OP
OP
skribs
Grandmaster
I have literally done a cross-collar on myself (thought I was grabbing my opponent's sleeve). But that was before this thread started.
Why I shouldn't be a blue belt
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Darren
Green Belt
yeah well the instructor tells me move,that's what i did right into the choke.
OP
OP
skribs
Grandmaster
Exhibit AA: Lack of situational awareness
Helping out with the kid's class, there's 5 coaches (including me). We're all in a line. The head coach is getting ready to start the technique demonstration. When he says the word "take-down", the other three coaches all take a step back. When he turns to find a uke, I'm the first one he sees.
Helping out with the kid's class, there's 5 coaches (including me). We're all in a line. The head coach is getting ready to start the technique demonstration. When he says the word "take-down", the other three coaches all take a step back. When he turns to find a uke, I'm the first one he sees.
HighKick
Master Black Belt
You live and you better learn!
Tigerwarrior
Brown Belt
Fun fact:Helio gracies official rank from his teacher was blue belt. Ranking was different back then. In real old days 2 belts, blue, and white. Blue belts for instructors, white belts for students.
OP
OP
skribs
Grandmaster
Exhibit AB: Punched myself with my opponent's fist while isolating his arm for the armbar. When his grip finally broke, smacked myself in the face.
Exhibit AC: Punched myself with my opponent's fist trying to set up a hip bump sweep. I broke his posture, expected him to lean back to regain it. He didn't lean back. I headbutted his fist with my nose.
Exhibit AC: Punched myself with my opponent's fist trying to set up a hip bump sweep. I broke his posture, expected him to lean back to regain it. He didn't lean back. I headbutted his fist with my nose.
HighKick
Master Black Belt
I had to laugh at that one. My body loudly cracks and pops so much, I would interrupt the whole class.
I have lost enough disc space and cartilage that the facets in my back rub on each other, making loud popping sounds all the time.
Heck, I even get looks at Walmart.
OP
OP
skribs
Grandmaster
Judge's note: Exhibit AE was stricken from the record, because Professor was not looking at that time.
Exhibit AF, for the Defense: I got a really sweet take-down on that white belt.
Judges note: Let the record show that Professor saw this and said, "Good job."
Judge's note: Exhibit AG was stricken from the record, because Professor was not looking at that time.
Circumstantial: Witnesses report hearing the white belt say, "Oh of course Professor didn't see that."
drop bear
Sr. Grandmaster
I do a different sort of double leg. Mostly because I struggled to run through with a room full of guys. And some people were not comfortable with falling.
So I go down to both knees. Grab high under the bum circle my arms together. Bring them back down untill I have their knees together and just wiggle them over.
But what I found doing that is my head was up and my back was straight. Preventing the guillotine.
OP
OP
skribs
Grandmaster
The take-downs I'm starting to be more successful with are more like standing pressure passes, if that makes sense.
isshinryuronin
Senior Master
You were in the "void" where action takes place outside of thinking, or even consciousness. You don't need to know what you did or how you did it. "Knowing" how to do it again, or perhaps more accurately, allowing yourself to do it again is another matter.
I've experienced this too a few times, like sparring in a tournament and suddenly, in a flurry of action, finding myself at the guy's back firing punches to the back of his head, having no idea how I managed to get there.
It's a small taste of what's possible in MA when mind, body, spirit (and luck?) are all in alignment.
If bjj is like other arts, this is actually an exhibit for how you're getting closer to improving further
