You gave Thao a lot of respect. So respect for you. I liked watching that roll. Good pace and you two were able to think about the roll and situations you were being put in.
i m a 3 stripes brown belt, and when i roll i m never obsessed by submit the other guy, even if BJJ does not have striking, in my mind i always roll thinking we can strike each other , try to have a very martial art mindset more than a competition mindset, i want to be lethal (at my level) in the position, i want to feel i m controlling my sparring partner and if i want i can kill him with ground and pound, and i try to train as much as i can the escapes to save my ass, expecially when i roll with white or blue belts i give them the mount, the 100 kilos, i give them my back to train my escapes, very very important considering that i m also an over 50 man i can find lot of young guns giving me hard times
It always amazes me how proficient guys can be at one specific sub, like your guillotine. I rolled with a guy that could armbar from almost anywhere it seemed like.
@@TylerSpangler I just read what I wrote, hopefully u didn’t take that as me thinkin you’re a one trick pony, lol. I watch you all the time, and I know that’s not the case. 🤙
Some people find a thing they love and just run with it. I rolled with a brown belt (I was a blue belt at the time) who similarly hit me with an armbar from absolutely everywhere. It's really cool to see someone specialize and find expertise in an area.
@@TylerSpangler Thats my problem with Kimuras currently. I see them in every position. Close guard? If I just sit up a little.. bam Kimura baby! I only get the sub 30% of the time. Sometimes I just get a sweep.. most of the time I just gas myself out lol
Great content Tyler! 50 yr old Brown belt here. My style is very similar to Thao, though he looks like he has really good balance too. For sure things would have gone differently if you attack the legs. I also have mega grip strength as an old guy (6ft 200 pounds) but lately I've been attacking legs more simply bc I'm old and I can haha this is one of my favorite channels and I didnt realize that I hadnt subscribed even though I look at this site weekly. Good luck and thanks for the awesome content! *BTW I'd love to see you attack legs more in the gi against lower belts like purple, not finishing the leg locks but just grabbing it so I can see how you do it since you'd probably do it at will.
Love your channel my friend! To me it is a good representation of the BJJ culture. Fun, energetic, and refreshing... the world has enough elite muscle heads, you just show love and roll! Big props
your content gets better and better!! It def took A LOT of time to create this... you'll be at 100K subs in no time!! If you're ever in the Boston area, let me know!!
Our gym has an unwritten "no oil change" rule in that because we have a lot of mma fighters, if you change someone's oil...you might get elbowed in the face. I'd rather just be fishhooked. You're also right about not knowing how hard to roll with an instructor at his own gym. It's a bad look to sub him in front of his own students, so I just defend and release subs (knowing in my head that I had it). However, and I've confirmed this with other high belt gym travelers, everytime I go to an open mat or visit another gym...the instructor puts me with 3 or 4 of his best students, then wants to do the last roll with me when he's fresh. (this is my wife's youtube acct, too lazy to change). One time I visited a very Brazilian gym and one guy actually whispered "watch your back, you have a target on it"...and this was during the pre class line up.
Hey! White belt here! I am struggling with a blue belt that has a similar grip game, and I keep slipping into his triangle or arm bar! It's good to see that struggling to break grips isn't a white belt thing!
You deserve your black belt. There are just different levels of black belt. And with your open mind to get better, you will. Every loss will build up to more and more wins.
An old coworker of mine did alot of kyokushin, he told me that the black belt was the beginning of his journey. Maybe its a good way to look at it. Up untill you earned it you were following somone else his path, now follow your own!
Summary of the video series we have here: If Tyler punks everyone at a gym he gets to wear the blackbelt until the next video. If he does not embarrass everyone at a gym his belt is confiscated by himself until the next video.
I was just talking to a new blue belt about feeling like you don’t deserve the belt you have and how much worse that must be for black belts. The skill ceiling for black belts is so damn high, must get hard to feel deserving of that belt.
Honestly, seems like that professor Thoa you rolled with, was barely trying. Obviously there’s a size discrepancy. But my gosh just look at how chill and relax he is. Much respect for Tyler being willing to roll with a diverse set of belts and sizes of people.
