Here’s some old skool MMA action from “Hercules in New York” starring everyone’s favorite Gubernatorial badass.
After gauging distance and some standup exchange, The Governator clinches and executes a flawless takedown. He gets the mount (I think… it’s kind of dark), softens his ursine opponent with some ground and pound, then transitions to some sort of front choke. Ridiculous music and bad acting make this one quite a gem. Hercules! Hercules!
Couple of new blogs that I’m just now noticing in the blogosphere.
Submission Grappling and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu training advice, product reviews, and recommendations for the working professional.
I like White Collar JJ since it’s very much targeted toward regular dudes who happen to train. A lot of the content that exists in our ecosystem are plastered with blood splatter, skulls, and EXTREME!! lifestyle references. My belief has always been that a large majority of the BJJ/MMA crowd are normal, educated people, and White Collar takes a similar approach.
Why We Not Hit Hard wants to be the sort of place you can stop in for a few minutes and look around to find articles on things that should make your game more effective and fun. There are a lot of great sites that cover techniques and etc., so we’ll be focusing on the practical things that will be a great help to beginners and something that more experienced people either forget or generally don’t give much thought to.
Why We Not Hit Hard looks like a great resource for a general learning of the martial arts. There are practical guides to choosing schools, tutorials on various techniques, and analyis the chess game of combat. It’s written well, and is self-admittedly focused on MMA, Savate, Muay Thai and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
Aesopian’s Totally Awesome Journal
This journal came together after I had started creating a ton of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu tutorials as a hobby and figured I should bring them all together in one place.
At first I sort of raised an eyebrow to the “totally awesome” part of Aesopian’s blog name, but as it turns out it’s pretty much right on. He’s got a grip of very good BJJ instructional videos. When you train at one school long enough, you begin to adapt your game to the style of your classmates. For me, it’s always refreshing to see some different styles whether it be from visiting a new academy, rolling with visitors to your home school, or watching videos like Aesopians’.
Here’s a video of a “Grandmaster” Ted Gambordella teaching amateur jiujitsu techniques out of a McDojo in Texas. Not only is this guy deluding his students into believing they could properly defend themselves, he’s getting his rocks off by causing them pain in his overzealous demonstrations. Furthermore, this hack is professing to be teaching jiujitsu—no doubt riding the wave that BJJ has caused in this country.
What really makes me angry is that the students in this video are all very young and this dude is applying some very painful and dangerous techniques on them with very little discretion. If you’re as fired up as I am, go leave some comments on MetaCafe. Here’s the link to the video page.
