Nooner 45 / Em 7th / 5810

Taps: 1. Total: 5810.

Tech I -- Knee Shield Pass, Knee Cut, pulling sleeve, pushing collar grip, go right, open his knee up, back other way to Knee cut. 

Tech II - Knee Shield Pass, folding, wiper leg, hop to that side. 

White Belt killing me w a top side Half, Power Nelson a la Gordon. 

Thinking: Baret Crucifix, off Turtle entry but he does it from everywhere. 

Sun 44: 5809

Taps: 6. Total: 5809.

Back in the day, BB Wade and i were always the last ones off the mat. He's still there but me, not so much. So i decided to stay much longer than i have been. 

Rolled three times w Brn Bhasar, and twice w BB Tim. 

also, now mentioning that to Wade, he says he was coming back from injury and was only training that once a week and had to get as many rolls in as he could, that's why he was on the mat so long. 

Passing -- need to combo Pass / chain Passes together, esp vs higher belts. Add Gator Roll Pass? 

Lasso Sweeps. Meregali Sweep. 

Heisen Sweep. 

Nooner 43: 5803

Taps: 4. Total: 5803. 

Tech 1 -- Smash Pass from HQ into Mount (a la Dope Mount)

* how did he know i was thinking about HQ. 

Tech 2 - vs DLR, into HQ, Ninja Roll to the Back. 

Big heavy BB -- he lets me take his back just so he can trap just one of my ankle hooks and Ankle locks me when i don't even have my second hook in. He did that TWICE. 

Didn't get any Bolo attempts. Or even the Merengali Lasso Sweep. 

Sun Confess OM 42 / 5799

Taps: 3. Total: 5799. 

Was starting to that cocky a little lately, good to get HUMBLED. Need more humble lessons. 

* Bolo fails again, but i should try to come up on top then.

** Bashar says keep moving my hips, n he is right. i get lazy n gassed n start to react n defend instead of attacking, initiating n being on the offensive n passing etc. as Hauteur says be on top, stay on top, pass to get on top etc. 

*** Merengali Lasso Sweep love it. Drill it. 

Review: Danaher Half Pass / JThomas-Laclan -- Passing Knee Shield.  

Buzzsaw -- Wiltse. 

***** Coyote Lever Sweep vs pressure passer / grip over the back? 

Nooner: 41 / still 5796

Taps: 0. Total: still 5796. 

Tech -- Closed Guard Cross Sleeve fake hip bump into Omoplata ... if he STANDS, roll back into STAR sweep. 

Gassing bc i'm not Breathing or holding my breath. Breathe. Damn it. Breathe. 

What is up with 0 taps?? Not right. Not picking tough enough guys to roll. don't be such a p$%$ssy. Pick tough and cocky Blues or newly insecure BBs. Need to beef up the taps numbers. 

Drilled a couple of REV SEOI with Anya's younger boy. Love the REV SEOI or aka Korean Seoi. 

Tried the Bolo once. Failed but not as badly as last attempt. That's progress, no?

After class, saw a couple of Tech's that that i liked.

1. Prof Joey was showing, from Half Guard, a Scissor Sweep attempt into the Shaolin Sweep. 

2. Loop choke but with a PALM Down grip. Haven't seen that before. 

My BJJ History / update

Early 30s, in the early 2000s, I started in a small gym in Beverly Hills, same gym at Bas Rutten was training his MMA. Got two stripes on my White before i got injured, then life ... marriage, mortgage, moved to the Valley. 

Ten years later, i start back up in Burbank in a tiny gym, owned by a Black Belt who was never there but the day classes where taught by Jack the Purple belt. Usually it was just him and me, sometimes one other young pretty boy wannabe actor, also a White belt with less experience than me. This was summer of 2010.

Jan 2011 - finally asked by Brown Belt lil bro for Bjj school recc and he said he heard good things about Street Sports Sherman Oaks. That's where i've been for majority of my training.

Dec 2011 -- Blue belt.

Dec 2014 -- Purple.

Mar 2017 - Brown. 

Apr 2023 -- two more stripes on top of four Brown at Legacy. 

Sun Confession 40 / 5796

Taps: 3. Total: 5796.

If i had a dollar for every time someone asked me when i'm getting my black belt ... once and for all, i'm never getting my BB. I'm a brown ronin, not affiliated with any school, so there's no one who can promote me. 

Tried to Bolo, failed miserably. Understandable, as i just started drilling it. Just put it in the drilling notebook. 

Also tried Running Man Side ESC, failed. 

All three taps to BB Uday, who said i've improved since four years ago when he first started rolling with me. Didn't realize it's been that long. 

Rolled twice w BB Tim, who's about the same size n weight but his top pressure is much much heavier, and he usually let's me pass and works on his defense, which is very good. i can never get anything on him and usually just squirms or squirts out and recovers guard or gets top position. But i do incorporate some of his defensive techs and has made my defenses better. 

Keep drilling:

Pass Pass Pass -- Wiltse. Headquarters w JT n Lovato. Jthomas. 

Kill Knee Shield. 

nooner 39 / em 5 / 5793

Taps: 4. Total: 5793. 

Tech 1 - Cross sleeve / collar grip / cross sleeve side foot on armpit. push away into Omoplata, if they roll into Armbar.

Thinking about:

• Waiter Sweep / jake Mackensie
• Sky Pass
• Buzzsaw / Wiltse
• Headquarters / JTorres / Lovato Jr

Fav. Armbar ESC -- notes. drill drill drill. 

Sun Phenom OM 38 / 5789

Taps: 3. Total: 5789.

BB Tarca's new place in Mission Hills, with Northridge just to the West, Sylmar to the North and Sun Valley and Panorama City to the South. Actually only a 15 min drive from my house. 

Small Open Mat (about 7 or 8 total) including one other guy from Legacy Sunday Confession OM, the one handed Purple.     

One other BB besides Tarca, who had a good passing footwork, that danced all over me, Backstepping into Mount, etc. Need to add that to my game. 

Only Tarca's second 8am OM, still trying to get it off the ground. Glad i went. Need to roll with more new people, peeps who don't ask when i'm going to get my Black.