Just go and have a good time. I think there is a stigma with visiting other gyms, but most gyms are just happy to have new people. I’ll admit that they may give me more praise since I’m a black belt, but even when I was a lower belt they were happy to have me. Just be willing to work! Edit: I also think it goes a long way to offer to pay the drop in fee, even if they say it’s free. I like to do this just so they can see that I’m willing to be like other members
I am a blue belt and travel and drop in all the time. I recommend calling or messaging them asking if they have a price or if you can. Most places will have you just come on In. If not drop in fee I buy a shirt or maybe a rash guard
I love seeing the other warm ups from other gyms. I personally am not the best grappler but I really try to give it all in warm ups. Interesting they were doing sprawls and wind sprints. My former instructor would have us do that for punishment.
You made me think of an interesting idea. I'd love to hear your opinion. What if. Belts were limited and you had to steal them highlander style. One black belt per dojo. You get tapped you take off your belt and go back to brown. Purple belt taps you? He's a black belt for a minute till you get it back.
Like Ben was a purple belt for that kimura for a minute. Lol. You'd never feel like someone was going easy and letting you work and people would go home studying the defense to whatever they got caught with like crazy. Maybe just once a month.
Great video my question is? Why don’t you ask what you are allowed to use. That my first questions on rolling. I been asked to leave once when I heel hooked a blue belt. It was in the gi and wrong but should have asked.
Just subscribed to you, brother you get these taps with these guilotines that are usually low percentage, hpw have you managed to perfect it from so many awkward positions, any videos you have explaining the little critiques
Does any gym allows heel hooks in the gi? It seems like there would be way too much friction to ever get out. Great video as always Tyler! You're the man! Definitely a black belt👊💪🦵
@@TylerSpangler For sure a good thing. Does your gym allow heel hooks in the gi? We allow straight ankle locks in the gi but not heel hooks. In no gi all submissions are fair game. You're welcome boss man! Keep grinding!!
@Wrulol At IBJJF blacks belts aren't even allowed to do heel hooks in the gi. Claf/bicep slicers are legal, same with straight ankle locks and knee bars. It has to do with the amount of friction at place in the gi.
You never going be the best, there's always someone that's better than you and you'll always be better than someone else, you just prove this to me. More evidence same with me and other blue belts I dominate some, some dominate me. You're black belt bro
well you have a killer guillotine choke i give you that, in my mind you are a legit black belt, you are not Andre Galvao or Marcelo Garcia of course..the chinese instructor you rolled with at the end has few stripes on his belt, he is older than you, but maybe he has 10 years more of practise on you, keep rocking hard bro!
So, I was thinking, before this video, how would Tyler approach it when he goes to a gym and catches someone, and how that person would feel if they found the video. Well.. This is interesting
@@MNAcupuncture Heyyyyy. You did great! I wasn’t trying to spark anything, just that you’ll have to make content too! As for the sub, chatting and laughing together then doing a triangle isn’t really fair game lol. I really enjoyed rolling with you! I hope you didn’t take my comment out of context. Will gladly roll with you in the future. I made sure to play it slow and feel out, so hopefully you don’t actually think that was an ambush. Great work!
I enjoy this video sound like you enjoy no gi more then gi you have amazing guillotine and very good sweep from bottom that old black belt samurai you face have strong grip he can control you and make it hard to pull any sub great roll hope to see more video Oss
Go hard back or stop rolling with them or respectfully tell them here rolling to hard it's just sparring don't feel bad for being uncomfortable rolling with someone
Massive props to you for being willing to show your losses and skill gaps, Tyler.
Thanks for watching amigo!
You gave Thao a lot of respect. So respect for you. I liked watching that roll. Good pace and you two were able to think about the roll and situations you were being put in.
Anyone who says you should not be a black belt is crazy. You have some serious skills.
Thanks mate. Always appreciate hearing that 😀
Man, videos like this make me wish you had more subs. You really make some of the best BJJ content on UA-cam.
Love to hear that 😀😀 hopefully they’ll come with time. Grinding until then 👍🏻
@@TylerSpangler They're coming. I have no doubt 👍
Lmao i read that the first time that you wish he pulled more submissions and to stop sucking 🤣 but yeah I agree these videos are great
i m a 3 stripes brown belt, and when i roll i m never obsessed by submit the other guy, even if BJJ does not have striking, in my mind i always roll thinking we can strike each other , try to have a very martial art mindset more than a competition mindset, i want to be lethal (at my level) in the position, i want to feel i m controlling my sparring partner and if i want i can kill him with ground and pound, and i try to train as much as i can the escapes to save my ass, expecially when i roll with white or blue belts i give them the mount, the 100 kilos, i give them my back to train my escapes, very very important considering that i m also an over 50 man i can find lot of young guns giving me hard times
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It always amazes me how proficient guys can be at one specific sub, like your guillotine. I rolled with a guy that could armbar from almost anywhere it seemed like.
