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Thursday, November 19, 2009
I have to clarify, it is just a rough guidance, knowing them by name doesn't mean your a 4 striper or blue belt. Please do study hard for your exams and train hard for BJJ.
If anyone able to get more 1 stripe to 4 stripes white belt requirements, please do link them here or email it to anyone of the admin guys.
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White Belt 4 Stripes
20 additional Techniques:
Takedowns:
1 – Ko-Soto-Gari (Minor Outer Reaping Throw – Foot Sweep)
Closed Guard Position:
2 – Reverse Arm Lock
3 – “Triple Attack” (Shoulder Lock, Arm Lock, Reverse Arm Lock)
Open Guard (Spider Guard) Position:
4 – Basic Triangle
5 – Reversal Over Head Into Mount (feet on the hips)
6 – Elevator Sweep
Half-Guard Position:
7 – Placing your Opponent Back into your Guard
8 – Taking the Back (Rear Mount)
9 – Calf Crush
Passing The Guard:
10 – Butterfly Guard Pass (grabbing the ankles, head to one side of the hips, jump to other side)
11 – Spider Guard Pass
Side Mount Position:
12 – “Paper Cutter” Cross Choke
Mount Position:
13 – “Triple Attack” Chokes (from the Mount/Rear Mount Position), and Arm lock off the “Triple Attack” Chokes
Knee On The Belly Position:
14 – “Baseball” Choke (finishing in a north-south position)
Turtle Position:
15 – Clock Choke (at least two variations)
Defenses and Escapes:
16 – Mount Escape: Hands on opponents’ hips, bridge, bring your knee in between your opponents’ legs, finish with an ankle lock
17 – Escaping the Rear Mount (ending in 100 Kilograms side control)
18 – Ankle Lock Defense (with, and without the gi)
19 – Knee on the Belly Escape with Gi: hand on outside knee, other hand on center of belt
20 – Knee on the Belly Escape without the Gi: Upa, knee up, scissor legs and grab leg, finish with single or double leg
White Belt 3 Stripes
26 additional Techniques:
Self-Defense Techniques:
1 – Headlock Escape from standing position (two variations)
2 – Headlock Escape from on the ground (two variations)
Takedowns:
3 – O-Uchi-Gari (Major Inner Reaping Throw)
Closed Guard Position:
4 – Punch Defense (controlling opponents’ head and arm)
5 – Pedalada (controlling wrist with both hands, your feet on the hips, kick)
Open Guard (Spider Guard) Position:
6 – Show Different Grips (both sleeves, one sleeve and one lapel grip) and Foot Placements (biceps,triceps, hips, behind the knees, combinations of those placements)
7 – Show Grips and Foot Placements with opponent walking from side to side
Butterfly Guard Position:
8 – Basic Side Sweep
9 – Counter Sweep to Opponents’ basing on foot (push ankle out with your foot)
Half-Guard Position:
10 – Three Points of Position (block the cross face, be on your side, have the outside under hook)
11 – Two ways to get the Outside Under Hook:
(1) Make a Frame, and Swim Arm Under
(2) Bridge and Swim Arm Under
Passing The Guard:
12 – Standing Closed Guard Pass (controlling sleeve at the wrist and opponents’ lapels)
13 – Half-Guard Pass (you can use the Knee Drive Pass, ending in Side Control)
Side Mount Position:
14 – Head and Arm Choke (Kata Gatame)
15 - Mount by grabbing your foot from Reverse Kesa Gatame and feed it across the stomach
Mount Position:
16 – Opponent’s Arm Around His Head Control
Knee On The Belly Position:
17 – Spinning Arm lock (when opponent pushes on your knee)
18 – Cross Choke (ending with your knees on the mat)
Rear Mount Position:
19 – Arm Lock
Turtle Position:
20 – Taking the Back
21 – Leg Arm Lock (triangle the arm with your legs and push your hips down)
Leg Locks (from inside the opponents’ guard):
22 – Knee Bar
23 – Figure-Four Foot Lock (a.k.a. Toehold)
