I'm an Australian kick boxer, 2 years ago I was taught that grappling was useless in a fight, we were taught to believe that wrestlers were just meatheads who where less martial artists and more testosterone water balloons. Since finding this channel i realized how much knowledge and friendship I was missing out on. You pretty much single handedly gave me the drive to start bjj. First class is on Monday. so all I want to say is thanks Chewie, I owe you some vegemite toast.
it saddens me that your coach/team would have that attitude. but it doesn't mean they are bad people overall just ignorant. or that they previously had to deal with Catch Wrestlers :P
Chewjitsu Yeah, I use to be that guy who has a million crazy moves. Since coming back into jj I've been more focused on getting to my most reliable subs and working on alternate routes from there.
I’m 35 and started taking BJJ three months ago. Your videos have been very helpful and I got my first stripe. Jiu-Jitsu has been the best addition to my life and I really needed this. Thanks for all your tips and encouragement.
Thanks, I'm starting 2x 1.5 hours as of this week. I only did 1x 1.5 hours a week. oh and I got a big mat so me and a friend can do repetitions on things we learned at the gym.
3 weeks in to BJJ, hooked, love it. I was getting finished via triangle choke A LOT. I watched a video on how to prevent then escape and I was able to break free from a triangle tonight! I also am keeping my arms in less danger. Hell yeah feels good.
You make a great point about knowing less so you can use more... I always tell people the reason boxing is so effective is because you only practice a few techniques and drill the same techniques over and over and get great at the basics. Even tho boxing lacks so many things that are necessary to know in a real street fight it's still effective because in MOST scenarios all your going to need is the basics BUT in EVERY scenario you will ALWAYS need to know the basics.
I’m 55 years old started doing jiu jitsu 2 months ago it’s definitely been a life changer. Regardless of how confused I am at times I feel like I’m 15 again. Sometimes I feel like I’m in a tornado. Just want to say I appreciate your videos they are very helpful. Thank you.
A novice will practice something until he gets it right. A professional will practice something until he can't get it wrong. 1 - Pick a technique that currently works for you. This is your Plan A. 2 - Drill it. 3 - Drill it some more. 4 - Keep drilling it until you are confident that it will work 99 times out of 100. 5 - When that 1 in 100 times comes around, figure out what happened. 6 - Add to your game plan (Plan B) for what you need to do when Plan A doesn't work.
This is EXACTLY where im at right now. As a 1 stripe white belt, im so interested in ALL positions, and my coaches are saying the same thing. Focus on defending, surviving, and sweeping higher belts. Perfect positioning and control BEFORE the submission. Great vid!
This is great advice. Right now i have been out of jiu jitsu for a couple months because of coaching football and taking a night class. So I am watching videos that go with my game and keeping it simple. I watched the giggle video over and over so it is imbedded in my mind so when i go back to train it will be something I will do over and over. Find what works for your body type and do it over and over. I still don't know how anybody could dislike your videos.
I only have a handful of moves I use, but I'm really good at those few. I try to add what's feels natural to me. It's easier to do something if it feels natural. Good info as usual.
I'm like this, I have a small handful of things I can do to Brown and Black Belts (or anyone else for that matter) and a few techniques I can't even slip past a White Belt, everything else falls somewhere in the middle. Seems this evens out to being a Purple....
good plan. ive been doing less stuff like working out counters to moves like working out escapes when i was being smothered. a bjj diary helps me too to stay bit more focussed and i can look back too.
Just got my blue belt! So worth it! I approached BJJ in a very slow pace and more focused on the techniques... I don’t care being submitted by white belts or anyone while I’m “practicing” my scapes or attacks! This is how I’ve learned more techniques than anyone on my level. I’m a bigger guy so I try matching the strength of my opponent, instead of overpowering them!
¡ A CRUCIAL LESSON i LEARNED EARLY ON (IN JUDO) WAS THAT my OPPONENT WILL GIVE me THE "GIFT" OF AN OPENING IN TACHI-WAZA OR POSITION IN NE-WAZA FROM WHICH I CAN EXECUTE A THROW OR SUBMISSION ! AND my JOB IS TO LEARN & BE PROFICIENT IN TECHNIQUES TO BE ABLE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THOSE OPENINGS OR POSITIONS ! THAT ATTITUDE "ENLIGHTENMENT" HELPED me A GREAT DEAL AS IT DOES NO GOOD TO TELL SOMEONE THEY COULD HAVE HIT THIS MOVE OR THAT THROW IF THEY'VE NEVER BEEN TAUGHT "THAT THROW OR THAT MOVE" !
