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Grappling Dummies BJJ TV: No Gi British Open 2009 from martial farts on Vimeo.

Team Scramble's little sojourn to Birmingham for the No Gi British Open.

You can see:
My bad form on kettlebells!
Andy's absolute robbery of three points for passing the guard and securing side control that wasn't given!
My not defending a triangle very well!
My serving up my neck on a silver platter for someone!
The inside of a Holiday Inn in Birmingham!
AND MUCH MORE!!!
(Actually not much more.)

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Pictures from the No Gi British Open 2009!

Courtesy of my new Flickr account.

Training began in earnest for the British Open, and I wrote something for Fightlinker.

I did my first ever proper fitness type thing the other day.
Down by the beach, a set went like this:
Run up loads of steps and back down.
Do clean and jerks with 16kg kettlebells.
Hobble up loads of steps and back down.
Do some kind of lifty swingy thing with the kettlebells.
Crawl up loads of steps, flop back [...]

The birth of the Slicernator!

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We had a fun warmup including some exercises that alternately made us look like incredibly incompetent bandicoots and raging drunk lanky otters with parkinson’s disease.
We worked on some one-up one-down stuff, some sweeps, [...]