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My current struggle is I've been a white belt for almost a month and I'm getting my ass kicked by guys who've been doing bjj less than me. I'm not gonna quit but it does suck lol.
I simply can't remember the techniques. Sometimes seconds after the instructor showed. I really wanna learn bjj but I don't want people seeing me as stupid.
I am a 49 almost 50 year old who did kickboxing, muay Thai and MMA/No GI for over 10 years, quit for 15 and 3 months ago started at the gym when I saw they had a MT program starting up. However, was going to go anyway because all those years of submission wrestling/no gi - I have nothing to validate it. Of course with 15 years off I move slower, etc and avoided the class up till this week, just doing MT and letting my body get off the couch and doing something super familiar, MT. I got my Long Wanted FUJI comp Gi last night. I sent a picture to one of my old students who now owns his own BJJ academy and is swamped in students. Very proud of the years he spent with me and then went on to train with solid BJJ guys and earn his black belt. A road I could only take him down so far. I can already tell that my brain and my body are fighting each other. I really consider myself a true white belt in BJJ especially with the GI. With someone like myself, alot of years behind me, should I really be trying to work technique or should I really just clear my head ( no ego issue being a white belt because it feels exciting to learn new stuff ) and focus on positions and avoidiing getting submitted or should I go ahead and try to work the submissions I know. The GI game I'd say from watching is a technical level beyond anything I did in terms of holds, new oppoortunities, etc. I guess basically have you had people who had a background, a long background but are coming into a true BJJ class and how and what do you t ell them?
Hey Chasen, I left a similar comment on another of your videos. I'm a white belt (four months), and my biggest problem is when I have to roll with another white belt (especially with one or two stripes /the Speedy Gonzales type ). These tend to be very aggressive in their attack and when executing techniques (especially armbars) they end up injuring me. That makes me feel very annoyed and frustrated because I do not share that attitude and obsession with winning I am a more type relaxed guy... . Thanks, greetings.
Yes, this can be an issue. I would suggest being defensive-minded and focused with these types of students. This slows the pace of the sparring down and limits the chance for injury. Once you develop your skills, you will be able to handle people like this easily! Good luck!
Necromancing this thread, but I am a white belt with 1 year of BJJ and MMA. I am in my mid-30s, and have wear and tear on my joints from 15 years as an Army Medic and Paratrooper. My problem is speed. Most everyone else is faster than me. I will see opportunities and openings, but by the time I see them and respond, they've closed. When I can get grips I can go 2-on-1 to slow them down to my speed, but if I don't have a grip I get out-maneuvered. This happens the most with open guard retention. Mine sucks because the other athletes can maneuver faster than I can respond. I am working on using my feet to hook more and increasing my back and shoulder flexibility so I can invert and granby roll.
I had a 12 year Hiatus. My professor Jory passed away. His wife abby was a purple belt when I first started. Now she the black belt teaching me. She taught when she was purple belt. But it just different now she knows more of course
You sure have a lot of patience and understanding for questions like this. How in the fuck can you not understand that when you take years off there are people who didn’t take years off and they progressed? This literally upset the man so much he reached out to you and you chose to engage with him? I must be missing something here.
For me right now is going against people bigger than me nothing works they’re just so much stronger and just put their weight on me! But never quitting I strive for a purple!
Great Vid. White belt no stripe here. Been training for about 14 months. Definitely a mental game with BJJ, I have been focusing on the little successes like escaping from someone mount versus getting hung up on tapping people. Once I started doing this, the mental aspect for me changed and I really don’t care about tapping someone or me tapping. Just my 2 cents. Love the vid brother!
@Greg Lurik hell yeah…just gotta keep showing up. I haven’t been for 2 weeks due to some family stuff that is more of a priority, but should be back next week. I’m sure you will get your promo soon.
if youre rolling with someone more advanced then you, even if theyve been training a few months lonnger then you, just survive the round. best advice if gotten so far
I’m a 46 year old blue belt and Ima David as well. I DO consistently get tapped by Johnny...as well as Mario, Adam, Frankie, Mauricio and a slew of others. It’s humiliating and demoralizing...but I will never quit. My coach says he sees me getting better, but I don’t see it. I will never quit though, but I do need to learn how to relax during a roll.