I think your approach is best and has always worked for me as well. I think typically white and blue belts suffer from what I call "magic technique syndrome" as you said they go on youtube and find a great knew technique and tap everyone with it simply because no one has ever seen it. As soon as it stops working for them (2-3 rolls with the same people) they start looking for the next "magic" technique. Instead of making the ones they already use better. Bump sweeps, trap and roll escape from mount, double in collar choke etc. All basic techniques that the white or blue belt tends to completely give up on after the first few years of training.
I’m 46, just started my bjj journey. This video helped a lot! Was finding the information overload leaving me overwhelmed and getting tapped out continuously, not knowing what to do. Time to pick a couple of moves and stick to them, for a while at least.
Hey chewie, good video. I am 41 and been going to BJJ classes for about two weeks and love it. Wish I had started sooner. My question is as a newbie is cool to incorporate things I see online in my rolls at the gym or should I only focus on what I have been taught? Thanks Joshua.
Analysis Paralysis hehe. :) but yeah, i have been there until I started drawing a flow chart of my game and start to focus in on those techniques that makes up the flow chart.
I‘m really love your vids Chewy! I do MMA and my kickboxing is quite strong for brown belt lvl (I’m a brown belt) but I’m okay at grappling/rolling and ur vids helped me a lot. Thx keep making these awesome vids. 🤗
I am the oposite of you when you were a white belt, I take a MMA program that does a little bit of everything, sparring, kickboxing, grappling, and such. I am pretty new so one day my coach said we were doing grappling for position. And I was the second to go up and I was matched with one of my buddies (by the way I was almost an orange belt and my buddy was a blue which is almost a black belt) and the first thing I did when we started was I fell to my back. And my buddy wasn't expecting that so he just fell, and we were using closed guard as a dominate position and what we were doing was hold dominate position for 10 seconds straight, anyway I pretty much did that and put him in a closed guard. And I repeated to do this for the next hour and a half, then he figured out how to escape my closed guard but I had a trick up my sleeve. One of my friends is a black belt in BJJ and he got me really good at dominate position switching so the second my buddy loosened my closed guard I got behind him and put him in a rear mount. Just a funny story!
Hey Chewy I'm 5'6 150lbs. Been training for some time now and when I take the back I'm wanting to lock up a body triangle just like everyone else in my gym, but for the life of me I can't get either the right angle or just my legs are too damn short. Everyone I roll with can get one on me and I've tried looking up body-lovks for short legs - can't find anything. Is there anything you'd recommend other than just not going for a body-triangle at all? BudoMMA, Vancouver BC
I am only 5'8'' with slightly bigger torso and shorter legs. I first thought this too but now, in my opinion, body triangle seems sexy but is actually not that great. From back position, focus on working your hooks, try using 'half back' (Chewie has a vid on this), practice back retention drills and obviously subs. Just my 2 cents. Disclaimer: If you are a high belt asking this question then I'm sorry for giving such basic advice. Anyway, good luck.
I agree with the overall premise though it almost seems like we should kind of discard most of the class teaching because the nature of going from one technique to another doesn't give time to truly absorb... Now the class times seems like I'm just waiting to do our own thing...
Chewjitsu Thanks for answering sorry that my reply is late is just that I wouldn’t think you would but I go back to this video to see if it got replies
It’s so difficult to know which techniques to grab onto in the beginning. Everything is so new and fascinating but the reality is most of the techniques go by the wayside. I think you have to kind of try everything for the first couple years and see what seems to work well for you. I found that some of those techniques you dropped can be gems once you start realizing how to chain submissions together based on your opponents response.
yes. I sucked my entire time as a White Belt, I mean I sucked compared to other White Belts. I'm fairly capable now so my coach can be honest and it's ok so he's like "yah you were terrible, I thought you hated me and were trying to make me look bad as a teacher for the first month or so" then as a Blue Belt I still was pretty lousy for over half my time there but I was about the same as other Blue Belts so that was an improvement. Now I am a Purple Belt that has a fairly simple game that I can implement well against most any opposition including Black Belts. #HumbleBrag just to be clear the Black Belts beat me more then I beat them BUT before there was just nothing I can do, now if I get my game started it is very difficult for anyone to get back into play.