That’s awesome! I like the guillotine because it’s in 90% of positions. Maybe one day I’ll be good at kimuras as well for that same reason
@@TylerSpangler I just read what I wrote, hopefully u didn’t take that as me thinkin you’re a one trick pony, lol. I watch you all the time, and I know that’s not the case. 🤙
Some people find a thing they love and just run with it. I rolled with a brown belt (I was a blue belt at the time) who similarly hit me with an armbar from absolutely everywhere. It's really cool to see someone specialize and find expertise in an area.
@@TylerSpangler Thats my problem with Kimuras currently. I see them in every position. Close guard? If I just sit up a little.. bam Kimura baby!
I only get the sub 30% of the time. Sometimes I just get a sweep.. most of the time I just gas myself out lol
First roll with 1 specific black belt, 6 wrist locks in 6 minutes on the minute every minute. Yeah they are everywhere xd.
Great content Tyler! 50 yr old Brown belt here. My style is very similar to Thao, though he looks like he has really good balance too. For sure things would have gone differently if you attack the legs. I also have mega grip strength as an old guy (6ft 200 pounds) but lately I've been attacking legs more simply bc I'm old and I can haha this is one of my favorite channels and I didnt realize that I hadnt subscribed even though I look at this site weekly. Good luck and thanks for the awesome content! *BTW I'd love to see you attack legs more in the gi against lower belts like purple, not finishing the leg locks but just grabbing it so I can see how you do it since you'd probably do it at will.
I recently got back into bjj training after quitting for 5 years!! Watching your videos helps a lot and makes me love the sport even more than before.
Mike is friggin awesome man
Love your channel my friend! To me it is a good representation of the BJJ culture. Fun, energetic, and refreshing... the world has enough elite muscle heads, you just show love and roll! Big props
I need to learn your shallow guillotine, it's looking super strong!
A black belt killer at times! Hopefully you watched my tutorial video on it!
Keep up the visiting gym videos! Fun to see different levels of black belts rolling and their styles.
Will do! Thanks for watching
Would you make a tutorial on the "Oil check"?
Maybe I will on international mens day 👍🏻👍🏻
Lol
I really enjoy these videos of you visiting different bjj gyms they’re really informational
the ONLY true way to be an open and learning martial artist. TEST what you know, be open to learn, and "absorb what is useful".... keep at it
your content gets better and better!! It def took A LOT of time to create this... you'll be at 100K subs in no time!! If you're ever in the Boston area, let me know!!
Would love to travel that direction and make a video with you!
Coach Thao is a physical specimen
Our gym has an unwritten "no oil change" rule in that because we have a lot of mma fighters, if you change someone's oil...you might get elbowed in the face. I'd rather just be fishhooked. You're also right about not knowing how hard to roll with an instructor at his own gym. It's a bad look to sub him in front of his own students, so I just defend and release subs (knowing in my head that I had it). However, and I've confirmed this with other high belt gym travelers, everytime I go to an open mat or visit another gym...the instructor puts me with 3 or 4 of his best students, then wants to do the last roll with me when he's fresh. (this is my wife's youtube acct, too lazy to change). One time I visited a very Brazilian gym and one guy actually whispered "watch your back, you have a target on it"...and this was during the pre class line up.
Very very important to train and roll at other gyms, lots of other gyms.
Hey! White belt here! I am struggling with a blue belt that has a similar grip game, and I keep slipping into his triangle or arm bar! It's good to see that struggling to break grips isn't a white belt thing!
Looks like an awesome class thanks for posting!!
Professor Thao is the man.
Quite a nice guy
Keep em coming man
Super humble, love the content, definitely just got another subscriber
The arm lock from minute 6:36 was awesome.
You deserve your black belt. There are just different levels of black belt. And with your open mind to get better, you will. Every loss will build up to more and more wins.
This is an amazing video, with a great mindset behind it. Thank you for posting this.
This man is a total fuckin legend
An old coworker of mine did alot of kyokushin, he told me that the black belt was the beginning of his journey. Maybe its a good way to look at it. Up untill you earned it you were following somone else his path, now follow your own!
Thanks for keeping up that great work, I really really really enjoy your content
This place is brutal. They are training you to be really good. My gym does classes and then open mat pretty much.
