Great video. I started BJJ in my early 40’s with quite a few other guys of similar age. We always felt like our greatest advantage was starting at an age where life had already humbled us many times over and showed us that the lessons to get through any struggle or curveball could come from anywhere. I especially love drilling techniques with these older guys because we have no ego about feed back but are also very open to analysis of what works specifically for body types and how to adjust and tweak accordingly, because let’s be real….past 40 your hips knees back shoulders….they don’t always move how you ask them to move 😀
#2 is great, but don't confuse it with both you and your partner helping one another with the technique the professor just showed. Sometimes you feed off one another drilling going "Is this what prof said?" and you kinda coach one another. NOt even really coach but clarify like "is this right? How he showed it?" . If you have a good partner you'll pick up something you missed and vice versa and then yeah when both of you are lost you just call the professor to show you again. lol. Great vid.
3:42 My man, yes! Some folk at will jump in and coach if the other person even pauses for a second...Let people think, let people work things out for themselves!
This is really good advice as always. I am super enthusiastic about BJJ and am always sharing little things I have discovered, but I think its kind of obnoxious and I need to stop.
Blue here, I started at 40, this is my third year doing BJJ. A lot has changed since then and I'm more happy doing BJJ now than before. I used to over worried about little things. I recovered from an ACL injury and the mentally challenged. I remember been mad at the guy 😅 and now it is all about the journey. I tapped often and quickly but I am more happy during training. Now I try to organize what I'm doing, I work on doing it right before I was more let's say, more active, less technical, and more stressed out lol
White belt here. Gonna be totally honest here. There are times when I have trouble seeing how a technique that is being taught can be applied while rolling because the opponent is at a higher level than the technique being taught. That's been my experience so there's a bit of a disconnect between technique and practice. I'm not saying that that's all the techniques, but a good number of them. And nevermind a stronger and bigger opponent which is almost always the case for my gym. Again, white belt here putting in my own two cents.
You make a good observation. Higher belts know how to counter/defend so often times white belts struggle to implement techniques taught in class to rolling. I think that’s normal. Two things: 1. Find a higher rank that will work with you, allow you the freedom to work those techniques with minimum resistance. 2. Find someone before or after class to drill the techniques. Having times outside of class can help some things click, and retain. Easier to implement in live rolling when you’ve drilled it successfully…and you can have them increase intensity each time to help get more of a live roll feel.
You have to learn the techniques anyway. Once you get the experience of years of rolling you learn to apply well known techniques through chains and hiding them within other techniques. I just takes awhile to learn.
@@gojuboxer4224 That's not always the case though. We do positional sparring and white belts can be in the attacking position. Plus it typically takes 2 years to get a blue belt I'm told (of course that can vary), but are you telling me that in those 2 years all you'd be doing as a white belt is defending and escaping? Plus white belts can compete, so you have to attack in that situation. So not sure if I agree that white belts should only focus on defending and escaping.
Great video. I started BJJ in my early 40’s with quite a few other guys of similar age. We always felt like our greatest advantage was starting at an age where life had already humbled us many times over and showed us that the lessons to get through any struggle or curveball could come from anywhere. I especially love drilling techniques with these older guys because we have no ego about feed back but are also very open to analysis of what works specifically for body types and how to adjust and tweak accordingly, because let’s be real….past 40 your hips knees back shoulders….they don’t always move how you ask them to move 😀
Good stuff. Being teachable and not trying to be the professor are two absolutely important things to watch out for.
Thank you
#2 is great, but don't confuse it with both you and your partner helping one another with the technique the professor just showed. Sometimes you feed off one another drilling going "Is this what prof said?" and you kinda coach one another. NOt even really coach but clarify like "is this right? How he showed it?" . If you have a good partner you'll pick up something you missed and vice versa and then yeah when both of you are lost you just call the professor to show you again. lol. Great vid.
This is a good observation and balance to the discussion. Thanks for the input!
I'm a blackbelt in Aikido and in judo. Each time I attained a black belt my coaches told me this was when I start to learn
I’ve heard this too, and it’s encouraged me. Thanks for sharing this. Awesome you have multiple black belts in different arts!
I'm a blue belt in BJJ and a testing soon for my green belt in judo
Perseverance and consistency
True. You do have to keep showing up!
3:42
My man, yes! Some folk at will jump in and coach if the other person even pauses for a second...Let people think, let people work things out for themselves!
This is really good advice as always. I am super enthusiastic about BJJ and am always sharing little things I have discovered, but I think its kind of obnoxious and I need to stop.
Glad the videos are helping you!
Blue here, I started at 40, this is my third year doing BJJ. A lot has changed since then and I'm more happy doing BJJ now than before. I used to over worried about little things. I recovered from an ACL injury and the mentally challenged. I remember been mad at the guy 😅 and now it is all about the journey. I tapped often and quickly but I am more happy during training. Now I try to organize what I'm doing, I work on doing it right before I was more let's say, more active, less technical, and more stressed out lol
Very cool to read how you've progressed in your perspective - and how you're enjoying it now more than ever! Keep going!
White belt here. Gonna be totally honest here. There are times when I have trouble seeing how a technique that is being taught can be applied while rolling because the opponent is at a higher level than the technique being taught. That's been my experience so there's a bit of a disconnect between technique and practice. I'm not saying that that's all the techniques, but a good number of them. And nevermind a stronger and bigger opponent which is almost always the case for my gym. Again, white belt here putting in my own two cents.
You make a good observation. Higher belts know how to counter/defend so often times white belts struggle to implement techniques taught in class to rolling. I think that’s normal. Two things:
1. Find a higher rank that will work with you, allow you the freedom to work those techniques with minimum resistance.
2. Find someone before or after class to drill the techniques. Having times outside of class can help some things click, and retain. Easier to implement in live rolling when you’ve drilled it successfully…and you can have them increase intensity each time to help get more of a live roll feel.
You have to learn the techniques anyway. Once you get the experience of years of rolling you learn to apply well known techniques through chains and hiding them within other techniques. I just takes awhile to learn.
I was always taught that white belts should focus on defending and escaping.
Or, maybe not.
To each their own.🕺🏾
@@gojuboxer4224 That's not always the case though. We do positional sparring and white belts can be in the attacking position. Plus it typically takes 2 years to get a blue belt I'm told (of course that can vary), but are you telling me that in those 2 years all you'd be doing as a white belt is defending and escaping? Plus white belts can compete, so you have to attack in that situation. So not sure if I agree that white belts should only focus on defending and escaping.