One step forward…two steps back…and then another one forward
No post in a while. I had a good class yesterday. I really needed that. The two classes before were really bad, and I was feeling really down about my ability to do this. I just could not get anything right.
Yesterday was the first time that the warm up did not kick my butt. I was able to do the entire thing, without stopping once. This made me very happy. Finally making progress with my cardio. I also increased my regular workouts from 45 minutes to an hour. I think this will help as well.
I need to leave the proverbial nest so to speak. I have rolled with a couple of the girls at the club, but mostly stick to rolling with Vlad, because this is in my comfort zone. I need to break this habit and start to go with other people, so that I get over this fear of rolling with other guys, and so that poor Vlad is not stuck rolling with me all the time.
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wrote on 18 January 2009 at 8:49
I can definitely identify with your post in many ways. I had been running for almost a year prior to starting BJJ, so my cardio was decent, but I still find that I gas out much easier than I would like during a roll. I am the oldest and, usually, the smallest (5′5, 150lbs) guy in the class, so I am sometimes rolling with guys who have 80-100 lbs on me, which is tough. However, it forces you to become much more technical, because strong skill is the only way you are going to impose your will on them. I recently was able to submit a guy much bigger than I was (230 lbs) using skill and finesse. Of course, he was also very new to BJJ, but little victories, ya know?