This page is for documenting my Brazilian jiu-jitsu journey.
| Dec 2024 — now | Parabellum Jiu-Jitsu | No-Gi |
| Dec 2024 | Monkey jiu-jitsu | Gi |
| Sep 2024 — Nov 2024 | United Fight Center | No-Gi |
The rules were new to me: 6-minute rounds, no points given during the first 3 min. In the first minute, I did a very nice double-leg takedown and had a lock behind his back. Also, I was holding his legs with my knees. Although I got a headlock, I managed to get out and started to advance to mount. At one moment my center of mass was too high and he was able to sweep me and sit in mount. From there I was defending but occasionally he took my back and RNCd me.
Lessons:
The plan was to do a double-leg takedown and go from there. We started to fight and I didn’t feel like I was in a good position to go for it. I began to get tired fast. Two times I did dive for it, the first time he defended and we recovered to a standing position, the second time he rolled over and I had him in a closed guard on the ground. It was counted as a takedown and he was given 2 points for it. We sat in a closed guard until the end. Lost by points 0-2.
Lessons:
My first Gi fight was after a week of training in Gi. I was able to calm down by listening to rhythmic music just before the beginning of the fight. Oppo jump-guarded me but I felt comfortable and started to get out. He took my arm and armbared me very quickly so my arm crunched 3 times before I managed to tap. It was on 0:32.
I felt like the skill gap was too wide to actually do anything.
My first ever jiu-jitsu competition. Was super nervous. As I practiced very little wrestling so decided to pull guard almost immediately. After some defending from the ground, the opponent just jumped on me in the mount and was trying to choke me. I was able to shrimp out and retain guard, but it was already around 2 minutes into the fight and I was super washed out. After some time he did exactly the same thing and then he ezekieled me at 4:25.
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It is an incomplete attempt to dump sequences I practiced in classes. Colored cards are positions, connections between cards are transitions and clouds are finishes.