So. There has been a lot of updates since last week, but the most important is the one in this title. Kyra Gracie. For those of you crazy people out there who do not recognize that name, her great grandfather Helio Gracie is pretty much the founder of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Helio, along with his brother Carlos starting training at first in Judo, but because of Helio's small size, he soon created techniques that allowed him to take on much stronger and larger opponents.
Kyra Gracie is a black belt World Champion in BJJ. She is the only Gracie female to have both or either of those. She is also only 25.
Last Saturday, our team Lloyd Irvin was hosting a 4 hour seminar with her teaching. I actually last minute decided to go down with Kristel, a girl at my gym. I have to say, even though it cost a good amount between the seminar itself and travel expenses, it was worth it. It may not necessarily be the sort of thing I do all the time (unless someone out there wants to hire me at a much higher hourly rate than I currently have), but as a once in a while thing - and especially as a this is a Gracie thing - well, hell. Why not. The time most certainly flew by. I was so shocked when it was the end of the 4 hours. We didn't do any live rolling, and that could be part of the reason it didn't seem as long. Anyhow, I'm going to post the techniques here. I've come to a few conclusions since my last post. That talking about techniques with words is mad hard. And talking about techniques with words as a white belt with the limited experience I have is really mad hard. But you know what they say, right? Patience is a virtue. So if you ignore my floundering, I might get a post on here one of these days that actually makes sense.
Another little detail I'm going to have to include with posts from now on is to assume that anyone reading this, will have at least limited knowledge of BJJ already. I'm going to wikipedia the hell out of a lot of words so you can click on links and read up shit a little yourself just in case you don't know jack...but I really don't want to sit typing a book. ;-)
I'll post the techniques separately, as they will take up some space. I am probably going to do them as drafts and update them when they are done because I'll fool around a bit and see if I can really do the make-sense thing work. I also have a few other posts to put up, so this is like one mass posting event as long as I feel like staying up to write it all! I want to go over today's regular BJJ class @ 8 as well but seeing as it's 12:19, that will prob be an ongoing draft thing too. On a final note, Kyra was a great teacher. She had some problems every now and then finding the correct english word, but she was very personable (which is a fancy way of saying cool and fun to talk to). She would also go around the room and check on everyone giving advice. She'd also stop everyone for a minute if she saw something often being done that could or needed to be corrected. We got some pictures taken with her which was awesome, and spent some time around 20 minutes before it was over asking questions on anything we wanted. It was pretty rad ^.^.
For the curious out there, I am the one with the blue Shoyoroll Gi on the left of Kyra. More to come...most likely tomorrow...
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