This is my first and only no gi match from this tournament. In fact, this is my first IBJJF no gi match ever because they don’t allow white belts to do no gi anymore. My opponent was baiting me to shoot on his lead leg which I was more than happy to do, but unfortunately he had a seriously dangerous guillotine that caused me to bail out of several shots / positions and recover from there. I managed to keep him to advantages and even be up on points 2-0, but the last of these guillotine threats he managed to take my back and finish the Rear Naked Choke. On the day I went 2-1 in the gi to finish with a bronze medal and went 0-1 no gi (DNP).

A funny story that plays off of this match: I talked to this guy after our match in the bullpen (said congrats and good luck, etc.). Then I commented on how good his guillotine was and he said “yeah I was expecting you to shoot because I saw your ears and figured you were a wrestler”. Which is a fair point but funny because I went 12 years of wrestling with no cauliflower ear and now I have it from just 3 years of BJJ haha.

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