Cool highlight of Jiu-Jitsu techniques as demonstrated by the legend that is Vinicius Magalhaes (Draculino)
Wednesday 24 November 2010
Thursday 14 October 2010
Submission: Gogoplata
I havent had chance to do a submission of the month for a while so this months will be the gogoplata. Here is a definition from Wikipedia
"The gogoplata is executed from a guard, commonly from a "rubber guard", where the legs are held very high against the opponent's upper back. The fighter then slips one foot in front of the opponent's head and under his chin, locks his hands behind the opponent's head, and chokes the opponent by pressing his shin or instep against the opponent's trachea. A variation called a Locoplata is when the bottom man uses his free foot to push up on the choking foot and increase pressure."
In my opinion this defintion is some what lacking and credit should go to one of the pioneers of the gogoplata Nino Schrembi. Here Nino demonstrates the Gogoplata:
Here Ryan Hall finishes a No-Gi grappling match with the submission:
The gogoplata has also been used effectively in MMA. Shinya Aoki perfomred his first successful gogoplata in MMA on Joachim Hansen at PRIDE Shockwave 2006 and his first successful mounted gogoplata on Katsuhiko Nagata at DREAM 4. Former UFC Heavyweight fighter Brad Imes calls himself "Mr. Gogoplata", after winning two matches in a row with the maneuver. Nick Diaz defeated Takanori Gomi using the gogoplata at Pride 33, only to have the victory changed to a NC due to positive test for marijuana in the post-fight drug screen. Here is Nick Diaz doing what he does best:
"The gogoplata is executed from a guard, commonly from a "rubber guard", where the legs are held very high against the opponent's upper back. The fighter then slips one foot in front of the opponent's head and under his chin, locks his hands behind the opponent's head, and chokes the opponent by pressing his shin or instep against the opponent's trachea. A variation called a Locoplata is when the bottom man uses his free foot to push up on the choking foot and increase pressure."
In my opinion this defintion is some what lacking and credit should go to one of the pioneers of the gogoplata Nino Schrembi. Here Nino demonstrates the Gogoplata:
Here Ryan Hall finishes a No-Gi grappling match with the submission:
The gogoplata has also been used effectively in MMA. Shinya Aoki perfomred his first successful gogoplata in MMA on Joachim Hansen at PRIDE Shockwave 2006 and his first successful mounted gogoplata on Katsuhiko Nagata at DREAM 4. Former UFC Heavyweight fighter Brad Imes calls himself "Mr. Gogoplata", after winning two matches in a row with the maneuver. Nick Diaz defeated Takanori Gomi using the gogoplata at Pride 33, only to have the victory changed to a NC due to positive test for marijuana in the post-fight drug screen. Here is Nick Diaz doing what he does best:
Tuesday 31 August 2010
Cobrinha Seminar 2010 GB Mansfield
As most of you know I am a big fan of Rubens Charles Maciel(aka Cobrinha) and when I found out that he was visiting the UK to perform a series of seminars for Champ Camp, I was the first in line for my ticket. As, I currently train at Victor Estima's and his associated clubs I attended the Mansfield date on Sun 29th August.
I went to bed early on the 28th and as soon as I hit my head on the pillow 'bang' my nose started to run like a tap. It may have been all the excitement but I woke up feeling like crap and I knew that man flu was imminent, typical. If it was any other training session I would have taken the day off but I was not going to miss this for the world.
After a quick breakfast and a good old moan, we set off nice and early to Mansfield. With some Niki Lauder style driving and a clear run down the M1, we arrived a good 30 minutes before the seminar started. Walking through the door I immediately recognised Cobrinha and his Morrissey style quiff, and I have to say he was alot smaller than I thought he was. Strangely the first thing that popped into my mind was not BJJ related but infact related to Capoeria. Unfortunatley I was unable to pluck up the courage to ask him to show me some Capoeria or to get him to give my brother some tips on his 'jenga'. In hindsight it was probably a good job I didn't as my bros 'jenga' is stiff and unrhymthmic to say the least.
