Erica, you paint a rich picture of a competitor mindset. I practice “gina-Jitsu” and marvel at the technical plane you’ve achieved. I watched one of your matches during the worlds and it looked like a an exhausting battle of - grips and grit. And to be on bottom and keeping your calm! Keep it up and educating those not in the scene - but seek to be (ie, me!)
Regrettably late to reply to this, Gina. Thank you so much for the kind words and for encouraging me to keep writing and keeping calm. Hope to catch you at an overlapping class soon and congrats re: your performance at Pans! 💜
Thank you, Thomas! So sorry about the delay in reply. As you’d imagine from the end of the piece, I got fully swept into wedding madness. 😅 Thank you again for reading and commenting. It means a lot!
Brave piece
Thank you, Andrew. It was hard to write, so I especially appreciate the comment on bravery.
Erica, you paint a rich picture of a competitor mindset. I practice “gina-Jitsu” and marvel at the technical plane you’ve achieved. I watched one of your matches during the worlds and it looked like a an exhausting battle of - grips and grit. And to be on bottom and keeping your calm! Keep it up and educating those not in the scene - but seek to be (ie, me!)
Regrettably late to reply to this, Gina. Thank you so much for the kind words and for encouraging me to keep writing and keeping calm. Hope to catch you at an overlapping class soon and congrats re: your performance at Pans! 💜
Really well written and compelling!
Thank you, Thomas! So sorry about the delay in reply. As you’d imagine from the end of the piece, I got fully swept into wedding madness. 😅 Thank you again for reading and commenting. It means a lot!
No worries! Hope everything went great re: wedding!