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Mon Dec 03, 2007 11:52 am

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LONG FIRST ENTRY!
About me: I am 20. I started jiu-jitsu around a month ago. I came over from cycling. I was state mountain bike champion in 2004 and competed nationally. A series of events caused me to leave the sport.(I still cycle but only as cross training for BJJ) In 2005 I was decending a mountain at 35-40mph and I hit a concrete crack int he road. I can't remember what happened but my brother described the accident. I flipped forward and landed on my shoulder and face. I skidded on my face and shoudler then came to a rest completely out. I woke up and saw my family and a pool of my blood running down the street. I was rushed to a hospital. I had no broken bones because I was limp when I fell. I had lost a lot on skin on my shoudler. I had a concussion and the next day I had two black eyes. After the accident I was unable to train for a while because of the injuries. Even after that what mainly made me lose interest in cycling was the doping scandals and seeing my childhood heroes confess to cheating. I lost interest completely after the 2007 Tour de France.

I started watching the UFC while spinning indors when it was raining. I took particular interest in jiu-jitsu. I trained some with my friend who's 210lbs and an Army Lt. That only taught me how effective / painful jiu-jitsu was. After some searching I found a small dojo in town and I signed up for 3 days a week and have only missed one class since I started going. I really enjoy BJJ and my first tournament is this Saturday.
I am 6'1" and 145lbs I have strong long ass legs from cycling so I get a ton of body triangles. I also love the guilotine choke. Starting in January I will be training at a Relson Gracie BJJ Academy in Austin. Until then my dad lettered in wrestling in high school and is going to help me work on my takedowns /defense this winter. I can't wait to compete. Everyone in my gym is at least a middleweight most are heavyweights so it will be interesting to see how I do aganist someone around my size.

Peace out

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jackjitsu
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Joined: 17 Oct 2006
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Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 1:37 pm Post subject:

Holy crap duuuude!!! Shocked

I hope I never look like that coming out of a BJJ comp Laughing

Not likely..wheeew

crossgame
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Joined: 06 Jul 2007
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Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 7:31 pm Post subject:

Great first entry, welcome!

jiujitsunoob
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Joined: 17 Jul 2007
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Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 9:06 pm Post subject:

Dude I think you hit the ground harder than you thought - your face looks crooked in that picture!

Ouch and welcome to the forums!

Disco
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Joined: 18 Oct 2007
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Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 5:06 am Post subject:

Cycling might be #1 up there with drug cheats, but I don't think MMA is too far behind.

judokamatt
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Joined: 08 Dec 2007
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Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 9:53 pm Post subject:

damn dude hows the face look now? looks like you got a dislocated jaw to me or maybe its just the blood distorting things. but ouch man 40 mph FFS that had to be nasty....but cycling how well does it train you for bjj? i need to suppliment my MMA and Judo with something and i have been thinking about riding to loose some wieght. at 6'3 225 only need to loose like 15 lbs of fat since im mostly muscle now.

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