I am so average.

Photo and video at the bottom of this post.
Tuesday was the Copa South Japan BJJ Cup. I entered both my category and the absolute, and lost by submission in both of them.
Shit!
I have no excuse other than I just wasn’t good enough. I did quite a lot of training for this, in the dojo and [...]

Tournament places are released

I’m competing at blue belt level, in both my weight class (pena - up to 70kg with the gi) and absolute.
In the 13th match of the day, I will be fighting my weight. In my weight class, there are two fights to get to the final. Three for the gold. In my first fight I [...]

BJJ April 26 & 27

My cough/cold/allergy/plague thing threatened to resurface during the last week, plus my ear felt like if you so much as breathed on it it would pop and shower your face with blood and gore, so I didn’t train. I went back last night with some mild trepidation but everything was still in order. My small [...]

Training, early Feb.

Things are going good. I think the combination of getting over my cold, keeping up my rudimentary strength training routine, and twice a week BJJ / once a week judo is really starting to pay off.
The last few times I’ve been to training have been “good days” where everything just slots in place. I feel [...]

Plan of Action

I want to compete in March.
I want to compete, and I want to win.
It’s far away (an hour and a half drive, I think), and it’s already a quarter of the way through the year, so I have to start my winning ways.
I don’t want to come home without a medal.
So I have just over [...]

Stuff

Judo is great. After training the other night, the black belts sat down and gave a speech. This is after we’ve done the communist-style communal exercise complete with ritualistic chanting, and bowing to about ten different places.
One guy, Maraiga-san (who is also a BJJ blue belt) gave an excellent speech about how a kid’s work [...]

Competing tomorrow…

After only a few months as a blue belt I decided to enter a competition. It’s the first All-Kyushu BJJ competition (Kyushu is the large island on the southern end of Japan.)
Apparently my first fight is with the favourite to win it, some battle-hardened veteran dude. Hmm. Not good considering I’ve paid almost 10,000 bones [...]