Not sure if Dana White ever visits A.T.T and rolls with Fitch or if he drops by Team Couture and trades with Forrest but the CEO for W1 (Warrior 1) in Montreal, Jack Bateman, was at Toronto BJJ this week and instead of just hanging about promoting the 'Bad Blood' Show on March 20th - he did some training with Professor Britto and put his Gi on during the final Jiu Jitsu Class of the week and sparred with some of the team at Toronto BJJ.

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In an effort to add some options to my stand up game I have decided to take 1 Judo Class a week. So I put on the white belt last night and did an hour's class after Jiu Jitsu.

After warming up, Bobby Currie and Mike Nomikos (our Judo Black Belts) took myself and handful of other guys through breakfalling. I had asked Mike if I could start with learning this as the 1 class I had taken last year was pretty tough because I was being thrown without understanding breakfalling.

Ok 1 more thing from Abu Dhabi in Montreal. The Fight Network had a quick report featuring Toronto BJJ, Professor Britto , Bruno Maron and Thomas Beach.

Personal Goals

• Last the first minute of each fight
• Pull off a flying Armbar (so I would have a short fight)
• Reach the Podium
• Have fun
• Close out the divsion with my team mates. Then I learned I would be fighting in a lighter division than my team mates, and would have no other Team mates with me - I really started to think I had a great chance to win.

I happened to run into the man behind the 50/50 Guard - Mr Ryan Hall while at The Abu Dhabi Pro Trials in Canada. I didn't want to be too much of a trainspotter but I did throw a couple of questions at him...

As I hoped, this was a sort of 'coming out' tournament for
'Britto Jiu Jitsu' and Toronto BJJ on a Canadian National level. We arrived with a team of 35 competitors and when the dust settled our Academy had 15 medals and 1 fighter - Tommy Beach - heading to the ADCC finals in The United Arab Emirates later this year.

I went with 2 personal goals. Reach the Podium and Pull off a 'Flying Armbar' (mentioned in a previous article). But I had injured myself 2 days before during practice. I had pulled a muscle in my shoulder blade but not too badly. I kept it on the d/l.

It's going to be a long day at the tournament and you might have a long time to kill. I've been watching some BJJ Players habit's at tournaments and have started to compile this list of suggestions that might make your day in the bleachers and the Tatami's a little more comfortable.
'Be Prepared' as we say in Scouts.