thesquaredcircle

Well its complicated.  See I've trained traditional Jiu-Jitsu for over 10 years.  But I've been doing BJJ on and off for the past few years.  Now here is where it gets more complicated.  My instructor cannot grade me in BJJ, only the head guy can over at Preston (Lagarto), until recently I'd only been over there once or twice.

For the past few years competitions were few and far between, most being quite easy when they did come along, unfortunately my club has never been great at organising stuff so I went online to look myself.  Found this competition and it was at Next Generation MMA Gym in Liverpool.  Went along and they said how much experience do you have, now I thought heck I've done traditional for years and a fair bit of BJJ so just say a few years.

Now advanced is over 12 months, novice under, the divide is that strict.  No middle ground.  I SHOULD of gone into the novice seeing the people in it, they were clearly over 12 months experience and sneaking in (I actually know some of them).  But after that first competition in Feb, I've been to two more run by these people, both in Manchester because its got bigger and I could hardly say, actually I got it wrong I'm a novice after all, plus its personal pride like I said.

Main thing now is more training and working on the cutting, I'm got it set up so I can be at Preston every saturday, I'm down my club wed-fri, gym is going to change from 2 to 4 times a week since im dropping the weight and going for more high reps low weight, plus im on the treadmill 4 days a week and kickboxing's on the friday to.  Main thing this year I said at the start is I want to get experience which I have been doing, you feel better after losing when someone points over and goes, he's an experienced cage fighter