Black Belt Training February 2012

It's been awhile! Please forgive me, I've been distracted with training. I've taken on quite a bit this past month. My regular training schedule has been Monday nights from 7pm to 8:30pm with the black belt Gi group, the same hours on Wednesday nights. Saturdays I've been training the intermediate Gi class then sticking around for the Saturday no gi open mat. That is 5 hrs a week on the mats. Include with that the running- I'm running 5k 3 times a week on the track at the Rec, plus some light duty lifting (still figuring that out). All told I've been pretty busy keeping up with my schedule. I've learned a lot this past month. I'm surviving more during rolls with the higher belts (although still getting sub'd often) and I have adapted my game to include a lot of open guard, spider guard and yes even inverted guard. I am still favoring the bottom game, and I need to develop some top game to round things out.