I have been training for a month and a half now.  I feel like I have learned so much, but still don’t know anything.  Does that make sense? My cardio is getting better.  My instructor even noticed today.  I feel like it is slowly getting better.  I am no longer half dead after warm up…I [...]

Happy New Year!
I went to an open mat class on Monday, and it ended up being a pretty bad class.  We had the choice of gi or no gi, so I chose gi.  It started out OK.  Vlad showed me 4 submissions; Rear-Naked choke, Cross-Collar choke, Americana and Kimora.  Then he went to roll with [...]

On Monday we had our first no-gi day since I started.  There were a couple of new guys there, which equals crazy warm-up.  I almost died.  We did some bag work.  I worked on some punches and kicks.  It was a lot of fun, and great cardio.  I was sore yesterday, but am even more [...]

Today was my fourth class.  Today I got to work directly with my instructor
What I learned:

Standing Guard Pass
One Arm Shoulder Throw

I had, am having some problems with the standing part of the standing guard pass.  Need to work on it.
I got my gi!!!  It is very nice, but needs to be shrunk to fit me.