Mornington Extreme JJG Club

Rodolfo Rolling

2012-02-19T15:55:00.001+11:00

BJJ Mundials 2001 Robson Moura

2012-02-15T13:36:00.002+11:00

Great match. Very close. Watch for the sweep from Robson at 4.32, which is sweep we did last night.

Shaolin Sweep w/ Stephan Kesting

2012-02-15T08:21:00.001+11:00

Robson Moura Sweep

2012-02-15T08:19:00.001+11:00

Chance of success

2012-02-10T13:23:00.001+11:00

Sherdog.com MMA Techniques: Ronda Rousey’s Technique of the Week: Osoto Throw

2012-02-07T07:31:00.000+11:00

Sherdog.com MMA Techniques: Ronda Rousey’s Technique of the Week: Osoto Throw

Drilling

2012-02-02T09:52:00.000+11:00

I often think that drilling is the "secret sauce" in improving rapidly in BJJ, particularly after the first 6-12 months of training. I enjoyed watching two guys at our club yesterday set a timer for 2 minutes and just repeat a single movement for time. Moving fluently and consistently they choose their pass, shut up and drilled the movement. They didn't waste time discussing the nuances of inverted De La Riva guard while moving nor waste energy trying to fight to the death. Smooth and consistent each rep, like a metronome, I could just see how this would translate to greater timing and sensitivity in the future. Even better each drill was written in a diary for future reference. Also I noticed they didn't drill submissions, but instead focused on smooth common transitional movements like passes, sweeps, maintaining top control and re-guarding. Much respect gentleman.

Learning new techniques is great and rolling or free training is always fun. But drilling is what sets apart the boys from the men. Spend more time drilling techniques is the lesson. Choose a transition, find a partner, set the timer and go to work. Its simple, but not easy as Dan John would say.

Are Coaches REALLY Worth the Money? | Breaking Muscle

2012-02-01T08:10:00.000+11:00

Are Coaches REALLY Worth the Money? | Breaking Muscle

Braulio talking sense...

2012-01-30T16:51:00.001+11:00

Australia Day

2012-01-25T19:56:00.001+11:00

Please be aware the club will be closed tomorrow for Australia Day. There will be no adult or junior classes held. Osu

Jeff Glover DHG

2012-01-25T15:32:00.001+11:00

Rodolfo Viera Doco

2012-01-19T15:10:00.003+11:00

Dave Camarillo Guard Defence

2012-01-19T14:49:00.001+11:00

Are you in the game?

2012-01-17T14:36:00.001+11:00

A black belt at age 78

2012-01-16T18:30:00.000+11:00

A black belt at age 78

Whats your excuse?

ESPN Nova Uniao Article

2012-01-15T19:21:00.001+11:00

Nice little article on the team culture at Nova Unaio. Well done Jose Aldo on your victory at UFC 142 in Rio, great to Marcelino in the octagon afterward helping to celebrate. Hopefully he will be back in Australia very soon.

Jose Aldo Fight Camp

2012-01-11T15:34:00.001+11:00

Pablo Popovitch

2012-01-10T07:55:00.001+11:00

Lovato Jr Guard Passing

2012-01-06T17:03:00.001+11:00

Happy New Year!

Modified Brabo from Marcelino

2011-12-20T08:36:00.001+11:00

Quote of the day

2011-12-17T09:00:00.002+11:00

“Take the risk of thinking for yourself, much more happiness, truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way.”
― Christopher Hitchens

Robson Moura Back Control

2011-12-16T11:25:00.001+11:00

Rodolfo Viera Guard Pass

2011-12-15T06:49:00.001+11:00

Breakdown of Big Nog vs Mir UFC 140

2011-12-13T06:40:00.001+11:00

ADCC 2011 HL

2011-12-11T10:40:00.001+11:00

Mendes Brothers Seminar

2011-12-11T10:38:00.001+11:00

Important Holiday Dates

2011-12-06T09:13:00.001+11:00

As we come to the end of another year please note the following dates,

Thursday 15th December 6pm Grading Extreme HQ in Chadstone
Friday 16th December Extreme HQ Christmas Party
Tuesday 20th December Last Adult Classes in Mornington for 2011
Thursday 22nd December 6pm Junior Presentation 7pm Xmas BBQ Break up for all members and families.
Tuesday 10th January Adult Classes resume in Mornington for 2012

Please also be aware that junior classes will continue to run during the school holidays on Thursday 6pm.

