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C-3 Video and a little info

So i hd to taje a little time off because i competed at the C-3 Patriot Games in Gary, IN on July 25. There seems to be a little bit of a bit of a pattern to me competing at the C-3's apparently i only compete at them after i've worked at the nightclub until 3 am. So i competed twice, I won my absolute blue belt division and then well in gi... it was ruled no contest due to the knee to the head... Here's the video!


Gi Match against a tough white belt.


no gi, knee to the head

cauliflower ear and tough love

I am pretty sure i have a little bit of cauliflower ear starting... which i can't lie, is not the most comfortable thing to have. Granted it is part of the game. My plan of attack? Take my younger brother's old wrestling headgear and use it in training from now on.

Sunday night no gi at hawaii's house was definitely interesting. What normally happens is we go out to hawaiis house, pull the mats into the living room and have a full few hours of no gi. not so many techniques, mostly just sparring and helping each other out. This past time we started at about 9 pm and did not finish until 2 am. The only catch is, other than hawaii there is rarely more than one or two of us who actually train bjj, the rest are friends who just like to spar. So sometimes it gets a little rough. This past sunday was one of these times, I got roughed up a bit by a few of the guys who hadn't sparred with me since january, and lost a layer of skin off one of my ears. I woke up monday stiff and sore but it was well worth it. Monday practice was again alittle rough, our class times changed, and I sparred against Vanessa, and Hawaii for my two hard matches... I wasn't reacting well, and felt like i was in a little bit of a slump. So i ended up taking tuesday off, as a full recovery. I really need to start turning on the pressure, playing tight and going for moves. Marcello commented that I have been backing off too much and not attacking. So I eed to start getting it together

But now the big news, I applied tuesday for my visa to train in Brazil with my coach coming up July 8th! i cannot wait to spend a week training in the bjj home land!! I need to really work out and train hard these next two weeks to get ready!

Brazilian Jiu jitsu training June 15- 21

This week was a pretty interesting week to say the least jiu jitsu wise.

Monday I went up to the chicago suburbs to visit my friend Forrest and his jiu jitsu team New Breed. I had run into forrest and his team a few times at different tournaments and they were alway a pretty nice group to talk to. I arrived monday a few hours before class, so in true jiu jitsu fashion, forrest and i immediately start talking about moves we like, our last tournaments, etc. we got to class early where we stretched and did some light sparring to warm up. Mark, the brown belt and instructor at new breed chicago,was more than happy to have a visitor and we immediately jumped into class. while rolling with a few different guys i started to feel my grips go.. Since i had competed the weekend before against a girl with a major weight advantage, i had done a little more damage than i thought. so i ended up having to slow up on my intensity of training. i got the opportunity to train with mark and alot of the techniques he did reminded me of my own coach. Which weird as it sounds is rare, not many people train like My coach outside of our association so to go to another school and have it was pretty interesting.

Tuesday I woke up and realized I had done a little more damage than i thought and the nerve in my right forearm was definitely not in too good of shape, My grips were almost non existent but i still ended up going to practice with Forrest. I had to alter all of my grips while trying to do techniques and I unfortunately had to give it a rest and not spar. Danny the purple belt who taught class, Mark had to go to california with his daughter, ended up being from indianapolis and i found out we had met 2 years before through mutual friends.

Wednesday I got back to indianapolis and my own team where my coach was back in town and we were getting ready for our stripe test that will be June 27th. i still couldn't grip well so i rolled lightly with the younger students

Thursday i was able to fight more but after two or three matches i was done. We went over a few more extra guard passes. One of the newer females came back and we sparred a little.

Saturday was open mat, we looked over the moves we needed to do for the belt test and i trained with a few people, Paul, a blue belt, and a couple of the white belt guys.

Tonight is open mat time at hawaii's house. It's no gi and should be a blast!

Now that i'm back home

this is going to change back int o a BJJ blog hooray! so i figure i should start into things... I'm back to training, working to see how good i can get. I've just been given an opportunity to go to brazil and train, so i am very seriously thinking about going, even though i don't have a ton of money...

I competed at the hoosier open in the women's open division. There was only another female and me. I weighed in at around 130(59 kilos) because i didn't bother cutting weight, and she weighed in at 229(104 kilos). We had to fight twice. So here is video of the first match, and the second match i don't have video of yet but i won by decision..



I also worked at the NAGA midwest a few weeks back and had a great time being back working with all of them. I also got to go to a steve hall seminar and do a little bit of no gi training. From now on i'm gong to try and update this daily with whatever jiu jitsu stuff i can ... i need to start being more thorough.

Semana Santa And Andalucia

Semana Santa and holy week ok going to go ahead and start explaining Catholics in Andalucia right now. Spain is very Catholic, i am fairly religous and Catholic as well but i thought these people would out do me... i was very wrong, Spaniards do not do much about being catholic until Semana Santa. And then they become some of the most religous people in the world.

Semana santa is the week before Easter, and it is a way of remembering what Jesus went through in the days leading up to his death, kind of like seeing part of the Passion of Christ being played out bit by bit every day for a week.

so yea also those wonderful kkk outfits? they were stolen from the people that walk during semana santa.... so go ahead and throw an american in the mix walking through the streets and BAM there they are! so i have pictures, of everything.

then there are pasos, huge floats with religious figures, usually one with jesus and one with the virgin. I have pictures once mojo allows me to post pictures i will!

Manu led me around the last few days of it, i met his whole family more or less, and took pictures of it all. i was alittle bit of an attraction because it was my first Semana Santa and the family was dead set on making sure it was very memorable, they pushed me to the front to get pictures, explained as much as possible, and the kids who were learning english would translate if i didn't understand one of the words.

A Few Photos of Paris

So i went to paris for three days, and i'm going to go ahead and just put up some photos for now... enjoy!!!