Signing the waver form hoping nothing too bad would happen ;-) I went to get changed and hid a few pieces of tissue up the sleeve of my rash guard, not for some Paul Daniels style magic, no, but in case of a nose running emergency, classy. Walking into the dojo I was greeted by many familiar faces from BJJ School, Eamonn Madden, Jackson Fortunado and Daniel Agard. Now I am pretty envious of the BJJ school guys as not only do they get to train with Cobrinha at every date on his UK tour but recently it would seem many top names in the BJJ world such as Terrere have been popping into their club for a visit. Occasionally I get chance to get a sneaky session in at BJJ school. I am always made to feel welcome there and everytime I visit I manage to get a tough roll in, especially with Daniel Agard who has some slick Jiu-Jitsu. Today I think Daniel thought he was seeing double, as it was the first time he had met my brother. Now for some strange reason people think my bro and myself look a like, but for the record he is ginger and I am not (joke). We do have a very similar BJJ game though.
Here is a pic of my bro, Cobrinha and myself:
Nearing the start of the seminar the place began to fill up nicely with people from a variety of different teams across the UK. I saw a large contingent from Alliance UK and Nottingham BJJ as well as people from GB Brum and even further a field. As usual I nearly missed the start of the seminar as I was having a good chin wag and moan to Adam from GB Leeds. The Paxman brothers have started to call me "the Jaw"for some reason, heaven knows why.
The session started with a quick introduction and a warm up. The warm up involved 2 variations of a single leg take down. It was at this moment I wished I had done some more stretching and gentle exercise before hand instead of chin wagging. After plenty of drilling and without further hesitation we went straight into the techniques. The subject focus of the Mansfield seminar was on guard passing, specifically passing the Spider and DLR guard (note the subject focus for the Manchester and London seminars were different). Cobrinha gave some nice little details on each of the techniques. I could see many similarities in his game to Andre Galvao, Lucas Lepri and Terrere, which he must have learnt from his time spent at the TT school (or so I would like to think). One thing I did notice with Cobrinha is that he made everything look easy and his movement and ability to predict peoples reactions was great.
To finish off the session we were told to pair up with someone we hadn't sparred with before. I was paired with Lee (Livingstone)head instructor at Nottingham BJJ. I could feel energy levels falling little by little. Now usually my cardio is great and I am the last person on the mat but after my first roll I felt very queasy. Not only due to the fact that Lee is good and I was feeling rough from my cold but the round turned out to be 20 minutes long. Now if I had known that I would have paced myself a little better. Wanting to spar further but feeling like I was going to be sick I sat out and watched the next few rounds (which weren't as long). Luckily I had other's keeping me company on the side lines. Victor was feeling a little under the weather today also, but I am not surprised with the arrival of a new baby and all kinds of viruses/colds going round the club. We watched the final rolls intently and there was some really good technical Jiu-Jitsu on show. A special mention has to go to 'David5' who was grappling in one shiny golden football shin pad. This was due to a bruised shin that he suffered at the hands of Jody "the Axeman' Paxman.
Below, chilling near the end of sparring:
At the end my bro managed to get a minute roll with the man himself, which made me slightly envious, but hey I couldn't complain as I was feeling rough. Unfortunately Jamie aka Young Roger Gracie cut short (no pun intended) Cobrinhas rolling when he caught him with an accidental knee to the lip. A few pieces of tissue were needed to mop up the blood and Cobrinha managed to survive his time in Mansfield relativley unscaved.
Below are the Paxman bro's with Cobrinha and Victor (If you look closely on the picture below Cobrinha is sucking in his bottom lip to hide the cut):
The seminar was brought to a close by a photo session and certificate presentation. Overall a great seminar with people from all different clubs. Just goes to show the unity of the UK BJJ scence.
