Saturday: Lindenwood open:
First match: loss by pin.
I was good at leading with my left hand, but I still wasn’t too dextrous/strong with it. My right hand came up at the same time a lot. I rose to match his level, as he was high. Should have shot.
Had some good hand-fight positions, but I didn’t capitalize on those positions. Had an underhook, but didn’t really attack with it. Got angles that exposed shots, didn’t shoot. One time we had locked fingers on my left, he had my right wrist. I looked at left side drag, but I basically fed him my arm for his drag. He swung around for the single, I could have stopped him but I didn’t really react. I didn’t whizzer at all with my leg in the air. At the end of the match he locked double unders around my traps, and I just overhooked and kept my hips back thinking he can’t do anything, but he did a corkscrew throw by hooking his left leg around my left leg, and threw me to my back for the pin.
On bottom, he kept decent pressure and kept looking for the crossface to the far side cradle. I should have done a big chest, peeled the hand, and used it to stand up. Instead I tried to dig with my elbow like with 2-on-1 defense, and nearly got pinned with the cradle twice.
I looked inside leg standup, but I was stepping so that he could jump cradle on me. Same with quad pop. Double knee slide to recover base worked well. Had a hard time breaking rear body lock grips. Took 3+seconds to break, by that time they went lift return or back trip. Other times he stayed on top by going single leg off my standup, and I should have killed his single, but I just fought hands and forgot to whizzer. I did escape once or twice though.
Second match: Loss by pin:
This one was against a D2 UCM guy. He immediately went underhook, and I was too slow to catch his elbow and get head position to work overhooks. My left leg was in front on underhook side, and he foot swept that leg. He got a leg in, and at that point the match was over, as his leg ride pressure was excellent and my defense was poor. I tried to leg slip by dipping my shoulder and shucking him off, but I did it poorly and gave him a power half. He pinned me eventually.
Thursday: Thanksgiving:
I’ve been too busy to train up till now. Working on that leg ride and single leg defense monday/tuesday.
1,3x3 x115lbs military press. Solid.
1,3,2,1,1x45lbs military pullup. My home pullup bar is way slipperier than at Fontbonne. Plus, I’m up to 175lbs again. It’s so hard to eat well at my house, junk food is everywhere.
Some bird dogs, and a run through of the free sample of Neupert’s P3 program. I might get it, I have a bit of lower-left back pain and a bit of shoulder trouble.
15 tempo intervals. About 70-75rpms work interval, 40-45rpms rest, 10-60 work rest, about 130-150bpm. Felt nice and easy.