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Jiu Jitsu is simply who controls the pace. If you can force the other person to play at your speed, more likely than not you are winning. That’s not always about being the fastest. If you watch Iowa Wrestling, a notoriously very good program, very rarely are their athletes the fastest on the mat. In fact even in the smaller weights they often rely on their conditioning and ability to grind people down. As we have talked about the goal is to impose your grappling on others so that they can’t launch attacks against you. What you can control is your conditioning, and your output. If you can’t match the output of the other person, then you must be defensively minded. Do what you can to stay neutral or better until an opportunity presents itself. All of this is about exerting the necessary force to keep yourself safe and going at a reasonable pace until you can launch an attack.
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https://youtu.be/56nMeewn46E?si=PmAh7Jnc170lROak https://youtu.be/FUC-_W8raW0?si=dWxRsG7vDnQpNhS_ https://youtube.com/shorts/SSi-KmaaSgs?si=26r1RnPZr8saKER6 We have established solutions, there are ways to do things that have worked for centuries that will work forever. On the flip side there are also things that work or work better than what’s already been discovered. A professional Jiu Jitsu athlete example of this is J-Rod, I watched him roll with Mighty Mouse the other day and as usual he was doing really weird things, interestingly enough he was able to do the same really weird things over and over again. Just like his armbar defense, he does things that from a traditional standpoint would be blasphemous, but it works. I have a student who operates the same way, not as dynamic, but his Jiu Jitsu is mostly comprised of putting himself and others in really weird situations and using that to submit them. It’s nice because I get to make fun of him, but I also get to see 1 of 1 grappling all the time. Allowing ingenuity is beneficial, thinking outside the box is beneficial, keep Jiu Jitsu weird.
1a. Clear hands to access legs
1b. Clear hands to access legs 1c. Access legs to finish takedown 1d. Prevent 2a. U/D -Attack from a supine position 2b. Loose passing 2c. Closed guard- chest 2 back 2d. Loose passing 3a. 1/2 guard- chest 2 back 3b. Loose passing 3c. Up/down- chest 2 back 3d. Loose passing 4a. Octopus-cover hips 4b. Cover-hips 4c. Butterfly- chest 2 back 4d. Loose passing 5a. Side control- connect head and arm or utilize Gi to finish 5b. Disengage 5c. Side control- isolate arm from center mass to finish 5d. Disengage 6a. Side control- non-head & arm double closure 6b. Disengage 6c. Flat closed- make space to sweep, sub, or disengage 6d. Modify hip angle to split legs 7a. Connect head and arm or utilize Gi 7b. 7c. Isolate arm from center mass 7d. 8a. Non- head and arm double closure 8b. 8c. Double under pass- return to neutral or better 8d. Take the back I watched the conversation between Dr. Mike and Greg Souders last night and it didn’t really seem like it got anywhere. Dr. Mike didn’t seem like he really understood what he was arguing against, and Greg wasn’t able to articulate his points or see things from an alternate perspective in a way that allowed constructive dialogue. Information processing has its benefits, it’s certainly easier, and more digestible, it also makes learning very rigid. The rigidity would appeal to Dr. Mike. As a scientist, something abstract is not going to be his preferred way of looking at the world, not controlling variables is antithetical to what he knows and does. CLA is not a throw stuff at the wall and see what happens methodology which seems to be what people who have conversations with Greg believe. I can acknowledge that I could have a bias towards CLA, because I use it, and I see results from a performance perspective. I can use the database of grappling knowledge to make behaviors emerge in my students faster without explicit instruction. CLA sounds ridiculous until you see your students do something you didn’t teach them without outside interference. I understand reasons for both, and am not really sure why anyone cares what goes on from a teaching perspective in other gyms as long as it works.
Would it shock you to learn that I didn’t really come up in an environment of traditional praise? I started Jiu Jitsu before the Ultimate Fighter (I have receipts). In 2003 Tucson, Arizona Jiu Jitsu wasn’t that popular, and it certainly wasn’t Joe Rogan popular. There weren’t many schools, so you had to want to be there. I think I was a late purple belt before I felt I regularly did things right in my coach’s eyes. That’s definitely carried over into my teaching. I really only know a decent amount about Jiu Jitsu, and I continuously work on my interpersonal skills. It’s not that you’re not doing well, sometimes maybe you aren’t, but also sometimes I just use 2003 expectations and not 2025.
Don’t give yourself an out. It’s difficult, but that’s what it takes to do the things you want to do. By no means am I perfect, but I recognize that what I want is on the other side of my excuses. No one is coming to save me, no one can force me to accomplish things. I have to cultivate the desire, the discipline, and the will to do what I need to do regardless of the circumstances. If the only time I can make it to class is early morning, and I want to improve my Jiu Jitsu, guess my bed will be lonely. If I need to lose weight, guess I won’t buy that chocolate peanut butter overload ice cream I enjoy so much. Sacrifices bring results, and justifications are a slippery slope. I know because I’m guilty too.
I’m not an ultra competitor. I was never out traveling every weekend to find a tournament. I know that I did not take things as seriously as I needed to if I wanted to be in the realm of the elite competitors, but I got to be there anyway. That’s what’s cool about Jiu Jitsu. You can compete against elite athletes in the sport if you put yourself out there. For me as a non-competitor coming up a lot of the time, I would compete maybe 2-3 times a year. From November 2016 to June 2017, I competed 5 times. Sérvio Túlio, Thomas Keenan, Edmund Kim, a gentleman from Checkmat, and Jake Watson. I don’t know much about the guy from Checkmat, but everyone else has elite credentials. Colored belt world champions, an eventual top ten black belt, an adcc South American trials winner, a guy who went viral for putting his wrist back in place during a match and continuing. I know what the elite of the elite is like, and I also know that my time is better served helping other people reach their potential. It’s good to compete, I absolutely believe everyone should try it if you do Jiu Jitsu, but also know why you’re doing it. My drive to compete was always to see what my level was like against the top tier and I’m satisfied with having done that. I might compete again I might not, but I know I put myself out there in a big way.
This is a message to me as much as it is to anyone else. Invest in yourself, invest your time, money, and resources into getting better, doing better, and being better. Motivation is not reliable, so you have to compound discipline. Make promises to yourself and keep them. Don’t give yourself an out, that’s how things get better. We convince ourselves that other people care, but they don’t. The only person that has your best interests front of mind all the time is you. Other people don’t necessarily want what you want. It’s not malicious, but people don’t want to struggle, and they don’t want to see you struggle. You don’t want to struggle, but you have to. Getting better is hard, improvement is hard. If you don’t take time to improve you won’t make improvements. Try to make the voice go away that says things that are beneficial need to be on the back burner, prioritize yourself and do what you need to for the long term, the person you need to be 10 years from now.
Not every round needs to be a fight to the death, but you should actually try. If you aren’t feeling like much output, you still need to be defensively minded and practice good habits. All time on the mats can be useful time if you are mindful of what you’re doing. There isn’t a time when you should not be in control of what you are doing, you may not be the aggressor, but you should be aware of what’s happening and what you need to do to have an effective practice. Lazy Jiu Jitsu is efficient Jiu Jitsu, but it is not mindless.
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