What is your opinion of a BJJ practitioner interested in opening a BJJ school, but has never won a competition, or even a match at a competition? For example, I've been training since 2011, with a little bit of wrestling from Middle/High school. I have competed in both wrestling and BJJ, and I have never won a match (except ones where my opponent forfeits before the match). During my time in the military I taught hand-to-hand combatives and loved teaching. I love helping guys out at the school who are just trying BJJ for the first time. I feel as if I truly have a passion for teaching. However, I have no competency from competition that would show someone my technique and approach to fighting actually works since I've always lost matches. I can hit submissions in rolling at school, but I understand that isn't an environment where opponents may be going 100% all the time. I hope you can cover this and give me some feedback on becoming an instructor with a losing record. -Rob
What belt are you? Also, to be honest, I find it very hard to believe that if you are a high belt (I assume you are at least a high purple belt or higher to even contemplate opening a school) you have NEVER won a match, unless you only competed like once. Although not 100% necessary, or the only factor in being a good teacher, I do think that some competition success (at any level, doesn't have to be ADCC or worlds) is soo helpful in teaching b/c you know what works when it counts. In my humble opinion, go out to small local tournaments and compete. Give yourself a year or so to be an active competitor and sign up for every competition you have access to.
I’ve competed 11 times, which I’m not sure if that’s still a low number, but I assume it is. And I think you’re hitting the main idea with your reply. Competition success, not just participation. So between 2 years of wrestling, and 11 BJJ competitions (local, not high level tournaments) I genuinely have never won a match. I have a silver medal from a Fuji tournament only because there were just two of us in my weight/belt division (middleweight/Brown). I refuse to claim any level of success off a silver medal given as a default just because there were no other competitors. I have no clue how I’ve even been promoted up to this point, but that’s a whole different animal. If I’ve never won anything, do I even have any business opening my own school? Do I need competition success or is competition participation enough? I think I have an opinion on it, but I’d like to hear what the community has to say.
Go for it. No rules say you can't. If you can teach and are passionate about it then go make it happen. Honestly I don't think most people will care. They'll be happy just to learning a new sport.
I am a white belt. Most of my group are advanced level guys. Some of them are competitors. Our trainer focus on all members but because this is advance group he pushes advanced techniques.
indeed virtually everyone learns better that way BUT definlatey do the reps of the demonstragition techniques cus that is how you find new things that do fit into your game AND if your instructor is good it will be set up in a way that it is teaching your body how to move even if you don't realize it.
QUESTION! I’m the only girl who consistently trains at my small gym. My frustration is that whenever a new or young female comes in I automatically get paired into drilling and rolling with her. I understand that they are new and are probably most comfortable with another female. But I’m a strong white belt, who doesn’t like to play patty cake all day with the new people. At this point I feel like it is hindering my training. Is there an appropriate way to reach out to my coach to ask to stop always pairing us together? Or is helping out the new people just a part of the journey? Thanks in advance, please keep me anonymous if you decide to answer within a video 💜
It's typically once a week that we are having a new girl train with us. Those nights are almost solely spent training with them, so it takes away from me being able to actually drill sweeps/submissions/whatever. I know everyone has to start somewhere, and I hate to be rude, but I want to train and drill hard for upcoming competitions
Aly G I agree with PatduDMD. Drilling with new people helps me work on the smaller details of a technique. Also, explaining a move to them helps cement the technique in my head. I save going hard for open mat/sparring.
As one of the few girls at my gym, embrace it. Teach her. Before you know it, you two will be each others' favorite training partner. In the meantime, when instruction is done for the session, ask other people if they want to roll too. No biggy. Most people will totally welcome a extra few rolls. It's live drilling that you learn from the most anyway. Don't be that person that's always only looking out for themselves and their own improvement. When I first started a purple belt took me under her wing and I give all my gratitude and best rolls to her to this day.