Defenses and Escapes:
24 – Kimura Lock (from inside the guard) Defense
25 – Triangle Choke (from inside the guard) Escape
26 – Cross Choke (from inside the guard) Defense
White Belt 2 Stripes
30 additional Techniques:
Self-Defense:
1 – Standing Rear Choke Counter (Seoi-Nage [Shoulder Throw], O-Soto-Gari [Major Outer Reaping Throw])
Takedowns:
2 – Single Leg
3 – O-Soto-Gari (Major Outer Reaping Throw)
4 – O-Goshi (Major Hip Throw)
Closed Guard Position:
5 – Cross Choke (Two Variations – Palm up, Palm Down)
6 – Triangle Choke
7 – Scissor Sweep
Passing The Guard:
8 – Knee Drive Pass (ending in Kesa-Gatame side control)
9 – Knee Drive Pass (ending in the Mount Position)
Side Mount Position:
10 – Reverse Kesa Gatame Control Hold
11 – North-South Control Hold
12 – Strikes From the Control Techniques (punches, forearms, elbows, head butts, knees)
13 – Kimura Shoulder Lock (From Side Control)
14 – Kimura Shoulder Lock (From North-South Position)
Mount Position:
15 – Spinning Arm lock (when opponent pushes up on your chest)
16 – Cross Choke (Two Variations – Palm down, and Palm up)
Knee On The Belly Position:
17 – Switching Sides (when opponent pushes on your knee)
18 – Switching to High Chest (when opponent pushes on your knee)
19 – Straight Arm Lock (showing proper grips with the gi)
Rear Mount Position:
20 – Collar and Lapel Gi Choke
21 – Collar and Hand Behind the Neck Gi Choke
22 – Collar and Hand Behind Your Head Gi Choke
Turtle Position:
23 – Proper Control and Positioning
24 – Punching
Leg Locks (from inside the opponents’ Guard):
25 – Ankle Lock
26 – Heel Hook
Defenses and Escapes:
27 – Arm Lock (from inside the guard) Defense
28 – Guillotine Choke Defense (from standing position, and from inside your opponents’ guard)
29 – Side Control Escape: getting to your knees
30 – Mount Escape: Upa Escape
White Belt 1 Stripe
30 Techniques:
Self-Defense:
1 – Break Falls (Forward over both shoulders, Falling to both sides, Falling backwards)
2 – Standing Up In Base (from both sides)
3 – Rear Bear Hug Escape
Takedowns:
4 – Closing the distance by using punches, and by crashing your opponent’s punches
5 – Pummeling for Double Under Hooks, into Upper Body Lock Takedown
6 – Double Leg
Strikes:
7 – Jab Punch
8 – Cross Punch
9 – Foot Jab
10 – Right Kick
Guard Position:
11 – Arm lock
12 – Kimura Lock
13 – Hip Heist Sweep
14 – Guillotine Choke
Passing The Guard:
15 – Diving Arms Under Legs and Stacking Opponent
Side Mount Position:
16 – Head and Arm Control
17 – Kesa Gatame Control
18 – 100 Kilograms Control
19 – Strikes From the Control Techniques (punches, forearms, elbows, head butts, knees)
20 – Americana Shoulder Lock
21 – Knee Drive Mount (from Head and Arm Control Position)
Mount Position:
22 – Proper Control and Base
23 – Punches
24 – Americana Shoulder Lock
Knee On The Belly Position:
25 – Achieving the Knee on the Belly Position (starting in side control: with the gi grips, and without)
26 – Punching (with good balance)
Rear Mount Position:
27 – Proper Control and Position
28 – Mata Leao (“Kill the Lion”) Choke (a.k.a. Rear Naked Choke)
Defenses and Escapes:
29 – Side Control Escape: recovering your guard
30 – Mount Escape: Shrimp Escape
taken from http://www.richmondselfdefense.com/classes/bjj/white-belt-1-stripe/
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Friday, March 20, 2009
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ/Gracie Jiu-Jitsu) is a martial art and combat sport that focuses on grappling and especially ground fighting. It is a derivative of early 20th century Kodokan Judo which was itself then a recently-developed system (founded in 1882), based on multiple schools of Japanese jujutsu.
