Sunday Practice with numerous students

Today I went to Jujitsu training in the Gymnastics gym with about 10 other guys training that day.

Tony (in the Red shirt), is one of the more experience students and is shown in these two photos as he got a less experienced student in a ‘triangle’ lock, which involves wrapping his legs around the guys arm and head and squeezing in till he can breath and has to give up…

Sam (in blue) is on top of another student as he works from the top and tries to get the guys arm and head in a lock and keep him in submission. Sam's a blue belt and has been trianing for several years now.

It may seem easy to see which ones are the more experience grapplers, but a competitor who gets too over confident and charges right into his opponent can very easily find himself arm-bared or chocked out--- as I have found out very quickly in training…

"You go in like a T-Rex” said Brian (the Sunday class instructor)--- meaning you keep your arms close to your body and move in with caution to avoid getting your arms locked and trapped by the opponent.

being 'the Nail'

        This Sunday’s practice I entered the room to seeing Brian (in the blue-Gi), is the instructor and Tony (in the black-Gi) is one of the students. In these photos they are rolling (or sparring) with eachother...

        Brian has obviously got the upper-hand as the more experienced grappler, but I got my turn on the mat to get thrown around and chocked out by Tony before I had to tap out (several times).

 

I used to wrestle on my highschool team and i have practiced other styles of martial arts, but jujitsu is much more agressive and makes more sense in a way... unlike in wrestling, the round isn’t over once the opponents back is to the mat.

The round continues until one opponent is able to make the other tap-out, and an opponent with pride usually doesn’t want to give up so easy. I would also like to mention, that as I type this (almost 12 hours after the practice), my body is still very sore. But its awesome!

                             "When you start out; you’ll be the nail for awhile before you start to become the hammer" Brian said... This style seems to be very different and yet somewhat similar to the wrestling i used to do back in highschool.