I have a follow up question or two, are you sure you are getting a new lady in every week and they almost never stay? or do I misread that? also can you tell us how the classes where you train are structured? I understand you are paired with them for the skill training part of class (doing reps of the techniques that are taught that evening) but what happens after that? does everyone keep the same partner for the entire evening? I can give better feedback when I understand better what the overall situation is, but yes helping the new people is definitely part of the journey. I spent an entire week where I train rolling with almost all White Belts (I had 1 round, the entire week with a Black Belt and they were injured so we basically just moved and kept it very light) so we are talking about a Weeks worth of rolling at the time was maybe 40 rounds of 8-10 minutes each and 39 of them where White belts!) I may have sat a round or two if I had been needed to but I was in the shape to go all 40 rounds in a week. anyway that was pretty rough emotionally because I was like wtf I'll never get better like this so I know what you mean in a way. anyway I'll give my thoughts on it after. I have actually trained at places where there was only one regular female and where there are dozens so I have some potentially usefull advice.
In my case I have different phases...sometimes I tend to have an overload phase in which I try to do everything and at some point I realize that I can't do shit, so I come back to my basics and add what works for me. Right now I am on a Guillotine Choke phase 😬
Same for me! I started training not long ago but am now trying to only work on things that we've drilled that week rather than trying to work on a fancy kimura set up from guard that I won't be able to pull off. Think for me it's about trying to get better at a single or two techniques each week rather than trying to learn how to do an electric chair or anything silly
It actually has a name, "log jam" is when you know 10000 techniques and your mind goes blank during an altercation. Jack of all trades, master of none.
Hi Chewie, I am a two stripe white belt in bjj and been training for over a year. I am having a problem when it comes to rolling, when Im rolling im usually almost always on bottom and getting mounted on by higher ranks and even no stripe white belts at time almost tap me out. When it comes to drilling techniques, I feel like Im getting the more hang of it from one year ago, but it's just executing them in real time rolling is what I have a problem with, so my question is how can I get better at rolling?
Just my 2 cents... I would work on mount escapes, but specifically getting to half guard and/or full guard (or open guard if that's what you are comfortable with) then work your sweeps and subs. In my opinion, people who figured out the bottom game early are among the best guys in my gym in the long run.
as a brand new white belt all I thought about was getting my first real submission where someone didn't give it to me. So at first I was just focusing on attacking and like you kept ending up ot the bottom and eventually getting submitted. Once I started focusing on survival and then escapes, I ended up spending less time on the bottom and eventually go a submission or two from more experienced white belts.
I train at the only BJJ gym in town. And it's pretty obvious to the entire class that our instructor quit caring about us students a long time ago. Almost all of us students are white belts, one stripe or less, and some have been training there regularly for more than 5 years. Our instructor puts out a few minutes of info then usually sits in the corner while we roll then at some point he leaves. Usually without the class even knowing. He almost never rolls with us students. Any suggestions for those of us that still care
not important yeah, dont waste you're money there. Taking the Gracie university courses online and practicing with the peers you know now would probably be more beneficial.
damn I'm sorry you are in that situation, a 5 year White Belt is crazy. I have a few questions 1.) is your instructor a Black Belt (if he isn't he is not permitted to move anyone out of White Belt no matter how skilled he gets them he needs a Black Belt to sign off on a promotion so perhaps that part of it is somewhat understandable) Also bear in mind that even if he has a Black Belt, that means he is 'permitted and knowledgeable enough to teach' it does not mean he is automatically GOOD at teaching! The teaching side of it may simply not be his thing. 2.) the White Belts that have been there years (5 even!) are they noticeably better. In other words can you tell for the most part who has been there the longest based on their ability or has everyone stagnated? 3.) any idea where the instructor trained to get his belt? don't ask him if you don't know I'm just curiuos typically there will be a linage on the wall somewhere. anyway get back to me and yes I do already have some suggestions but I'm going to put all my thoughts in the answer post after I read the response you have to those 3 inquiries so that it's altogether. I was actually in a pretty similar situation but (and I am not trying to compare horror stories) it was actually worse in our case because some of his established students from before when he was putting out good skilled Grapplers would come in every now and again to say hi and train with us expecting us to know what we were doing and we didn't so we would get smashed. They never trained regularly tho so we didn't get to actually learn from them just get destroyed. Anyway all is not lost and it might even be advisable to still train there. I have a 4th question, what kind of fees are you guys being charged if you don't mind my asking.
