Tue 26 Jul 2005
I think I AM making progress in jujitsu, despite what my bruises and missing hunks of flesh seem to say about me. There were some new people in the class last nite and I found myself giving them instructionals and quick tutorials as we were going up for a throw or a spar against each other. I have a natural “teacher” in me, but it’s that I felt competent enough to pass on some knowledge that I was kinda surprised about. We learned a few new defensive-turned-offensive moves which ended with arm bars placed on the attacker, and as I was watching 2 people in my sector practice this move, the main instructor walked up to me and said discreetly, “I want you to learn some of these moves for use in competition.” Well, I have a year. Should be no problem. I haven’t even been in class a month yet and I’ve already got some moves I could do in my sleep.
nice! so you’re competing too! next time you see jim you can practice on him
Man, I thought Jim was hard to throw. There’s a black guy in the class built like a mountain gorilla, well into the 200lbs range, who has a very high threshold for pain, and I just found out yesterday that he’s also double-jointed! Talk about hard to beat!