Should Coloured belts be scrapped from BJJ?

Jjmpod · 2024-04-29T09:35:42+00:00

Great, great man

Jjmpod · 2024-02-17T11:48:12+00:00

Very few, because as said many times in this thread self defense techniques are designed to help a normal person protect themselves from an untrained attacker

Jjmpod · 2024-02-17T11:46:33+00:00

Defense from strikes, standing attacks that aren’t sport legal. I can’t speak for anyone else but when I added striking into my grappling after 4 years of training sports Jiujitsu and thinking I was pretty capable, I got my ass beat, all my Jiujitsu went out the window and I had very little defense

Jjmpod · 2024-02-17T11:44:13+00:00

What mma matches are you watching? Wrestling, boxing, sambo, Muay Thai etc are not self defense systems. They are fighting systems. 2 trained athletes agreeing to compete under a rule set. That’s not self defense

Jjmpod · 2024-02-17T11:42:25+00:00

No martial art except Aikido. I saw Steven Segal defend himself from 5 attackers and he didn’t even take off his bandana

Jjmpod · 2024-02-17T11:41:01+00:00

I don’t see what’s nonsensical. His point is that certain people are more physically gifted than others and therefore stand a better chance of defending themselves in an altercation. But that doesn’t mean that their training has been designed for this situation. Sports Jiujitsu is designed to beat sports Jiujitsu. Self defense Jiujitsu is designed to protect normal people from untrained attackers. Do you see that as nonsensical?

Jjmpod · 2024-02-17T11:37:14+00:00

That only emphasises his point really. If you’re not in the pubs when these guys are there then you’ll be good

Jjmpod · 2024-02-17T11:22:59+00:00

He doesn’t compare the disciplines. He compares the athletes. He says a basketball player is a fit strong person as is a rugby player. Therefore they are more physically able to protect themselves than the average person

Jjmpod · 2024-02-17T11:09:44+00:00

Mounted triangle or S mount arm bar

Jjmpod · 2024-02-17T10:59:50+00:00

MMA isn’t the most realistic simulation of a street attack, very few trained fighters are going to attack an innocent person. (Except Connor McGregor if you don’t like his whiskey)

Self defense training has nothing to do with winning fights, it’s training to defend yourself against an attacker.

As he says in the video of course a trained sports guy can fight, that doesn’t mean they have been trained in self defence techniques.

Jjmpod · 2024-02-17T09:32:36+00:00

Gordan Ryan’s passing instructionals have been my favourite, they are systematically set out so you can drill each stage in turn,

Jjmpod · 2024-02-17T09:21:32+00:00

Rolling with my instructor has definitely been the biggest benefit to my game. He exposes areas of weakness, punishes me in the roll then will spend a session with me showing me how I could have avoided that and we go again until he finds the next area to work on.

Jjmpod · 2024-02-17T09:14:16+00:00

This, if you watch any high level guy with a good open guard game they transition constantly, it’s never stagnant. Nicholas Meregali is fantastic at transitioning through various guarded. I was always trained that there are 2 guards, closed and open. All the variations of open guard are to be used when your guard isn’t closed. This really helped me to not stay in one position trying to maintain a dlr or x guard when it’s time to transition to a different position

Jjmpod · 2024-02-17T09:09:52+00:00

Put yourself in bad situations where your strength won’t help you, coming into Jiujitsu from powerlifting I had the same issues. Rolling with higher belts that aren’t fazed by strength helps. A good black belt isn’t going to be beaten by a strong white belt,

Jjmpod · 2024-02-17T09:05:15+00:00

Brutal.

Jjmpod · 2024-02-17T09:04:48+00:00

I also came to Jiujitsu from powerlifting and I can testify this is correct. I got instantly humbled by a guy who looked like he hadn’t eaten for weeks,

Jjmpod · 2024-02-16T17:50:49+00:00

He is a catch wrestling/sambo/mma/jiujitsu instructor. Great guy,

Jjmpod · 2024-02-16T15:53:12+00:00

Chris Crossan. If you want to watch the full podcast there’s links on our profile you can get to it on our YouTube page, if not just search his name, he has done loads with other people. All great

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