The techniques I use are all strength and explosive based moves. It works well on big guys and even better on smaller guys. It's fine tuned to what works for me. I do have 2 or 3 options incase my first doesn't work.
I'm a three stripe white belt and I hardly ever tap anyone unless they have slim to none experience. I have good defense though. I get tapped more often than I tap others. What is your suggestion for getting the tap more often? thanks
Along same lines that he's talking about in this video. When it comes to submissions, even the most high level folks have 1-2 favorite positions and their games are predicated on getting their opponents into the positions that they feel most confident in. It's really the same concept as any sport, really. Basketball teams with small skilled players try to get their opponents to run with them; teams with size advantages try to slow the game down. In BJJ, submissions start to happen when you identify your favorite position and then a favorite sub from that position. I've seen blue belts who've gotten super slick w/triangles from the guard put brown belts in really bad spots and even catch subs when they've mastered a particular position. The key to growth from that point, is build off that strength (remember every sub has a counter and every counter opens a new opportunity) and not stunt your development by getting tunnel vision.
I agree with the above. depending on your build and the positions you find yourself in most often I'd just work it from there. you say you don't get subbed much does that mean you are often on bottom defending? if so I'd start looking at establishing half guard if you are a short thick fellow or full guard if you are long lean type. also do you have a preference for gi or no gi? if you happen to be a short or average height fellow with a thick build and good base of strength I'm your guy! if not I still will have advice just wont be as much based on experience
@@bigmember5908 oh I'm a short and thick build give me advice please Iv been working on being on ground cause being on top seems easy cause I'm heavy hehe (fat bastard) ... It's big bones and all muscle I swear
casey arrow well, and understand I don't know how exactly your school is set up as far as rules go so some of this you might need to modify or disreguard altogether because I don't want you to get in trouble but what I tend to find people with our build being good at is to follow: Typically Full/Closed Guard is a lost cause for us as far as our Bottom game goes. Half Guard and X (Regular or Single Leg) are usually good options for our build types. Sometimes OpenGuard works for us as well but I'd look at Half Guard as my primary bottom option because in or out of gi it is basically the same and it'll give you that base of "safety" as a position you can return to with confidence whatever grappling situation you find yourself in. As far as attacks from bottom for myself Keylock variations and Omuplata have been where I get the most success, again good in or out of gi and as a nice benefit both attempts also permit a Sweep attempt due to how effectively they let you control the post. Omuplata not likely from half Guard mind you but you will find people that you can get into a full guard situation and it wound up being a good option for me when I had initially not thought it would be. A lot of people say Butterfly guard should be good for us to for myself I have not found that, you may wind up being a great Butterfly player tho so consider that as well. If you start standing or on the knees you can look into a collar snap down or collar drag that can immediately turn into a Loop Choke. Arm-Drags are also fantastic and again gi and nogi appropriate, the Lapel stuff of course is gi specific but it's such a good 1-2 combo that it's worth the investment in my view.
But it's good to be familiar with a techniques and he's getting into it we all guilty, it doesn't matter what color your belt if you start practicing jiu jitsu you end be in a bathroom longer with your phone checking new techniques lol
Inside trip, take down to top half-guard, smash him, Ezekiel. The end. It sucks, is not pretty or cool in any way, but that it was I got after 3 years. I keep trying other stuff, trying to expand, but really, when I have to kill fast, that’s it.
I would compliment you on your pretty eye makeup too but somehow I am sure it wouldn’t go the way it did when your girlfriend said it! Like I will be the next one with the pretty eye makeup after you track me down 😊 As for the info, as usual good stuff and thanks 🙏
The philosophy is kinda like Muay Thai vs Taekwondo. Muay Thai has fewer techniques and is very devastating while Taekwondo has more techniques but lacks in power.
PatduDMD Tae kwon do does not lack power. Ever take a spinning back to the stomach? Spoiler alert* I’d rather take a Thai kick. Tae Kwon do just lacks practicality.
socalisskateable you can see those spinning kicks coming from a mile away. The snappy point kicks of taekwondo doesn't work at all. Have you ever took a kick to the thigh from a Muay Thai fighter?
