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DustySwedeDude Sweden. Apr 29 2010 06:12. Posts 8623

So I wrote a test yesterday. Only one more to do this semester but I'll skip that due to being in Bulgaria when it should be written. Thus I'm pretty much on summer vacation from now untill the 1st of September.

My sister comes visiting from Italy today and tomorrow and due to Walpurgis Night I'll probably spend Saturday being hungover as fuck. Won't be drinking as much as earlier years due to being old and responsible but it'll still be a hell of a night. First year I was hear in Uppsala I had been drinking the night before, was still drunk when I woke up, got even drunker at breakfast and then it went all downhill from there. When I went to bed at 3 am or so I was already hungover and when I closed my eyes the world started spinning around me and I felt sick. Tried to call my friend R for a friendly mid night philosophy session but he didn't pick up. Called my friend H and he picked up but was busy trying to sober up enough to have sex with this girl we knew so he wasn't very interested in chatting either. I think I went and puked instead but apparently I made to much noise so that the girl I lived with then decided to throw an orange at me. Eventually I passed out on the floor. I wish I could say I've come a long way in 4 years

After the test yesterday I was super tired because I had woken up really early since I had messed up what time the test would begin. I went to BJJ practice and it started out a bit so-so but when we rolled (5 minutes against someone, then a bit of rest and 5 more against someone else) I tapped out both of my opponents with armbars which felt really good. One of them is much stronger, a little bit heavier and has better conditioning then me and RNC'd me last time we rolled but this time I did a much better job. He got side control early, had some half-assed Kimura attempts and got my back in the first 2 min or so but I kept my cool and got out and passed his guard when he messed up a little. Got mount, remembered what steal city commented on about how I should concentrate on keeping my position and let him gas out. I sat there controlling him and made him work for maybe 2.5 minutes before I isolated an arm, threw my leg over and eventually worked everything out for a tap with like 3-4 seconds to go

. Then instead of clapping hands or whatever we hugged and decided that we'd need another match to settle this soon since we're now 1-1. Decided to skip the morning practice because I was tired as hell and short of sleep though. Overall I feel that it's much easier to keep to the real basic stuff now. Now weird sub attempts from half guard or fancy moves. Just sweep -> pass -> mount -> armbar or get the back and work for a RNC. I used to try for triangles all the time but it really seems like something that only works when the other guy fucks up a bit or when you're just much better/stronger/bigger.

Anyway, my "plan" for this 4 month summer without school is to play a ton of poker and do as much BJJ as I can. I'm hoping to get like 80k hands/month in while 6ish-tabling or so and work out in one way or another at least 5-6 times a week. I feel that I mostly want to get better but it'd be cool to get much better conditioning (right now it sucks) and strength too. Maybe start Muy Thai or something this fall too, for some more diverse training. Heh. Dunno if I have time though. As for the pokering I hope pick my game up a step or five. I know a fair few things I do bad and I want to fix them.

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SemPeR Canada. Apr 29 2010 09:56. Posts 2288

gl w/ your goals. Your blog always gives me a little extra motivation. =p