Friends and Competitors 25 May 2009 05:24 I've entered myself to compete again in the Grappler's Showdown this year. I competed last year confident that I'd be the biggest girl there and though I'm against competing against smaller weight classes I figured that my lack of training and preparation would make up for my weight advantage. Of course when I got there I was surprised to see that the other two women entrants were similar in size. After taking  home the bronze last year I vowed to myself that if I were to compete again I would actually read the rules and train for it.
 
And so here I am on a train to Gravesend with my BJJ coach. I was originally going to train with my good friend Kath but her coaches said it was out of the question since we're both competing. Which is fair enough. It's always a mildly dreadful scenario competing against your mates. Where I train MMA and compete at 66 kg - 73 kg and Kath trains grappling, wrestling, bjj and competes at under 58 kg it seemed fairly unlikely we would ever be compet...

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