Renga: Brickish

I got owned.

I got owned BAD.

But it was so fun, I didn’t care. Yes, I’m only a newbie in Jiu-Jitsu, but I got to go to a seminar at my friend’s gym with J.W. Wright last Thursday, and man was it awesome.

Most of the Seminar was over conditioning. Mostly because JW, who taught the main guy at the gym, knows that there’s a couple guys there with tournaments and fights coming up, and he seriously kicked everyone’s asses all over the mat for half an hour.

We did a conditioning drill that was two three-minute rounds alternating between partners with pushes, Titos (Modified burpee–Legs go all the way up when you jump), guard jumping, jabbing, rolling, and sprawling all over the place. I never had actually felt every single one of my muscles burn before, but man was it worth it! I got flat out driven up the wall with motivation after that.

After he ran us through all that, we did leglocks. So anklelocks, heel hooks and the basic leglock. On top of all three being completely new to me, along with their escapes, I also learned a new trick: Don’t let your partner keep dropping all of them on the same leg. It’s not a great idea. In fact, it rather sucks after about the third one. Especially the next morning. I can actually feel the tendons running all the way from my butt to the bottom of my foot after this one. That’s unique.

I also woke up this morning feeling my brain literally being squishy, which was kind of new. I have to admit, I want to not front roll that many times again so I don’t have that feeling. I used to when we did Aikido, but it went away, and now it’s back which means I need to front roll more.

So we rolled after all that conditioning and practice, which was fun. I rolled with my friend who’s got at least 130 on me still. He’s why I need to get back into shape–he’s losing a lot of weight fast, so I’ve gotta start making up the difference somehow before he gets faster than me. He, however, fell on top of me hard enough to pull my shoulder wierd. It’s better now, and he helped get it back together, and from my figuring it’ll be back together on Sunday or Monday just from how it feels.

Which actually brings me to my next bit–Doobz0326 is pretty much an awesome guy. If you haven’t stopped by his thread on his progress, do it! It’s inspiring. Literally, just what he’s written has gotten me wanting to get going, and I’ve been chomping at the bit ever since. Well, before that, like back a week or two ago when I got the idea in my head that I’m gonna be in a movie.

Yeah, that’s right, all that LARPing goodness has paid off, I’ve been recruited by an indie film group to help be their LARP Expert for their new film. They’re pretty cool, and I’m gonna be a badass minion at the end of the movie at least, if not one of the main roles if I can learn to act between now and this summer. So I wanna be a scary lookin’ minion with a lot of badassitry and a mohawk. (Gotta love the Hawk).

That’s pretty much that. I can’t wait to get training again on Monday. I’m going to kick a lot of ass!