Posted: 5th April 2011 by Josh in Uncategorized
Submission Fight Company – Kids Gi
Shakib over at SubmissionFC (www.submissionfc.com) was one of the first Interviews I had for this site. I recently got in touch with him to ask about his line of belts for kids as my daughter would be getting promoted soon. He offered something we weren’t expecting, a Gi for Sarah and I to review to go along with her new belt. This was awesome to us. Until now she’s been using a century TKD gi and a kataaro kids TKD gi. We bought her a Kataaro judogi but she refuses to wear it because she says it’s uncomfortable to wear in class.
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Posted: 30th March 2011 by Josh in Uncategorized
I’ve been trying to do as much in the way of edged weapons study as I can this year. With a few DVDs that I’ve seen, a seminar and some past FMA experience I’ve been searching through what I felt was the nuts and bolts of what fit in with my mindset and training style.
While I had decided on carrying fixed blade some time ago after looking at what would be worked on in the class – I registered. Deployment would be your main difference. I just wanted to mention this because my focus was on the techniques, not too much on the deployment (though I took notes throughout the entire class).
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Posted: 24th March 2011 by Josh in Training Pads
I got the Ringside Air Focus Mitts from MMAOpinion.com’s store (http://www.mmaopinion.com/rs-air-mitts.html) for $39.99. I needed something that was a little better suited to boxing drills than thai pads and these looked like they would fit the bill. I’ve previously used focus mitts form (N)everlast, Combat Sports, Ringside (normal style), Top contender, and Title.
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Posted: 19th March 2011 by Josh in Bag Gloves, Gear, Gloves
Fairtex Bag Gloves
I ordered these gloves from www.KarateDepot.com (http://www.karatedepot.com/bx-gl-154.html) and received them within 3 days, extremely fast shipping in my opinion. The gloves were packaged nicely in a heavy, thick Ziploc type bag with padding around them to keep them secure. I would order from them again with confidence.
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Posted: 8th March 2011 by Josh in Uncategorized
I would say that the day was split up into two distinctive areas: Mindset/Theory, and technique. I’ll talk about what I took away from the mindset portion first.
Tom gave us some background about Sayoc Kali and how it differs from other flavors of Kali. In the phillipines there was Kali that was based in agricultural roots and there was Kali with military roots. Sayoc Kali traces its lineage to the military flavor of Kali. My previous experience was with an agricultural style – most people just call it Inosanto Kali today.
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Posted: 8th March 2011 by Josh in Uncategorized
Recently I was lucky enough to take a one day edged weapons seminar with Sayoc Tactical Group in Bryn Mawr, PA which is just outside of Philadelphia. This was kind of an all around win as far as the weekend was concerned for a few reasons. My friend and instructor Tom went to college in Philadelphia and trained there for many years. We’ve been hearing stories about “PJJ” (Philly Jiu-Jitsu) for quite some time. I had a great time with Damon Umholtz when he came to our dojo for some seminars last year and now it was time to see, and train at, PJJ.
All in all it was a great weekend – did some great weapons and grappling training. Hung out with some great people and did lots of driving.
I’ll post up a review of the edged weapons seminar shortly!
Posted: 8th March 2011 by Josh in Uncategorized
I’ve got a whole slew of reviews coming up. Here’s a quick list
- CSI MMA Sparring gloves
- Ringside Air Focus Mitts
- Fairtex Bag Gloves
- Century (UFC branding) Thai Pads (they were a gift!)
- Title 180″ wraps
- Datsusara Hemp Combat Gi!
- Datsusara LBP
And I want to introduce a new “line” of reviews; Kids Gear. My daughter (8) has been doing BJJ almost as long as I have and we have the gear she’s needed for class. Our friends over at Submission Fight Company (www.submissionfc.com) have been kind enough to provide us with a kids gi and a belt to review. So you’ll get to see a great example of a high quality kids gi and (yellow) belt and we’ll use those to kick off the kids gear review line as well.
Keep the belt a secret for now though – she’s a 4 stripe white belt and doesn’t know she’s being promoted yet!
There have been several companies doing some “old school” looking gear in natural leather. The style is definitely making a comeback.
If you remember back to my interview with Josh from True Fight Gear you’ll remember that they were working on some natural leather gear as well. Josh was great to interview and gave some great insight into what it takes to design and have products made, and then grow those designs and products to new levels.
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Posted: 29th November 2010 by Josh in Gear Bags
I’ve waited several weeks to post this review, this has granted me about 12-14 classes with it, two seminars and some trips to other BJJ schools. I was really excited for this review before I had even started it – would it live up to the hype? Would it be enough room for not only BJJ and MMA gear, but BJJ and MMA gear for a big guy (bigger guy = bigger gear)? The answer is a resounding yes on all fronts.
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Posted: 15th November 2010 by Josh in Uncategorized
Sorry for the lack of content lately. I made a bit of a change in scenery career wise and it’s had me shuffling things around and I haven’t had the amount of time I had before to work on things. Now that I have a good pace set at the new job I can give the site a bit more time again. I’ve got a review of Datsusara MMA’s PGB-03, a review of the quality on Datsusara’s upcoming grappling shorts (my instructor got them). He and I both pre-ordered the hemp combat gis as well.
Spent the day at a great seminar and I’m definitely pumped to start getting more content on the site (after tomorrow’s seminar!).
Thanks!