PatduDMD yes I have and it hurts like a bitch. That doesn’t mean a good spinning side kick doesn’t also hurt like a bitch lol. I’ve done both martial arts and they both have their pluses. Just gotta know when to throw the right kind of kick for the situation.
I have also done both and I can tell you that while I consider MThai more practical by far, there is a huge difference between legit TKD and watered down belt factory / Olympic tag type stuff... only a buffoon throws a spin kick without a set up, but the truth is that doesn't even matter because a spin kick isn't the only way for a TKD guy to generate power.
PatduDMD I kicked a guy in the inside of his thigh during my first heavyweight mma fight, and he vomited on the mats. He saw the kick and tried to step out but opened up enough for me to follow through to the inside of rear leg. TKD lacks that follow through power on round kicks, but that is MT's strength, along with the front push kick. Some TKD guys do have power on the turn kicks, and 180 back without leaving much of a shadow, if they train to fight. They also seem to use the universal leg chamber pretty well too, if trained properly. You can see it used by some of the top mma fighters today. That also applies to the Karateka mma fighters.
there is a speech : dont fear the guy who does 1000 techniques...fear the guy who did one technique a thousand times. no just kidding, fear nothing, except moms and pregnant women...
I believe this is attributed to Bruce Lee. "I don't fear the mad that knows 10,000 kicks but the man that practiced one kick 10,000 times" or something like that.
I'm an Australian kick boxer, 2 years ago I was taught that grappling was useless in a fight, we were taught to believe that wrestlers were just meatheads who where less martial artists and more testosterone water balloons. Since finding this channel i realized how much knowledge and friendship I was missing out on. You pretty much single handedly gave me the drive to start bjj. First class is on Monday. so all I want to say is thanks Chewie, I owe you some vegemite toast.
it saddens me that your coach/team would have that attitude. but it doesn't mean they are bad people overall just ignorant.
or that they previously had to deal with Catch Wrestlers :P
Bro you got Craig Jones and Lachlan Giles. GL
How did it go?
Yeah give us an update mate
Update?
"Who does your eyes?"
"My coach."
Chad Fahlman You win the internet today.
Haha my buddy Nick is the guy. 😂
nick0424 definitely had people ask if I'm wearing mascara after getting elbowed.
Chad Fahlman I believe it. You still win.
46. Started today. I’m beat. Gonna keep going.
How are you getting on?
just don’t quit man, you might hate it for a while even, but eventually you’re going to be addicted and boy is it a better addiction than most
You better! Right on!
Starting tomorrow at 47 right there with ya! Older comment but hope you are still going!
@@phantiasmic starting tomorrow, again, myself! no looking back
"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times." - Bruce Lee
Tilt that’s always a good one.
Chewjitsu Yeah, I use to be that guy who has a million crazy moves. Since coming back into jj I've been more focused on getting to my most reliable subs and working on alternate routes from there.
"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the bearded man who wears eye liner on one eye." - Lee Bruce
This reminds me Masakazu Imanari
I fear the dude with a knife :|
I’m 35 and started taking BJJ three months ago. Your videos have been very helpful and I got my first stripe. Jiu-Jitsu has been the best addition to my life and I really needed this. Thanks for all your tips and encouragement.
Congrats, I think I need to start training more, I don't have my first stripe yet :( how many times a week are you going?
Congratz ! keep going !
fommes I train 3 times a week. Sometimes four.
saleh said Just join a Jiu-Jitsu gym. Don’t wait too long if you’re thinking about it. Just do it brother.
Thanks, I'm starting 2x 1.5 hours as of this week. I only did 1x 1.5 hours a week. oh and I got a big mat so me and a friend can do repetitions on things we learned at the gym.
3 weeks in to BJJ, hooked, love it. I was getting finished via triangle choke A LOT. I watched a video on how to prevent then escape and I was able to break free from a triangle tonight! I also am keeping my arms in less danger. Hell yeah feels good.
You make a great point about knowing less so you can use more... I always tell people the reason boxing is so effective is because you only practice a few techniques and drill the same techniques over and over and get great at the basics. Even tho boxing lacks so many things that are necessary to know in a real street fight it's still effective because in MOST scenarios all your going to need is the basics BUT in EVERY scenario you will ALWAYS need to know the basics.
