Brazillian Jiu Jitsu tournament

[Kupek]

I'm competing in a Brazillian Jiu Jitsu tournament this weekend:
http://www.capitalgrapplingclassic.com/

I'm going to be in the white belt, light heavy (174 - 187 lbs; I weigh about 185) division. This will be my first real competition, I'll post how it goes.

[Zeus]

Good luck. I took a term of Aiki Jui Jitsu (yellow, or first, blet), I know how tough it is to master it....

[Ishamael]

Whoah, I didn't realize you were the long lost Gracie. Good luck and definitely post updates. As preperation, I suggest watching Karate Kid and keeping that crane kick in your back pocket just in case. Yeah I know it's Jiu Jitsu and not karate, but listen to ol' Ish on this one.

[Andrew, Killer Bee]

Awesome! Good luck, dude!

[SineSwiper]

I still want to see a drunken fist tourney. Good luck, and see if you can't post us some videos.

[Torgo]

Nice! Good luck, dude.

[Gentz]

May your opponents' faces be torn asunder and their eyes be made into a fashionable necklace to be donned as a trophy. May the lamentations of their women be your standing ovation.

[Flip]

Sweet, gl. *picturing Kupek ala Eddie Gordo*....*snicker*

[Andrew, Killer Bee]

That whore Eddie practised capoeira, Flip :).

Is it Saturday or Sunday that you're participating in this tournament, Scott? Good luck, regardless.

[Kupek]

It was today, but I wasn't able to compete. I hurt my knee on Wednesday's practice. Someone kneebarred it when they weren't supposed to, for those who know what that is. For those that don't, it's a forced hyperextension of the knee. We're not supposed to do them at our level; we're not good enough to give them properly (i.e., without injury) and we're not good enough to take them properly (know when there's too much pressure). Knees are different from other joints (like elbows and shoulders) because they have less nerves, and there's almost no degrees of hyperextension; when they go, they go.

I got the injury checked out, and it's not serious, but it wasn't healed enough for today. I couldn't drop to that knee or really work off of it.

There will be other competitions, though. I'll say something next time I'm scheduled to go.

[Andrew, Killer Bee]

Dude, that sucks. Make that guy pay in blood!! :)

[Eric]

That does suck, sorry to hear that. ;_;

[Julius Seeker]

Too bad to hear about your injury. Just wait around for other opportunities and lay the guilt heavily on your sparring partner for fucking up =)

Capoeira, I am actually learning a bit of that now, I am kind of big for it though, but I like the upper body workout the training gives. I just don't like the music that we train to =P Either way, if anyone can get into capoeira here, go for it, it's a very fun discipline.

[Kupek]

Yeah, injuries always bum me out. I got armbarred pretty bad last Fall (four or five pops) and I was out for five weeks. I swear that people with sports injuries go through the seven stages of grief. Or, at the very least, lots and lots of denial.

From how it feels, I think it'll be another week before I can get back on the mats. In the meantime, I can do intense upper body lifting that I can't do when I do BJJ three days a week.

[Tortolia]

I swear that people with sports injuries go through the seven stages of grief. Or, at the very least, lots and lots of denial.

I went through painkillers, beer, and a lot of swearing.

Mostly normal, that.

[Agent 57]

Injuries drive me crazy, sometimes to the point of stupidity. Cases in point:

<i>Tendonitis, right shoulder -</i> Had to miss most of my senior year of swimming in high school (and I was the captain that year, too). Also made driving a big pain in the ass, since it hurt to have my right arm in any position other than in my lap (and I was driving a manual at that point).

<i>Skin abrasion, right shin -</i> It was a heck of a lot worse than it sounds - I did a full-speed baseball-style slide in a rocky patch of dirt and scraped up pretty much my entire shin. It took all summer to heal, slathering it with bacitracin and taping two gauze pads together every day, but I was back on the field before it had even scabbed over fully. I remember running down the field one day, frantically trying to stick my gauze pad back to my skin.

<i>High groin sprain -</i> I remember going to one of my team's games that I had intended to sit out with a tender groin/hip flexor (in order to rest for a tournament that I was playing in that weekend). Of course I couldn't stand watching, so about halfway through I ran back to my car, got changed, and played the rest of the game. We won, too.

<i>Ligament bruise, right shoulder -</i> After a guy who had five inches and 75 pounds on me fell on top of me during a scrimmage and screwed up my shoulder, I had to go around in a sling for a while. Of course, since I'm left-handed and I could still run, that didn't stop me from playing catch and running pre-game drills with my teammates.

<i>Fracture, left middle finger -</i> This one sucked, since as I mentioned, I'm left-handed. I pretty much had to sit out 6-7 weeks...but as soon as the doc said I could switch from a splint to buddy taping, I was back on the field. Playing right-handed, naturally. Which drove me crazy for two and a half weeks until I said to myself, "wait a second, can I throw lefty with my fingers taped together?" I tried a couple throws, found that it worked with little pain, and the rest is history. (I still tape my fingers together when I play these days, and this injury happened last November.)

So what's the moral of all these stories? There's really two of them:

1) I love ultimate, and 2) I'm a complete idiot.

[Tortolia]

I had on and off tendonitis while fencing at college.

Knee tendonitis sucks ass, especially when your campus is a really large hill.

[SineSwiper]

Makes me wonder if trying to go for Tae Kwon Do at 27 or so is worth it. Just joined a gym and just doing a few arm machine exercises for 15-20 minutes seemed to have made my shoulders hurt enough to be annoying.

I did this Tuesday morning, and it wasn't doing this yesterday, so maybe I just slept on it wrong. Regardless, I'm going to lose some weight and go through the gym's Tae Kwon Do exercises before any actual training.

[Kupek]

Makes me wonder if trying to go for Tae Kwon Do at 27 or so is worth it. Just joined a gym and just doing a few arm machine exercises for 15-20 minutes seemed to have made my shoulders hurt enough to be annoying.

I did this Tuesday morning, and it wasn't doing this yesterday, so maybe I just slept on it wrong. Regardless, I'm going to lose some weight and go through the gym's Tae Kwon Do exercises before any actual training.

Go for it. It's easier to stay in shape when you're doing it for something as opposed to doing it for its own sake.

As far as hurting after a workout, it comes with the territory. If you're pushing your body further than it's used to (which isn't hard to do when you're starting out), you'll hurt for even a few days after a workout. And yeah, sometimes it hurts more the second day than the first. Just work through it, be sensible about how far you push yourself, and always give your body time to rest.