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A few Grip Trainer variations

by William Wayland ~ posted October 11th, 2012

I have had my grip trainers (I have the Navy first run in case you were wondering) a fair while now and I have found them an useful tool cycled in and out of training, the type of grip you use determines the loading so, Bunching type grips will allow for more loading that pinching or pocket type grips. Bunching type grips are great for compound pull type exercises where as more tenuous grips work terrifically for lighter accessory back work. I generally cycle grip trainer usage every 4 weeks with thick bar work as I find this gives my fingers and joints time to recover. These are a few of the grip trainer variations I keep finding myself reusing beyond just straight forward pull-ups and seated rows.

Pullups are cool and all, but there is so much more you can do!

 

Single Arm Cable row

This kind of row teaches the athlete to both retract and posteriorly tilt the scapula. If you are someone with suffers with shoulder pain I have found this can be performed without aggravation. You can either take a staggered stance like Tim in the picture or stand with both feet about shoulder width apart.

Eagle lat row

Keeping an upright posture and a proud chest you kneel and pull the shoulder blades together before initiating the pull. This is great for teaching the athlete to squeeze and retract the shoulder blades.

Facepull

The facepull is great for strengthening  your rear deltoids and lower trapezius, pulling your upper body into its natural alignment, with the shoulder blades back and down. The grip trainer takes the place of conventional rope. You can either double up on handles like we have or use the rope attachment.

Supine Row

Supine Row finally a use for the smith machine! It is a terrific back builder and excellent for those that suffer from back issues bent over rowing. Just be sure to not let the hips sag. You can put your feet on the floor or to make it more challenging on a bench.

Suitcase Row

Suitcase row with lighter loading allows us to use pocket grip. By using a Barbell this eliminates swing, which doing the same lift with a kettlebell or dumbbells. You can anchor the barbell either in a landmine attachment or in a corner much like a T-bar row, just be sure there is something between the bar and the wall you don’t want gym management to kick you out for scuffing the paint work!

Band Press Downs

I like to use this as a finisher on upper body training days, high rep press downs combined with grip trainer misery. While pressing down I try and resist ulnar deviation as much as I can.

So there you have it my favourite grip trainer variations. If you have any you want to share drop over to the scramble facebook page and let us know!

This is an ongoing series of articles from guest blogger and Strength & Conditioning coach William Wayland of Powering Through. And thanks to Tim Stokes of BKK fighters colchester for modeling!

 

Hand and forearm care for grapplers

by William Wayland ~ posted September 20th, 2012

Following on from last week’s post “Choke out tendonitis”, which by the way went down a storm so thanks for liking and sharing.
I want to talk about the other element to forearm and hand care for grapplers. Self Myofascial release sounds fancy but in reality is a self imposed massage of sorts. Myo meaning muscle in Greek and fascia being the soft tissue component of connective tissues, it surrounds the muscles playing a passive role transmitting mechanical tension which is generated by muscular contractions.

What happens over the longer term is the occurrence of trigger points, areas of tissue that are uncomfortable to the touch. Tissue can become tough knotted and scarred (Inelastic scar tissue), this can happen on both muscular areas like forearms and fat pads and connective tissue like in our hands. Forearm in particular is a morass of connective and muscular tissue that can quickly become tight and painful. It can take month for even years when the build up can reach tipping point often ending in tendontis (tight and immoble fascia can pull on tendons excessively), restricted movement and painful (dont touch me bro) spots in the muscles.

Self myofascial release is a relatively simple once you grasp the method and few simple tools, I get a lot of athletes have “ah ha why did’nt I think of this sooner!” moments when I show it to them.

In the video below I show two of my favourite methods for releasing all that junk tissue in the forearm and hand. All you need is an empty barbell in a rack and a hockey/lacrosse/tennis/golf ball and drive it into the offending tight spots. Be sure to start light and work up to a progressively more resistance. As you work feel for the areas of most tension and work through those, it’ll be uncomfortable but it should never be painful. I use the hockey ball in particular on the hand to free-up the palmar facia. Judo players, climbers and Im willing to bet BJJ players are at an increased risk of Dupuytren’s disease (a thickening of the palmar facia, so releasing the palmar facia can help free up tissues in the hand.

