A Gripping Tale

The kid’s tournament seems so long in the past yet I feel the effects still.  In fact, this whole week has been a response largely to what I saw during the standup grappling portion of the tournament.  What I saw was that most students had little to no idea technique wise how to get to one another’s backs.

They had lots of spirit.  They tried hard but few of them had any good functional tools for getting there… which means the fault lies on my end, not theirs.  So all this week, in the name of gripping, we have worked on getting to one another’s backs.

Now, if we can just get the purples and above to start throwing one another safely, the next tournament would be even more exciting…