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!