Christmastime

This is our last training week before Christmas, as our school shuts down for 18 Jiu-Jitsu free days.

It's too long for my taste, but I think most really like the time off. Christmas is certainly a time for other sorts of things.

I do intend nibbling away at the beginning of the break. Our last class is two days from now, on Thursday.

Friday is the first day of closure, but I will be going in at the usual open-mat time. Maybe somebody will choose to join me, but maybe not. In any case, I will drill and review. This will shrink the closure for me by one day.

Saturday morning, I will again be on the mat with whoever wants to come. I've also found a partner who is wants to train Saturday evening, and again on Sunday.

My Jiu-Jitsu break will have shrunk from 18 days down to 15.

At the other end of the holiday season our head guy, Scott, wants to have a thing he calls a, "Hundred Minute Roll," on New Years Day. I don't know what our family schedule will be that far off, but if I am free, I'll be there. That would further shrink my Jiu-Jitsu break down to 11 days.

If I am rolling by New Years, I'll certainly be back on the mat the day after. That will be a Saturday, and a good time to open things up for open-mat again.

Instead of zero sessions during the official 18-day shut down, I might just end up having trained 6 times.

There will still be at least those 11 days of no training. It might be longer if getting to the, "Hundred Minute Roll," interferes with anything else more Christmassy.