Thanks to everyone for another years training, it has been great to finally move into our own facility. Am looking forward to bigger and better things in 2012. If you have trained at any time this year please pop down for our Xmas BBQ, it would be great to catch up before the year is out. Best to you and yours over the holiday season. Osu.

Arm Bar Prevention & Defence - Stephan Kesting

2011-12-05T13:10:00.001+11:00

Deep Half Guard Guerrilla Jiu Jitsu

2011-12-05T13:06:00.001+11:00

Cobrinha HL 2011

2011-12-05T13:01:00.001+11:00

What is BJJ?

2011-12-01T07:55:00.001+11:00

Pedro Sauer 1-2-3-4-5

2011-11-29T16:44:00.001+11:00

Roger Gracie Talking Sense...

2011-11-26T18:59:00.001+11:00

Thanks Darts and FB

Rolled Up Episode 30: Evolution through Diversification with Erik Paulson

2011-11-22T15:54:00.000+11:00

Rolled Up Episode 30: Evolution through Diversification with Erik Paulson

More Cyborg

2011-11-22T06:46:00.001+11:00

Escaping Side Control

2011-11-12T15:13:00.001+11:00

Cyborg Armlock from Half Guard

2011-11-10T08:16:00.001+11:00

Heel Hook Escapes

2011-11-08T07:49:00.001+11:00

Ricardo Almeida No Gi

2011-11-02T06:39:00.000+11:00

Mendes Bros HL

2011-11-02T06:30:00.001+11:00

Jiu Jitsu Challenge

2011-10-26T08:33:00.000+11:00

Full Event Details Click Here

Melbourne Cup Weekend

2011-10-24T08:06:00.000+11:00

There will be no classes this Saturday 29th October due to the Australian Jiu Jitsu Challenge being held at the State Netball and Hockey Centre. Best of luck to all the competitors from our club and please head down and support your team mates if your not competing. There will also be no classes on Tuesday 1st November which is Melbourne Cup Day. Have a nice break and we'll see you back on the following Thursday.

Rolled Up Epsiode 29: Training the Gray Areas with Braulio Estima

2011-10-18T15:32:00.000+11:00

Rolled Up Epsiode 29: Training the Gray Areas with Braulio Estima

2 on 1 Hook Sweep

2011-10-18T07:36:00.001+11:00

Russian Wrestling Nationals 2011 HL Clip

2011-10-14T17:27:00.001+11:00

Thanks to Cris and Facebook.

LAST Ep

2011-10-12T18:47:00.000+11:00

Last Ep of TTT

LA LA is a joke! A state sanctioned circus where people come to idolise other people for trivial accomplishments. Don't get me wrong I love watching movies, but everything here is a plastic facade. A spectacle of crap!! about as entertaining as a show bag with out chocolates.

Today I got out of my fringed dwelling of LA and headed down to Santa Monica pier which is still a spectacle but a nicer place. Tomorrow I'll hopefully get to venice beach "the humane zoo" should be fun.

Enough Whining though... How about an image to make you guys laugh... Below is a shot of “me ‘ed” after theopen mat. Not the most flattering shot and perhaps a little Narcissistic, I’ll give you that! But Ithought some of you might like to laugh at it, and to find some solace in the idea that everyone dog hashis day or as Renzo say’s “sometimes you’re the hammer and sometimes you’re thenail” , or in this case "sometimes your the nail and sometimes your the nail" so here it is;

Yesterdays training was a good session;,cobrinhabasically jumped straight into the session with some techniques. Two passes thatwe’re linked by a common response (defence/bloke by the opponent). The class had no warm up…just bang straight into the technique, then it was timed rounds for the remainder. Cobrinha and Fabio (the other instructor there) were both onthe Mat rolling with everyone and at the end of the class, Cobrinha hung arounddiscussing different situations and answering any questions anyone had, he showed some great stuff here andemphasized the need to drill, DRILL and DRILL some more!!