Integrate this into your pre training warm-up routine. Another time to do it is between sets of other exercises, this is a great way to mobilise and make the most of your time in the gym rather than watching the bro’s curl in the smith machine or whatever it is you do between sets.

Self myofascial release with joint flossing technique are powerful tools so that you scrambler can keep grappling.

This is an ongoing series of articles from guest blogger and Strength & Conditioning coach William Wayland of Powering Through.

 

[VIDEO] Scramble’s Adventures in Tokyo 2012

by Matt - Scramble ~ posted July 31st, 2012

Scramble Matt took a trip to Tokyo recently and this is the result.

It’s basically me getting my butt kicked at three jiu jitsu classes.

I can’t say enough great things about the fight community in Tokyo – so helpful, friendly, welcoming – not to mention tough.

I visited Rikako Yuasa at Jewels BJJ class, Nakamura Daisuke at Grabaka, and Hiroyuki Abe at AACC gym for a spot of no gi / catch. Ouch!

I had visions of much more footage of Tokyo but sadly it rained most of every day which limited the amount of filming I could do. So just enjoy gratuitous jiu jitsu rolling.

Rikako
Hiroyuki Abe
Daisuke Nakamura

I highly recommend visiting all three if you find yourself in Tokyo.

Special thanks to Kinya Hashimoto and Takehiro Iso for looking after me during the trip.

Music:
Bulgarian Voices
Dakhabrakha
Akoya Afrobeat Ensemble

Gyms:
Grabaka

AACC

Jewels MMA Studio @ Muse

 

[VIDEO] Oli Geddes: International Grappling Competitor…?

by Matt - Scramble ~ posted July 27th, 2012

We are ultimo-pumped about this vid!

Shot and edited by our friend Daniel Willmott, a name to watch out for on the BJJ video scene, it’s a great introduction to Oli Geddes, a household name in the UK BJJ scene and soon to be worldwide. Oli delivers one of the funniest intros I’ve ever heard in a BJJ video, too.

He’s heading off to North America for THE GREAT NORTH AMERICAN COMPETITION TOUR OF AWESOMENESS and I highly recommend you keep up with his progress at his blog, here.

Please like, share, enjoy! Turn it up and make sure HD is on.

 

Workable periodisation for MMA

by William Wayland ~ posted July 8th, 2012

This is an ongoing series of articles from guest blogger and Strength & Conditioning coach William Wayland of Powering Through. If you have any questions about this post or S & C in general as it relates to MMA and BJJ then please leave a comment below!

I get a lot of emails from grappler’s and MMA fighters asking about training and planning questions. While I enjoy helping people out, one issue seems to reoccur, most people have no sort of long term plan! People just want to train and don’t give consideration to anything more than the week ahead or sometimes even beyond the next training day. While this bullish attitude is typical of MMA fighters, a lack of longer term planning restricts longer term development as an athlete. This is where periodisation comes into play.

Periodisation is effectively just long term planning and most self trained or semi knowledgeable will have a crack at it. They’ll go online drop £50 on supertraining and never get past the first chapter. Most sports science texts can seem impenetrable to the lay person (TLDR just wanna train! Attitude) and they’ll quickly revert back to whatever they were doing, because hey it was sort of working. A lot of periodisation for mma content on the web isn’t helpful either as most of the time these are rote answers straight out of sports science text books. These articles generally just list the phases of periodisation and how you train for each often with programs. Problem here is in objectivity, lack of context and lack of explanation about sequencing.

