I’m a competitive brown belt which wants to practice my remote coaching skills. Send me a sparring/competition footage of you and I’ll give you a free review on what you did wrong.
Do you think these stats are too much or on par for a white belt who’s been training around 18 months?
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I just want to say that reading through these comments has been a combination of hilarious replies and truly helpful advice.
Thank you guys for the laughs and the great advice you took the time to share with me.
I appreciate all of it.
Hello,
I recently thought about this recently with my last gym and the lack of standup. No high intensity rolls and etc. I recently thought about BJJ turning into the next karate and I honestly believe this is true.
Like guard pulling is rampant in BJJ and BJJ tournaments. Most BJJ gyms are sport BJJ gyms and the punches have been taken out (vale tudo doesn't count at your gym since those are light taps).
I just feel like BJJ is going to start turning into a joke of a martial art.
I have been training BJJ for several months now, and no one really taught me these etiquette rules directly. Most of them are things I have just observed at my gym. I wanted to see if these are generally considered good BJJ etiquette, and if there are any other things I should know.
1. Always bow (and tap your thighs) when getting on and off the mat.
I have noticed many do this at my gym. Not all. Do you do this?
Greetings?
If you walk into the gym and there are already 10 people there, try to greet everyone if possible.
I have noticed higher belts especially seem to do this. For example, even if I am sitting in the corner, stretching, someone will walk over just to say hi and shake my hand. I am not a very socially active person, but if this is considered good etiquette, I am going to make more of an effort to do it.
What I am still not sure about: what should you call the instructor?
At my gym, everyone calls the coaches by their first name. But I have been to other places where people call their instructor “Coach” or “Professor.” Is this something you should just follow based on the gym?
Over the summer, I contacted a few BJJ gyms looking to see if they offered private lessons, and Core Jiu-Jitsu was one of them. I received an email back from Claude Patrick and we exchanged emails. He asked me about my goals, skill level, etc**.** I was upfront about my experience (white belt getting back into BJJ after a 7-year break) and my goals, telling him I wanted to train twice a week. He said that was fine and mentioned he actually preferred people who keep the same training schedule (i.e., Monday/Wednesday, Tuesday/Thursday, etc**.**)
Everything was going fine. He told me that to move forward, I had to take an intro class for $120, and then he offered a 6-week package for about $600. He also said if I wanted to continue with the package, he would deduct the $120 from the total. I went ahead, paid, and attended the intro class. Everything went fine, but afterwards, when I said I wanted to move forward with the package, he told me to contact him tomorrow and we would figure something out.
I sent him an email the next day saying I wanted to move forward with the package. He emailed me back saying he would have to check his schedule, that he wasn’t sure if he was free the next week, but would get back to me tomorrow (this was a Thursday, so he said he would get back to me Friday afternoon). He blew past his own Friday deadline. Then, on Monday, he got back to me saying how he wasn’t free that week because he had family coming in, and he wasn’t free the next week because he had more family coming. He said he could potentially do the week after that—maybe one weeknight and one weekend—or he could potentially do Monday and Wednesday.
I ended up not moving forward with the package due to the disorganization, but the whole thing felt like it was just a quick cash grab and he had no intention or availability of actually going through with the package.
So I’ve been at my gym for quite some time and I’m a upper belt but lately with the new instructor who has taken over since last year it hasn’t been the same here’s my complaints:
- we don’t roll much anymore, we only get an hour and 45-50 mins is spent on technique and then MAYBE we get 2 free rolls rounds but a lot of the times it usually positional round or two then a free roll and I understand the importance of working from certain positions but that’s what a free roll can be used for, I don’t think it’s fair to make everyone always do positional rolls because what if someone is trying to work on something else specific? I like to work my stand up
- due to not much rolling me and others feels we aren’t getting as good as workout in or we feel we’re getting rusty due to not being able to practice with resistance, we told oh just come to open mat on the weekends but not all of us can make it plus it’s at a very inconvenient time which is why turn out is super low like 3-4 people max
- This new black belt that occasionally covers for the other one micro managed me the other day and it irritated me: a teenager who has been going bjj for a year was curious about competing but he’s not sure where to start or how to find tournaments and obviously with me being a higher belt I answered his question which me and him only took a 15 second break while drilling a guard pass and the black belt comes over and gets snippy saying “Stop talking! Drill!” And I’m like wtf 😳 it’s not like we were bullshitting the whole time and I was answering a legit question plus nobody shouldn’t be micromanaging anyone we are all grown and we’re not a job if anything we’re paying that new black belt to be here basically though our gym fees plus during the whole time he didn’t look interested at all to be there
So idk I’m at a crossroads some are telling me to just wait until I get promoted to start looking around for another gym since I’m super close to the next belt but at this point I could care less about the belt considering how I’m getting very annoyed and I’m losing motivation to even come to class which is why I’ve been showing up kind of late because I’m not excited to come anymore. What do you folks think or what would you do? Me and others feel the same way we wish we had our old coach back but he retired
So my son just turned 7 and has been showing a lot of interest in BJJ. I'm a hobbyist blue belt, training pretty regularly a few times a week for about 5 years. So I'm not a total novice but of course I have lots to learn and still have a lot of flaws.
