This past week was resoundingly wonderful as I got gold in my first BJJ tournament as a purple; however, it can be said that the process of attaining the gold medal is controversial as on one hand I beat a competitor who competed in a weight class which was 3 levels lower than mine. Furthermore, one competitor was a bit aged. A conclusion can be made that I did not face the most grueling competitors out there on the vast ever growing BJJ battlefield yet nevertheless, I feel great and ever more confident as a BJJ competitor.

 This week in Andre's class, I was enlightened to new methods of scoring a kimura sweep. First part occurred with grasping the kimura from guard and patiently waiting and allowing the opponent to pass guard. Upon the conclusion of the pass and allowing the clueless opponent to achieve sidemount, an individual will hip in and then move to sweep the opponent into a sidemounted kimura. In this week's rolling session, I've come to discover that my berimbolo defense is still not too good and because of this circumstance I am prompted to discover and implement a diversified arsenal of defenses as opposed to solely relying on a single attack. The experiment may allow me then to acknowledge the best most effective way of defending the berimbolo or delariva, and then I can focus on one or two methods of defense.

 Thus far I have the following defenses to the delariva and berimbolo:
  JT torres push knee outside while having elbow inside then knee slice
  Back step and dive
  Ankle lock
  Turn front foot out horizontally and leg drag

 And it goes without saying, I will be working into my game these counters courtesy of Marcelo Garcia: