IGX "...overflowing with foulmouthed ignorance."

2018.12.03PM; jiu-jitsu...walked to the academy, assisted with the beginners' class, then played four rounds of guard (closed and knee-shield half) and walked home.

The yoga is helping, so I made sure to do a series of surya-namaskar before bed to shake off some of the residual tension of training.

Aloha!

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"Prepare your hearts as a fortress, for there will be no other." -Francisco Pizarro González

HOTTTFIYAH fi mi gilet jaune.

2018.12.04PM; jiu-jitsu...walked to the academy for class.

Showed up, there was a Master's world champ, three other black belts, assorted other students, and your feline servant. Class was an hour of De La Riva passes and then rounds. I focused exclusively on pulling guard and reversing.

Man, I'm too spent to recount them but it's really, really great to be training with all kinds of great grapplers again. The world champ guy is from Japan and is a former Shooto champ if that gives you any idea of the quality.

Walked home feeling stoked.

Aloha!

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"Prepare your hearts as a fortress, for there will be no other." -Francisco Pizarro González

2018.12.05PM; Astanga-yoga x 20 minutes before I got disgusted with it and stopped. Aloha!

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"Prepare your hearts as a fortress, for there will be no other." -Francisco Pizarro González

"Never complain that your afflictions are many or heavy or prolonged because God orders everything in number, weight, and measure." -St. Francis de Sales

2018.12.06PM; I saw this little quote accidentally today and it gave me some courage to face the day. I have had insomnia the past two nights, getting up at 2:30 a.m. and not being able to go back to sleep. It's not fun and I'm kinda in a fugue-state.

I did some light dumbbell bodybuilding just to pass the time: pressing, curling, rowing, raises, etc.

Aloha!

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"Prepare your hearts as a fortress, for there will be no other." -Francisco Pizarro González

2018.12.08AM; jiu-jitsu...Saturday class, attendance was pretty thin due to heavy rain.

The class itself was excellent, attacks from seated guard: collar drag, arm drag, attacking the back with collar and rear naked chokes, both top back and rolling through.

I personally worked a related topic: loop choke from steated guard off the collar drag, and then sweeping or coming up depending on their reaction to the loop choke.

After that was 5:00 rounds with the young folks and then some more drilling.

Now I'm off to take my wife to Guns n' Roses at Aloha Stadium.

Aloha!

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"Prepare your hearts as a fortress, for there will be no other." -Francisco Pizarro González

That's a good day!

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"Believe strongly that the world is on your side if you keep true to what is best in you." - Master Carlos Gracie

Thanks Bram, it was a good time, but man I'm getting old, my ears are still ringing. Ugh.

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"Prepare your hearts as a fortress, for there will be no other." -Francisco Pizarro González

2018.12.09PM; just fucking around...

1. DB Rear-Lateral-Front Raise Complex 3 x 10
2. DB Row 3 x 5
3. DB Curl 3 x 5
4. DB One Arm Press 3 x 5
5. Deadlift 3 x 5
6. Laputin Situps x 10

...finished up with a two hour hike.

Aloha!

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"Prepare your hearts as a fortress, for there will be no other." -Francisco Pizarro González

2018.12.10PM; jiu-jitsu...walked to training, did an hour of sweeps and armlocks from guard with a big Samoan kid, and then 4 x 5:00 rounds of sparring before walking home in the rain.

Later in the evening I did 10:00 of Surya-namaskar B to loosen the body before bed. That and reducing the booze seem to help with my sleep, so that's what's up.

Aloha!

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"Prepare your hearts as a fortress, for there will be no other." -Francisco Pizarro González

2018.12.11PM;

1. DB Rear-Lateral-Front Raise Complex 3 x 10
2. DB Row 3 x 6
3. DB Curl 3 x 6
4. DB One Arm Press 3 x 6
5. Deadlift 3 x 6
6. Laputin Situps x 10

Aloha!

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"Prepare your hearts as a fortress, for there will be no other." -Francisco Pizarro González

2018.12.13PM; playing with the breathing methods that we've been talking about on the training forum, no valsalva maneuver but breathing through the movement.

1. DB Rear-Lateral-Front Raise Complex 3 x 10
2. DB Row 3 x 7
3. DB Curl 3 x 7
4. DB One Arm Press 3 x 7
5. KB Shrugs 3 x 7
5. Deadlift 3 x 7
6. Laputin Situps x 10

...also been doing a lot of stretching, especially of the hips and hamstrings.

Aloha!

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"Prepare your hearts as a fortress, for there will be no other." -Francisco Pizarro González

2018.12.14PM; jiu-jitsu...class on various armbars from the guard, then half an our of 5:00 rounds. I was working almost entirely from collar and sleeve, tripod-style open guard, trying to mimic Kron's relentless attacking style.

