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BJJ Black Belt 🥋 2011
Judo Black Belt 🥋 2006
IBJJF Euro Champ 🏆 2014
British Champion 🥇
National Masters 🥇

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I refer to this as the golden era, when north shore and K2 we combined! 💚

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Great results from the @ukgrapplers competition in High Wycombe this weekend

🥉 RGA Bucks 3rd Place overall with only a few points between the top 3 academies

🥇1st place overall for the Roger Gracie Team

Congratulations to everyone that competed, the kids team is going from strength to strength under @jiujitsu_keenan with more great results to come 🫡🫡

A special thank you to @uncs_boxing and @tyler.c.bjjjudo for being part of the coaching staff 🙏🙏

🏆🏆🏆
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#bjj #rogergracie #aylesbury #competition

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Nat’s BJJ Nuggets ✨🥋
Single-Leg Counter to Guillotine 🥜

My Nuggs 🥜

* Secure your underhook.
* Use your free hand to frame against your opponent’s face.
* Keep your head driving against theirs to create pressure.
* Move your leg to the outside and kick it back like you’re starting a Harley Davidson. 🏍️
* Take the hand framing against their face, bring it all the way around and pull your opponent into you.
* Secure your guillotine grip.
* Bring your hips underneath you for extra leverage.
* SQUEEZE & TADAAA! 🥜

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Active Recovery, Renovations & Ruckus 🌿🪵🥋
Rest days look a little different around here.

I take 1-2 rest days per week from weights and Jiu-Jitsu, but I’ve always found that completely switching off physically leaves me feeling more stiff and achy when I get back to training.

I much prefer keeping myself moving. A bit of skill work, some mobility, pottering around the cottage and slowly working through the never-ending list of renovations.

I enjoy being active, using the strength I’ve built for things outside the gym and getting jobs done without completely exhausting myself. Although sometimes that involves deciding I can move the biggest log in the garden by myself. 🪵

I still aim to hit my macros on rest days because recovery needs fuel too. I want to make sure my body has the energy to recover and perform when I’m back training. Plus, I really enjoy eating. 🤌🏻

Morning coffees are always best next to our garden stream ☕️ ✨

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Nat’s BJJ Nuggets ✨🥋 Ft. Special Guest
Back Escape Gone Wrong | Head & Arm Triangle Counter 🔺

My Nuggs 🥜

* As your opponent escapes your back mount, transition straight into the Head & Arm Triangle.
* Bring your head tight to their ear to secure the position and prevent them creating space.
* Secure your grip and tripod up.
* Make any final adjustments with your head and shoulder before gradually sinking your hips to finish the choke.

🥜 Super Nuggies 🦸‍♀️

* Tripod up, maintaining shoulder pressure beneath their chin.
* Walk your feet up and bring your knee into the centre of their sternum.
* Keeping your grip secured, lift their head towards you to increase the pressure.

🐶 Loki’s Nuggs 🥜

* Make sure your shoulder is tucked beneath their chin.
* Small adjustments make a big difference! Close off that extra space to tighten the choke rather than relying on brute force.

OK, BYEEE 👋

Nothing quite like your opponent escaping one problem and finding themselves in another.

What’s your favourite counter when someone escapes your back mount? 🥋

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New hair, new moves, NEW COFFEE MACHINE!
Life is a delight at the moment.

I cut my own hair and I’m thrilled with it! ✂️
Still long enough to sit on and strangle my frenemies, so no real sacrifices were made.

But now onto the exciting bit — MY NEW COFFEE MACHINE!! ☕️

Thank you to everyone who enabled this purchase via the polls. This one absolutely surpassed the other two options and I’m happy to report the first brew was a success.

Here’s to beautiful morning coffees and making questionable life decisions significantly more caffeinated. 🥋☕️

Next question, what coffee beans do you recommend?!

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Nat’s BJJ Nuggets ✨🥋
Passing 🦋 guard

My Nuggs 🥜
- Tripod up to drive opponents heels back into their glutes. 🍑
- Gain a body lock grip and begin to drive into your opponent.
- Once your opponent is flat, move your knees over the pinned hook / 🦶🏻
- Reach down and grab their pinned foot.
- Elevate their hip and begin to move your legs to clear opponents knee line.
- Move back around to opponents legs to close space and prevent the guard replacement.
- Secure your side control and TADAAA

🥜 Super Nuggies 🦸‍♀️
- Adjust your body lock grip to one side, this allows you to generate pressure using your shoulder.

We all have that one training partner with sticky hooks (really annoying but very well placed toes).

Let me know what pass you recommend for the fiendish sticky hooks 🪝 🦶🏻

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Squats, solitude & spotting Saturn. 🪐
A very successful day, really.

Today’s walk was cancelled because human interaction was ✨absolutely not✨. I’ve worked hard to protect my peace, and today that meant staying home, working around the cottage chaos and squatting in jeans.

I used to be precious about where I trained. The right kit, the right gym, the right amount of humans (0). Somewhere along the way I grew up a bit as a human and an athlete.

Now I’ll pull out a barbell and train wherever, in whatever I’m wearing. That’s what I train for: the freedom to keep doing the things I enjoy for as many years as possible. I move with purpose and never stop being a student. If someone knows something I don’t, I’ll ask. Help me be better. There’s always more to learn.

+ staying home means setting up the telescope to look at Saturn 🪐

Anyone else love training but occasionally require a day off from humans? 🧚🏻‍♀️

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Just recents 🥋⚔️

#jiujitsu #brazilianjiujítsu

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Jiu Jitsu here, Jiu Jitsu hair, Jiu Jitsu everywhere!

One of my favourite things about this sport is that I get to take it with me.

Being on the move has always been part of my training DNA. I love being able to flutter into different gyms, find some good people to train with, get some rounds in and then flutter back out again to carry on with whatever adventure I’m on. It gives me that lovely balance of training hard without making my whole world revolve around training.

This week that’s meant Jiu Jitsu on the road! From Scotland to London and back again via the Lake District. 🚐 🥋

Good company, great training & even better food. That’ll do me. 🥋🧚🏻‍♀️

#jiujitsu #vanlife

Early morning start ✨
0400 is gross but when jiu jitsu calls 🚐 wompppp womp womp 💨

I like feet now

I’ll always find an excuse to break up a long drive with a National Trust stop. 🌿

A good walk with Loki, somewhere beautiful to explore and a visit to the café. It’s the perfect way to wake myself up, stretch my legs and actually appreciate where I am instead of just watching the miles disappear.

King of the national trust. Lokus Pokus.

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Treatment, conversation and a few adjustments along the way 🤝

Had Kev Capel in at Elite Chiro for a session — working through a few areas, talking about what’s been bothering him and giving him a better understanding of what’s going on.

Sometimes the best sessions are the simple ones: assess, treat, talk and get you moving better.

📍 Elite Chiro, Aylesbury
📩 DM to book or hit the link in bio.

#EliteChiro #asmr #Aylesbury #Chiropractic #bjj

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Being a black belt isn’t about being untouchable.

It’s not about always having the answer, or proving that nobody can beat you.

For @capelkev , it’s about continuing to train, continuing to learn, and constantly improving so he can help his students improve too.

That mindset is what makes a great coach.

🎥 Watch the full conversation. Link in bio.
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#bjj #jiujitsu #beyondthemats #kevcapel #bjjvideos

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