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Monday, February 2, 2009

Feb 2-7, Chris Haueter Seminar

Chris Haueter Seminar on Feb 7 Thanks everyone for contributing to a great training session with Chris! We had a Blast!!! Chris gave an outstanding seminar giving some great Jiu Jitsu insight and cool looking pretzel type locks! Oh, I would hate to be on the receiving end of those!!!
everyone had a great time working and increasing their Jiu Jitsu game. Chris started off with a takedown to combinations of Guard passing to an amazing side control attack. Then to wrap it up he gave some cool ideas on choking with T-Shirts for self defense. Chris is real sharp on his technique! Outstanding detail with grips and positioning (above pic)

Congratulations to Ben Blakesly on his Promotion to the Blue Belt on Tues, Feb 3 (above pic)!This man is a hard worker, dedicated and awesome to watch. This is just a stepping stone on his way to the Black Belt someday! Keep it up Ben! You are a Stud!
What a Super Bowl on Sunday! It came down to the end and a lot of people were rooting for the underdog and comeback and it almost happened! Go Steelers!

February 22nd, Sunday there is a no-gi tournament in San Diego that a few of us will be competing in! I'M IN!

This is a great week! we started the week off with side mount control and attacks and will also incorporate attacking quarter position.

-Michio

19 comments:

Andrew said...

Whew! I'm so nervous to compete in my first tournament! Hopefully it'll be fun and go smoothly! If I lose, it will be due to a lack of experience, and not because I gave up!

I hope my endurance is good enough :D

I can't wait to get in there tonight and start working again.

EXCEL Jiu Jitsu said...

Andrew! you looked great sparring tonight. You are a tough hombre! can't wait to watch you compete!

-Michio

GRANDONIZER said...

GREAT JOB BIG BEN!! youre the man and i totally agree with michio when he says you have so much potential and i too can see you as being a black belt one day!

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Jeremy said...

Congrats Ben!!! Sorry I couldnt be there in person!

Jeremy

adam said...

congrats ben... man it feels like my jiu jitsu game is gone .. last time i trained was 2 weeks ago and it didn't go to well but hope fully soon i can get back on the mat with the team ... i miss u guys i really do ....

cgrant said...

Way to go Ben Keep doin your thing my man its paying off ! You are a stud !

EXCEL Jiu Jitsu said...

Adam, we miss you too man! You are a big part of the team bro. can't wait to train with you again.

Charlie! Get well soon. We gotta schedule that lunch quick, before I spend the money that I put aside fot it ;-)

-Michio

Unknown said...

I'm looking forward to coming down guys. As I've said before, you guys are a great team and easy to coach and work with!

Any thing you guys might want to work on, let me know!!

Unknown said...

Hey Mich, my legs are super sore. I taught an aerobic kickboxing/cross-training class Monday night. They were sore yesterday, I rolled for an hour last night thinking they'd be less sore.

Now they're worse!!!
Any advice?
Or is that just the price of getting back into shape while being an older athlete?

EXCEL Jiu Jitsu said...

Hi Chris!

I was hoping you could teach a couple of your great guard passing techniques to side control attacks and maybe even some of your North South attacks! You are great at those!

Also, to finish off, especially for the No-Gi guys, some of you T-Shirt chokes? I'm sure that would be a hit for Self defense!

As far as soreness, welcome to the club, man! If you're doing Jiu Jitsu and something is not hurting on you...then maybe you're doing something wrong ;-)

thanks,

Michio

Unknown said...

What a sweet seminar! Loved the nail gun. ka-chunk. You know, I got home and drilled some of what we had been learning against my dad, and a real staplegun works a lot better. Just sayin'.

EXCEL Jiu Jitsu said...

Greg! I'm glad you had a good time! but no real staple guns, please!!!

Andrew said...

The seminar with Chris was a lot of fun and very informative. I am excited to add small things to my game at a time, and honored to be a part of a good team like Team Magnitude (Plus Combat Base!). I've been on my fair share of teams, and it's hard to put one together like ours. Thanks Michio for being as dedicated an athlete as you are!

I think competition will be fun. I am nervous, but the more I think about it, the more I remember: tournaments get WAY easier when you put more time into the gym, cardio and mat time both. Wrestling is 90% balls and 10% technique. It seems to me that Jitsu is more like 50/50. Mat time is way more important!

... insomnia anyone?

Jeremy said...

Wow.. that seminar with Chris was awesome!! Thank you Michio for setting that up for us, it was well worth the $20 + a torn t-shirt. I cant wait to try out that mean cradle-like control position that he showed us.

Jeremy

cgrant said...

Seminar was lots of fun ! Thanks Chris and Melissa for coming down and working with us. As always the energy was high and the atmosphere was fun !

EricR said...

Wow! It sounds like the seminar was awesome! I wish I was in town to attend.

Also, congrads on the promotion Ben! It is well deserved. You are a monster on the mat!

GRANDONIZER said...

fun seminar! i wish i could have made it to class tonight :( my car tire blew out. I'm going to try to make it tomorrow though! just in case anyone was wondering how the seminar went on Saturday, you missed out on A LOT of very beneficial info! hey mich... are we going to redondo on fri?

madmax said...

that seminar was super sick! im stoked you teamed up with mich!this year is just gettin better and better! thanks again Chris and Michio