Great to be back.

I saw someone post this week on Sherdog and what to do when you lose the love for BJJ. After reading his post, I just had to laugh. He'd be doing it for 9 months. That's not long enough to truly love BJJ. It's long enough to have a crush on it, but that's about it.

Loving BJJ takes years. I can barely say that I love it. I know that I do for one simple reason. Nothing ever makes me feel fine about missing training. Over the last few weeks, I've had to go to a number of work/church related functions. They've been enjoyable and even things I looked forward to, but they also cut into training time, and I felt a loss. When I've been injured and could not train, I've felt a loss. The idea of never being able to train again terrifies me and joy of training is so real that I seek out opportunities while on vacation.

My point is, if you really love BJJ, you never want to be absent. You don't miss the things you gave up for it (like T.V., video games, golf). You fight for ways to do it, view it, live around it. It consumes you. It makes you think about what you put in your body. It makes you think about ways to improve your strength, cardio and flexibility.

Needless to say, coming back tonight after far too long of a break (a whole 12 days ARRG!) was a relief. I missed it greatly and really enjoyed training tonight.

From a technical standpoint, I did some good things. I worked appropriate passes, had some good sweeps and some good take downs. I also gave up some positions, especially in half guard top and bottom. This is starting to feel like a weak spot for me, which is terrible since I end up there so often. I'll need to work on that.