I stressed all day about how I was going to write this post. Too many good things happened today while rolling that I didn't want to sound like I'm bragging. As I've said before, It's so much easier to talk about all of the things I did wrong. However, I feel like if I talk too much about the things I did right, it could be perceived as boasting at the expense of others.
This also got me thinking about what I discern as a good day and a bad day in BJJ. To be honest I feel the best after class if I complete some submissions, especially if I submit someone that usually gets the best of me. It doesn't have to be submissions, I'm happy with a good butterfly sweep or a guard pass. I think the most bummed I get is when someone submits me that I feel shouldn't have. I realize this isn't good and completely driven by ego but I'm only human.
I showed up a little early to get some extra rolling time with Jerad before he headed off to work. I felt like I was a good match for him today as we both submitted each other a couple of times. He caught me with a bow and arrow choke and a mounted triangle. I caught him with a north/south choke and I attempted another one that turned into a no-arm darce guillotine type of choke neck crank. We also did some very productive guard position rolling.
I worked with new comer Austin next. He trained at another school in Omaha for three months and mentioned that we move differently than they did. I didn't delve deeper into that so I'm not sure what he meant by that exactly. After we rolled a few times I helped him out with some mount and back mount escapes, pretty much showing him what I like to do. I was impressed to still see him on the mat at the end of the session.
As usual Ray gave me the most trouble. I spent most of the time in his side control preventing submission after submission. He felt very heavy from top and took up all of the space. The one time I was doing good, I took his back but he foot locked one of my hooks for my trouble.
Tim warned me that he is brand new off the bat. He seemed to know names of positions and basics like that. I rolled with him once or twice but ended up mostly teaching him guard breaking and the knee slide pass. Hopefully it helped.
Wes and I had several good rolls. He's getting a lot tougher to deal with. I definitely don't want to be on the bottom with him and I prevented his guard passing pretty actively and hit a couple sweeps. Wes said he was tired of being in bottom side control with everyone and I pretty much told him to join the club. We went over some of the side control escapes that have been working for me lately.
After setting up a couple north/south chokes on Darijo, I went over the defense against the choke with him. I'm finding he has a great attitude toward Jiu-Jitsu. I think he will be a great addition to our team along with the other new guys.
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