Well back to blogging once more. I no longer reside in dirty, crowded, filthy yet insurmountably fun Taiwan as I moved onto sunnier and healthier San Diego. It is practically to remark that San Diego has a vibrant Mexican restaurant scene while it also simultaneously holds an uncanny Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and MMA scene. Therefore, it makes sense to blog about my own personal BJJ journey out here as I have nothing else of viable interest to blog about.
  My Sunday rolling session at Barum BJJ was fun as always. The training session goal was to land a baseball choke from sidemount as I have steadily developed a fascination with the submission culminating from Magid's Hage implementation of it on Clark Gracie, Gui Mendes upon Samir Chantre and finally from getting brutalized by it on Friday evening. As I began my rolls, I steadily forgot the goal as I simply went for my usual game of passing via torriando, knee-slice and my submissions only came by way of guard triangle. The learning opportunity from the session was to be careful of and wary of wrist submissions as they can come out of nowhere and can be an instant showstopper, thus it is integral to always be moving and moving fluidly from position to position. Additionally, further study must be given to landing the knee-bar from sidemount as I am discovering I am bit off in this area.

  In BJJ viewing, this video caught me attention. I relished seeing Vinicius Silva use pressuring passing as it is an aspect of my game I wish to continually develop.