Tap #18-20.

Class #5: Tech. 1 - Side Escape: Bridge and get your inside knee in; Tech 2: var. Get your leg over his arm and spin back into guard. Really needed the Side Escape review. Been focusing a lot on Guard and Sitting in Guard. So I held my own, for the most part, but a few times, I got my posture broken and swept and one took my back. As I think back on it, I forgot to "shrug" and arch my back to make my base stronger.

Tech. 3 -- North-South Escape: Grab the the guy's belt, bring your legs up to his belt. Tuck one leg under his belt; release your hands and grab his gi at both knees; rock with your free leg, then flip him and you end up on his back. I couldn't do this. I just was not flexible enough to get my leg into his belt.

I saw a cool Triangle Escape on YouTube, where you keep your trapped arm from crossing his center by grabbing his gi near the armpits. Well, I tried that and the Purple that I was rolling with got my other arm, the free arm, in a Kimura. Tap #18.

Things are going okay, until I start rolling with the Instructor. He mounts and taps me on some random choke. We reset and he pulls guard and sets me up in the Triangle. I defend and cranks that into armbar, in a split second, I hear that elbow joint CRACK and I go, "Augghhhh." I don't even have time to tap. Tap #20.

He gets me some ice and Ibuprofren. And I watch the rest of the session on the sidelines. I'm surprised because I didn't see that coming, just like that Kimura from Triangle setup; I'm a little pissed that it happened with the Instructor and I'm miffed because there was a least another 30 minutes of rolling that I missed out on.

He didn't crank it that hard, but it was the same elbow that I got Kimura'ed on from last class and it was almost all better. I don't think I had that much strength or give on it.

Hopefully it'll be better in a week. That's my next training session. On SuperBowl Sunday.