10th Planet Watch – 10th Planet Jiu Jitsu Van Nuys Blog

I figure I’d throw this in there so nobody has to think today. Just sit back and be entertained, your brain cells need a rest.

Scott Einstein Epstein Rolling to the sounds of Common’s “Universal Mind Control” and DJ Shadow’s “Organ Donor”

At his seminar on November 22nd at 10th Planet Rochester, Eddie Bravo promoted Chris Herzog of 10th Planet Rochester to brown belt and Alaina Hardie of 10th Planet Toronto to purple belt.

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Dave and Ryan will like this one. Chris basically a sweet variation of the Half Boston Crab. It is my professional opinion that Stu Hart, Father to Brett and Owen Hart, went to originally went to Brazil to teach the Gracies. It was not in fact Maeda.

I’m helping coach the Matadors grappling team at CSUN in Northridge, CA. Any CSUN students and alums are welcome to come out and train.
If you’re interested, contact: poeticox at aol.com.

Practice times are Monday and Wednesday 9-11pm and Saturdays from 5-7pm in the Kineseology Building.

…Or shame on you if you haven’t told your friends.

I’ve been getting about 4-5 times the site traffic that I usually get this week. Thanks to everybody who checks out the site. It gives me personal satisfaction to Know you care. Thanks to everybody who posts their techniques, uses 10thpjj in tournaments and mma ect. Keep the videos coming and I’ll keep posting them.

Word Life

Alder

Denny “300″ Prokopos shows us how to quickly go from Mission Control, to the triangle choke.

I apologize for the recent spambot infiltration. I’ve enlisted the help of Magus: Robot fighter to destroy the evil invaders. I uploaded 2 spam filter programs, WP-SMAMFREE and Akismet. So far so good, it seems to be working. Now we can get back to our deep, insightful conversations on the comment section. Thanks for your patience.

The Management

I thought this was cool. I know they’re system might not have changed much since this commercial, but I thought we might want to look at where we evolved from. I’m happy to not wear the gi anymore, but I still have a respect for it and the sport’s roots. =)

If it wasn’t for Royce Choking out the Art Jimmersons and the Remco Pardoes of the world, I’d still be power bombing my friends and setting up the dreaded Camel Clutch.

Aoki is a submission wiz! He uses rubber guard and gets to the New York Position before time runs out at the end of the second round. It’s at 16:25 of the vid.

swim move

Here’s Eddie demonstrating the swim move to the spider web position, and then finishes it off with with the bicep crusher. A good example of this is Dong Sik Yoon vs. Melvin Manhoef