The issue is, between all of life's other stuff, we just can't get him to the classes. I love how interested he is and think there is loads he could get out of it. In a year or two he would be able to go in the older age group class, which I *think* I will be able to get him to because of the later time.
I was thinking of getting a mat and teaching him myself at home in the meantime, starting with breakfalls/shrimping/etc and some fundamental basics and just having fun rolling around together.
Does anybody have any advice on this, please? Are there potential negatives to this that I haven't thought of? Does anyone know of any resources or tips on an approach to teaching the basics/teaching BJJ to kids?
Had my first comp today. Came home with silver, but with only two people in the bracket, it was more of a consolation prize I guess
It definitely made me realise I’m too passive/relaxed in my sparring. I wasn’t as ‘wired’ or aggressive as the other guy, and I think that made a big difference.
To be fair, I only decided that morning that I was actually going to compete and just give it a go. My game plan probably wasn’t tight enough either, and I’ve been off sick for the past two weeks. Not excuses, but definitely reasons I wasn’t bringing my A-game.
I definitely know what I need to focus on now. But how do I get that competition tempo into my sparring? Do I need to be more aggressive/intense in training, or are competitions just naturally a completely different pace?
Also, I definitely feel like I tapped way too early on the day. Is that just something you learn to deal with through competing?
Eu trabalho como desenvolvedor, então basicamente passo o dia inteiro sentado em frente ao PC. Quando vou treinar à noite, me sinto muito fraco. Normalmente treino com colegas de equipe que são muito mais fortes e grandes, e acabo apanhando a maior parte do tempo. Na verdade, eu costumava apanhar ainda mais antes, mas estou melhorando. Sou faixa azul com uma faixa haha, então estou no começo da jornada. No entanto, sinto que rolo com medo de machucar meu oponente, enquanto eles geralmente vão com tudo e usam toda a força. O que eu deveria fazer? Levantamento de peso? Melhorar minha dieta? Ou simplesmente aplicar mais força? Alguma dica?
My privates usually end up being close to 2 hours. The first hour is mostly drilling/reviewing whatever we’ve been working on.
After that, I’ll usually ask my coach a question about a position I keep ending up in, and we’ll start doing specific/positional rounds from there. He watches, gives me feedback, fixes what I’m doing wrong, and we restart. That usually turns into another 45–50 minutes. Then sometimes something happens during those rounds that leads to another question, so the whole session ends up being around 2 hours.
It doesn’t really feel like 2 hours because the second half is mostly specific training and troubleshooting rather than learning more techniques.
For people who take privates regularly, what duration have you found works best: 1 hour, 90 minutes, or 2 hours? Do you feel like there are diminishing returns after a certain point?
I've been training Jiu Jitsu for 2y. but I only train in Saturday for 2hr. Because I work 16hr a day Sun-Mon. I only free in Saturday. I want to know if I want to train alone at home in my off time. What should I do and where to start?
I am currently sitting around 163/165 I have 20 days to cut down I go in at 170 welter or 155/156 light weight I’m coming back into comp after 1 year I had many matches at 155 but I’d like someone knowledgeable for insight
I was thinking this. There’s someone (white belt) at my gym who is kind of like this and he’s hurt people but nobody has really humiliated him because a lot of the higher belts just don’t want to roll with him, and I respect that. I’ve also been seeing huge amounts of videos of people on Instagram doing flying scissor takedowns and I gotta wonder, do people actually see these and think “yeah I should do this?”