[quote]pch2 wrote:
I also think I fucked it up with Aikido guy.
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Ulp! What a cliffhanger. And I have a sucky grip too.
You know what sucks ass? Getting to lab at 5:30 in the morning to take a time point only to learn that someone ‘accidentally’ turned off the incubator.
Ok, last nights BJJ. This is going to be long and rambling split into a few posts, suck it up.
There’s a blind blue belt in class, he actually comes really regularly and is a pretty cool guy. He really knows his shit. It’s kinda the ultimate proof that you don’t really need your eyes to be a good grappler.
I have sucky body awareness in relation to where I am and where other things are. I was having issues with knowing how low my squat was without mirrors. This has translated into - I don’t know where to put my hand unless I see where it should go.
Taking these two bits of information into consideration, I wore my glasses to BJJ and drilled without them on. My eyesight is pretty bad and without my glasses, I can’t tell you the gender of the kid sitting next to me. So, while I’m not blind, I do have to rely on just knowing a bit more. I think it helped me have a little more body awareness, and am going to keep doing it.
[quote]pch2 wrote:
You know what sucks ass? Getting to lab at 5:30 in the morning to take a time point only to learn that someone ‘accidentally’ turned off the incubator.
Ok, last nights BJJ. This is going to be long and rambling split into a few posts, suck it up.
There’s a blind blue belt in class, he actually comes really regularly and is a pretty cool guy. He really knows his shit. It’s kinda the ultimate proof that you don’t really need your eyes to be a good grappler.
I have sucky body awareness in relation to where I am and where other things are. I was having issues with knowing how low my squat was without mirrors. This has translated into - I don’t know where to put my hand unless I see where it should go.
Taking these two bits of information into consideration, I wore my glasses to BJJ and drilled without them on. My eyesight is pretty bad and without my glasses, I can’t tell you the gender of the kid sitting next to me. So, while I’m not blind, I do have to rely on just knowing a bit more. I think it helped me have a little more body awareness, and am going to keep doing it. [/quote]
Hey, you’re eyesight is horrible too? Cool. I think my awareness goes up when I take my glasses off as well. Heightened fear equals heightened senses.
You lost me with the lab stuff though.
Easily translated into - someone fucked up my shit.
A little clarification - Coach is young (honestly the kid looks to be mid 20s), so before and after class he’s just like any other 25 yr old guy that likes to fight. This is why I know of his views on little bisexual girls. During class he’s a professional, he treats everyone respectfully and pretty much equally. He knows his shit and he teaches it well.
A real live girl came to class yesterday. She was a little girl that I think one of the guys picked up over the weekend, but I’d never rolled with a girl before so I jumped at the chance.
I had assumed that with a girl being close wouldn’t be an issue. It wasn’t, but new issues came up. I guess I now see why some guys just don’t want to be my buddy.
She was little, 110ish lbs of normal girl (ie no muscle mass). Now I’m no giant, but I am sitting in the 140s and do have some muscle mass. I may feel like a weak little girl, but she actually was a weak little girl, and I spent the whole three hours trying not to hurt her. I’d mount her and she’d ask me to put less weight on her, I took her down and was worried about smashing her since my sprawling needs work.
I spent a lot of class trying to figure out how to hold back. I suppose it’s something I need to learn, but I’d like to learn the basics first, then I’ll tone them down. So, unless a chick with muscle mass shows up, I’m going to keep inflicting myself on the guys.
Oh, a side lesson from this, don’t bring dates to BJJ.
[quote]pch2 wrote:
I may feel like a weak little girl, but she actually was a weak little girl, and I spent the whole three hours trying not to hurt her. I’d mount her and she’d ask me to put less weight on her, I took her down and was worried about smashing her since my sprawling needs work.
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[quote]pch2 wrote:
I have yet to get a mouth guard, I really do need RSG to come be my mommy, I’ve got a bunch of little things like this to take care of. I have yet to get a gi, and would love to ‘store’ yours!
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RSG? Oh, and for kneepads, get McDavids and McDavids only.
