The $58 Roll

Taps: 1. Total: 325. 

I think Coach Chris is still sick. Black Joel taught. Not so much techniques but he talked principles and showed some techniques that expanded on those principles. Very cool. He talked about "feeling" what so opponent was about to do and being ready to respond, so that you will always be "one step ahead." -- ie. he has a hand on your wrist, you "know" he's going for a Kimura; he upas to the side, you know he's going to elbow escape, so you go S mount, etc.

Then he showed a armbar from S Mount, and Low Mount when he tries to put you into Half Guard, you swim under both hands and S/Triangle Mount, trapping both hands and go for armbar. Brown Vince tweaked it by saying to lean downward and putting more pressure and coming down at an angle for the armbar that was much much tighter.

Had to park in the meters in front of the academy, and I had 10 minutes on the meter when Blue Brian (who was promoted at the same time as me) asked me to roll. Super nice guy. We rolled for 15 minutes, very back and forth, I missed on a sloppy and fast collar choke, he almost got me in an armbar but I've been working on the escape and he went slowly and wasn't quite there with his grip break so I had half a second to roll into him and I was able to pull my arm out and we stopped. I ran out to feed the meter and there was the meter maid giving me a ticket. I said I was over by three minutes. No mercy or sympathy from the meter maid. She said she already wrote up the ticket. Was she standing there waiting for meter to tick over?

So that last roll cost me $58. I should have put in the extra 50 cents from the beginning. Oh well. I should be more upset. Maybe Mark over at the Tap or Die blog is right. JJ makes us calmer. Although I'm still working on being patient with my four-year old.