Best Method to Overcome the Crippling Nerves of BJJ Competition
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- How do you overcome the adrenaline of a BJJ competition. Better yet, how do you get over your 1st competition which you completely bombed?
This is the question our buddy Mike sent to me following his less than desirable performance at a recent IBJJF Brazilian Jiu-jitsu competition.
He says the biggest BJJ related problem he experienced with this competition was the nerves and adrenaline that came with it.
He said the adrenaline completely prevented him from playing his game and doing what he wanted to do.
And after under performing during the tournament.
He wants to know how to quell the adrenaline he felt in his 1st crack at BJJ tournaments.
In this video I share a story about 1 of my students who experienced back to back losses before he eventually began winning competitions.
I also touch on the idea that it will become less stressful with time and more experience.
When you compete, it’s a sub skill of BJJ.
It takes a different set of attributes to compete than simply practicing in your gym.
I hope the video is help!
-Chewy
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Great advice Chewy!!
My process for dealing with Tournament stress:
#1- Weeks Before Competing- Make sure you have put in the time and effort, so you know you are as prepared as you can be.
#2- 1 Day Before Competing- Eat healthy, hydrate, and sleep so your body feels good the morning of the competition.
#3- 1 Hour Before Competing- Do a 5 minute 80% roll with a teammate. This will reduce your first match jitters. (Because you've already had your first match.)
#4- 1/2 Hour Before Competing- Do some yoga/breathing. This will help to stretch and oxygenate your muscles.
#5- 10 Minutes Before Competing- Focus on enjoying the matches before your own. Don't focus on your opponent. Try to relax and trust your preparation.
#6- 1 Minute Before Competing- Focus on the final instructions from your coach and SMILE...you are about to do what you love!!
Psycho Squad Great advice brother
Psycho Squad thanks helped a lot
Psycho Squad 🙏👍
Reading this gave me ptsd from my first tournament 💀
@@gagnersimple269 So true 😂
Great advice! I'm a Psychologist and view dealing with competition nerves the same as I would dealing with a phobia (or other anxiety-related issue). That is, the most important strategies are calm and controlled breathing, coupled with continued exposure (the more regular and consistent, the better). While other techniques can help (e.g., external focus on music or some other aspect using your five senses, trying to change your perspective/beliefs about losing and performance, etc), I consider these as just optional extras, as the biggest effects will always be seen with breath control and exposure!
jutsinface makes sense. Thanks for sharing your input!
Chewy I freaked out in my first competion and my body had an adrenaline dump and I felt out of breath and weak in 1 second
Well since nobody else said it I will.
It's okay buddy it's how you learn.. you win some you lose some.. msybe you lose alot but you take something away from it every time
relatable
I competed as a white belt, and as a blue belt. Dozens of matches with a single loss. I took a 1 year break and committed way more to BJJ than ever. My gym had a purple belt roll off today and this exact same thing happened to me. First time ever. I had no clue how to overcome it. Wound up taking 3rd. As long as I got the immediate take down and was in a dominant position I was fine but I literally couldn't breathe and was was from the 1st second in. Only thing I can think of is this was the most important tournament ever to me. It was the first time I actually cared if I won. All other times I was just having fun, and it turned out I was winning.
White belt here. Same thing happened to me a few weeks ago in my first tournament. I was ready to go then something flipped right before I stepped on the mats and I couldn't breathe and was super nervous. I made several mistakes that I don't make in training. Lost my matches. I have another competition in a few weeks. Will see if things change now that I have learnt a thing or two.
Just happened on Saturday. HORRIBLE feeling. Lost on refs decision. Embarrassing as hell. 1st competition, white w/ stripes. Took 2nd.
I feel like this video is for me. Today is my first competition. Thanks for you words, and thanks for the guy who asked. Oss
Nuno Duarte have fun and good luck mate
Nuno Duarte good luck! Hope things go well!
