Grappling......

If you ever get offered the chance to have a "Grapple" I suggest that, especially if you are in a gym and stood near a rather large and immensely strong Eastern European bloke, you kindly decline.

A "Grappa" would have been pleasant.

Needless to say I accepted the invitation of a "Grapple", not to be confused with a "Snapple" (Ever).

In for a penny in for a pound as they say, when in Rome..... Well I am not in England nor in Rome, so why I said yes I will never know.

Let me just copy and paste an earlier mail, hopefully not my last ever.....

 Hi Ad and co.....

I'm just treating myself to some m&ms and a little toblerone.

Think that's allowed seeing as I haven't had a drop of alcohol in ten days!

A quick update.....We did some grappling work today (for the first time ever in my life), which is basically grabbing hold of your opponents neck, exerting a shed load of pressure on it and then, from what I could make out, trying to pull their head off or throw them to the ground, literally by the neck.

Yes, by the neck, the back of the neck to be precise, with both hands.

Somehow I ended up with a guy from Czechoslovakia who was your sort of build Ad, but about 6 foot 2, and just to add insult to injury he is a jui jitsu and judo black belt.... And to top it off, basically a hardened criminal. 

My neck, without exaggerating is feeling like it's been attacked by a short piece of scaffold and I dread to think what it is gong to be like in the morning.

It's a bloody good job that I am so bloody tired, hopefully I'll be able to sleep.

Anyway, it's twenty past seven and I am going to bed!

I am totally f*cked!

Dave

Anyway boys and girls, more grappling tomorrow, wahooo!