You definately deserve your black belt ! Osss
This channel should definitely have more subs.
i really like your channel and the videos are entertaining. I hope you reach 100K soon !!
I hope so too! Glad you enjoy it mate. Thanks for watching 😀
Summary of the video series we have here:
If Tyler punks everyone at a gym he gets to wear the blackbelt until the next video.
If he does not embarrass everyone at a gym his belt is confiscated by himself until the next video.
I was just talking to a new blue belt about feeling like you don’t deserve the belt you have and how much worse that must be for black belts. The skill ceiling for black belts is so damn high, must get hard to feel deserving of that belt.
Honestly, seems like that professor Thoa you rolled with, was barely trying. Obviously there’s a size discrepancy. But my gosh just look at how chill and relax he is. Much respect for Tyler being willing to roll with a diverse set of belts and sizes of people.
Thao is a beast, would definitely not want to get on his bad side
This channel is just fucking on fire.
This was great lol
Lmao "wearing the black belt or burning the black belt"
Any recommendations for lower belts wanting to visit other gyms? I thoroughly appreciate getting to train with other unique styles.
yeah, the recommendation is to go
Just go and have a good time. I think there is a stigma with visiting other gyms, but most gyms are just happy to have new people.
I’ll admit that they may give me more praise since I’m a black belt, but even when I was a lower belt they were happy to have me. Just be willing to work!
Edit: I also think it goes a long way to offer to pay the drop in fee, even if they say it’s free. I like to do this just so they can see that I’m willing to be like other members
That's a good idea, a drop in fee is normally like $20 or so, and the experience is worth that.
I am a blue belt and travel and drop in all the time. I recommend calling or messaging them asking if they have a price or if you can. Most places will have you just come on In. If not drop in fee I buy a shirt or maybe a rash guard
Just go. I'm a bare white belt and still get a warm welcome at every gym I go to.
Does it bother you to hit the same submission over and over? Or do you just take whatever submission is available?
I won’t stop the guillotines until I am better at them than Marcelo Garcia
Yes to everything you just did
Thanks for watching 😀
You rock dude! God Bless you! Thanks for the great content!
I just found your channel. Really liking the content 😊
You should check out World Jiu Jitsu in Eden Prairie sometime.
Hope to make my way over that direction soon 😀
Please keep these videos coming!!
Will do amigo 😀😀
Solid content. I usually dont sub to other youtubers. Nice.
Glad you liked it amigo😀
Amazing competition training!!!
Great vid editing is on point
Glad you liked it! Took some time, but it’s fun to sync the music with the cuts!
I love seeing the other warm ups from other gyms. I personally am not the best grappler but I really try to give it all in warm ups. Interesting they were doing sprawls and wind sprints. My former instructor would have us do that for punishment.
It was for a competition class
Guillotine is on point. Definitely a nuanced position that I need some serious work on.
Oil check joke? Instant thumbs up
This was great content
Yo, Tyler you just have to start using Tom Seguras "you gotta protect yo neck!" clip from his Ball Hog special.
is that a Punisher gi jacket?
Indeed it is!!
You made me think of an interesting idea. I'd love to hear your opinion. What if. Belts were limited and you had to steal them highlander style. One black belt per dojo. You get tapped you take off your belt and go back to brown. Purple belt taps you? He's a black belt for a minute till you get it back.
Like Ben was a purple belt for that kimura for a minute. Lol. You'd never feel like someone was going easy and letting you work and people would go home studying the defense to whatever they got caught with like crazy.
Maybe just once a month.
Go to Rio Jitsu in Apple Valley!
Didn’t know there was a gym there. I’ll be messaging them
pretty nice, thanks for the info
6:40 was that just an arm bar or a kimura or both?
Will your bring Ben with you to any of these gym visits?
I’d like to, but I’d have to let them know if his energy before hand 😉
Spider guard with a collar grip is so hard to deal with,
Love the music at the end (7mins) what is that? Who is it by?
Highlight Reel - Dylan Sitts 😀
Would love to see a video about who you got your black belt from
Love the travel vids
Great video my question is? Why don’t you ask what you are allowed to use. That my first questions on rolling. I been asked to leave once when I heel hooked a blue belt. It was in the gi and wrong but should have asked.
1:49 another popular term for 'oil check' is "culo defense". 😉👍
Just subscribed to you, brother you get these taps with these guilotines that are usually low percentage, hpw have you managed to perfect it from so many awkward positions, any videos you have explaining the little critiques
you need more subs honestly
Slowly but surely they’ll come! Thanks for watching 😀
Does any gym allows heel hooks in the gi? It seems like there would be way too much friction to ever get out.
