Warm-up

Technique

• Judo : a simple inside foot sweep while retreating; enter and inside leg-wrap when uke defends foot sweep.
• Butterfly guard: basic sweep; straight arm-lock series.

Roll: 4 x 5 min

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Judo is HARD. I’m thinking of enrolling for a few months at a judo dojo b/c my shit stinks. I think that would have to help?!

Very frustrating rolls. I rolled with some newer guys, and though I controlled the position, I could not submit them. I’m trying some newer submissions, and they’re just not working at 100% yet.

I did well surviving against some bigger guys. If someone is much larger than me, I can get stuck in their closed guard — they just squeeze their legs and break my posture. I’ve got to find a creative way to get out!

So far, I am improving lots. I feel like my bjj practice is full of a lot of “I did that once”. Cool things happen once in a while, but they’re not easily repeatable. “I had an awesome sweep against that guy”, or “I had a cool choke against that guy”. How can I consistently create the opportunities that make these good things possible?