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I worked with Christine before class on grappling stuff. In class, we worked on stuff from the guard, like elbows and posture and other super secret ninja stuff that I shan’t reveal. (I didn’t know ‘shan’t has an apostrophe until just now when my spell checker corrected it.) #grammarnazi <\/p>\n
Anyway we did tons of technique and drilling from there. Then live sparring stuff. Jamie and I put on elbow pads so we could actually elbow each other. I hope everybody in the gym gets them, too. Coach Pyle had to leave early and coach Jason took over and taught us the CLAW and use the BOOT…..and I had no idea what that meant until I spoke up and asked. Wrestling terms? I am not shy about seeming dumb when I am confused. lol When I moved from Japan to the US I didn’t know half the MMA terminology in English! I could say it in Japanese, though. hah. Apparently they are wrestling terms. \ud83d\ude00 So I learned a new move and we drilled and did live-goes with them for a while.<\/p>\n SOMEBODY FIX THE DAMN CLOCK. I knew we went overtime because I started feeling weak and STARVING (I eat breakfast at 5 AM and half a banana at 10:30). All I could think about was the BBQ chicken and veggies I brought for lunch….<\/p>\n And my back started aching from all that lifting….just when I thought my body would shut down, we stopped class. ;_; It was like, I want morrrrrrre MMA …but I wanted my chicken and Questbar first. So much awesomeness, so little time….. <\/p>\n This is like the second time Jason showed a painful spine twisty thingie and I turned it into a choke. I like chokes better. I find them places. SO I ate my lunch like…. Went home, watched some Dragonheart and took a nap, only to be woken up by Mom coming home.<\/p>\n Then I went back to see if I could help out in the big kids class. So Fredson left, leaving Rick in charge. I love Rick. \ud83d\ude42 I took the beginner kids aside and taught them side control, escaping it, mount, escaping it, and then had them spar that. Thank goodness he let me do that. I feel bad when everybody has to do the same thing but they’re all on different levels. <\/p>\n OH, a fan drew this for me! Isn’t it amazing!? Today’s practice was great, other than the fact our fearless leader coach John Wood was sick. :\/ I love Mike Pyle’s classes too, though. btw congrats to Mike for getting promoted to a black belt in Brazilian Jiu-jitsu today! Long overdue! Just because he does more no-gi. But the man is a ninja and often…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-every-day","category-training","category-5","category-4","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5245"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5256,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5245\/revisions\/5256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n We both fight in Invicta and elbows are very much allowed. I actually cary around extra sets of elbow pads so I can give them to my teammates. I learned my lesson from Sarah Moras on TUF18 smashing me by accident during training.
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