At Team Lloyd Irvin Headquarters in Camp Springs Maryland we are heavy into planning for the 2010 competition season.  I’m beginning to meet with our Combat Athletes, Combat Gold members and our competition team members.

Right now I’m forcing everyone to work on their throws.  Tonight we worked on the Spinning grip break to double leg attack.  Grip fighting is one of the most neglected aspects in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and a rarely practiced “art form” that I’m trying hard to get my students to love it.  Once you add effective grip fighting it will change your entire game.

How many throws do you know?  How many throws can you actually pull of in a tournament? and what level are the guys that you can make it work against?  When we add techniques, we’re adding in order to make them work at the Black Belt level.  There is no need to prepare to make a technique work against a blue or purple belt.

I have all of my different students working on different throws, all of the beginners working on Drop Seo’ and all of my wrestling I’m teaching the funky russian throws.

The Brazilian Jiu Jitsu training in our advance classes looks alot like Judo these days.  To mix things up in the off season we’ve been holding mock/modified judo competitions in the school, the students love it.

Speaking about competitions, at Lloyd Irvin’s Martial Arts Academy no student is forced to compete.  We offer classes for students of all levels, students that want to compete, students that don’t want to compete, students that want to fight and students that don’t want to compete.

No matter what your goal is, we offer programs for anyone and everyone.

At the end of class tonight, everyone had a good hold of the basic concepts of the spinning double leg technique.

Tomorrow in our Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Classes we’re going to continue working our 90 day plan, and adding the grip fighting sequences and throws.

If you’ve been skipping class, get your butt in the room so you don’t miss out.

Go Team Lloyd Irvin

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