Today, for most of the time, I was up against a blue belt (only 1 belt above me, but over a year and half more experience). And he was killing me! I didn't submit him once. I only sweeped him like 2x, but he ended up coming back and submitting me shortly after I'd sweep him. Part of BJJ is using your weight to your advantage and this guy was pretty good at it. I mean, 180lbs is a lot of weight to have pressing down on you constantly and that's part of the point: wear your opponent down by controlling him and forcing him to carry your weight. Even a 130lbs guy, if good enough, can wear a 180lbs guy out by keeping all of his weight centered into little areas of his opponent, making it hard for the guy to breath, etc until the 180lbs guy is so worn out that the 130lbs guy now has the advantage and can submit the 180lbs guy with relative ease. This is where I need to work. It's my own fault I'm so exhausted after training (well, not ALL my fault) but I go full force all the time and I need to learn when is the right time to apply my strength, and when is the right time to just go with the flow. I need to remember to keep my weight on the other guy as much as possible. I do have good days when I can tell I'm doing it right when my opponent is breathing hard, and I do a move and put weight on his diaphram and he grunts from the weight and is having to force breaths. I love that. :) Then I just sit there for a little bit and rest while he is having it hard.
Then for about the last 15-20 mins of the training, I switched partners to another white belt who was also rollin with a blue belt. It was a better match. And I'm glad we switched, but I'm glad I rolled so much with the blue belt too because that's how you learn, by competing with someone better than you.
This really made me laugh...
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