Nice spar matches !

What is your weight at now ?

that's awesome man. good luck this weekend!

at the time of the post I was 205lbs. but I quickly started a ckd diet and it has helped a lot.

Will you try to sweat out the extra to try and get down to the 190 or are you fine with being over ?

Thursday's Workout


PM training:

Muay Thai 1 hour
Submission Grappling 1.5hrs

OVERVIEW
I started a ckd diet as soon as I realized I was a little over my weight class and thus far I weight 201 this morning, so I think I might make 195. As far as practice it was great. My knee is feeling good and didn't really bother me at all. Muay Thai is always fun and I got a chance to work on more movement than I did before. As for grappling, our coach gave us more game plan specific drills to work on and I can't wait to try them.
This competition gives you the chance to weigh in the night before so I'm most likely going with a team mate of mine to the sauna and sweat out the last 5 or so pounds. We'll see what happens.

194.9 is the technical weight so I'll be sweating it out.:weights:

Update
 

Well I weighed in at 194, yep you heard it right, I dropped about 10 lbs before weigh ins. I hate doing it but the weight class above me was 195 and up.. so I would have been going against guys that weigh 240 or so, and there were a ton of them.

I got 3rd in my 194 intermediate no-gi match, lost my no weight limit intermediate no-gi match by 5 secs., I had a choke in very deep and he looked like he was going to tap but the time went out right before. And I got 2nd in my white belt division, I lost to the guy who beet me in the 194 no-gi match. All together I had 6 matches.

I was doing ok but for some reason I wasn't feeling like myself. There were a lot of things I was doing wrong and just had some problems acting and reacting to some moves. I recorded some of my fights so I'll have to look them over and see where I went wrong. My coaches were great, they gave me some good advice and helped me through a lot. One thing I have to work on is more explosive movement but since I just got over my knee being jacked up it was a little difficult to prep for that. Next time I guess.

All in all I had a good time and I learned a lot. Next comp is feb. 28th I think. I'll keep you guys posted.

nice...good job man.

Sweet comp Dave!

Thanks guys.
Monday's Workout


PM training:

MMA 1 hour
Submission Grappling 1.5hrs

OVERVIEW
Class was great and we went over all the things that people did wrong and the competition. Lifting soon to come.

Congrats on your fight and dropping the extra pounds.

Will you be able to show us your fight ?

thanks. I'm have some of my matches on my phone but I'm having problems transferring them/sending them to my email because the files are too big.. The quality isn't that good. I'll try to think of something. If not, I am competing in a month so I'll make sure to bring my camera this time to take better vids.

Congrats, Dave!

Thanks
Wednesday's Workout


PM training:

Submission Grappling 1.5hrs

OVERVIEW
Class was great. We did nothing but spar and I got to roll with all the really good guys which was great so I could try out some things I learned and tighten up my game. At the end of class one of the guys I rolled with on Monday stopped by, he is my hight and some what my build, a little softer. We started talking and he said that he needs a training partner that is his size to train with for an upcoming MMA match he is having. I told him I would be more than happy to help since I also want to fight soon. So now I have a training partner that is the same size, i.e., we would both fight at 185. This is great and I can't wait to start really training for MMA.

I wonder what happened to Dave. I hope he's training hard and progressing well.

i was just wondering that the other day. :(