Today we went to the place where we were able to make pottery, baskets, and mosaic. It was very interesting to see how pottery was made in Morocco, this place mainly made Tajins. Tajins are serving dishes with food inside that keeps the heat in to cook and maintain the meat at a good temperature which allows the meat to be very tender. I enjoyed making the pottery in the peaceful weather and was excited to head back for some jiujitsu. Two months ago, I messaged a jiujitsu instructor in Rabat and he told me about training in the area and to come for Tuesday and train with them. A friend I Made in the study aboard wanted to try it out, so we went together. The warmup was fun and unique as we did wrestle takedown drills. We then worked the De La Reva guard and sweeps into mount position or top side position. the De La Reva guard is when a single leg is entangled into your opponent leg while you are sitting on bottom playing guard. We also worked on some amazing and unique back takes that I will definitely use to take back to America. When we did a live roll all the upper belts or the senior members were impressed by my ability and skill, and we had a conversation. In the conversation they invited me to come the next day for an invitation only training session.
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