I can live with that. I like the perspective that its not sandbagging if the instructor puts me there. I am not trying to prove anyone wrong, just trying to play fair with a clear conscience
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Your Coach and Zog are telling you to do the same thing, you should just do what they say. If anyone calls you a 'sand bagger' you can reefer them to those two people guilt free.
Just listen to your instructor. If you are paying to learn from him, why not do what he says? It will be good for you. If you get called a sandbagger, just say its what you were instructed to do. If they have a problem with that, and think you shouldn't have listened to him, its them with the real problem.
For the record just so it doesn't get twisted, I'm against sandbagging I've encouraged my students to bump up divisions when they didn't think they were ready to do so, and had great results. It's all based on the individual which why an instructor's experienced insight is extremely important.
Are you going to be at Europa? Is this the tournament you are talking about? I want to see how all this unfold..:)
Somehow I can't help myself but to agree with you. You make some valid points here. Also just because your instructor is the best American BJJ guy doesn't mean you will follow his foot step and become a World champion also. There are so much ego and politic in this sport, you just have to tread the waters very carefully.