He forgot

We live in an attention-deficit culture. We are bombarded with more and more information… the constant supply of stimulus has the potential to turn us into addicts, always hungering for something new and prefabricated to keep us entertained. When nothing exciting is going on, we might get bored, distracted, separated from the moment. So we look for new entertainment…If caught in these rhythms, we are like current-bound surface fish, floating along a two-dimensional world without any sense for the gorgeous abyss below. - Josh Waitzkin, “The Art Of Learning”




Sunday BJJ, Gracie Seattle.

All positional sparring. closed guard, half guard, back mount. Peter, Ted, (Little) John, Jesse, Marcello, four white belts (half of them women!)

Nothing really remarkable to note. It's fun to work with Jesse. He'll let you have a tap sometimes. Note to self, do not let Ted get front mount. Impossible to escape. I musta lain there for about four years while he tried to choke me.

I tried my new spider guard sweep from Thursday on John (with no resistance), and couldn't get it to work. So irritated. I need to ask a higher belt for help with this. Starting to wonder if it's a low-center-of-balance thing, and that's why it doesn't work on John or me.

Funny interlude when Peter took my back preperatory to beginning the positional sparring. One of the things the guys will often do in certain positions (like back mount) is to signal a "go" by whacking each other on the chest a couple of times. So Peter gives me a double-palmed whack on the chest, and then goes ".............Sorry.........."  LOL. I said, "It's fine, it's actually kind of flattering that you forgot I'm a girl. But some of the other ladies might get upset if you do that to them." From then on, every time we restarted in the position, we both started giggling.

Left knee has been twinge-ing all week, moreso today after yanking the leg repeatedly out of half guard. Otherwise, doing okay. Rib injury is still reasonably subdued. It doesn't like the foot-on-knee, opposite-elbow-to-knee warmup. I'm not going to try to run laps with it for at least a few days.