Armbars:
•shin-in armbar: from kneeling and facing each other, wiper-motion with your legs the one that comes under will go to the armpit. If you're holding their right arm, your right leg wipes under and roll onto your back and press your right shin into their armpit as you pull on the arm. Make sure your back is nice and curled and you elevate your hips, the mechanics will take care of the rest as you roll and turn them over. Try to go from facing 12:00 to 6:00 in order to put yourself into a good armbar position.
You can grip arm+lapel, arm+neck, armpit+underhook their knee etc. the details aren't as important. If you don't get the rotation from your larger body movements, then you'll end up pulling them on top of you and then you will be screwed.
•shin-in armbar from standing: press your shin into their waist, right at the belt-line and pull against them. Again for the rt arm attack, begin to squat on your posted leg and press with your right leg. The push-pull action will help you turn properly from 12:00 to 6:00 as before^and as your leg flexes-fully/butt hits the mat, clear your left leg over their head. Your right shin will end up in their armpit and all will be well from there.
•flying armbar: Similar to the first one, you're getting your shin into the armpit. But this time you're jumping into it. Be sure to get the push-pull/rotation, you don't want to land North/North with them, rather turned perpendicular. With the right shin in, your right shoulder should head towards their right foot. Think of what a forward roll would be for your opponent and that is how you want to follow them.
•flying with cross-body legs: this one is a little more rad for the guy jumping. The ground drill we've done is to start from sitting with legs straight out and roll-over onto your shoulders and back to a sitting position. So from standing, I like to attack their left arm. My left leg swings up along their waist, as I contact I'll roll my leg so my toe points away from them, at this point you've gotta be fully committed and swing your leg up and over their face and keep your head tucked. If you just commit to the sucker and stay smooth, it works out fine. If you can do the ground version of this, then your body only needs a few tries with jumping. The rest is psychology and higher-order thinking getting in the way of things again.
follow-ups:
•with shin@waist, your opp. frees the arm you're attacking, drop your leg down and inside hook the leg as you duck under and reach beyond them for a cross-body+inside trip. I'll post a more detailed description of this later, I'm sick of typing this shit already.
•with focus-mitts: knee to the body then either 1. standing shin@waist or 2. jumping shin-in armbar. If you can pull of the second one, then you are freaking Hollywood itself!! :-)
Monday, November 17, 2008
Sunday Oct 26th
duck-unders:
drill: standing partner holds hands out and you duck under&grab them with either:
•single leg; use your lead arm to push their extended arms up, don't try to grab their arm/wrist/don't try to grab just push up as you shoot-in. As you come in, bring your cross-arm to a high crotch pickup. From there you can step and turn so that you can shrug them over to their back.
•double-leg; push with your lead arm again and instead of sending the cross-arm in for a hi-crotch, reach around their body. If you're going right-hand lead then you reach around with your left and keeping your head on your right side so that you shoulder-block with your left side and then bring your right arm around. Clamp at the hips/femur conection, below the buttocks. Lift slightly to get them off their feet and drive to your left, using your head&neck to press their body. Don't go to your right corner and stuff your head onto the mat-having them land on top of your skull,k?
•A nice single-double followup=if the opponent sprawls the single-leg down, just follow it and then-the moment their foot hits the mat-pick them up with a double.
pummeling drills into throws:
•working pummels for underhooks: your opp gets one underhook on you, as they're bringing the next one in simply grip that arm@top of elbow and turn with the arm sliding your other-underhooked-arm over their head and spin out into a head-lock throw. For people having trouble with this, start with one underhook and hold the arm that they'll send under you. Let your opponent lead your action by stabbing this arm by you.
•footwork/finishing variations:
1.deep backstep and into an Uki-Goshi/hip-axle throw. Your back-step has to be very deep so that you can turn as if you are trying to sling them across your back like hanging a dead-moose over the back of your horse. If you are head-locking with your left arm, then you want to be turned so much that your right hip is against them.
2. Shuai-jiao step, drop-levels quickly to avoid trying to muscle this throw, use as much elastic energy as you can. You want to feel "springy" when you land in the lunge posture, not "core-activated' or some-such nonesense.
3. headlock and drop knee. this works if they base against you so you can't set up the other two throws. Drop the outside knee and forward roll while hanging onto them.
*we did some other stuff but I forgot to write it down!* anyone 'member?
anyone...
anyone...
drill: standing partner holds hands out and you duck under&grab them with either:
•single leg; use your lead arm to push their extended arms up, don't try to grab their arm/wrist/don't try to grab just push up as you shoot-in. As you come in, bring your cross-arm to a high crotch pickup. From there you can step and turn so that you can shrug them over to their back.
•double-leg; push with your lead arm again and instead of sending the cross-arm in for a hi-crotch, reach around their body. If you're going right-hand lead then you reach around with your left and keeping your head on your right side so that you shoulder-block with your left side and then bring your right arm around. Clamp at the hips/femur conection, below the buttocks. Lift slightly to get them off their feet and drive to your left, using your head&neck to press their body. Don't go to your right corner and stuff your head onto the mat-having them land on top of your skull,k?
•A nice single-double followup=if the opponent sprawls the single-leg down, just follow it and then-the moment their foot hits the mat-pick them up with a double.
pummeling drills into throws:
•working pummels for underhooks: your opp gets one underhook on you, as they're bringing the next one in simply grip that arm@top of elbow and turn with the arm sliding your other-underhooked-arm over their head and spin out into a head-lock throw. For people having trouble with this, start with one underhook and hold the arm that they'll send under you. Let your opponent lead your action by stabbing this arm by you.
•footwork/finishing variations:
1.deep backstep and into an Uki-Goshi/hip-axle throw. Your back-step has to be very deep so that you can turn as if you are trying to sling them across your back like hanging a dead-moose over the back of your horse. If you are head-locking with your left arm, then you want to be turned so much that your right hip is against them.
2. Shuai-jiao step, drop-levels quickly to avoid trying to muscle this throw, use as much elastic energy as you can. You want to feel "springy" when you land in the lunge posture, not "core-activated' or some-such nonesense.
3. headlock and drop knee. this works if they base against you so you can't set up the other two throws. Drop the outside knee and forward roll while hanging onto them.
*we did some other stuff but I forgot to write it down!* anyone 'member?
anyone...
anyone...
Sunday Oct 19th:
wizzer, Russian 2on1 and Vertuchka day
wizzer:
•with their arm across your back, underhook and drive your arm across their waist, or take a lapel-grip@the far collar. Push@the waist/pull@lapel and drive your shoulder into them to break posture
•step under and Uchimata/mule-kick throw, move "foot-to-foot" so that you get under them as much as you can, your belt should be below theirs or you won't get any power from your hips.
