Class today
so today we had BJJ and it was me, Justin, Jeff (hes a football player who is kinda a body builder) and Landon who is 13 years old and is Jason's friend from class. Jason and justin im closest to in class, and i have to avenge my loss to jason but anyway heres the story.
Brandon the teacher was telling us how since there is 4 of us he wants to do the guantlet, The guantlet starts out with 2 people and every 3 minutes a new person takes over for 1 of them and the other person has to try and last 15 minutes. Well today he put a new spin on it, when he asked who wanted to start the guantlet me and Justin both said we did, so he changed the rules. He knows we are both competitive with each other, but he also knows that Justin is more technical, so he told us that we are gonna do a no time-limit match, and the winner stays in. Right after hearing that i got mentally prepared cuz i knew i could last many minutes without being tapped, so we start off and justin pulls guard and right away catches me with a choke, i escape trying to pass his guard. we stay like this for about 2 minutes, then he sweeps me and gets mount, starts leaning towards an armbar from mount, i sweep him and we are back in guard. He tries for the same sweep he did before and i base out (which means try to maintain balance) and then pass his guard into sidemount, from here i start to relax and put all my weight into him, he keeps trying to escape, and i told myself just relax right now he is wasting energy, so finally i see him tire out alittle, i go for full-mount, i succeed in getting it, as soon as i do he reverses me and he mounts me, he starts using his index finger knuckle and pressing it into my eye he ends up popping a blood vessel right by my eye, which is purple right now lol, but i still wouldnt tap, Brandon yells out damn this is a long match, but we continue and then i see my opening and reverse his position so im on top.
At this point i relax and start digging my two bent fingers right into his jugular, his face is turning purple and everyone is screaming in the class, finally he taps- total match time 17 minutes 22 seconds, longest match i have ever had. The significance? Justin went to the finals at the last in-house tournament, and a few classes ago the only people he said he was worried about was jeff and dennis, I think i just opened his eyes to why its no fluke when i win against him.
Next match Jeff, he is soo much stronger than me, he took me down at will and threw me around, but try as he might he was nowhere close to making me tap, i let him do what he wanted, i reversed him a few times, but overall he woulda won the match on points, but i was already fatigued going into that match, so i get to stay in the guantlet.
Last match with Landon, he came strong but he is too green to the game, but amazingly he had a triangle on me that i almost tapped to because i twas too fatigued to get out, but brandon starts to yell at me to throw him, so i did, cuz i rather die than have brandon be disappointed in me, needless to say i stayed in guard alot of the fight and closed my eyes and tried to think of something more happier than being soo tired. I eventually heard justin say there was 1 minute left, so then i tried to overcome his guard, passing it then getting sidemount, i went for an opposite arm armbar and had it but the buzzer went, overall i survived 23 minutes of torture and didnt tap. I am gonna do good in this tournament, i can feel it.
Brandon the teacher was telling us how since there is 4 of us he wants to do the guantlet, The guantlet starts out with 2 people and every 3 minutes a new person takes over for 1 of them and the other person has to try and last 15 minutes. Well today he put a new spin on it, when he asked who wanted to start the guantlet me and Justin both said we did, so he changed the rules. He knows we are both competitive with each other, but he also knows that Justin is more technical, so he told us that we are gonna do a no time-limit match, and the winner stays in. Right after hearing that i got mentally prepared cuz i knew i could last many minutes without being tapped, so we start off and justin pulls guard and right away catches me with a choke, i escape trying to pass his guard. we stay like this for about 2 minutes, then he sweeps me and gets mount, starts leaning towards an armbar from mount, i sweep him and we are back in guard. He tries for the same sweep he did before and i base out (which means try to maintain balance) and then pass his guard into sidemount, from here i start to relax and put all my weight into him, he keeps trying to escape, and i told myself just relax right now he is wasting energy, so finally i see him tire out alittle, i go for full-mount, i succeed in getting it, as soon as i do he reverses me and he mounts me, he starts using his index finger knuckle and pressing it into my eye he ends up popping a blood vessel right by my eye, which is purple right now lol, but i still wouldnt tap, Brandon yells out damn this is a long match, but we continue and then i see my opening and reverse his position so im on top.
At this point i relax and start digging my two bent fingers right into his jugular, his face is turning purple and everyone is screaming in the class, finally he taps- total match time 17 minutes 22 seconds, longest match i have ever had. The significance? Justin went to the finals at the last in-house tournament, and a few classes ago the only people he said he was worried about was jeff and dennis, I think i just opened his eyes to why its no fluke when i win against him.
Next match Jeff, he is soo much stronger than me, he took me down at will and threw me around, but try as he might he was nowhere close to making me tap, i let him do what he wanted, i reversed him a few times, but overall he woulda won the match on points, but i was already fatigued going into that match, so i get to stay in the guantlet.
Last match with Landon, he came strong but he is too green to the game, but amazingly he had a triangle on me that i almost tapped to because i twas too fatigued to get out, but brandon starts to yell at me to throw him, so i did, cuz i rather die than have brandon be disappointed in me, needless to say i stayed in guard alot of the fight and closed my eyes and tried to think of something more happier than being soo tired. I eventually heard justin say there was 1 minute left, so then i tried to overcome his guard, passing it then getting sidemount, i went for an opposite arm armbar and had it but the buzzer went, overall i survived 23 minutes of torture and didnt tap. I am gonna do good in this tournament, i can feel it.