Finnegan's Wake

Finn, I say you get an amateur tag with the name Steven P. Stackpole. BAM!
 
MMA:
0 hours.

Impressions:
Fuck.

Conditioning:
3 minutes jump rope warm up

Circuit repeated 3 times, no rest/

100 sledge swings (10 lbs sledge)
100 rope turns (fast, working toward double unders)

Impressions:
Dropped in MMA and let them know I was taking the weekend off. My hand is good enough for me to really fuck it up by doing to much, and I knew I couldn't just sit in and watch.
Wrapped my hand tight and did a few test swings. No pain or swelling, so I can add sledgework back in. Hit the DE bag, same thing. So, it looks like I'll probably do some light rolling tomorrow at open mats, and get back to work on the DE bag, ropes, etc.
Got offered a fight for the last weekend of April. I'm not going to take it, though. I've got a big fire to tend, and the fight would be at 205, which I didn't plan on being close to until late May/ early June.
 
The reason I don't want my real name on the forum is that I don't my opponents to be able to easily peruse my training log for one, I tend to get drunk and post absurd shit from time to time, and don't plan on doing this forever. I may fight a couple more times, I may fight 20 more times. I don't know yet.
 
I hear ya if I was your opponent and I came across your log, lets just say I might hurt something in training right before the match.
 
MMA:
2 hours

Rolling:
4 five minute rounds, 2 against a guy wearing a gi. More on this later.

3 four minute rounds.

Highlights:
Relaxed most of the time. Kept good, constant pressure from top positions. Got an armbar and kneebar on one opponent. Got a guillotine on another.

Lowlights:
Got swept by the Gi guy a lot our first match. Once I figured out what I was doing, I corrected this. Got tapped out to a neck crank of all things.


Impressions
Not my best day, but not my worst either. Wrapped the hand up tightly. Took a few minutes rest between each round since this was very technique focused. I worked a lot of triangle chokes today. Didn't get any and lost position a few times, but I figured its been a while since I drilled them, so why not. Tried for a triangle from mount. Didn't work, but it was close.
Rolling w/ the gi guy (white belt) was interesting. He has some wrestling experience and was an S&P type lifter (535 deadlift at 190 lbs), so it was interesting for us to match up. Wasn't a true Gi watch since I didn't have one, but it was definitely different to deal with.
 
Finnegan, how'd you hurt your foot and hand in the first place? Was it from the fight?
 
Bubble Boy said:
Finnegan, how'd you hurt your foot and hand in the first place? Was it from the fight?
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Yes. He hurt his foot checking a low kick I think and he hurt his hand by smashing his opponent's face with it.
 
Yep. Jammed my thumb and index finger, probably, during the over the top hooks during the clinch, and he checked the lowkick that he attempted the takedown off of.
 
I survived calling Finn the Lego Maniac. I am the toughest.
 
Ok, don't know how I missed that on the injuries.

Dude, re: gi fighting. Slip on a gi sometime and go at it against another gi guy. I can't say exactly why, but I think it's good to do it every now and then (like once a month or so). Maybe because it slows things waaaay down, and the brain gets a chance to actually develop a strategy and can take in all that is happening. No-gi grappling, at least for me, is GO GO GO, where as gi-grappling becomes more of a game of chess.
 
He wouldn't let me take any pictures of the part of the dungeon that is chock-full-o legos.
 
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