•for no-gi, a more reliable takedown is to break posture and use your free hand to press their head down as if you were encouraging them to do a forward roll. See Asashoryou for the best example.
•if your opp. steps back from the uchimata, then step around&behind them, with explosiveness please, into the sumo-squat chair throw. Be sure to rotate your chest into them as you hit the throw, as if you were to clothesline them with your free arm
•if your opp.bases equally so you can't get behind or across them, you can hit the vertuchka sacrifice: a 2on1 grip with the jacket or just send your free-arm under like you are upper-cutting their armpit with the inside of your elbow.
•if their far-foot steps forward, the Ko-uchi-splitz is about the most badassest thing you can pull off. Instead of just hooking and tripping the foot jump into a standing split hooking the back of their leg as you reach with your free arm. The advantage of this is you aren't bent over to catch the top of the foot and you don't have to break their posture, your level change into the split will take care of that.
some counters to all this:
•lift their near leg and push into the far corner, against their heel. Just bowl them over.
•Bodok back throw: single-leg squat and extend the other leg directly perpendicular to their centerline. Look to the back corner as you hit the mat.
•then we did the same Bodok setup as a way to turn over the turtle. We've done it before where you press the extended leg into their hip and pull them over that way. This variant is you have a wizzer-hold on the arm and you go the other direction: squatting leg@head and roll them that way-pressing hard with your locked arm. Turnout into an almost-lunge as you look thru.
fun:
•then we did in&out to uppercut/hook, start the wizzer to break posture then step slightly out and turn in for a punch (we used focus mitts ok?). Make sure the footwork is good, it matters more than a solid punch. Use a box-step-pattern to train this on your own.
wizzer:
•with their arm across your back, underhook and drive your arm across their waist, or take a lapel-grip@the far collar. Push@the waist/pull@lapel and drive your shoulder into them to break posture
•step under and Uchimata/mule-kick throw, move "foot-to-foot" so that you get under them as much as you can, your belt should be below theirs or you won't get any power from your hips.
•for no-gi, a more reliable takedown is to break posture and use your free hand to press their head down as if you were encouraging them to do a forward roll. See Asashoryou for the best example.
•if your opp. steps back from the uchimata, then step around&behind them, with explosiveness please, into the sumo-squat chair throw. Be sure to rotate your chest into them as you hit the throw, as if you were to clothesline them with your free arm
•if your opp.bases equally so you can't get behind or across them, you can hit the vertuchka sacrifice: a 2on1 grip with the jacket or just send your free-arm under like you are upper-cutting their armpit with the inside of your elbow.
•if their far-foot steps forward, the Ko-uchi-splitz is about the most badassest thing you can pull off. Instead of just hooking and tripping the foot jump into a standing split hooking the back of their leg as you reach with your free arm. The advantage of this is you aren't bent over to catch the top of the foot and you don't have to break their posture, your level change into the split will take care of that.
some counters to all this:
•lift their near leg and push into the far corner, against their heel. Just bowl them over.
•Bodok back throw: single-leg squat and extend the other leg directly perpendicular to their centerline. Look to the back corner as you hit the mat.
•then we did the same Bodok setup as a way to turn over the turtle. We've done it before where you press the extended leg into their hip and pull them over that way. This variant is you have a wizzer-hold on the arm and you go the other direction: squatting leg@head and roll them that way-pressing hard with your locked arm. Turnout into an almost-lunge as you look thru.
fun:
•then we did in&out to uppercut/hook, start the wizzer to break posture then step slightly out and turn in for a punch (we used focus mitts ok?). Make sure the footwork is good, it matters more than a solid punch. Use a box-step-pattern to train this on your own.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
sunday Oct 12th
roll, roll, roll
I've explained this too much already!
fwd roll+far ankle pick:
•grapevine the near leg from standing
•keep your legs "framed" as shown and just roll thru to the far ankle, over-reach with your arm, try to get the ankle into your armpit
•it's like the "screwing step" Kadoch vid, if you've watched that one I sent to you, or think of it like the trailing leg in a wrestler's shoot where you press off the toe and move forward off the ankle-extension.
•with your legs in the "rollover frame" you'll have perfect control of the grapevined leg and you are free to attack the overhooked leg. Don't underhook the leg ok?
Victor roll:
•same standing grapevine and all, reach your hand thru you posted leg and the grapevined leg, not between his legs or outside of your legs or whatever. Just think of reaching thru your own two legs
•the deeper you roll, the safer and faster this is, especially if they try to sprawl vs this attack. This is why I like to do it off the grapevine as its harder to sprawl defensively.
• roll thru and secure the over/under calf-crush with your legs on the far leg and attack the kneebar on the near leg. If you've rolled smooth and deep, it should be easy to get the sub, like serving up a slice of pie.
lunge back-step, near-ankle attack:
•this is the cool, Yoga-lookin' thing that Jud really likes. Same grapevine from standing but send your free leg behind the both of you, as far across as you can, like with the victor roll the more you commit- the softer, faster, more fluid it will be
•catch the near ankle as you hit the mat, it's good to release the grapevine a moment before you catch the ankle so you don't hyper-flex your partner's knee, your leg will just travel knee-knee and underhook the far-leg with out any thought or intent. It all just happens out of getting the biggest movement correct.
•you can throw the lunging leg over and get the same over/under calf-crush as before, but you have to be a little more deliberate about that
sacrifice sit-squat:
•same grapevine setup, now just pretend the grape'd leg is your own and squat straight down, hip-into your partner slightly. It won't happen immediately but they will collapse
•roll up your back and keep the grapevine hook so you can just "kick" the trapped leg into your hands for an easy kneebah
sacrifice back roll:
•this time, hop in front of your opp. keeping the grape'd hold and use the springing effect to launch them to your back corner. You have to hop your foot as deeply under them as you can; go even deeper than you think you can so that you increase the leverage effect of this throw. Get it right and they fly right over your hunched up lil'body!
I've explained this too much already!
fwd roll+far ankle pick:
•grapevine the near leg from standing
•keep your legs "framed" as shown and just roll thru to the far ankle, over-reach with your arm, try to get the ankle into your armpit
•it's like the "screwing step" Kadoch vid, if you've watched that one I sent to you, or think of it like the trailing leg in a wrestler's shoot where you press off the toe and move forward off the ankle-extension.
•with your legs in the "rollover frame" you'll have perfect control of the grapevined leg and you are free to attack the overhooked leg. Don't underhook the leg ok?
