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The output you want has to match the input. If you want a casual hobby where you show up occasionally and once you leave there’s no thoughts about Jiu Jitsu until you return, then your journey might take a while. I trained 2-3 times a week for 2.5+ years and thought about grappling constantly, but still probably could’ve waited for my blue belt. You might be making progress, but that doesn’t necessarily mean you’re getting promoted. It’s difficult, but a lot of the frustration with Jiu Jitsu is that people aren’t looking at what’s happening objectively. If you’re not going to class or you’re not executing on the level you need to, you are the only one who can fix that.
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One of my greatest fears is that I teach someone Jiu Jitsu and they have undeserved confidence in their abilities. They go out believing in their fighting skills, and then are disappointed that the limited amount of effort and minimal training didn’t make them John Wick. It’s why I run difficult classes, now and always. Whether it’s CLÃ or IP my classes have always had a very cardio intensive element, and my Jiu Jitsu has always been rough. My goal isn’t to prepare you for the room, my goal is to have you ready for what may happen outside of it.
If I am not in control of the hips of my opposition, I should not be complacent across their center line. It is back exposure, it is armbars, it is head and arm chokes. All of these things occur when I cross the invisible border at the center of their body. Once again there are no absolutes in grappling. Can you cross the center line without hip control? Yes. Is it risky? Also, yes. If you want to do takedowns like Tim Spriggs and Rodolfo Vieira, the key factor is violence of action. As soon as those guys take a cross grip standing up, they whip you around the mat until you fall over. In this instance kuzushi is the limiter of the opponent’s movement instead of hip control.
If there’s something that isn’t working for you about yourself, you can change. You can’t change other people, but you can remove yourself from their presence. If you want a stronger core, you can do that. If you want to be more punctual, you can do that. Losing weight, gaining strength, being more knowledgeable, getting better at grappling, it’s all within your control. It’s just a matter of being willing to put in the work, and it is and forever will be work.
https://youtu.be/Hdms8sTNa7o?si=2bHBpdUo_RvJ-sDj
https://youtu.be/EwcmQEPKaYc?si=JFoqKwHEWNwccUTK 1a. Maintain sleeve and foot to bicep
1b. Disconnect 1c. FHL- keep arms connected and turn 1d. Free head 2a. Spider/Lasso- off balance 2b. One knee down- disconnect 2c. 1/4 Nelson- finish double closure 2d. Free head 3a. Spider/lasso- finish 3b. One knee down- beat hips & knees 3c. SC arm in guillotine- finish double closure 3d. Free head 4a. Spider/Lasso- stop 4b. Pass 4c. Bottom SC Darce- finish double closure 4d. Free head 5a. Single leg- finish 5b. Finish 5c. Double leg- finish 5d. Finish 6a. Whizzer- finish 6b. Finish 6c. Tripod finish 6d. Finish 7a. Guard pull finish 7b. Finish 7c. Side body lock finish 7d. Finish 8a. Standing FHL- finish 8b. Finish 8c. Feet 2 Floor 8d. Videos are cool, but the best way to work on your grappling is to be in the room. Even if you are injured and just watch from the sidelines, something is better than nothing. It can be helpful to watch class, I’ve sat on the sidelines plenty of times picking up details. Sometimes when you’re actively doing something your brain doesn’t get nuance, or you see other people doing something and it clarifies mistakes you’re making. Be in the room even if you are not actively participating.
We restart our kids program next week, and I’m glad that I took a break. Much like a lot of things post Covid, I did not run my program in alignment with how I wanted things to be. Now I get to start fresh and build the program I want and the program I think kids need. My adult classes start at 12 years old, if you want to be really serious, you don’t need to start earlier than that. My goal is just to have fun, build confidence, and sneak in some useful skills.
We are working in a combat sport based in a means to defend ourselves. We must not let other people attack us. If you cannot mount an offense, you must have proficient defense. You must stop people from doing things to you. What does this look like in sport Jiu Jitsu? It looks like keeping your arms and neck in, it looks like small constant movement so that no one is comfortable holding you down, it looks like putting your legs between yourself and them, it looks like being proficient in making and maintaining connections, and it looks a little bit like you are getting thrashed. There is a massive difference between utilizing adept defensive grappling and getting killed, both hurt, but one hurts way less. If you are constantly in bad places where people are imposing their will on you, you can’t make a 3 hour long vale tudo fight, and that’s the difference. If you’re not a dynamically offensive person, then you need to ask yourself if stylistically you can weather a long-term onslaught and survive? These are the goals. If you can do both even better.
Admittedly I only watched the black belt adult finals of Pans this year. The major takeaway for me is that Gi could have the same audience as no Gi if flograppling wanted it to. So many athletes that don’t get any coverage were in the pans finals and some of them even won. Pans is a major tournament, probably the second most prestigious of the big 4, there’s no reason that I should know more about the athletes by following one person on Facebook than I do from the major media outlet of our sport. I don’t know how they can be overthrown, but I could use some actual coverage of the sport I’m trying to watch.
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