After a normal warmup Adam taught some wrestling takedowns. I was still a little sore from the tournament on Sunday. I spent most of the class with Brian as we worked on arm drag to double leg and making the opponent step and going for a single leg. Hopefully some day I'll become a little more confident in these.
For the end of class we did the 8 minute drill starting with takedowns from standup. I ended up with Adam as a partner and I was the defender. He got me down several times seemingly with ease. Following we did mount, sidemount, and backmount. I don't think I did terrible from any of these positions. When I was the aggressor I felt like I didn't stand a chance to take Adam down he basically shucked me off repeatedly. I did a little better on the ground but he did a couple of really cool reversals.
I rolled with David for open mat. He eventually made me tap I can't recall how, I think it was from side control. He helped me with escapes from side control after that which was very helpful. I need to use the cross face or forearm on the neck more often from the bottom to create some space.
It was a hot night and my gi was soaked. I also felt pretty light headed on the way home. Probably fatigue from the tournament had something to do with it.
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