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Trip to JJWL Week 1/8

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 Well, this is week #1 of 8, so now 7 to go before the Jiu Jitsu World League tournament.  A little bit of background: I have been training BJJ under Abunai MMA for about 4 years now. Currenlty I am a fourth-degree blue belt. I have only trained under Abunai; hence my roots are with the school and Eddie (our professor). What makes this so special, first off it is really outside my comfort zone. I am not a very confrontational person by nature, not very aggressive at all, and to top it off never was much of an athlete.  As a white belt, I had two competitions under the same league. First, go around, I had only been training for almost two or three months, and yep I got my "bottom" handed to me. It was quite the experience. I remember the smells, the nervousness the feeling of the unknown!  Second, go around, I had some stripes on my belt. I don't remember how many, but I had more than a year of training. That one I lost my first match to points, second I won by points...