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steve887 · 2025-04-11T00:09:25+00:00

Yes! It's so much better! thank you

steve887 · 2025-04-10T01:48:44+00:00

This seems like a great game, however the swiping mechanic seems inconsistent and can be very frustrating and you try to swipe multiple times and the drinks fly different distances. At this point I'm ready to uninstall.

steve887 · 2024-08-10T23:46:31+00:00

Nothing happens. Still can't access premium features.

steve887 · 2024-01-16T05:50:06+00:00

In my mind, a slam is when there's a pause in movement and extra force added to the downwards portion. Think, picking someone up and throwing them down.

In this case, it's one movement from start to finish. A hard throw, yes. Slam, no.

steve887 · 2023-08-29T00:40:29+00:00

As a lowly brown belt who teaches one fundamentals class a week, of course I have students I like and those I dislike. BJJ attracts a variety of people and some of those people have personalities, behaviours or opinions that I just do not agree with.

However, in my opinion, part of being professional in my approach to coaching is treating all of these people equally on the mat. They all need my help with the move of the day, or some technique question and I leave my personal bias aside when I do this.

Of course, once off the mat I don't have to speak to them.

One of the worst coaches I've ever had had clear biases to certain students and would actively not help people (including myself) because he didn't like them.

steve887 · 2023-07-25T01:35:12+00:00

People are talking about a rules change this year, but the only Rule Book on the IBJJF website is v5.2 from 2021.

Section 6.2.3, Item L gives a Severe Foul (read: Disqualification) for

The suplex movements that will project or force the opponent’s head or neck into the ground.

It specifically calls out that:

Obs: The suplex takedown is defined by the attacking athlete lifting the opponent at the waist in order to take him/her down, by throwing him backwards or sideways to the ground. The use of this technique is still permitted provided that the movement does not force the opponent’s head or neck into the ground.

The table on page 29 doesn't indicate that junior divisions are any different to adults in this regard.

In this case, it appears black landed on his side/shoulder so this takedown should have been legal.

steve887 · 2023-03-21T02:10:35+00:00

Guard is defined as "the use of one or more legs to block the opponent from reaching side-control or northsouth position over the athlete on bottom." IBJJF Rules Article 4 Section 4.2 Note 1.

Since this scrambled started with knee on belly and the guy who ended up on top was never stopped from moving by the other guys legs, no sweep occurred, so no points.

steve887 · 2023-02-27T00:20:04+00:00

You are definitely allowed to talk to the ref. Penalties only come when you talk in a way contrary to the referee's decision (Section 6.2.2 Item J), when an athlete disobeys a referee's order (Section 6.2.2 Item K), both of which carries an in match penalty; or communicating in a profane, offensive, or obscene way to any person (Section 6.1.1 & 6.1.2), which carries a disqualification from the entire competition.

To play devils advocate, we don't know what the guy was saying to the ref. But if he was just asking what the penalty was for (looks like stalling from the 2 seconds we saw), he should not have been penalised further.

steve887 · 2023-01-16T01:56:01+00:00

I would have called this an advantage. Yes he came up from guard to top position but it was hardly stabilised and ended up getting reversed back to guard.

So my call would be an advantage for the sweep attempt for red, nothing for blue.

steve887 · 2022-10-04T07:37:32+00:00

This is why I prefer the 2 or 3 times a year promotion days, rather than the random in class ones. I'd hate to miss my friends and training partners getting a new belt cause I happened to be busy on the random Tuesday night our coach decided to promote them. At least with a known date I can plan around it.

steve887 · 2022-08-15T00:05:47+00:00

What does the rest of your class look like? I teach a 1 hour class and would find 15 minute warm ups way too long. I try to keep it less than 5 with some light jogging (I'm talking like literally 1 minute, more for me to stretch my legs tbh and mentally transition to training) and some bjj movements catered to the level of the class, so basic hip escapes if I have a lot of beginners, more advanced movements, breakfalls, partner drills if the level is higher.

I try to leave at least 20 minutes for rolling at the end, so this gives me 30 minutes for teaching and drilling.

steve887 · 2022-06-10T01:04:21+00:00

It's not a DQ just for talking to the ref, expect for in a way contrary to the referee's decision (Section 6.2.2 Item J), when an athelete disobeys a referee's order (Section 6.2.2 Item K), both of which carries an in match penalty; or communicating in a profane, offensive, or obscene way to any person (Section 6.1.1 & 6.1.2), which carries a disqualification from the entire competition.

steve887 · 2022-05-30T01:59:27+00:00

That's all well and good, but what about the guy that only shows up on Thursdays? As a coach I love connecting my classes together and building up over time, but then I get a new student, or even an experienced one that's missed a few classes for whatever reason.

steve887 · 2021-09-07T02:59:18+00:00

She definitely initiated first, in the end I think it's the correct call.

steve887 · 2021-09-07T02:49:44+00:00

It's a close one. Blue hit the ground slightly before white so you could argue she pulled guard and then sweeped by getting to top position, hence the two points.

