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

Taken From www.10thPlanetJJ.com

Eddie Bravo:
When the ranking section is ready to be launched, this is how it will work. For those of you that are not enrolled in an official 10th Planet school, you will need to post on your 10th Planet profile 10 competition wins on video with a 10th Planet patch on your shorts in every match(you can have other school patches too). Plus 5 10th Planet technique videos. 1 of all the half guard u know, 1 of all the rg u know, 1 of all the twister u know, 1 of all the deep hook transitions u know, and 1 of all the passes u know, all unedited in one swoop. You gotta show me how much you know without looking at notes. Then you get a promotion, either blue, purple or brown. Every promotion no matter what color will require the same 15 videos. Naturally the 5 technique videos will be critiqued alot harder for a purple than a blue, or for a brown than a purple. 10th Planet head instructors that are non black belts can only rank their students to blue. All Nibiru warriors that enrolled in official 10th Planet schools that are run by non black belts that want to get their purple or brown must be first recommended by their instructor and then submit 5 technique videos to this site. 1 of all the half guard u know, 1 of all the rg u know, 1 of all the twister u know, 1 of all the deep hook transitions u know, and 1 of all the passes u know, all unedited in one swoop. You gotta show me how much you know without looking at notes. Easy right?? 🙂

If you don’t have a patch on your shorts then just flash the 10th Planet gang sign into the camera before or after your match. It’s easy, right hand pointing down, left hand making an “O” with the thumb on top. That will be enough for me 🙂

Ever thought, “Hey, that Alder guys sucks, if he can teach 10th Planet Jiu Jitsu, I sure as hell can.” Well, you probably don’t say that about me, you probably say it about Einstein, and you’re right, what a jerk! Anyways, if you’re twistering everybody in your gym and interested in having your school become a 10th Planet Jiu Jitsu affiliate, you can! **(maybe)

Now, if you’re a fan of the system, but not so enthusiastic to have your school associated with “The Pot”, Rock and Roll and tattoos, but would like to have a seminar, you can do that as well!

For a free consultaion, 1-900-GET-ALDER

10th Planet Jiu Jitsu Rochester competes at the AIKC Grappling Tournament October 10th 2009.

This is taken from the new Nibiru Forum on www.10thplanetjj.com.

“Now that I have your attention let me introduce myself, and for those who already know me, let me let you fall in love with me, all over again.

My name is Alder Hampel, that’s right, just like my user name. I train at 10th Planet HQ in Hollywood, CA under Eddie Bravo. I’m currently a brown belt and an instructor at 10th Planet Burbank, CA. I also run a little blog called 10th Planet Watch. Through that, and through teaching 10th Planet Jiu Jitsu seminars, I’m helping to spread the nogi gospel, all over the world, and maybe beyond.

I was introduced Jiu Jitsu after watching some guy named Royce beat up a bunch of dudes in a 8 sided cage sometime in the mid 90’s. Not too long after that, at Jean-Jacques Machado’s, I was introduced to a blue belt with amazing long black hair that he tucked underneath some kind of swimmers cap. I never really paid him much mind, and even after I quit training at JJM’s, I’d see Eddie around, at the Wholefoods, or sometimes he’d stop into the club I trained was then training at, Renato Magno’s Street Sport Jiu Jitsu. I’d always be cordial, and say hello.

Fast forward a few years. I’m out of school and making enough money to train Jiu Jitsu again after a couple years off. I start looking for gyms near my work in the West Hollywood area. As it turns out, there’s a gym called the Bomb Squad, literally across the street from my work. I decide to check it out.

As I was checking it out, I noticed nobody was wearing a gi. Back in the day, we sometimes had “Vale Tudo” days where we didn’t have to wear the gi, this must be one of those days. To my surprise they trained all “Vale Tudo” or as it was now known, no-gi. The instructor was none other than that blue belt with the amazing long hair, Eddie Bravo Unfortunately he’d cut his hair at this point and had gotten his black belt. I check out class, chatted Eddie and Reintroduced myself, got a free “Twister” DVD, and got a price check.

“Really?!? $105 for unlimited training? Fuckin’ awesome!”

When I got home, I watched the “Twister” DVD. My jaw dropped and I proceeded to stare in disbelief as Eddie triangled Royler Gracie. I never followed Sport JJ, I was more into MMA, so I never had heard about Eddies match with Royler. It wasn’t until I saw it on the DVD that I really understood what a gold mind I’d struck right there on “Tranny Row” in Weho.

As the story goes, I got my purple and brown belts under Eddie, and the rest is history. Why does all of this matter you ask? It doesn’t, not at all. Not in the slightest. This was all just a ploy to tell you a story in hopes you’d give me a little bit of attention. And now that I have your attention, I’d like to talk about 10th Planet Watch.

Through my blog, 10th Planet Watch, I keep my readers informed with the latest in 10th Planet news, techniques, tournament footage, seminars, affiliate info, comedy and so on. I’ve also formed the 10th Planet Police, a group of volunteer interwebbers with one mission, to waste their employers money keeping the virtual mats safe from poorly executed 10th Planet technique. For past blogs, please see, www.10thplanetwatch.com. For all future blogs, please check the blog section of www.10thplanetjj.com

Thank you for your time, and I look forward to all the future good times!

Alder – 10th Planet Watch”

Eddie’s new, official 10th Planet Jiu Jitsu website is now up. 10th Planet Watch will be migrating over to www.10thplanetjj.com. We can now create cool user accounts and post on the message boards. A feature we never had here. So instead of sitting around at work talking about the big game over the water cooler, we can skip out on that, and talk about new and inventive ways to hurt each other. Real people in the real world are dumb, everybody knows all the coolest people are online. I’ll go even further and say the COOLEST of those cool people, are all going to be on www.10thplanetjj.com.

Don’t worry about signing up for the Pay Pal part of the site if you don’t want to, you can create a profile for free! Don’t forget to add me as a friend, my user name is “Alder Hampel.” I’ll be looking forward to many stimulating conversations with all of you about pulling and twisting limbs, and my and of course, choking and strangulation. =)

John “The Frenchman” from New Zealand.

John The Frenchman

Triple Threat Combat Sports Home Of 10th Planet Jiu Jitsu Bear, Delaware raises money for cancer research (Mud Run 2009)