SMILEYS

5 JANUARY 2012

I invited myself into Smiley's gym to do judo with him today; a full report will follow later. My idea is to turn him into a BJJ/judo training partner so that I can get much better in both arts in a short period of time. He does, after all, own a BJJ/MMA gym and his job is martial arts. I am bringing Greg with me so Jim can see that I am decent, but I have a long way to go in order to compete with Greg.

The training went well. I had forgotten how hard judo is for beginners. I also forget that gripping is very tiring. We went over tai-otoshi and kumikata during today's class. Jim invited me back, so it must have gone well.