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Been training for a month. Thought I was doing okay, managed to roll a few times with blue belts now being submitted and event made a few white belts tap. Last night different white belt came in , was very aggressive but I got absolutely smashed. It’s really in my head
TL:DR White belt getting smashed by other people. Feeling bad. This guys response: "Don't feel bad. Be strong." My response: Find a guy (white belt or higher), who is chill and helps you practice. There's no point in training with people that always want to win no matter what. If you spend months training with people, who are 2-3 times stronger than you and have more stamina, then you get tired, worn out and injured. No learning will happen here.
Thanks for you input! I'm not sure if you are referring to me about "Don't feel bad. Be Strong". If you are, that is not what I said. I explained in the video he was comparing his journey to others and he should focus on his mainly.
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You might try logging the techniques after class concludes with a few important details about what makes the move work :) Good luck in training! Sorry for the random question, I’m working on a project to help students stay on the mat longer. If you are open to chatting about your experience and helping, email me at chasenhill@gmail.com!
Just got promoted to 3 stripe white belt and for some weird reason, I feel like I have a target on my back and feel like everything I have learned has gone down the shitter! Literarily the next day after being promoted, I got my ass handed to me like I haven’t had for a while. This sound like typical BJJ progression? Does feel good to be promoted though 😁
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Man, I just walk out having had fun on the mats but don’t remember anything I’m taught, it just doesn’t go in. And then next lesson we do something else and that doesn’t go in. I did a beginners course and that was the same, other people were remembering things and doing things but I just wasn’t getting it.
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55 year old 3 stripe white belt. Two biggest issues are my cardio when rolling and recovery after a session. From a cardio standpoint I’m limited because I have heart disease and need to keep my heart rate below a certain level. I can’t just push through like the younger guys as much as I want to. And as far as recovery goes it just takes me longer. End of story. I want to train more but my body says no. Any advice would be appreciated.
I don't know if my comment will be read but I'd like to get my struggle off my chest. With regards to the video, it's kind of logical, if you stop training but the other guy doesn't, he will be better than you. That's obvious. Now about my struggle. To be honest, I'm on the verge of quitting. I have some martial arts background like kudo, kickboxing, boxing and lately 2 years of judo. I started bjj a month a half ago. It's a totally new gym so almost everyone is a white belt. Guess what, it's been almost two months now, I've been training 5-6 times a week (not counting judo and weights) and I HAVEN'T TAPPED ANYONE OUT!!! But I do keep getting tapped every time I roll by other white belts that started training with me!!! I know about not comparing yourself but man, when you keep getting tapped by people with barely 2 months of experience and you have some martial arts knowledge and you came with hopes to compete and you get smashed by every single white belt instead, I don't know, man. I now feel insecure, even scared of rolling and lost all the interest, not having fun at all. I'm seriously thinking about giving up. Maybe I thought that I could practice martial arts but it turns out there are people like me that just suck at it
Thanks for the question. Without knowing anything else about you, are the guys you training with much young or bigger than you? Size and age does have an effect. Getting tapped often is very normal as a white belt. You have only been training 2 months total. That is hardly anything. I was training for close to a year or more before tapping anyone. My goal was to survive till the end of the rounds, then be submitted less less each time, and then maybe try some offense. You aren't having fun because of your own mindset and comparing yourself to others. You are equating fun to "winning" and since you are being tapped, you aren't winning by your standards. You have to change that mindset if you want to be a black belt. If you don't want to change that, then you don't want to be a black belt. Also, you have to look at all the other positives. Are you learning? Are you getting in shape? Are you becoming a better person by keeping your ego in check? We can't forget about all the other positives compared to the negative of "not winning"
@@ChasenHill thank you for the reply! So, I'm actually the youngest guy in the gym right now. I'm 23 yo and I know that young guys should be giving a hard time to older people. However, at the same time, it looks like I'm the smallest in terms of size. I'm 180 cm tall and weigh about 80-81 kg. The other guys weigh about 100+. There's only one guy who is 83 kg and 33 yo. The rest are all like 40-50 yo. Yes, you are right. I do equate fun to winning. It seems like all the other guys in my gym do the same thing. We are all like competing with each other all the time. About learning, I don't know. It looks like I know more techniques but when I try to use them, I fail miserably. The only things that sometimes work are hold downs like side control or north south but no chokes or submissions. Once I decide to go for one, I fail. So I don't know if I'm learning anything since it doesn't work. I think I'm slowly improving my overall shape, but that's something that inevitably will happen. And yeah I'm slowly letting that ego go but still it's very frustrating, even if I tell myself to stop comparing, subliminally I think it's still happening and I end up being quite depressed
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I just got a fourth stripe on my white belt yesterday. I don't feel like I deserve it. I was out January, February and most of March because I got really sick with COVID. Once I returned my wind has not been good due to COVID lung damage. Then I had a leg injury and was out for another couple weeks. I just started training again and my skill level has gone way down. I'm definitely not my old self. My coach thought I deserved the stripe for some reason. Maybe she respects my heart. I don't know. I didn't ask.
