1oth Planet Jiu-Jitsu standout coach and ADCC commentator Brandon Mccaghren has something important to say on the notion of quitting early in BJJ, or worse, faking being tired and scrambling at the very end. Everyone should listen to this.
The head coach of 10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu in Decatur, Brandon McCaghen shared a very insightful video on his Instagram account. In what seems to be an after class addressing to everyone in the room, he calls people out, in a very polite and respectful way, on quitting too early during rolling in class.
Brandon’s focus is on the syndrome of claiming you’re done and have nothing left but then scrambling like there’s no tomorrow a couple of rounds later. Rolling hard is all tight, and scrambling hard is also perfectly fine… but when you do it right, you shouldn’t be able to scramble at the end of class.
According to Brandon McCaghren: “There should never be scrambling at the end of practices“.
Scrambles are all good, but you should use them in trying to apply your game to any roll possible. There is no real point in quitting early vs. some people in the room, just to go all out berserking when nobody expects it on others at the end of practice. This takes away from everyone’s ability to learn.
McCaghren also adds, challenging his students without offending anyone in particular:
“If you have nothing left, hey, no problem, cry, quit, there’s nothing left, I get it. But if you cry, quit, give up, “I need a beak” and then you are scrambling at the end, I don’t know… “You tell me.”
The takeaway message here is that you can quit if you have to, and it is perfectly okay,. However, either quite when you’ve got nothing left in the tank, or if you quit early, stay out. Otherwise, you’re just gaslighting your training partners.
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