So i had my first full contact MMA fight tonight, our rules were -
No eye gauging/low blows/fish hooks
No elbowing or kneeing to the head
so it went pretty well, i was fighting a jujitsu blue-belt (i am a white belt, as i've just started training with a gi, no matter, my opponent is x20 times better than me at jujitsu)
It opens up with me throwing the intial strike in the first 10 seconds, a low leg kick to his inner thigh - from there it is just a standup fight, he hit me in the head approx 25-40 times, luckily they were all glancing blows and the ones which did hit me directly didnt have enough power behind to be succesful (though i'll admit i had .2 second lightswitch happen a few times). I landed the majority of strikes, note that he ONLY striked to the head, and ignored my body entirely, I did alot of clinching/kneeing, i put him in a standing unsuccessful gullotine as he tried to do a take down, he won the majority of exchanges (in my mind). I nailed him with a spinning backfist, which i was pretty happy about, and then i attempted it again and COMPLETLY missed lol... ahh well... In the end it was a draw because neither of us had been knocked out or submitted, the crowd was happy - we got 'fight of the night'... another big benefit is that i was bleeding from my nose/mouth for quite awhile, so it looked pretty barbaric (approx 150 attended)
it was pretty much just 2 guys semi-intelligently brawling
More pics to come, 3 cameras were taping, i'll have th VHS by tuesday, and then have to get it somehow put on CD/DVD or whatever, so i can upload it and you guys can D/L it
But anyways, as you guys must know, it was definetly a great experience to finally fight a full contact pankration match
more videos/pictures to follow