"I went to a BJJ Comp at Blue Belt… and this happened."
I had to dig into my Jiujitsu footage archive for this one. This was actually filmed back in 2022 about 1 month after I was promoted to blue belt.
I had a walkover win in the first match and was super lucky to go straight to the semi-finals with plenty of gas in the tank. As it was the first comp of the year, particularly coming off of a big Christmas break where I didn't get to train much, my cardio base was pretty bad.
The biggest mistakes I made were definitely not having a clear gameplan on the feet, rushing positions, putting my opponent in a dangerous position in the way I attacked from turtle (not good!), and keeping my elbow really open to allowing for my opponent to attack the Kimura.
All-in-all it's fun to look back and dissect my early blue belt matches as it highlights to me just how much progress I've made in the last 12 months.
I plan on competing much more next year throughout 2023 and hopefully, I can wrangle up someone to film for me!
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