Ok so I am at the end of my sojourn around,through, in and out of a small part of America and an equally small part of itsJu Jitsu culture. As brief as it has been I’ve picked up some tricks, tips andtechniques and hopefully some motivation or a desire to move forward as well asa better perspective on where I am at personally with Zhoo Zhitsu!!

So I'll have about 19 hrs to try and remember and reflect on all the little bits and pieces I’veseen over the weeks so that hopefully I can impart them on to you guys. But one definite technique I've had emphasised to me over the weeks is "mat time" you can't beat mat time, the best guys were the guys you saw at every class, morning, lunch and noon. So hopefully see you all at training next week.. OSU or as some might say MOOS!!

Cyborg No Gi Triangle from Knee Ride

2011-10-12T13:34:00.001+11:00

Might work these in tomorrow nights second class.

Ep4 The Open Mat and no one walks in LA

2011-10-12T03:38:00.001+11:00

Jeroen has put me onto an app so that I can blog since my Mac has decieded to go and hang out with steve jobs (RIP) for a little while, just hope steve doesn't keep all my photos amongst othere misc files. So thanks to Jeroen I can blog, no thanks to this app I can't spell check, let this be a warning; I put wet stooff on da hot stooff :)

Two days ago I arrived in LA and I basically chose my hotel based on proximity to the club. Down side is that it is not close to anything else, cept la brea tar pits, which are just Pit full of tar seeping from the ground ( kinda interesting but not what you would come to LA for. So in a nut shell if you don't have a car in LA... Ya F&$€ed! And even more screwed when ur mac dies and ur credit card snaps ( and becomes useless ) but thats what LA is about... Its makes you or breaks you.., lucky I fly out tomoz.

So the open mat was a perfect way for me to filter into Cobrinha club and even better cause classes aren't held on sundays so I got an extra day. There were guys from all over the place even as far as San Diego ( saulo's). A few guys that I spoke to were from the following; JJ machado, Rigans, Gracie accademy, Paragon and so on. It was a perfect opportunity to net work and find clubs... If only I had more time.

So Cobrinha introduced himself and the session and then it was "the awkward ball" ( find a dance partner a begin training ). Everyone danced and changed partners every 6 minutes. In the begining I found myself out in badlands, dark colors standing on every corner. He he. Rollnumber two was the man himself "Cobrinha" cant really remember much other than thinking... Nothing is working, he basically set up camp on my back ( pass, back, pass back). He was really approachable though and during the roll he made some observations and gave some tips :)

All in all was a great session, you can always tell it wasgoid when you get home and your heads all bruised up.

Well thats it for now I am off to the human circus " venice beach boardwalk"

This pick is of the class before adv classes last night, its basically just all drilling specific reaction and the last 15 minutes is a technique

Rousimar Palmahres

2011-10-11T08:21:00.001+11:00

2011-10-08T17:58:00.001+11:00

So this Episodehas been a long time coming in part due to our internet dropping out in NY andthe fact that spare time on the net has been drastically chewed up by bookinghotels and cars.These two things have also drastically chewed up my funds.

In short we havebeen covering a mass distance of America via trains, plains and automobiles orno trains, but you get the idea. Sedona was my favorite place so far. Vegas wasvery short lived ( no training L ), San fransico was just as short ( no training )and all the towns inbetween ( no training ).

Okso that’s the explanation and now for a quick BJJ story, Last few session at MGwere pretty cool but I was getting in there early in the morning and due to theComp a lot of guys had backed off their training. Paul showed some good half guard stuff (he’s a gordo BB sopretty much his bread and butter) and we did a few escapes.