Am I crazy? I’ve trained off and on for a bit in CA and Florida. I more or less was away for 8-9 years and am back at it in a new state. Every gym I’ve been apart of didn’t stripe adult white belts?
I train with my friend that did judo as a kid. Wrestling in high school and no gi jiu-jitsu. He kicks my ass all day. I understand that I may never catch up to him. I know I am way better 3 months later compared to day 1.
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Is it true that we, as students are really only searching for a handful of useful techniques based on our body & grappling type? And as we develop through the years we’re just refining it, defining it and mastering it while also adding weapons to our arsenal? Generally speaking of course. We are expected to know and drilled all aspects but the techniques that stand out and the ones we master become our own style. This comes to me as a relief because before I started BJJ I assumed I have to know EVERYTHING which at the time felt impossible and discouraging. Being close to blue belt, I’ve heard that blue belts are actually exposed to all of the techniques and by purple I should already know what techniques work for me and what does not. White to blue you’re learning the bare bones basics, blue, you’re branching out and discovering your own techniques, purple your refine and define your style and so on and so on. That’s what I’m starting to get the picture of anyways. It actually helps out a lot thinking this way because it really shows me that the journey is indeed a personal one and different from everyone else’s. I didn’t know the meaning of that statement until recently. OSS! 🦁
I would say yes and no to your question about searching for only a handful of techniques. Yes, it's true once you are a black belt or high level, you only really use a handful of techniques. I'm not a fan of having the mindset you should be finding your handful of techniques early on. I feel this is what puts the pressure on students to learn everything. Have fun and explore as a lower belt, try crazy things. The techniques I did at blue belt are not the same as black. As you are exposed to more techniques and concepts, your game will naturally start to mold. Don't put the extra pressure on!
@@ChasenHill I totally get what you're saying and you're right about new students becoming too obsessed about trying to learn everything. For me, I went through the same phase for the first two years, until it came down to really really really simplifying things because I was simply NOT retaining anything. Nowadays, if I find something that works, I'll stick it in a mental drawer, drill it, train it and fine tune it. Also, I find that when I'm trying to set things up, more often than not, they'll recognize what I'm trying to set up! From basic sweeps to shrimping to submissions, I used to think they were Zen masters knowing my every move before I made it. Later on, I began to think about it more and it was because, dude, we're all learning and training the exact same things; jiu jitsu. Chances are, the higher belts or even four stripe white belts have seen, train and done the exact same moves a million times over.. it becomes obvious what I'm trying to do, say, when I put my hand here and angle out here while having them in my guard. Probably gonna sweep somehow.
@@ChasenHill So instead of trying to learn everything under the sun, I learned different ways to apply what I already know. Namely, misdirection. Go for a collar choke in guard, break their posture down, when they pull back up, go for a sweep. For for an Americana in mount, when they escape, shoot for a technical mount and shoot for a kimura etc. etc. It seems to work so much better than going straight for whatever I wanted to do. I am figuring out more complex set ups like disguising my main attack around a few others moves to lure them into the position I want them to be in, but that’s a whole new can of worms lol. I don’t see Jiu Jitsu as singular movements and techniques one by one like they’re showing us in class anymore but more so as, what does this tie into what I already know, or how can I make this work in my existing game? Of course I still have fun, explore other options and just roll to roll, drill, etc. as well as keep an open mind during class. I’m a white belt and nothing will ever be as new and exciting for me as this early stage in development, so I try not to rush things anymore lol
I think I am struggling, or my coaches don't like me, I started Bjj 2022, and I have 2 stripes, I have won all of my matches since 2022, I'm 13-0 with 5 gold medals from tournaments in smooth comp. I did my first mma fight, and won that too. I see other guys at my gym who never won gold, and I can beat easily both, bigger and smaller sized guys as I am 6'4' 200 lbs, and these guys got their blue belts before me, I also tapped my coach as well purple belts regularly with leg locks as well as arm bars and RNC's. Yet I don't even get a third stripe or told what I am lacking in order to level up, because I want to compete against blue belts now. White belt is too easy for me.
