3.7.08 #35

VIP Karate

I took my boys to karate tonight and after their class a few of the instructors were laying out the grappling mats. I teased, "Can I roll with you guys?" The head instructor responds, "Sure, we are family, come on." I was dressed in jeans and was thinking to myself, now what. My boys were telling me, "Go daddy, go change." I knew I had my gi in the car, but not my belt, so I made a quick change. I put on my gi pants and wore a t-shirt while everyone else trained in gi.

We spent most of the 45 minute session doing drills and cardio work, it was a good sweat. I don't think I had ever done any of those drills before, a couple of them I was familiar with from some of my bjj books. I did my best to keep up with everyone, but I was definetly odd man out with the drills. The last few minutes of the class we went to free roll. I got an opportunity to roll with each of the three instructors. We had thiry seconds to submit our opponent via arm bar and arm bar only. I caught Nate with two arm bars from side-mount, I caught Josh from arm bar from mount, then with Matt we just played king of the ring for 30 seconds. I lost. It was nice to spend time on the mat with these guys.