Prancing and Sucking

I quit my job, sold my home, and drove around the country in the summer and fall of 2006, training BJJ, finding myself, and landing in LA. I still travel a lot and get to train in amazing places. Some of my friends are irritated that I "prance" around the world and think I "suck" for doing so.

Sunday, February 22, 2009

How can I explain, when there are few words I can choose?

Some of you may remember that I stole that line from Erasure for my blog's glossary, when I was trying to define Brazilian jiu jitsu/submission grappling. But it's appropriate here too. I don't have words to describe the women's grappling camp. It was amazing. Far more successful, meaningful, crowded, and impactful than any of us (Felicia, Emily, Alaina and I) would have thought. I am going to write more about it for a publication Felicia told me about (and the name of which I can't remember right now), so I'll link to it and add more detail here. There are loads of pictures and video, so I'll get that on here too.

And I also owe my agent more pages for my proposal. Damn. I love to write, but I'm feeling pressed for time. Anybody got any inspiration I can borrow?
Oh, and the other big news is that I'm going to compete in the PanAms. I already told Johnny so I'm committed. We start training in earnest tomorrow (the tournament is at the end of March.) Yoiks.

5 Comments:

At 10:09 AM, Blogger alaina said...

Thanks, Val. It was so awesome to be a part of that with you.

Congrats on the Pan Ams. I hope to be there to cheer you on. :)

 
At 11:07 AM, Blogger BJJ CailĂ­n said...

Yay! Glad to hear you're competing and that the Camp went well!

See you in a few weeks!!!

 
At 1:30 PM, Blogger Dan The Butcher said...

Good luck at the Pan Ams. I was considering going, until I got hurt. Kick some ass.

 
At 2:05 PM, Blogger Elyse said...

I can't wait to see all your Camp photos/video/content :D

 
At 10:36 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Can I come to the next one?

I would love to train with all of you hotties.

Kon

 

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