You guys had bagels? Cool!!

Looks like a rough and tumble group of warriors. Thanks for sharing the experiences with us.

Thank you Sir!

Good eyesight JoelM!

In the above group shot, ToddR is top row extreme left. Dave Meyer is top row in the blue Machado gi. ToddR's instructor (Mike) is in the white gi with the black shirt to the left of Dave.

I am in the middle row, black gi.

RangerG is in the front row in front of me, with the white gi and the black handwraps.

I'll send some pictures myself as soon as I get my hands on them. As we trained at my Instructor's partner's gym, they took the photos and will be posting them on their website shortly (I hope). This I'm guessing is better then contacting everybody and sending them individually.

Good stuff you guys.

Matt ... could you put in any bigger of a picture?

I just wanted to post that I have gone through David Meyer's DVD on arm bars and it is awesome. He and his partner John Will show about 30 different arm bars from the top, bottom, side or when your opponent is in a turtle. I have already successfully tried a few of these in class last Thursday and they worked excellent, even enough for my Instructor to take notice that I had picked them up so fast.

I'm starting to watch it again and will continue to do so until I get even more proficient, though many of these are out of my league at this time and will take a lot of practice. After classes myself and a black belt, and I believe others will follow suit, will be going one by one through them and practice them for about 15 to 30 minutes under our Instructors guidance. The black belt has written each move down for guideline notes but I have offered to bring my lap top in and play the actual DVD so we can refer back to it.

So if you get a chance to view this do so, you won't be disappointed.

My Instructor sent me a copy of the photo for our David Meyer day. The copy I received wasn't that good of quality but should suffice.

Since you already know what David Meyer looks like, I'm the bald stocky guy with the goatee above him in the white T-Shirt.

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This picture was taken in Edmonton at Steve Bartley's gym (farthest right in blue gi). Steve is my Instructor's business partner and friend. My Instructor is Sean Wright and he is the gentleman under the Korean flag in the back in the blue gi. Both are students of David Meyer.

Cool Picture!

I think you and I have the same barber....