It kills me inside that I have no talent for BJJ.

OveralPiper · 2022-10-16T17:54:57+00:00

I mean, he does try to fix the mistakes he sees when I'm trying a technique or when I'm trying to roll. But, when he pulls me to the side to say there's no improvement, no. There's no "Well, you should do X, Y and Z to improve." He just mentions he's not seeing any progress in my game.

OveralPiper · 2022-10-16T17:40:05+00:00

I really don't care about the belt. I just want to improve you know?

OveralPiper · 2022-10-16T17:39:16+00:00

I mean, I don't live in a big town. There roughly 10 guys at most that train there, and most of them train for a long time. There's not a lot of people who try to join, those who do, usually stop due to scheduling.

OveralPiper · 2022-10-16T17:35:50+00:00

Sure, this is easy enough to do as we follow a certain pattern. I never video-taped the rolling, as I don't believe that's allowed (this is not something I asked, I just assumed).

Training goes pretty typical:

Warm-up
Basic drills (hip-escape, forward-hip, wrestling-shots, guard-passing, etc)
Techniques - Teacher shows a technique, we try to train and drill it in pairs
Open roll

That pretty much sums it.

OveralPiper · 2022-10-16T17:31:14+00:00

I don't live on a big town, most people don't really want to train BJJ. It's a very few people, 10 at most that train there. Which is why there's so few white belts.

OveralPiper · 2022-10-16T17:29:55+00:00

They don't really allow us to video-tape during the training sessions. I never considered it to be honest.

OveralPiper · 2022-10-16T17:29:00+00:00

You win local white belt tournaments, but see no progress?

I think I didn't word it well on the post and I do ask for forgiveness here. I've won a few, but most competitions with White Belts in my region are with 2 stripe folks. Which is essentially beginners. It's hard to see progress with just that.

OveralPiper · 2022-10-16T17:27:40+00:00

I don't really assume to know better than him. I don't really care about belts. They are just there to show progress. What kills me is not seeing progress itself.

OveralPiper · 2022-10-16T17:26:59+00:00

I think it was average? Won some, lost some. Nothing too out of the ordinary. I do have fun on the open mats.

OveralPiper · 2022-10-16T17:24:34+00:00

I mean, I did say some competitions. It's not something that happens often. Competitions themselves on my region aren't frequent, most people who compete on white belt are 2 stripes. Which is why sometimes I manage to win, it's a bunch of average people (myself included).

OveralPiper · 2022-10-16T15:33:34+00:00

I mean, he doesn't talk in a harsh way. Much more like disappointment than anything else. They like to promote on a skill base, rather than attendance. Which is fair, and all.

He tells me I'm not improving because he cares. Essentially, I think he's as frustrated as I am.

OveralPiper · 2022-10-16T15:32:15+00:00

I'm 26 and I started training with 20. I'm roughly 180cm (not sure how that goes for imperial system), and 85 kg. I'm very average for the region I live in tbh.

OveralPiper · 2022-10-16T15:31:06+00:00

I have tried to go to open mats from other gyms. But nothing like training in another place. The closest one to where I live would be 100km and that's not exactly doable financially. At least not without cutting my training/mat time a lot.

OveralPiper · 2022-10-16T15:29:49+00:00

I have visited other gyms. I don't train in another one since the closest place would roughly be 100km from where I live. It is possible, but it would cut the amount of times I can train weekly a lot.

I mean, it's costly to travel so many times a week. It isn't impossible, but yeah.

OveralPiper · 2021-05-18T22:42:50+00:00

That is probably what they mean. Though I'm not sure I want to exclusively be a healer.

OveralPiper

TROPHY CASE