Thanks for taking the time to read my boring 'school boy diary like' report.
Until next time Movimento Lento blog followers.
I went to bed early on the 28th and as soon as I hit my head on the pillow 'bang' my nose started to run like a tap. It may have been all the excitement but I woke up feeling like crap and I knew that man flu was imminent, typical. If it was any other training session I would have taken the day off but I was not going to miss this for the world.
After a quick breakfast and a good old moan, we set off nice and early to Mansfield. With some Niki Lauder style driving and a clear run down the M1, we arrived a good 30 minutes before the seminar started. Walking through the door I immediately recognised Cobrinha and his Morrissey style quiff, and I have to say he was alot smaller than I thought he was. Strangely the first thing that popped into my mind was not BJJ related but infact related to Capoeria. Unfortunatley I was unable to pluck up the courage to ask him to show me some Capoeria or to get him to give my brother some tips on his 'jenga'. In hindsight it was probably a good job I didn't as my bros 'jenga' is stiff and unrhymthmic to say the least.
Signing the waver form hoping nothing too bad would happen ;-) I went to get changed and hid a few pieces of tissue up the sleeve of my rash guard, not for some Paul Daniels style magic, no, but in case of a nose running emergency, classy. Walking into the dojo I was greeted by many familiar faces from BJJ School, Eamonn Madden, Jackson Fortunado and Daniel Agard. Now I am pretty envious of the BJJ school guys as not only do they get to train with Cobrinha at every date on his UK tour but recently it would seem many top names in the BJJ world such as Terrere have been popping into their club for a visit. Occasionally I get chance to get a sneaky session in at BJJ school. I am always made to feel welcome there and everytime I visit I manage to get a tough roll in, especially with Daniel Agard who has some slick Jiu-Jitsu. Today I think Daniel thought he was seeing double, as it was the first time he had met my brother. Now for some strange reason people think my bro and myself look a like, but for the record he is ginger and I am not (joke). We do have a very similar BJJ game though.
Here is a pic of my bro, Cobrinha and myself:
Nearing the start of the seminar the place began to fill up nicely with people from a variety of different teams across the UK. I saw a large contingent from Alliance UK and Nottingham BJJ as well as people from GB Brum and even further a field. As usual I nearly missed the start of the seminar as I was having a good chin wag and moan to Adam from GB Leeds. The Paxman brothers have started to call me "the Jaw"for some reason, heaven knows why.
The session started with a quick introduction and a warm up. The warm up involved 2 variations of a single leg take down. It was at this moment I wished I had done some more stretching and gentle exercise before hand instead of chin wagging. After plenty of drilling and without further hesitation we went straight into the techniques. The subject focus of the Mansfield seminar was on guard passing, specifically passing the Spider and DLR guard (note the subject focus for the Manchester and London seminars were different). Cobrinha gave some nice little details on each of the techniques. I could see many similarities in his game to Andre Galvao, Lucas Lepri and Terrere, which he must have learnt from his time spent at the TT school (or so I would like to think). One thing I did notice with Cobrinha is that he made everything look easy and his movement and ability to predict peoples reactions was great.
To finish off the session we were told to pair up with someone we hadn't sparred with before. I was paired with Lee (Livingstone)head instructor at Nottingham BJJ. I could feel energy levels falling little by little. Now usually my cardio is great and I am the last person on the mat but after my first roll I felt very queasy. Not only due to the fact that Lee is good and I was feeling rough from my cold but the round turned out to be 20 minutes long. Now if I had known that I would have paced myself a little better. Wanting to spar further but feeling like I was going to be sick I sat out and watched the next few rounds (which weren't as long). Luckily I had other's keeping me company on the side lines. Victor was feeling a little under the weather today also, but I am not surprised with the arrival of a new baby and all kinds of viruses/colds going round the club. We watched the final rolls intently and there was some really good technical Jiu-Jitsu on show. A special mention has to go to 'David5' who was grappling in one shiny golden football shin pad. This was due to a bruised shin that he suffered at the hands of Jody "the Axeman' Paxman.
