very, very busy lately. school semester just started. Training the whole summer was great too. This semester of school will allow me a lot of time to train. Preparing for the IBJJF Honolulu Open this weekend. Just finished my last day of strength training by performing repetitions for power. need to rest my body 

got to stay strong mentally

Flying to California this Sunday to adjust and compete in the BJJ Mundials 2010 which will be my first world championship and biggest tournament I have ever been in. In the past couple days, I accumulated a knee injury, viral stomach infection, and a rising fever. I just hope that these pass through and pray they improve when the time comes for it. I am trying to view these things as signs or ways of keeping me in check from hurting myself more in other ways like overtraining and putting the situation in the best perspective possible. Life is unpredictable and it seems that's what is so dynamic and and exciting about it. Good and bad, the whole package is all it comes with.

competing and training

after having much doubts about competing after being promoted, I finally really began to grasp the concept of progression in the art. Figuring that I have never won anything or placed often at white belt level competitions, I could not begin to fathom how would I even remotely could do well at the blue belt level. I took the new color of my belt as a sign to train even harder to try and catch up to the skill level I hoped to reach and tested myself in competition. 

SO far my first two competitions as a newly promoted blue belt I have placed first and second place, something I have not managed to do at white belt. As I advance more and compete more often, I understand I will be more and more comfortable with performing and not be afraid to open up my game under pressure. There are many details and mistakes that have been brought to my attention through competition that I probably would not have noticed from the comfortable training environment in the gym. Now this makes me want to go to the gym and work on things that brought me doubt and excitement in the competition.