Surviving Saturday

The usual start. Big crowd, good warm up, Damian divided us into groups for rounds. I had Phil, Alex, and James and Daryl. 7 minutes each, twice through.

It was a grind. All three came at me hard. I stayed safe and defensive, occasionally loosing position, but eventually getting back to guard. In my second time through with Phil, he was clearly gassed out, but started hard anyways. I had a overhook wrap, and a shoved his arm and popped up a triangle. He anticipated it, and moved to cut the corner and escape/pass, but I held on to it, swam my arm through and then armlocked his trapped arm. I think that was all the energy he had left, as after we reset, I easily passed with a knee cut, took his back and bow and arrow choked him. Guess my defense and pacing paid off.