Have no fear Luiz Palhares Knee on Belly details are here
First I greatly apologize for the lag in posts. My finals week was last week and I had no time for anything and believe me when I say I made time for Jiu Jitsu. This weekend I’m competing at Grapplers Quest and mentally this is the best I’ve felt, technically I’m feeling pretty good. I always … Read more
BJJ with a couple of Buckeyes
For the Christmas holidays I went “home” to Columbus, Ohio and I made sure to get some quality mat time in during my visit. There were three places that came highly recommended and I managed to make it to 2 of the 3. The second gym along my journey was to Relson Gracie Columbus, in Westerville and … Read more
A Review of Bowling Green BJJ’s first Women’s Class…Yippee!!
Class tonight was awesome. We had 8 girls on the mat…the most i’ve ever trained with at one time (3 is my record, and thats including myself). Not only did we have a good number of girls but the girls all had great attitudes. I was so nervous pulling up to the gym because at … Read more
Getting my Blue belt and bruised buns
Got my blue belt today but at the expense of my left butt cheek. There were 3 blues, two purples, a green, and an orange. I’m josh’s second female blue belt. Today was bittersweet and you know why. But anywho, had to show a technique, got belted, you were thrown by the higher ranking belts … Read more
The only exception
It’s a beautiful day today and I’m happy to say..well that I’m happy-er than I was yesterday, or the day before, or the day before. My flame for jiujitsu is reignited and I can only hope for the best now. I’ll start with how my flame got its flicker back. Usually when the going gets tough I get … Read more
Push through the pain
I’ve experienced plateaus here and there but nothing like the past few weeks. I took a full week off of everything and I though that would make me uber hungry for some bjj but it didn’t…quite the contrary…it only made me miss certain aspects of my life beforehand. This week was especially difficult. It felt … Read more
I used to be a spider monkey
My head’s about to explode from all the technique i’ve seen and learned in the past 24 hours. Dentinho and Josh led an open mat yesterday since they couldn’t make it thursday through the snow and i’m glad they did. This morning we drove to etown for an open mat and I was also pleasantly … Read more
A Lady and a Lioness
I spent the last few days analyzing every movement from that tournament and then trying to fix some of those problems today in class. Sunday and monday I dwelt on the negatives of my match. I could’ve taken the back there, I could’ve attacked the arm here, oh no what an awful takedown attempt…blah blah … Read more
Winning the women’s division—>>my first grappling tournament
So i’m pumped. I trained hard, takedowns were weak but I ended on top with the women’s division, granted I had two matches but I worked hard for the submissions. The first match I won by a triangle and the second match I came out on top with an arm triangle. I entered the Men’s No-Gi … Read more
Drill it. Write it. Refine it.
Thursday proved to be a very technical day of training. Josh came down and showed about 6 or 7 techniques, I currently only possess the ability to fully recall on a good day 2 maybe 3 techniques that were taught. Luckily I brought my notebook and plan to share as many with you as possible. … Read more
