April 2013 NESO Re-Cap: Greg Vs Dimitri
Match 1: Greg vs. Dimitri (Men’s No-Gi, Expert, 140-154.9) Dimitri is the youngest brother of what I am going to hopefully coin as a “CT jiu jitsu family dynasty.” He and his two older brothers are all well-respected, and I have had very limited, but memorable, rolling history with his siblings. I learned at the […]
April 2013 NESO Re-Cap: Greg Vs Alex
Match 1: Greg vs. Alex (Men’s Gi, Expert, 140-154.9) These were reasons I could have not been nervous… Alex and I have rolled quite a bit together at Plus One, and I used to be able to say “I know his game.” More often than not, I’ve gotten the tap, historically, when we’ve sparred, likely […]
April 2013 NESO Re-Cap: Tournament Day Arrives
Morning Routine For me, making tournament day very different from other days is like waking up in another life. It inevitably makes me uncomfortable physically and emotionally, like a visitor. Best, in my case, to make it just another day, and just another roll. Nice then, that the morning of the tournament was notably unremarkable. […]
April 2013 NESO Re-Cap: The Days Leading Up To The Tourney
Eating We didn’t eat anything different, per se, leading up to the tournament, unless you count switching to the Gracie Diet 2 months prior. I guess you could, considering I lost about 13 pounds without trying, and came in under weight for the competition without unhealthy weight-cutting methods like the water elimination I’ve done the […]
Money, Meet Mouth… New England Sub-Only Tourney Here I Come
I’ve been in training for the New England Submissions Only Challenge for a while now, but tonight I put my money down. There’s definitely a difference between knowing you’re planning on doing something, and making the commitment to do it. (As coincidence has it, I also mailed the deposit and contract for our wedding location […]
GFV Training Is Heating Up For The New England Submission Only Tournament
The best tournament I’ve ever been to or taken part in has to be the New England Submission Only Tournament, and it’s coming up again in a couple of weeks. I liked it as much as I did last year because it was fun. I wasn’t overly concerned about being injured, because we are friends […]
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