The past week rolling was eventful but definitely not as tough and rigorous as it potentially could have been. Firstly, I have implemented a new calisthenic routine that will be practiced diligently and consistently Monday to Friday. The routine is rather complex but contains burpees, jump rope, hand stand and L-sit holds, lifting gargantuan bags of sand, pushups, squats and bjj squats. The BJJ squat is my newly formed exercise which involves the performance of a squat then enacting a kickback with a leg so as to mildly simulate a guard pass. Second, training was fairly good but in the interest of being ready for competition, the rolling could have been much tougher but sometimes things are out of my hands in terms of finding active rolling partners and participating at an academy that is able to facilitate active rolling. On Monday, Andre was MIA and Joel acted as substitute　instructor and we practiced variations on achieving one of my most cherished submissions, the darce. Tuesday entailed Jimmy's wrestling class and solid progress was realized as I drilled out a simple ankle pick. As a consequence of the ankle pick drill session, I have solidified a concept of the pick and must now implement the technique with the usage of patience and persistence in attacking it rolling whenever the chance presents itself. 
Additionally, in the wrestling session, I had the fortunate circumstance of David advising me on a more successful method of hitting the single leg from the bottom which is simply to grasp the leg and stand up on it and take the guy down. 

   Wednesday was eventful with the attendance of a Braulio Estima seminar. Estima explained fundamental methods of hitting the triangle with cool variations from being sidemounted, I will continually strive to implement these techniques in my game. Estima also elaborated a bjj philosophical discussion on the emphasis of concepts in BJJ in substitution for an overarching emphasis solely upon techniques, and this mantra is in my will allow grappling activities to be raised to new heights as techniques and movements among the myriad numbers of BJJ practitioners will continually diversify. 
 Thursday, presented me with a confidence jolt as I begun to notice my wrestling abilities are  showing signs of improvements as I am currently able to simply just stand with Joel clinched without being taken down left and right. As the week reached its culmination, I performed my open mat rolls, drilled out some more techniques and administered kit dales method of grasping the omaplata via grasp of the arm with guillotine, choke.

   
  To the end the week, me and my grizzled BJJ friend Jimmy drilled and discussed techniques. The basic guard passing and taking advantage of the many leg drag occurrences left me rather entranced. The most fundamental thing I could take away from the whole training session was a basic delariva sweep conducted via grasp of the collar and steering wheeling the opponent to the ground, and I can't wait to pull this off on the mats and of course in competition.