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Dumb comp / weight cutting questions
5 year(s) ago • 1645 views • 36 replies
VBlack belt 2nd degreeVerified
5 year(s) ago
Today I stumbled stupidly into a gold in the NewBreed Women's Cruiserweight NoGi (points, 6-2 and 17-2) having attended just one nogi class on Tuesday night, and a bronze in Women's Cruiserweight gi, getting submitted by both a 25yo bodybuilder and the woman I'd beaten twice in nogi. I was 157.6 this morning on the scales. 159.2 at weigh-in 3 hours later after eating breakfast and weighing in with my clothes on. Thanks everyone for your advice!
Congratulations
CBBrown beltVerified
5 year(s) ago
Congratulations!!!! Wahooooooooo!!!!!!
BJBlue beltVerified
5 year(s) ago
Thank you! All of my matches are on YouTube now (links in my profile) if anyone wants to see them. I was nervous AF and completely bewildered by a lot of it. Go easy on me.
I gotta say though, you guys were right. I was strongest when I had someone in my guard with my freakishly long legs, and I suck at guard. I need to get better at that (and takedowns).
I gotta say though, you guys were right. I was strongest when I had someone in my guard with my freakishly long legs, and I suck at guard. I need to get better at that (and takedowns).
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JABlack beltVerified
5 year(s) ago
Many congrats! That's awesome - watch your videos later, make notes, and ask your professor lots of questions if that is something you want to keep doing (competing) and go from there...
CBBrown beltVerified
5 year(s) ago
Thank you! All of my matches are on YouTube now (links in my profile) if anyone wants to see them. I was nervous AF and completely bewildered by a lot of it. Go easy on me. I gotta say though, you guys were right. I was strongest when I had someone in my guard with my freakishly long legs, and I suck at guard. I need to get better at that (and takedowns).
Big tip on Takedowns, Shitnaro Higashi and Vlad Koulikov have a lot of really good Instructionals for Takedowns for BJJ. A really good place to start for Low Risk takedowns is all of your standard sacrifice throws (Sumi Gaeshi, Yoko Tomoe Nage, Tani Otoshi, etc.). Gives you a good opportunity to Takedown your opponent and if they don't work, you've effectively pulled guard and can keep fighting from there.
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BJBlue beltVerified
5 year(s) ago
Funny story from the comp:
We were just about ready for my first match when a 13-yo prodigy from a Gracie Barra in Florida walked up to my coach and asked him to guest-coach her for her match (she had come from Florida without a coach). I think he thought he had more time before my match than he did. So he walked off. I did not know this though; I didn't know where he had gone.
They called me over to start the match. I looked around. No coach. No assistant coach (not sure where he was). They can see that the coaching chair is empty and they're still telling me to get on the mats, so I very nervously walked out there to do my first ever match in nogi having taken just one nogi class, with no coach. I wasn't sure whether I could ask for us to wait and was too nervous to ask. (My teammates assumed I was just a badass who was ready to get this crap over with, coach or no coach.)
I've watched the footage. The assistant coach showed up at 3 minutes to go (the other woman had gotten the takedown but to my credit, I was starting to get the sweep by then). My coach showed up with one minute left in the match. It was a very close match; she was down by 4 points with 10 seconds to go and her coach / husband yelled, "You've gotta submit!" She roared out of my halfguard and went straight to an armbar.
She didn't quite lock it in (I have VERY flexible shoulders). Two more seconds and she probably would have had that thing. My teammates all thought I must have gotten injured (the arm was a little sore but I was fine).
Anyhow, that teenage girl has 61 wins on SmoothComp, 47 by submission. I hope someday she's a world champion in adult so I can tell the story of how my coach missed my very first match to guest-coach her. :-D :-D :-D
We were just about ready for my first match when a 13-yo prodigy from a Gracie Barra in Florida walked up to my coach and asked him to guest-coach her for her match (she had come from Florida without a coach). I think he thought he had more time before my match than he did. So he walked off. I did not know this though; I didn't know where he had gone.