Next day I headed out to No-gi Pan’s. Atfirst I was a little disappointed because I thought it would be a bigger event.Lots of good guys but it just wasn’t as grand as I expected but then I think Iwas confusing the Pan and World no-gi. The main matches I watched was LucasLepri in the semi and final… he basically just walked through the two guys,Idon’t think he was even sweating when he walked off.

Ihad asked him about conditioning at the gym and he said he just did some Olylifts and Bulgarian bag work… gotta get a bag (that must be the difference).Its actually scary how far above the level was. At one point he had attemptedto pass deep half but got caught so after balancing for a while near the edgeof the mat, you could see he decided to give up the sweep. Not as soon as hewas swept did he straight away arm drag back to the top (giving uo something toget something, like sacrificing a pawn to get a bishop). His next opponent hetook down, and then just controlled him and took his back eventually. He lookedsuper calm and really composed, like it was just another training session. Thenext match I watched was Henrique (MG) and the Half guard terrorist Ciao go atit in the finals. This was a crazy macth, little guys are so good to watch andthese two guys are sooooo little, Ciao looks like a boy! I think Ciao won byAdv. I’ve filmed some of it so I’lltry and post it.

Thestates has been smashing my Bank account due mainly to hotels and unforeseen glitches.This and not being able to find out when I am due back at work has put an endto Brazil L oh well. At the moment I fly backon Wednesday 12, but I am trying to get my flights extended so I can get downto San Diego, but it all depends on how much they want to charge me for thechange. Hopefully tomorrow I’ll get into cobrinha’s to get the goldfor you guys.

This is a shot of the comp... guess they all look the same, cept maybe ADCC ( Pro-gi and No - gi)

UFC 136 The Great Debate

2011-10-06T18:27:00.002+11:00

2011-10-06T04:44:00.000+11:00

Ok here is a really short and quick post or more precisely just some pics.. I've written another post but its in drafting form so provided there is an internet where we are heading next I'll try and get it up.

One pick Of MG at the 7.00am class and the other is of Sedona... I think the (bare MG) the best place we have visited so far.

Robson Moura Clock Choke

2011-10-01T12:34:00.001+10:00

UFC Champions: By the Numbers

2011-10-01T06:28:00.000+10:00

UFC Champions: By the Numbers

Origins Of BJJ

2011-09-29T07:23:00.002+10:00

Ep2 Travotine and northsouth choke!!

2011-09-28T15:14:00.000+10:00

So tonight was No-gi for an 1.30 and I recon about 30 guys on the mat which made some of the warm up seem long (note to self write down warm up routine). After treading the foot path and museum tour of town, I was well hammered and definately needed to get down to the gym. Tonights classes run until 10pm and after which just about nothing closes here, so you can grab dinner and coffee and new shoes/clothes (i.e UA rashie long sleeve $30USD, like the birds "cheap, cheap.) after training, very cool.

So the technique we did was pretty sweet most of its in the title and so rather than bore you with the details..... hopefully I recall it all on my possible return I'll impart my knew found knowledge.

Long and short we did: Pass to side control counter far side underhook, attack arm, use the escape to mount, steer opponent to mounted guillotine or if countered switch off to side and move to north south choke :)

The highlight of tonight was having my glaring, obvious and some what large holes pointed out to me, by none other than the man, the legend, the cuz and for those who don't know; 2007 World Champion (amongst other titles) Lucas Lepri. With what seemed like sleepy movement he proceeded to control and attack me for 8 - 10 minutes. Lucas lives here in NYC and trains at Alliance, but comes up to MG twice a week to in his words; " see and train with my friends" namely I think a little guy by the name of Henrique Reznde who's a coach here along with Paul Schriener. Hopefully at some point this week I am gonna head down to Lucas's gym and train down there this week. Just gotta find a way to dry my gi quicker.

Its late here and I am falling asleep typing this, so I apologise for lack of humour and any grammatical errors, of which I am sure there are many... ( must get someone to dictate my post too).

Ep1 TTT Smitty Guward!

2011-09-28T14:51:00.000+10:00

Alright... heres the first of hopefully many posts, on what will serve as a limited journal of my (TTT) Tips, tricks and techniques of the grand tour de gymnasium!! Moose!

