MMA and me; day 265/266

Man alive, it feels good to be back in the gym, getting my roll on. Tuesday, we worked on a lot of neck strengthening, drills, bridges, shoulder rolls, and stretching in plow position to prepare for the work we were doing with the inverted guard. We first partnered up and sat on our butts as our partner stood over us. With one of their legs in between yours, and facing them, you reach under your leg on the inside, and place the back of the hand on the outside of their leg. Next, you shoulder roll over your inside shoulder onto your neck and shoulders, bringing your outside leg to the inside of their opposite side knee, and get your hooks in on both of their legs. Now you can hang out here, work for a take down, or possibly go for a submission, but for the purposes of this drill, we relieved the leg on the side we had rolled from, finished the roll, and ended up in the same position we started out in, just on the opposite leg of our partner. We drilled this for a bit, mixing in take downs from the inverted position, going all around them instead of back and forth, working with our partner on their knees and throwing up a triangle from the inverted position. Very cool stuff. My favorite part of the class, was getting to grapple over the last hour or so. I usually like this part a lot anyways, but this was the first time since my rib injury that I have been able to roll, and it felt awesome! I'm still not at 100%, and due to other small injuries my cardio has slipped a bit, but this was day one at getting back where I need to be. Actually, last night (Thursday) was a day of all grappling.For dang near two hours, I rolled with any and everybody who was willing to get their grapple on. Sore, tired, sweaty, and loving it. So glad to be back, so happy to be a part of the gym again. No specific goals in mind right now, just getting back to where I need to be to start thinking about them. I love this stuff!!!