I was also lucky enough to be partnered with a blue belt and a purple belt I hadn't met before and both had some sage advice to give me.
The purple belt choked me out a few times and told me to keep my posture up and my hands on my opponent's hip and chest and not collapse my posture to avoid this. The blue belt showed me a variation on a choke I wasn't aware of. I also spent some time rolling with a very good white belt who's also very encouraging.
It's a good school with good people. I always feel like I'm learning.
I even got to roll with a white belt man mountain of muscle today and managed to bridge and roll him and tap him. Because I've trained in other martial arts I know size is not a factor if it's my body weight and correct technique against one of my opponent's joints and I remembered this today when I had 16 stone of solid muscle on top of me for several minutes. I even remembered to move myself instead of my opponent.
I enjoyed the class so much I didn't realise it over-ran by 30 minutes. A good day.
LESSON FROM TODAY: Posture up in guard, posture up in guard, posture up in guard..
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