Periodisation in brief

Conventional periodisation is sequencing of training emphasis. It is a systematic and planned way for trying to improve our abilities over time. So for example you might that involves anatomical adaptation phase followed by hypertrophy followed by strength followed by power phase etc. These are usually formed in larger structures such as general preparatory phase (general off season training), specific preparatory phase (honing those physical capacities for certain goals) and competition phases (keeping abilities ticking over during the rigours of a sporting season) all these form macrocycles which can be divided into meso and smaller micro cycles which is formed from training days.

With language like that being bandied about you can understand why the lay person can be turned off.

These ideas usually constitute an annual plan or multi-year plan, but it comes with a major kick back. Most athletes have a planned regular competitive season, with competition dates set well in advance (Often years in elite sport!). This allows athletes and coaches to build a training structure around these long term periods and goals. Most of these original periodisation structures (often borrowed from the soviet union and eastern Europe) were originally formulated with weightlifters and track and field athletes in mind.

MMA fighters don’t have this luxury, fights are not set on fixed days way off in the future. MMA fighters generally know they have a fight 12-8 weeks in advance (longer with top level pros), at amateur levels this can be even shorter as fighters will take competitions with 4, 2 weeks notice sometimes less! Additionally there is no real off season for these fighters. In short this can prove chaotic for a strength and conditioning coach looking to constantly raise his or her athletes general physical qualities.

General Preparatory Holding Pattern

Mesocycles can generally be split into accumulation (general qualities to build a base), transmutation (fight specific qualities) and realisation (peaking). The Mesocycle Sequence below is fairly useful as it can be adapted as far out as 12 weeks or as few as 5-6 weeks.

Normally with a fighter we will work what I call persistent accumulation with regular deloading, to build general physical development. I liken this to a general preparatory holding pattern, when the fighter gets a date, we then bring them into land so to speak! We then flow into transmutation and realization. During this general preparation phase the fighter will work on raising general physical capacities but most importantly strength. Strength as I have said in the past is the “Boss” physical quality that establishes potential for the other physical qualities. I honestly believe it is heavily underworked in favour of conditioning. The greater your general physical preparation is the less strenuous pre fight “camp” is going to feel. I recall Martin Rooney stating that fighters should be nearly competition ready year round.

So when putting together a pre fight periodisation plan for a fighter often the curve ball comes when a fighter comes to me that I don’t work with on a regular basis and says “I have 12,8,6 weeks to go, what should I do?” This is basically a judgement call on the part of the S&C coach as to where to start. Leo Morton put together this excellent fast and frugal peak tree which I have adapted.

Fast and Frugal Peaking Tree, Adapted from Mortons

If a fighter comes to work with me between camps then we can make strength and building a base a priority.

Traditionally linear style periodised programs work capacities sequentially, but for our MMA fighter with 12 weeks to go. We cannot fit in aerobic, hypertrophy, strength power phases into a short space of time all the time while cutting weight. Aerobic periodisation in general isn’t an area for improvement unless testing indicates as much (Brendan Chaplin wrote an excellent piece here about the issue). Hypertrophy too can be knocked off unless if structural/functional hypertrophy is needed, this really should be worked on during our general preparatory phases. This leaves the need to work Strength, Power and Anaerobic conditioning (including strength and power endurance) in the run up to the fight.  These qualities can then be concurrently worked, obviously with fight specific conditioning peaking right before the competitive event. Its worth noting that building a base relative strength and power outside of fight preparation is crucial, I often say the consistent long term work is in laying down the roots of strength so the power and other capacities can grow.

Occasionally you will have instances where a fighter will have to compete in rapid succession 6-4 or even 2 weeks between fights if they take one at extremely short notice. In a case of 2 weeks or less its hard to recommend any strength and conditioning, apart from light technical work. If 6-2 week span between fights it is general prudent to undertake maintenance to hang on to and keep the capacities you built in the run up to the first competition. It is simply too demanding to try and increase they qualities maintenance however is easier. This would be similar to the transmutation and realisation phase but with moderated volume.

