MMA and me; day 26

Well, I was complaining about not having leg bruises earlier in the week, and they are slowly creeping onto my shins after yesterday, way to go dumbass. We did some brutal heavy bag kicking drills. For ten minutes, we ran up and threw ten 10s, then ran to the back of the line. With three heavy bags, the drill lasting ten minutes, and the bags being somewhat softer than concrete, this led to fairly sore shins after about two reps. After ten minutes, I got probably ten to twelve reps in, and the shins are suitably bruised. When we finished with the 10s, we did it all over with 9s. My shins have turned an interesting shade of reddish purple, but hey, I did it to myself, and I wear every mark I've gotten at the gym as a badge of honor.

In grappling, I got paired up with the guy who tapped me at least six times during free grappling last week. We worked on two different submissions from the top mount, a topside armbar, and topside arm triangle, or howdy as it's apparently called, but we weren't able to go at full speed, due to my partners rib injury. We could go slow, and I was able to talk a little shop with Michael who has served in the Israeli army, about some concepts regarding submissions. Suffice to say, this was a smart dude, for sure! For the last 10-15 minutes, I grabbed another partner, and we free grappled, I paired up with Vit, who I have gone with before, and was promptly tapped with a guillotine. Luckily, he seemed to be tiring, and I caught him with an armbar triangle, a triangle, and I think one more, but I may be imagining things. He also caught me in a neck crank/guillotine, but most of that was due to having a mouthful of t-shirt. After all that, one of the instructors, Tony, jumped my back, and forced me into his guard. I almost passed to an arm triangle, but he escaped that, and put me in an incredibly tight triangle that I nearly wriggled out of, before he applied an armbar, forcing me to tap.

All in all, a great jiu jitsu class, and I cannot wait for the fights this weekend!