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1a. SC- cover hips
1b. LIFR 1c. Turtle- cover hips 1d. LIFR 2a. Back- Rodeo 2b. LIFR 2c. High Mount 2d. LIFR 3a. Up- beat hips and knees 3b. Down- Stop 3c. Butterfly- BHK 3d. Stop 4a. 1/2- BHK 4b. Stop 4c. Closed- BHK 4d. Stop 5a. Guillotine 5b. 5c. Kimura 5d. 6a. Armbar 6b. 6c. Triangle 6d. 7a. 1/4 back 7b. 7c. Hip Bump 7d. 8a. High guard 8b. 8c. Omoplata 8d. Sent from my iPhone What intensity would you like to train at? If you’re rolling with a higher belt, that’s usually up to you. If you are calm and trying to do things in a technical manner, that is usually reciprocated. If the person you are training with believes you will do something that could cause yourself or them unnecessary harm, sometimes those rolls become about self preservation. Most of the time, how you go about training is how others will train with you. Check yourself before you wreck yourself.
Unnecessary tension will be your downfall. Strength is something you use in bursts, not the standard setting. Many moons ago, I wrote about rigidity being a source of injury and fatigue, this is the same conversation. Ideally, Jiu Jitsu is something that in your body feels loose and flowing, even if it doesn’t feel that way for the other person. I do my best to maintain an adaptability to how I move, because I know otherwise I will end up feeling or being somewhere I don’t want. Chill out in training, so that your base level fight or flight is better should you need it.
There’s more to Jiu Jitsu than just showing up to class. It’s just much more involved than people are ready for. To come in and get beat up day after day with no end in sight is very difficult. If you’re going to make it long term, you have to want to be there, and deal with what comes. You have to accept that your input and your output will match. Eating poorly, not showing up to class, not using time outside of class to study, will all slow your progress. I know, I’ve done all that. You can’t have everything, fast progress in Jiu Jitsu comes with dedication and that’s not always easy or possible. I don’t think everyone can do Jiu Jitsu, but you should still try.
Here’s a disconnect of the modern world. Cops in these here United States receive what amounts to zero training in terms of how to actually protect themselves and not kill the general populace. If a police officer would like to be more than incompetent, usually it is out of their time and resources to do so. In North Carolina cops work 4x12 hour shifts and are constantly switching between days and nights. So not only are they sleep deprived, they are also incapable of safely detaining people without great risk to themselves or others. Step one is give police a reasonable and consistent schedule, step two is incentivize a higher standard. If you pay cops to be better quality cops, you get better quality cops.
If you don’t submit someone in a submission only match and you lose the decision, you don’t get to be upset. Submission is the only way to guarantee that the outcome is in your favor. Once you relinquish your control over the outcome, you can only accept the decision of those who hold your fate. It is very unlikely that the outcome will change, and therefore futile to fret over something in the past. Respect your opponent, respect your coach, respect your team. If the decision doesn’t go in your favor, you’re the only one to blame.
Charles Barkley famously said he was “not a role model” and as a kid I didn’t understand that. As I grew up though, I realized that there are no heroes. No one is perfect, and usually the people we look up to at the pinnacle of their field are deeply flawed human beings. A person that a lot of us looked up to as a kid has just passed on, and the lasting memory of him will not be the peak of his popularity, but of being a genuinely horrible, delusional human being. Look up to yourself, admire people’s good qualities, and remember that none of us are any better than anyone else. I’m not someone to be admired nor is anyone else whose sole qualification is rejecting the outside world in favor of pursuing niche excellence.
Soapbox Time. Your kid is probably fine and if they’re not, martial arts is probably not their immediate need. If your kid is really not fine they need therapy and their parents. If your kid is fine they just need parents. Your kid should be doing martial arts because they want to and for no other reason, not even to bully proof them. If you don’t want to do something, especially something where people are actively trying to harm you it can be traumatizing. Traumatizing your children is not bully proofing them. Unless you’re insanely dedicated, you’re not accomplishing much in martial arts before 12, and if you’re that dedicated before age 12, the likelihood you will burn out is very high. Be present in your children’s lives, that’s more critical to their growth as a human. If you decide you can’t do that, wait until puberty and have the decency to pay full price for someone else to turn them into a person.
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