Okay, so against everyone’s recommendations, and against my own better judgement, I headed back to Judo class last night.  As the foot is still prety sore, I did not do any standup at all, and just focussed on my ground game.

It was great.  We worked a bunch on the arm bar from the guard position.  I mainly worked with Brady which was a really nice change for me.  Brady goes a lt slower (I mean that in a good, controlled way ) and we really got a chance to focus on technique.

It was so nice to be back and get a bit of a workout… not to mention that I really feel that I learned a lot and improved on my ground game.

In other news: Saturday night is the Brock Lesnar fight!  I’m really excited to see Brock fight again, but I am fearful that he has just bitten off a bit too much in Heath Herring.  Heath is one tough SOB.  It will be really interesting to see how Heath plays the game against sucha  brute.  But the scary part if you’re esnar is that Heath is so well rounded.  Wherever the fight goes he will be strong.  I am going to predict that we actually see Heath avoid the tackdown for a bit and do some striking fairly successfully.  Then Brock takes him down and either pummels him into mush really quickly, or Heath ends up winning by submission as Brock makes a mistake.

Additionally in other news:  I have been devouring the book by Randy Couture, “Becoming the Natural.”  It is an insight into the life of who Couture is, and what has shaped him.  I ahve always had the greatest of respect for Randy.  Moreso than any other fighter.  I also respect that the book seems to be a very honest look at the facts and an admission of the sins of his past.  I have to say however, that I have not come away respecting him more… in fact, I find myself respecting him less.  I am surprised to find a person who seems to be pretty much willing to put everything else aside for his own desires… he cheated on his first wife like crazy, his second wife he was pretty much faithful to sexually, but when it came time to keep his promise to stop fighting, he didn’t even discuss it… he just threw promises to the wind and did what fit his desires.

Randy takes ownership of his actions in his book, but he doesn’t seem to really own them from a guilt level.  When his best friends are astounded at his actions he just feels betrayed rather than really seeing where they are coming from and owning up to them that what he did was wrong.  He is a stunning man.  A great man.  He is an inspiration.  But he isn’t who I thought he was.

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