Why Consistency Is Important

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What keeps you consistent? Do you want to compete? Lose weight? Stay healthy?
What helps you maintain this?

This is probably one of the most important things in order to see success in just about anything. Being consistent will bring faster and better results. Not saying that with consistency that people don’t hit plateaus, but they do happen and being consistent and increasing intensity during this time help break those plateaus.

At just about any gym there are teammates out there that complain that they are not progressing, or seeing improvement in their game. Nine times out of ten those people are not consistent. They miss class due to injury, or other circumstances, they don’t push themselves during class or outside of it. With that said no ones life is perfect, and we all have crazy lives. But making regular class attendance is what differs between a hobbyist and an athlete.

For instance look at Jiu Jitsu guru Tom DeBlass, he pushes himself every day, inside and outside the gym. He is dedicated to his gym, and affiliates, his health, and most of all he is dedicated to his family. He makes time. He and many other well known practitioners have consistency, and that is what makes them successful. They do everything they can to be successful. Being in the gym and rolling and drilling will improve your game, but what you do outside of class and mat time help alleviate your game to the next level. Eating healthy, doing cross training, drinking water and adequate sleep amplify your training.

Doing these things not only will help your overall health and mood, but they will assist in recovery, and energy.

What are you goals? What are your struggles? Where do you want to see your overall health and Jiu Jitsu game in 6 months?

Mixed Martial Artist Dies After Fight at Cage Titans 35

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Rondel Clark died after MMA fight

After an MMA bout in Plymouth, Massachusetts a mixed martial artist died.

His name is Rondel Clark. He’s 26, he fought at Cage Titans 35, on Saturday at Plymouth Memorial Hall. He was beaten in a third round by TKO (punches) by Ryan Dunn

Clark was knocked out and shortly after he was taken to Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Plymouth.

After that he was transported to Boston where he was pronounced dead at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center!

Till now doctors are still not sure what caused his death and police investigation is underway into the circumstances surrounding Clark’s death.

Here is a quote from cage Titans Facebook page

“The New England MMA community lost one of our own on Tuesday morning; Rondel Da’twaun Clark passing away at Beth Israel Hospital due to complications following his amateur bout on Saturday night.
Rondel was a cherished soul throughout his athletic career, known for his utter tenacity on the grid iron, grappling mats, and inside the MMA cage. We at Cage Titans extend our deepest condolences to the Clark family, who request no outside communications at this time.”

Rest in peace Rondel 🙁

Renzo Gracie’s Lesson on Real Respect vs Superficial Respect

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One of the best BJJ coaches ever John Danaher in his post mentioned valuable lessons from BJJ legend Renzo Gracie and the way Renzo was teaching him.

Reflections on my sensei – real respect vs superficial respect: my sensei, Renzo Gracie is widely acknowledged as one of the best jiu jitsu coaches of the modern era. For his students, most of our lessons were technical in nature – but some of the most memorable had nothing to do with technique, but instead with other aspects of the sport.

One day I was away with the squad, traveling for a match. Mr Gracie stepped in to teach the afternoon class that I usually teach, so I was not there to witness the lesson, but heard it second hand from those who were there, but it’s importance was apparent as soon as I heard it. A visiting athlete who has considerable exposure on the grappling circuit and who often visited to train was present for the class. As Mr Gracie began teaching, the visitor sat on the sidelines and played around with his phone. The rest of the class went to work as Mr Gracie went through technique and drills.

Eventually it came time for live sparring (randori). The visitor suddenly put down his phone and decided it was now time to enter the class. He approached Mr Gracie and bowed solemnly and asked to join in the sparring. Mr Gracie did not even look at him, he said, “next class begins at 6pm.” The visitor was surprised. “I can’t train now?” Mr Gracie replied, “we’ve been training for forty five minutes while you played with your phone – now you feel like training? My sensei has the most transparent face I ever saw. When he is happy, everyone can see it – and when he is pissed off – everyone can see that too! ??

The visitor wisely stepped off the mat. Superficial symbols of respect don’t count for much compared with actions that convey REAL respect – training with commitment and giving your all. No one cares how solemnly you bow or how many times you say “osu” or any other mere symbol of respect if your actions convey the opposite. Don’t get caught up in the symbols – worry about the substance. My sensei never asked us to bow, call him “professor” or say “osu” to everything he said. The only thing he asked was that we gave our best effort – that was the only form of respect he taught and, for us as students, the most important we could learn.

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15 years old Kid Met a Giant in Open Weight Jiu Jitsu Match and WON

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An inspiring open weight jiu jitsu match, during the Modern Flow Jiu Jitsu Tournament (Wayne, Michigan).

