Alexandre Paiva i Finland/Polen (se längst ner i tråden) (Sida 2 av 3)

I chatted with Alexandre today on MSN and he said he didn't know yet what time he would go to Finland but he thought he would know by the end of the month. But if we haven't heard anything a week into june, let's go for Poland anyway so we can make sure we get out of work and can book plane tickets before they get too expensive.

Oh, Finland that is. Typo. He won't come to Sweden this time, but if we all pick up a lot of new members fort the autumn semester then we might afford to bring him to the academy next year!

Låter som om det kan bli ett riktigt bra seminarium! Paiva vet fortfarande inte om han kommer åka till Finland, men det lutar åt att det bara blir Polen, så dit jag kommer boka biljett i början av nästa vecka. Hör av dig innan dess om du tänker följa med så vi kan se till att vi hamnar på samma flyg!

You get your ticket yet?  Is it just you going Johan??  I just looked ant they are still pretty cheap.  I havnt bought mine yet but will tonight or tomorrow probably...

Also, do you know exactly where we go in Zakopane when we arrive??  The guy in charge isn't very good with emailing info...

Well me either.. kinda.  My last email from Sebastian was "Ok you can pay me in Zakopane,sebastian"  I assume thats my reservation and I'm gonna show up with that email in hand just in case.  :)  I dont think they'd turn me away.  And if they did, well.. I guess I'll spend a week in Poland.. heh.  He's not a good email correspondence. 

I havnt looked yet really.  I did a little search yesterday but nothing exciting.  My wife has some good websites, but she was busy yesterday...  I'll let you know.

August 2-9?  I'm planning on flying August 1 and returning August 8.  Camp starts on August 2, so you just planning on skipping first day?  I was planning on going and skipping the last day.

Inget Polen för egen del i år tyvärr. Blev för dyrt plus att jag aldrig fick svar från arrangörerna om det fanns kvar plats eller inte. Sparar pengarna till framtida Brasilien-resa.

Today was the first day of training.  Unfortunately it doesnt seem like ANYONE had much info about this trip.  Me and 3 others arrived last night because the website said the camp started today.  We figured it meant we started in the morning.  However, noone else arrived until like 3pm.  Then we found out that first training was at 7pm.  It was good.  The techniques we learned today I already knew.  It was a sweep and 3 variations.  The sweep where you are in half guard, reach around the opponents back and feed the opposite side of gi to that hand.  Then semi deep half guard and sweep.  And then 2 variations.  It was still good though.  Lasted like 1.5 hours.  Easy.  Then afterward I stayed like 20 mins or so and rolled with someone, but he was semi new and only trains 1x a week.  Tomorrow we train at 10am.  I did not video today, but I saw others recording, so I assume we can.  Tomorrow I'll record the techniques.  Hope all is good!  It's been hot here.  this morning I hiked 4 hours up the mountains.  It was nice.  I'll post photos later.

Have a good one!
Chris

Hey.  So I have some videos but not sure how to get them to you.  Too big to email.  Can I post them here somehow??  I don't see any button that says "Attachment".

Hey, I'm excited!  For that very reason.. Terere!  I dont KNOW if he is coming, however, after today's sparring session, Paiva was like "Tomorrow at evening training, I have a very big surprise for you all"...I immediately thought Terere.  I told my roommates... Would be amazing! 

I do not have a ftp program.  I can use yousendit.com  (internet slow here).  If it doesnt work, I'll just bring a dvd when I return.  They are in .mts format.  They play on my windows media player, but you may need a codex. 

it is beautiful here.  amazing.  we have a few photos but no cord so the other guy is going to email me. 

This evening training was no-gi for like 40 mins and then sparring for the rest of the time.  It was good.  Half sparred, half sat out.. then switched.  It was good.  Though I didn't have any trouble with any of my spars.. it's not, but I think people think so, that triangles are my specialty.  I think it was the only submission I got today, but submitted everyone like 3-4x in 5 mins spars by triangle.. but they kept giving it to me.  Tomorrow we have a lot of sparring too I think for one of our trainings, I'm going to try to get with blue belts or higher only.  There are a lot of new guys I think here. 

But it's still good.  Like you know, when you can teach stuff, it makes you know it better. 

Well, we are going out for sushi now so gotta jet, but I'l write more tomorrow, especially if terere comes!

Now I'm curious? Did Tererê show upp, or was it the black belt graduation that was the big surprise? Should qualify as a big surprise for the polish guys at least.

Hope you've gotten better weather than here (lots of rain) so you have been able to do more hiking. But maybe, you just eat and sleep BJJ now? Great to be able to just focus on the BJJ on training trips.

Alexandre Paiva (min och Anders instruktör) är i Finland (Espoo närmare bestämt) 19.1. - 25.1. Det utlystes med väldigt kort varsel, men om någon är intresserad så kontakta mig (som dock inte själv har möjlighet att åka).