Rick: sorry if I mislead you and the gang here, this is Cora's 1st real lost via tap out since her very 1st tournament 6 months ago. Ever since we got the first one out of the way, and yes she got RNC in her very 1st match of her very 1st tournament...LOL But since then she has returned the favor to that boy..
and then some. Lose first, win later is our training theme, so I truly agree with you on that. She is still getting tap out here and there by the bigger boys in the gym, but that is ok though. Because if they were the same size as her, they won't be able to do that. But they are on our hit list and we will be taking them down one at a time... Every night we go to the gym, it is mandatory that I have my video camera with me. I record all of her sparring matches and when we get home, we watch it to learn what she is doing right and wrong so we can fix it for the next day. I think we changed the culture of the gym because before it was just me and now i see more and more parents recording their kids. And some even apply my bounty system and points/ reward system. I also share with them what i'm doing at home with Cora so they might do it for their kids as well. Hey if their kids get better, they will help Cora get even better.....so its win win. To get to the next level, she need good sparring partners, not ones that she can run over easily.
Looking at her finals matches, we will be working on breaking posture for sure and also guard retention this whole week. I will put her against the big boys all week and see if she improve by the end of this week. I know there are many more aspect to her game that needs improving, but this is the most immediate.
by the way, we started out looking for a karate place to put her in, but when we got there, it looks like we were going to get jumped in the parking lot so we didn't go that route...
Came home and google bjj, and her current school had posted a vid of a girl tapping out a boy with a triangle. Her eyes glows as she watched the vid. The rest is history. Strange enough that vid was about 4 years old and it took place at the same spot where Cora just compete at....
Little did I know that in 2 short years she is the one putting on that deadly triangle...
I'm no special dad, i'm just a dad that wants to spend as much time with his daughter as possible now because in a few years, she will be interested in boy and have more attitude and all that BS that comes along with it...... feel my pain??? not looking forward to those years.
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