Afterward, I did an hour and a half hiking. Since I woke up on Saturday morning my left shoulder has just been in agony; it has me a bit depressed as any time I think whatever is the problem is fading it comes back with ferocity.

Bleh.

Aloha!

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"Prepare your hearts as a fortress, for there will be no other." -Francisco Pizarro González

Sorry, Man.

Is this the shoulder you separated years ago?

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The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

W.B. Yeats

Yep. Wow, good memory.

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"Prepare your hearts as a fortress, for there will be no other." -Francisco Pizarro González

2018.12.17PM; ain't nothin' but a peanut.

1. DB Rear-Lateral-Front Raise Complex 3 x 8
2. DB Row 3 x 8
3. DB Curl 3 x 8
4. DB One Arm Press 3 x 8
5. Deadlift 3 x 8
6. Laputin Situps x 12

...car's in the shop overnight so I walked home about 4 miles.

Aloha!

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"Prepare your hearts as a fortress, for there will be no other." -Francisco Pizarro González

2018.12.18PM; jiu-jitsu...was a bunch of hammers out tonight. I think I sparred with more black belts tonight than I ever have before, so that's great, if not for the ego .

Class was done as various drills broken into 6-minute blocks: grip break, torreando passes, etc. each building on itself, so first the pass, then reaction to common defense of pass, and so on.

After that was positional rounds and then open mat. Basically, I can take down most of my peers and put them on their back, but I am not very effective at passing some of the new guards, particularly when my go-to over-under pass is shut out, so that's something to focus on.

I was beat by the end of training, but I'm taking the family to the Big Island for a week over Christmas and can rest then.

Aloha!

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"Prepare your hearts as a fortress, for there will be no other." -Francisco Pizarro González

2018.12.21AM; did this before hopping on the plane for Kona...

1. KB Swing x 50
2. DB Rear-Lateral-Front Raise Complex 3 x 10
3. DB Row 3 x 10
4. DB Curl 3 x 10
5. DB One Arm Press 3 x 10
6. Deadlift 3 x 10
7. Laputin Situps x 12

Aloha!

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"Prepare your hearts as a fortress, for there will be no other." -Francisco Pizarro González

2018.12.21-26...spent Christmas with the extended family in Hāwī, Hawai'i. Spent the time hiking, riding horses, kayaking the old sugar plantation ditches, body surfing, and swimming.

Aloha!

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"Prepare your hearts as a fortress, for there will be no other." -Francisco Pizarro González

2018.12.26PM; did this when I got home from the airport, picking up where I left off...

1. KB Swing x 50
2. DB Rear-Lateral-Front Raise Complex 3 x 10
3. DB Row 3 x 10
4. DB Curl 3 x 10
5. DB One Arm Press 3 x 10
6. Deadlift 3 x 10
7. Laputin Situps x 12

Aloha!

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"Prepare your hearts as a fortress, for there will be no other." -Francisco Pizarro González

Volcano sacrifice?

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Don’t believe everything you think.

All day every day, brah.

Actually, the volcanoes haven't been this quiet in a long time so the air quality was really excellent.

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"Prepare your hearts as a fortress, for there will be no other." -Francisco Pizarro González

2018.12.27PM; was all set to go to jiu-jitsu but my brother called and asked for a ride to the airport at that time.

Instead, I took my son to the park, he skated, I ran Kanewai x 2 miles.

Aloha!

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"Prepare your hearts as a fortress, for there will be no other." -Francisco Pizarro González

2018.12.29AM; a 2 hour morning hike and then a couple of hours of jiu-jitsu in the afternoon.

Class was a variety of interlocking sweeps from closed guard, based off permutations of the situp sweep and the flower sweep, with a guillotine and trinagle entry mixed in when the opponent resists the initial sweep.

Finished with three or four rounds of sparring and then ran off to host a dinner party for visiting friends from Japan and England.

Aloha!

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"Prepare your hearts as a fortress, for there will be no other." -Francisco Pizarro González

2018.12.30PM; building the temple...bumping the weights up just a bit.

1. KB Swing x 40
2. DB Rear-Lateral-Front Raise Complex 3 x 8
3. DB Seesaw Press 3 x 8
4. DB Row 3 x 8
5. BB PTTP Curl 3 x 8
6. BW Lunges 3 x 10
7. Deadlift 3 x 8
8. Laputin Situps 2 x 10

Aloha!

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"Prepare your hearts as a fortress, for there will be no other." -Francisco Pizarro González

2018.12.31AM; 2 hour hike then took the boys to see Amber Heard...I mean Aquaman. Aloha!

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"Prepare your hearts as a fortress, for there will be no other." -Francisco Pizarro González