Below, chilling near the end of sparring:
At the end my bro managed to get a minute roll with the man himself, which made me slightly envious, but hey I couldn't complain as I was feeling rough. Unfortunately Jamie aka Young Roger Gracie cut short (no pun intended) Cobrinhas rolling when he caught him with an accidental knee to the lip. A few pieces of tissue were needed to mop up the blood and Cobrinha managed to survive his time in Mansfield relativley unscaved.
Below are the Paxman bro's with Cobrinha and Victor (If you look closely on the picture below Cobrinha is sucking in his bottom lip to hide the cut):
The seminar was brought to a close by a photo session and certificate presentation. Overall a great seminar with people from all different clubs. Just goes to show the unity of the UK BJJ scence.
Thanks for taking the time to read my boring 'school boy diary like' report.
Until next time Movimento Lento blog followers.
Saturday 21 August 2010
Knees
Jiu-Jitsu can really take it out on your knees as the knee joint is forced to move in unnatural ways and in many different planes. Take the 2010 Mundial Medium Heavyweight Finals for instance where Rommulo Barral was forced to withdraw from his match with Tarsis Humphreys due to a knee injury. Also, many people in my club have had bad knees. Recently my knee has been making some strange sounds too.
As knees can be very weak as demonstrated above, this makes them obvious targets for some seriously painful submissions. Now most people have seen the standard knee bar but sometimes a knee bar can catch people unaware I like to call these "sneaky knee bars". Here Oli G finishes a match at Ground Control "Beat the Heat":
Now many people maybe wondering what happened so here to demonstrate is Comprido:
I do not want to encourage any knee reaping type behavior, so please remember knee bars can't be done until Brown Belt in BJJ. Also, it is illegal at all belt levels for your outside leg to cross the waist line when wrapping the leg. Go lightly on your partner when dilling this knee bar, believe me it comes on quickly, my knee made a loud click when my bro put it on me.
As knees can be very weak as demonstrated above, this makes them obvious targets for some seriously painful submissions. Now most people have seen the standard knee bar but sometimes a knee bar can catch people unaware I like to call these "sneaky knee bars". Here Oli G finishes a match at Ground Control "Beat the Heat":
Now many people maybe wondering what happened so here to demonstrate is Comprido:
I do not want to encourage any knee reaping type behavior, so please remember knee bars can't be done until Brown Belt in BJJ. Also, it is illegal at all belt levels for your outside leg to cross the waist line when wrapping the leg. Go lightly on your partner when dilling this knee bar, believe me it comes on quickly, my knee made a loud click when my bro put it on me.
Wednesday 4 August 2010
Submission: Armbar
This months submission is the Armbar. Here is a web definition (you can't beat a good old definition):
"An armbar (sometimes called a straight armbar) is a joint lock that hyperextends the elbow joint. It is typically applied by placing the opponent's extended arm at the elbow over a fulcrum such as an arm, leg or hip, and controlling the opponent's body while leveraging the arm over the fulcrum."
To cut along story short you bend the arm to the point of snapping. Now it is worth noting that some people have double jointed elbows, so I would recommend choking them out instead. Here the legend that is Roger Gracie demonstrates how an arm bar should be done, double joints or no double joints I don't think anyone will be surviving a monstrous Roger Gracie armbar:
Movimento Lento blog followers, what is your favourite submission?
"An armbar (sometimes called a straight armbar) is a joint lock that hyperextends the elbow joint. It is typically applied by placing the opponent's extended arm at the elbow over a fulcrum such as an arm, leg or hip, and controlling the opponent's body while leveraging the arm over the fulcrum."
