Weight and Internal Pre-Grading

Let's get the stats out of the way first:

• Weight: 60kg
• Body fat %: 4.90%
• Bicep Measurement: 31cm

This gives me a BMI of 18.52, bringing my just into the realms of ideal! Hurrah! Only 4kg left to go (keeping body fat % constant) to my target! Woo Woo!

Right, onto the good stuff, my internal pregrading.

We managed to go through the entire novice syllabus. We did a circle of grabs & strangles, in which, when the BIG guy got my hair, I just couldn't get him off. I got flustered, and a bit panic-y. Not good.

In my V, I was getting very flustered, just about always having 2 attackers on me at once, although I did manage to pace my throws with kote gaeshi to give myself time to recover & chill out a bit. I did at one point end up with the two biggest guys on the mat vs. me at one point, and ended up putting one of them between us, then using an arm lock as leverage to push him into the other. Good times!

The rest of the session was fine. Passable, but I wasn't at the standard I wanted of myself. I hope I do better on Saturday.

P.S. People with long hair are utterly fantastic for kosoto gari.