allenjp
Brown Belt
At least against an untrained fighter anyway...
You guys will have to excuse my enthusiasm over something so trivial but I have been training BJJ only for about a month and a half or so, and last night when my brother started shooting off his mouth at a family get-together I had a chance to test out what I've learned.
He said "I'd kick your *** in a wrestling match" after my dad asked how my training was going, "I'd triangle choke you" was what he said next.
I said, "OK, tell you what, I'll give you a head start and get into your guard, and we'll see what happens". So we did...
At the word go, he started wildly trying to push me with his hands (not quite sure where the triangle was going to come from that way), and then turned to the side, which put me into a side mount (I didn't even have to try!) He was still trying to push and pull at me wildly so I slipped my leg right over into a mount. Then after unsuccessfully trying for an armbar (I didn't secure his arm first) I remembered the Americana we had been working on in class, and applied it (pretty easy when he doesn't know what you're doing, or how to defend against it). He tried punching me in the side with his other arm, so I cranked it a little more and voila! A tap!
I know this may seem kinda juvenile but, have any of you ever gotten this excited when you had a chance to actually prove that you have been learning something useful? No? just me, huh? Oh well...
You guys will have to excuse my enthusiasm over something so trivial but I have been training BJJ only for about a month and a half or so, and last night when my brother started shooting off his mouth at a family get-together I had a chance to test out what I've learned.
He said "I'd kick your *** in a wrestling match" after my dad asked how my training was going, "I'd triangle choke you" was what he said next.
I said, "OK, tell you what, I'll give you a head start and get into your guard, and we'll see what happens". So we did...
At the word go, he started wildly trying to push me with his hands (not quite sure where the triangle was going to come from that way), and then turned to the side, which put me into a side mount (I didn't even have to try!) He was still trying to push and pull at me wildly so I slipped my leg right over into a mount. Then after unsuccessfully trying for an armbar (I didn't secure his arm first) I remembered the Americana we had been working on in class, and applied it (pretty easy when he doesn't know what you're doing, or how to defend against it). He tried punching me in the side with his other arm, so I cranked it a little more and voila! A tap!
I know this may seem kinda juvenile but, have any of you ever gotten this excited when you had a chance to actually prove that you have been learning something useful? No? just me, huh? Oh well...
? :tup:.