Victor roll:
•same standing grapevine and all, reach your hand thru you posted leg and the grapevined leg, not between his legs or outside of your legs or whatever. Just think of reaching thru your own two legs
•the deeper you roll, the safer and faster this is, especially if they try to sprawl vs this attack. This is why I like to do it off the grapevine as its harder to sprawl defensively.
• roll thru and secure the over/under calf-crush with your legs on the far leg and attack the kneebar on the near leg. If you've rolled smooth and deep, it should be easy to get the sub, like serving up a slice of pie.
lunge back-step, near-ankle attack:
•this is the cool, Yoga-lookin' thing that Jud really likes. Same grapevine from standing but send your free leg behind the both of you, as far across as you can, like with the victor roll the more you commit- the softer, faster, more fluid it will be
•catch the near ankle as you hit the mat, it's good to release the grapevine a moment before you catch the ankle so you don't hyper-flex your partner's knee, your leg will just travel knee-knee and underhook the far-leg with out any thought or intent. It all just happens out of getting the biggest movement correct.
•you can throw the lunging leg over and get the same over/under calf-crush as before, but you have to be a little more deliberate about that
sacrifice sit-squat:
•same grapevine setup, now just pretend the grape'd leg is your own and squat straight down, hip-into your partner slightly. It won't happen immediately but they will collapse
•roll up your back and keep the grapevine hook so you can just "kick" the trapped leg into your hands for an easy kneebah
sacrifice back roll:
•this time, hop in front of your opp. keeping the grape'd hold and use the springing effect to launch them to your back corner. You have to hop your foot as deeply under them as you can; go even deeper than you think you can so that you increase the leverage effect of this throw. Get it right and they fly right over your hunched up lil'body!
sunday Oct 5th
How do people have time for this crap? *sigh*
We spent the morning doing almost every roll we could cover as a warmup so that we were ready for:
Backwards Granby Roll:
the idea is simple, instead of rolling into your opponent so that you can get a pin-position, we roll to the outside so that we can get to a scarf/North-South position.
•your opp has an arm around your waist, roughly in a referee's position, trap the arm and hold it to your waist-line
•roll to the outside, think of the trapped arm as an axle to turn over, roll over your shoulders with commitment and they'll follow you over nicely- or get their head stuffed!
•you can also reach over the trapped arm and catch the leg on the same side. It's kind of like a 5-point Granby, if you don't know what that is don't worry about it. This way you'll come over into a side-cradle that is very efective positioning
•from standing it is the same, just with footwork adjustments: either drop-knee into the direction or your roll or backstep your lead-leg behind and roll into that impetus.
Bodok/fireman's carry:
all that was simple huh? Well IMO, the same thing but turned on its head-so to speak- is the Bodok
•step-in between your opp's legs and send your hand hi-crotch at the same time, move one side of your body as a unit
•pull@sleeve/elbow-grip and look thru the arm you are attacking, get the nape of your neck into the armpit like you are defending a Guillotine
this sets up the "shoulder-roll" part of the throw, instead of your shoulders hitting the floor, they're hitting your opp and it should basically feel the same: shoulder to shoulder as you move through the throw.
•kick your trailing leg out to side, directly across, this creates an "outrigger" that you end up driving off of. There is a triangulation of extended foot/planted foot/extended hi-crotch hook.
•look-thru past where you are throwing your opponent, they should land so you're N and S of each other. Anything less and you've stuffed the throw or fallen short on your follow through!
We spent the morning doing almost every roll we could cover as a warmup so that we were ready for:
Backwards Granby Roll:
the idea is simple, instead of rolling into your opponent so that you can get a pin-position, we roll to the outside so that we can get to a scarf/North-South position.
•your opp has an arm around your waist, roughly in a referee's position, trap the arm and hold it to your waist-line
•roll to the outside, think of the trapped arm as an axle to turn over, roll over your shoulders with commitment and they'll follow you over nicely- or get their head stuffed!
•you can also reach over the trapped arm and catch the leg on the same side. It's kind of like a 5-point Granby, if you don't know what that is don't worry about it. This way you'll come over into a side-cradle that is very efective positioning
•from standing it is the same, just with footwork adjustments: either drop-knee into the direction or your roll or backstep your lead-leg behind and roll into that impetus.
Bodok/fireman's carry:
all that was simple huh? Well IMO, the same thing but turned on its head-so to speak- is the Bodok
•step-in between your opp's legs and send your hand hi-crotch at the same time, move one side of your body as a unit
•pull@sleeve/elbow-grip and look thru the arm you are attacking, get the nape of your neck into the armpit like you are defending a Guillotine
this sets up the "shoulder-roll" part of the throw, instead of your shoulders hitting the floor, they're hitting your opp and it should basically feel the same: shoulder to shoulder as you move through the throw.
•kick your trailing leg out to side, directly across, this creates an "outrigger" that you end up driving off of. There is a triangulation of extended foot/planted foot/extended hi-crotch hook.
•look-thru past where you are throwing your opponent, they should land so you're N and S of each other. Anything less and you've stuffed the throw or fallen short on your follow through!
Monday, October 20, 2008
sunday sept 28th
ground warmup drills:
•hip switch on top of supine partner: nice and tricky, be sure to send your "switching" leg as far under yourself as you can
•float vs. turtle: can't really do this enough, like everything else...
•sidemount pop-overs: shoulder on solar-plexus of opp. kip-hips and legs up and over from one side to another
•pop-over and gather up legs as you land on the other side
duck-unders and doubles
•man-purse pickup
•overhand punch vs mitt and pickup
•pickup/single leg+
-ankle block
-knee block
-floating sprawl
•hip switch on top of supine partner: nice and tricky, be sure to send your "switching" leg as far under yourself as you can
•float vs. turtle: can't really do this enough, like everything else...
