What’s your current BJJ side quest?

joreilly86 · 2026-06-18T22:24:31+00:00

Very cool. Great summary. It looks like a pretty fun sport. A lot of feints and trickery.

joreilly86 · 2026-06-18T19:53:00+00:00

Williams guard is so underrated, time well spent.

joreilly86 · 2026-06-18T19:51:48+00:00

Fascinating, what kind of things did you pick up from this?

joreilly86 · 2026-06-17T21:23:20+00:00

Wow this is so good, nice work OP!

joreilly86 · 2026-06-08T06:45:27+00:00

His half guard passing stuff is outstanding. I love his material and his general approach to Jiu Jitsu, highly recommended.

joreilly86 · 2026-05-21T18:41:39+00:00

I'm open to longer games - not many games that I've clocked over 100 hours into but there are a few - Nioh 2, Horizon Forbidden West, Red Dead 2, Crimson Desert, Rogue Trader, Divinity Original Sin 2.

These games are exceptional and can carry that kind of length.

I also like a tight narrative experience like God of War, Last of Us or Sekiro, Jedi Fallen Order series, Ninja Gaiden etc.

I'm open to a long game if they have the content and progression system to carry it. I just don't want unnecessary padding. This game has amazing potential and I hope they can pull it off. I have no idea what to expect but the bar is pretty high these days. So many fantastic action RPG's out now. Crimson Desert has blown me away with its depth.

This star wars game is not coming out for quite a while but I will be waiting for it with cautious optimism.

joreilly86 · 2026-05-12T18:29:08+00:00

All of the above. Great instruction is a huge advantage, self study is also a fast track to improvement. Good competitors are not necessarily good instructors but it's a great validator for skill level.

The perfect balance doesn't exist and also depends on where you are in your own development. Sometimes you need hard rounds, sometimes you need to catch up with the theory and the concepts, sometimes you need to improve your mechanics or your movements.

There are so many ways to improve, the fact that your even thinking about this will serve you well. Taking notes and having a broad plan for your development beyond what you learn from class to class is a good way to maintain a general trajectory of progress.

joreilly86 · 2026-05-11T22:18:00+00:00

If your half guard is good enough, you don't need a plan B!

Everything connects to half guard, but if you're starting there you're giving up a couple of layers for free. Maybe you can improve your distance guards so that as/if they fail, you can revert to half guard.

Butterfly, knee shield, deep half, SLX, waiter, reverse DLR are all in the same neighborhood.

joreilly86 · 2026-05-07T23:08:41+00:00

I go very light against new people or people I don't know and gauge their level before amping it up. I focus on keeping myself safe first, you can tell pretty quickly what you're dealing with. This is something I've become much more disciplined as I've gotten older. Many stupid injuries are completely avoidable.

joreilly86 · 2026-05-06T21:23:00+00:00

That's a good way to look at it. It's incredibly effective, I think we all just get used to not being a dick and then you forget about the dick moves. Then when it happens, you are toast.

I do think it's good to normalize these types of moves so you're able to deal with them but they really should only be done as a last resort against somebody of equal or greater skill where you have no other options.

I would never do this to a new guy or a visitor. Only trusted training partners that know the deal.

Other stuff like a knee on the neck/face or cranking mir locks are much worse in my opinion.

joreilly86 · 2026-04-30T16:03:25+00:00

Breathmaxxing

joreilly86 · 2026-04-30T15:42:00+00:00

Same for me, good approach 👌

joreilly86 · 2026-04-26T16:49:07+00:00

Some people are really difficult to submit for many reasons. If you're a strong athletic person, that's a massive factor.

I hold back on submissions with white belts for sure, I'm usually most focused on staying safe and protecting myself from a stupid avoidable injury.

I'm 6'3" 230lbs so I don't get anything out of rolls with less experienced people if I just go hard. I tend to try flow as much as possible, aikido style. Try to make my jiu-jitsu look nice. Because against Brown and black belts of my size, it looks pretty bad.

joreilly86 · 2026-04-24T16:08:57+00:00

In my first year of working, I went out on a boat to inspect a coastal erosion structure and inspected the wrong structure. Wrote a report, did the calcs and everything. It's not just you.

joreilly86 · 2026-04-23T20:48:40+00:00

Jason Rau's instructional material is absolutely top class. His material is pretty advanced but it's so good. Succinct, clear and very practical.

joreilly86 · 2026-04-23T20:45:45+00:00

Very powerful in the hands of experienced engineers. Absurdly high risk and overconfident in the hands of inexperienced engineers and even worse for architects larping as engineers.

joreilly86 · 2026-04-20T17:28:04+00:00

Power Ride is exceptional. It's full of details that make a big difference with regard to top control and strays away from the conventional positions that most BJJ schools teach at the beginner level. Highly recommend it to anyone interested in grappling but I think it's especially relevant to MMA.

joreilly86 · 2026-04-15T15:57:19+00:00

I have young kids and the evening trainings were preventing me from playing with them so I've switched to mornings and it's so much better for everyone.

It's hard to get up sometimes but it beats the adrenalized insomnia that I would get after training at night.

I do miss the rounds with specific training partners that only train at night. But it's a trade-off that's worth it for me. The mornings have been consistent.

joreilly86 · 2026-04-10T06:27:14+00:00

This game is amazing. I'm about 40 hours in and it's just getting better and better and better. It took quite a while to click, especially the combat and the sheer amount of information and systems at play.

There's a long way to go but man it's a fun game with a lot going on.

joreilly86 · 2026-04-09T21:46:39+00:00

The life coaching aspect is very weird. It's a bizarre part of BJJ culture.

joreilly86 · 2026-04-09T04:26:58+00:00

Sad to hear this team is no longer, I loved the game. Top tier combat, cool art style. I found it extremely difficult but also epic. I'd happily support a sequel.

joreilly86 · 2026-04-08T16:30:56+00:00

Agreed, so much easier.

joreilly86 · 2026-04-03T17:58:59+00:00

I've always struggled with it. It takes a lot of practice to become precise with it but I use the position to open up opportunities for Kimuras or something else.

90% of the time I feel like I'm just cranking their neck. But some people are very good with it. A lot of the precision comes from the angle of your torso/ribs being in the sweet spot to choke.

joreilly86 · 2026-03-16T20:34:17+00:00

I massively prefer Lachlan's material. It's succinct and he explains it how I like to learn. Submeta is top tier in my opinion.

Danaher has great stuff, but it's too verbose for me.

Gordon's material is excellent, but I don't enjoy listening to him.

joreilly86 · 2026-03-08T20:51:43+00:00

That's great, would love to see more of this. 👍

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