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Braulio wins double gold

Two more golds for Braulio this weekend winning both his 88k weight category, and the black

belt absolute in the capital challenge in Jordan. To read more click on the link Gracie Barra Birmingham

on the home page.

New belts

Congratulations goes out to Chris Winkworth and Paul Gomes,both of whom were
awarded new belts from Braulio Estima on sat 29th Nov,Chris received his purple
belt and Paul received his blue belt,both well deserved.

The Gi Session With Braulio

Saturday 29th November saw the gi session of weekend training with BJJ black belt Braulio Estima.

It was the normal routine of warming up first with various cardio type exercises and drill until everyone had built up a fair sweat.

At this point, Braulio decided that he would focus the afternoons training session on the Side Control and all that goes with it. For those who are reading this and have not trained BJJ before, Side Control is pretty much as it sounds. Simply controlling your opponent on the floor from his/her side.

The side control, if secured properly is a very difficult position to escape from. Although everyone training had a good grounding in side control from many training sessions, it’s the little small subtle changes that Braulio taught that took everyones technical ability of this position to the next level ensuring that the next training sessions were going to be harder for the partner in the hold.

A fair bit of the the attacking part of the side control led the the inevitable arm and shoulder attacks, namely arm bars and Kimora’s.

It is actually quite amazing how many submissions can be achieved from this position and it is certainly a position that is worth training, training and re-training. Get this right and you arm yourself with a very useful bit of bjj weaponry. Needless to say, we were show some very good submissions from this position.

Securing an opponent in the side control properly also gives you time to think things through. Your opponent has to either escape or sit still and wait for your next move, which can be a large number of things. However, escaping from a securely held side control is relatively limited meaning that the person escaping is giving away some obvious attack opportunities.

As would be expected from someone of Braulios teaching ability, the students were extremely grateful for the newly found knowledge they were gaining and were more than enthusiastic to test it all out in the rolling session.

Attacking and defending the side control proved very effective for those who attended the training session and undoubtedly, those who couldn’t make the session are going to be in for a tough time the next time they are up for training.

At the end of the session, and after all the sweaty, knackered bods had a few moments to re-hydrate with a much needed water break and rest, Braulio gave out a few new gradings by way of belts and tips so congratulations go out to those hard working students.

I will list the names of those who were graded in a later posting.

For now, I’m going to cut this short but hope to add some video and a more detailed report of the techniques soon.

Thanks for reading

See you on the mat.

An Interview With Braulio Estima

Hi all,  I was trawling the internet for BJJ information and I cam across a site with some great videos etc.

One of the sections was a two part interview that Braulio gave which seems to have been filmed in 2007.

I am adding the videos to this site but you can also view them at http://www.woma.tv

I hope you find them very insightful.

Braulio Interview Part 1

Braulio Interview Part 2

See you on the mat

Attacking The Arm From Sitting

A quick video of a technique that shows how to take advantage of an opponent whilst seated in front of them.

Post Seminar Night Out

I will be writing a full report about the recent training weekend with Braulio Estima.

As usual, Rob Staples has worked hard ensuring that all the students get access to world class instructors and fighters so on behalf of everyone at the club, a big thank you Rob for all your hard work.

On a lighter note, we managed to get some video of Braulio, Rob, Topo and Guernsey Chris out enjoying themselves.  The video is below and I hope you enjoy it.

Like I say, a full report of the weekend with images and video will follow soon.

See you on the mat.

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