To cut along story short you bend the arm to the point of snapping. Now it is worth noting that some people have double jointed elbows, so I would recommend choking them out instead. Here the legend that is Roger Gracie demonstrates how an arm bar should be done, double joints or no double joints I don't think anyone will be surviving a monstrous Roger Gracie armbar:
Movimento Lento blog followers, what is your favourite submission?
Monday 5 July 2010
Turtle Surfing - Don't forget to enjoy Jiu-Jitsu
Sometimes when training hard every day and preparing for competitions we can sometimes take things a little too seriously; and loose sight of the real reason why we participate in the Arte Suave. That reason is FUN.
After watching, many Jiu-Jitsu practitioners in action most notably Ricardo Vieira, Lucas Lepri and Andre Galvao I noticed that they liked to surf their opponent when their opponent was in turtle position. Usually this was done to open their opponent up to get their hooks in. This got the cog's in Movimento Lento's brain turning and I came up with a FUN game that my friends and myself like to play called "Turtle Surfing".
Now this is purely for FUN, and people should take it with a pinch of salt.
The idea of turtle surfing is to surf your opponent in turtle position for as long as possible. I have managed to surf and have been surfed on. The reigning turtle surfing champion in our club was Andre "Young Roger Gracie" Paxman, well that was until I stole his crown.
Have a go when you have 'down time' and let me know how you get on. Try and be as creative as you can and most importantly have fun.
Below is a VB Team HL with Ricardo Vieira, check 44secs for some serious surfing
On his DVD Lucas Lepri demonstrates the turtle surfing technique, however rather than upload this I thought it would be best to include this Lucas Lepri highlight for your viewing pleasure. This is one of my favourite Jiu-Jitsu highlights on the web.
Finally to finish here is Andre Galvao rolling with some of his students, having FUN with his Jiu-Jitsu
After watching, many Jiu-Jitsu practitioners in action most notably Ricardo Vieira, Lucas Lepri and Andre Galvao I noticed that they liked to surf their opponent when their opponent was in turtle position. Usually this was done to open their opponent up to get their hooks in. This got the cog's in Movimento Lento's brain turning and I came up with a FUN game that my friends and myself like to play called "Turtle Surfing".
Now this is purely for FUN, and people should take it with a pinch of salt.
The idea of turtle surfing is to surf your opponent in turtle position for as long as possible. I have managed to surf and have been surfed on. The reigning turtle surfing champion in our club was Andre "Young Roger Gracie" Paxman, well that was until I stole his crown.
Have a go when you have 'down time' and let me know how you get on. Try and be as creative as you can and most importantly have fun.
Below is a VB Team HL with Ricardo Vieira, check 44secs for some serious surfing
On his DVD Lucas Lepri demonstrates the turtle surfing technique, however rather than upload this I thought it would be best to include this Lucas Lepri highlight for your viewing pleasure. This is one of my favourite Jiu-Jitsu highlights on the web.
Finally to finish here is Andre Galvao rolling with some of his students, having FUN with his Jiu-Jitsu
Saturday 3 July 2010
Victor Estima Charity Seminar
Today Movimento Lento accompanied by Andre "Young Roger Gracie" Paxman and Movimento Lento Co-Reporter himself Jody "The Axeman" Paxman; headed over to GB Midlands for a special fundraising seminar.
The fund raising event was in aid of Victor and Braulio Estima's father who's life had been left devastated by the recent floods in Northern Brazil (For more information and to see the full scale of the disaster click here).
After a quick journey down the M1 thanks to some Niki Lauder style driving skills we arrived at the academy on time. Walking into the academy we were greeted by a huge gathering of people from all over the country, including our fellow GB Halifax and Leeds team mates, who had come to show their support for this worthy course. Today's seminar focus was on the open guard and controlling the opponent in open guard. Personally I learnt some really great control details that I will be trying to implement into my game.
Overall a good day for a worthy course. It is always good to meet and share ideas and techniques with fellow practitioners of the Arte Suave. Big shout out to all the people who made it. Above is a picture from the event, click through for a larger image.
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