I’ve never had knee problems but I torqued one the other day and I’m wearing knee sleeves from now on. The simple ones with the little patella holes cut into them. They keep the joint warm and provide a good sense of proprioception.
I didn’t mean for you to store the gi, I mean to give it to you, since I can’t keep a third gi. I need to launder it, then I’ll mail it. It’s got patches and writing on it, since it was a loaner, (I traded it for my pink gi) but it’s cool and the jacket belonged to a woman black belt (Coach’s ex-wife) which I think is lucky.
[quote]Mattlebee wrote:
pch2 wrote:
I also think I fucked it up with Aikido guy.
Ulp! What a cliffhanger. And I have a sucky grip too.
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Okay I’m ready for the rest of the rambling posts… Aikido guy? hello??
And yes, going in thinking they’re fucktards is the only way.
[quote]pch2 wrote:
A little clarification - Coach is young…He knows his shit and he teaches it well.[/quote]
Is that Darrin?
Oh that’s funny. The same thing happened to me in Moorea. The local instructor was teaching his GF but apparently just as play. The first night, Coach was so happy there was a girl for me to play with because all the guys were ~200lbs and he was encouraging me to wallop her and I was holding back. She was protesting that she was “tired” but Coach was teaching the class and he kept telling her to go again and again and her ingrained Tahitian hospitality forced her to oblige and and and…she never came back to class for the next 2 weeks. I felt awful.
That’s right, pch2: aikido guy.
give it up.
[quote]Court wrote:
And yes, going in thinking they’re fucktards is the only way. [/quote]
Au contraire. You dream of farktards that’s what you’re going to get.
If you’re meeting fucktards, you’re dreaming the wrong dream.
On to the actual fighting!
Someone had a ‘I saw this on youtube question.’ So we first learned that you should never do the kimura from your back. If you’re in side control and someone does try to do the kimura from under you, all you need to do is shuffle around thier head and take thier arm.
Double leg no knee take down: For this one I kinda wished I wasn’t drilling with a little girl. I can pretty easily pick up 110lbs and smash it into the ground, but that’s not the point. So, we started with him (the little girl) throwing a big wide haymaker type punch. You drop and step in with the side of your head on their serratus, keep head up or you get the gullitione! Control thier hips with your hands, step through them and pick up the leg on the same side as your head. Change your angle to avoid landing in his guard, and start running to then take them down. Sprawl into side control.
What to do if you’re mounted with his weight on your hips and what to do if he’s light. So bump, and elbow escape. (If anyone actually wants me to eloborate on anything let me know, I’m just going into detail on the ones I need to reinforce for myself.)
The we did the Vale Tudo thing, not sure of the real name. The elbow escape ends with you in closed guard, so how do you best protect yourself from being punched there? The goal is to stay in the game until he fucks up, then use that opportunity to fuck him up 
This was a way to stay in the game. When he shifts his weight to smash you, bring him towards you by pulling your knees in closed guard towards you. When he’s close get an overhook and smash your face up against the side of his face. You’ve now protected one side of you and your head. To protect your otherside, open guard and use your leg to shift to the side your head isn’t on. Get completely on your side and bring your elbow in.
Now he can’t hit anything that’ll do damage. (I really did try to smash the little girl as I played dummy, I couldn’t. I could just stand up though with her wrapped around me, but that’s a different move.) So if you’re hiding out and he posts up a leg, you open guard and move toward the open leg. Hook the down leg and then flip into mount.
I really enjoyed everything we learned, and will try it all out on the next big guy I roll with. Tonite’ll be fun!
We’ve established that I was rolling with a little girl, and that I wore my glasses for the first time and was basically blind for most of class.
If you go up a few posts you’ll see Homer’s version of the reaction guys have to two girls rolling. So, we were watched through out class. Since I was blind, I couldn’t always tell who was watching, just feel eyes.
When guys blatently stare I ignore their existence, and I’m pretty good at focusing on one thing (learning a new move) with no idea of what’s going on around me.
So, we’re rolling and a blob (no glasses) in street clothes walks in and plops himself down in a chair at the edge of the mats near us. I assume it’s some guy off the street, wants to see what’s going on - it happens occasionally. Coach goes over and they mumble to each other, I begin to ignore blob and focus on not smashing little girl.