More mature athletes and experienced athletes with greater training age may require more nuance in their programming, this takes both time and preparation for multiple events, so that a finer approach can be applied. The other option is to can hire a strength coach to do the planning for you leaving you free to focus on what’s important, training!

Don’t be daunted by trying to figure out a longer term plan for yourself or your athletes. Remember short term plans equal short term progress.

Japanese Can Coffee Reviews: Georgia European

by Matt - Scramble ~ posted June 29th, 2012

And now for something completely different. 

The first in a series of reviews of Japanese canned coffee. 

Canned coffee is EVERYWHERE in Japan. You can’t go more than a few feet without being assaulted by a vending machine. It’s almost as if Japanese people are powered by canned coffee. They need to drink one to keep moving, the way a four wheel drive drinks petrol.

Walking fast, drinking coffee, uh oh, I have finished my coffee… can’t… move… must make it… to… next vending machine… (inserts 100 yen) ka-chink! slurp YOSH! Let’s go let’s go! 

Etc.

Without further ado, here is part 1.

European!

BRAND

GEORGIA

NAME

EUROPEAN

TAGLINE

Relax with a Deep Flavour

ENGRISH VALUE

Only mild amusement can be gained from this particular coffee. The generic “European” tag is quite amusing. And one of the katakana words is pronounced “COCK”. Added bonus: Georgia is a state in the USA, I wonder how it relates to Europe in this case vis-a-vis coffee?

INITIAL IMPRESSIONS

I’m quite tempted by the idea of relaxing with a deep flavour – it doesn’t sound too painful. I’m intrigued by what makes this small can of coffee European. The colours are soothing, this can is ice cold, and I am thirsty as hell.

TASTE

Now we get down to business. My initial impression as I swirl the pale brown liquid around my mouth is that someone in McDonalds forgot to turn the filter coffee machine off last night and has tried to get away with using it again today. They may have done this for up to a week in order to achieve this special taste. They could possibly have filtered the coffee itself through an old sock. Counterbalancing the week-old coffee flavour is a generous helping of what tastes like powdered condensed milk – sweet and sickly and slightly powdery, leaving a thin film of slime on the tongue. The aftertaste does have a very weak but noticeable trace of actual coffee but that is soon washed away by the smack of sugary milk powder.

TRIVIA

This coffee is owned by Coca Cola.

CONCLUSION

6/10. Didn’t even taste slightly European, generic filter coffee mixed with condensed milk. Would not drink again. Added bonus: the “coffee” crawled around in the bottom of my belly like a venemous snake for about an hour after drinking.

Scramble Tokyo Diaries: Day 1, Part 2: He f$%cking with me.

by Matt - Scramble ~ posted June 29th, 2012

Being the continuing adventures of Scramble co-owner Matt, in Japan.

Tokyo Isami is closed! I came all the way here and it’s closed!

I started walking up the stairs, thinking that maybe it kept the same strange hours as other Isami shops. Random days off, late openings, etc. Basically my kind of store. I heard some people come up stairs and I rushed down only to see the door to Isami slam shut. Hmm, I thought. Hmm.

Then Mr. Iso himself popped his head round the door and invited me in. Phew!

This was, I realised, a little like a football fan meeting David Beckham. Or maybe the guy who makes David Beckham’s shorts. Hmm. Either way, I was pretty pumped. I had met Mr. Iso before, once at ADCC in Nottingham, and once at the International Open BJJ tournament in Tokyo (where I was nursing a freshly dislocated shoulder and looking glum.)

So, there we were. The owner of Isami / Reversal and the owner of Scramble. Just a couple of dudes shooting the shit in Shinjuku. What did we talk about? Wouldn’t you like to know! What didn’t we talk about would be a better question. Whales. We didn’t talk about whales. Or Michigan. Or bunions. But we did talk about a whole bunch of stuff! The health of the Japanese MMA industry? You bet! Other big fightwear brands? You bet! Collaborations? You bet! Production techniques? That too! The fact that Joffrey is a total cunt? Uh, no. Not that.