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For context, I've been training for about a year now 4-5 times a week. Won a few comps at beginner and intermediate divisions (white/blue levels but our gym doesn't do belts) My question is in regards to how I should structure my training. At the MMA gym i train at, the only people that I have the ability to train with are either complete beginners that train BJJ maybe once a week and focus on striking arts, OR they are amateur/pro fighters and have been training BJJ for 8+ years. How do you structure your training and improve quickly when you only have access to training partners that either 1. Know nothing at all, or 2. Know far more than you?
Thanks for the question and a great one. I’ll try to keep my suggestion simple for this format. I might do a whole video based on this question soon for more detail. 1. Knowing nothing at all: When training with partners, you are more skilled than I suggest picking a specific focus, such as controls, escapes, individual sweeps, or even certain subs. You can control the entire training round. Don't always work on your best game, and use this round to get better. 2. Know far more than you: DEFENSE and staying calm is key. Do not try and beat the more skilled partner when training, try to survive and intelligently defend/escape. Attempting offensive on a significantly more skilled partner usually only leads to frustration. Taking the more defensive approach, as a higher value in that training round in my opinion. Once your skill is more equal, it will be easy mount a more successful offense approach. I hope this helps and I will hopefully do a full video about this subject soon!
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My current struggle is I've been a white belt for almost a month and I'm getting my ass kicked by guys who've been doing bjj less than me. I'm not gonna quit but it does suck lol.
Are you still training?
I simply can't remember the techniques. Sometimes seconds after the instructor showed. I really wanna learn bjj but I don't want people seeing me as stupid.
I am a 49 almost 50 year old who did kickboxing, muay Thai and MMA/No GI for over 10 years, quit for 15 and 3 months ago started at the gym when I saw they had a MT program starting up. However, was going to go anyway because all those years of submission wrestling/no gi - I have nothing to validate it. Of course with 15 years off I move slower, etc and avoided the class up till this week, just doing MT and letting my body get off the couch and doing something super familiar, MT. I got my Long Wanted FUJI comp Gi last night. I sent a picture to one of my old students who now owns his own BJJ academy and is swamped in students. Very proud of the years he spent with me and then went on to train with solid BJJ guys and earn his black belt. A road I could only take him down so far. I can already tell that my brain and my body are fighting each other. I really consider myself a true white belt in BJJ especially with the GI. With someone like myself, alot of years behind me, should I really be trying to work technique or should I really just clear my head ( no ego issue being a white belt because it feels exciting to learn new stuff ) and focus on positions and avoidiing getting submitted or should I go ahead and try to work the submissions I know. The GI game I'd say from watching is a technical level beyond anything I did in terms of holds, new oppoortunities, etc. I guess basically have you had people who had a background, a long background but are coming into a true BJJ class and how and what do you t ell them?
Hey Chasen, I left a similar comment on another of your videos. I'm a white belt (four months), and my biggest problem is when I have to roll with another white belt (especially with one or two stripes /the Speedy Gonzales type ). These tend to be very aggressive in their attack and when executing techniques (especially armbars) they end up injuring me. That makes me feel very annoyed and frustrated because I do not share that attitude and obsession with winning I am a more type relaxed guy... . Thanks, greetings.
Yes, this can be an issue. I would suggest being defensive-minded and focused with these types of students. This slows the pace of the sparring down and limits the chance for injury. Once you develop your skills, you will be able to handle people like this easily! Good luck!
Thanks for the video. Im a white belt and its hard. Im going to stick it out.
Necromancing this thread, but I am a white belt with 1 year of BJJ and MMA. I am in my mid-30s, and have wear and tear on my joints from 15 years as an Army Medic and Paratrooper. My problem is speed. Most everyone else is faster than me. I will see opportunities and openings, but by the time I see them and respond, they've closed. When I can get grips I can go 2-on-1 to slow them down to my speed, but if I don't have a grip I get out-maneuvered. This happens the most with open guard retention. Mine sucks because the other athletes can maneuver faster than I can respond. I am working on using my feet to hook more and increasing my back and shoulder flexibility so I can invert and granby roll.
