8.24.08 #71.3

About damn time. After going to California, I went to Alaska, then came home and was sick as hell. After trying to get over after almost two weeks, I thought I should go see a doctor. I found out I was very sick with some nasty virus. The doctor suggested that I sit out of jitsu for a 5 days or so, due to the contact. I didn't want to bring anything into GT. Tonight at 6pm, I will finally be training with Ferret. Leland is going to train with Midget. Tonight should be fun.

Tonight was great. We worked the over-hook series from guard. Ferret showed me a new twist. Instead of going for the razor, triangle, shoulder lock series. He showed me a series of gi moves. You feed the lapel into the hand with the over-hook and then trap the opponents opposite shoulder and feed the sleeve to the hand with the over hook. Trap the elbow with the knee and you take an arm bar. The variation from that was to put your hand opposite the over hook - thumb in - into the gi bring the arm back around to the over hook arm and take the gi choke. If your opponent fights it, you can clear the arm with the opposite leg, or if he fights it very hard, you can take the arm bar, or if he continues to fight it and you can't do either of those you go into the razor, triangle, shoulder lock series.

After a few reps of this, Ferret and I rolled for about 30 minutes. It was great to get back into the swing of things. I felt good and was smooth tonight. Ferret busted me in the eye and I about ripped his thumb off. So it didn't take long before we both got bruised and banged up again. I look forward to getting back to regular training.