Almost forgot

Went to class yesterday (actually, two classes) and didn't have time to write about them. Beefy and I went to BJJ and signed up. We're officially students there now. There was a bigger class this time, three blue belts and three white belts, besides the two of us. The warm up still feels like it's going to kill me, but I'm pleasantly not sore today. After the warm up, the instructor (I need to come up with a codename for him, I guess) told us that in the evenings, he'd been having some of the purples and senior blue belts teach their bread and butter moves to the class, to help them learn how to teach. He then shared with us a variation on a guard pass used by one of the smaller guys at the school. I'm going to try to describe this, but it will probably be gibberish to most people, and maybe even me.

You start in your opponent's closed guard. You move your left knee out to the left, to make space for your right knee, which you move to your opponent's tailbone. Now you can adjust a little further to the left, pulling your opponent a little on to his right side. Push down on his right knee/thigh with cupped hands, pushing it to the mat. This should open his guard. Put your right hand back on the inside of his left knee to monitor it, and bring your right knee up the middle. Move your right arm to underhook his left arm, and put your head and shoulders on his torso, while sliding your right knee over the top of his upper right thigh. Now, you can post out with your left hand. Push outward under his right calf with your left knee to make some space, then step over his right leg entirely with your left leg. Now, pivot on your right knee 90 degree clockwise. You should end up on top in side control. This video is sort of similar, but not quite what we did.

After doing that for an hour, the other guys rolled while Beefy and I finished our enrollment paperwork. They were out of gis in my size, so I've ordered a Lightweight from Padilla & Sons. I hope it gets here soon.

After an afternoon full of meetings and not getting any actual work done, I took off for Karate class. Tak split the class up, and I worked with the purple belts. We spent the whole class doing kata. We did Seisan, then Ananku, then Wanshu. Me and one of the purple belts didn't really know Wanshu, so we did that for the rest of the class. My Seisan felt better than it did last Thursday, but I think it still needs lots of work. My thighs were really tired by the end of class from holding low stances through Wanshu, but that's something that I really need to improve. I've decided to not post details from the Karate class. There's not a whole lot of information about our Karate online, and I'm probably not qualified to be the one that puts it out there. So you'll just have to be satisfied with the names of stuff we do.