Their perceptions were not ready to register anything but the strictly indispensable. Always in motion. Always in a hurry. Travelling under the protection of a glass bell- transporting them from home to the office and isolating them from the surrounding sensorial world. Beauty sacrificed on the altar of efficiency. A sad waste of potential.
-Daniele Bolelli, On The Warrior’s Path
Lunchtime BJJ at Gracie Seattle.
Beginners class followed by Competition training. There were a number of folks visiting from sister schools, including a couple of women. It was a full mat.
We drilled some of the same guard passes we've been working on this week, and a few variations of same. Two escapes from north-south. I was drilling with Liz, visiting blue belt close to my size. She has been off the mats for a while, and was complaining about her cardio and getting a little down on herself. I reassured her that it's normal to feel wiped after you've been off the mats a while, and in a couple weeks she's be back in the groove. She decided to quit while she was ahead after the first hour (after almost passing out in line). Bummer to not get a chance to live roll with her, but hopefully she will visit again.
Some King of the hill guard passes, then timed rolls with the other visiting female blue belt, Michelle. I had about 10lb on her, and with the help of that I was on top some- but we seemed pretty evenly matched. Neither of us got a tap, but we both came close a couple times.
Then Ron- Argh. He tools me so bad, and yet I can tell that he's using me to play around with some stuff and not working nearly as hard as he really could.
Lots of hard work today!
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