Well Joe, I can't find our other thread....But I just got back from Gracie Tampa. No vids. Sorry guys. It was all rolling, no striking.
That sux for me, but I played anyway. I got submitted 7 times by a guy my own size, and 3 times by another guy who was about 30 lbs more than me. It was odd, to me, to start off on our knees and go from there.
It was a blast anyway. As I told everyone, we do almost NO ground work in our system. There is some there, but we don't concentrate on it a lot. I was sweating my ass off in there. I never did get to see Rob though.
The really odd part to me was the seemingly complete lack of organization. Although it was a open mat night, I felt there should have been someone who was obviously in charge, and that was not the case. Maybe I just came on a bad night. I dunno. There were about 9 guys there in one room, while the women were in the other room. After the third time being submitted, I jokingly asked if I should go over with the women. Everyone got a laugh out of that. Two of the guys were only working on striking, and I wanted in on that, but they said no, two other guys were working on what looked like Judo, but I could be wrong. The rest were rolling. Tough workout, but I still didn't get hit in the face.
Oh well....Maybe next time.