Some important information

Hi all!

NTU BJJ training would start on 2nd week of school in Semester 2

Training would be on every Wednesday

Time would be from 7-9pm

Venue is Activity Room 2 (AR2) at the Sports & Recreation Centre (SRC)

There would be a CCA recruitment drive from 10th Jan (Tues) to 12th Jan (Thur)

Do take note about this and spread this among your friends!

Check back this space for more announcement!

If there is any queries or you just want to ask anything about NTU BJJ

Be it with regards to joining or trainings or just anything at all

You can just email your questions to ntubjj@gmail.com

Alternatively

You can contact Alkhaff (9180 5164) or Wan En (85114774)

Remember to add NTU BJJ on Facebook too!

There would be announcement made there too!

See you guys when school resumes

And happy holidays!

Recap of The Last Training For Sem #1 2011/12

Recap of The Last Training For Sem #1 2011/12

We had the last training for this first semester of the academic year 2011/12

Basically this session was more like a sharing session

Whereby in which we all practised our moves and techniques

And just learn some tips and tricks from the more experienced guys

The highlight of this last training session was

the epic " Royal Rumble " tournament!

 

 

For fans of the World Wresting Entertainment aka WWE

You all will be very familiar with this annual event " Royal Rumble "

Whereby there's this famous line of
"every single man or woman for himself/herself!"

Basically

The objective of this tournament

Or just simply to win this tournment

You have to submit every other opponent and remain
"The Last Man/Woman Standing!"

 

Our contestants gathering on the mat

 

All checking each other out first

You could sense that actually everyone was quite serious about it

Even though it was supposed to be a light-hearted affair!

The "ring bell" sound and the event got underway!

 

 

Immediately
Action broke out in all parts of the mat
You could see double-team and even triple-team!

(someone was hiding in one corner at the top of the picture....)

Basically everyone all wanted to get the bigger-sized guys out first!

Some alliances were formed and......broken

(due to opportunism and all)

 

So it was left to this "2 versus 1" situation

Whereby the 2 were aiming our more senior blue-belt guy

 

And so this was the winning formula - DOUBLE ARMBAR!

(this scene was re-enacted for photo-taking sake!)

And after our "Royal Rumble" tournament

Hansel our President presented the respective lady and guy winner 

with some token of appreciation

 

 

Everyone was all smiles after the tournament

No one bear grudges

Neither were egos bruised

All were good and friendly just like before the tournament!

And right after that

We had some pizza and drinks to celebrate the end of training for

the first semester of this academic year

It's not just work and training at NTU BJJ here

We also know when to have some good fun!

 

Our NTU BJJ club tee is ready for sales now!

And this is the front of our club tee

Which cost only $12 bucks!

The front have our NTU BJJ club logo

Plus the Chinese characters “ 南大巴西柔术 ”

 

The logo on the front of the shirt

The back of the tee

With the 2 huge Chinese characters “ 柔术 ”

Awesome design by Vicky, our Financial Controller!

Great work there!

And to end off this first semester of training

Here is our group photo for the training!

 

We know everybody is busy with quizzes and projects and all

That's why some of you guys may not be able to come down even

though you have expressed interest in trying out

But hey, you still need to exercise and work out right?

Ultimately you want to be in good health and condition for your final lap

And exercising in the form of practicing BJJ is a good way to do it!

Not only are you learning a new craft, you also get to exercise

Plus increasing your body flexibility at the same time!

And it's just 2+ hours per week!

We're sure you can spare this time!

So do stay tune to this blog

Or add NTU BJJ as a friend on Facebook

And get updates from there!

If you have any questions, you can email ntubjj@gmail.com

Remember to study hard and work hard for the final exams!

And most importantly, carry on to come down for our BJJ training

once the new semester begin!

Cheers from NTU BJJ!

=)

Last Training for Sem 1

Hi all

Just a reminder that there will be training this week

Same time

Same place

Date: 2nd November 2011,Wednesday

Time: 6pm-8pm

Venue: Nanyang House, 2nd Floor, Seminar Room 1

Since it's the last training
There will be a mini-tournament at the end of the session
Do get all your friends down

See you guys there!

:)

Recap of Training #3

Recap of Training #3

Here's the update on the 3rd training!

For this training

We learn techniques in gaining advantageous position during rolling

1) First up

We learn this technique known as " Scissor Sweep "

It starts off when you are in the guard position

You grab your opponent's head

Pull it down towards you

While isolating or controlling his arm

(the one that you wanna flip him over to)

Then once you are in this position

Open up your guard

Turn onto your hip

One leg on the bottom floor

One leg out

And then prepare to put in this leg in between his body

*In this case

We are trying to flip him over to our LEFT HAND side

(Note that it is different from the 2 pictures above)

You quickly put in your leg

And use your knee to press onto your opponent's belly

(Not on the chest)

In the meantime, also note that you have to pull your opponent's arm

across your chest

Your other leg is hooking onto his thigh region

Or forming some sort of grip which can assist you in the flipping motion

which is about to happen once you get in this position

 

Next pull the arm

Knee and other leg use as pivot to flip him over

In one fluid motion

 

 

Once you flip him over

You can get into the mount position

And finish your opponent off

2) Next technique we learn was another variation of the " Armbar "

(you will be surprised at how many types of armbar that can be applied!)