I had a 12 year Hiatus. My professor Jory passed away. His wife abby was a purple belt when I first started. Now she the black belt teaching me. She taught when she was purple belt. But it just different now she knows more of course
I'm so sorry to hear about your Joy! Amazing his wife is still training and teaching. Awesome to also here you still train with her!
You sure have a lot of patience and understanding for questions like this. How in the fuck can you not understand that when you take years off there are people who didn’t take years off and they progressed? This literally upset the man so much he reached out to you and you chose to engage with him? I must be missing something here.
For me right now is going against people bigger than me nothing works they’re just so much stronger and just put their weight on me! But never quitting I strive for a purple!
You've got this! Think about setting realistic expectations when training with people bigger than you. Train smarter not harder! You can do it!
Great Vid. White belt no stripe here. Been training for about 14 months. Definitely a mental game with BJJ, I have been focusing on the little successes like escaping from someone mount versus getting hung up on tapping people. Once I started doing this, the mental aspect for me changed and I really don’t care about tapping someone or me tapping. Just my 2 cents. Love the vid brother!
Awesome! Great mindset to have. Thanks for your support!
@Greg Lurik back in March I was given 3 stripes. Our gym was behind in promotions due to Covid so they played catchup
@Greg Lurik hell yeah…just gotta keep showing up. I haven’t been for 2 weeks due to some family stuff that is more of a priority, but should be back next week. I’m sure you will get your promo soon.
if youre rolling with someone more advanced then you, even if theyve been training a few months lonnger then you, just survive the round. best advice if gotten so far
Agreed, especially when you are brand new. Eventually, you want to transition into a different mindset 😀
I’m a 46 year old blue belt and Ima David as well. I DO consistently get tapped by Johnny...as well as Mario, Adam, Frankie, Mauricio and a slew of others. It’s humiliating and demoralizing...but I will never quit. My coach says he sees me getting better, but I don’t see it. I will never quit though, but I do need to learn how to relax during a roll.
It's an essential skill to develop! Thanks for sharing and check out the video!
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Been training for a month. Thought I was doing okay, managed to roll a few times with blue belts now being submitted and event made a few white belts tap. Last night different white belt came in , was very aggressive but I got absolutely smashed. It’s really in my head
Same here, very frustrating.
TL:DR
White belt getting smashed by other people. Feeling bad.
This guys response: "Don't feel bad. Be strong."
My response: Find a guy (white belt or higher), who is chill and helps you practice. There's no point in training with people that always want to win no matter what.
If you spend months training with people, who are 2-3 times stronger than you and have more stamina, then you get tired, worn out and injured. No learning will happen here.
Thanks for you input! I'm not sure if you are referring to me about "Don't feel bad. Be Strong". If you are, that is not what I said. I explained in the video he was comparing his journey to others and he should focus on his mainly.
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My biggest struggles is to remember the techniques. I learn one technique for the day and don’t know what else to do. It can be frustrating
You might try logging the techniques after class concludes with a few important details about what makes the move work :) Good luck in training! Sorry for the random question, I’m working on a project to help students stay on the mat longer. If you are open to chatting about your experience and helping, email me at chasenhill@gmail.com!
@@ChasenHill awesome! Thank you for your reply 🙏🏽 much love from Hawaii!
Just got promoted to 3 stripe white belt and for some weird reason, I feel like I have a target on my back and feel like everything I have learned has gone down the shitter! Literarily the next day after being promoted, I got my ass handed to me like I haven’t had for a while. This sound like typical BJJ progression? Does feel good to be promoted though 😁
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Man, I just walk out having had fun on the mats but don’t remember anything I’m taught, it just doesn’t go in. And then next lesson we do something else and that doesn’t go in. I did a beginners course and that was the same, other people were remembering things and doing things but I just wasn’t getting it.
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55 year old 3 stripe white belt. Two biggest issues are my cardio when rolling and recovery after a session. From a cardio standpoint I’m limited because I have heart disease and need to keep my heart rate below a certain level. I can’t just push through like the younger guys as much as I want to. And as far as recovery goes it just takes me longer. End of story. I want to train more but my body says no. Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks for the video, I will always watch this when I feel like I’m infront of a wall
I don't know if my comment will be read but I'd like to get my struggle off my chest.
With regards to the video, it's kind of logical, if you stop training but the other guy doesn't, he will be better than you. That's obvious.
