3rd judo tournament
thursday - elliptical, first time in a hotel fitness center though.
denver classic, women’s novice middleweight. 4 in my weight class. I’m the heavy by about 10 lbs, rest are clumped together.
1. nice teenage green belt. Don’t remember a lot of it, I know I was slow and awkward, but she didn’t do anything astonishing either. After awhile she got a good throw and won.
2. unsociable teenage green belt. I got some kind of awkward throws, think they were mostly bad counters, sorta had her pinned a few times (2 yukos!) then the worst counter had the angle all wrong, and she landed on my face and got the point. Then I had my little failure to breathe incident.
3. same tiny blind girl as last time! much better fight this time. I tried a bunch of stuff but she was very effective at using that low center of gravity. I kept getting awkward tani o tochi’s until one was good enough.
I could tell I had no wind - but this was totally to be expected since I hadn’t been to practice. I only felt really slow the first match. I felt like my fights went better - I was definitely trying to do things (though someone pointed out that I was mostly trying to do the same thing over and over. whoops. beats standing there!) and some of them were sorta working. I was much happier about accepting a 3rd place medal for this one.
