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If you can at all avoid it, don’t get choked unconscious. It’s probably not as bad for you as getting knocked out, but it’s still not good for you. There is a risk of stroke associated with being choked out and it’s just not good for you. It will happen, when it does, don’t be alarmed, there’s just no reason to let it go that far most of the time.
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You’re not in shape for Jiu Jitsu unless you’re doing Jiu Jitsu. It’s a fact of life. By appearance there are so many people that are in better shape than me, but if you put them on a mat, they won’t keep up. They may wipe the floor with me in any other athletic endeavor, but I’ll wear them out grappling. My best Jiu Jitsu friend and I used to post up at open mats and just wait for people. I was a portly young fellow, and he a long skinny gentleman. People saw us as an ego boost. In their brains they said “we can beat them”. They didn’t, usually it only took a minute or two before they said they were done and sulked on the sidelines. Don’t judge people for their looks on the mats and don’t think you’re in shape for grappling without grappling.
I think some of you experienced this week why I’m sometimes a bit crabby. There were a couple people who did 3 or 4 classes over the span of 24 hours. They have expressed being in misery. That is not an irregular occurrence for me. There are times when I have trained 12-13 times in a week, but I don’t do that anymore. I know it seems like I don’t do anything, but you did something once that I do all the time and feel like death. I get to show up to do it again 300+ days per year. I like what I do but remember this feeling the next time you picture me as a green muppet living in a trash can.
https://www.youtube.com/live/CLX3oBCqunI?si=DPfIKKkUDj3oTTJz
https://youtu.be/yL1TAAvtaZM?si=n2d9ehx7aBVv5oyy 1a. X hands or hips
1b. Disconnect 1c. X saddle or bear trap 1d. Engage without entanglement 2a. X take back 2b. Pass or disengage 2c. X sweep or double trouble 2d. Pass or disengage 3a. Back arm trap- head and arm control to finish 3b. Remove C2B 3c. Seat belt arm trap- h&a to finish 3d. Remove C2B 4a. Straight jacket- h&a to finish 4b. Remove C2B 4c. Back- h&a to finish 4d. Dominant position 5a. Back arm trap 5b. 5c. 50/50 5d. 6a. Rodeo 6b. 6c. TCL 6d. 7a. KOTD 7b. 7c. Paulson guard 7d. 8a. Shaolin 8b. 8c. Evil core 8d. You can call it situational training, ecological dynamics, lazy coaching, but oddly enough it gets results. Basically, all we are doing is taking pieces of the whole and using them to complete the picture. It is self-organization, which means you have more to do with your success than you think. I can show you a multitude of techniques, but unless you internalize what you need to do and figure out how your body can do it, none of it matters. At some point we all have to realize no one is coming to save us and we will continue to get beaten up unless we take charge of our learning and execution.
We do task-based games, so the focus of what you do should be the task. If you do something outside of the parameters, but not explicitly mentioned either it’s a new learning path or I should’ve given better instructions. This was the case with a game recently where people were afraid to do something explicitly mentioned in the parameters. They did not try to pass, because they thought they needed to be extra adherent to the position. Part of the CLA is that it allows for more freedom and creativity, use it, find stuff that works for you. Take the parameters and make them suit you.
I don’t want you to struggle more than you have to. I know that sounds out of character, but I actually want you to be successful. Sometimes we miss the simple solutions, sometimes we shoot ourselves in the foot by over complicating things. Simplify every task you can, and work to accomplish whatever goal is in front of you. Try not to get so locked into your patterns that you miss opportunities. I promise that my goal is your success even if it seems like I’m actively working against you.
I’m not a life coach, asking me for advice about anything other than grappling is no better than asking one of your friends. I’m not a therapist; I’m just a guy who spends way too much time focused on a niche activity. I may be able to help you, I may not. Don’t put me on a pedestal. All I do is try to get better and smarter every day and I hope you do the same. The people in Jiu Jitsu that helped shape the person I am did so as a product of who they are and not because they believed they were superior, or they had it all figured out. I hope you don’t think I have it all figured out. I know Jiu Jitsu and I have lived experience, that is all.
I’m not saying I’m not weird or I haven’t made people uncomfortable, but damn are we taking this shit to a new level. If I’m the arbiter of proper social behavior, you know that something is wrong. At best you can have one shot to ask out a training partner, and you probably shouldn’t do that. If they say no and you act disrespectful, you’re out, we don’t need that. A good rule of thumb is if you wouldn’t want it to happen to your relative with someone else, don’t fucking do it. Stop being weird, it’s not that hard. This is a rant about general happenings in the Jiu Jitsu community, I’m not directing this at any of my students.
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