It was a small challenge but I got second place 😁 first fight won with americana in his halfguard. lost the final by desqualification... I am a white belt and its not allowed to jump to guard. With the adrenaline I didn'T though and just did it. Nice experience thought.
Thanks for your words once again
@@michaelm4890 l)
This is impeccable timing. I just had a match on a fight card last night and lost. I feel the adrenaline dump had a lot to do with it. It’s so interesting how Chewy always knows when to post the right videos haha!
In my first match I had super high expectations because I was doing well in training then I just held a guy in closed guard for 5 minutes straight in my first match for a 0-0 tie which I luckily won on advantage for attempting subs. My tournament after this I was much more confident and relaxed though.
The schedule for my first tournament this Saturday was released at 11:30am yesterday and immediately afterwards, had to take 3 dumps for the next 2 hours after seeing my name on the competitor list and approximate fight time.
Same AF
Had my first tournament yesterday, and the dump is a real thing.
My first match felt great. Had the same amount of strength, reaction and execution as I do in training.
But AFTER that first match……I was done.
Had 4 more matches throughout the day, and I was never even 30% of what I was in the first match. Even had plenty of rest time between matches.
This sounds weird but 3 days out from my last comp I got nervous about not being nervous. Then one day out from the comps the nerves kicked in and I was like YUSS! Nerves are good as long as you keep them in check.
I'll see you this Saturday in Branson!
join the club mike. Very much a common problem.
The best way to deal with it is, keep on doing competitions and see what works for you. It's interesting getting advice on this from guys like Chewy who have such a wrestling background, seems like they would not get nerves when they start jitsu but interesting to hear if they still get nervous.
Guys like me, started at 35 and been competing pretty frequently, against young guys, you just have to learn to show up and not stress out. You may meet a 25 year old former D1 college wrestler at your first tournament. But all the better challenge. Play your jiu jitsu and don't get discouraged. Just show up for yourself and trust in the process. Each tournament gives you more insight into your own triggers for anxiety, and teaches you the process of dealing with that anxiety. Nothin to it but to do it. One down, many to go.
The best thing is to slow down and take your time. That works for me...
BJJ purple belt here, I thought I was calm and ready my last competition. But I totally went full bore and blew out my stamina in the first round. I literally broke the dudes ankle in my third and final match but I was dry heaving and ready to throw up, the dude was a beast and didn't tap ( couldn't walk afterwards ) but my limbs became lead and I couldn't grip and lost by points 😢. My goal for my next comp is to be better prepared and dial down the intensity just a bit to stay efficient.
Hey chewy, i have a question
I'm residing in one city as a student and want to start BJJ this summer. I've been looking for some BJJ schools in my hometown city (where im gonna stay over the summer) but i'm gonna continue practising it when I get back to my student city. Do you think it's worth the money to begin BJJ in a hometown gym only over the summer only to come back and continue it in another gym in my student city?
Hope that makes sense lol!
Love your content man, it's been a big push for me to begin this!
Dang i wish i saw this video before my tournament this last weekend
How'd it go?
rl1800 1st round lost to submission, 2nd won by DQ i got slammed in closed guard, 3rd lost to points and 4th won my submission. 3 striped white belt. 6'1 at 155lbs. I was in the 155-170 bracket. I feel its hard being lanky against people that muscle everything.
#ChewyForPresident2020 Great advice as usual
I would make a terrible president!
Nah cant be any worse than mr trump over there
In my first tournament all I remembered was slapping hand bumping knuckles then the reff holding up my hand. I watched the video of it my mom took and didn’t remember any of it 😂😂😂
I had amazing first roll 🤣 I lost since it was my first but it was really amazing I survived very long time and frustrated my opponent yet I lost eventually...I am a surgeon so I kind of used to overcome the stress of the danger
Thanks for another great video ...Got any tips for overcoming a neck crank injury?
Roscoe what’s the extent of the injury?
