Kickboxing and jiu jitsu instruction in Augusta

Kickboxing and jiu jitsu instruction in Augusta.

Training Memoirs: Day 38

By: Terrance Daniel Barber

August 10, 2011 at 12:29am

Kickboxing and Jiu jitsu instruction in Augusta

Best kickboxing and Jiu Jitsu instruction in Augusta is at Greubel’s MMA

First day back in Jiu Jitsu and Kickboxing after a long hiatus and it didn’t go so bad.  Had my mouth piece in so I could get used to breathing with it in.

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In  we worked clinch transitions after doing some lunges (shuffle steps for the wrestlers…which was the majority of the class) to warm up the legs and .   First was a self-defense step-in into double underhooks.  First, you put your hands on your eyebrows and palms on your skull (so if you take a strike you don’t get hit with your own hands and you can actually see) and keep your elbows together (so for the next part you don’t catch a knee).  Next you step in (and drop your level) to bump them in the stomach with your elbow to get them off-balance.  Then you break your shield, shoot in and wrap them up in underhooks, your head is on their, and step to the side.  Make sure you bump then hook cause if you try to grab early you can get countered.  Also suck them in to your hip and make sure your hip isn’t poking out or you’ll leave space for them to counter or make your job more difficult.

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Next on the competition side, we learned how to break out of a single neck tie and get a neck tie and elbow control.  First, the neck tie is simply getting a hand om the back of your opponents’ neck (or the base of their skull but I think that’s more for the Thai clinch).  To break it, first you put your forehead to theirs so if they try to pull you down, they go with you.  Next, assuming they grab you with their right (left), you snake your left (right) hand in and grab their neck and step to your right (left).  As you step, you change your grip on their neck from the left (right) as the left (right) will control the elbow.  For elbow control, you grab around their elbow with your thumb in their forearm pit (if that’s a technical term) so they can circle out of it.  Finally, keep your forehead against their temple so you still have control there.

From here, you have three options of taking them down.  First, if you’re already slightly above them, you can step back and snap them down (or to the side) where they land in turtle position.  If you snap straight down, you can get the back by sprawling on top of them, (details get a little fuzzy from here, sorry) control their elbow with one arm, hook around their neck with the other arm and spin to their back.   One thing to note, if you snap straight down, a good wrestler might catch you with a double leg if you’re not careful.   If you snap to the side, they’re already out-of-the-way so all you need to do get their back.  Second option if you’re under them or they’re if they’re big, you can lift their arm up to slide under it.  Your grip on their neck shifts down to their waist and you step to their back and congrats, you have a rear clinch.  Final option, you can go around.   You step to whatever side has control of the neck and that arm scoops around the knee and you can pull them down, use your other arm to trip them etc.   All in all not bad.

In Kickboxing, it was a boxing day.   Think I missed the warm up but first thing was some pros and cons to the boxing stance.  The got is because you sit down on your punches, you get a lot of power out of it and overall the best stance to throw and block punches.  Down side is it leaves the legs exposed for leg kicks and since that’s were most of the punching power comes from, not good but it comes with the territory.  First thing we worked was throwing a jab from the bounce.  I’ve never liked the bounce because I thought it used up too much energy to do constantly but it didn’t…at all.  Still having problems snapping the punch at the end so something to work on.  Next, we worked a one – two, jump back to avoid a counter jab.  The thing that got me with this is I never really turned out completely with my right foot for the two, and when I did, it made it hard to jump back (landed on my ankle one time).  Next, we scoop caught a front kick to step out and counter with the two.  The important thing here is to plant that right foot as you step so you load up for the two.