Word!
I’m 55 years old started doing jiu jitsu 2 months ago it’s definitely been a life changer. Regardless of how confused I am at times I feel like I’m 15 again. Sometimes I feel like I’m in a tornado. Just want to say I appreciate your videos they are very helpful. Thank you.
A novice will practice something until he gets it right.
A professional will practice something until he can't get it wrong.
1 - Pick a technique that currently works for you. This is your Plan A.
2 - Drill it.
3 - Drill it some more.
4 - Keep drilling it until you are confident that it will work 99 times out of 100.
5 - When that 1 in 100 times comes around, figure out what happened.
6 - Add to your game plan (Plan B) for what you need to do when Plan A doesn't work.
This is EXACTLY where im at right now. As a 1 stripe white belt, im so interested in ALL positions, and my coaches are saying the same thing. Focus on defending, surviving, and sweeping higher belts. Perfect positioning and control BEFORE the submission. Great vid!
This is great advice. Right now i have been out of jiu jitsu for a couple months because of coaching football and taking a night class. So I am watching videos that go with my game and keeping it simple. I watched the giggle video over and over so it is imbedded in my mind so when i go back to train it will be something I will do over and over. Find what works for your body type and do it over and over. I still don't know how anybody could dislike your videos.
this video is gold for a white belt. thank u
I only have a handful of moves I use, but I'm really good at those few. I try to add what's feels natural to me. It's easier to do something if it feels natural. Good info as usual.
I'm like this, I have a small handful of things I can do to Brown and Black Belts (or anyone else for that matter) and a few techniques I can't even slip past a White Belt, everything else falls somewhere in the middle. Seems this evens out to being a Purple....
Thank you so much for this video. I’ve only just started my BJJ journey this month.
good plan. ive been doing less stuff like working out counters to moves like working out escapes when i was being smothered. a bjj diary helps me too to stay bit more focussed and i can look back too.
Just got my blue belt! So worth it!
I approached BJJ in a very slow pace and more focused on the techniques... I don’t care being submitted by white belts or anyone while I’m “practicing” my scapes or attacks!
This is how I’ve learned more techniques than anyone on my level.
I’m a bigger guy so I try matching the strength of my opponent, instead of overpowering them!
¡ A CRUCIAL LESSON i LEARNED EARLY ON (IN JUDO) WAS THAT my OPPONENT WILL GIVE me THE "GIFT" OF AN OPENING IN TACHI-WAZA OR POSITION IN NE-WAZA FROM WHICH I CAN EXECUTE A THROW OR SUBMISSION ! AND my JOB IS TO LEARN & BE PROFICIENT IN TECHNIQUES TO BE ABLE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THOSE OPENINGS OR POSITIONS ! THAT ATTITUDE "ENLIGHTENMENT" HELPED me A GREAT DEAL AS IT DOES NO GOOD TO TELL SOMEONE THEY COULD HAVE HIT THIS MOVE OR THAT THROW IF THEY'VE NEVER BEEN TAUGHT "THAT THROW OR THAT MOVE" !
I think your approach is best and has always worked for me as well. I think typically white and blue belts suffer from what I call "magic technique syndrome" as you said they go on youtube and find a great knew technique and tap everyone with it simply because no one has ever seen it. As soon as it stops working for them (2-3 rolls with the same people) they start looking for the next "magic" technique. Instead of making the ones they already use better. Bump sweeps, trap and roll escape from mount, double in collar choke etc. All basic techniques that the white or blue belt tends to completely give up on after the first few years of training.
Chewy is the GOAT. Great advice man, wish I could experience one of your classes
"I dont fear the man who practices 10,000 kicks 1 time, i fear the man who practices 1 kick 10,000 times"
Awesome to take the 80/20 principle and put it with BJJ. Great video.
I’m 46, just started my bjj journey. This video helped a lot! Was finding the information overload leaving me overwhelmed and getting tapped out continuously, not knowing what to do. Time to pick a couple of moves and stick to them, for a while at least.
