Long Time No See?

Sorry for the long time between post's, I've been very busy. So the tournament happened on the 15th of Nov., and seemed to go pretty good. I entered into a class that is for people who have less then two years of training but more than six months. When we showed up the 6 month guys where going at it, and man I thought that I had made a mistake because they looked good. I felt good after the first match went pretty easy pulling off a secret move me and Salazar had been working on and then finishing the match with a triangle choke. The second match I was more aggressive and took the guy down pretty fast. Then I had been working on passing his guard. I tried a neck crank and it worked. The last match went for a while and I had to get out of a couple triangles, two arm bars, and a lot of other crap. At one point in the match he had a shoulder lock on me and the thought I had tapped, so they had to start us in the same position. Lucky for me he was high and I rolled out. They stopped us again because his eye got cut and was pooling up in his eye when he was on his back. The cut happened when we had tied up earlier in the match. I think my forearm or something bumped it at it started pouring pretty good. The doctor told him he was done and need to go get stitched up by I said I didn't want to win that way and asked if he could finish. The Ref. and Doctors said it was up to us, we both agreed and started again. I had him in a deep arm triangle early in the match and I could hear him running out of breath but he slipped into half guard and got away. I mention this because this is what he ended up finishing me with. It was fun because I was one of the only grapplers with out coaches and corner people. It made me feel good about the hard work I put into getting ready, to show up to compete and hang with guys who go to real gyms a couple times a week really felt good. I had quite a crowd down there with me. Mindy, Brandon and Jenelle Geipel, Greg Llyod, Scott Schofield, and Gary Hensley all came down to support me. I really wish I could of won gold for them. Gary told me that he liked watching me get beat. I thought it was funny. I just am very impressed with the support my friends and wife showed for me. I have had tons of people congratulate me on the tournament. I'm in debt to Salazar for coming over to my place all the time and helping my learn new moves and building my game. I owe a big thanks to my CrossFit crew from work for pushing my work outs harder and harder every day. In the video of the last match we had been grappling for close to twenty minutes it is easy to tell that I was still pretty fresh and that he was done, to bad I couldn't get out of that last hold. Thanks to everyone for the support and encouragement and I'll get the gold next round. I am thinking of doing two classes next tournament one more time in the <2 years of experience division and then in the beginner absolute also which is no weight classes.