•sidemount pop-overs: shoulder on solar-plexus of opp. kip-hips and legs up and over from one side to another
•pop-over and gather up legs as you land on the other side
duck-unders and doubles
•man-purse pickup
•overhand punch vs mitt and pickup
•pickup/single leg+
-ankle block
-knee block
-floating sprawl
sunday, sept 22nd
groundwork day
I drilled the hell out of everybody as punishment for my back feeling so tweaked. I wanted to see everyone suffer. I was pleased...
movement drills, 1 min each then rotate partners:
•lying side by side, head to foot: at "go" situp and fight for side/scarf-control
•sitting back to back: at "go" spin around and establish dominant position
30 second drills
•turtle rides. float clockwise/counterclockwise, stay on your toes and keep your CofG pressed into your turtled partner
•BBJ-ball rides: partner takes/maintains a balled-up posture, tries to use as little hand/foot hooking as possible, just move around on back and try to keep your opp. riding your shins/unable to open up your legs
•standing duck-under drills: left side and right side
•standing duck-under+single leg: press up with lead hand and send cross-hand underhooking leg to hi-crotch
•standing duck-under+double-leg: grab at the base of hip rotators
groundwork:
•key#1 rollovers vs mount
•key#3 rollovers vs mount
•foot-scissors rollover vs mount
•hip-switch rollover vs mount
I drilled the hell out of everybody as punishment for my back feeling so tweaked. I wanted to see everyone suffer. I was pleased...
movement drills, 1 min each then rotate partners:
•lying side by side, head to foot: at "go" situp and fight for side/scarf-control
•sitting back to back: at "go" spin around and establish dominant position
30 second drills
•turtle rides. float clockwise/counterclockwise, stay on your toes and keep your CofG pressed into your turtled partner
•BBJ-ball rides: partner takes/maintains a balled-up posture, tries to use as little hand/foot hooking as possible, just move around on back and try to keep your opp. riding your shins/unable to open up your legs
•standing duck-under drills: left side and right side
•standing duck-under+single leg: press up with lead hand and send cross-hand underhooking leg to hi-crotch
•standing duck-under+double-leg: grab at the base of hip rotators
groundwork:
•key#1 rollovers vs mount
•key#3 rollovers vs mount
•foot-scissors rollover vs mount
•hip-switch rollover vs mount
Friday, October 10, 2008
resolve
I shall catch up on this blog, I've just been so busy and away from the computer that it's become difficult to stay on top of this project.
One thing about our classes, I watch you guys during the warmup and even if I've come in with specific things I want to work on, I always end up adjusting it. Sometimes I'm scrapping it altogether and making shit up as I go (not as in what to do technically!) but I might stop the progression or take a different direction. I get feedback from seeing who showed up and how you all are moving.
If anyone wants to break out of the warmup&breakfall/Sambo-Parkour routines, by all means go ahead. I just stay on this stuff as I think its very important. I also want to be sure we're active and moving for a good 1&1/2-2hrs. I've always felt that staying moving like this was a good training regimin.
I recently found some validation for this thinking:
"According to our definition, endurance begins at 90 minutes, the point when fueling, hydration, thermal regulation and a host of other factors take on a greater influence than during shorter efforts."
-Mark Fucking Twight
One thing about our classes, I watch you guys during the warmup and even if I've come in with specific things I want to work on, I always end up adjusting it. Sometimes I'm scrapping it altogether and making shit up as I go (not as in what to do technically!) but I might stop the progression or take a different direction. I get feedback from seeing who showed up and how you all are moving.
If anyone wants to break out of the warmup&breakfall/Sambo-Parkour routines, by all means go ahead. I just stay on this stuff as I think its very important. I also want to be sure we're active and moving for a good 1&1/2-2hrs. I've always felt that staying moving like this was a good training regimin.
I recently found some validation for this thinking:
"According to our definition, endurance begins at 90 minutes, the point when fueling, hydration, thermal regulation and a host of other factors take on a greater influence than during shorter efforts."
-Mark Fucking Twight
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Sunday the 14th
•T.K.A day: step&hook, inside of foot to outside of partner's foot, lift slightly and snap-over the trapped foot. As a drill, take up the foot and stutter-step while holding the foot-hooked so that you're hopping on one leg and shuffling forward.
some points:
• step and expand, "like a big peacock"
• hips forward, don't turn out/away from your opponent
• change posture from hollowed to expanded chest
•TKA with a follow-up: if the opponent steps that foot back, swing knee up and over in a knee circle and step/lunge deeply back across the front of your partner. Knee down, toe to the mat, heel up. Its the "shuai jao" style throw. We did something very similar with Kurrinoy.
•cross-side inside trip: same as the "TKA" but attack the cross-side foot so that partner steps out, turn away from the oppoent and switch hips dropping from one side to the other and swing backward into the throw. This is a front trip/podnoshka, not a hip-throw, the mechanics are wrong for this here.
some points:
• step and expand, "like a big peacock"
• hips forward, don't turn out/away from your opponent
• change posture from hollowed to expanded chest
•TKA with a follow-up: if the opponent steps that foot back, swing knee up and over in a knee circle and step/lunge deeply back across the front of your partner. Knee down, toe to the mat, heel up. Its the "shuai jao" style throw. We did something very similar with Kurrinoy.
•cross-side inside trip: same as the "TKA" but attack the cross-side foot so that partner steps out, turn away from the oppoent and switch hips dropping from one side to the other and swing backward into the throw. This is a front trip/podnoshka, not a hip-throw, the mechanics are wrong for this here.
Sunday the 7th
•foot-sweep foot-work: starting with a timing exercise, where the partner hops in place and you check their ankle with the sole of your foot. Do this without looking down, then try do this without looking at all. Get a feel for the input/feedback through jacket-grips. This helps avoid telegraphing your attack, and getting a rapid-reflex that you won't get with looking and thinking.
•upper-body snap: turn your body&hands as if you are dumping a bucket of water. The foot starts a circle that the hands complete, so that your foot slides forward for the sweep and your hands pull-back against that directional swipe.
•in motion: stepping side to side together, simultaneously, use your trailing foot to sweep under your partner's trailing foot and sweep out both feet together. If your partner looks like he just slipped off his skateboard, it's the right timing.
• also: same side to side movement but back-step with the trailing foot and then sweep it around and attack your partner's feet with a sweep as before. It is a tricky variant, but effective for breaking your opponent's posture
•in motion again: now, instead of sweeping from behind, use an inner-thigh block at the hip and turn-out from the direction of movement. You can also plant the foot and steer your opponent over the blocking leg. Think of shoving them over a fence that's about hip height.
After that I got really tired and didn't have anything left for more so you goobers were on your own there....phew!
•upper-body snap: turn your body&hands as if you are dumping a bucket of water. The foot starts a circle that the hands complete, so that your foot slides forward for the sweep and your hands pull-back against that directional swipe.
•in motion: stepping side to side together, simultaneously, use your trailing foot to sweep under your partner's trailing foot and sweep out both feet together. If your partner looks like he just slipped off his skateboard, it's the right timing.
• also: same side to side movement but back-step with the trailing foot and then sweep it around and attack your partner's feet with a sweep as before. It is a tricky variant, but effective for breaking your opponent's posture
•in motion again: now, instead of sweeping from behind, use an inner-thigh block at the hip and turn-out from the direction of movement. You can also plant the foot and steer your opponent over the blocking leg. Think of shoving them over a fence that's about hip height.
