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A BIG CONGRATULATIONS to Serina Cole for winning GOLD in the womens under 68kg open,at the Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Nationals on the weekend!! She won both her matches on points! In her first match betting a Judo martial artist & in the second match dominating a Blue bet in BJJ! this is showing Serina to be very strong 4 strip white belt with alot of technic & only weighing in at 55kgs, To get a gold is a huge achievement, All the boys & girls at the club, Mark, Glen & myself are very proud to hear of your win! (Wazza)

Congrats to Leyla Okyay on receiving her Purple Belt yesterday at the latest John Will seminar. Leyla is a dedicated Submission member and recently made the move to Whangarei where she now trains the BJJ curriculum at Roundhouse Kickboxing.  She regularly comes down to our trainings and is still very much part of the team. It was Warren and Marks pleasure to get John Will to award Leyla our first female Purple Belt at Submission.  Leyla recently won the Abu Dhabi Pro Cup trials in New Zealand and Won a trip to compete at the Worlds this year. She had an awesome time and did us all proud.

Next up we saw long time member Greg Woodcock receive his Blue. Greg has been on the mats in Takapuna first starting our in the Karate classes then moving on to the BJJ classes. Well Done on your achievement Greg!

Scott Shearer, Michael Wallace, Aristotles Neto and Alistair Young all received their Blues on Saturday it is great to see our Mat getting a awesome spread of knowledge and more colourful! John Will also said he hadn’t ever seen so many Purple objects at Submission at one time.

Thanks to John Will for spreading his knowledge with us on Saturday we had a blast!

Congratulations to Amanda Tuarau and Brad Kumerich on receiving your Blue Belts a huge achievement for you both.

Kodie Hamilton, Steve Hogg and Howie Fergusson all received their Purple Belts! That takes our Purple belt count up to 5!

We were also very lucky to have Haydn back on our mat for the first time since December last year.

Awesome seminar with John and we look forward to having John Will back on in our Mat February 12th 2011.

Industry of Combat are hosting their 12th Event which will be held in our home town NORTH SHORE!

We have 3 guys entered unfortunately Simo had to pull out due to injury.

Vince Lowe and Brayden Goldring will see a return to the ring and Nick Allan will make his debut.  Also of note will be Rob’s debut as RING BOY!

Team Submission wish you guys all the best for Saturday!  WAR!!!

BJJ

With the Will/Machado nationals coming up this weekend Warren focused the class on rolling, working on what we know rather than learning something new. I spent the class trying to reinforce the things I want to remember for the comp, tweaking little things and enjoying rolling.

MMA

Mark led us in a sparing class, keeping it really light and not wanting to have any injuries for Saturday. We were trying to think about using different combinations rather than getting sucked into a jab, cross, hook, single kick sort of mind set. We focused on varying our strategies, and not worrying about getting hit so much, or whether we were “winning”.

Best of luck to everyone competing this weekend!

Cam D

BJJ

Warren took the class and we focused on omoplata and then on working it in combination with arm bar from guard and triangle. It was a really great class, starting with the fundamental movements and then moving through the layers of the technique until you had something quite complex, without it being to much information.

MMA

In MMA Mark really pushed us with a striking work out. Working on combinations of jabs, straights, hooks, and elbows and then moving though them again, linking them with a double leg takedown. Personally I felt the cardio burn hard. Finishing off with sparring it was another great evening at submission martial arts.

Cam D

BJJ

We continued to work on learning to roll lightly instead of fighting. It’s been great to have repeated classes lately with this focus. Trying to relax and think instead of powering over, to let your opponent get stuff and then apply your own technique. I feel like I am getting better but have a ways to go. I find it hard to make sure my technique is effective rather than moving with power through a defence or positional control. It’s such a partner oriented thing too. If your partner speeds up, it’s really hard not to respond in kind. I think that my new goal is to not worry what my opponent is doing if they go fast, they go fast and I will just let them for that roll, letting it happen rather than getting sucked into trying to stop them. Ego is a tricky thing and it sneaks up on you from all directions. Checking your ego at the door is an eternal process it seems.

It was good to run through the blue belt syllabus in one go and I surprised myself with how much I remembered. I could feel that I spent time in some parts remembering, rather then executing technique perfectly, so more reps for me I guess.

Well done to everyone who was awarded new stripes. It’s always awesome recognising how far everyone has come and how well the guys ahead of you are doing.

MMA

Continuing to work with the Thai Clinch has been really interesting, seeing how effective it is as a control reinforced John Will’s discussion of leverage. It can feel like you aren’t doing that much but when you’re on the receiving end you feel like you can’t go any where.

Sparing was fun and we were all conscious of sparring and not fighting in the same way as we worked on rolling not fighting in BJJ. Again the challenge is keep your technique good while being relaxed and flowing.

It was a great class and I walked out of with a lot to reflect on and having had a lot of fun.

Cam D

Videos of Simo’s and Brayden’s fights from the weekend just gone.

BJJ

We started with light rolling (positons only) for the warm up… and then kept rolling for the rest of the class. Awesome fun! There were a lot of tired looking people at the end.

here’s some photos.

(sorry the photographer was a little biased in her coverage)

MMA

Sorry, I couldn’t make it to this class. But asI left they were doing more takedowns from the clinch…. awesome! You and I should have been there…

BJJ

Steve took the warm up and got us working hard and pushing ourselves.

Warren worked us through some sweeps tonight. First a hooking sweep using close body control, then a basic hooking sweep.

The first sweep started from full guard. You sit up and grab an under hook with your right arm and pin their elbow against their body with your left arm as you grab their back. Then you sit back down bringing them with you. Opening your guard and wriggling your hips while pushing with your legs to create space, you then over hook their legs with yours and putting your feet under their shins you stretch them. From there you are able to retract your left leg and insert your hook under their knee and wait. As they sit up trying to dislodge you, you rock back and onto your left side extending your leg to the ceiling and sweeping over. Warren pointed out to wait for a half second as you transition across to top position to make sure you don’t just get counter swept while bowling straight into mount.

After drilling this, we did the Basic Hooking Sweep. From full guard you establish a collar and wrist grip and then open your guard. As they extend their leg to pass, you pull your leg back to your butt, rotate your knee to the ceiling and then extend your leg and insert a well-tensioned hook in the back of their knee. Then you sit up towards them and rock back to your side again, pulling them forward onto you and extending your leg to the ceiling sweeping them over your blocking leg on the floor.

We then followed the same rolling patterns of the last classes for the last 30 minutes

Another full mat!

MMA

Mark started us off in pairs, one person boxing and the other parrying, ducking and weaving and moving away. We swapped back and forward on Mark’s call.

After this warm up, Mark demonstrated the technique. Parrying a left right combination, then ducking and weaving inside their guard while shelling pressing in against their chest having scooped up under their arms. From there you move to their left side and slip your right arm around their back, gripping their far shoulder. You put your left hand on their right bicep, controlling that arm and opening up the chest.

From this basic position we first used the left knee to the chest. Then we used our right knee in the back of their knee pushing down to take away their base. We then threw our left leg around them and pushed with our hips taking them down with us in mount.

The second combo was to after the left knee to do a right knee to the thigh. After getting a reaction that gave you position slightly behind them you did sit down take down, pulling back on their upper body with a straight left right leg extended behind them to trip them over.

We then did the same drill as we warmed up with but the defender went for the take down as well as bobbing and weaving.

The final round we did both sides boxing and looking for the take down.

Cam D