Like judo, it promotes the principle that smaller, weaker person can successfully defend themselves against a bigger, stronger assailant using leverage and proper technique; applying joint-locks and chokeholds to defeat them. BJJ can be trained for self defense, sport grappling tournaments (gi and no-gi) and Mixed Martial Art (MMA) competition. Sparring (commonly referred to as 'rolling') and live drilling play a major role in training, and a premium is placed on performance, especially in competition.
Prominence
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu came to international prominence in the martial arts community in the 1990s, when Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu expert Royce Gracie won the first, second and fourth Ultimate Fighting Championships, which at the time were single elimination martial arts tournaments. Royce fought against often much-larger opponents who were practicing other styles, including boxing, shoot-fighting, karate, judo, tae kwon do and wrestling. It has since become a staple art for many MMA fighters and is largely credited for bringing widespread attention to the importance of ground fighting. Sport BJJ tournaments continue to grow in popularity worldwide and have given rise to no-gi submission grappling tournaments, such as the ADCC Submission Wrestling World Championship.
Style of fighting
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu emphasizes ground fighting techniques and submission holds involving joint-locks and chokeholds also found in numerous other arts with or without ground fighting emphasis. The premise is that most of the advantage of a larger, stronger opponent comes from superior reach and more powerful strikes, both of which are somewhat negated when grappling on the ground.
BJJ permits a wide variety of techniques to take the fight to the ground after taking a grip. Once the opponent is on the ground, a number of maneuvers (and counter-maneuvers) are available to manipulate the opponent into a suitable position for the application of a submission technique. Achieving a dominant position on the ground is one of the hallmarks of the BJJ style, and includes effective use of the guard position to defend oneself from bottom, and passing the guard to dominate from top position with side control, mount, and back mount positions. This system of maneuvering and manipulation can be likened to a form of kinetic chess when utilized by two experienced practitioners. A submission hold is the equivalent of checkmate in the sport. However, it is possible for a combat situation to continue even after a proper submission is performed.
Grading
There are minimum age requirements for belt promotions. Blue belts are never awarded to anyone under the age of 16. For promotion to black belt the minimum age is 19 years old according to the main regulating body of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, the International Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Federation.
Stripes may be awarded to any rank below black belt, but like the belts themselves, they tend to be given at the instructor's discretion, and may be in recognition of accomplishments like noticeable improvement or tournament victories. However, not all schools award stripes, or award them consistently, so the number of stripes a person has is not necessarily a good measure of their accomplishments or time in training. When they are used, it is standard for a student to receive four stripes before being promoted to the next rank.
Black belts can receive degrees, up to 9th degree, for as long as they train or teach the art. At 7th degree, the black belt is replaced by an alternately red and black belt. At 9th and 10th degree, the belt becomes solid red. Only the founding Gracie Brothers Helio, Carlos, and their brothers will ever have the 10th degree red belt.[18] The Gracie family members who are 9th degrees belt holders are Carlson Gracie, Reylson Gracie, Relson Gracie, Reyson Gracie, and Rorion Gracie.
The grading system goes like this:
Junior belt colours (15 and under) : White-> Yellow-> Orange-> Green
Adult belt colours ( 16 and above) : White-> Blue-> Purple-> Brown-> Black-> Red
Video showing the "flexibility" of BJJ techniques : Triangle choke from Armbar
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
CaiPing's 21st bday
Thursday, January 8, 2009
1st club "table tennis" training -080109
So what did we do?
First, we do warm-ups. A very special warm up indeed! Transporting the mats from Gym (B1) to Sports Room (lvl2). Yes, 'transport', cos we don't 'carry'. We use trolleys! And lifts! But it wasn't easy at all! Those who were present should know what I mean. It's a pity I forgot to take photographs of the whole process. Why don't u all repeat everything next training so that i can take photo? Haha!
Next, what's BJJ without Grappling? Here's a video of Daniel and Shah Kiat.
Grappling aside, we BJJ ppl sure know how to have fun! FUN! We made full use of NIE's resources! Haha!
Table tennis!
First, it was doubles! ( the way we played was really cartoon)
Cai Ping and Eric
Kenneth and Hark Keat
Fizh too!
Then somehow Cai Ping and Fizh were eliminated.
Ivan played too!