We spoke for hours and hours, it was kind of a dream come true for me. The best thing about Iso-san, apart from him owning the best fightwear brand not called Scramble in the world, is that he is a really cool guy. Easy going and laid back. But, I would not advise “fucking with him.” He does not like to be fucked with, as people have found out in the past. A true boss.

Like a boss. Iso-san.

Talking done, it was time to train. The rain was kind of ridiculous. Obviously Tokyo had sensed an Englishman was present and decided to openly piss on his head to make him feel at home. Thanks a lot Tokyo, you suck. I had an umbrella but considering the rain was travelling horizontal, the umbrella didn’t do much more than give me a sore shoulder. Which was nice.

We drove down the rode to Yoyogi in Iso-san’s BMW SUV. The phrase “like a boss” absolutely sprang to mind and I definitely muttered it under my breath more than once. Then I caught a whiff of my t-shirt and decided to stop saying it.

We rocked up at Muse Music academy right on time. Muse is where Jewels MMA holds their BJJ classes. If that sounds confusing, it’s because it is. No matter how many times it was explained to me it’s still just a jumble of random words. Still, there was some mats (and a drum kit and a PA system playing J-pop) and some people in jiu jitsu gis, and that’s all I needed to know. Rikako Yuasa was there – a recent addition to the Scramble team, and a super tough, super cute, super successful purple belt.

Wa wa wee wa!

I was also there to meet Kinya Hashimoto. Kinya is the Japanese dude that is at EVERY event. He runs the uber-successful BJJ blog for Bull Terrier that he reckons receives 5000 unique visitors a day. He speaks great English (as does Iso-san) and he knows literally everyone. He’s also a fan of Scramble.

I counted a few Scramble patches on the mat which was very humbling and pretty damn exciting. Halfway through the class another dude turned up wearing our Scramble Essentials shirt that he had bought a while back! Truly a great feeling for me to see our creations being worn and enjoyed around the world.

Apparently the custom at the club is for the visitor to teach the class.  I actually don’t mind teaching, and it didn’t phase me, but for some reason, I felt, being the visitor, I should not be too overbearing. We did a light warmup and I showed some half guard sweep that I remembered from the De La Riva seminar I went to last year, that I have been using lately. It went pretty well, luckily Kinya-san was there to megaphone everything I said in clear and precise Japanese. Cos I was just kind of mumbling. I had woken up at 5am that morning and missed a flight, as well as walking approximately a gazillion miles around Tokyo.

After that, we sparred a bit. Rikako was very good, super strong guard passing and a basically unpassable guard. Everytime I thought I had passed I realised I was just lying on top of her inverted legs. Does that sound wrong? Well it wasn’t. Being a music or performing arts school in central Tokyo, there were a number of girls in short skirts walking around and jingly jangly J-pop songs playing from loudspeakers. It was surreal but not unpleasant.

I knackered my neck almost instantly as I am wont to do, and looked around for a hard surface to prostrate myself on to see if I could crunch my thoracic spine back into place. I was wondering if anyone had a medieval torture rack of some kind but sadly there were none to hand so I just had to suck it up. Beer would help with that later. Speaking of beer, after training, we got down to the real business – of drinking beer. Expecting the usual Japanese marathon of seeing how many small glasses of beer you can drink before you lose count, I was pretty surprised to see most people taking it quite easy. I had been travelling all day though so I managed to sink a few, but everyone else took it slow. We ate some awesome food and talked late into the night about all kinds of geeky BJJ and MMA stuff. It was hugely enjoyable. It was good to meet Rikako, who is one of the strongest female competitors in the middle ranks worlwide at the moment, and to get a good relationship going with Kinya and Iso-san, both important people in the MMA and BJJ world.

I got a cap from the guy who owns Muse, Kenny, which says Las Conchas on it. I was all “Awesome! Las Conchas! High Five!”

