Oy,
I was playing around with my gopro tonight and out came this. Check it out and if it gets one extra person to stretch and move then... win?
Nice jean shorts. :)
Cool video. I like how you made a small space work with a system/movements you would normally think you have to have a lot of space for.
May i ask, how did you learn ginastica? I've always been interested but there doesn't seem to be a lot of resources or a dvd I can follow along to.
Do you follow along to a dvd or just piece movements together?
Thanks Priest! (Also if a bluenamer could link it that would be cool!)
Yeah I don't do it anywhere near as much as I should with work and training actual bjj and being lazy. Once you get the feeling of the movements it really opens up - I find most benefit to my timing, and range of motion. Also really helps you connect your movements to your breathing.
I have been very lucky to train under Jorge Britto at Toronto BJJ - there is a ginastica session there most Fridays for an hour. So over the past three years I make it to that class maybe half the time. Also, Saulo Ribeiro shows us some stuff when he comes by for seminars (and has some routines on BJJ Library). Alvero Romano came up last year and did a session. I think the Ginastica for Fighters DVD that Romano has is supposed to be really good.
My technique isn't perfect but its at the point now where you can chain some of the sequences together and kind of improve as you go.
Thanks for the info. I don't have a bjj library membership to view saulo's routines. Maybe it'd be worth a months membership to check those out.
I've seen the ginastica for fighters on YouTube. It seems to me that it was just showing a bunch of movements, not necessarily a complete routine/workout. I could probably do that a few times to learn the movements then try stringing them together?!?!
Again, thanks for the vid, the small space you were working in really opened my eyes that I can do this at home too. 