Our club had the honor of hosting Chris Haueter, a longtime BJJ black belt under the Machados for a short seminar.  He was in town teaching at ModernCombatives and decided to accept our offer to stop by on his way home.  

I have met and trained with a lot of bjj coaches and no one understands the game better than Chris.  Furthermore, he is just a super nice guy and is 100% open and honest in his instruction.  Just a joy to be around.   I try to be a sponge, but know I am missing 90% of his insights.

We spent the time focused on fundamentals as he was new to our group.  We plan to make his visits a frequent thing (next planned trip is February) so over time we’ll round out all areas of study.  This trip was all about achieving a solid base, breaking guard posture, passing, and attacking from the guard.  Next we plan on guard retention.  Personally, I love focusing on these things since they are the foundation of the house.  In fact, many experts will tell you that the guard in particular is 50% of the game (at least).  For this reason, I was happy to spend time focusing on the fundamentals.

The other great part about meeting Chris was hearing his stories of the good ol days.  The days when no one heard of the UFC or Royce, and BJJ was just “bad judo”.  He is a colorful guy and I learned as much listening to one of his riffs as I was to his guard pass examples.  
I am already looking forward to February.

If you get the chance to train with Chris, jump at it!

Paul
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