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At least you're still training!

My training has gone down ALOT.
Only doing once maybe twice a week and gym.
Not enough.

Made a promise to myself to go 4 days a week again and keep gym to a low (only for strength and cross fit).

How come you left your club?
 
Virtual Blue said:
How come you left your club?
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I moved hundreds of miles away :D Still dropping in occasionally when I get the chance - I'll fit it into my travel plans for that camp in April.

Place I'm at now is an SBG affiliate and Aberdeen is fairly easy to get to from here, so I'm hoping to start spending a night or two down there maybe every 4-6 weeks to fit a few classes in. They're looking for a better space but atm we just have three classes a week in a community hall here.

Making myself revisit the basics is good but I miss leglocks and weird inverted k guard shit.
 
iona said:
I moved hundreds of miles away :D Still dropping in occasionally when I get the chance - I'll fit it into my travel plans for that camp in April.

Place I'm at now is an SBG affiliate and Aberdeen is fairly easy to get to from here, so I'm hoping to start spending a night or two down there maybe every 4-6 weeks to fit a few classes in. They're looking for a better space but atm we just have three classes a week in a community hall here.

Making myself revisit the basics is good but I miss leglocks and weird inverted k guard shit.
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Whar!!
How come you're in Aberdeen? Jesus Christ....that's so anti-social.
Sussex/ Essex/ Kent/ Norfolk is bad enough but fucking hell, Scotland!!
Are you on the run or something?

My wife went to Sardinia for BJJ Summer Camp last year - she said it was awesome.
 
Nothing special with me. I'm doing the All Stars at crystal palace. It's been difficult to find a decent size division. Will probably get my brown belt this year.
 
I'm in Orkney, Aberdeen is just a short bus journey and then you sleep on the overnight ferry 😂 Absolutely love everything about here other than missing a big, busy gym sometimes. I don't really like people when I'm not armbarring them anyway.


I'm looking at doing the Caledonian Open in May but same problem as you bromley, think we might even be same division iirc? Hoping if I sign up this week it'll encourage other people to enter but I might end up having to come down to England for a comp later in the year.
 
Casey Jones is coming up to do a seminar and grading next weekend which is exciting, club will be getting its first blue belts! It's a bit like how BJJ was 20 years ago up here, just over a year ago there were just a few people training together informally and that's still the case up in Shetland, a few of them came down for a visit this summer.
 
Light feather too. If you're doing All Stars I probably know most of your bracket unless they're brown belts now. Think I actually find it easier fighting up at feather sometimes because I'm just not used to light feather / rooster opponents.
 
I’ve taken a break as someone absolutely went to town on me during an arm bar despite me asking them to be careful and completely over extended it. I’m doing my second degree for my other martial art and don’t want JJ risking that for me currently. I also got a bit fed up with the people in my JJ class as they just have no respect for each other, where as my stand up martial art we train hard but still have respect for other peoples tolerances. My other problem with arm injuries is that I lift people for work, and have a bit of a manual job, and I had to take a week off after he trashed me arm, but the NHS have a caveat that if you’re off sick for a sporting injury they can not pay you anything above statutory.

I’ll go back after my second degree, although I’m hoping to move to the south coast and my stand up is a very specific style, which means I won’t be able to train down there so will have to start again in a different style from white belt, so I may just look to do JJ when I move.
 
iona said:
I'm in Orkney, Aberdeen is just a short bus journey and then you sleep on the overnight ferry 😂 Absolutely love everything about here other than missing a big, busy gym sometimes. I don't really like people when I'm not armbarring them anyway.


I'm looking at doing the Caledonian Open in May but same problem as you bromley, think we might even be same division iirc? Hoping if I sign up this week it'll encourage other people to enter but I might end up having to come down to England for a comp later in the year.
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Fucking hell man, that is pretty cool. That is a very different sort of life.

What you mean you don't like people? You seem to connect with people (well us), very easily.
 
Virtual Blue said:
Fucking hell man, that is pretty cool. That is a very different sort of life.

What you mean you don't like people? You seem to connect with people (well us), very easily.
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It's just like my life down south only now I don't have to go home back to the city at night. I was giving away surplus veg at the gym down there and now up here I bring in freshly laid egg for people to buy :D

Talking about jiu jitsu or plants or whatever on here when I can put the phone down any time is different though. I can do sitting around on the mats chatting shit but try to avoid stuff like team meals because I find them excruciating, and I can go ages without seeing people and not miss it the way I miss rolling when I have time off.

sim667 that sounds shit and really not what I'd expect from any decent gym. Weren't you thinking of moving to somewhere near Brighton, or am I mixing you up with someone else? I can recommend a great BJJ club there if so.
 
iona said:
sim667 that sounds shit and really not what I'd expect from any decent gym. Weren't you thinking of moving to somewhere near Brighton, or am I mixing you up with someone else? I can recommend a great BJJ club there if so.
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Shoreham is where I was thinking. I would kind of want to get back in JJ down there, but I'd also like to keep up a stand up martial art art too, but the one I do is kind of a school specific one where they've moved away from their original CKD...... So I guess I'd look at a CKD and a BJJ school. But I would also be tempted at trying out MMA as an alternative, and I've always liked they look of Muay Thai too, so I'd have to look around and see what I like. Having never changed school before I do realise it would mean starting back at a white belt though.
 
