If you want to get better, roll with those better than you....stupid!

Yeah, this ones directed at me. Lately, and I say that loosely because its been for the last two months, I've been choosing my rolls based on the fact that I know that I can get away with more with a certain person versus another. Why you aks? Because I've wanted to try getting to back from any position on the mat and then work some cool stuff that I've been watching from back control. Have I been able to get more comfortable taking back control - yes - HOWEVER, there has been one very bad side effect of this. I haven't rolled with the scary 7 (as my buddy Dev puts it). These are guys that scare the crap out of me and I know are better than me. When I've always hit a roll or three with them during a night I come up bruised, batter and beatup....but WAY better off than before I was when I walked in. And my jits got progressively better.

So, Monday and tonight I got a reminder of why I should always roll with the scary 7. I got my @ss handed to me by one of them (Rob) and then barely survived the other (Willy). Good times. So, no more "skeet shooting" with the young guys. Its all out until I leave in three months. I will not give up another opportunity like that again. Then, when I leave, I can honestly say that I had nothing left to give because I left it all on the mat in Monterey :)