Bummed...

I feel like I hit a slump.  The awesome feeling of learning something followed by the excitement of going back and trying trying again until it clicks...has started to turn into frustration. Frustration is good, it means you are learning...but frustration can be detrimental when you forget that there is an end result to it all. I feel like a have collected a small set of crude tools for my tool box and now its time to master them. Once I do this, I can modify and upgrade said tools.  Does this make sense? **sigh**

My few frustrations are with passing open guard. I've learned over the past week, a few different ways to get the opponents legs out of the way, but this doesn't always work with every situation. Its not the technique-its me---> It will be a matter of practice-trial error. Repetition. Consistency. If it doesn't work-try something else.
Sprawl, hug the legs, use your head,  walk  your legs on toes- or knees to get side control. Bulldoze the legs over, thread your arm under one legs and bulldoze the 2 to the ground- get side control.  Just grab the knees and slam the legs to the ground and pass to side-knee on belly. Pull one leg  under the knee or calf to you while step pass it tight towards their hips-rips- knee on belly.  Pin a leg, they turn, pin the other, frustrate them. Pin and sprawl, put your weight on it...bazillion ways to do it.... Just get those freaking legs out of my way...ughhh.

I decided that this week, I am going to work on one main thing plus a few other little things while rolling.
1-More pressure-crush-head control.
2-More sprawling-stay close to ground-base pyramid
3-Try and get to back.


A bunch of guys from the club are going to the Pan Jiu-Jitsu No-Gi Championship in New York this weekend
http://www.ibjjf.org/




 I would have loved to just go and watch, but Im waiting on my passport to get to me...might just get it in time to go...we will see.