10/11/07 - BJJ - Sa Bom Nim

Tonight was a good night!

We started with stretching and then went to the shrimping drill. After that we did the compass drill. And lastly we shrimped up and back and then did the compass drill 10 times each side. That got me breathing good!

We then went onto the X choke from mount, elbow escape drill. We also did an elbow escape drill with our eyes closed. Our partner would take mount and lift one of his legs. We would then elbow escape with our eyes closed to the correct side.

We then practiced taking mount from side control. In side control, switch your hips, step over, mount.

We then did some rolling. I got to roll with Sa Bom Nim! It was great. I know he took it easy on me but I feel like I did really well. I defended a few X Chokes by inserting my hand inbetween the choke. I even went for a baseball bat choke and got pretty far with it. I got him in my guard and when he went to break it he stood up. I went for the ankle grab bt when I took him down I got ankle locked. He also tried passing guard with one hand under, one out so I went for the triangle. He still ended up passing but at least I went for it. He did take N/S one me once and I tried to get out of it but couldn't. Thinking back, I had my hands in his arm pits and I believe they should have been on his belt maybe. I went for a scissor sweep at one point but didnt have control of his left hand so he posted out on it. At one point I got mount (im sure he let me) and for some reason I froze. Couldn't think of anything to do. I tried for a kimura but it didnt work.

All in all I felt pretty good after he whipped my butt! After we were done rolling he said, your going to get another stripe tonight. So we lined back up and surprised me with a 3rd stripe! He said I did really well and I also went to the tournament and did really well there and that next test I will be ready for blue! It was a nice surprise!