Dave Camarillo Seminar

Sunday I went to Dave Camarillo Seminar held at Orange County Kodokan Judo Dojo. Great seminar! It was about 2 1/2 hours long. Dave talked about his philosophy on Jiu Jitsu and Judo. How they both can work to help each other. He said basically for the Judoka at the seminar"Any Judoka who learns how to play the guard will never lose in competition!" He went in to explain how and why a judoka would not lost if they learned the guard. He talked about his days at Ralph Gracie Academy and he days at San Jose State.

Dave covered techniques that he teaches at his Academy and from his new book Guerrilla Jiu Jitsu. Everyone who attended got a copy of the book. I'm not going to get in to book review, but I will say it's a must have. I helped my partner more then I trained. The reason was he was a white belt wit no BJJ training and he was the only person left when everyone partnered up. When it came to the drills I would work them with my partner. Dave taught some basics how to pass the guard, escape the mount and how to mount your opponent. Then he covered the basics of the open guard With drills to help you understand the open guard.

Dave said during the seminar" Judo newaza has no structure, it just a bunch of techniques", as a Judoka as well I have to agree with him there.

If you ever get a change to train with Dave, do it you won't regret it.

Sixth Day of Training, More BJJ

Today I went to Rey Diogo Academy I have been training with Rey for four years now. I like training there for a few reason. Great school, great people and great instructor. Rey's school is like family. Which is the best environment to learn BJJ.

Class was basic. Rey taught how to set up the Kimura, Keylock from side control. Which is the technique I get when training. From there using the same set up to get an arm bar from Kesa Gatame. Something I should do more when rolling.

Tomorrow, Sunday, I'm going to Dave Camarillo seminar.

Garage Training Today

Today a friend came by to roll. Since he just started training BJJ a month or so ago I showed him a couple of techniques to help improve his game. For the short amount of time training he picks up moves fast. I showed him a mount escape and Another way to get an arm bar. After drilling the two techniques for forty five minutes we rolled. We rolled for twenty minutes. I had him work on positions he knows and I worked on my guard game.

No Judo tonight, My body needs a rest.

New Week, More Training

Last week was lite week for training. After the 4th I took most of the week off. I did roll with couple of friends, but nothing serious. We just did rounds 3 minutes rounds for 5 founds. Good to keep the heart pumping.

Monday of this week I went to train at a friends new BJJ School. "D" likes to teach a couple of techniques and drill the hell of them. This week was a mount escape that worked like a charm. I never seen it and been training over seven years. It was so simple, you think to your self "why haven't I did this before?" We had to drill 25 times to the left then 25 times to the right. If you didn't get it right you do more. D like to make sure that you get the technique before you leave. The last time I trained with him we drill arm bars from the mount. When I went back to me school I caught a guy with that technique. I agree with D, repetitive drilling is better then doing a technique a few times, OK, 10 time and then moving on to the next technique. Next we drilled arm bars from side control. I like this technique as well. I will be add this technique to my arsenal. After all the drills it was open mat time. We rolled 5 minute rounds with someone on the mount then rolled until someone tapped or time ran out. I rolled 2x back to back to a short break and rolled with D. Like always I taped to him. Nothing new there, I have taped to him since we where white belts. It's not that I suck, Okay I do, but D is that good!!! I took him longer this time then It has in the past, so either I'm getting better or he's was going easy. I like to think I'm improving.

It was great training and I will be heading down to train with D again real soon.

Tuesday was back to Judo training ....There was no Judo class the week of July 4th. So, I missed another week of Judo. I was looking forward to class this week, so I arrived a little earlier then usual to be there before class started. Tonight's class was Newaza training. When we do Newaza in Judo, I just go with the follow. Do what is being taught. I always look for on how to improve it or how to defend it. Most the I do both. We did the "Pedro" Drills. What they are is transition from side control position to position to help improve pinning. In Judo when you pin you opponent for 25 seconds you win. In BJJ you it is used to transition to another position or set up a submission. We did three different Pedro drills then moved on to Newaza randori. The drills are great for Judo or BJJ. After newaza we did randori. I trained with a Black Belt who tough to throw. I did well and end up throwing him. It wasn't a good throw, but if we where in a tournament it would have been a wazi. I will back to class on Thursday night.


Tonight was BJJ training. Rey had Us warm up and do basic set of the spider guard. After a 20 reps he had us getting the spider guard then transition to the triangle choke. After I did about 30 reps. Rey then had us do some stand up. We pair and go for one minute then if opponent or you were taken down finish on the ground. After everyone went at least one round he had the class pair up for free training. Three minutes rounds with one person starting from the mount. The person starting from the mount was to maintain the mount the person who was mounted was to escape. I end it up going to straight round one round from each position. Great work out!

Tomorrow Judo class.

Skipped Judo, but Still trained BJJ

Thursday

I trained BJJ in the Morning with my friend Tony. We trained for an hour and then rolled. By the time Judo class was to start I needed more time to recover. So I skipped Judo training. I be back at Judo after next week. No class until next because of 4th of July.

Friday

I went to open mat at Rey Diogo's. I white belt asked me to roll first, so I used him to warm up. Worked position with him to help him and get me warmed up. Next Rey had me rolled with a blue belt who just joined our school. Nice guy, good technique and Strong as hell. If we were keep score I won on points. But he gave up positions/points to get his game going. He like to play guard, but I took him out of his game.

Then I finished the night and rolled with another blue belt and worked him with the same submission each time we rolled. then we worked on my guard, he owned me then... LOL

Until next week

Back To Training

Finally I training again... well I haven't really stopped, just stopped blogging. Back in March I found I had lots of time to train for the Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Pan Americans. I trained almost everyday even the day before the Pan Ams. I Lost my first match while I was waiting for the purple belt opens to start when I felt my shoulder starting to hurt. I didn't remember getting injured during my match, but I was in a lot of pain. Just before the open was to start I couldn't left my right arm higher then my shoulder. I had to pull out of the open. I spent the next couple months I been recovering from my injury.

I've now back to training with no shoulder pain. This pa

st couple of weeks I back to training three time a week.

This weeks training sessions:

Monday Morning Training: BJJ technique drills
Monday Night Training: More BJJ drills and more free roll

Tuesday Morning: BJJ technique drills and rolled some more
Tuesday Night: Judo training. Lots of uchi komi's and ne waza. After ne waza, randoi.

Wednesday rest day.

Tomorrow I will be back at with BJJ in the morning and Judo in the evening.