After that I got really tired and didn't have anything left for more so you goobers were on your own there....phew!
Sunday, August 31, 2008
sunday the 31st
combinations are the theme of the month, blame Mississippi-mud-skippin-Rob for this:
Inside trip footwork:
•start with box-stepping, step back and pendulum in/out of it. (I forgot to bring up the African stepping work that we've played around with before, "jing" I think it's called; but things were getting pretty 'tarded with the Capoiera references and chi-blasting bullcrap) Work on a good rhythm and balance being too close vs. too far away. Having a jacket to work with really helps get a better feel for this.
•hook your R to his L or your L to his R. Same side lead. Try to keep you hips forward the whole time, don't turn out/if you do correct by pointing your toe straight ahead. Keep your hips driving forward.
•finesse version is to swing your back leg out&away, an arcing back-step, and use the momentum from your leg to execute the takedown. Its a geriatric version of an odbiv, nice for us old guys...
•power version is to just drive straight into your opponent, here it will REALLY count if you can keep your hips forward and drive thru the direction of the throw
from inside trip same side to inside trip cross side:
•just swing your leg so that you gather the cross-side leg up with your leg. Don't hook/grapevine it, that will lead to troubles as you will be off-balance and wrong-footed to baseout. Sweep your leg across and make contact with your upper, inner-thigh first. Leg to leg equally. Say you start with your R leg vs his L leg, then sweep across to his R leg.
•if your opponent sprawls against you, you can reach down from your outside-L arm in this case- and clamp down on his hip, gather up the leg like you're going for a log-roll with it but just drive forward.
think of this photo but with the right leg wrapped around the opponents right leg as well:
http://www.judoxiquexique.com/kuchikitaoshi.jpg
•in both cases, you have to keep your hips driving forward, don't turn away from your opponent.
outer-reap, starting with a "draped leg":
• this is more for the exercise than for the throw itself, standing side by side, hang your leg over the outside of your opponent's and hop-backstep into position to execute the reap.
•remember that the "tripod" point can be exploited equally to the front or the back, and that and the hip-alignment is what this drill primarily addresses.
kick, punch, throw combo's:
•jab+cross+inside-thigh kick, then jab+clothesline into an outer-reap, like so:
•jab+cross+knee, then jab+clothesline+knee/follow-thru into an outside reap
here's a video (I'm all about the video action here!!):
outside crescent kick/step over guard and cross to the freakin'skull!:
•this is a favorite of mine, Ben's too as he demo'd it with me. Make sure that you use your lead-leg and just press the opponent's legs over and down. As you come over&across, drop a cross to the head, be sure that you're loading your hip behind your punch to get as much out of it as you can! :
Inside trip footwork:
•start with box-stepping, step back and pendulum in/out of it. (I forgot to bring up the African stepping work that we've played around with before, "jing" I think it's called; but things were getting pretty 'tarded with the Capoiera references and chi-blasting bullcrap) Work on a good rhythm and balance being too close vs. too far away. Having a jacket to work with really helps get a better feel for this.
•hook your R to his L or your L to his R. Same side lead. Try to keep you hips forward the whole time, don't turn out/if you do correct by pointing your toe straight ahead. Keep your hips driving forward.
•finesse version is to swing your back leg out&away, an arcing back-step, and use the momentum from your leg to execute the takedown. Its a geriatric version of an odbiv, nice for us old guys...
•power version is to just drive straight into your opponent, here it will REALLY count if you can keep your hips forward and drive thru the direction of the throw
from inside trip same side to inside trip cross side:
•just swing your leg so that you gather the cross-side leg up with your leg. Don't hook/grapevine it, that will lead to troubles as you will be off-balance and wrong-footed to baseout. Sweep your leg across and make contact with your upper, inner-thigh first. Leg to leg equally. Say you start with your R leg vs his L leg, then sweep across to his R leg.
•if your opponent sprawls against you, you can reach down from your outside-L arm in this case- and clamp down on his hip, gather up the leg like you're going for a log-roll with it but just drive forward.
think of this photo but with the right leg wrapped around the opponents right leg as well:
http://www.judoxiquexique.com/kuchikitaoshi.jpg
•in both cases, you have to keep your hips driving forward, don't turn away from your opponent.
outer-reap, starting with a "draped leg":
• this is more for the exercise than for the throw itself, standing side by side, hang your leg over the outside of your opponent's and hop-backstep into position to execute the reap.
•remember that the "tripod" point can be exploited equally to the front or the back, and that and the hip-alignment is what this drill primarily addresses.
kick, punch, throw combo's:
•jab+cross+inside-thigh kick, then jab+clothesline into an outer-reap, like so:
•jab+cross+knee, then jab+clothesline+knee/follow-thru into an outside reap
here's a video (I'm all about the video action here!!):
outside crescent kick/step over guard and cross to the freakin'skull!:
•this is a favorite of mine, Ben's too as he demo'd it with me. Make sure that you use your lead-leg and just press the opponent's legs over and down. As you come over&across, drop a cross to the head, be sure that you're loading your hip behind your punch to get as much out of it as you can! :
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Sunday the 24th
I'm late getting to this, busy week already and goddamned August is already over?!? wtf.
Hane-goshi series:
we started with a ground work rollover: opp. is kneeling, shin vs. belt-line, grab over the back/belt/lat&armpit for no-gi, press to break posture and send back leg away and then back in (maintain a "kneeling" position doing this), press and elevate with the momentum generated, throw opp. over the same side as your gripping arm
recovery vs. single leg: if the opp. has a good outside corner leg pick, fold up your leg and drop into the same kneeling position and go into the rollover^
failed hane-goshi crappling: my bruised rib kept me from getting anything like quality. Here's a good vid of what I oughta've done-oh well:
so we moved on to some unbalancing and rhythm drills for outer-reaps, sway&step back and forth then time it so you advance with your reaping leg. remember to look thru your opp. towards their "backstep" which is your target for throwing them to the ground.
Outer-reap+punch: partner holds a forearm pad in standing guard and you hit, inside forearm is easiest for training, and follow thru with the reap. Then a variant where opp. holds the pad across chest -like a Klingon salute-and you elbow/shoulder block+outer reap.
