HQ purple belt Lila Smadja gets 2nd place/Advanced Womens @ Grappling X, 7/12/14
She lost her first match even though she had a seriously deep arm-bar in, but didn't want to break it so she kept looking at the ref to stop it, but he was ok with it. The reffing was pretty awful this weekend I must say, you can see in the video, the ref screws her over in both matches I posted here. In the first match she gets the hip-bump sweep as the ref is calling for a "blood" time-out and resets her back on her back...In the second match she gets a takedown into an OPEN HALF-GUARD and the ref resets them into full-guard...SMH, so not only do you have to beat the competitor in front of you, you have to fight the ref's BS resets too. Anywho, she ended up subbing both of them anyway cause thats how we roll! Another ref was allowing a guy to grab rashguards to pass(on one of Boogeys students) and when told that grabbing the rash guard helped him pass the ref flippantly replied, "it probably did". But I would be the bad guy if I said FUCK YOU and slapped him upside the head, right? Overall, Grappling Z put on a good tourney tho, so I don't wanna seem like it was on them, just certain referee's with a huge stick up their ass especially when it comes to 10P competitors.
2nd match: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtO-D...are_video_user
