yet. Clinics don't start until Monday, but even though finals were done two weeks ago, I've still been so swamped I barely made it to jiu jitsu since the Friday finals were over. We had Open House the weekend after, and then a presentation on Foot and Mouth Disease, and now this contract negotiation project...it seriously never ends, even when you think it does.
I did make it to open mat today (yesterday, really). Rolled with my boyfriend for a while, which was kind of nice even though he has 70 pounds on me. I had to goad him into unleashing "The Thunder," which he finally did after much coaxing and prodding. I'm not sure how many times I have to tell him that it annoys me more when he goes easy on me and hands me submissions, but hopefully he'll get it now. Worked a little on how to modify a triangle going bad. Then one of our "family guys" shows up, whose daughters both train. One of them is competing in May, so I rolled with her for a little while. I'm so jealous--she's only 11 and she's already really good. I'm sure she'll do well at the competition, but I gave her a few pointers anyways. There was a pretty significant size difference, so I did have a little trouble telling if some of the stuff she was doing was because she was so much smaller, or just because she didn't know it.
On the plus side for today, all of us soon-to-be-fourth years got Sombreros and free lunch for our "Scrubbin' In" ceremony. They even had pinatas stuffed with candy, AND "pin the testicles on the donkey."
I did make it to open mat today (yesterday, really). Rolled with my boyfriend for a while, which was kind of nice even though he has 70 pounds on me. I had to goad him into unleashing "The Thunder," which he finally did after much coaxing and prodding. I'm not sure how many times I have to tell him that it annoys me more when he goes easy on me and hands me submissions, but hopefully he'll get it now. Worked a little on how to modify a triangle going bad. Then one of our "family guys" shows up, whose daughters both train. One of them is competing in May, so I rolled with her for a little while. I'm so jealous--she's only 11 and she's already really good. I'm sure she'll do well at the competition, but I gave her a few pointers anyways. There was a pretty significant size difference, so I did have a little trouble telling if some of the stuff she was doing was because she was so much smaller, or just because she didn't know it.
On the plus side for today, all of us soon-to-be-fourth years got Sombreros and free lunch for our "Scrubbin' In" ceremony. They even had pinatas stuffed with candy, AND "pin the testicles on the donkey."
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