It's been a while.

Well, I've been training this whole time since my last post, but life has been crazy. New chickens, goats and more fence to put up. I'm teaching a law class and I have a new home job.

All this is killing my BJJ time, which I hate. Once the law class that I'm teaching is over, it will be back to a more normal schedule, but that's another 6 weeks away and I hate it.

I've been watching Roy Dean's Purple Belt Requirements now for a few weeks. I really enjoyed the Blue Belt requirements (having committed it to memory) and have implemented a number of the newer technique chains into my game, especially those from knee on belly, mount and guard. I'm having a lot more success with mount submissions, as well as, sweeps since then.

Combine that with some solid triangle information and hip bump basics from Ryan Hall and the Over wrap guard control (overhook combind with a collar grab by the over hooking arm) from Saulo, Half Guard stuff from Eddie Bravo and Robson Moura, and various other positional ideas from Damien Maia....and I'm gathering myself a fairly complex game (at least for the group I'm rolling with on a regular basis).

I'm getting this stuff to work on a regular basis...which is good. Regrettably, I'm getting it to work with relatively inexperienced partners. Oh well...mat time is mat time and I'll take whatever I get right now.