Las Conchas is slang for “pussy” in Spanish, I think. Oops.

It was a hell of a day, and a very enjoyable evening. I got back to my hotel around 1:30 am and checked in drunk, as promised. With added bonus of being really sweaty and soaking wet. The hotel staff didn’t bat an eyelid, the bastards.

 

 

Scramble Tokyo Diaries: Day 1, Part 1: Planes, trains, and heated toilet seats

by Matt - Scramble ~ posted June 26th, 2012

Being the continuing adventures of Scramble co-owner Matt, in Japan.

I arrived at my local airport late due to the annual rainy season causing massive traffic jams, and had about 15 minutes until takeoff when I staggered to the check in area. Spying a large queue, calculating that I would not have time to join it, I engaged gaijin smash mode and stomped to the first vacant desk I saw, waving my passport and ticket around and sweating profusely. It worked – I was greeted with smiles and bows, however, the attendant figured I wouldn’t have time to get on the flight itself. Disaster! Luckily I had bought the tickets using air miles and this allowed them to change the flight easily. Strange as I had thought air milers were the lowest of the low, kind of like gathering up crumbs and smushing them together to make toast. Disaster averted, I was put on the next plane a mere half an hour later. This gave me plenty of time to be frustrated at the huge amount of wi-fi spots available in Japan and the non-existent amount of which are free to use. So that was nice. My Galaxy S2 became a very effective leg warmer, nestled away in my pocket, and not much else.

I’ve been to Tokyo a few times now, making me pretty much an expert, so I knew to get to Shinjuku I would have to get some sort of train type thing to a big station and then change to another big train type thing then walk around a bit. Looking at the spaghetti squiggles on the transport map it all came back to me – Yamanote-line, the ring of rust that encircles the whole city. Pretty soon I was standing next to my suitcase on the train, being aware that it was way too big and that I was sweating way too much and just generally taking up too much space. I pulled out the gigantic Game of Thrones book one and sweated some more to complete the package, ensuring that no Japanese commuter could come within about a metre of me.

Scramble sticker in posh Omotesando? KAPOWZORK!

I shrewdly calculated that my hotel, in West Shinjuku, could be easily accessed by heading west from Shinjuku station, and I was right. The walk took about half an hour longer than I thought but it was enjoyable. The scale of Shinjuku borders on the ridiculous. You can crane your neck up to the sky and still only take in about a quarter of the skyline, look down and you’ll see tree-lined sub roads and leafy squares nestled beneath the towers of steel and glass. And it’s clean, and quiet. With the size of it, and the amount of people, you’d expect a cacophony, but the overall feeling is one of quiet confidence and strength. Oh, and money. Lots and lots of money. As if these buildings are just a natural extrapolation of the quiet yet hardworking way many Japanese go about their daily lives.

I walked through a park that smelled earthy and moist, the air humid under the broad green leaves. A light rain began to fall. Homeless people living in neat, blue tent-like constructions swept the floor of leaves or inspected bins for leftovers. In a basketball court, two old tramps zinged baseballs at each other and yelled, reliving their high school days. At the far corner of the park is a temple. Incense hung heavy and fragrant in the air, a visible grey mist snaking from the temple doors.

Some statues in a park. Yesterday.

My last stay in Tokyo had been in an incredibly basic guest house, my room no bigger than my height when lying down on the bare tatami, no TV, shared bathroom and toilet, only a window to keep me entertained, so I was pleasantly surprised when I turned up at the Tokyu Stay. Sleek, modern, air conditioned, heated toilet seats (pretty unnecessary if you ask me, given the heat.) Wow! I thought. I want to take this hotel out for a nice steak dinner and smooch it. Until they refused to let me check in early – bastards. I warned them that, in that case, I would be forced to check in in the middle of the night, most likely drunk, but they didn’t seem phased.