Outer-reap into armbar: same as always, clamp the bicep with your legs and squat in close to the arm and continue with the usual suspects from there.
well anyhow, we'll heal up a little more and get back into it next time. Here's another good technique from a recent favorite of mine:
Hane-goshi series:
we started with a ground work rollover: opp. is kneeling, shin vs. belt-line, grab over the back/belt/lat&armpit for no-gi, press to break posture and send back leg away and then back in (maintain a "kneeling" position doing this), press and elevate with the momentum generated, throw opp. over the same side as your gripping arm
recovery vs. single leg: if the opp. has a good outside corner leg pick, fold up your leg and drop into the same kneeling position and go into the rollover^
failed hane-goshi crappling: my bruised rib kept me from getting anything like quality. Here's a good vid of what I oughta've done-oh well:
so we moved on to some unbalancing and rhythm drills for outer-reaps, sway&step back and forth then time it so you advance with your reaping leg. remember to look thru your opp. towards their "backstep" which is your target for throwing them to the ground.
Outer-reap+punch: partner holds a forearm pad in standing guard and you hit, inside forearm is easiest for training, and follow thru with the reap. Then a variant where opp. holds the pad across chest -like a Klingon salute-and you elbow/shoulder block+outer reap.
Outer-reap into armbar: same as always, clamp the bicep with your legs and squat in close to the arm and continue with the usual suspects from there.
well anyhow, we'll heal up a little more and get back into it next time. Here's another good technique from a recent favorite of mine:
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Sunday teh 17th
so today was epic. that is about all. However, for you knuckleheads that couldn't be bothered to show up:
B+P+S/Bodok, Peredina, Spina drill: use a reverse "Beastmaster-grip". Orthodox lead=left grip to right hand of UKI. outside/left leg forward&single-leg/pistol squat, then left leg bkwd. then squat. Mirror image for R-hand lead. This drill emphasizes the continuity of movement and balance/poise necessary to execute a good throw.
Bodok throw: its a fireman's carry-rt. forearm vs. thigh of UKI and rt. leg posts while left leg shoots straight out. Head into armpit of UKI&look up, just like how you would defend a guillotine choke, posture-up and then throw UKI to the back-left-corner 7 o'clock on your watchface!
There's also the "dresser dump" version of this throw where instead of looking to the back corner, you look to the side and gather in the leg/arm like its a cradle. How you move and your tendencies will decide which works best for you.
same throw vs. a 2on1 guillotine reversal: same mechanics of the throw: rt. arm+rt.leg enter and follow thru with looking to the back corner~7 o'clock low! once you're on the ground, go in the direction of your arm. If dude's still holding the choke, this will be the best way to break the grip/hold. If you've broken the hold, just scramble however you like. You can get right to mount if the opportunity presents itself.
follow-up attack so you have the 2on1 guillotine hold and you feel the UKI moving to defend. Same bodok movement, but stepping behind UKI. This is tani-otoshi in Judo and for us its just a very sweet follow-up takedown. Step&post/bend knee between UKI's legs, send the left leg behind the UKI and you will flip them over onto their back and maintain the 2on1 hold.
this is one of my favorite YouTube channels, "balagezyan" just gets it right!!
From there, if you're no-gi do the Shamrock-choke where you chicken-wing your arm around their neck and move down, thumb towards frontal deltoid, like you're trying to pop their head off. The choke is from the forearm and the bicep&pec.
If you're no-gi, its an upside down jugi-gatame. I can't explain that right now cause I'm getting too fucking tired!!!!
the last permutation was verus turtled opponent use the same leg movement: whatever the grip be it a greco-head and arm clasp or a west-point-hold or a tag+belt grip, spring to flat-feet and press right leg vs.calf.
~Turn UKI over onto back, there's a few outcomes depending on you/them: leg underneath=work for scissors-choke: hold arm as if you're going to attack it, work legs in extension and flexion to "work into the choke" squeeze on extension for the finish.
~hook far arm with left leg, crucifix-style and control right arm for armbar. This is a nice one for no-gi work
~depending on if you "under-roll or over-roll" you can work the armbar or a leg attack.
B+P+S/Bodok, Peredina, Spina drill: use a reverse "Beastmaster-grip". Orthodox lead=left grip to right hand of UKI. outside/left leg forward&single-leg/pistol squat, then left leg bkwd. then squat. Mirror image for R-hand lead. This drill emphasizes the continuity of movement and balance/poise necessary to execute a good throw.
Bodok throw: its a fireman's carry-rt. forearm vs. thigh of UKI and rt. leg posts while left leg shoots straight out. Head into armpit of UKI&look up, just like how you would defend a guillotine choke, posture-up and then throw UKI to the back-left-corner 7 o'clock on your watchface!
There's also the "dresser dump" version of this throw where instead of looking to the back corner, you look to the side and gather in the leg/arm like its a cradle. How you move and your tendencies will decide which works best for you.
same throw vs. a 2on1 guillotine reversal: same mechanics of the throw: rt. arm+rt.leg enter and follow thru with looking to the back corner~7 o'clock low! once you're on the ground, go in the direction of your arm. If dude's still holding the choke, this will be the best way to break the grip/hold. If you've broken the hold, just scramble however you like. You can get right to mount if the opportunity presents itself.
follow-up attack so you have the 2on1 guillotine hold and you feel the UKI moving to defend. Same bodok movement, but stepping behind UKI. This is tani-otoshi in Judo and for us its just a very sweet follow-up takedown. Step&post/bend knee between UKI's legs, send the left leg behind the UKI and you will flip them over onto their back and maintain the 2on1 hold.
this is one of my favorite YouTube channels, "balagezyan" just gets it right!!
From there, if you're no-gi do the Shamrock-choke where you chicken-wing your arm around their neck and move down, thumb towards frontal deltoid, like you're trying to pop their head off. The choke is from the forearm and the bicep&pec.
If you're no-gi, its an upside down jugi-gatame. I can't explain that right now cause I'm getting too fucking tired!!!!
the last permutation was verus turtled opponent use the same leg movement: whatever the grip be it a greco-head and arm clasp or a west-point-hold or a tag+belt grip, spring to flat-feet and press right leg vs.calf.
~Turn UKI over onto back, there's a few outcomes depending on you/them: leg underneath=work for scissors-choke: hold arm as if you're going to attack it, work legs in extension and flexion to "work into the choke" squeeze on extension for the finish.
~hook far arm with left leg, crucifix-style and control right arm for armbar. This is a nice one for no-gi work
~depending on if you "under-roll or over-roll" you can work the armbar or a leg attack.
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Aug 10 notes Podxvat/Uchi-mata day (mostly)
we need to do more Shiko-reps (Sumo squats)! At best ROM, we should be doing 160 reps. It covers balance, strength, posture, flexibility and concentration.
