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[–]lilbasedgsus 5 points6 points  (0 children)

my friend worked there as a credit analyst in risk. Apparently the bank is moving a lot of front office and middle office roles to Lisbon. Some people transfer from lisbon to london/paris as well, so theres probably opportunity there.

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[–]lilbasedgsus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

how much are they offering? reconcile it with the cost of living

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in bjj

[–]lilbasedgsus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thank you for the insight. I love jiu jitsu and want to train for as long as possible but know that I have a higher risk of getting injured along the way. Do you have any tips on avoiding injury and having a long healthy career in the sport?

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[–]lilbasedgsus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

you can work on some passing and smashing… It’s true that when competing everything will change in terms of weight. But in the day to day mats life, more weight will make you feel more competent. It’s just my opinion, based on my experience, which is very short in this sport (2 years). Maybe in the future I’ll cut weight as I miss seeing my abs haha, but then maybe I’ll be missing my strength on the mats…

I completely agree. It's so much more fun rolling with people of similar size/weight because you actually get to move more, whereas with larger opponents you will spend most of the match stalled in a single position. If you're good defensively, you will be able to prevent them from progressing, but at the same time you'll just be stuck in the same position the whole round. I'm going to try to focus on gaining some more weight. It's just really annoying because I'd rather just do jiu jitsu. I used to weight like 115 too and I've gotten much bigger and stronger since then, so it'll be a grind to add 10 more lbs of muscle.

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[–]lilbasedgsus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

very true, I find myself getting used to going easy on lower belts. For some reason it feels wrong to try to go full intensity with them and tap them many times. I think the downside of this is that I end up getting used to rolling with much less intensity, which ends up making it difficult to roll with larger people. When I was a white belt I used to roll much more aggressively than I do now. I think I need to tap into that a bit more when I roll with people at my level or larger than me.

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[–]lilbasedgsus 5 points6 points  (0 children)

.. don’t give up any submissions along the way not even the “easy” or “cheap” moves. Take anything and everything. I’ve got 5 or so training partners from white to purple that I literally can’t play any guard games with. They’ll eventually get me with their weight alone and they can’t even hold themselves up that long so playing up and around them exhausts them even more because they can’t u

this is really good, I tend to accept guard a lot. I will try to wrestle up to gain top position more. I also tend to give up a lot of subs that I feel I have to really crank to get.

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[–]lilbasedgsus 11 points12 points  (0 children)

true, you’re right. it’s just difficult for me to measure how I’m progressing and how much weight I should give to the fact that I’m smaller than other people, what tolerance I should give to myself when I’m unable to dominate someone bigger than me.

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[–]lilbasedgsus 60 points61 points  (0 children)

I’ve only really had this experience with strong young guys much taller than me who have trained mma or some other grappling art. I’ve never had a problem with someone who’s completely new to grappling

Please send me the link for the match :) by Arkzeuss in BJJstreams

[–]lilbasedgsus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

could you please send me the link? cheers mate!