Originally Posted by
RevolverRob
Was just icing my sore ankle and thinking about this. This morning I'm rolling with my buddy. And I gave up, rather easily, a kimura. One I am still figuring out how to defend that. But even still I really wasn't thinking about defending it. Instead, what I was thinking about was he wasn't applying enough downward pressure on my hips. Which let me hip lift him to the ceiling as a check on him. Then I was thinking how he is two-on-oneing my left arm and applying some pressure, but not enough to stop me. I found myself thinking if I had a knife, I could have stitched him up his left side like a sewing machine. He finally dropped in enough weight to the kimura I tapped. But it took a moment and I had plenty of time to think about it. The challenge of course is in the jits gym we aren't stabbing each other. So, I have to try to adjust my mindset a bit from viewing wrestling and jits as basically being: contact weapon delivery and escape systems to martial arts.
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In Roll #2 I'm against a brown belt. He breaks my guard and I try to hip escape away, but in doing so give up side control and my collar. Boom his hip is in my diaphragm and my collar goes tight. Next thing I know I'm tapping because there seems to be a lack of blood flow to my brain. I had almost no time to think much except, "Ahh man, I fucked up."
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Funny that no oxygen/blood thing really seems to shorten your thinking time re: the problem at hand.