The tournament was submission only and used EBI (Eddie Bravo Invitational) and IBJJF (International Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Federation) rules. Both competitors showed incredible sportsmanship and put on a great show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1tdqe1AcFU

How Long it Takes To Get Black Belt In Jiu-Jitsu

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How long does it take to get a black belt? That’s a question we all asked ourselves at least once in our BJJ training time. There is a nice article about the 15 fastest BJJ Black Belts HERE. While those guys are probably super talented what with casual people?

Bernardo Faria has an answer to that question in the video below! Check it out!

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BJJ vs Boxing Street Fight! Which Style is Better?

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BJJ vs Boxing street fight

When you have NO PLAN HOW TO FIGHT in Self Defense or even in a Street Fight YOU PLAN to FAIL.

This week we examine a real BJJ vs Boxing street fight to compare the approaches to fighting.

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) is a great martial art not because many of the fighters in Mixed Martial Arts rely on this form of fighting, but because it has a comprehensive approach to fighting whether in self-defense, mixed martial arts, or in a street fight.

Boxing is also a great practical fighting art that many people prefer to rely on in street fights. Even more so than BJJ. This makes sense since boxing is a striking art compared to Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.

Yet BJJ at its core has a unique positional strategy that drives its approach to fighting, and this is what makes it difficult to fight or defend against.

In BJJ, the idea is to close the space to your body, control your body in order to tire you out then ground and pound or choke you. There’s a specific plan that every BJJ student knows and follows.

This differs from striking martial arts such as Boxing or even Wing Chun, as they function very differently from grappling styles.

This is a new series of how to fight analysis called FIGHT SCIENCE BREAKDOWN. We’ll be taking real footage and looking at the psychology behind the violence and how this affects your approach to self-defense.

 

11 Reasons Why You Should Train Brazilian Jiu Jitsu

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There’s a lot of reasons why you and everyone else should train Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Here is a list of 11 of them. There are much more reasons to train BJJ but whatever reasons you find suitable for your self be sure that BJJ will make you a better person. So, join a ride.

  • It’s a Martial Art.

If you’re a “man” at some point in your life you were, for sure, impressed with different characters in your life who were doing some martial art while kicking a#ses. That’s the reason I think you deserve to “fight” other men in some sort of controlled environment. So here is your chance. There are no kicks and Punches in BJJ, so it makes it the perfect martial art for you. You won’t be kicked, you won’t be punched and you won’t be risking a knockout on every training.

2. You will learn self-defense

No matter if you train BJJ for sport or BJJ for self-defense you will definitely put your self-defense grade on a much higher level than it is without training. And we can say that BJJ is one of the most effective martial arts when it comes to self-defense

3. Physical Workout

If you think that weight lifting or exercising on machines is boring BJJ is perfect for you. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is a full-body workout. Both aerobic and anaerobic conditioning is present in every warm-up, drill, and sparring. The good thing is you are able to dose yourself in every situation. And if you want to leave the gym crawling you can do that too.

4. Self Esteem

At the start of your BJJ journey, you will feel helpless. You’ll feel like a toy to some guys jumping around you. But very soon if you put enough dedication and focus on your Jiu-Jitsu you will notice how much more powerful you are every time you step on the mat. New guys will come to the gym and you will become better than some “old” guys and you will feel empowered and soon after that, you’ll be in control of your thoughts and actions!

5. You have to be social

If you’re kind of a guy who doesn’t interact with people too much because of your work or your lifestyle or any other stuff that’s something that BJJ fix as soon as you join some BJJ school. Immediately after BJJ class starts you’re forced to interact with people, to help them, to let them help you, to talk about techniques, stuff you’re drilling etc. It’s not like boxing or similar sports where you’re most of the time left on your own doing shadow boxing or punching bag etc.

6. Friendship

When you train BJJ you’re instantly making friends because of interaction that’s happening as soon as the class start. You can’t learn Jiu-Jitsu on your own. You have to work with someone and that’s a great opportunity to make friends! You will like someone and someone will like you 🙂

7. You’ll forget your problems instantly while in BJJ class

When you’re trying to choke someone or someone is trying to choke you and you’re literally looking to survive it’s pretty hard to think about anything that bothers you except a fact that you’ll probably go to sleep if you don’t think of something very fast.

8. Travel

For some people, the best part of BJJ is traveling and visiting academies. You can be sure that in every corner of the world you will find a gym where you can train and meet new people and have fun. You can also visit BJJ camps around the world, visit all kinds of seminars, and if you want to meet any of the BJJ idols you can. You just visit their gym and choke them 🙂

9. Humility

No matter how good you are there is always someone better, faster, younger. There is always someone who knows more. You will learn that you will never know everything and you will accept the fact that you can always learn more from anyone around you no matter what belt they are or how long they train.

