Instead of road tripping this morning, Rachael and I went to class. There is a great unwillingness for people to compete up in weight, so we stayed home. I understand not wanting to compete against someone 20lb+ pounds heavier, but I'm really bummed out. I've fought 40lb+ up and while it's no picnic, I roll against heavier guys all the time. Ideally competition would consist of people your weight and age, but that's not the world we live in.
I thought for sure the other purple belt women would be willing to go up in weight and we'd have a marvelous five person round-robin bracket. Nay. Only one was willing to go up, and I'm not driving 14hrs for one match in gi and no gi with the same person. Sad panda.
Anyway, my neck was feeling better until I lifted last night. Inadequate warm-up and I could tell that my back was feeling a little weird (likely from poor stretching form, not from lifting). Woke up feeling like it might want to freak out a bit, but it held up during rolling and both back and neck seemed fine.
Technique consisted of DLR sweeps from combat stance and standing. Nothing new. One funny moment when both Rachael and I tried to complete a sweep by doing a technical stance...with both of our hands full of grips. We were finding it extremely difficult. James informed us that it'd be a lot easier if we, y'know, released one of the grips to post a hand on the mat. d'oh.
Rolled with Chaz, Sarah, Laurie and Rachael. Chaz kicked my ass. At least one knee-bar, can't remember what else he got me with. About the only thing I did well was circle my leg out of his shallow DLR hook. That's it. First time I rolled with him. He's pretty good.
Sarah wasn't feeling so hot and her knees were really bothering her. I would have backed off of the DLR guard if I had known about her knees. Took her back several times, but I could tell her heart wasn't in it.
Transitioned through several positions with Laurie, let her work the DLR sweeps of the day near the end.
I did a crap job of establishing guard with Rachael and paid for it by being stuck under bottom side-control for the majority of the round. I finally started making some progress out of it at the end of the round but took waaaaaay too long.
Friday, January 30, 2015
Wednesday, January 28, 2015
No Good Comes from No Gi
On a bit of a whim, I managed to convince Rachael and myself that doing no gi on Tuesday night would be a good idea. I'm going to be competing in no gi, so I might as well practice it once beforehand, right?
I asked Jason W (who was running class) if he would go over leg lock defense, since I know next to nothing about it and will competing in the advanced division. He did knee-bar defense when they're flattened on top of your leg and when they're off to the side. Also basic foot-lock and toe hold defense. I liked the way that he broke it down, b/c it made a lot of sense. Change the angle of the joint being locked, change the direction of your hips and then finish the escape. Great stuff.
I could tell midway through that my neck was going to be a bit bothersome, but I decided to roll anyway. Bad idea. Rachael started a pass and as soon as she got control of my head I was done. D'oh!
Sat out rolling and massaged it as best I could.
Not doing class for the rest of the week and hope that it's 100% on Saturday. If it tweaks out like it did in class then I'm going to have a rough go of it.
I asked Jason W (who was running class) if he would go over leg lock defense, since I know next to nothing about it and will competing in the advanced division. He did knee-bar defense when they're flattened on top of your leg and when they're off to the side. Also basic foot-lock and toe hold defense. I liked the way that he broke it down, b/c it made a lot of sense. Change the angle of the joint being locked, change the direction of your hips and then finish the escape. Great stuff.
I could tell midway through that my neck was going to be a bit bothersome, but I decided to roll anyway. Bad idea. Rachael started a pass and as soon as she got control of my head I was done. D'oh!
Sat out rolling and massaged it as best I could.
Not doing class for the rest of the week and hope that it's 100% on Saturday. If it tweaks out like it did in class then I'm going to have a rough go of it.
Monday, January 26, 2015
Monday
Neck was still pretty jacked yesterday, no chance of doing advanced class.
Woke up feeling pretty good today. Turning too far in either direction and it was stiff, but didn't seem to be painful.
Worked subs from top turtle, which in some cases caused twinges of pain but nothing especially uncomfortable.
I was stressed yesterday that it was something that might persist to the tournament, but I think it's going to be fine.
Rolled with Sarah for the duration of rolling time. No way was I rolling with anyone else with a suspect neck. I tried to invert a couple of times and immediately though better of it. Couldn't turn into the left much, but otherwise felt fine. Don't think I made it worse and it was good to get some training in today.
On the fence about training tonight. Caution and common sense dictate that I not go tonight or tomorrow. If I do that, I should be 100% by Wednesday.
Woke up feeling pretty good today. Turning too far in either direction and it was stiff, but didn't seem to be painful.
Worked subs from top turtle, which in some cases caused twinges of pain but nothing especially uncomfortable.
I was stressed yesterday that it was something that might persist to the tournament, but I think it's going to be fine.
Rolled with Sarah for the duration of rolling time. No way was I rolling with anyone else with a suspect neck. I tried to invert a couple of times and immediately though better of it. Couldn't turn into the left much, but otherwise felt fine. Don't think I made it worse and it was good to get some training in today.
On the fence about training tonight. Caution and common sense dictate that I not go tonight or tomorrow. If I do that, I should be 100% by Wednesday.
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