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Today was a fun day. I had Judo and our warmup was pretty mild, except for the jumping pushup part, but that's because my chest muscles are weak as fuck.
We were practicing some techniques, we did like the most basic closed guard sweep that I honestly don't ever see working but w/e, and then we did one way to break the guard open: you just grab the guy's foot behind kinda roll over the guy and get side control.
Now we were practicing these in pairs (obviously) and I was partnered with one of my good friends. I told him that he has to lean REALLY far back when doing it, because otherwise, there's serious danger of getting triangled.

So fastforward like 25 minutes later when we're done practicing our techniques (and my god are my judo throws shit) and, there being 8 of us, we get split into 2 groups by bodyweight to fight against each other. I protest against being put in the lighter weight group and manage to swap with one of the guys. So now this is it, I'm going to be fighting 3 80kg guys in a handicap practice fight.

The way handicap practice fight for 4 works is like this (and similiarly for more people): you number people from 1 to 4. Person 1 and 2 fight for 1 minute. Then person 1 and 3, and then again person 1 and 4 fight, no breaks. Same thing repeats for everyone else. So person 2 then fights person 3, 4, 1 consecutively with no breaks. Everyone gets their chance to beat up on someone tired and then get beat up on when they are tired. Fun!

I hope I'm remembering the fights right, because I fought against everyone twice but I think I remember at least the first 3 fights pretty well.

I declare myself person 1 and step into the middle of the mat. Now I'm practicing my open/butterfly guard, but as people do he just steamrolls over me and I manage to pull my legs out and get closed guard going. Now you see, this guy went for the reaching for my ankle idea of breaking my guard, so I managed to grab one of his lapels and the sleeve of his other hand, and put him into triangle. Pretty deep, I was squeezing pretty hard I thought, but he doesn't tap, and after a bit I let him go. Partially because he WAS getting a bit red in the face and looked like he was losing it (it being consciousness) a little bit, but also because if you're squeezing for a submission for 10s+ and the guy just isnt tapping, you're doing it wrong. I think I managed some sort of butterfly sweep on him after we reset a bit but the timer ended then.

Then I went to fight against my friend that I was partnered up with during the warmup. I tried to put in buttefly hooks again, but he just smashed so fast I managed to only get half guard from there. I managed to frustrate him by trapping his leg in halfguard, then quarterguard for the whole minute. Tried to get his leg in a lockdown (10th planet variation of the halfguard) but didn't really even manage it. I was more frustrated than he was though, because that was 1 minute of a LOT of effort and being almost unable to breathe and there was another fight ahead of me.

So 3rd fight, Im a BIT tired and expect this guy to blast through. Instead of putting butterfly hooks in, I put my feet on his hips (a recommendation I saw by Marcelo Garcia in one of his instructionals against people who just smash super aggressively), try to work something fancy from there, but eventually, I have to pull guard. Now he goes for the reaching back for my ankle idea too, I pull his other arm and lapel and I pull them DEEP. I lock the triangle with one of my legs across the back of his neck, didn't have it below my knee, but I did have it under my calf. Now I was like fuck this, we're doing it. He kept trying to push his arms into my neck or something, but I managed to pull on my shin behind his head really hard and finally get it below my knee. I tried to underhook his leg to get a better angle, but didn't manage. Didn't give up though, just put both hands on my shin and pulled as hard as I could, we rolled from side to side a bit (with no free limbs it wasn't really up to me how we were going to move), but his face got really red really fast. The top of his head too, he's bald, his entire head was red. I see him topple to the side, some saliva leaves his mouth rather violently, and he taps a second later. The fight timer beeps 2 seconds later, I lived through my 3 minutes of hell. Can't lie, I raised my fist and gave a "I told you" look to my friend.

Because I fucking told him.