Randy Waldorf wins World Championship!

ATTENTION! DOCS very own Randy Waldorf has just won the WABDL world powerlifting championships in his age division. Congratulations Randy! Randy deadlifted 501lbs to set a state record and win a world championship - he could have probably pulled more - but 501 was what he needed to win.

Way to go Randy!

Kettlebells,the submission hunt and the "no triangle zone"

Wow what an odd title for a blog about the happenings on the first full week of november. (But hey it was kinda fun to type). Generally good week over here at "Developing Olympic Combat Sports" - yep that's what DOCS stands for. The early week traveled on like any other - lots a sweat a little blood and a ton of hard work. Friday night Joe Pavel ran his first Kettlebell class over at DOCS - it was AWESOME (in other words my traps and hamstrings are still sore). Check this class out - great general conditioning and fabulous for fighters and people in need of some hardcore "tush firming". Saturday, things started to get really interesting, Chris ran a full day seminar directed at aikido practitioners and internal martial artists. At the same time "The Greater Midwest Submission Hunt was getting under way in Champlain Park. This is probably the biggest BJJ/submission grappling tournament in the midwest. DOCS/Wolfpack (the name of our BJJ affiliate and our club name) was there in full force. The guys fought well. Congratulations to all of you. Triangle chokes were our nemesis all day - something to work on eh? All in all a good day. That evening, Junior's band played at Noche so the guys got a chance to blow off a little steam and lick their wounds ( I keep telling them to stop licking each other's wounds - but with a name like "Wolf Pack" what do you expect?) This week Jimmy Pedro, Judo tournaments and our own Randy Waldorf competing at the national Deadlift championships.

The US Open Judo Championships

Yep, it's me Dr Greg here. My apologies for not keeping this blog anywhere near current. BUT - I just came back from the US open judo championships in miami - Great tournament, espescially at the lighter weights. There are some amazing athletes doing Judo throughout the world - and the US of A actually has some of them. Excellent.

But the real news: DOCS own Glenn Shifflet won his division at the US open! Congratulations Glenn. DOCS is proud to have people like Glenn representing our school, club and gym.

I will be posting Pics as soon as I get them

Until next time.

Doc

Let the eat cake

Yesterday was Big Mike's birthday.

Mike as you may recall is the gym manager who has introduced me to training concepts such as uughh ( I think that's how you spell it) and the use use of added rust as a method of increasing training weights - real new age stuff. But hey he gets results. Ah I digress, Mike has had some major life stressors over the last week or so - get well soon Mom! and as a result he's been lying low..........monday night Mike calls and says "time to train" so we schedule a tuesday(birthday) workout of back, traps delts and biceps nothing heavy - pulldowns with 220, DB shrugs with 120's etc........and amazingly, about half way through the workout Mike started to perk up! ( Gotta love endorphins) - as a matter of fact 6 hours later he's still at the gym training people. So, I (you know, the "Doc") mention to Junior and the BJJ guys that it's Mike's birthday........"A cake we need a cake"the cheer goes up from the sweaty but good natured group. Well, I guess that's my first hint that I'd better aim the black saab toward the nearest grocery store and end up with a cake. Amazingly, The deli manager at the local grocery is an old patient and advised ( she's seen these guys) two (yes 2) cakes. I point the saab back toward DOCS and show up with enough cake to feed a group of grapplers and a 300lb gym manager. Junior stops practice and yells downstairs for big Mike, explaining that he needs help signing up a new member, unfortunately, the combination of personal trainer and bouncer provides Big Mike within almost superhuman ability to detect B.S. and thus he realizes Junior is lying. Well, Mike refuses to come upstairs to play and as a result the largest of the BJJ guys get sent down stairs to carry him upstairs. Yes, it was accomplished. Good fun and good traing for everyone.

The cake was pretty good too.

8:50 AM on a Wednesday

Okay, I said I'd go back to blogging so I have. It's 8:50 on a wednesday and in 10 minutes 6 patients are about to walk in- nope the first one just walked in. So, I guess it's soon time to move "Best Judo" by Inokuma and "Optimum Performance Training" by the National Academy of Sports Medicine off my desk. I've got an advanced judo class this evening from 7 till 9 and it is always good to be prepared.

Starting next week Junior Brazil is going to be running a number of the wednesday classes - competitive judo Brazilian style................................this should be fun! As the fall season approaches I can sense the energy at DOCS building. Until later. Dr.G

Don't even ask

Yeah I know.........................It's been longer than a month or two since I last posted anything ........Okay maybe like 6 months..........So rather than apologizing for things left undone, it's just time to start getting things done. Fall is soon approaching ( right after the cheese curds on a stick festival known as the state fair and the renfest, which is an all kinds of sticks festival of its very own ilk) and as fall approaches it's time to get in shape from a summer of lolling about.

I'll actually write something relevent about upcoming schedules next week.

Enjoy august kids......the "Doc" is back and ready to blog.

Wow I misplaced a month!

Well not really misplaced. The Doc has been a little busy - so it's wednesday and it is definitely time to blog a bit. After Kangeiko at DOCS gym I tried to give my adrenal glands a break - I guess that worked for about a week........Friday night we went down to Three Moons Studio with Alex and his guys for a nice little friday night randori session ( "rolling" is the new term - but since I don't bend so well............) Then came the Saint Paul Winter Classic - Dan and Ken put on a pretty good local tournament. Well, DOCS had 6 players and came back with a total of 11 medals and trophies. ....not too shabby eh? Jacob, Sarah, Ian, Brad, Christiano and Junior. Nice job everyone.

Kinda caught a break for about a week Joe Fipp ran a friday night practice and taught some katame no kata, Kent and Junior ran a saturday kid's class - GUESS WHAT? Billy Iverson earned his Yellow belt! Congratulations Billy! John Gallien ran the monday night class and Joel Caught the friday randori class (with touch of Katame no kata thrown in) so......item 1 thanks to everyone for helping out. ............Friday night Joel Gunderson is running the mat and I stop in to say hi.....when in walks Cory and a couple of new friends from a Pavel seminar (if you don't know who Pavel is - ask me). I look up and realize that Cory has walked in with 1976 Olympic team member Temoc Johnston Ono. Amazing! Ian and Sarah got a chance to roll with an Olympian! - Oh yeah..........and he loved the spring loaded mats! Temoc was a really nice guy and DOCS was honored to have him at our facility. Thank you. (P.S. I hope the adjustment helped :))

Then comes 2 Harbors, Valentines day and a very cold friday night................but I guess that's for another day.