•criss-cross stepping sprints, emphasize the back-step
•slow-posture work: step, back-step and lift leg. Find tabled posture for shoulder blades, look around posted-leg and look for the instep of your extended foot
•walking uchikomi: walk into and out of the throw/fit-in for the throw, try to make each step equal in spacing and timing. Think of walking up the side of a bowl, how the curve quickens.
•back-kick with heavy bag, R-L-Rkick and L-R-Lkick.
•elastic bands for the n00bs, paired up for the ones who have a feel for it. In either case, drive forward. If you're on your heels then you're blowing your elastic motion.
•emphasize the shoulder=>hips twisting motion/action: elbow strike and mule-kick for the throw: then knee-strike and swing leg thru to mule-kick&throw
•pendulum-leg: like a punt in Rugby, you're launched off the ground by the action of your leg+hip, solo drill=knee hit, like a clinched side knee, turn with the action generated and roll over with your leg extending.
•knee-strike and mule-kick roll, hip-snap is crucial
•"kid n'play" line drill, if you do it right-it doesn't hurt. Best way to learn is to get your body to give you the feedback you need!
then we worked on the throw again,
•forward roll-together: do this cautiously until you have a feel for it, if you concentrate on forward rolling correctly, it works fine.
•"curly-roll" pendulum leg and use that action to launch a forward-roll. From there, use it for the Victor-roll into kneebar. Then use the same "feel" for the actual correct Victor-roll.
•criss-cross stepping sprints, emphasize the back-step
•slow-posture work: step, back-step and lift leg. Find tabled posture for shoulder blades, look around posted-leg and look for the instep of your extended foot
•walking uchikomi: walk into and out of the throw/fit-in for the throw, try to make each step equal in spacing and timing. Think of walking up the side of a bowl, how the curve quickens.
•back-kick with heavy bag, R-L-Rkick and L-R-Lkick.
•elastic bands for the n00bs, paired up for the ones who have a feel for it. In either case, drive forward. If you're on your heels then you're blowing your elastic motion.
•emphasize the shoulder=>hips twisting motion/action: elbow strike and mule-kick for the throw: then knee-strike and swing leg thru to mule-kick&throw
•pendulum-leg: like a punt in Rugby, you're launched off the ground by the action of your leg+hip, solo drill=knee hit, like a clinched side knee, turn with the action generated and roll over with your leg extending.
•knee-strike and mule-kick roll, hip-snap is crucial
•"kid n'play" line drill, if you do it right-it doesn't hurt. Best way to learn is to get your body to give you the feedback you need!
then we worked on the throw again,
•forward roll-together: do this cautiously until you have a feel for it, if you concentrate on forward rolling correctly, it works fine.
•"curly-roll" pendulum leg and use that action to launch a forward-roll. From there, use it for the Victor-roll into kneebar. Then use the same "feel" for the actual correct Victor-roll.
Sunday, August 3, 2008
aug. 3rd class review/highlights:
•sumo squat&catch vs. tree-falling partner -press@chest, -top of head@chest and press, -one handed press@sternum, -2on1 wrist grip press@sternum
•front&back movement with jab-lead: -vary timing, vary strike, -on the way in, -on the way back, -elbow block and head wrap, -also use head butt to keep form. Partner needs to keep good defensive form as well. Hold pad with palmside into head, above ear. Keep shoulder up on attacked side and settle into the blow. Don't let your cage get rattled. More, much more later.
•jacketed work, much like Katanishi's work. Just for the setup/fit-in. You have to get the opponent back on heels then on his toes, get under his hips, replace his hips with yours. Do this out of fluid movement and not with power/muscularity.
-use a loose elbow motion for "shoving" your opponent, pushing with the hand can be a good experiment but not useful in application. Keep the lapel grip tight. Also vary the grips: armpit, sleeve@elbow, wrist
-spin into the opponent off of the back-step. keep you hips low as you do this
-drill: opp. falls into you and you turn quickly and load him onto hips. Do this off his initiation. Opp. can use a telegraphed arm-motion to start this action, jabbing downwards. Think of back stepping under an Olympic bar on a rack, you have to get your hips set or you won't be able to press the load.
•various throws:, almost doesn't matter as its all about the footwork and entry. -shoulder throw -spina -podnoshka
-knee shove: for practice, use the outside of the thigh to check@hips, in&out&spin into podxvat, -double lapel grips for balance, -arm&head, -arm&underhook, -arm&lapel
•side-step entry shoulder throw, -step to side and slide leg+snap hips around, analogy of roundhouse kick snaps from hips and is not a big-looping step. Elastic band training for Jacob and Carey.
-partner holds pad: step&hook@head, reset and throw, opp. drops hand after blow. Headlock throw, underhook throw, shoulder throw. Hockey fight=keep the lapel grip and throw after the hit. No one fights naked in battle anymore, be ready for the huns!
-armbar after the takedown/throw focus on positioning the armbar correctly and a good standing-ground transition
•sumo squat&catch vs. tree-falling partner -press@chest, -top of head@chest and press, -one handed press@sternum, -2on1 wrist grip press@sternum
•front&back movement with jab-lead: -vary timing, vary strike, -on the way in, -on the way back, -elbow block and head wrap, -also use head butt to keep form. Partner needs to keep good defensive form as well. Hold pad with palmside into head, above ear. Keep shoulder up on attacked side and settle into the blow. Don't let your cage get rattled. More, much more later.
•jacketed work, much like Katanishi's work. Just for the setup/fit-in. You have to get the opponent back on heels then on his toes, get under his hips, replace his hips with yours. Do this out of fluid movement and not with power/muscularity.
-use a loose elbow motion for "shoving" your opponent, pushing with the hand can be a good experiment but not useful in application. Keep the lapel grip tight. Also vary the grips: armpit, sleeve@elbow, wrist
-spin into the opponent off of the back-step. keep you hips low as you do this
-drill: opp. falls into you and you turn quickly and load him onto hips. Do this off his initiation. Opp. can use a telegraphed arm-motion to start this action, jabbing downwards. Think of back stepping under an Olympic bar on a rack, you have to get your hips set or you won't be able to press the load.
•various throws:, almost doesn't matter as its all about the footwork and entry. -shoulder throw -spina -podnoshka
-knee shove: for practice, use the outside of the thigh to check@hips, in&out&spin into podxvat, -double lapel grips for balance, -arm&head, -arm&underhook, -arm&lapel
•side-step entry shoulder throw, -step to side and slide leg+snap hips around, analogy of roundhouse kick snaps from hips and is not a big-looping step. Elastic band training for Jacob and Carey.
