No gi jiu jitsu

From Epicurious : INGREDIENTS 3 1/2 cups (or more) water 1 3/4 cups steel-cut oats 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/4 cup whipping cream 2 tablespoons pure maple syrup plus additional for serving 1 tablespoon (packed) dark brown sugar 1 tablespoon vanilla extract Melted butter (for brushing) 2 pints strawberries, hulled, sliced PREPARATION Butter 13x9x2-inch metal baking pan or rimmed baking sheet. Bring 3 1/2 cups water to boil in heavy medium saucepan. Add oats and salt. Bring to boil; reduce heat to medium-low, cover, and simmer until oatmeal is tender but still firm to bite, stirring often and adding more water by 1/4 cupfuls if too thick, about 30 minutes. Add cream, 2 tablespoons maple syrup, sugar, and vanilla; stir until mixture thickens, about 3 minutes.  Spread oatmeal in prepared pan. Cover with plastic wrap and chill until firm, at least 4 hours.  DO AHEAD: Can be made 1 day ahead. Keep chilled. Cut chilled oatmeal into squares or triangles. Heat griddle or heavy nonstick skillet over m

I was really tickled to get an advance peek at an instructional by Mike Bidwell called Flow Jitsu. I'm enjoying BJJ in my forties but I am really working on being less rigid and smashy, more fluid and crafty what with all these young twenty-something monsters on the mat. This sounded just up my alley. The video is available in digital download format only at Jiu Jitsu Brotherhood Gear for $49.95 and is about an hour long. Who is Mike Bidwell?  He is a blackbelt under Phil Migliarese and Ken Kronenberg, founder of blog  BJJ After Forty , creator of Flow Jitsu, and he persevered through a very long brown belt phase from 2001 to 2014.  So, I think he knows how BJJ can become a grind. In his introduction with  Nic Gregoriades , Roger Gracie blackbelt, Mike emphasized that he believes in the ideas of flow, movement, adaptability, and the importance of acknowledging and working with any limitations on your physicality by seeking easily-replicatable techniques for all skill levels. Does

Former owner of BQuick Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in Stephenville, Texas has been found guilty on July 27, 2016 of sexually assaulting a student who was 14 years old at the time. The jury had reached the verdict in less than an hour in Erath County. Samuel Lewis was promptly escorted out of the courtroom following a guilty verdict. He was arrested back in January 2014 and charged with sexual assault of a child, a second degree felony. According to a local news report   the victim testified saying she began training under Lewis in the summer of 2013. She also said Lewis claimed to be unhappy in his marriage. The victim testified that Lewis knew she was a high school freshman at the time. The teenager felt bad for him saying: “I felt bad and was sympathetic towards him.” She said the two communicated through text messages and Facebook, and that the relationship turned sexual on Christmas Eve 2013 when they had sex in the bathroom inside the gym. Soon after, the victim’s mother learned about

Joe DeSena’s new book "Spartan Fit!" comes out this summer. I have lots of jiu jitsu friends and sambo friends who do tough mudder and Spartan-type races. This book is a great training and motivational tool. All of the info including the first chapter download (Free!) is here: http://spartanracemedia.com If you like what you read, you can (and should) pre-order it HERE:    http://bit.ly/spartanfit_ preorder I have SO much respect for people who run these Spartan races. They are tough! One of my good friends, a Caio Terra blackbelt near Dallas, runs these suckers and he's pretty addicted. Talk about functional fitness. You can hunt for a Spartan race in your area by going here. And if you use the code SPARTANBLOGGER you will get 10% off your entry fee.

I found an article about the top ten coolest martial arts records in the Guinness book, and one of them dealt with jiu jitsu-- the largest BJJ class ever.  Thought you might be interested! I haven't trained hardly at all in the last 3 months. I swear I'm going back but it's been so hard with my work schedule. I am going to ask for an extended lunch so I can go to the noon class.  I get off at four p.m. and evening class starts at seven, so it's just hard to motivate myself to stay at work late, and my house is the opposite direction from the academy (with work in the middle.) So I know I'm making excuses, but... there it is. Edited to add: Thanks y'all for your words of encouragement and support! I was approved for a 2 hour lunch, hooray! Yeah, given that I prefer coming in to work at the obscenely early hour of 530-6am, there was no possibility of doing the morning class. And going to the academy to roll or drill for an hour or two before class at night wasn&#

I'm going to experiment with this cookie which I just found on Pinterest. I think it can be made softer and richer, and I'm going to try my chocolate chip cookie technique of using more, melted butter, two eggs and two egg yolks, and more brown sugar than white. Let me know what you think.. Ingredients 2 2/3 cup all purpose flour 2 1/4 teaspoons ground ginger 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves 1 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 1/2 sticks unsalted butter, browned and brought back to room temperature 1 cup granulated sugar 1/3 light brown sugar, packed 2 large eggs, at room temperature 1/4 cup molasses (mild, not blackstrap) 1/2 teaspoon orange zest *extra sugar for sprinkling (coarse sugar works great here, but granulated will do the job) Instructions To make the dough: In a large bowl whisk together the flour, ginger, cinnamon, cloves, baking soda, and salt; set aside. Place butter in a small sauté pan over medium-low heat and cook, stirring frequent