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 [...]

I know this is a couple days late, but I hope everyone had a great Christmas! Not much to report on the training front.  Last class was a stand up class, so more kick boxing.  I feel so out of my element doing it.  But it is great cardio, which is awesome as I am [...]

Today marked 4 weeks training for me.  It was also the first day that I was allowed to roll!  When the class first started, I was not asked to go with the new students this time.   I was allowed to participate in the actual class! Vlad and I worked on two half-guard sweeps, then [...]

Today was the first day since I started, that I felt that I actually made an improvement in my cardio.  The warm up still kicked my ass, but I was able to go longer than I had before.  I really needed this.  It is encouraging.  I was beginning to think that I was never going [...]