This was the first full year of me doing BJJ. A lot has changed in the past 12 months. I started the year as a one-stripe white belt. I had not competed in any tournaments. Also, I weighed about 200 pounds. Now that we’re in December, I’ve got 3 stripes on my belt, I competed …
Monthly Archives: December 2013
Results and Thoughts from Tournament 4
Results To start, let’s look at my goals for the tournament yesterday: NO losses by submission Decide when the match goes to the ground Win by submission Have a winning record for the tournament Medal The only one I can definitively say I did was #5. I got silver in my gi division. I thought …
Tournament 4
This Saturday I’ll be competing at the Victory Grappling Championships Winter tournament. As with other tournaments, I like to go in with a few goals set before hand. For the last tournament, back in September, here’s what my final goals looked like: NO losses by submission Score Points Get a sweep Control the stand-up Medal …
Best Moves to Learn
It’s been roughly 12 months since I learned the “arm-bar escape.” The reason I had learned this was I was consistently getting arm-barred in sparring, and even in our in-house tournament that year, I lost a few matches to arm-bar. So I asked one of the coaches how to escape. He showed me a couple, …
Another BJJ Globetrotter?
My friend and teammate Mike is going to travel across Europe and try to study at different BJJ gyms. He’s launched a blog as he discusses his planning and eventually will use it to communicate while he’s on his trip. I’m looking forward to him being not being able to tap me out for 6-8 …