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

Women’s Beginner No-Gi Class A (120 lbs. & below): 1. Mattie Madinanon (Carlson Gracie) 2. Jesika Torres (Stockton) 3. Rachel Tan (10th Planet)

Women’s Beginner No-Gi Class B (120-139.9 lbs): 1. Jill Baker (Bakersfield) 2. Juli Fung (10th Planet) 3. Mylene Manalo (Team Mica)

Women’s Beginner No-Gi Class D (160+ lbs): 1. Renae Wilson (Trinity) 2. Shannon Reid (10th Planet) 3.Mia Cameron-Hayes (UGA)

Women’s Intermediate No-Gi Class B (120-139.9 lbs): 1. Vikki Marlow (Throwdown SD) 2. Jenna Shih (10th Planet)

Masters (40+) No-Gi Advanced Cruiser 180-199 lbs.): 1. Ralf Warneking (10th Planet) 2. Brian Beaumont (10th Planet) 3. Raymond Winters (Sergio)

Men’s No-Gi Beginner Bantam (129.9 lbs & below): 1. Steve Cox (10th Planet) 2. Shahriyar Erfanian (AKA) 3. Jermey Hernandez (Checkmat)

Men’s No-Gi Beginner Super (200- 209.9 lbs.): 1. Adan Gonzalez (10th Palnet) 2. Nicholas Wolz (Rocha/Gacie) 3. Donavan Thomas (Rez Warrior)

Men’s Beginner ABSLOUTE Division
1. Anthony Cessario (Rocha) 2. Nick Wolz (Rocha) 3. Adan Gonzalez (10th Planet)

Men’s No-Gi Novice Bantam (Below 129.9 lbs) 1.Miguel Hernandez (10th Planet) 2. Lee Lindow (Blue Collar Fighter) 3. Ty Young (Mica-Dan)

Women’s No-Gi Beginner Absolute: 1. Shannon Reed (10th Planet) 2. Renee Wilson (Trinity) 3. Lillan Strange (Team Mica)

Men’s No-Gi Advanced Flyweight (130-139.9 lbs.): 1. Sonny Nohara (Drysdale) 2. Michael Chapman (Impact JJ) 3. John Botello (10h Planet)

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

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”

Yo Everyone!

I hope ya’ll are having a great day!

We will be moving back to the Legends starting next Monday, the address is
5176 Santa Monica. It’s about a half mile east of the 101 freeway. There are
about 20 parking spots in back of the building so if it’s packed you’re
gonna have to hunt for spots on the street. There is a JONS market about a
block west which has A LOT of parking but there are JONS PARKING ONLY signs
posted, so I’m not too sure how risky it is. Chris Reilly has parked there a
couple times with no problems. There is no security guard monitoring the
parking lot so I’m assuming it is safe. A tow truck can’t just pull up and
tow cars without someone calling so we’ll have to see how that all plays
out. Maybe grab a gatorade at JONS first??

The new Legends building is HUGE and I am fully stoked to get the show on
the road. All of my jiu jitsu student’s accounts will remain under my
control, so if you have any questions about your membership please email me
directly.

Hope to see you all next Monday! 🙂

Eddie Bravo

During the seminar, we showed our version of the capoeira pass and did some trouble shooting on it.

10th Planet Jiu Jitsu Technique: Turkey Wrap. Knee/Calf Crush from open guard when your opponent is preventing the Lockdown.

I’ll leave both up to prove I’m human.

Ari Bolden of Submissions 101 show’s his variation of the Capoeira pass.

“The “Lockdown”, known more generically as the “Scorpion Lock” has become a very popular and effective base of operations from the Half Guard. On three separate occasions I asked Sensei Paulson how he would counter this style of half guard and this was perhaps his most thorough, set of options.

In the future, Dr. Sick will revisit Breaking the Lockdown and try to consolidate a couple of the other options shown during other sessions with Sensei Paulson.”

 

Brent C.U.O. and myself, The Coach Alder, recently made the trek up to San Mateo, California to teach a VERY exclusive dual instructor, 10 student capacity, private seminar. The event took place at the worlds famous EA games campus near San Francisco. We were greeted by a very enthusiastic and friendly, Mr. Erik Wahlberg and Mr. Constantine. The first 2 hours of the seminar we covered in depth, the lockdown/half guard game. We then broke for and hour for lunch. When we came back, we covered in detail, the path of the Rubber Guard, and the Pyramid position.

I would like to thank our gracious host Erik, all his hard work organizing and  for having us up. Thank you to all the students who attended, their dedication to learning was a delight. It was in my eyes, an overwhelming success. We very much look forward to coming up again soon. Teaching seminars is a wonderful and rewarding experience, and I would love to continue it for as long as it is possible.

Between instructing at 10th Planet Burbank, The Grappling Team @ California State University Northridge, 10th Planet Hollywood, Fitness Unlimited and doing seminars, I consider myself a very blessed Individual. I’m surrounded by amazing people and absolutely love doing what it is that I do. I’d like to give Eddie Bravo the worlds biggest shout out right now. Without him and his system, none of this would have been possible me. Eddie is not only an innovator and a genius, but he is a very loyal and generous man as well. I’m proud to be a part of the 10th Planet Jiu Jitsu phenomenon. 

“Here is a clip demonstrating the Indian Death Lock counter to the Whip Up. We’ve covered the Indian Death Lock Counter to the Lockdown and now we’d like to show the same counter to the Whip Up. The major emphasis should be focused on the timing of the counter and when to execute the Indian Death Lock.”

I’ll be teaching at 10th Planet Burbank now along side Sensei Kim and Dan “The Wolfman” 

Blue Dragon Martial Arts
4130 W. Burbank Ave.
Burbank, CA 91505
818-559-1437
www.bdmartialarts.com