 

For this variation of the " Armbar "

We will be doing it from the guard position

Same thing as the theory of all kinds of " Armbar "

You start off by isolating one arm that you wanna execute your submission on

 

Use your outer arm

(the arm further away from your opponent's isolated arm)

To secure and grip tightly onto his wrist

Position his hand at the top of your shoulders

And your inner arm to grab his triceps

 

Next

Move your outer arm across over to his opposite shoulder

While on the way up

Use your outer arm to push his face away from you

Making him face the direction away from you

 

Now once you hold this position

Open up your guard

And get ready to use both of your legs to grip onto him

 

Shift your leg

(in this case the right leg)

Up to his middle portion of the body

This is the part whereby it's fleshy and you can grip onto him

 

Lastly

Shift your other leg

(in this case the left leg)

And press onto his face which was facing away from you

While shifting both your arms to lock onto your armbar

Remember to ensure his thumb is facing towards the sky

" The Good Hand " or aka " Thumbs Up " sign

This is how you do your " Armbar " from the guard position

Things to note:

Your opponent may try to stack onto you while you are doing this move

In MMA, if your opponent is strong, he may lift your whole body up and slam you down

So ensure that you quickly straighten out his isolated arm

Then do the "Bridge Up" or "Hip Up" to make him submit!

3) We learn a series of COUNTER-MOVES

All the counter-moves we learn were when the opponent is

standing above you while you are on the ground

And he may trying to get into a full-mount position

Or you may want to defend by going into a guard position

 

a) The first move is fondly called the " Donkey Kick "

This is a move whereby you kick out with a large force

Strong enough to knock your opponent down onto the ground

*Note that you should use your hands to grab onto both his legs

And assist you to flip him over and knock him over with the force from your "Donkey Kick"

 

b) The 2nd move is something of a " Cart Wheel "

When your opponent anticipate that you may knock him down with a "Donkey Kick"

Judging from the way you may grab his ankles

He may buckle down and twist his knees inwards to block your kick

So at this time

Grab onto his hands

Legs shift from the "Donkey Kick" position

And onto his hips

Then just lift him up in the air and use the momentum to "Cart Wheel" him over

*Note

Do take note that this is quite a dangerous move

A huge amount of space is needed

And break fall has to be done

So practice with precaution and do it slowly

 

c) The last move is a variation of " Scissor Toss "

It's used when your opponent knows you may try a "Donkey Kick"

Or you may even "Cart Wheel" him if his hands are stacked onto you

So he may prefer to keep his hands closer to himself

Somewhere at your belly area

His legs are also buckled and tightened

 

At this point

You can just grab his hands by the wrist

 

Cross them up

And then lower your legs towards his knee area

You then squeeze both your legs together

Making him buckled his knees even more inwards

So much so that his body balance is lost

At this point

You are basically in a kind of total control over him

Because he has defended too much

So just cross him up with your legs

Then use your hands to assist you in flipping him over

 

Tada!

You can proceed to side-control from here

 

Lastly

We ended off a session with a fight between Donovan and Teng Hon

With our in-house referee

That's it for this session

Remember on Wednesday, 2nd of November 2011

It is the last training

Same time from 6-8pm

At Nanyang House Seminar Room 1

See you guys there!

Cheers!

:)

Training #3

Hi all

Just a reminder that there will be training this week

Same time

Same place

Date: 27th October 2011, Thursday

Time: 6pm-8pm

Venue: Nanyang House, 2nd Floor, Seminar Room 1/2

 

Do get all your friends down

See you guys there!

:)

Recap of Training #2

Recap of Training #2

So what did we do for the 2nd BJJ training?

1) Firstly we did a revision of the ARMBAR

But this time, we added in some variations

Over time, as you practise and hone your BJJ skills

You may find that BJJ is like a chess-game

It's not all about using brute strength

But finding the correct way to break your opponent's defence

Get into the desired and advantageous position

Before controlling and submitting him

So for the ARMBAR we did

It was executed while in a full-mount position

And you first try to execute an AMERICANA on your opponent

Btw AMERICANA is also known as the 

" FIGURE-4 ARMLOCK " or " KEYLOCK "

Wrist control and getting to execute the AMERICANA

As your opponent tries to defend the AMERICANA

You go in for the ARMBAR

Remember to try out both sides!

Even the ladies can do it too!

2) We learn a new technique called the " TRIANGLE CHOKE "

There are a couple of variations of the " TRIANGLE CHOKE "

For the training, we did the most commonly executed one

Which is when you are in full-guard position

Begin in full-guard position

 

Next pull your opponent head towards you by grabbing the neck

 

Convert to high-guard position

Ensure that you are isolating one of his arm

 

Next, extend your hip and "bridge-up"

While remembering to grab your opponent's hand

(the one you wanna isolate)

 

After which, pull his arm across your body

His arm should be in contact with his neck

And at the same time

Shift your body sideways

Get the angle that allows his arm to be positioned against his neck

While you also can manage to shift your leg perpendicular against his head

So that you can prepare to hook your other leg over your own leg

(remember you can use your other hand to aid you!)

 

Once you hook your own leg over each other

Press the leg down 

Using the calf against the ankle

(in this photo case, the right leg)

And there you go

You have succesfully forrmed the "TRIANGLE"

To make your opponent submit

Not only do you have to just press your legs down against his head

You also have to squeeze your hips together

And in the meantime, ensure his own arm is choking himself at the neck area

This is how the " TRIANGLE CHOKE " works

Your legs and hips and body forming the "TRIANGLE"

And then his own arm is choking himself

Cutting off the air supply

So after practising the " TRIANGLE CHOKE "

We also learn how to defend against it

Which is by posturing up

(the typical escape move)

But similar to the ARMBAR

We learn how to variate our move

And transit to the ARMBAR

(yes ARMBAR from TRIANGLE CHOKE!)

As your opponent tries to posture up

Quickly switch your leg that is pressing the calf against the ankle

And hook it over his head

Pushing his head to the side

And executing the ARMBAR on the isolated hand

There you go!

Something new each session!

Remember to come down for training on 

THURSDAY, 27th Oct 2011

6pm-830pm @ Nanyang House Seminar Room 1

It's on the 2nd floor btw

See you guys there!

=)