Mizblog

Christian’s morning BJJ class after Memorial Day weekend. I took the weekend off, and coming back to training left me sore. But I’m getting ahead of myself.

We started with a normal warm up, then some somersaults, then fall break practicing. I’m definitely getting better, but I don’t think I can do the stand up after the roll yet.

As soon as the warm up was over, we went into the back room and did a double leg takedown circuit for 10 minutes. All lunges and lifts, nonstop, for 10 minutes. My toes hurt when they bent back. My whole posterior chain got blasted out and I didn’t feel it until I got up after sitting down in my car. But again, I’m getting ahead of myself.

After that was randori. One minute rounds, nonstop. Dave took me down hard on my back. Greggo got me down once, but I got him once too. Same with Macy. Kelly went easy on me. Ari and I stalemated. It was tiring.

Then we got on the mat and paired up and did some guard passing and sweeps for practice. Just whatever we know. That went for a few minutes before we started sparring.

I sat out the first round.

I rolled with Dave, who tapped me with a gi choke from guard. Then he got me down in side control, but I bench press swept him and locked up an arm bar but couldn’t finish it by the buzzer.

I rolled with Phil, and he again tried to get me in a baseball bat choke from below, but he wasn’t able to roll out far enough to lock it up. I got on his back and gi choked him for the tap. We restarted, and I got on him in side control and was working for a bow and arrow choke, and he started coaching me toward the arm bar. I told him that was option B. I then switched it to option C as I tried for the Americana, but when that didn’t work I locked up the arm bar, but again was thwarted by the buzzer.

Then I rolled with Greggo. He went easy on me, and I paid him back by choking him almost unconscious before he tapped. Then he tapped me with a bow and arrow choke.

Next I rolled with TJ. He was cramping the whole time, and tapped me with an omoplata.

I sat out the last round.