Sorry all not a lot of time to post too much info but I just have to give a quick update. John's seminar was fantastic, unfortunatly I'm still dealing with Kidney stones and was unable to get on the mat. John covered the following points in the seminar


4 Omopalata drills
Get the elbow
Keep the elbow
From mount via reverse side mount (with bonus sweep)
From sidecontrol also via reverse side mount but finishing on the other side

4 Arm triangle choke (or head arm choke) setups/drills
From crossface
From sidecontrol
From head to head
From underneath

Before the seminar got under way we took the opportunity to promote a few of the GSW crew.

Congrats to new Purple Belts Jonny Bares and Jason Murphy and new Blues Brendan Pfahlert and Cain Harland. Well done boys. At the end of the session John ambushed me and awarded me with my BJJ Black Belt.

I would like to thank everyone for their kind words, emails and comments over the last few days. I'll have to admit that I'm still a bit dumbfounded and it hasn't actually sunk in yet I think. Thursdays class was the same as always but any time I caught a glimpse of the Black Belt it surprised me all over again. I'm sure it will take some time to get used to.

Here is a video of John ambushing me using a chocolate cake as a prop. I've edited my speech from the footage because I waffled like a raving idiot. :)