so I only have around 6 days until I leave for Spain, and my coach just got back from Brazil, so I'm trying to make every last minute count. He's a great guy and has made it so everything just clicks. Anyway, as soon as he got back he started off showing techniques none of us had ever seen before. Then yesterday, he started to show the progression for flying arm bars. he does this maybe once every other year, he never shows the real arm bar just how to set one up, and how to do one from the knees. It was all in all a pretty fun experience, not to mention the looks on the newer peoples faces when our 14 year old, Edwin, walked up to our coach and did a full flying arm bar. A little note on Edwin, at his first tournament, the second match he did a flying arm bar. He is amazing at bjj for his age.
this past weekend i competed at a tournament called the C-3. and for the first time in 5 months. I lost. Let me set the scenario up really quick though. I had not planned on competing, actually i had been up since noon the day before with about only a half an hour of sleep. i competed in the purple belt gi, and the Advanced no- gi division. There weren't any girls that were my rank so i ended up jumping up. So my gi match was against a purple belt named Cassandra, who apparently isn't too big of a fan of my gym. I lost 6-0 because of a dumb mistake i made.. I then got a 5 min break before fighting no-gi against a girl named Erin. Apparently Erin had been training for 5 years, in no- gi. and she was tough. The only points scored the whole match were the points i received for a take down. I ended up holding her off and won the match. The finals match, i again had to go against Cassandra, i ended up being too tired and as soon as Cassandra started in on an arm bar, i didn't even fight... which i'm not too proud of. I ended up getting second in both divisions, and i now know that even though i'm a 2nd stripe blue belt who has only been doing this for 2 years, i can hang with the advanced girls and the purple belts.
AT this point i'm off to cut weight and get ready for bjj!
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Heh - no, I very rarely compete. Should really do something this year, but first have to get a new job sorted, get on top of my thesis and work out where I'm going to be training once I move.
Seville is lovely, although I've only been there once, last year. Two obvious things to see are the cathedral and the Alcázar, both well worth it (staff at the latter are a bit crap with lstudent cards, though). If you like art, then the Museo de Bellas Artes is a pleasant enough collection, but then I got in free as an EU citizen.
In terms of training, Seville has a Gracie Barra, on Calle Macarena, 38. Website here, though it seems to be down at the moment (archived version here). There's another listing here, which has the following contact details:
Tel: 0034-675 485 430
bjj-sevilla@hotmail.com
If that doesn't work, you could try contacting my instructor Jude, now at the Kilburn academy: seems to know the scene out there.
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