A quick note before I head to bed to get some rest before the tournament tomorrow. At my first tournament, I had 4 matches, 2 in gi and 2 in no-gi. In both divisions I lost my 1st match by head-and-arm choke. And I lost my second match by points. As I’ve heard several times …
Monthly Archives: July 2013
The Uphill Battle
We had an in-house tournament today at Mid-America, and I was able to get in a few matches before I had to leave for my son’s baseball game. The format was a bit different than regular tournaments. For the first 1/2 of the match, it is submission only, and the second half it’s points or …
Beginning to Understand How Much I Don’t Understand
For a couple years before I started taking BJJ, I would watch MMA fights. Thankfully, I had a friend who had done some amateur fighting and was rather knowledgeable on MMA in general, plus he was nice enough to put up with stupid questions from me. A month or two in, I realized that “fight …
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Progress
If you were to sit in the stands at a high school track and see someone at the starting line, then close your eyes for a minute and when you opened them, that person was half-way around the track, you’d assume they walked over there at a fairly leisurely pace. But you couldn’t be sure …