“It doesn’t run” in Spanish. Or, how I felt on Saturday.

It started during the warm up. We were doing lunges, and my left side hip flexor/aductor/some other muscle, just felt “off”. We did 3 person groups, 10 in, 5 out. I had Tom and Nick, and was mostly defensive the entire day. That hip complained on every shrimp, bump, or extension, which was a lot.

Even today, still tenderish, especially when standing up. Keeping an eye on it.

Another Saturday, another Chipper. Starting with DLR and a strange lapel guard grip. It was awkward to work against, I always felt tied up. Lots of cycling through for most people too.

Wrapped the day up with a couple of rounds with Nick.

I’m still moving. Just…slowly.

Past couple of Saturdays have both been chippers staring in DLR. Some victories, many failures.

Highlight of the week was being in on top of Aric. I collapsed his DLR guard to end up on top in half, and he got careless with his top arm, so I kimura gripped it, rolled to his back and wing choked him. He was laughing the whole time because he’d never seen anyone do that before, let alone me. “Cool shit”, he said. :)

Hard to stay afloat.

Same as last Saturday. 8 minutes in, 4 out, with a group of three. I had Nick and a new white belt, Tom. Big guy, and pretty fresh.

Some good rounds, with a fair amount of teaching included.

Busy recovering from my toe issue, holiday stuff, kid stuff, the usual I suppose.

Did get to open mat last week, and didn’t die. Rounds with Morgan, Nick, Hejay, and a few others. Before rounds began, Tim warned everyone about going easy if you’re older, injured, out of shape, etc. All while staring at me, so point taken.

Nice round with Morgan, even though he outguns me by a wide margin. Gentle domination.

This weekend, we only had a threesome, Nick, Alex, and I. 8 minutes in, and 4 out. Had a few fleeting moments of competence.

Well, not exactly what you want to hear from a doctor. Somehow I hurt my big toe. Was tender on Monday, hurt on Tuesday, didn’t get any better on Wednesday, so figured I had to go get it checked out. Xray and eventually a MRI. Turns out I have some weirdness that I pissed off. But I’m doing pretty decent now. Trained on Friday at noon, just to get a sweat in and blow off some steam.

Pretty low key, being a holiday week. Tim kicked it off, just fooling around with me. I fought Nick to a mostly stale mate. Rolled with a newer white belt, a big guy, Jake, who I did well against, despite the size disadvantage. Last one was with Railgun Max which was a good one.

Hope the new year goes well.

Holiday weekend, so open mat on Friday and Saturday.

Friday, we had 7 people. Round robin, self paired, and a bunch of unfamilar people. A big blue belt (police, I think) took it easy on me. Hei-Jay was my rest round. Jesse and Cheng. Good low key sweat all around.

Saturday, still a small group, but closer to typical I suppose. Tom, Nick, Mick, Aaron, He-Jay, Cheng, and a couple of breaks.

Speaking of breaks….I apparently broke my big toe on Saturday. Persistant pain that didn’t diminish, so I popped into Urgent Care yesterday (Thursday). So now I’m in a boot for the near term future. Yay.

Light crew this saturday, so we ran the chipper, rotating for every point scored.

About half the class was black/brown, so It quickly became apparent that it was mostly the lower belts just rotating through one after another. Good sweat all around I guess.

We had a pretty small group on Saturday.    But another special guest.   Burger Wade, in the house, with a freshly minted black belt.     He was one of my best Alliance training partners.   Similar size and ability, so it’s great to see him recognized.  

Typical warm up, then 4 minute rounds with an minute break.    I warmed up with Brie, then had Wade.   It’s been a while, and we’ve rolled a ton of times in the past.   I also had Monique, Jose, Mike, Brian, and others.

Bob the Monster is in town for a bit, and decided to visit us. Not much has changed, 66 and still kicking everyone’s ass.

We warmed, up, and I had the “honor” of being the first to visit Bob-town. He was nice, I’ll put it that way. Then I had Tom, Gimli, a break, then Jose, Cheng, Monique, Marcus and Popsicle.

I hit a nice sweep with Gimli to be on top for a bit, threatening a kimura assisted backtake, but ran out of time. Cheng, I somehow countered his bolo into a quasi-pressure pass. And I avoided Chris’s sweep and escaped his counter omoplata. A pretty decent day for me.