So I’m back doing Jujitsu again, and I got destroyed in class last night. I was physically ill for like 30 minutes after we finished, like to the point of vomiting. Not good.

Anyway, I still feel completely foreign down there. I have no thinking faculties when I’m on the ground. I’m doing ZERO Jujitsu. All I’m doing is using strength-based wrestling and forgetting to breathe. So when I get up I have to rest for like 3 minutes just to be able to catch my breath. It’s quite sad.

On a possitive note, however, I did almost land my first arm bar last night. I grabbed an arm, pivoted the hips, and threw up the legs. He wiggled out of it, but it felt good to actually FEEL like I should do something and have it almost work out.

So yeah…at this rate I expect my blue belt in like 2017.

My buddy Ken’s Jujitsu coach is a contestant on the Ultimate Fighter, and here’s some video of him competing in a Jujitsu competition.

So I go in for my allergy work-up tomorrow. Pin pricks with lots of stuff that makes me sneeze and wheeze. It’s going to rock.

But then I get allergy shots (pills and sprays are sub-optimal). I just hope my insurance pays for it all or most of it.

And it’s all part of a plan. Aside from just wanting to not sneeze, get constant sinus infections, and have less cardio performance—I’m mostly doing this so that I can have my full wind for Jujitsu class.

The place I go to went through some changes recently, and I haven’t been going. But it’s all better now. It’s been bought by three main Jujitsu guys—including a wicked sick black belt who’s been an instructor for the Gracies in Brazil. He’s scary good.

And they are keeping their kickboxing classes as well, which will serve as a nice change of tempo on occasion.

So, things are good on this front. Allergy shots –> starting back in Jujitsu with a “new” school. Now I’ll get to try out my new gi.:

I finally ordered myself a kimono (and belt) after doing a good amount of research. I ended up going with a Koral Blue Classic.

Koral is from Brazil, and from what I found during my reading it’s one of the best you can get. So I’m just about at the point now where I can start going to Jujitsu two or three times a week. I still have to do the allergy shot thing, however, as my allergy flare-ups mess with my stamina big time.

So yeah…Jujitsu. New gi + new Gracie-trained instructor (he’s an instructor in Gracie schools, not an instructor trained in a Gracie school) = exciting stuff.: