Flying Armbar!

Today was semi-productive.  I woke up and tried to do a little more research for my neuroscience lab report, which turned out to be unsuccessful, then headed to class for BMB, which was boring as usual.  I then had to go downtown to print a bunch of papers I needed for my classes since the stupid printer at RMIT is missing in action.  Thanks, jerks.  

Following that, I had to go make up my neuroscience lab which I missed last week, which upon arriving I realized I didn't even NEED to go to b/c it was stupid.  I sat in a room for an hour clicking through a multimedia file on polysomnography (studying sleep), and learned....nothing.  Great.  I'm really beginning to hate labs here.  Arg.  They're either waaaay too hard, or mind-numbing.  Whatever.

I came back and got ready for my first day back at BJJ, which I was really excited for.  I hopped on the tram and headed down to practice, and was immediately glad I was there.  I had my toe buddy taped and felt good.  Then....warmup started.  Carmen was determined to drill us into the floor.  We got in a circle and proceeded to do drills counting off sets one by one, which is normally fine except when you have FIFTEEN people in the circle and you're trying to do sets of judo pushups.....I DIED.  We then did 200 squats, 200 lunges, psycho ab work, and other painful drills of joy.  However, somewhere during those drills, I managed to tweak my toe, despite it being taped >.<  It hurt REAL bad.  So we then started working some drills from full-mount, which I needed, and managed to get my side-mount a little more solid.

I talked to Carmen for a while about a strategy for my tournament.  I need to work my judo/takedowns a LOT to be ready for the standing portion.  As for the ground part of the fight, I think I'm going to try to either take guard and spend the whole fight attacking from there, and force my opponent to defend, leaving no time for the pass OR I'm gonna let my opponent pull guard, and then spend the fight working my way past guard and trying to get side control, and attack from there.  I really learned a lot from Carmen today about tournament strategy and how to stay more mobile and offensive.

I threw out the idea of possibly attempting a flying armbar during the tournament....see picture below:

Carmen was surprisingly supportive of the idea, telling me that if I could hold myself steady enough to get the technique, that I should go for it.  I've done flying armbars before, so I think I might try for it during the fight.  If I'm fighting another white belt, I might have the surprise factor behind the attack too, and might be able to catch them off-guard enough to pull it out.  Who knows, we'll see.....  But I think I'm gonna practice flying armbars for a while each practice to at least leave it as a viable option.  I might get a spurt of CRAZY during my fight and use it :D

On that note, I have SO much work to do, as usual, so I'm gonna go try to crank out 1000 words on modern interpretations of the Qur'an by Western scholars.  *BLEH*