Robot started a brand new schedule tonight, and I was super stoked to go try it out. They added an intermediate class specifically geared toward white belts that want to get their blue belts. That would be me!! I would love to have it in 2012, even if it is December 31, 2012. I'm tired of spinning my wheels with my training. 2012 is the year I step it up and take a real shot at that blue.
After so many weeks and months off from real training, I was apprehensive, but I did great!! I haven't had a single vertigo episode for two weeks, and I went off my vertigo meds due to the side effects that were making training and functioning as a normal human being impossible. Words cannot describe how wonderful I felt getting back on the mat and how great I feel now that the work out is done.
I really enjoyed the workout. We worked some basic closed guard moves, but in a way I had never worked on before and I learned a lot. I learned that I had been getting triangled from my closed guard passes because my base isn't wide enough and I'm not keeping my elbows out and locked and protecting the climb. I also learned that the problem with my hip bump sweep was that I wasn't bumping my hips up and high enough -- I was just pushing forward with low hips. Once I figured that out, it was going really well. Sparring was hard -- I can't seem to execute during sparring the way I do during drilling. Just one more thing to work on in 2012!!
I was also inspired to be more vocal and show less fear during training by this article: http://www.richmondselfdefense.com/2011/uncategorized/brazilian-jiu-jitsu—a-female-perspective/ If you are a woman and train, or you train with women, check it out. She had some things to say that I really needed to hear, like that women have to be outgoing and proactive about their training because they are usually the only or one of few at their gyms. We have to be fearless. I'll admit that lately I've caved to the fear; fear of failure, fear of getting hurt, fear of making an ass of myself, fear of guys flat out telling me they don't want to train with a girl... you name it and I have feared it. Not this year. Not any more. I want to progress and get better. I want to keep the feeling I had after my last tournament when I knew what was happening every step of the way. I'm going to keep training and training and training until it clicks. And when it does, it's going to be glorious.
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