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sim667 said:
Shoreham is where I was thinking. I would kind of want to get back in JJ down there, but I'd also like to keep up a stand up martial art art too, but the one I do is kind of a school specific one where they've moved away from their original CKD...... So I guess I'd look at a CKD and a BJJ school. But I would also be tempted at trying out MMA as an alternative, and I've always liked they look of Muay Thai too, so I'd have to look around and see what I like. Having never changed school before I do realise it would mean starting back at a white belt though.
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If travelling into Brighton is workable for you I'd really recommend Elements Martial Arts. Iirc a few people travel over from Shoreham way. They have classes at all different times of day, seven days a week, including a few MMA classes. Loads of people who'd be about your level but there's also almost always lots of higher belts on the mats too. It's a really friendly, welcoming club ime with a wide range of people training there.

I've not been there myself, so can't tell you much about it, but John Hathaway's place over in Steyning would definitely be worth checking out too.

Usually you'd just keep wearing whatever belt you're at now but as you were doing a Gracie jiu jitsu thing before that might be different - best bet is to speak to the head instructor wherever you end up and see what they say.
 
iona said:
If travelling into Brighton is workable for you I'd really recommend Elements Martial Arts. Iirc a few people travel over from Shoreham way. They have classes at all different times of day, seven days a week, including a few MMA classes. Loads of people who'd be about your level but there's also almost always lots of higher belts on the mats too. It's a really friendly, welcoming club ime with a wide range of people training there.

I've not been there myself, so can't tell you much about it, but John Hathaway's place over in Steyning would definitely be worth checking out too.

Usually you'd just keep wearing whatever belt you're at now but as you were doing a Gracie jiu jitsu thing before that might be different - best bet is to speak to the head instructor wherever you end up and see what they say.
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I’d looked at them as a potential. I’m only a 2 stripe in RGJJ anyway, I’m doing my second degree in the standup which is basically a rebranded CKD, so I’d be tempted to go to a CKD school, stay quite about my belts and see if they noticed and spoke to me about it 😂
 
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Officially, got me black belt last Saturday.
Quite emotional. This surprised me.
Its been a long journey...and I am happy I discovered this art back in 2007/8. It will always be a part of me.
 
Congratulations!

I’ve got a test toward my 2nd degree in my stand up style tonight and I’ve just not feeling as driven as I should be feeling
 
My club promoted its first blue belts the other week - eight of them - and it really feels noticeable that we've gone from a new club of all white belts apart from me and the guy who runs it (though a few people had already been training informally for a while before that) to having mostly coloured belts on the mats some sessions now. I've started teaching a few classes and been enjoying that more than I expected too.
 
Watching friends/teammates compete is bad enough but this weekend will be my first time going to a comp actually as A Coach and not just someone who ends up half-arsedly coaching the odd match. 48hrs to go and the stress is killing me already.
 
iona said:
Watching friends/teammates compete is bad enough but this weekend will be my first time going to a comp actually as A Coach and not just someone who ends up half-arsedly coaching the odd match. 48hrs to go and the stress is killing me already.
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It’ll be fun. :thumbs:
 
Funny reading my last few posts back, nine months later. Just got an email from the UKBJJA this afternoon to say I run a BJJ club now. Still not quite sure how that happened. (We're currently set up as a CIC, so there's other directors to share some of the work, but I'm effectively head instructor and the name on all the UKBJJA stuff from now on.)
 
iona said:
Funny reading my last few posts back, nine months later. Just got an email from the UKBJJA this afternoon to say I run a BJJ club now. Still not quite sure how that happened. (We're currently set up as a CIC, so there's other directors to share some of the work, but I'm effectively head instructor and the name on all the UKBJJA stuff from now on.)
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Directors?

Sounds frighteningly corporate! :eek:
 
I've found BJJ stuff regardless of affiliation does all sound very corporate. I haven't trained in a good while now as I've just struggled to even keep training YGM at the moment.
 
bromley said:
I received my brown belt in November. :)
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I'm sandbagging enjoying what everyone says is the best / most fun belt for a while longer due to my location :thumbs:

Just ran into someone from your club at globetrotters winter camp btw Virtual Blue. And someone from a club I visited when I was in Wellington, Aotearoa. The BJJ world is so small!
 
sim667 said:
I've found BJJ stuff regardless of affiliation does all sound very corporate.
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In what way? The behind the scenes paperworky shit is giving me a headache because I'm new to it and usually run a mile from anything even slightly official looking, but I don't imagine it would be that different for any other sports..?

(Just curious, not being arsey in case that doesn't come across in writing)
 
iona said:
In what way? The behind the scenes paperworky shit is giving me a headache because I'm new to it and usually run a mile from anything even slightly official looking, but I don't imagine it would be that different for any other sports..?

(Just curious, not being arsey in case that doesn't come across in writing)
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My club is quite tied to RGJJ, so it feels like they're given material to distribute...... it makes sense to do it that way
 
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