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Resting at the Jungle Sleep, Sleeping, Slept   Hey everyone, We have all been training hard and so today we were given the day off. It was needed! A bunch of the guys went to a pool to hang out and I stayed in and caught up on sleep and some work. Yesterday was fairly straight to the point with our training. We had three workouts, the first one was a guard pass to back take live-sparring session for an [...]

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Middle of the Week at Team Lloyd Irvin Working to Learn and Learning to Work Hi! I want to take a second to cover what we did Tuesday and Wednesday for training. Is that okay with you? No? Oh… Um… That’s kind of awkward… Well, if it’s not okay with you, can you leave so I can describe it for those who are interested? Sweet, thanks. Tuesday we had three workouts. At 10:30AM, we did a massive drilling workout followed [...]

Training with Team Lloyd Irvin Staying strong throughout the week (weak) Hello! It’s the start of a new week and today we wasted no time in getting right to some intense workouts. This morning we had a four-hour practice, started with an hour and a half of drilling. Then we moved into some sparring and continued for… the remainder of the time. It was pretty brutal. Fast-forward to 4:30 and we were back at it, starting again with some mild [...]

Double Omoplatas & Roadside Kimonos Entertainment for Y’all During clean-up after the In-house tournament, some Brazilian Jiu Jitsu mischief was inevitable. Here we see Keenan Cornelius in a double-omoplata, half of that courtesy of DJ Jackson: Omoplata Train Craziness: Today, (Sunday) on our way into D.C. for the second day in a row, we noticed a kimono had fallen on the side of the road. Obstacles and mayhem were potential roadblocks, but that kimono needed retrieval: Roadkill Kimono:

In-House Tournament at Team Lloyd Irvin With a quick stop in Washington D.C. Hey everyone! This weekend was pretty packed! It started off with an in-house tournament at Team Lloyd Irvin. It was both a no-gi and gi tournament for kids and adults. I must say, I was very impressed with the skill of everyone that competed! White belts and up, kids, teens and adults, everyone fought hard and technically. Many of the competitors are already world champions at their [...]

Robot training at the Lloyd Irvin Gym/Jungle House Getting crazy without the insanity Hey all! Sorry if I’m already running out of titles for posts. If you have any suggestions, leave ‘em in the comments! I heard that we were only going to have one practice on Fridays and that it would be in the morning. At first I thought, “Oh cool, one practice, it won’t be that hard/I’ll have time to recover blah blah blah…” Then I came to [...]

Good Morning America And all the other continents and countries   Hey y’all! Another morning, another training session about to begin! Yesterday, we had another good day of practice. Everyday is rough but with each practice I can feel myself doing better, my timing improving and myself become more relentless and tenacious. Awesome growth! We had an afternoon practice that consisted of some drilling and then “sprint sparring.” The idea here is that two players will try to play and [...]

Specific Drilling and Sparring Starting Broad and Becoming More Focused Hey you! Our second morning session is finished and now it’s time to rest. This morning before training we talked about weird habits we had as kids. JT said he used to always chew on his shirt and Andres told us he used to write his number “5″ backwards. That is, until his dad told him, “Andres, I’ve had enough of this ‘backwards 5′ stuff. It’s just too much.” Once [...]