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

George stopped by 10th Planet Headquarters @ Legends MMA in Hollywood to train some Rubber Guard techniques. He was kind enough to give us a few minutes for 10th Planet Watch.

“Eddie talks about why London was taken out of the 10th Planet system. There have been many requests by viewers about London and they didn’t know what it was or why it was removed.”

Thanks to Ari @ Submissions 101 for this

Here’s part 3 and 4 of the Pupper Master Advanced Guard series from Jeff “The Wolverine” Barney. Any Rubber Guard Cops have any problems with this or is Jeff a law abiding citizen? YOU BE THE JUDGE.

pt.3

Part 3 of our Puppet Master series. We go over a bunch of different set ups for the Rubix Cube including the Golden Arm that I picked up from Jason at www.no-gi-grappling.com. Then we show two new chokes off of the Puppet Master, The Apple Crusher, and the Wolverine-otine. Jeff “The Wolverine” Barney and Felipe Soto from 8th Street Gym in Grand Junction, Colorado.

pt.4

“In our 4th Puppet Master video we show a new transition from back control to the Puppet Master we call the Riddler. We also show another choke called the Unforgiven, a peruvian necktie variation. Jeff “The Wolverine” Barney, Felipe Soto 8th Street Gym, Grand Junction Colorado.”

Today was one of those days i should never gotten out of bed. First, I popped my knee doing Omoplatas during the morning class at 10th Planet HQ. It wasn’t too bad, but it was bugging me enough to decided that I’m gonna sit out and chill the rest of class. Now that I no longer have health insurance, I’d like to play it safe, and not press my luck.

Next, I had a job interview for a position teaching kids (14-18) martial arts. Big ups to Compella for hooking me up with the interview. Anyways, I meet with the high school who puts on the after school program. They were looking for an instructor, but one who’d teach without using physical contact. Hmmmmm, that sounds like a challenge. Now, I’ve taken many different traditional martial arts classes over the years. However, I’ve only ever taught Jiu Jitsu. I wouldn’t feel comfortable teaching anything that couldn’t involve some kind of contact between students. I’m still only a white belt in Tae Bo, so teaching that is out of the question. I’ll probably have to respectfully decline the position unless they can meet my basic needs.

Fast forward to the night time class Alex 4saken and I teach at Fitness Unlimited in Granada Hills. We were drilling, doing some routine guard passing. One of our students, Lionel, and I were practicing together. He weighs about 145 so he’s a bit on the lighter side compared to me. Also, we were going pretty light. I was pushing his hips and head down and away from my body trying to prevent him from passing my guard. He turned his hip down and dropped his body weigh. Some how my thumb got caught and all his weight came crashing downward. “POP!” It sounded like a dry twig being snapped. I felt an instant, excruciating pain. This was probably up there was most painful I’ve felt in recent times. It was one of those freak accidents, this isn’t ping pong we’re playing folks. I figured for sure it was broken. I sat our the rest of the class icing it, trying to keep my cool, but the shit hurt like hell.

After Alex 4saken dropped my back home I was faced with a choice. Ignore it and hope it gets better on it’s own. Or since all the urgent cares are already closed by this time, go to the ER, and have it examined. Unfortunately, E.R. is quite expensive. After examining my thumb, which has swollen to the size of a golf ball by this time, I decide I don’t want to risk it. My mom and her best friend take me down to the hospital.

After seeing a doctor, I waiting around in pain for a few hours for my results. I was promised something for the pain when I arrived, but for some reason it never came. It would have cured my boredom and if not killed the pain, at least killed some time. Finally, the nurse, who was cute btw, brings me a brace, 2 vicodins and my results. It’s not broken according to the x-rays, but I probably have some ligament damage. Oh, well could be worse.

So, If anybody knows anything I should take to help this heal let me know. MSM, Glucosamine, Chondriton Roids ect.?

Here’s pics with my new fashion brace.

Brent shows Coach Alder the finer points of the half and half sweep

big ups on the editing and film work by Alex 4saken

Alex 4saken shows how to counter the omoplata by flying over and passing.

For all you 818 Valley heads, we also teach 10th Planet classes at:
Fitness Unlimited in Granada Hill. Devonshire and Balboa right next to the Mann Movie Theaters
Classes are Tuesdays and Thursdays 6:45-8:15. Come hollar at us if you’re interested. You can contact Alex at 213 247-3286 or you can hit me on an email. My contact is in the lower left hand column.

While Eddie was out cruising the world, 4saken and myself (Coach Alder) took over some classes at 10th Planet Hollywood. Here’s a whole bunch of techniques rolled into one jam packed video. More bang for da buck.

1.) Electric Chair (Electro Butt Scootin’ Boogie Remix) – 1/2 Guard Sweep
2.) The Red Baron – Dog Fight Counter
3.) D’arce (Knuckle Head Variation) – Submission

I was on TMZ’s Idiot Savant answering comic book questions. We were representing The New Chamber Of Comics on Roscoe and Woodman in Van Nuys. I even got a free TMZ hat and t-shirt for my troubles! Peep out the sweet wrestling poses and 10th Planet shout out.

Coach Alder on TMZ

Written by LJ Tabano
Tuesday, 23 September 2008 19:41

Before gaining fame as the co-host of the popular History Channel show “Human Weapon” Jason Chambers was an up and coming MMA fighter who started out in Chicago. Chambers made a successful return to action in the Chicagoland area by facing Dan New in the co-main event of Total Fight Challenge 13.

Link To Fight

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.