-partner holds pad: step&hook@head, reset and throw, opp. drops hand after blow. Headlock throw, underhook throw, shoulder throw. Hockey fight=keep the lapel grip and throw after the hit. No one fights naked in battle anymore, be ready for the huns!
-armbar after the takedown/throw focus on positioning the armbar correctly and a good standing-ground transition
Friday, August 1, 2008
footwork day
Really, every day is footwork day. You're gettin' into your champagne-tinted ride or just dodging thru the isles at Bev-Mo: footwork folks.
It doesn't get much better than this, Hiroshi Katanishi. Who knew you needed to go to France to learn such sweet Judo. One of my absolute favorite uchikomi drills:
It doesn't get much better than this, Hiroshi Katanishi. Who knew you needed to go to France to learn such sweet Judo. One of my absolute favorite uchikomi drills:
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Re: Throwing intention and chambering your punches from your back muscles along the ulna-side o'dey arm.
I've been pondering that for everything I've seen on carpal tunnel, the injuries are on the "more recently developed" thumb-side. figures
Also, for the setup for shoulder-throw into armdrag we were doing yesterday: if you try to control the opp's wrist with your thumb-side, you get hung up. Whereas, if you just make a hook out of your pinky/ring&middle fingers against the palm of your hand and drive from your shoulder, your body tends to get out of its own way. I think because the ulna-side is push/shove oriented while the radius-side is pull/gather specific.
Why does this work? Well thanks to Vince Brown,
"what's happening is the thumb-side control of the wrist causes you to fire the upper traps and rhomboids so your scapula is unloaded from your trunk so the power is lost and thus, the hang up.
The radius-side is pull-gather in it's nature, but more specific toward pulling up towards our face for better looking.
The ulnar side is the route of pushing AND pulling power from the body. So if you make a hook with your pinky, ring and middle finger and drive the tip of the elbow down, the total force goes waaaay up."
This is why we love Vince^
I tell you guys what I've been told, "look at your watch" as you turn through the throw. If you get this right, everything else will follow. Your face and neck muscles are crucial to this movement. I know that looking thru helps bring your shoulder down and aligns every little freaking detail of the throw. Alex Barakov told us that even the small neck&jaw muscles were crucial to any throw of this type.
I now know (Vince again!) that it is "the sub-occipital complex. They have the highest density of muscle spindles per gram of any muscle in the body. They are neurologically wired to eye movement as well as to the erector spinea. So where the eyes look, the sub-o. senses it and prep the neck to support/move the head as well as get the back muscles ready for the direction change.
With the teeth together and the tongue at the roof of the mouth, this helps support/stabilize the spine. More neurologically than mechanically. Much like activating the pelvic floor assists in stabilizing the spine.
All those things together set the body up to be more cohesive, which allows for total commitment. Removes all the possible brakes to your motion."
Also included in this fireside chat, a great picture of Bob Gibson (studley MO-Fo big league pitcher) showing total commitment. He's famous for putting it all behind his pitch. I think he had an ERA of 1.19 or something in 1968. Notice that pitchers throw with their whole body, not the forefinger, thumb, bicep, deltiod...97 mph fastball comes from the feet up thru the hips and into the arm. The grip on the ball is the absolute last moment of contact. It's a question of priorities.
*pops open a nice cold one and tips it -thumb-side in- for a sip*
Saturday, July 26, 2008
From the Igor Kurinnoy/Boretz website:
June 27 – July 7 in the United States of America in the Bettendorf city (Iowa) and San Francisco (California) series of international seminars was held by Igor Kurinnoy. It was good opportunity for many sambo and judo players to learn throws, grappling techniques, submission with focus on leg locks, theory of training and conditioning presented at the “Sambo for Professionals” directly from the source. This vent became possible owing to official SFP representative Gregg Humphreys efforts (travel and event organizer) and Serge Gerlach (for California event).
nice to have a little write up in the heartland of sambo.
June 27 – July 7 in the United States of America in the Bettendorf city (Iowa) and San Francisco (California) series of international seminars was held by Igor Kurinnoy. It was good opportunity for many sambo and judo players to learn throws, grappling techniques, submission with focus on leg locks, theory of training and conditioning presented at the “Sambo for Professionals” directly from the source. This vent became possible owing to official SFP representative Gregg Humphreys efforts (travel and event organizer) and Serge Gerlach (for California event).
nice to have a little write up in the heartland of sambo.
Hi Folks!
This is the official blog for CaliSambo, a school for the Russian Martial Art of SAMBO.
It's head coach is Serge Gerlach an Athlete's Representative of the "American Sambo Association" (for more information, please visit: ussambo.com)
Serge Gerlach has a long history in martial arts with training in san shou, submission wrestling, BJJ, and Combat Sambo under Alexander Barakov. Most recently Serge has trained in Moscow with Igor Kurinnoy. He won the heavyweight bronze medal at the 1997 Gene LeBell World Grappler's Challenge in Toronto, Canada; a gold medal (2004) and silver medal (2006) at the United Gracie Tournament in San Francisco; a bronze medal at the 2005 Unity Classic Sambo Tournament; and a silver medal at the 2005 and 2007 North American Freestyle Sambo Championships. Serge holds an assistant instructor rank from New York Combat Sambo and teaches Combat Sambo classes throughout the San Francisco Bay area.
Recently, Serge was featured in the New York Times in an excellent article on Sambo, released on the same day of the Affliction fight with Fedor Emelianenko destroying Tim Sylvia in 37 seconds. Timing is everything ;)
have a look:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/19/sports/othersports/19fight.html
This is the official blog for CaliSambo, a school for the Russian Martial Art of SAMBO.
It's head coach is Serge Gerlach an Athlete's Representative of the "American Sambo Association" (for more information, please visit: ussambo.com)
Serge Gerlach has a long history in martial arts with training in san shou, submission wrestling, BJJ, and Combat Sambo under Alexander Barakov. Most recently Serge has trained in Moscow with Igor Kurinnoy. He won the heavyweight bronze medal at the 1997 Gene LeBell World Grappler's Challenge in Toronto, Canada; a gold medal (2004) and silver medal (2006) at the United Gracie Tournament in San Francisco; a bronze medal at the 2005 Unity Classic Sambo Tournament; and a silver medal at the 2005 and 2007 North American Freestyle Sambo Championships. Serge holds an assistant instructor rank from New York Combat Sambo and teaches Combat Sambo classes throughout the San Francisco Bay area.
Recently, Serge was featured in the New York Times in an excellent article on Sambo, released on the same day of the Affliction fight with Fedor Emelianenko destroying Tim Sylvia in 37 seconds. Timing is everything ;)
have a look:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/19/sports/othersports/19fight.html
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