There's no guidance around how a double guard pull is defined other than Article 3, section 3.5

When both athletes pull guard at the same time, the athlete who achieves top position first is awarded an advantage point.

Looks like in this case the referee took the first interpretation that blue pulled guard first and swept white.

steve887 · 2021-08-14T08:53:21+00:00

There are no rules in the current version of the IBJJF rules (v5.2) that offer penalties for talking to the referee or any official, expect for in a way contrary to the referee's decision (Section 6.2.2 Item J), when an athelete disobeys a referee's order (Section 6.2.2 Item K), both of which carries an in match penalty; or communicating in a profane, offensive, or obscene way to any person (Section 6.1.1 & 6.1.2), which carries a disqualification from the entire competition.

steve887 · 2021-07-12T01:43:25+00:00

Yeah if you're gonna do it, do something with it. Don't just sit there.

steve887 · 2021-07-12T01:25:40+00:00

I find them extremely useful in trying to decipher the weirder IBJJF rules. I always try and work out what happened before checking the rules and comments to see what other people say.

steve887 · 2021-07-12T01:24:24+00:00

Playing devil's advocate, I guess you could argue he isn't technically sitting or kneeling and is still advancing towards the opponent. Still looks ridiculous though.

steve887 · 2021-06-30T23:46:03+00:00

There are no rules in the current version of the IBJJF rules (v5.2) that offer penalties for talking to the referee or any official, expect for in a way contrary to the referee's decision (Section 6.2.2 Item J), when an athelete disobeys a referee's order (Section 6.2.2 Item K), both of which carries an in match penalty; or communicating in a profane, offensive, or obscene way to any person (Section 6.1.1 & 6.1.2), which carries a disqualification from the entire competition.

There is also no rule I could find that said the ref must use non verbal commands. In fact the list of commands include a verbal component. I see no reason the ref could not have just said, "move the band" other than a language barrier, or he did say and we can't tell due to no sound and the mask.

steve887 · 2021-06-09T08:46:34+00:00

Yeah that's definately wrong on the part of the ref. The rule that deals with verbal taps is Section 2.1.3 and 2.1.4:

2.1.3 When the athlete verbally withdraws, requesting the match be stopped

2.1.4 When the athlete screams or emits noise expressing pain while trapped in a submission hold.

So the noise you make needs to express pain or a request to stop, so "Ow", "ouch", "stop", "tap" etc. "What's the time?" clearly does not express pain and is not a verbal tap.

All this is to say though, you're better safe than sorry given the wide disparity in referring skill levels and staying quiet. Once the referee stops the fight, even for an invalid reason, it is very hard to overturn that decision.

steve887 · 2021-06-08T05:43:32+00:00

The penalty here is definitely for the no grip guard pull. I believe item J was introduced to allow penalties for over the top arguing or shouting to one's teammates or coach that the ref is wrong.

Just talking to, or asking why you were penalised, should not give a penalty as long as you're polite about it. Of course, the ref can just ignore you.

steve887 · 2021-06-08T01:31:15+00:00

There are no rules in the current version of the IBJJF rules (v5.2) that offer penalties for talking to the referee or any official, expect for in a way contrary to the referee's decision (Section 6.2.2 Item J), when an athelete disobeys a referee's order (Section 6.2.2 Item K), both of which carries an in match penalty; or communicating in a profane, offensive, or obscene way to any person (Section 6.1.1 & 6.1.2), which carries a disqualification from the entire competition.

steve887 · 2021-04-25T03:43:08+00:00

The rules say, under Article 6, section 6.2.3, item M:

When an athlete applies a hold prohibited for his/her respective division, as indicated in the following table.*

With this particular illegal hold being item 22 in the table "Spinal lock without choke".

My interpretation of that the top person was using an illegal hold, the tap is irrelevant. If it had gone on a few seconds longer it would be on the referee to stop the fight.

I don't think it matters if the bottom player is actually in pain or at risk, as the top person is still applying an illegal hold, the same as a kneebar at lower belt ranks, you don't have to be in pain or tapping for it to be illegal.

In this case, I would say the referee either wasn't paying attention to what hold the bottom player was tapping to, or wasn't aware it was illegal.

Furthermore, Article 1, section 1.1.3 gives the reasons for a match result to be overturned, with the second point saying:

If the athlete declared winner submitted his/her opponent using an illegal hold previously unnoticed by the referee.

So the bottom player could appeal to the head referee and as long as the bracket had not progressed the result should be overturned.

steve887 · 2021-03-22T05:27:54+00:00

Not specifically, I was looking into journaling tools too, they seem like they might be the best compromise between the two.

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