Advanced Jujitsu seminar

Hi guys,

Thanks for reading.
Yesterday I attended an advanced jujitsu seminar at my school. It was a great day of training split into 3 sessions. The first was some advanced jujitsu escapes and a few reversal techniques. The second was on the basics of MMA, although it was essentially on groundwork and grappling. Some nice techniques for the side mount and arm bars from the ground mount position. Then they ran a 45 minute MMA conditioning session which was fantastic. It was basically a martial arts related circuit, we did each station for 1 minute. We ran it at 5 x 1 minute stations, with 1 minute rest then 5 more stations then 1 minute rest etc . It was exhausting but a lot of fun.

One of my favorite stations that I will definitely introduce my friends too was a ground and pound exercise. Basically one person lays on their back on the ground and holds a large kicking shield on their chest and abdomin. The other person gets in the mount position on top. When the time starts, the person on top starts hitting the bag as hard as they can continuously with  punches, elbows etc. The person on the bottom moves around and tries to buck the person on top off by bridging. Both people end up getting a great workout.

Splits training.
Still holding off isometrics as per my osteopaths recommendation. The hip is definitely feeling better. Despite a lot of plyometric training and a round of chest height kicking on the bag at the seminar, there has been no real pain which is great. I'm feelng pretty confident that I should be back doing them within about 2 weeks hopefully.

Using the foam roller every 1-2 days has been very helpful and I am finding less trigger points almost every session.

Below is a good video showing a few foam roller exercises.