So training has been going well recently. I've mostly been doing Jiu-Jitsu stuff at the academy, and training on my own in terms of Kung Fu and things of that nature.
So today, during class at the academy, I was rolling with one of the brown belts, and what ended up occurring was I just ended up having to defend myself (which is usually what happens, since my guard sucks), and then I held him off for like 4 minutes before he armbarred me. And it dislocated slightly. Ugh. The same arm too. I have to play piano :(
Anyway, I was training with Chris today as well. It went pretty well for the most part. We got a lot done; we drilled some tieups, some takedowns, some butterfly sweeps, and a ton of guard passes. Then we did some live passing, which was cool, and I got swept a lot.
It kind of frustrated me how much I was getting swept, simply because I just don't know all of them yet. How could I expect myself to not get swept despite knowing all of them? I got kind of angry, and I kept making him rewind so that I could see what was going on, and then having to adjust my gameplan accordingly.
I think my biggest mistakes in terms that I allowed him to keep his feet on me, and I allowed him strong angles. I think a large part of it is that I roll with people who don't do as many of the sportier sweeps, since the focus is more on street sparring than sport. But I think once we go through the sweeps chapter, I'll be a lot less frustrated. Also I got arm dragged a lot.
Today has shown me that there is a huge hole in my guard game though especially in terms of offense...and defense. Will work on that.
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