Competition Results.

Made weight, won 3 of my 4 gi matches (all by choke), took 3rd in the bracket.

No gi was rough, lost my first match, went home.

all in all, a good weekend.

Pre-comp Week

It is getting to that week.  The week before competition is always the roughest for me.  If I can just bust my ass and work harder than the guy next to me, I will typically do well in any competiton.  De-load week isn't like that.  This week I have to spend a few days sitting on my ass, monitoring my weight, and inevitably fretting over competition day in my head.

I made a flow chart of my bottom-side half-guard game earlier this evening.  Filled the page.  And still wasn't complete.  Aaaand my bottom-half game kinda blows.

I'm going to spend the next couple days working bottom side-mount escapes and guard sweeps.  Then I will be good.

I've been at this too godamned long and worked too hard to have no gold on my wall.  This is MY competition, dammit.

Fuck bronze.

An Unpleasant Lesson

I haven't trained jujitsu in a month. I dream about it, stay up formulating, see opening for passes and chokes with cuddling... yet as I am in a semi-remote area, I haven't trained.

And the fact is that it takes a toll on you. Back in Oak Harbor today to got the mats, and I just sucked.  I wasn't seeing what was there, I had no urgency, and I wasn't beating the people I was supposed to beat. And now I'm just wondering why. Was is the 6 hour drive?  Was I not in the zone?  Or have I regressed?

I am dating someone. She's just awesome, and I don't want to bring her up to Seattle weekend after next to watch me lose.

Time to get my head in the same place as my heart.