Just neck pain and limited mobility for a few days. No shooting nerve pain or numbness. 🤷♂️ ...Third injury I’ve had in the last two months. 🤦♂️
Hello Chewy, I would like to ask a question on something I've struggled with for quite some time (pertaining to Jiu Jitsu) but I am not on any social media platforms. Do you use an email where you also receive questions to be answered?
I just had my first competition. Adrenaline kicked in and I was like superman for 60 seconds, then the dump came and my opponent started to score points. Luckily I calmed down and was able to score points. I won my first fight but I was so exhausted I’d lost all the other fights.
Im a white belt and im getting really good in the gym i managed to submit a black belt and i roll a lot with purple belts. But when i was in my 3rd compititon against i guy i knew i was better than i just froze and couldnt make anything going i was shaking and because of that i lost
My coach reminds me of the Sensai from Cobra Kai he advice to me is win no mercy full power on subs break arms. I’m like fuuuk this could be dangerous I’m just a white belt and so are they. 😧
Thanks so much for this video. I competed today and completely gassed out long before I normally would in the gym it was very discouraging. I’m now looking to go to a few more to figure this thing out I really would like to do as well at a tournament as they do in the gym
hi chew i have a question i gonna start with bjj. But my question is wht am i gonna do on the first grappling? i will suck i have 0 experience grappling or rolling wont i just lay there like a sack of potato?
I just did my first competition, I went in with more then 24 hours of fasting I broke the fast after the tournament... let’s just say it wasn’t a good idea and will never ever do it
i dont get tired after whole 3 hour of training but when i stepped in the mat for 2 minutes and lost i was literally feeling like i was gonna pass out
This just happened to me on Saturday lol. Not making excuses but they didn’t have any mats to warm up or anything. I really thought NAGA was this prestigious thing but boy was I wrong lol
How do you roll and conserve energy? I’m new to bjj. I’ve only been to several classes but I used to wrestle, am stronger than most, and have studied a lot on UA-cam so I’ve done pretty well. My coach keeps saying I’m all muscle. How do I spar and go half speed? I don’t get it. I’m either all or nothing. Wrestling is probably the reason for that. I know I need to be in better shape and that’s part of it but how do I not use all my strength because I get too tired too fast.
I need this advice
Thanks for another great and helpful video.
Christopher Dragong Slayer happy to help brother!
How do you get nervous? I've done really well as a white belt and I've kind of lost the jitters. Now when I go out to tournaments as a blue belt everyone is playing more of a stalling game and that slow starting I'm doing is really disadvantaging me. I can still usually pull it off but it's pretty annoying.
well if they are taking their merry time isnt it possible you speeding your movements up would give them a similar problem
Just had my first tournament yesterday! Naga in chicago, im a white belt with 1 year of training, i took a gold for beginner no gi, and came out way too relaxed for the gi division, this guy was killing me like 15 to 0, he head butted me under the chin on a take down, i finished him in the last 10 seconds with a triangle, i checked my chin and my finger went inside my skin, i had to witdraw from the semi finals to go get stitches, one insife the wound and 3 outside ( i have pictures and video on go pro not yet uploaded )
Seems to be the yerkes dodson law
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Hey chewy I noticed u said shaking off mat rust..i had spine surgery less than a year ago...can you do a video on how to come back.. (train and compete) after a rough time in your life that has kept you off the mat for a long period of time.
dirty 30 mat rust for a competition or just coming back to training?
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My tip is too. Keep fighting at that point where he feels like he is Blacking out. Its common. use 2 other people. I know what he is going though. Best way isto join the Tough man contest. Bitches. Love you all that fight. takes a fight to take a nation back.
Great advice Chewyjitsu. Solid and sound. unlike others I know
This video would be better with an advise from public speaking - imagine your opponent naked.
I had the same exact problem in my tournament. It was absolutely brutal. Gassed out in 1 min hahah
The plank stayed the same.