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I think there can be a balance between the Eco-Approach and providing pathways, “technique”, and examples. This is a really good conversation!

Something else made Ben do a big turnaround in September 2020 - he married a great woman! Next time, ask some questions about your interviewee's family life, faith, other factors that have added to their jiu-jitsu journey and gave them that extra boost.

i dont know if thick material is a cons... I love the thick gis, it feels like an armor. About shrinking, and for the news on bjj. All the gis get to shrink, even if you don´t dry on machine. I got 3 gis and all of them had srhinked. One of them did it on purpose because was to big an I shrinked it on my machine (was A3 and I am A2). The other A2 shrinked becasue the use. I wash them on cold water and dry them on air. Oh, and all of them are different brands. Hayabusa, tatami and Kingz, and all of them are dif weight and material (ripstop or cotton). So, dont worry about that cause the gi will shrink anyway

Solid solid solid!

You the guy from LIMI?

I love these bro rules. Ancient art has existed thousands of years but white bros gotta set it straight!

Interesting. I have listed, on a giant chart board, the top 50 BJJ students and competitors with whom I rolled in the last 25 years. The chart is listed as a hierarchy belt holders. For instance, at the bottom of the list, a few good white belts that I submit are listed on post-its. The middle chart are the blues, upward purple, so on and so forth. Now this is where the chart gets chaotic and interesting. If white belts has purple belt skill set level, I put him among the purples. I'll let you imagine the rainbow I made with this chart board. The blue belt students is about the biggest, widest, largest division of people I've rolled with, so glancing at the board, I have blue belts that are comparable to high level white, and other blues that are almost black belt skill set level. The surprising portion of the chart is this 6.4, 225 athletic black belt I rolled with last week. Guess what, is he in the middle section of my board, so basically, I know purples who can technically outgrapple him. I witnessed it, not proxy guessing. Its a live board, so I upgrade some post its, or downgrade others according to where they are skill wise. Last, at the top of this chart, I have comp grapplers one that trained under Danaher's squad and the other one trained with couple of black belt brothers of the same academy.

Always love the pods. Good stuff Travis 👊🏼

The lack of views is absolutely unacceptable, UA-cam! Give it to BJJ people. Both of these guys are great.

If you perform in competition which is safer than a self defense situation, how would you be able to defend yourself? Competition is a great way to gauge if you are good for your skill level. If you are beating guys in your skill bracket and weight, it's proof you are at the very least your rank.

Indeed look at Josh Barnett having dominated Dean Lister and Reyner Gracie

My gym doesn’t do stripes and I LOVE it. The mentality of my gym is if you need a stripe on your belt to tell you where you’re at, then you’re here for the wrong reasons. Granted, they do give stripes to white belts, but white belts only

I agree with you on everyone but the 6th lol… being able to perform under pressure and in the highest competitions is LITERALLY the end all be all… that’s like getting into a street altercation with someone and the fights gets to the ground, and they knock you out or kill you, “oh man he was a GREAT black belt in the gym, but failed when it REALLY mattered” that’s just stupid lol

Yes if you redefine all the words you can avoid common wisdom.

Jiu-jitsu can be for anyone, but it's not for everyone.

The biggest myth for me is injuries. We always told that bjj is very safe and low impact, yet I know very few bjj black belts who don't have a nagging injury that affects their quality of life. Usually, either there, back, neck, knees, or shoulders.

No matter how you put it, it’s POSITIONAL TRAINING!!!😂😂

Keep showing up is not what makes you better? Nododu git better by not showing up

If you're walking into class looking to crush people with attributes rather than technique while being spazzy and with an ego... You're going to hurt people or get hurt yourself. You seem more interested in winning than learning the art. We aren't giving away gold medals on a random Tues night fundamentals class. If your school has a competition class (and it should) that is the time to apply Jiu Jitsu as you're describing. When a spazzy strong white belt comes at me he gets crushed. If a technical strong white belt comes at me he gets to work...

Great video. It was really hard for me to step back for a bit, but it has been very refreshing. I look forward to getting back soon.

Lol. I've been weight training for about 20 years now so I get the "wow you're strong" comment a lot. Sometimes it's a genuine compliment, sometimes I can tell I frustrated them and they don't want to admit it. I can tell you it took me longer to get strong than it took me to learn any grappling move to a reasonably competent level. Damn right I'm gonna use my strength if I need to! I earned it! Some of these dudes need to learn the art of Gym-Fu.

Just finished my 3rd class. Started this 3 months from my 54th. Ego. I’m old enough to be over that. What I find is critical is the converse - humility. I agree with you - that base ego you described is key. However not everyone listens. Also agree with the other commenter - have already learned to know when to tap 😂😂 Thanks for the video.

You’re fibbing you went from white to blue very quickly!

“Fight their skeleton” 👍🏼💀 interesting way to think about.

Stripes are like first seeing progress in bodybuilding. You spend weeks and months putting in work and it can get discouraging not seeing gains. Then boom you see the gains in the mirror and you get a big shot of motivation. Seeing stripes on your belt is a similar feeling.

