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Old 07-16-2007, 06:56 AM
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Cool First and Second place.

Well my competition was awesome to an extent.

In my first Intermediate No-gi match I got 2nd place. My first match in this division was my best of course. I'll put up the vid as soon as possible. I got one great judo trip and later in the match a suplex right before I took his back and chocked him out. I lost to a guy that is a belt higher than me and won 3rd place in the Pan Ams not too long ago. For those who don't know the Pan Ams is a very prestigious grappling tournament. Only the best get in. He later came up to me and said that I was very strong for a 204 guy and that my take-down defense was real good. For those that have seen my video on this thread know that my take-down defense was not that good and now that a top guy said I was doing good defending his takedowns just made me feel like the man.

After that I fought 5 more guys. Three in the No weight limit white belt division and 2 in the 204 weight class. Now what sucked about the competition was that they started my weight division just about the same time as the no weight limit division. So I was going back and forth and it seemed like each mat was waiting for me to finish and wanted me to start right away and wasn't giving me much time to rest. Good thing for my conditioning, because if I didn't have any I would have been dead. The other match I lost was the second match in my weight division. This guy was big and strong and he might have had one match before me which meant he was very fresh and I was already 3 Gi matches deep before I went up against him. The ref only gave me 2 minutes to rest before I could go and the other mat was also weighting for me. Well needless to say I lost by arm bar and was very pissed because any other time I would have beaten this guy but I was just too tired. So the last guy I fought in the no weight class division paid for it and I just made his life hell. In the end of the No weight class division it was me and one of the guys from my gym. This would have been my last match but my friend had about 3 more to go in his weight division. So we "Rock, Paper, Scissor" for the gold. That was the most mentally challenging match of all, but I pulled out the win with a scissor, paper, scissor combo. He was no match for me.

Well that's pretty much it. I'm going to try and mix my strength training and conditioning a little more so I can keep both up and build on them steadily in stead of flipping back and forth.
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