Went to the purple belt class tonight. Had intentions of staying for randori, but yesterday I think I tweaked my elbow lifting weights and after the purple belt class was over, it was pretty sore. It went away later in the evening, so maybe it's not injured bad or anything, but I'm getting more and more conservative in my training because every time I get injured, it ends up costing me like 3-4 days where I can't go train because I'm recouperating.
Purple belt class was basically the same as Monday. Finnie taught. Worked on arm drags and lots of knee on stomach stuff. I'm starting to feel a little better about that position. Last half of the class was basically guard passes and then we had a small 5 minute randori with our partner. I got my guy, I forget his name, in a triangle choke and he armbarred me once, but other than that it was pretty uneventful. One thing that's nice about the purple belt classes is that they are basically randoris for the last half...or at least, they are like 'near-randoris' ...usually we roll, but maybe we roll with some conditions attached (like we have to start from guard) or something. Finnie had us basically starting from knee-on-stomach and doing some 50% resistance before we kicked off the full randori-style stuff, so even though I didn't do randori, I still got in some good rolling, which is always cool.
If I'm counting right: 7 classes, 2 randoris since 3rd stripe. 41 more classes and 28 more randoris (at least) until my Blue Belt. :)
Purple belt class was basically the same as Monday. Finnie taught. Worked on arm drags and lots of knee on stomach stuff. I'm starting to feel a little better about that position. Last half of the class was basically guard passes and then we had a small 5 minute randori with our partner. I got my guy, I forget his name, in a triangle choke and he armbarred me once, but other than that it was pretty uneventful. One thing that's nice about the purple belt classes is that they are basically randoris for the last half...or at least, they are like 'near-randoris' ...usually we roll, but maybe we roll with some conditions attached (like we have to start from guard) or something. Finnie had us basically starting from knee-on-stomach and doing some 50% resistance before we kicked off the full randori-style stuff, so even though I didn't do randori, I still got in some good rolling, which is always cool.
If I'm counting right: 7 classes, 2 randoris since 3rd stripe. 41 more classes and 28 more randoris (at least) until my Blue Belt. :)
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