They called me over to start the match. I looked around. No coach. No assistant coach (not sure where he was). They can see that the coaching chair is empty and they're still telling me to get on the mats, so I very nervously walked out there to do my first ever match in nogi having taken just one nogi class, with no coach. I wasn't sure whether I could ask for us to wait and was too nervous to ask. (My teammates assumed I was just a badass who was ready to get this crap over with, coach or no coach.)
I've watched the footage. The assistant coach showed up at 3 minutes to go (the other woman had gotten the takedown but to my credit, I was starting to get the sweep by then). My coach showed up with one minute left in the match. It was a very close match; she was down by 4 points with 10 seconds to go and her coach / husband yelled, "You've gotta submit!" She roared out of my halfguard and went straight to an armbar.
She didn't quite lock it in (I have VERY flexible shoulders). Two more seconds and she probably would have had that thing. My teammates all thought I must have gotten injured (the arm was a little sore but I was fine).
Anyhow, that teenage girl has 61 wins on SmoothComp, 47 by submission. I hope someday she's a world champion in adult so I can tell the story of how my coach missed my very first match to guest-coach her. :-D :-D :-D
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JJBlack beltVerified
5 year(s) ago
Funny story from the comp: We were just about ready for my first match when a 13-yo prodigy from a Gracie Barra in Florida walked up to my coach and asked him to guest-coach her for her match (she had come from Florida without a coach). I think he thought he had more time before my match than he did. So he walked off. I did not know this though; I didn't know where he had gone. They called me over to start the match. I looked around. No coach. No assistant coach (not sure where he was). They can see that the coaching chair is empty and they're still telling me to get on the mats, so I very nervously walked out there to do my first ever match in nogi having taken just one nogi class, with no coach. I wasn't sure whether I could ask for us to wait and was too nervous to ask. (My teammates assumed I was just a badass who was ready to get this crap over with, coach or no coach.) I've watched the footage. The assistant coach showed up at 3 minutes to go (the other woman had gotten the takedown but to my credit, I was starting to get the sweep by then). My coach showed up with one minute left in the match. It was a very close match; she was down by 4 points with 10 seconds to go and her coach / husband yelled, 'You've gotta submit!' She roared out of my halfguard and went straight to an armbar. She didn't quite lock it in (I have VERY flexible shoulders). Two more seconds and she probably would have had that thing. My teammates all thought I must have gotten injured (the arm was a little sore but I was fine). Anyhow, that teenage girl has 61 wins on SmoothComp, 47 by submission. I hope someday she's a world champion in adult so I can tell the story of how my coach missed my very first match to guest-coach her. :-D :-D :-D
I've personally never cared for someone coaching me during my matches as it's kind of a distraction and i sorta just zone out anyways lol and it also can warn your opponents of what the coach suggests you to do.
I think at white belt level the coaches tend to be more useful to the students as they can call out things to defend that you might not be aware of but after you have done a few tournaments the only time I personally would even want my coach to say anything is if I have a submission locked in and for some reason I am not able to finish it and maybe just need some slight adjustment or if I am in bottom side control and my opponents move their legs a certain way to open up for me to get my guard back and I didn't notice it or something.
But some people are able to listen and respond very well to coaches. I am just not one of them. lol
I've even had one coach once upon a time randomly come up to me and start to give me this random ass game plan that I just ignored as I already have my own game plan that I practice.
Out of like 200 matches I think I have ever only listened and responded one time to what a coach was saying to me and that was just simply to push someone's head down or something to finish a rnc.
I think at white belt level the coaches tend to be more useful to the students as they can call out things to defend that you might not be aware of but after you have done a few tournaments the only time I personally would even want my coach to say anything is if I have a submission locked in and for some reason I am not able to finish it and maybe just need some slight adjustment or if I am in bottom side control and my opponents move their legs a certain way to open up for me to get my guard back and I didn't notice it or something.
But some people are able to listen and respond very well to coaches. I am just not one of them. lol
I've even had one coach once upon a time randomly come up to me and start to give me this random ass game plan that I just ignored as I already have my own game plan that I practice.
Out of like 200 matches I think I have ever only listened and responded one time to what a coach was saying to me and that was just simply to push someone's head down or something to finish a rnc.
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