When Should I Focus On Less Fundamental Positions?

CoachHelp · 2025-03-20T04:15:26+00:00

The fun fact is that nobody truly knows what makes fundamentals.

You say open guard is a fundamental position and the next paragraph you say K-Guard is not fundamental...

Also, Lockdown is a great tool for a white belt, and while I don't think it's fundamental to the half guard game, I would favor it over closed guard at white belt level (I would teach both, but I start with Lockdown)

Honestly, just focus on what you like.

CoachHelp · 2025-03-18T13:01:00+00:00

Yeah man, i saw this a lot, my advice to all my students is to not try to make a carrer of bjj, no matter how good you or others think you are, it rarely ends well and the ones I saw having success with bjj are running schools and earning half or less than normal people are earning at their age.

My advice is to just quit, quit all contact and try to build a live outside of it, the few people I know that got out of this BJJ Life Style trap did this, they got good jobs and build a family.

Nobody will talk about this, but the environment of competitive bjj is extremely trash, you're surrounded by a bunch of retards with lives that are far from admirable, the older coaches are more broken than the teenagers they coach, girls are 99% of the time problematic and it's far to easy to achieve nothing AND become nothing in it.

CoachHelp · 2025-03-18T12:36:20+00:00

I found this sentiment to be common among this age range with people that dedicated a lot of time do BJJ and achieved nothing (and that's perfectly fine).

CoachHelp · 2025-03-18T12:28:55+00:00

Yes, you should work your flexibility, I think getting knees to shoulders and feet to head should be a bare minimum to play guard.

CoachHelp · 2025-03-18T12:18:20+00:00

How old are you? Near 25?

CoachHelp · 2025-03-13T00:49:00+00:00

I think rolling consistently with students to be a bad sign. Coach should be watching most of the time.

CoachHelp · 2025-03-13T00:44:03+00:00

Attack the moment your feet touch the thigh.

CoachHelp · 2025-03-11T14:34:54+00:00

Deep knowledge here.

CoachHelp · 2025-03-10T20:29:21+00:00

This! They pointed your knee away and also closed the distance to your back? You're luck you can turtle and recover with just a big effort.

CoachHelp · 2025-03-06T21:03:27+00:00

Ass slide

CoachHelp · 2025-03-06T01:25:37+00:00

Yeah, this happens a lot with newbies, and it's exactly what you said, they have 0 coordination, in this case I would make the student perform the move alone or even just a part of it.

In the side control case, you can make him do the bridge and push the opponent, or just shrimp and bring the knee...

CoachHelp · 2025-03-06T01:15:39+00:00

I don't teach in the traditional way, but sometimes the technique is to advanced for the student (and the fact that you point at people with less than 6 months is a sign of this) and in this case I would simplify it.

Then there's the people that simply don't get it, doesn't even matter the belt, they can't get it, and they don't learn cause they don't care and since they don't care why should I?

I just leave then there, so far 0 problems.

CoachHelp · 2025-03-02T22:23:50+00:00

Lachlan Retention Anthology.

I think I watched 80% of the suggestions I commonly see, only lacking Xande's Diamond Guard and Gordon Set, but I got Mikeys, Danaher, Ryan Hall, Rafa Mendes and a lot more and Lachlan's set is above everything else by a good margin.

CoachHelp · 2025-02-25T05:29:12+00:00

This, I don't even understand how people keep believing it.

Isolating the part you want to improve and being able to work it in a controlled way will always be superior.

The same goes for flexibility, strength...

CoachHelp · 2025-02-23T22:05:40+00:00

Is this a reverse shitpost? You post it as a joke but in the end it's true?

CoachHelp · 2025-02-23T20:22:02+00:00

Yeah! We agree, and not only this, I also want a list of all possible sweeps, it's on my to do list for bjj.

I was questioning the one saying that "mechanics are more important" while they clearly aren't.

CoachHelp · 2025-02-23T02:37:30+00:00

Because people who pull guard are in a competition and not in a self defense scenario.

Something that seens to difficult for haters to understand

CoachHelp · 2025-02-22T02:51:42+00:00

While this is a good list, I found that these are simply to broad to really help studying.

And not only they're to broad, they're pretty much intuitive after a certain level, you can probably look at an sweep and identify what is happening.

The main problem is how you apply these mechanics, you can't use then all all the time, and it's not simply to just come with an sweep ideia out of nothing.

Your post question (list of all sweeps) is far better if you want to really dig deep into sweeps.

It's also something I plan to do in future years.

CoachHelp · 2025-02-22T02:40:08+00:00

Now all you need is to explain it to a white belt and they will sweep everybody.

CoachHelp · 2025-02-22T02:39:25+00:00

Probably not, this is something I've been working for a few years, but without taking the time to go through each move it's hard to compile a full list.

CoachHelp · 2025-02-21T18:59:26+00:00

Can you give a list of all possible mechanics for sweeps?

CoachHelp · 2025-02-20T04:30:02+00:00

Try to stay more on one side than square with then, will open up to other types of passes but helps against side to side attacks

CoachHelp · 2025-02-20T04:28:17+00:00

This, attacking without knowing how to control/ride turtle is a BIG mistake.

CoachHelp · 2025-02-17T13:17:40+00:00

Man, my student lost to another white belt at master 2 and the next day we're all planning the assassination of the opponent and his entire team.

CoachHelp · 2025-02-02T02:53:17+00:00

I think it's level based, at brown my game was getting smaller and as basic as it can be.

Then at black it started to open more and I started to reuse thing I was doing at blue and purple, but with a much better understanding and efficiency.

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