BJJ Class 118
Boston was a short trip and I treated it like a vacation. My initial plan was to find a BJJ school there and train one session, but with my face injury I just spend my time in the Museum of Science and the Aquarium. I had a great time!!
Today’s class was no-gi. I didn’t really get to join in the class as I spent most of the session drilling techniques on the side. Cool techniques! We’re actually getting ready for a belt test, which I’m looking forward to. It’s pretty weird for a Brazilian Jiu-jitsu school to have belt tests isn’t it?
I did two rolls at the end. One was with another person that will be testing then with an older woman (I’m guessing she’s in her 50′s, but I could be wrong – I’m bad at guessing age), but that roll was more of just helping her out and teaching.
What I did right:
Almost everything I felt was right. Played my guard game well. My guard wasn’t passed, although he got half-guard once or twice. I really feel that my guard has improved a whole lot since I started focusing on it and made it my goal.
What I did wrong:
My top game has gotten better too, but not as much since I’m not focusing on it too much. I passed guard and established side control a few times. I wasn’t able to do much in terms of getting mount or submission attempts. A few times I would loose position and get into half-guard. I was swept/reversed from there once or twice but managed to quickly reverse back. When I was passing, a few times I would forget to press my head against my opponent, thus opening my neck up to attacks, which did come.
What I need to work on:
Definitely my top game. Everything with my top game needs work.
My nose was hit a few times, which was pretty annoying. I don’t know if it would get hit this often while rolling before or if I’m just being overly aware of it now. Also, the person I was drilling with kept saying my nose was bleeding. I never saw any blood in it…I dunno.
Anyway, that was fun. This unemployed person needs to go back to the jobhunt now.
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