MMA and me; day 23

Head movement is difficult, but if you don't want to get punched in the face, it's something you gotta learn. We worked punch combos and added slips and rolls to evade punches, and man, that is some hard work. The hardest part was the balance, and timing, but once I started to feel a little rhythm, it came together quite nicely. I'm still dropping my hands a bit, but I'm getting better, I mean, I'll have to. It's one thing to use footwork and head movement to avoid punches, but if I don't have my hands up, I might was well just lay down and take a nap to save my opponent the trouble. At the end of class, we did our plank and leg raises, and I'm quite proud that I held my legs up the entire time. I bent the knees a few times to rest my muscles, but still, progress is progress.

After warming up with the armbar-triangle-omoplata transition, we jumped right into a chain of submissions consisting of triangle, reverse triangle, kimura from the reverse triangle, and cutting armbar from the reverse triangle. This was kinda tough, and I was having a hard time because of some accumulated bumps and bruises, but when we jumped to the armless triangle, from when an opponent my pull their arm out of a triangle? Wow! That is tight, and when my brother slapped it on me, I nearly passed out. We ended the jiu jitsu session with a lot of discussion about how to focus our energy inwards, and exploding inward, instead of outward. The point was made, regarding submissions, that an anaconda doesn't crush their prey immediately, it's slow, and constant. I am going to try and keep that pressure on, and instead of blowing out my muscles, just constantly squeezing, and making them miserable.