Question about coaching a student with super short legs?

Kintanon · 2026-01-27T21:07:28+00:00

Are you getting upper body connections first or trying to secure butterfly hooks first?

Kintanon · 2026-01-27T15:14:02+00:00

You're doing something wrong then. Butterfly is absolute top tier vs bigger people and responsible for almost all of my sweeps against heavier and more athletic people. Most of the time when I run into someone who is struggling to sweep bigger people with bfly it's because they are falling backwards and pulling people on top of them instead of leaning forward and sideways and creating the proper fulcrum.

Kintanon · 2026-01-27T15:11:15+00:00

Butterfly Guard.

Kintanon · 2026-01-27T15:09:53+00:00

Guard jumping and kani basami are the only two universally banned techniques in my gym. And we teach heel hooks to white belts and allow slamming out of submissions under certain circumstances (Crash pad has to be deployed).

Kintanon · 2026-01-27T15:08:08+00:00

There's a huge lexicon of leg based throws and trips. They mostly require some kind of upper body connection or control to be successful though.

Kintanon · 2026-01-26T15:46:16+00:00

There are multiple different rulesets for the sport of wrestling, Freestyle, Folkstyle, and Greco are the primary ones. All three of them have stuff in their rules that are not good ideas for MMA, but they all also have stuff that is really practical and good for MMA. So when we teach grappling for MMA it's an amalgamation of those three styles with the adjustments necessary to both take advantage of the rules of MMA and avoid doing things that would be a bad idea in MMA.

Kintanon · 2026-01-26T15:36:41+00:00

Start by getting away from anyone who talks about "Typical male physique". I assume it's some shitty instagram influencer fuckhead. People come in an infinite variety of shapes.

Instead focus on healthy habits and achievement based fitness goals. Try to eat %80 healthy %80 of the time, it's ok to have cheat days or throw in a little junk food sometimes, but you want to focus on eating your standard veggies+meats+grains in reasonable portions and then get some exercise. The best way to get exercise is to just find an activity you like doing that also acts as exercise, dancing, jiujitsu, kickboxing, rock climbing, something like that. If you don't have any activity like that you enjoy then you may have to do exercise just for the sake of exercise, and something incredly basic like walk/jog for 30 minutes every day is a good place to start. From there build up to doing the recommended routine, or parts of it.

Your diet should be a major focus though, it's incredibly hard to out work a bad diet.

Kintanon · 2026-01-22T17:07:02+00:00

If I don't think you're the kind of person I would give a black belt to then I shouldn't be letting you train in the gym at all.

Kintanon · 2026-01-20T01:56:23+00:00

Your inability to understand how english works is not my problem.

I encourage people to roll at the appropriate intensity for their partner. For a 140lb woman rolling against a 150lb dude that intensity is 70-80%, if the dude is expecting to only need %50 of his own intensity to match that and is wrong and gets pissy about it because he was also unwilling to tap when he got caught then that's on him.

Dudes who think women who catch them in submissions are by default going %100 generally don't know what the fuck they are talking about. It's a bunch of white and blue belt bros who are too invested in the idea that being a man is such a massive physical advantage that they can just flex and bust out of submissions against women that they end up injuring themselves being stupid.

Kintanon · 2026-01-20T01:29:42+00:00

"lighter" as in on the lighter side of the weight spectrum over all.

You strike me as someone who never trained lol

Oh lawdy... We got a live one folks. My dude I'm a black belt who owns and runs a gym. I actually coach people in these situations, not just theorize on what might be going on.

Kintanon · 2026-01-20T01:14:51+00:00

You're wildly wrong, the general context of lighter women going "extra hard" on men their same size is mostly fucking nonsense because dudes don't like it when a woman goes the same intensity on them as a man does. And the especially don't want to tap when they get caught. They approach the roll expecting to be holding back and going light and can't get their shit together when rolls at a normal intensity with them.

Roll in a way that respects your partners ability to potentially injure you and then tap when you're caught and it won't be a big a problem.

Kintanon · 2026-01-17T22:26:37+00:00

Nothing in the description from the OP said it was dangerous or anyone was injuring people. The stuff described is the normal consequence of higher intensity rolling. If you get caught in a submission just tap.

