At the Crystal Fight Club in Crystal, Mn we are offering Brazilian Jiu Jitsu classes for kids ten years and older. The classes are Monday and Wednesday nights from 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.We are also a team of MMA fighters. If you are looking for a place to train in order to be a cage fighter, we are your gym. We have classes in Muay Thai from a European kick boxing champion. We have classes in BJJ from coaches who have competed in world championships. And we offer classes in an extremely practical martial art called Catch as Catch Can. We are the only MMA gym in Minnesota to have an expert in Catch Wrestling.
For more information please visit our website at Crystal Fight Club - The Ultimate MMA Training
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and MMA Classes (Crystal, Mn)
Friday, February 4, 2011
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“It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.”
“It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.” Sunday, January 30, 2011
One of the most fun displays of BJJ
Check out this video of Cameron and DJ at the 2010 Battle of H-Town. They are both Team Tooke MMA students and this finals match ended up being a master-class on Jiu JitsuYouTube - Houston Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Competition- Battle of H-Town F
Looks like they are horsing around and having fun.
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Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Video: Breathing
Ever since I started training, I’ve always paid close attention to breath control and my breathing patterns while grappling. This Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu video provides some details which have helped me and my students.
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Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Techniques: Grips
This video shows you how to grip effectively when performing your Brazilian jiu-jitsu techniques.
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Thursday, January 13, 2011
Flow Diagrams for Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
Right at the start of my grappling career, I stumbled across this flow chart of Rickson Gracie’s on the web:
This gives a pretty good insight into the way Rickson thinks. As you can see, his whole game is based around the mount position.
Over the years, I have used flow diagrams a lot. These flow charts are a very effective training tool because they instantly let you see where there are gaps in your technical knowledge. Also, just the act of sitting down and making the chart consolidates all your knowledge and reminds you of moves and techniques you may have forgotten.
Types of Flow Diagrams
Because jiu-jitsu was created around positional strategy, I personally like to create my flow charts around certain positions, i.e. mount, or closed guard. But there’s nothing to stop you for creating more specific diagrams around particular sweeps, submissions or whatever.
Below I have included a very basic closed-guard flow diagram. I usually do my flow charts freehand, but this time I digitized one of them so it’s easier for you guys to read. Unfortunately, It came out a little small – click on the image to enlarge it.
So you can see that when I’m fighting from my closed guard, my main strategy is to try to break my opponent’s posture.
How Specific?
If you have a large enough piece of paper, there is no limit to how specific (or broad) you can be with your flow diagrams. As you become more skilled and your depth of technical knowledge increases, the natural progression will be an increase in the complexity of your flow diagrams.
In my opinion, creating flow Diagrams for Brazilian jiu-jitsu is a much more effective method than regular note taking. If I were any good at drawing, I’d even add in little sketches to each of steps in flow diagram.
Let me know if this has helped you, and if you have any tips of your own for making flow diagrams.
Tags: Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Techniques
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Conditioning
One of the questions I am often asked at seminars is “What is Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu conditioning training like?” In an earlier post, I spoke of “attribute maximization”. This article will discuss specific ways to condition and prepare the body for jiu-jitsu.
I believe that the most important question you need to ask yourself when doing any training to improve your grappling is “Why am I doing this?”. For example, let’s say you are doing a session consisting of jumping jacks, sprints and pull ups. Why are you doing those exercises? How will the they aid you, specifically, on the mat. If you can’t answer that question about your workouts or even each specific exercise, then you need to reevaluate what you’re doing. Below I give a general overview of the exercises I engage in and, more importantly, why I use them.
Climbing
At this point, I have found no better compliment to my jiu-jitsu training than climbing. The improvement in grip strength alone is worth the effort. After about 6 months of rock-climbing once per week I noticed a major increase in my forearm and finger strength.
A study on bone density between two control groups, one of weightlifters and one of rock climbers, found that the climbers had far higher levels of bone density. Obviously, increased bone density is invaluable to a jiu-jitsoka.
Climbing enhances strength, balance and weight distribution. What more could a jiu-jitsu fighter want? It’s fun as hell too.
Best for: Grip Strength
Bodyweight exercises such as the alligator increase all physical attributesSwimming
Swimming is great for jiu-jitsu. In my opinion it’s far superior to running as a form of conditioning because there is no impact on the ankles, knees and hips. It lengthens and strengthens the muscles and opens up the back and shoulders – areas of the body which often tighten up after a lot of grappling.
It’s also excellent for breath control and strengthens the heart and lungs. It promotes rhythm and, when done at a slow pace ,will help with over-training and recovery.
Best for: Cardiovascular Fitness
Resistance Training with Equipment
The beauty of using equipment is that is allows great control over the resistance variable of the exercise. When I use weights and kettlebells I tend to focus on compound, multi-joint movements such as full squats, barbell rows and Turkish get-ups. Using rubber cables/strands is also very effective as they more accurately simulate the tensile strength of an opponent.
Best for: Explosive Power, Muscle-specific strengthening
Gymnastic / Bodyweight Training
If you wanted to, you could get in shape to grapple without ever using a pool, weight, cable or any other equipment for that matter.
Moving the body through space using push ups, squats and pull ups is a challenging and effective way to build strength and/or endurance. At the more challenging end of the spectrum, gymnastic style movements such as handstands and bridging develop pretty much every attribute. The animals drills are also great for co-ordination and agility.
At the moment I am working with unilateral movements such as pistol squats and one-arm push-ups because I feel they offer the superior functional strength for jiu-jitsu.
Best for: Agility, Core Strength
Yoga
Yoga is the most widely practiced exercise system in the world. Rickson Gracie is a yoga master, and without question that plays a role in his incredible mat skills.
Regular yoga practice strengthens your muscles, massages your internal organs and calms your mind. But to me, the biggest benefit derived from yoga is flexibility. It increases lubrication of joints, ligaments and tendons and corrects muscular-skeletal imbalances that can affect your health and and jiu-jitsu performance. I don’t do as much yoga as I should, but when I have time I tend to prefer the more dynamic, physical styles such as Astanga.
Oh yeah, there are loads of hot girls in yoga classes too…
Best for: Flexibility
I hope this has helped some of you. I would love to hear from you guys regarding the training methods you employ to make yourselves better jiu-jitsokas.
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