first judo tournament
mon-thurs: pilates
mon,tues,thurs: elliptical
wed: DDR
Saturday - First Judo Tournament!
Lessons learned:
- Don’t ever sign up for a mixed martial arts tournament again. Judo is a small ghetto there, and you don’t want to fight the BJJ people who don’t know the rules
- Don’t worry about your weight class. There won’t be enough people in your division to use the posted weight classes
- Learn to trust your throws. I never committed to anything because I didn’t believe I could throw, and I knew it would open me up.
I won the first round of my best two out of three. Caught her off balance and took her down. Lost the second to her throw. The third went the full time, with both of us getting penalities for not throwing enough. She got a throw to go off well enough to get a half point, and so won when the time ran out. I was soooo tired for most of the last round that I couldn’t get my legs to move enough to try to throw, I just concentrated on staying up. The judge hated me so much. There’s a photo of me having her down during round 3, but I don’t remember it too well, so I’m not sure what the deal was. I’m pretty sure I didn’t get a half point or anything for it.
Weirdly, I had an AWESOME time. I felt sick before, during and after. I had to fight the one person I didn’t want to fight. Somehow, it was still fun. So I’m really looking forward to the next one!
