Just BJJ today.
I ate at 6:30 and class is at 9, not enough separation. Rolling while full sucks. I’m thinking that I’ll do a meal around 5 and then a shake later to not be hungry, but not be full.
So, I think we have another girl now. She’s been to a few classes and she rolls with the guys. She’s really little though (119lbs not muscle) so we’ll see how it goes.
We warmed up by rolling 25%, where you go through moves with no muscle or aggressiveness, so it’s like a dynamic warm up. This is way harder than you’d think, it’s really easy to get in the moment and try to muscle something, also when you don’t know what you’re doing muscling is instinctual. I rolled with a new guy initially, but he’s a judo black belt, so he knows what he’s doing. Judo guys have impossible to break grips. He cat clawed then twisted one sleeve and then just dragged me around with it.
Then I rolled with the girl. She doesn’t know what she’s doing, and was about to go with one of the guys that I know is rough so I kinda butted in and took her, I got a little shit for it, but I don’t want her to get smashed and leave. I’m not really sure if it was the best idea, should I warm her in advance who to roll with and who not to? Do I let her learn the hard way? Anyway, she was really just flopping around, so I took our 5 min to show her the elbow escape from mount.
I didn’t want to drill with her, we were doing omoplatas (sp?) and I’m not comfortable teaching them. I told her to pick a blue belt and ended up with a newish college wrestler. We did an omoplata from closed guard. Pretty basic, though sometimes scooting out to get his shoulder to the ground sucks. It’s a matter of practice though. He added in a trick where you gable over your top leg and put your shin in front of his neck if he’s pinning your bottom leg and then press up that we drilled a bit. Next a pretty sweet arm bar for when you just can’t get that shoulder down. It was nice and sneaky, but I had a bit of trouble staying close to his body and getting the elbow. And a D’arce for when the arm bar and the omoplata don’t work.
Then we rolled 4 five minute rounds. I’m starting in peoples closed guards for a while. I have a lot of trouble opening and need to make myself do it. I kept my drilling partner for the first round. I tried the hold his armpits and stand open, but I couldn’t keep him down! I defended the x-choke for a while and then got frustrated, and went for the rape choke. I need to not reach for asshole moves when frustrated because then karma got me and he opened and tried for the triangle, but instead heeled me right in the temple. It still hurts like a motherfucker. I sat out the rest of that round.
Then I ‘rolled’ with the girl. I started in her gaurd, opened her and took mount then let her elbow escape and we redid the whole thing for 5 minutes. I have no trouble pinning a girl I have 30ish pounds on, so it didn’t really feel like I was doing anything.
I rolled with coach next. He played bottom, I’m the floppy little girl to him. I have no idea what to do when I’m in the dominant position. I’m just too used to always playing defense. I need to figure out what to do about it.
Then I rolled with Brendan. The fucker has hit some magic button and now is better than me. He didn’t tap me, but he’s doing things I can’t predict. It sucked but was a good sucked.
I was going to drill after class, but hadn’t planned on anything to drill so I just fucked around a bit. Rolled 25%, played with a pendulum sweep for when the hip bump sweep goes wrong, and then tried differet arm triangle grips.
Overall it was good, though my head still hurts. Tomorrow I’m going to aim for Mega Dave’s, I hear they have a new fat girl.