and half class on the mountain axe…of course I forgot my good axe at home and I forgot the duct tape to construct some trainers but it all worked out. This is the first time I taught this as a seminar class and I noticed a few tweaks that need to be made to the presentation…but at least no one got brained. I think I need to spend just a bit more time on the concept of movement and theory over rote technique. I look forward to any feedback concerning this class.

After my axe class I took James Loriega’s navaja class…this was a 8 hhour class divided into two 3 hour sessions. I was really happy to see that I was going to have a chance for 6 hours of training with the navaja since it is one of my primary studies in wma. There was some review which is always always welcome but for the most part we did alot of things that we had never worked on before…well at least I had never worked on with James before. We did some excellent work with the scorpion tail of the traditional folding knife and a few really nice things from the clinch. We also got to work some on the recortes and my understanding of the concept was greatly improved over what I was doing on my own…doing the same basic thing but more developed and i got to throw kicks and Tom Badillo…what more could I ask for?

Consumption was at a minimum for me this year and I actually slept decently for a change.

Saturday morning found Tim and I teaching the second half of our striking class followed by me teach combat sambo. The turn out was low for the sambo and I expected as much seeing the the focus seems to be less about groveling on the ground at these sort of events than I would prefer but no matter really since the number of people who attended the class was the absolute max that we could have safely had int he room, it all turned out for the best…and I worked the hell out of them! The afternoon was the second part of the Navaja class.

Justin, kirk and I went out for Thai food on Saturday night…Thai food has been a tradition for me ever since ISMAC 1 in Lansing so very long ago.

Sunday I took it easy and only to Bruno Cruicchi’s class on Garrote Larense during the mid day slot. There was some much needed review of material that we had learned when he visited a few years ago in Ohio. We also learned some new material and talked about the possibly of distance learning via internet web conferences. As always Bruno did a great job.

As anyone knows… goodbyes can drag on for hours at these events, so if I missed anyone please accept this late farewell from me. I had to get back since I not only had some business to attend to but my 14th wedding anniversary was on Monday. As much as I would have liked to stay for Mondays classes it just was not possible this time around.

Overall a great time and a great location…food which was a problem last years seems to have been a minor issue this time around. Everyone either brought food or ordered it ahead of time to avoid the hassles of last year. A big thank you to Jared, Jon and the rest of AoC [especially the runners] for making this another great year.

Session 5-17-09

Just Matt and I today…Justin is on the injured list, and new guy John had a family thing. We will be back on schedule in two weeks hopefully.

We started by going over the saber material we learned from Randal last week. I retained more of it than I thought so that is always a good thing. We also reviewed some of the longsword material and mountain axe as well.

We then threw on our jackets for some sambo

1 rd grip work

3 rds freestyle sambo

We then worked on about 5 or 6 concepts from combative sambo, throwing, striking and submissions…blending ti all together.

This coming weekend ISMAC…see you there, assuming you all are going:)

Session 5-10-09

We were paid a visit by our friendly RMA/JDP instructor Randal Gustitis this weekend. Saturday he and I traded navaja instruction for Cossack saber instruction and managed to play with axes and rapiers and everything in between, spending 4 or 5 hours in the LOD.

Sunday we started the training early at about 1 PM going over the saber material from Saturday and spending about 3 hours on it even though it seemed fly by.

We had a new guy start this week, very nice and very enthusiastic yet safety conscious, which is always a relief. He is open minded but very interested in Medieval martial arts so we spent a good amount of time with Randal leading us through some German longsword basics….we then went over a few of the things we do at NEOHEMAS so he could get a glimpse of the sort of thing he was in store for…we failed to scare him off.

We then played just a few bouts of singlestick. We ended the session with a quick run through of Polish saber technique from Randal.

This whole weekend had more of a mini-seminar like feel to it and we got alot of great new material to work on with the saber plus my mountain axe understanding was added to since there seems to be a good deal of crossover material….definitely saw things done with the saber that I was already doing with the axe. I would have to say my understanding of why I am doing some of the things I do with the axe has been greatly increased just this weekend. I have to say that my brain is a bit mushy right now though and I feel like I have an information hangover…I will need a few days to recover.

Session 4-26-09

Right into sambo today 2 rds grip offbalancing work 3 rds freestyle sambo We then went over a bunch of the material we learned at Coach Tripp’s sambo workshop we attended last weekend. I am always amazed at how much I don’t remember…we did manage to remember some material though just would like 100% retention! We stayed Russian and worked Russian style punching and power generation for about 20 minutes and topped it off with 2 rds of sparring. Really did not go very long in this session, too much sun the day before for everyone involved. I have been hitting the solo training pretty hard last week and this week as well so far. Lots of kettlebell and ROM work plus many many rds of shadow boxing and shadow grappling as well as working several different weapons into the mix.