Quick rundown:
So after literally about a day of flying we arrived in NYC (19hrs to LA and 5.3 to NYC connection), so today (three days on) I've finally adjusted I think... even though I just dropped my whole coffee Argh!! (Jason multi tasking score: 0 for 0). We moved into our apartment that we sourced off Airbnb and originally I wasn't sure if it was legitimate, but turns out to be a gold mine. We are in a great locale in an apartment all to ourselves and for around $125 a night, free web its a bargain. Main draw cards are 10 minutes walk from time square and MG and for Heidi Macys is pretty much just down our street. Plus the apartments nice typically small but not much time spent here anyways.

Alright to the nitty gritty after a recon mission in the morning to MG I return later in the day with a gi in hand and a fist full of green backs (training cost alittle bit). First disappointment is that MG will not be in all week due to Post ADCC rest... DOH! None the less the class I attended had some really good guys and clearly I walked in with a target on my back in the color of purple because there were no easy beats.... cept maybe my first roll.... after that it was " hey you and me lets go" or "jason you can go with this guys next" good to see its a universal protocol, hehe. All of that aside the technique we did was THE SMITTY GUWARD!!! x - guard, to be more precise it was a: "grape vinned mount escape to single leg x-guward sweep" and for the remainder of the class during free rolling I found myself stuck balancing in some form or adaptation of this guard ( great sweep defence paul).

ADCC Weigh Ins Budo Jake & Renzo Gracie

2011-09-24T08:10:00.000+10:00

Ryan Hall Interview

2011-09-24T07:29:00.004+10:00

Intelligent and Insightful.

Braulio Estima Road to Jacare Ep 3

2011-09-22T08:02:00.001+10:00

Galvao preps for ADCC

2011-09-22T07:54:00.001+10:00

No Gi Training

2011-09-21T10:33:00.002+10:00

Thursday night classes will be no gi training for the summer months from now.

ESPN Sports Science Jon Jones

2011-09-20T07:56:00.001+10:00

Rolling Loop Choke

2011-09-10T19:23:00.000+10:00

Braulio Estima Road to ADCC Ep 1

2011-09-08T07:57:00.001+10:00

Braulio Estima Road to Jacare Rematch Teasers

2011-09-06T10:26:00.001+10:00

Robson Moura - Life in the Favela

2011-09-06T10:17:00.001+10:00

Thanks Hodge.

Caio Terra Arm Bar Escape

2011-09-04T09:08:00.001+10:00

On the Mat. BJJ as an Olympic Sport?

2011-08-28T17:35:00.001+10:00

Thanks to Long.

Dan John - Goal Setting

2011-08-28T15:25:00.001+10:00

Rolled Up Epsiode 26 – Jiu-jitsu Missionary: Andre Galvao

2011-08-23T16:56:00.000+10:00

Rolled Up Epsiode 26 – Jiu-jitsu Missionary: Andre Galvao

Omoplata To Back Control

2011-08-23T12:03:00.001+10:00

ESPN Iowa Wrestling Pt 1 of 7

2011-08-21T09:10:00.000+10:00

Saturday classes cancelled

2011-08-20T10:01:00.003+10:00

Effect immediately all Saturday classes are cancelled due to poor attendance. Don't bother asking me about it again. There instead will be an open mat session from 10.30am for an hour. Come down and train but there will be no formal sessions run.

Marlon Sandro Team NU Part 2

2011-08-20T08:13:00.001+10:00

Mendes Bros HL

2011-08-19T11:14:00.001+10:00

Wanna roll light?

2011-08-19T11:11:00.000+10:00

Gustavo Dantas De La Riva Sweep

2011-08-18T16:13:00.000+10:00

Marlon Sandro Team NU

2011-08-18T16:10:00.001+10:00

Nova Uniao

2011-08-16T17:02:00.000+10:00

Andre Pederneiras - Highlight

2011-08-16T16:53:00.001+10:00

Andre Pederneiras - Highlight [HELLO JAPAN] from Hello Japan on Vimeo.