Now about my struggle. To be honest, I'm on the verge of quitting. I have some martial arts background like kudo, kickboxing, boxing and lately 2 years of judo. I started bjj a month a half ago. It's a totally new gym so almost everyone is a white belt. Guess what, it's been almost two months now, I've been training 5-6 times a week (not counting judo and weights) and I HAVEN'T TAPPED ANYONE OUT!!! But I do keep getting tapped every time I roll by other white belts that started training with me!!! I know about not comparing yourself but man, when you keep getting tapped by people with barely 2 months of experience and you have some martial arts knowledge and you came with hopes to compete and you get smashed by every single white belt instead, I don't know, man. I now feel insecure, even scared of rolling and lost all the interest, not having fun at all. I'm seriously thinking about giving up. Maybe I thought that I could practice martial arts but it turns out there are people like me that just suck at it
Thanks for the question. Without knowing anything else about you, are the guys you training with much young or bigger than you? Size and age does have an effect.
Getting tapped often is very normal as a white belt. You have only been training 2 months total. That is hardly anything. I was training for close to a year or more before tapping anyone. My goal was to survive till the end of the rounds, then be submitted less less each time, and then maybe try some offense. You aren't having fun because of your own mindset and comparing yourself to others. You are equating fun to "winning" and since you are being tapped, you aren't winning by your standards. You have to change that mindset if you want to be a black belt. If you don't want to change that, then you don't want to be a black belt.
Also, you have to look at all the other positives. Are you learning? Are you getting in shape? Are you becoming a better person by keeping your ego in check? We can't forget about all the other positives compared to the negative of "not winning"
@@ChasenHill thank you for the reply!
So, I'm actually the youngest guy in the gym right now. I'm 23 yo and I know that young guys should be giving a hard time to older people. However, at the same time, it looks like I'm the smallest in terms of size. I'm 180 cm tall and weigh about 80-81 kg. The other guys weigh about 100+. There's only one guy who is 83 kg and 33 yo. The rest are all like 40-50 yo.
Yes, you are right. I do equate fun to winning. It seems like all the other guys in my gym do the same thing. We are all like competing with each other all the time.
About learning, I don't know. It looks like I know more techniques but when I try to use them, I fail miserably. The only things that sometimes work are hold downs like side control or north south but no chokes or submissions. Once I decide to go for one, I fail. So I don't know if I'm learning anything since it doesn't work.
I think I'm slowly improving my overall shape, but that's something that inevitably will happen.
And yeah I'm slowly letting that ego go but still it's very frustrating, even if I tell myself to stop comparing, subliminally I think it's still happening and I end up being quite depressed
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As a blue belt this is still very helpful. Thanks for the video needed a push today.
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@@ChasenHill yes sir I am. Look forward to your future videos. Keep up the great work.
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I just got a fourth stripe on my white belt yesterday. I don't feel like I deserve it. I was out January, February and most of March because I got really sick with COVID. Once I returned my wind has not been good due to COVID lung damage. Then I had a leg injury and was out for another couple weeks. I just started training again and my skill level has gone way down. I'm definitely not my old self. My coach thought I deserved the stripe for some reason. Maybe she respects my heart. I don't know. I didn't ask.
Am I crazy? I’ve trained off and on for a bit in CA and Florida. I more or less was away for 8-9 years and am back at it in a new state.
Every gym I’ve been apart of didn’t stripe adult white belts?
Great video. I needed this!
I train with my friend that did judo as a kid. Wrestling in high school and no gi jiu-jitsu. He kicks my ass all day. I understand that I may never catch up to him. I know I am way better 3 months later compared to day 1.
Great mindset to have. Only compare your journey!
you need more subs, thanks for the vids
I appreciate that!
