Another match day today. I was paired up with Bryann. I got two take downs on him, one directly to mount. Not enough time to finish him however.

We spent the second half of class drilling some butterfly guard passing/defense. I discovered pretty quickly that I suck at both. We ended class with 4 guys in the middle, and the rest of us rotating in. Guy on bottom has to get to full guard or sweep. Guy on top has to get to half guard. Winner stays. I cycled through 6 times I think, but didn’t pass any of them. To be fair, 3 of them were against Luke and 2 were agains Mike the purple belt.

After class I rolled around with Ethan, who was joining us for the first time. I went slow, but he made the mistake of getting one arm in between my legs and one out…which means I have to triangle him. So I did. I squeezed it for a while, and he quit struggling, but didn’t tap, so I was afraid he passed out. I asked if he was okay, and heard something, so I kept squeezing…and he tapped a few seconds later. Damian jokingly accused me of smack talking the new guy, but I honestly was just concerned for him. I explained to him his mistake and demonstrated where he went wrong. Then we went again. I got him in the arm over wrap position we worked yesterday, and he (unknowingly I’m sure) started to escape. I transitioned into the world’s worst omaplata, and he popped out of that too. Eventually I back mounted him and he was so gassed he just tapped there. He seemed to enjoy it, hopefully he’ll be back.