 

Moving on to some kick defense, we blocked a lead leg roundhouse and countered with a one-two.  You use the meat of your right arm to meet the kick to take some sting off (and off-balance some) as you bounce forward with the one (for distraction) and finish with the two.  For the Thai rear leg roundhouse, you bounce back, and move in with a  double one-two as they finish their spin.  I must admit the double one threw me off.  Just have to make sure I chamber back for each punch.  Finally, last thing we worked was using the catch block to a punch and come in with the one-two.  The important note here was to step back a half step as you catch block to take the sting off the blow (especially if you do it with no gloves) and so you’re still in range to fire back. If you want the best kickboxing and jiu jitsu instruction in

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JUDO CLASSES AUGUSTA

Training Memoirs: Day 21

Judo Classes Augusta

I’m Ready For These Judo Classes Augusta

By: Terrance Barber

May 24, 2011 at 4:59pm

   I’m not gonna lie, yesterday wasn’t an easy day for me, so on top that and training for a kempo tourney (if my money comes in time) I was beat on just about every level of judo wasn’t as smooth as I wanted it to be.

My mind was jumping place to place while I was waiting, but I caught bits and pieces of what the other classes where doing.   Beginners Jiu Jitsu were learning to work a what appeared to be getting a deeper leg triangle by grabbing their opponents opposite arm (from my orientation, you get their left arm).  *WARNING:  This is only what I think I saw and may not be what actually occurred.  Don’t try this at home and seek proper instruction if you wish to learn.*  Intermediate/Advanced Jiu-Jitsu built off of the leg triangle concept into a trap if they try to get out.   Instead of putting your bent leg on the tag of their shirt, you move that leg and put your shin on the same side of their neck (ex: your left leg on *their* left side carotid).  You swing your other leg to their other carotid and act like your legs are the blades on a pair of scissors.

In the boxing ring I saw a girl (Kelli Cooper I believe) from my high school psychology class wrap up and hit the pads like pro.  Tight technique, footwork, the whole thing.  At one point, she put on the pads and was helping to coach Kesha (who leads cardio kickboxing at times and is all around a beastly fighter), helping her tighten up her technique and telling her to get more aggressive.   It was quite shocking (and a little scary) so if you take one thing away from this, learn not to mess with anyone, first to be a good person, and secondly because you never know who could be training at Greubels.

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Now to judo.  It was only me and Andrew (looks like the most senior ranked student).  First thing for the warm up was to learn how to slide your feet (front/back/side-to-side) without picking up your feet (or get swept).  As opposed to a kickboxing or kenpo stance, your feet are fairly close, and often times parallel with each other.  Then I learned (Andrew already knew) how to switch stance during a grapple so you don’t get swept.  Watch the shift in their torso movement and not so much the feet.  Then after that I was a throwing dummy for a bit (me and Andrew where doing different throws for practice and I decided I was gonna focus more on what I had to do) and got more practice breaking a fall (there was one slip up where I landed chest forward and flat.  Gotta love padding).

Judo Throw

My throw (I don’t think I got a name anymore official than a shoulder throw) was to grip the seam of his gi sleeve (underhanded grab on the wrist) and bring your wrist up like you were looking at your watch.  Then step in with your foot in between his legs and shoot your same side arm up under his arm pit and trap it (ex: your right out step should be parallel to his right instep and you shoot up your right arm under his right armpit).  Don’t turn toward the direction you want to throw yet (as you progress, you could have other options at this point).  Once you plan to commit, pin his arm to your chest, circle your other leg around (the left if you’re following the example) and bring it so your feet and knees parallel and close (almost touching) and drop straight down with your back straight.  DO.  NOT.  LOOK.  DOWN.  (Guess what I was doing wrong).   Drop down about under their waist level (but the lower you drop, the easier the throw is on you…trust me).  Try to make your shoulder (the right in my example) touch the ground and you mostly got yourself a throw.

Then is came time to free grapple and I had my heart tested and questioned.  Got taken to the ground a few times and tried to switch to Jiu-Jitsu for a submission (but the point is to get a throw).  I got a reversal at one point I took a few hard slams and after a certain point (between a combination of a lot of things) I didn’t think I could get a throw off.  Sensei Elms called me out on it and not being one to want to disappoint (it wasn’t pretty and I think Andrew let me have it) but I got the throw off.

Definitely learned two things.  1.  Doing what’s right in one context at the wrong time is still the wrong thing.  And 2.  Check your personal problems at the door.  It’ll still be there after the business you need to take care of needs to get done.

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