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This week… the weirdest thing was how not training has effected me in the smallest yet most noticeable ways.

I found myself at one point laying in bed, and where there were normally happy thoughts of flying armbars I was caught up thinking about work.

For the most part I have felt super chilled out (which is odd considering my job) and perhaps more chilled out than usual. However my body has been telling me differently.

On checking my blood pressure after feeling like my heart was beating more than it usually does, I found that the systolic pressure was higher by around 10. This might not seem a lot but I have felt like excess energy is trying to escape out of my body. I even had the urge to do boxing of some sort which is out of character for me so I didnt act on it.

Anyway… in talking with a friend she recommended that regular check ups for athletes is the norm and was surprised when I told her I dont get check ups (I dont really think of myself as an athlete).

My diagnosis is lack of Jiu Jitsu and lack of anything really. A short sharp shock from training, competing and swiftly to injury (and takeing something doug gave me for it)  has knocked me off the tempo. So tonight its time to pick up the sticks where I left off and hit the drum.

On another note I just got ahold of my new Gi, an early X mas present from mother superior which got lost in transit.

Real of Reals

This is my second Isami Gi, they have somewhat of a cult following at Factory and cult is always good. This was magnified moments earlier when on the phone to a brown belt from Renzo’s who had never heard of Isami…

Its snug as a bug, I will be sure to review it here when I have been choked the fuck out in it tonight at training.

Keep it foolish.