Time for an update, I guess.A week ago, while attending a [Luta Livre] workshop with Daniel D'Dane (watch the video above for some info on that guy. Note that obviously, it's not the workshop I've been to.), I ruptured the extendor tendon in my left pinky finger. No big deal, but then again, the doc … Status Update November 2nd 2015 weiterlesen
Kategorie: grappling
Continuing Education: T36 Instructor Course
In December, before going on [my trip across Florida], I took the [T36] instructor course with [Andreas “Andyconda” Schmidt]. The course was a great experience and, although I’m certainly not fit to teach a full-fledged grappling class at the moment, vastly expanded my knowledge about the ground game. Besides being a great learning experience, the … Continuing Education: T36 Instructor Course weiterlesen
USA Winter 2014 / 2015, Part I
Disclaimer : Pictures and links are to follow soon. Also, most of that text was written when I was still in Clearwater, so half the trip is not yet covered. On December 24th I hopped onto the plane and took off for the US. Just as with [China last year], we're not staying in one location … USA Winter 2014 / 2015, Part I weiterlesen
Fight for Fun, day #3
The third day of the fight-for-fun camp has just ended. Today, I took a kickboxing class with Mr. Zaar and two MMA classes with Andre Reinders . Just like yesterday, the total training time today was 6 hours. My plan was to take Mr. Mack's class for the morning session, but I ended up on … Fight for Fun, day #3 weiterlesen
Fight for Fun, day #2
It's my second day at the fight-for-fun camp in Ötztal, Tyrol. Yesterday, everything was too stressy to post, so I'll quickly wrap up yesterday's events before going into detail about today. First off, what is the fight-for-fun camp? Well, basically it's a training camp sponsored by Budoland GmbH, a martial arts supplier. Now while most … Fight for Fun, day #2 weiterlesen
Master class, Grappling 101
Today's master class was awesome. The trainer, Alex, really did a great job in adapting competition-proved Judo techniques to work in a no-Gi setting.As most of us are absolute beginners in terms of grappling, we started the class with some falling exerices. Alex then transitioned into a double-leg takedown. I have to say that there's … Master class, Grappling 101 weiterlesen
Judo
Everyone around me is taking up BJJ and Luta Livre in order to get stronger on the ground. My teacher, Ronny, always said that "you play their game, you'll always end up second to them". I think that's very true. So, instead of practicing BJJ, I've decided to take up Judo and improve my standup-grappling … Judo weiterlesen
The Performance Engineer 