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