Great video as always Tyler! You're the man! Definitely a black belt👊💪🦵
Sadly they do not. I asked after and he said no, so it’s wise that I didn’t start throwing them out there 😂thanks for watching amigo
@@TylerSpangler For sure a good thing. Does your gym allow heel hooks in the gi? We allow straight ankle locks in the gi but not heel hooks. In no gi all submissions are fair game. You're welcome boss man! Keep grinding!!
Oh we allow hell hooks in gi with the kindset of just tap 8 head
@Greg Lurik That seems pretty dangerous in the gi, just because of the amount of friction.
@Wrulol At IBJJF blacks belts aren't even allowed to do heel hooks in the gi. Claf/bicep slicers are legal, same with straight ankle locks and knee bars. It has to do with the amount of friction at place in the gi.
Not easy going to a new gym. But so good for you.
You never going be the best, there's always someone that's better than you and you'll always be better than someone else, you just prove this to me. More evidence same with me and other blue belts I dominate some, some dominate me. You're black belt bro
Come to our karate school we wear bandanas and leather gi’s with no sleeves
Paul Phoenix style 😀
You dominate first black belt because he's an old man already
Come to the UK please to train. 🇬🇧
Would love to visit other countries one day if the channel does well
I've been rolling for years and probably gotten fewer guillotines in my entire career than you did in that single video.
Man I thought I went to a nice gym but it looks like a dungeon compared to this place and the last gym u went to.
I feel the same way visiting all these nice gyms 😂
What’s that song at 6:55? Sick beat.
The internet wants a Tyler Spangler / Hart2Hurt collaboration! 😎
I’ll do collabs 😀
Pretty cool old man grip
Guillotine has always been my favorite choke, that ain’t gonna stop 😀
You are a very wise individual 😀
well you have a killer guillotine choke i give you that, in my mind you are a legit black belt, you are not Andre Galvao or Marcelo Garcia of course..the chinese instructor you rolled with at the end has few stripes on his belt, he is older than you, but maybe he has 10 years more of practise on you, keep rocking hard bro!
Love that Punisher Gi 💪❤️😎
Really Cool drills Great Scrambles 👍
Great video
Thanks mate!
So, I wonder if the black belt you tapped is now feeling like he doesn't deserve his...
Hahaha
You put out some great content, man.
Glad you liked it! Hopefully he isn’t going through that. He will have to do some travel videos too and prove himself 😉
*grabs popcorn*
So, I was thinking, before this video, how would Tyler approach it when he goes to a gym and catches someone, and how that person would feel if they found the video.
Well..
This is interesting
@@MNAcupuncture Heyyyyy. You did great! I wasn’t trying to spark anything, just that you’ll have to make content too!
As for the sub, chatting and laughing together then doing a triangle isn’t really fair game lol.
I really enjoyed rolling with you! I hope you didn’t take my comment out of context.
Will gladly roll with you in the future. I made sure to play it slow and feel out, so hopefully you don’t actually think that was an ambush. Great work!
@@wylian84 UA-cam doesn’t really tell you when people reply to your video comments so I had no idea what was going on here
I train at prodigy! My daughter and her cousin do too!
Why can't you heel hook in Gi? I've literally never heard this before
love the content
amazing video.... how old are you Tyler ?
25 😀 thanks for watching
Nice video!
Glad you enjoyed it
Mr french revolution over here.
Hahaha 😄. Love this vid.
Glad you loved it!!
Good stuff
Glad you liked it amigo
I enjoy this video sound like you enjoy no gi more then gi you have amazing guillotine and very good sweep from bottom that old black belt samurai you face have strong grip he can control you and make it hard to pull any sub great roll hope to see more video Oss
good video just please wear shorts with the spats...its awkward lol
Also keep in mind weight difference.
Thao is badass
Dangerous hood y’all were in. I hope you guys were safe.
I told them I knew josh and then we were tight 😤😤
I'm quite the opposite of you. My gi game is on point, need to train more no gi. Don't worry we all deserve our black belts
How tall is Thao?
Quite! Seemed like 6’1 or so
What do you do when you run into someone with a huge ego that constantly tries to go harder and harder trying to one up you?
Go hard back or stop rolling with them or respectfully tell them here rolling to hard it's just sparring don't feel bad for being uncomfortable rolling with someone