Having started 3 months ago, I disagree with "just showing up" as being a myth. As you obviously know, every class, you get put under unbearable pressure, strangulations or joint locks. Even if you train as light as you can, you will get lots of bruises, dizziness and all sorts of pain on every possible part of your body for many consecutive days even (neck, back, chest, knees, elbows, etc.) Even the high level guys at my gym experience those as frequently as the beginners. My coaches make EVERYONE work through the techniques meticulously and roll even very lightly. They strictly don't want ANYONE sitting on the sidelines unless they are injured or badly sick. On top of that, most gyms in my area only offer classes during early morning or at night when people are likely to be the most tired and lazy. Any sane human being would stop coming back from having to endure such physical suffering while having to engage in deep mental work. So what exactly happens if you just keep showing up? From my experience, whether someone is a hobbyist or a competitor (and I am the latter), everyone always comes out of classes better than they entered them. Yes, you will likely not become a world champion if you don't have a more rigorous and systematic approach, but you will always improve in other areas whether it's staying in shape, losing weight, making good friends, etc. I profoundly believe that the more you show up, the better you naturally get at it, because fundamentally, there are no other ways to acquire the muscle memory of the weird movements unless you try them for real. For example, I don't know how you can learn a leg lock unless you apply it live. You can watch all the videos you want, but nothing will ever work unless you actually do it . Plus, if your coaches make you work honestly hard every class, you will undoubtedly grow physically and mentally out of it. No matter where you train, in this kind of sport, there will always be people that can challenge you and getting beaten every day makes you stronger. Obviously, there are many other factors that come into play such as proper recovery, schedule availability, time off from the sport, proper nutrition or quality of instruction, etc. but I kept it simple. Please let me know what you think of this, I am just a white belt haha!

I started Jiu Jitsu at 72 and now at 74 I've been promoted to blue belt. The things you are discussing are so important for longevity in JJ and can take a long time to learn. It comes in degrees.

I view “just keep showing up” as keep trying and don’t give up even when you feel like you’re not making progress. It doesn’t mean, to me, that you can expect to get better by just going through the motions. You have to think and be purposeful. I’d say “don’t use strength” should be don’t use strength as a substitute for poor technique. There will always be someone stronger, no matter who you are because you want to keep doing JJ as long as you can and you will age! What I think you want is for your skill to improve and if you get by with poor technique through strength, that will stagnate your progress. Technique beats all is a nice thought but you can’t expect a 110 lb grandma with awesome skill to put away a 120 lb 20 year old blue belt.

7:37 Combat Combatives is Josh Peacock. Eco D guy. Josh Beam is also an Eco guy that is traveling a ton, competes a ton, and may be who you're thanking of. Would love to see an interview with either/both.

I changed my mind and gave you 5 stars. Was able to do it without watching on Spotify.

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Great conversation

Welcome back! I'll go watch/listen on another platform so I can give you that single star review you asked for. Lol.

I use my Dad and old man strength whenever I feel the need. 🤘🏼💪🏼

Thanks man. I got frustrated today. Then embarrassed because i got frustrated. The more frustrated.

I pretty much always feel like I am shit at it going in so when I do get crushed it ends up feeding the more negative voices, not really sure how to deal with that

the last mith is wrong...

Ive been off and on for 2.5 years now and still struggling white belt. Biggest pointers I can give and what I personally struggle with is consistency although that’s injury based and ego. as in I want to be good, I want to win, way to get better etc… more importantly what stops me trying new stuff or even planning a strategy because of fear of failure. I’m having a break and then going back to almost start again. No ego, more diligence, more discipline and no fear of failure .

“Just keep showing up” is exactly what my old instructor told me after a little over a year of keeping my head down and just working every week 3-5 times a week 😅 that was the last drop, never got any feedback during a roll or even pointers. I left that gym a few weeks after that.

Agree 100 with the competition one, but it also helps you on your journey not so much to "prove" you're whatever rank, but more to test your skill outside your comfort zone of your academy. Similar to how you describe that you like visiting other academies and roll with others your rank to feel them out, competition does that for many. It's fun win or lose, gives you a healthy goal to aim for in training and most academies advance your rank faster if that's what you're looking for if you compete. Problem I've seen is when you ONLY compete and abandon technical classes to learn newer technique, etc and are only always training for comp. that's counter productive in my experience and those practitioners stay stagnant even though they might be competing that's all they're doing and often times get mad if they lose because they devote so much time to just competing. Seem some very high level practitioners almost quit after a loss, they have multiple medals competition after competion then lose to somethign fundamental wondering why. It's because you're only rolling open mat getting ready for comp, you've abandoned regular classes where you might learn something new

Don't be spazzy. Try to put all your physical attributes in your back pocket and focus on technique at first.

🙌🏽💪🏽🫵🏽🤓 Great vid!!

I'm 6' 1, 170. But used to weigh 260 many moons ago. I'm stronger now than when i was 260. I'm a few classes into bjj and I'm getting a bunch of comments about my strength. I don't want to brute force it but, i have no idea what I'm doing and i instinctively go into survival mode and use raw power to get out of certain positions. The higher belts walk me through technique but the lower belts end up either me destroying them with strength or advanced lower belts hanging on for dear life. A strange position to be in.

Eh….you don’t always have to show up with a purpose. It’s not college. You’ll figure out what you’re weak at and what you’re good at with time on the mats, and you’ll adjust accordingly.

Yeah it is humbling going into a bjj gym and getting smashed everyday

Been going for three weeks now and getting my ass kicked

My gym does belts but doesnt i do no gi at 10pi so we have belts but we dont wear belts there arent really politics that way like with gi but my 10p is full of super awesome respectful guys

My coach gives white belts stripes in a pseudo ceremony at the end of beginners class. It's awesome to be the guy slotted to get a stripe that day. I've never seen him give blue or higher any stripes though. However, there are some colored belts with stripes, which tells me he gives them out privately/ not at the end of classes. For example, I watched him give someone a purple belt in the parking lot before class. No audience or anything. They hugged it out, and life went on.