Wound check
After jui jitsu tonight I have:
- Left big toe sore.
- Top of left foot sore.
- Left inner knee carpet-stye burnt.
- Right kidney region bruised.
- Right ribs bruised.
- Right shoulder scratches (no pain, just visible damage).
I trained with a dude that was probably 120 kilograms, and he was a beginner too, having one blue stripe on his belt. It meant we both bore the brunt of inexperience. We were lucky though because there was only 10 in the class tonight, so the instructor’s right-hand-man hung with us the whole time. The lesson I learnt was to “chillax”. He showed us how letting the opponent lead means you save your energy, and flowing with them until they make a mistake is much easier than trying to push a situation of your own. It was a really good lesson.
I hope my gi has arrived by the next lesson because I’m seriously not enjoying the mega-sweaty top I borrow each time I train. The sweat is so soaked into the gi that it’s probably the only substance holding it together.
I need to get Emma to make me a mouth guard too or I’ll lose my teeth to a runaway elbow or botched arm-bar. I think that a gift of some description would lubricate her generosity ;)
Hehehe … you said lubricate! ;)
Sounds like you’re having a lot of fun at Jiu Jitsu. I’m very jealous - I don’t have much experience in any grappling arts, and I think it’d be imporatnt.
I’ll tell you what … if you’re willing to teach me how to grapple, I’ll teach you how to punch, kick and block? ;)
Welcome to martial arts mate. You’ll stop getting sore after a couple of months so don’t give up because of that.
You can get mouthguards cheaply at most pharmacies. Just put them in some hot water to soften them up, then let them cool in your mouth a few times to get the right shape.
And the next time someone goes for your kidneys, remember you have an elbow not too far away :)
I did say lubricate :)
I’d definitely be up for donning our gis and doing some grappling. Maybe on some grass at an oval, or something similar? Whilst I’m certainly not an expert, I do pick up most of what the instructors are trying to impart, and I feel I could show you the lesson I’d most recently learnt with some degree of accuracy :)
No other martial art has bashed me so much. Grappling is without a doubt the most intense, active art I’ve practiced, bot on yourself and on your opponent.
The sore kidneys are from a sweep move we were doing (repeatedly). I was on my back, with my opponent in my guard position. I rolled on my hips to the right, and straighted my right leg around his knee. I brought my left kneee up between him and me. We then worked on using different holds to the gi collar and cuff as well as using the left leg in a kicking motion, and pulling the right leg across to sweet the opponent onto their back. When you had the gi collar you can then move for a choke quite easily, so I loved this move. It meant however when I was on top (in their guard) being swept I was landing on my side and rolling. Hence the busted kidney :|
I hate pharmacy mouthguards. They never worked for me. Just burnt the shit out of my gums. But one made at the dentist was shmicko!
Did you do a chin-check? You better check yo’ self before yo wreck yo’ self.
Absolutely don’t get a mouthguard from a pharmacy. They don’t fit snugly enough, which means:
- They don’t dissipate force well.
- They don’t stay in so it’s a distraction and difficult to breathe and speak.
Also a custom made one can be laminated (double layer for even more force dissipation), and can have your name and phone number put in between the layers in case you lose it :) Since today was the last day of semester though I don’t really have access to any equipment. Let me think about how we can dodgy it, or you can go to the dentist and pay about $85.
Shouldn’t you have mats for that sort of thing?
Yeah we have mats, but an hour of rough and tumble means that the mats start to feel pretty hard by the end of the class. Not to mention they don’t help for friction burns.