If your friend wrote a song for a songwriting contest that required votes which you spent time voting for and promoting...then they come back to you and say "oops I didnt read the rules properly for the contest so I am pulling out now because I don't want to win the prize - but thanks to the votes I might get a record deal"

How would you feel?

One thing is important to do here on ScottOnTheNet is try to tell some stories from the Jiu Jitsu community and particularly from our academy. I have 2 new interviews that I will be bringing you very soon here on the Journal of Jiu Jitsu that are both very inspirational for very different reasons.

I am getting restless

2 months of the shoulder injury - 3 weeks of no training whatsoever and the boredom is really kicking in.

I have my 5th physio session this week and we are moving into very very light exercises. It's so slow. Like..all I am doing right now is pressing my arm against a pillow on the wall. Seriously. At this rate it will still be another 3-4 weeks before I am cleared...but to be honest I have questions.

The Fightworks Podcast introduced me to the story of Felipe Costa (Follow on Twitter) in Episode #202

It's a great 'regular Joe' story. Felipe is about my age but has been training since he was 12.

I enjoyed his story about teaching the visually impaired kids Jiu Jitsu in Rio de Janeiro. I also enjoyed his story about taking 10 years to get his black belt and only starting to win tournaments AFTER he got his black belt. I would encourage you to listen to the Episode.

After a bad injury which put him away from the mat’s for several month’s, he is putting his recovery and climb back to the main stage of BJJ on record in documentary style episodes on Youtube and has just released the 5th episode.

Tapoput Energy - Fox TV and new fighter signings - big things are apparently coming for W1 here in Canada including a high def stream to be available for future fights on justin.tv.

But the news that caught my ear today was that the Ontario MMA promotion has signed our own Xande Ribeiro (2-0) to fight later this year with opponent TBD in Halifax, NS.

It's all on this Youtube clip featuring the W1 CEO - Jack Bateman..

Friends - it's time to set some new goals.

My goal this year was simply train hard - compete as much as I can - go to Brazil in the summer and hopefully get my purple belt by the end of the year.

Park that car.

This shoulder injury has thrown a spanner in the works of all of this so I need to make some adjustments.

As Xande said in our pow wow -'flexibility does not just mean putting the leg behind our head...it means to be flexible in our lives too'. So here is what's going to happen instead...

Ever feel like training Jiu Jitsu and working towards your next belt is like playing a game of snakes and ladders?

Maybe you get injured...or have no cash to train...too busy with work or your relationships...or simply the big LIFE wave comes in and sweeps you off the Jiu Jitsu beach.

That feeling of 'It's all good!" gets forgotten very fast when on your next dice throw (roll) you are sliding on the back of the snake to a place you feel is further back than you were a few moments ago...it can be frustrating to be away from your school or to be training much less for whatever reason.

A few months ago I was working through the start of a concept - an Armbar from the Turtle position, when you are in front of the guy, and you have an underhook on one arm (something that I had picked up from wrestling). The reason I figured there was an armbar was because the arm was hinging in the same motion except the guy was flipped vertically on his knees not his back.

So I messed about with it for a few nights and spoke with Ahmad and Mikey, 2 senior belts, one Saturday about the concept too but it was decided it would take too long to achieve and not be a very high success rate but was encourged to keep exploring it.