So I did another tournament. This one was on the Battleship NJ, in the Camden Waterfront area. Sort of an interesting venue, but the floors were metal, and my buddy smacked his head pretty hard on it which was not cool.
I got there just at the tail end of weigh-ins. I weighed in at about 130 with my jeans and stuff in my pockets. The promoter, with the unfortunate name of The Good Fight, uses a modified Madison bracketing system, so I had no idea what my weight class might go up to.
As I was warming up and the brackets were being made I heard my name called on the speaker. I went to the head referee table, and the nice guy there informed me that the next lightest person competing that day weighed about 150. The next lightest after him was about 160. He asked if I still wanted to compete and I said, yes of course. After all they already had my money, so why not?
So my first fight I pulled guard, got x-guard, swept. Couldn't stabilize my pass, and he went to x-guard. But he reaped the knee, and the ref DQ'd him. Sucks, but that's the game.
Second fight was with this dude who frankly I thought I would tool. And I should have. I dominated him positionally the entire match, surfed his guard, smashed his hooks, did everything except score a clean pass unfortunately. I swept him two or three times, but each time I almost got a pass he would turtle and scramble into a single or double and get points for a takedown. It ended tied and he won by an advantage. I am a little annoyed at myself for not sealing the deal. I really should have passed his guard at least once. He gave me several opportunities and I hesistated; instead trying to pass straight to mount. But oh well, lesson learned.
Everyone else did really great, and we took home like five medals. Fun day overall, and it was awesome when I saw that Zak and Brian came to coach and a bunch of people came to watch.
School Review: BJJ Hanoi
10 years ago
3 comments:
Hey man I did that tournament as well. My first ever as a blue and I lost. It was fun wasn't it? It was really hot out even though it was covered. I am doing another one sponsored by them at the end of November. I thought it was a well run event, small but perfect for a guy like me thats new to competing.
It was a pretty good tournament. The refs were good, which is the most important thing in my opinion. Glad you enjoyed yourself. What weight do you fight at?
Hey Frank, I fight at 160. I especially like the good fight because of the way we dont have to suck weight. Although at the risk of sounding like a wuss I am 40 and since there are no adult age brackets the pace of the 20 year olds is daunting, but what the heck its fun.
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