Butterfly Guard Drills Here is the Drill… From the Butterfly Guard Get your butterfly guard position with double under hooks. Lock up your hands and rock back and forth lifting your partner backwards working on your leg muscles and opponent control. You keep doing this for 20 seconds and when your 20 seconds are done [...]

BJJ Training In Maryland Another great day of training in Camp Springs Maryland! Due to weather conditions, Lloyd Irvins Mixed Martial Arts Academy was closed for the evening. That doesn’t mean training is done for the day. Rain, Shine, Snow, Sleet, Tornado, Hurricane… WHATEVER IT MAY BE, there are mats down stairs in the jungle [...]

Mental Toughness The Good ol Team Lloyd Irvin GRIND! During “the grind,” there is no resting, goofing off, and/or playing patty cake (did I spell that right? LOL) Team Lloyd Irvin has three different types of “grinds.” The 45min, 60min, & 90min Grind. “The Grind” is basically a FULL round of sparring, with the objective [...]

Team Lloyd Irvin‘s Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Team had an awesome training session in Baltimore MD at Crazy88 BJJ! The mats were hot and had some awesome positional drills. Partners would start in: -Side Control -Mount -Back Control with one hook -Guard -Half Guard Check out the video below to see a clip…

Two Words… HIGH INTENSITY Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (BJJ) Training! So.. For this Intense Drill… Master Lloyd put everyone in groups. One guy stays in the middle and every 30sec a new guy comes in and gives him full blown, all out, high intensity, off the chain WORK! We keep switching out till Master Lloyd says [...]