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Is it true that we, as students are really only searching for a handful of useful techniques based on our body & grappling type? And as we develop through the years we’re just refining it, defining it and mastering it while also adding weapons to our arsenal? Generally speaking of course. We are expected to know and drilled all aspects but the techniques that stand out and the ones we master become our own style. This comes to me as a relief because before I started BJJ I assumed I have to know EVERYTHING which at the time felt impossible and discouraging. Being close to blue belt, I’ve heard that blue belts are actually exposed to all of the techniques and by purple I should already know what techniques work for me and what does not. White to blue you’re learning the bare bones basics, blue, you’re branching out and discovering your own techniques, purple your refine and define your style and so on and so on. That’s what I’m starting to get the picture of anyways. It actually helps out a lot thinking this way because it really shows me that the journey is indeed a personal one and different from everyone else’s. I didn’t know the meaning of that statement until recently. OSS! 🦁
I would say yes and no to your question about searching for only a handful of techniques. Yes, it's true once you are a black belt or high level, you only really use a handful of techniques. I'm not a fan of having the mindset you should be finding your handful of techniques early on. I feel this is what puts the pressure on students to learn everything. Have fun and explore as a lower belt, try crazy things. The techniques I did at blue belt are not the same as black. As you are exposed to more techniques and concepts, your game will naturally start to mold. Don't put the extra pressure on!
@@ChasenHill I totally get what you're saying and you're right about new students becoming too obsessed about trying to learn everything. For me, I went through the same phase for the first two years, until it came down to really really really simplifying things because I was simply NOT retaining anything. Nowadays, if I find something that works, I'll stick it in a mental drawer, drill it, train it and fine tune it. Also, I find that when I'm trying to set things up, more often than not, they'll recognize what I'm trying to set up! From basic sweeps to shrimping to submissions, I used to think they were Zen masters knowing my every move before I made it. Later on, I began to think about it more and it was because, dude, we're all learning and training the exact same things; jiu jitsu. Chances are, the higher belts or even four stripe white belts have seen, train and done the exact same moves a million times over.. it becomes obvious what I'm trying to do, say, when I put my hand here and angle out here while having them in my guard. Probably gonna sweep somehow.
@@ChasenHill So instead of trying to learn everything under the sun, I learned different ways to apply what I already know. Namely, misdirection. Go for a collar choke in guard, break their posture down, when they pull back up, go for a sweep. For for an Americana in mount, when they escape, shoot for a technical mount and shoot for a kimura etc. etc. It seems to work so much better than going straight for whatever I wanted to do. I am figuring out more complex set ups like disguising my main attack around a few others moves to lure them into the position I want them to be in, but that’s a whole new can of worms lol. I don’t see Jiu Jitsu as singular movements and techniques one by one like they’re showing us in class anymore but more so as, what does this tie into what I already know, or how can I make this work in my existing game? Of course I still have fun, explore other options and just roll to roll, drill, etc. as well as keep an open mind during class. I’m a white belt and nothing will ever be as new and exciting for me as this early stage in development, so I try not to rush things anymore lol
I think I am struggling, or my coaches don't like me, I started Bjj 2022, and I have 2 stripes, I have won all of my matches since 2022, I'm 13-0 with 5 gold medals from tournaments in smooth comp. I did my first mma fight, and won that too. I see other guys at my gym who never won gold, and I can beat easily both, bigger and smaller sized guys as I am 6'4' 200 lbs, and these guys got their blue belts before me, I also tapped my coach as well purple belts regularly with leg locks as well as arm bars and RNC's. Yet I don't even get a third stripe or told what I am lacking in order to level up, because I want to compete against blue belts now. White belt is too easy for me.
Good Video. Nicely done ✅
Thank you! 👍
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For context, I've been training for about a year now 4-5 times a week. Won a few comps at beginner and intermediate divisions (white/blue levels but our gym doesn't do belts) My question is in regards to how I should structure my training.
At the MMA gym i train at, the only people that I have the ability to train with are either complete beginners that train BJJ maybe once a week and focus on striking arts, OR they are amateur/pro fighters and have been training BJJ for 8+ years.
How do you structure your training and improve quickly when you only have access to training partners that either
1. Know nothing at all, or
2. Know far more than you?
Thanks for the question and a great one. I’ll try to keep my suggestion simple for this format. I might do a whole video based on this question soon for more detail.
1. Knowing nothing at all:
When training with partners, you are more skilled than I suggest picking a specific focus, such as controls, escapes, individual sweeps, or even certain subs. You can control the entire training round. Don't always work on your best game, and use this round to get better.
2. Know far more than you:
DEFENSE and staying calm is key. Do not try and beat the more skilled partner when training, try to survive and intelligently defend/escape. Attempting offensive on a significantly more skilled partner usually only leads to frustration. Taking the more defensive approach, as a higher value in that training round in my opinion. Once your skill is more equal, it will be easy mount a more successful offense approach.
I hope this helps and I will hopefully do a full video about this subject soon!
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Comparison is the thief of joy.