September 27, 2010

The best part of training this morning was getting to do matches after class. Recently a Renzo Gracie black belt from New York moved to the area and has been training at Paramount. I got to spend a lot of time rolling with him this morning. Its great to have such a high level training partner.

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September 25, 2010

I was only able to train at open mat today after the BJJ basics class at Paramount. It is cool to see how big these classes are getting, because we all know how busy you can be on the weekends. What was even better to see is that almost everyone stayed to train at open mat.

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September 23, 2010

Today i went up to train at BJJ United in Jenkintown(Near Philly), which is a Team LLoyd Irvin school. Its almost an hour drive from where i live, but its always worth it. Thursdays at noon they hold open mat, its a great opportunity to get in  lots of matches with a variety of training partners.  I

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September 21, 2010

I got in for the first training session of the week this morning. Like always, i didn’t feel like waking up at 7:30am but i managed to drag myself out of bed and into Paramount. Once i get up I’m always exited to train, its just the initial feelings of wanting to sleep that i have

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September 18, 2010

I just got back today from a 4 day vacation at the jersey shore. I left for the beach on Wednesday after i finished training and went to class. Right before i was leaving i saw that Mike Fowler was doing a seminar a BJJ United for only $20. I was very tempted to delay

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