Rolled Up Episode 25 – OC Fair Challenge with Jeff Glover

2011-08-09T16:47:00.000+10:00

Rolled Up Episode 25 – OC Fair Challenge with Jeff Glover

Matt Thornton talking.....

2011-08-09T13:09:00.001+10:00

Matt Thornton on Aliveness and Critical Thinking in Martial Arts and Beyond - May 2011 from Tofan Taeri on Vimeo.

Choke from Back Control

2011-07-23T14:37:00.001+10:00

The move is on.....All hands on deck!

2011-07-23T13:37:00.003+10:00

Next Saturday 30th July at 9am we will be moving the mat to our new full time premises at 4 Bruce St, Mornington. We need as many hands as possible to help us load and unload the trucks and get set up for classes at the new venue. Training will then run as scheduled from Tuesday 2nd August on the usual timetable. We will need help from our resident tradesman to build change rooms and a shower once we have settled in. There will also be room for a crossfit style training area and perhaps a ring or cage. Please come down and help us out next Saturday. Thanks to Dave for his patience in negotiating the lease, please everyone thank him personally when you next see him. Exciting times...Osu.

MMA: All nut-shot edition; the all balls brawl! - MMA News

2011-07-19T17:06:00.000+10:00

MMA: All nut-shot edition; the all balls brawl! - MMA News

BJJ Globetrotter Part 2

2011-07-18T08:03:00.001+10:00

Rolled Up with Budo Jake

2011-07-14T09:03:00.002+10:00

For those of you who aren't onto this video podcast yet make sure to check it out here. Budo Jake travels and interviews the best BJJ'ers on the planet, gets them to show a few techniques and and rolls with them for a round at the end. Excellent viewing.

Passing DLR Guard Shawn Williams Part 2

2011-07-11T10:23:00.001+10:00

BJJ Globetrotter

2011-07-11T10:14:00.001+10:00

Single Leg Finishes

2011-07-07T08:50:00.000+10:00

Guard Pass to Back Take

2011-07-07T08:41:00.000+10:00

Club News Update

2011-07-01T10:59:00.003+10:00

Firstly our best wishes go out to Nial Macdonagh, a Mornington Extreme Blue Belt, who this weekend will be competing in a Hawaii Ironman qualification race in Korea. Good Luck Nial, it's your time now. After a less than ideal preparation to circumstances beyond his control, Nial has shown amazing determination to refocus for this race.

Secondly, congratulations to all the juniors who graded last night after another terms worth of training. Its fantastic to see the technical progress these young athletes are making. I am excited at the prospect of taking a junior team to this years Pan Pacs in September. Our Junior coaches are doing a great job.

Lastly, in two weeks time, all things going well. We will move into our first full time premises at 4 Bruce St in Mornington. After 5 years in part time venues this is a big step up but we are ready. This will give us more useable space, room for a small gym, office and change rooms. I will revises the timetable once we get up and running and arrange an official opening. Stay tuned!

PS Looking forward to GITM next week. All 12 spots are taken, fix me up for coin if you haven't already. Should be a fun night.

Modified De La Riva - Mark Darcy

2011-06-30T14:39:00.001+10:00

De La Riva Pass Shawn Williams

2011-06-24T16:31:00.001+10:00

50/50 Guard Pass

2011-06-23T08:12:00.001+10:00

Gorillas In The Mist

2011-06-22T14:14:00.003+10:00

I have booked Penninsula Hot Springs for Saturday 9th July at 6pm for our clubs 5th Birthday Celebrations. The cost will be $70 per person and will include dinner and bathing in the hot springs. I have booked for 12 people so its first come first served. Please let me know if you wish to join us and get me the money ASAP. This has always been a fun event in the past. 5 years has gone way too fast. Looking forward to getting our own venue soon. Osu

Rigan Machado

2011-06-20T15:28:00.001+10:00

Ankle Pick to Guard Pass

2011-06-15T15:27:00.001+10:00

Ricardo Almeida - Overhook to Sweep and Choke

2011-06-09T17:28:00.000+10:00