By this time, dragging a 20 kilo suitcase through the streets and subways of Tokyo in the sweltering rainy season, my t-shirt was more sweat than cotton, and I feared if I took it off it would stand up on its own or maybe run off and attack the nearest clean-smelling Japanese person. But, a shower and a change were out of my grasp so I resigned myself to an entire day of stinkiness. It wouldn’t be the first, nor the last. They let me drop off my suitcase though, so 20 kilos lighter I ventured back to Shinjuku. My Tokyo schedule started at 3pm with a meeting with Takehiro Iso, the CEO and Big Cheese of Isami, one of the longest established martial arts supply companies in Japan, and Reversal, its daughter company and the brand at the leading edge of martial arts fashion worldwide. Reversal had also been my inspiration to start Scramble, so to say I was looking forward to the meeting was an understatement.

At Shinjuku station, I walked around for half an hour, looked in some shops, went up some stairs, down some stairs, through a tunnel, up some more stairs and… I was still in Shinjuku station. Few more shops, stairs, a coffee, tunnel and, yep, still in Shinjuku station. That place is massive, I mean really big. At my local train station in England you could pee from one end and hit the other. If you wanted, I mean. At Starbucks I counted 15 wireless spots on my phone, none of which I could connect to. Eventually I found Isami’s store, just east of the station, noted its location in my mind and ventured back into Shinjuku station to kill another hour. I could have visited each of the station’s public toilets and still had some to spare when an hour was up. If I wanted to that is. I’m just trying to convey the scale of the place, I’m not obsessed with toilets or anything. Look can we just forget that I mentioned toilets? Although the toilets in Japan are pretty amazing. Sometimes they have “flushing noise” buttons to cover up any unsavoury sounds you might make – OK enough about toilets.

I knew we would be training tonight and most likely going out after, so I went to Uniqlo and purchased some undies and a new t-shirt as the thought of wearing the same clothes I was wearing now after a heavy BJJ session was about as appealing as kicking myself in the face repeatedly. I might seem obsessed with trying to keep dry and clean, but I used to teach kids English in the sweltering Kyushu summer, and they would not hesitate to tell you that you were stinky or ask you why your clothes were so wet, maybe even make up a little song or chant about the fact, so I would always carry a change of clothes with me.

After an hour had passed, I headed for Isami. Similar to many of the Isami stores in Japan, it was on the fourth floor of a nondescript office building. I rode the small elevator up, spied the entrance and… walked straight into a locked door.

What the! Locked! But… but… I’m supposed to be meeting the manager here! What’s going on?!?!

Find out in the next installment!

 

BJJ World Championships 2012

by Matt - Scramble ~ posted June 1st, 2012

The BJJ World Championships 2012 are here! Or you could call them the Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Mundials, or the Mundials do Jiu Jitsu Brasileiro or something like that.

Anyway, we have a few Scramblers flying the Scramble flag in this prestigious event, including Oli Gedded at black belt, Adam Adshead at brown belt, the Miyao brothers at purple belt…

Our good friends Budo Videos are doing a live broadcast of the event here. 

Speaking of the IBJJF, Alvaro Mansur, the head of the rules committee, has confirmed that our Wave Kimono will be legal at IBJJF competitions. Awesome!

 

(Almost) Everything you need to know about Scramble Kimonos Second Edition: THE WAVE!

by Matt - Scramble ~ posted May 29th, 2012

Here it is, folks.

The follow up to our first kimono, the Scramble Ichiban, which surprised even us by completely selling out both here and in the US (courtesy of Budo Videos) in mere minutes.

We’ve doubled our order size but we are very sure this first batch will disappear just as quickly, so keep your diaries free for some time late July, when we expect this to be available.

Pic and details below!

 

  • ETA: Late July (ESTIMATE)
  • Pearl Weave 550GSM top
  • Lightweight cotton / poly blend trousers (pants)
  • Sublimated inner rash guard material for comfort and style featuring repeating Hokusai print
  • Navy embroidery detail
  • Available from Scramblestuff.com and our resellers throughout Europe and worldwide

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