Know Your Rules

​Your coach should know the rules that you are competing under that is part of their job. If you want to compete at an elite level, you have to be able to play the game and take advantage of not just your abilities, but also strategy. In order to do that you must also know the rules. You will not always hear your corner and they do not have a remote control to make sure you don’t do something dumb. The more educated you make yourself on the ins and outs, the better off you will be. If you don’t want to take what you are doing seriously, you have that right, but that’s not your coaches fault. You only take in the information you want to and for most people the intricacies of competition Jiu Jitsu aren’t things they want to put time into. Here’s an alternate, if you are training for self defense, you should have a full submission arsenal and competition legality doesn’t factor. In either instance you need training partners on that same path and it’s not really fair or logical to exist in the middle. This is not a world where you can claim ignorance, whatever information you want is at your fingertips. If you don’t want to put the effort in, don’t make it about others.