Training for Mundials in Brazil?

[todd11]

I am looking for some help in creating a routine from Body flow to help me prepare for the Mundials this summer. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,
Todd Davidson

[Scott Sonnon]

Todd,

Steve Maxwell (world masters champ) and Bruce Carleton (Pan-Am champ) both composed successful BJJ Body-Flow practices.

email Steve at stephenmaxwellms@aol.

I think he'll be into discussing this -he's very into Bodyflow these days.

[Robert V]

I agree. Steve is the man.

[JasonE]

I'm looking at the Midwest Submission Championships in late Fall of this year. I normally compete in 4 divisions: Gi, Gi Absolute, No-Gi, and No-Gi Absolute. The rules are modelled on the PanAms.

Please post the Bodyflow program you come up with or PM it to me... I'm just barely getting my feet wet with the Bodyflow stuff, so it would be cool to see what you are doing!

Thanks!

[circular]

Spicing up the BJJ Shrimp with Body-Flow (http://www.circularstrengthmag.com/19/synkowski.html)

This article may be of help.

[Lee]

Hey guys, I wrote that article, and I have been applying Body-Flow to BJJ for a little while now. Hopefully I can help...

First, get the idea out of your head that someone can send you a Body-Flow routine to help you reach one of your goals. BF is not like a traditional rep-set scheme that you just blindly follow with the hope of acheiving a result. To give you my routines, or use Steve Maxwell's routines would not be in the spirit of true Body-Flow.

Second you guys have PLENTY of time to incorporate BF in to your training before these events. A little bit each day is all it will take.

My advice will be very simple. Just explore a few movements each day. Think of Body-Flow as a toy you are going to play with. Remember when you were younger and how excited you would feel getting a new toy? This is Body-Flow. Resist the "adult" need inside your head to count reps or do the same thing every day. Goals can be good because they direct your play, but do not try to plan the actual route you will take. Let that come.

That said, I find it helpful to relate movements from BF to BJJ techniques. I don't need to rep things 1,000s of times because I know an armbar from the mount is a+b+c. I just do it when the time comes. Also, think of how you are moving in different BJJ situations e.g., on you back, on the knees, passing the guard and see what effecient movements can be accomplished from these places. Please read my personnel training log to get an idea for how I did it, but just trust your-self and let us know what you come up with.

Good luck with competetions guys, remember they are play too. I am looking to Pan-AMs myself this year.

-Lee

[Scott Sonnon]

Shadow-grappling through Body-Flow? Brilliant, Lee! Sounds like a new article, amigo. There was amazing feedback from your article in Volume 1 Issue 9. Everyone's anxious for another installment.

Congratulations again on your victory!

[Chuck Kechter]

Shadow-grappling through Body-Flow™?

That's how I have come to "work" about 70% of my Body-Flow practice. Time being premium, I like and use a more "complex" training modality, than performing one thing at a time.

With the caveat that Lee posted above here are a couple that I've been playing with recently. . .

#1 Flat Foot Squat to Knee Switch to Cossack Squat to Long Arm Roll to Position of Assurance to Leg Thread to Quarter Position hop up to Flat Foot Squat-Repeat

#2 Front Ground Engagement to Swing Split to Shin Roll to Quarter Position to Quad Squat to Hop up to Flat Foot Squat to Spinal Wave to Stand

I hope I got all the transitions written in there.

Good Luck!
Chuck