Fight in April

I told my instructor that I want to fight in April.  I am hoping that they can find me an opponent who puts in as much time training as I do.  Although I haven't been training as much lately as I would like to.  I'm getting back into it though.

I went to 1 5:45 a.m. class last week.  I think I will start going at least 3 times a week while training for the fight.  I haven't been as busy at work lately so I am fairly positive I can make it to most evening classes.

There is a black belt BJJ guy that is teaching in KC for the next 6 weeks.  I am pretty excited, I am going to sign back up for the classes at the Brazil Academy, in Olathe, again.  So I'll continue to train BJJ up there even after the black belt leaves.  I really like the atmosphere up there, the people are nice and no one is trying to kill anyone when we roll.

I just tried out my first class with the black belt this past Thursday.  It was pretty cool we worked on a take down off an ipon seonage (sp?) attempt.  I will definitely have a lot more time to train now, which I'm pretty excited about.

Winter Wonderland

Last night was the first time this week we had regular class.  Mon. and Tues. we got snowed out.  It was a dosey.  I only made it up to the gym for X-Camp, which is like a boot camp class but it's usually a bit more intense.  Anyway, it looked simple enough on the whiteboard but it was sooo hard and I think I pulled a muscle in my shoulder haha.  Here's what we did -

1 - 20
Start with one and one then go to two and two and then three and three, so on and so forth until you get 20 reps of each exercise.  After you hit 20 reps of each exercise set you move on to the next exercise set.

Dumbells ( I used 10 pounds for this workout)
Squats / push-ups
Sumo high pull / push press
Bent rows / bicep curls
Narrow squat jumps / tricep extensions
sit ups / leg lifts

It doesn't really look that bad but trust me it will give you that wabbly (I don't know how to spell that) feeling in your arms.  My legs didn't really feel it that much.

I'm hoping to hit up traditional judo/tkd class tonight and then do at least some of the jiujitsu class.  We will see if it's in the stars.

Getting Back Into It!

OMG I can't believe I have been getting up at 4:50 to get to my morning workouts.  Last week I only went 3 times and this week I will have only gone 3 times, provided I go tomorrow morning.  It's really hard to train a bunch when Noe is not here.  She went to Hawaii for a month basically.  I just have too much shit to do.  At least I haven't been as busy at work lately.  I am able to work normal hours, which has been so nice.

I went to our traditional judo class the other night.  It was awesome!  I got to drill throws with Kevin pretty much the entire class, you know after the warm-up and before randori.  We had an older guy, who is a black belt in judo I think, work in with us a few times but he has an injury so he didn't do too much.  I really like the traditional judo class.  I wish we had more days of traditional judo, with the gi.  On tues. it's with the gi and on thurs. it's without the gi.  A bunch of the guys like the no-gi class because they think they want to do MMA or something, I think.

I might end up fighting MMA on Feb. 4th but if I don't then I want to try to get to that Houston Open.  I am torn between wanting to fight MMA and doing only jiujitsu tournaments.

Tournaments

I have decided I want to participate in more tournaments.  I am looking at the IBJJF Houston International tourny in Feb.  I think I can get ready in time for that one.

It has been so hard to get to the gym with my new job taking up all my time.  I have been working a lot of hours.  Usually the problem is that I get done too late to get to the gym in time for class.  I have been able to do the beginners bjj class that Shawn teaches on Tues and Thurs a couple of times.

This past week John wasn't having normal evening class so I went up there in the evening and drilled a couple of times with my buddy David and also did Shawn's class a couple of times.  I think if I can get up there as much as I went last week I will be ok in the tournament.  I don't know if it will be enough to win but I think I can make a good showing.

I also went to the 5:45 am fitness classes 3 times last week.  I am going to try to get up there 4 times in the coming week.  We will see how that works out haha.