Blob sits there and begins to watch just us, and seems to be trying to get our attention (little girl noticed too). I begin to ignore strange blob more. This goes on for uh, and hour. Blob’s watching, I’m getting pissed and creeped out. We begin to shift away from blob.
So then we move on the the next movement, blob gets up to leave, and I put my eyes back on. Can anyone guess who blob was? Aikido guy, who then made eye contact scowled and left.
Ugh, I spent the whole time sending Aikido guy - go away, you’re creepy - signals, and he actually picked up on them! I probably even looked right at him and scowled a few times, I just couldn’t see him, and he doesn’t even know I couldn’t see him since it’s the first time I went with no contacts!
So, kids what’d we do from here?
[quote]downwardog wrote:
I didn’t mean for you to store the gi, I mean to give it to you, since I can’t keep a third gi. I need to launder it, then I’ll mail it. It’s got patches and writing on it, since it was a loaner, (I traded it for my pink gi) but it’s cool and the jacket belonged to a woman black belt (Coach’s ex-wife) which I think is lucky.
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I know, I was trying to be funny. Ha ha? Regardless, thanks, I’d really appreciate the gi and of course any luck you can send my way!
[quote]downwardog wrote:
A little clarification - Coach is young…He knows his shit and he teaches it well.
Is that Darrin?
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It’s actually Darren, but yeah, we’re thinking of the same person.
[quote]pch2 wrote:
… I begin to ignore strange blob more. This goes on for uh, and hour. Blob’s watching, I’m getting pissed and creeped out. We begin to shift away from blob.
So then we move on the the next movement, blob gets up to leave, and I put my eyes back on. Can anyone guess who blob was? Aikido guy, who then made eye contact scowled and left…[/quote]
What happens when you go in with the assumption they’re all fucktards.
I’ll poll some of the guys around here and get back to you with the intel.
Updating the night of just isn’t going to work.
So highlights:
Drilled with the Blind Guy - Grip breaking & Double leg take down (the guys all see to be obsessed with this)
Rolled with the purple teenager and managed to get kicked in the face.
No action on the guy front.
[quote]pch2 wrote:
Blob sits there and begins to watch just us, and seems to be trying to get our attention (little girl noticed too). I begin to ignore strange blob more. This goes on for uh, and hour. Blob’s watching, I’m getting pissed and creeped out. We begin to shift away from blob.
So then we move on the the next movement, blob gets up to leave, and I put my eyes back on. Can anyone guess who blob was? Aikido guy, who then made eye contact scowled and left.
Ugh, I spent the whole time sending Aikido guy - go away, you’re creepy - signals, and he actually picked up on them! I probably even looked right at him and scowled a few times, I just couldn’t see him, and he doesn’t even know I couldn’t see him since it’s the first time I went with no contacts!
So, kids what’d we do from here?[/quote]
Okay… next time you see Blob, ask him what he thought of your rolling/whatever you were doing with the 100lb girl. Tell him you didn’t have your contacts in and thought he was just some rando enjoying the girl on girl action. Laugh about it, make a joke of it… but set the record straight.
Just something I would do anyways… I mean he DID spend an hour at a class he was in no way involved in… if he’s cool he’ll likely laugh back and joke about the dirty looks you were giving and will be happy to know you weren’t sending him them on purpose.
[quote]Court wrote:
Okay… next time you see Blob, ask him what he thought of your rolling/whatever you were doing with the 100lb girl. Tell him you didn’t have your contacts in and thought he was just some rando enjoying the girl on girl action. Laugh about it, make a joke of it… but set the record straight.
Just something I would do anyways… I mean he DID spend an hour at a class he was in no way involved in… if he’s cool he’ll likely laugh back and joke about the dirty looks you were giving and will be happy to know you weren’t sending him them on purpose.[/quote]
Yeah, this is pretty much what I’ve decided to do, now if he’d only just show up for a class!
My sources say, hey, the dude showed up and sat there watching you roll, which is a very good sign. A few funny faces aren’t going to put him off. Be cool, baby.