Jiu-Jitsu competition rules are weird

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Went to a jiu-jitsu competition this weekend. My second match, anyone watching the fight who didn't know jiu-jitsu rules would think I lost by a mile. I got put into at least 5 submission attempts that were each deep enough my teammates thought I was going to tap (including one ankle lock that my opponent thought he broke my leg). I was put into a pretty deep guillotine that I escaped by giving my opponent mount, and there were at least 3 triangles that were really heavily locked in.

I ended up winning the match 6-4. How did I get my 6 points? Each of them followed this pattern:

• I sat down
• My opponent sat down
• I stood up

Bam, 2 points for a sweep every time.

The rules benefited me in this case. But man was that a weird fight to win.

 

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Oh, and the funny thing about the triangles. This week, the move-of-the-week has been triangle escapes. I used that move every time to escape the triangle.

My Professor had a specific one he wanted to teach. The other coaches (brown belts and another purple belt) have all been grumbling this week about it. They didn't think it's a good escape, didn't think it was effective, didn't want to teach it, but begrudgingly did because "that's what professor wants".

I told my Professor that when the video is released for this competition, he needs to send it to the other coaches and say, "SEE?!"

 

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Here's the fight in question. It didn't go exactly as I remembered. But still went pretty good. At one point I get thrown into the ref. At one point I do a cartwheel with my head. This was probably my most entertaining fight I've had yet.