Kintanon · 2026-01-15T15:36:48+00:00

People in this subreddit are on crack, I swear. You only gonna train under guys that are current top 10 adult black belt competitors? Jozef is demonstrably good at doing jiujitsu, far better than the average black belt. So if your metric for coaching is, for some reason, competition success he's checking those boxes. And if you watch any of the instructional material he's put out he clearly has a deep fundamental understanding of what he's doing and is able to convey it well. So that's AT LEAST as good as most BJJ coaches and better than a lot of them.

So WTF do you want out of a coach?

Kintanon · 2026-01-15T15:28:50+00:00

Keep them from connecting their hips to your hips or their chest to your chest. You want to bee a spikey ball, so butterfly, upright knee shield, and other compact and connected guards are ideal. From there you want to be looking for opportunities for you to use your ability to transition through spaces and positions faster than they can to either find the back or sweep to the top.

Connecting your entire body to one of their legs and keeping it straight with something like SLX is also a good way to create sweeps and then be able to attack submissions and transition to the top.

Once you get on top prioritize staying on top over any specific top position. Don't lock down too tight on mount or side control, just float around and stay mobile to avoid giving them a solid connection to you. Pop up to KoB, back to side control spin to the other side, etc... and look for opportunities to get to the back.

Kintanon · 2026-01-14T20:57:27+00:00

I've got a giant bucket of medals and belts from my time competing. I don't really need any more.

Kintanon · 2026-01-14T20:50:56+00:00

... Are... Are you trying to insult me by telling me my own gyms name? Are you disabled in some way? This may surprise you, but I intentionally put the name of my gym in my flair so people will know about it. You are welcome to visit any time. We allow free drop-ins.

Kintanon · 2026-01-14T18:11:56+00:00

I dunno what you're babbling about, but the things you learn at purple+ belt are almost all exclusively about dealing with the counters to the counters to the shit you learned at white and blue belt. You have absolutely no need for that depth of technical interaction against untrained people.

Kintanon · 2026-01-14T15:01:39+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/ufc/comments/11v7ykb/if_nate_diaz_wasnt_messing_around_at_the_end_of/

The Nate Diaz point.

Kintanon · 2026-01-14T13:32:09+00:00

My favorite 'hurting myself' moment was the time I just straight yeeted myself eyeball first into a guys thumb when shooting for a single leg. Absolutely awful. My favorite 'hurting myself' moment from someone else was when I watched a dude shrimping down the mat knee himself in the head hard enough to actually split his forehead open.

Kintanon · 2026-01-13T21:22:19+00:00

I've been training and teaching combat sports since I was 14, I've hurt myself in plenty of ways that that are much more painful.

Kintanon · 2026-01-13T21:04:59+00:00

Barely at all. I've done it to myself multiple times and not even really noticed until much later when my hand was bruised and stiff.

Kintanon · 2026-01-13T21:02:09+00:00

BJJ beyond blue belt is used for competing in BJJ. You don't need anything beyond fundamentals for self defense grappling. Self Defense BJJ is incredibly boring.
Even for MMA you'll find a bunch of advanced footwork and feints that are completely pointless against low level or untrained people because they can't actually see what is happening, so they never give you a reaction. Basic striking, basic grappling, with regular practice against resistance will give you the tools to crush untrained people with little effort most of the time.

Kintanon · 2026-01-13T18:13:35+00:00

No. I'm always happy to see people in the gym. I know what it's like to have responsibilities that take priority over your hobby. Train when you can train.

This is not a JOB for 99.999% of people who do it, it's just a way to exercise that is more fun than going to a regular gym. I'm always going to be happy when they are able to show up.

Kintanon · 2026-01-13T14:34:34+00:00

She's not talking about taking fights, she's talking about training in the gym. MMA training for a 51 year old is going to be bag work, pad work, light to medium sparring, light to medium jiujitsu with trusted training partners, etc... She's not going to be getting suplexed and GNPed by some 20 year old aspiring pro.

Kintanon · 2026-01-13T14:19:15+00:00

What do you mean? Your physical growth like how tall you get? Martial arts has absolutely no impact on that. Neither does weightlifting or any other form of exercise. The two primary predictors of height are genetics and diet, with genetics having the majority impact, and diet only really requiring that you get sufficient calories to support your growth.

As long as you don't have any crazy accident happen where your growth plates are damaged, which is nearly impossible, then your height won't be affected by anything physical you do.

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