10. It’s about the brain, not just muscles

There’s an enormous number of techniques in BJJ and there are counters, re counters, re counters, re re re counters… ok you got it. Every day you will be faced with some kind of problem-solving situations. Questions and answers all the way. If you use your brain more you will be resolving those problems much easier. Just like in a real-life situation. Everything else is to make sure your body listens to your brain and you’ll do fine.

11. You can practice BJJ for the rest of your life

One of the fathers of BJJ, Helio Gracie trained BJJ until he died at age of 95. While training BJJ you can choose your training partners, you can set your own pace, you can choose techniques you want and you can enjoy it no matter what age you are. There’s one good sentence about BJJ and your training style. “Train BJJ like an old man, so that you can train BJJ as an old man”.

Powerful Kimura Setup for White Belts to Stop Basic Guard Break

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Kimura setup for white belts to stop guard break and pass

Here is a powerful Kimura setup from Guard that works off of a Basic Guard break many White Belts (and just people in general) will use in Brazilian Jiu-jitsu.

Many times setting up the Kimura from closed Guard can be tough because people are very conscious of their hands and arms and don’t allow someone to isolate them. If you’ve train Brazilian Jiujitsu you get a 6th sense about not letting your arms get over extended or pulled away from your body.

This is why you 1st have to focus on breaking the posture of the person rather than attempting a submission. It’s similar to the way a Judo player will explain a throw.

In Judo, before you can worry about the actual throwing technique. You have to focus on Kuzushi. Which is the pushing and pulling that causes a person to be off balance and open up the attack.

Attacking from the Guard on the ground is the same way. Before you begin to attempt the throw. You 1st have to knock the person off balance and break their posture.

Once the posture is broken. We can then attempt our actual attack.

In this video I try to share some of the simple details that can make the kimura from Full Guard work.

1. Isolate the arm.
2. Secure the figure 4 armlock for the Kimura / Ude Garami.
3.Move the body to the finishing position.
4. Use the WHOLE body to finish! Don’t just focus on pushing with the arms.

To drive home the idea of the 4th part of that list. When doing a submission in BJJ. Remember that the idea of a submission is to attack a part of our opponent’s body (arm, shoulder, knee, etc) with our WHOLE body. In the case of the Kimura. Recruiting as many muscles as possible will help to overwhelm our opponent’s strength with our shoulder lock.

If you’re a BJJ White Belt or you just enjoy the Kimura. I hope this video is helpful!

Pulling Berimbolo in a Street Fight

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Pulling Berimbolo in a Street Fight

There are numerous ways of fights people use in the streets and using some sport BJJ techniques is probably the most specific one. So, what happens when you pull Berimbolo in a street fight?

Actually, nothing smart 🙂 Check out the reaction of people around!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovJA25QiSY8

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What’s The Most Effective Grappling Martial Art? Is it BJJ?

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What's the best grappling sport

In this article I’ll try to explain from my point of view why is something good, why is something better and why is something the best.

There are many grappling sports. BJJ, Judo, Wrestling, Catch Wrestling, Luta Livre, Pankration, JuJutsu, Sumo, Bokeh… and only things that makes difference between grappling sports and the way we see them are the RULES.

So why we won’t say that wrestling is the most effective grappling martial art? Because of the rules. There is no finishing in wrestling and that plays a huge roll in terms of effectiveness, right?

The same is, for instance, with Judo. Why isn’t Judo the most effective grappling martial art? Simply because Judo’s groundwork is very limited in comparison with some other grappling sports.

It’s clear now what I want to say. The most effective grappling sport is the sport that has the least rules.

According to that, we’re left with BJJ, Catch Wrestling, Luta Livre, freestyle Sambo, Judo Newaza, etc. Those are the sports that have the least rules and we still have to decide which one is the best and, of course, put some arguments in.

I would say that BJJ is the most effective martial art and here are three simple arguments.

The first one is that BJJ incorporates every useful technique from any grappling sport. There is no limit. Whatever you find useful in Judo or wrestling or in any other grappling sport you can use in BJJ.

The second argument in favor of BJJ is that BJJ is a much bigger sport then all those with the least rules. And the amount of practitioners and competitors ensures that the sport is constantly progressing and evolving.

And the third argument is the ADCC! ADCC is considered to be the Olympics of grappling sports and the only guys who win it are guys from BJJ. There are some wrestlers around but they also train BJJ.

Do you agree with my vision of the most effective grappling sport? Or I’m completely wrong? What arguments do you have? Tell me in the comments!

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