When you finally got your blue belt were all your expectations met?
I recently got my BJJ Blue Belt and people that don’t train in BJJ kept asking me if I could kill someone smh, so I was inspired to make this
https://youtu.be/edzMwYSO7eY
https://bjj-world.com/blue-belt-requirements/
Rickson Gracie Explains What Blue Belt Really Means in Jiu-Jitsu
If you watched UFC 216 you could see Tony Ferguson submitting Kevin Lee with a Triangle. What was weird there is that he passed the arm on a wrong side. On a side you’re not taught to have your opponents arm while you’re applying triangle.
In this video we can see a reason why that really works. Try it!
Demetrious Johnson did first move ever on UFC 216. It’s some kind of suplex to armlock submission.
What we can see in this breakdown video it’s not really a suplex. it’s more of a suck back to armbar technique. The good thing is you can make this move IBJJF legal and you can practice it and execute it even as a white belt.
Here is a list of 25 reasons why you don’t progress as fast as you can. I believe everyone will find himself in one of these reasons but we should try to avoid them as much as possible if we want to progress as fast as we can.
When you’re in BJJ class you’re actually training and not competing so it doesn’t matter how many times you tapped if you learned something every time from it. So don’t just tap, take a moment and think about it.
It’s a common mistake of people training for a year or so. They just think they know enough for their time. No, you don’t, there is always something missing in a puzzle. There is always some detail and there are always new techniques waiting for you.
In every single position learn where is your “body center”, where your center should be. Think about your base in every position that you find yourself in as this will help you avoid many sweeps and bad situations.
If you focus too much on defense you are losing time. Escapes from submissions and positions are a very low percentage so don’t lose too much time on it. You better spend your time learning how to avoid getting into trouble. For example, it’s like thinking about “two arms in, two arms out” when you don’t want to get into a triangle.
Being in a good position will get your submission. But failed submission most of the time leads to a bad position. Especially when you know too many submissions and you can’t get in a position to do them. For example. If you’re capable enough of passing your opponent’s guard and dominate him all the time you will be able to submit him a lot of times, you’ll see, but if you can’t pass guard and you know 20 submissions from side control… you get it!
First, you don’t ask your instructor any questions and second, you don’t ask yourself any questions. Instructors love students asking questions. And you should ask yourself a lot of questions after every sparring, every position, every tap…
Tapping too early will bring you to a point that you will never learn any escape and tapping too late will get you to the hospital and you won’t progress for sure.
There will always be a heavy guy, a strong guy, or any type of guy that is causing you a lot of problems. Learn to deal with anyone. Avoiding those guys will get you to a point that you have no idea how to deal with different types of people and that is very bad for your progress. You should leave your comfort zone as much as possible.
If you can write down techniques that will help you really think about techniques and get deep into them as they are hard to be written.
You may know as many techniques as you want, but if you’re out of condition you’re out in your head and when you’re out in your head nothing can help you beat someone no matter how good you are. Especially in competition. So focus on condition, strength, and live a healthy life.
There is no perfect time to compete and you are never ready. You will always miss something. That means your opponents are also not ready. So, go for it as people who compete, usually progress much faster.
If you always roll too hard you will lose every partner to roll with. The only people that will want to roll with you will be guys who will want to teach you a lesson. The problem is also that guys usually don’t understand that they’re rolling too hard so if few people tell you that you roll hard it’s 99.9% of the time true! Also, this is very important for progress because if you roll hard you’re not that focused on technique, you’re just focused on submitting your training partners and that’s exactly the opposite of fast progress. You don’t wanna be that guy as people will think of you as a douchebag.
Be sure that in every single class you learn something new. Some technique, some detail, anything… Either from your instructor or sparring partner or from sparring in general. It doesn’t matter, just learn something. If you learn some detail in every single class in one year that roughly around 150 detail and 150 details really makes a HUGE difference.
I’ve seen a lot of guys that just came to train and they want to do leg locks, Imanari rolls, berimbolo, and all the fancy stuff, etc. The most stupid thing I can hear from people is “I want to win my tournament match like that because it’s an attractive move”. I never saw those guys winning yet and what I can also see is that they’re not progressing as fast as they can.
This means you want to learn as many techniques as you can in a short amount of time, but that also means that you can’t do all those techniques. Saulo Ribeiro once said that he could teach someone all the Jiu-Jitsu he knows in a few months but that the person wouldn’t be able to do most of it.
This will cost you sooner or later and especially in competition. This can be a problem with schools and instructors who don’t teach takedowns but then cross-train in wrestling or Judo.
Yes, you can! It’s not that much of a problem if your instructor is teaching rubber guard and you know you can’t do it because you’re not flexible enough. But it’s a problem if you think that you can’t learn how to be on the bottom. That also makes you look stupid if you say that to someone.
Drill in your class and find some partner to drill outside of the class. I feel sorry for people not drilling techniques and waiting for sparring. No matter if you’re the most talented guy on earth you’ll stay exactly where you are. You’ll have a good roll, maybe you will beat your sparring partners with your talent on your level, but in a long run, you will just be a good lower belt.
When you work with guys much worse than you use that time to try something new, to focus on your weaknesses. Get yourself in bad positions, try yourself in situations that you have problems with against better people.
You better worry about your skill development and belts will come with it. Also, your instructor will think that you’re funny or douche, but that won’t help you get the belt most of the time.
