Another great week of training wrapped up today.  We had a small but nice class today.  Worked some simple choke attacks from butterfly guard and then attacked the omo platta from butterfly guard.  Some nice sparring today!

Some more pressure.  I’m playing a little half guard game and I pass from leg to leg several times to counter his pass attempts.  He manages to force a couple of mistakes in my posture a couple of times that allows him to pass.  Dentinho will be in Kentucky with us for a whole month […]

Old video from July 2011.  Training with Luiz Dentinho on his tatame in Buzios, Brasil.  Pressure pressure pressure

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One of the more controversial rules in today’s IBJJF competition is reaping the knee.  Make no mistake about it.  It is dangerous.  Back in the day many people were injured from knee reaps with the intent of pressuring the knee.  Modern competitive Jiu-Jitsu is a highly specialized and developed sport.  The rules in place are […]

The G.C. Burkhead Judo Club is going strong!  We have been meeting each Tuesday after school for an hour of training.  Yesterday there were 25 students.  We worked on our Judo Vocabulary list a little bit, worked on breakfalls quite a bit, and then we concentrated on O Soto Gari!  Several of the members are […]

After relatively low attendance last week things have started out great this week.  Classes in both E-town and Bowling Green were very nice and productive thus far.  Keep it up!!

A very young Ralek Gracie