What long day…Just got back to the hotel after being at The Abu Dhabi Trials all day.  Willie Leonard won his division with 2 fights.  After that, I was up and I had 3 matches.

My first opponent was a blue belt and I won by points.  My second match was against brown belt, Sofia Amaramte.  I had her in a triangle and submitted her with the straight arm lock.  Next up was the finals, and I had Hillary Williams who is also a brown belt.  I was very nervous to fight her but as soon as we shook hands, all that went away…I ended up taking second place losing to Hillary by points.

About 2 hours later Willie’s absolute division started.  He had 6 matches in the absolute division.  He stuck to his game plan and won it!  First place prize, all expenses paid trip to Abu Dhabi.

All in all it was a awesome day, you win some and you lose some.  It was a great experience fighting against the brown belts today.  I learned a lot from it, and it’s always hard to travel without your coach.  But learning to fight without them is something you have to do, because they can’t always be there.

Tomorrow Willie and I head back to Camp Springs and it’s back to BJJ Training.  Next weekend, Master Donnie, Head Instructor of the kids program will be taking the kids and I up to NAGA in Rhode Island.  Stay tuned to see what’s going on in Camp Springs at Lloyd Irvin’s Mixed Martial Arts.  To see the updates on how the guys did in Portugal, check out LLOYDIRVINFANS.COM

GO TEAM LLOYD IRVIN!!!

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