For example! If you always let someone control your both legs while you’re playing guard, trust me, he will pass it. You have to focus on grips and breaking grips both offensive and defensive ones.
It’s ok if you just want to come and chat, but don’t expect that will bring your skill higher fast enough. Also, don’t waste someone else’s time just because you feel like chatting. People usually come to class to learn something.
Keep your friends close and your elbows closer. This will get you out of a lot of trouble.
Yes, you should study outside of the class. There is always some detail that you will miss or some technique that you need. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu has so many techniques and so many details that there is no instructor who knows everything even if he’s a red belt. It doesn’t mean you should confront your instructor in front of the class if you found something that he’s doing “wrong” or you think that he’s doing wrong. A lot of times you can notice your instructor is doing something in a different way than you saw on youtube. That doesn’t mean it’s wrong. Most of the time means that your instructor is doing the same technique in a different way. But you can talk to your instructor about details and share your opinion with him. Although I recommend for most of the time that you listen to your instructor as he’s the one working with you live.
Being consistent is one of the most important things when you’re starting with BJJ. As a complex sport as BJJ is missing some fundamental things that can bring you to a point that you miss them for the rest of your life. And you don’t want that!
Footlock, straight ankle lock, straight footlock, Achilles lock, or ashi-hishigi in judo is the position where the ankle is wrapped by arms and foot is under the armpit. It’s legal by IBJJF because there is no turning your foot in any direction and it’s also not affecting your knee.
In this video, we have a fantastic footlock that is still legal at the white belt level in the IBJJF competition.
Dean Lister’s Most Lethal Legal Straight Ankle Lock Explained
In 1993 in Oklahoma USA Rickson Gracie was on Sambo tournament. By that time Rickson already had around 300 straight victories, but on one sambo tournament, he was matched with multiple Judo and Sambo champion Ron Tripp. In that match, Rickson was thrown down by Uchi Mata and his shoulders touched the floor and he lost by those USA Sambo Tournament rules. Rickson complained about that saying that he didn’t know the rules because if he did, he would never have let himself be thrown.
Rickson was attending multiple Sambo tournaments and he was winning all the time just like in the video below.
https://youtu.be/A3l6nJ0XAnQ
This match Happened on IBJJF Tournament in Brazil. Braziliero NoGi 2017 in Black / Adult / Male / Light – Final
Checkmat’s Thiago Abreu defeated ADCC champion Rani Yahya in 46 seconds. Very soon after final match of Braziliero No Gi 2017 final started Thiago Abreu was able to sprawl on Yahya’s double leg take down attempt and caught Yahya in guillotine and put him to sleep.
Rashad Evans is UFC veterans currently fighting in UFC’s middleweight division. Recently he visited gym where Demi is training and he was very surprised when he saw her rolling.
He posted a picture of him and Demi on Instagram saying: “Good to see my buddy. She trains crazy hard! Hell, I thought she was training for a fight but they say that’s just how she rolls.. Big ups young lady!!”
https://www.instagram.com/p/BFHyBI3E1Nl/
As Demi Lovato was recently PROMOTED TO A BLUE BELT a lot of people were questioning her skills and wonder if she got belt just because she’s a popular singer, but as time is passing more and more people are witnessing her dedication to Brazilian Jiu jitsu.
Recently Demi Lovato showed her skills doing a takedown and armbar on a BJJ world champion Danielle Martin. Danielle commented that Demi is a great person and very passionate about Jiu Jitsu and that she’s showing great results with her hard work.
No matter what people say Demi is a great ambassador of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and I believe we’re all glad having her training and promoting our sport in a great light.
When you first start BJJ training, it can be overwhelming. There is so much going on and it’s confusing about where to start. I experienced this issue when I began training. And it is a question one of my new White Belts named Taylor had a question about. His question was essentially asking what to focus on as a new BJJ White Belt.
So in this video, I share several tips about how I personally went about Brazilian Jiu-jitsu as a brand new White Belt with little to no submissions in my useable technique arsenal. I share some tips for people who are more comfortable on the bottom playing form Full Guard and I share some options for people who are more comfortable playing from the top positions.
The general idea in this video is that if you’re new to Brazilian Jiujitsu. Your goal should be to just be able to control position as best you can and survive initially. If you can control the basic positions (holding full guard, maintaining top position, etc) then overtime you’ll find that you’ll be able to mount some sort of offense attacks afterwards.
But in the beginning, if you don’t have the ability to maintain positions properly. You’ll be hard pressed to mount any submission attacks or offense techniques.
So for all the newcomers to BJJ, I hope this video is useful to you!
Rob Renner and other 15th Dan Bujinkan Ninjutsu instructors administer the Godan test (5th Dan) testing sixth sense, intuition, and personal mastery under the supervision of the Grandmaster Masaaki Hatsumi Sensei with Sensei Mark Roemke.
As we noticed traditional martial arts are full of weird ways of testing for belts. From some McDojo tests where you just show up to get your belt to some where you have to show some sixth sense, chi energy etc.
In this video we’re witnessing way of testing so that you have to sense the danger, feel it without seeing it. How real this is and how could that help you in real life we don’t know but it looks interesting. Of Course, we can see some details that makes this all testing looks fake but we will let you judge it. Do you really think this is some kind of a sixth sense, intuition test or just a fake test?