This is Very helpful advice. Thank you
Chewie my man! Only 300 subs to go! Been here before actually starting bjj and you helped and motivated me massively! Thanks and congrats :)
Hey chewie, good video. I am 41 and been going to BJJ classes for about two weeks and love it. Wish I had started sooner. My question is as a newbie is cool to incorporate things I see online in my rolls at the gym or should I only focus on what I have been taught?
Thanks
Joshua.
Oh that's hard question
I have the same doubt about it. Should i stick to what i've learned on the mat or should i try what i've watched on youtube.
@@GordaoSemFuturo I'm new as well but I would say use what you know in class more then what you know from RUclips/the internet.
Brilliant Teacher!
Great advice!!! That’s exactly what I do and it’s very effective
Analysis Paralysis hehe. :) but yeah, i have been there until I started drawing a flow chart of my game and start to focus in on those techniques that makes up the flow chart.
I‘m really love your vids Chewy! I do MMA and my kickboxing is quite strong for brown belt lvl (I’m a brown belt) but I’m okay at grappling/rolling and ur vids helped me a lot. Thx keep making these awesome vids. 🤗
Great advice, once again.👍
You're a great man Chewy. I highly respect you. Btw, you're always really good with metaphors, how come? You should try writing poetry
I just tarted this week and im so sore but can wait to get back to the dojo. Jujitsu is a drug.
Bout to do my first ever class tonight. 21 . Let’s go
I am the oposite of you when you were a white belt, I take a MMA program that does a little bit of everything, sparring, kickboxing, grappling, and such. I am pretty new so one day my coach said we were doing grappling for position. And I was the second to go up and I was matched with one of my buddies (by the way I was almost an orange belt and my buddy was a blue which is almost a black belt) and the first thing I did when we started was I fell to my back. And my buddy wasn't expecting that so he just fell, and we were using closed guard as a dominate position and what we were doing was hold dominate position for 10 seconds straight, anyway I pretty much did that and put him in a closed guard. And I repeated to do this for the next hour and a half, then he figured out how to escape my closed guard but I had a trick up my sleeve. One of my friends is a black belt in BJJ and he got me really good at dominate position switching so the second my buddy loosened my closed guard I got behind him and put him in a rear mount. Just a funny story!
Excellent advice!!
That ocean analogy is me in target
Ocean metaphor is a good one.
Hey Chewy
I'm 5'6 150lbs. Been training for some time now and when I take the back I'm wanting to lock up a body triangle just like everyone else in my gym, but for the life of me I can't get either the right angle or just my legs are too damn short. Everyone I roll with can get one on me and I've tried looking up body-lovks for short legs - can't find anything. Is there anything you'd recommend other than just not going for a body-triangle at all?
BudoMMA, Vancouver BC
I am only 5'8'' with slightly bigger torso and shorter legs. I first thought this too but now, in my opinion, body triangle seems sexy but is actually not that great. From back position, focus on working your hooks, try using 'half back' (Chewie has a vid on this), practice back retention drills and obviously subs. Just my 2 cents. Disclaimer: If you are a high belt asking this question then I'm sorry for giving such basic advice. Anyway, good luck.
Hey thanks for the tip dude. And no haha, Im a 2stripe whitey. I'll check that stuff out thanks
Chewy you should release your own book on jiu-jitsu, white belt to black belt or something. I'd buy it
This really helps mate
Really helpful
I agree with the overall premise though it almost seems like we should kind of discard most of the class teaching because the nature of going from one technique to another doesn't give time to truly absorb... Now the class times seems like I'm just waiting to do our own thing...
About a month in and I definitely feel the drowning!! Thank you for this video.
Awesome info thanks.
Chewie,who is in your opinion the GOAT grappler?
Pepe B in Bjj all time? Probably Marcelo Garcia or Roger.
Chewjitsu howsabout freestyle wrestling
Chewjitsu Thanks for answering sorry that my reply is late is just that I wouldn’t think you would but I go back to this video to see if it got replies
Chewjitsu hoger
It’s so difficult to know which techniques to grab onto in the beginning. Everything is so new and fascinating but the reality is most of the techniques go by the wayside. I think you have to kind of try everything for the first couple years and see what seems to work well for you. I found that some of those techniques you dropped can be gems once you start realizing how to chain submissions together based on your opponents response.
yes. I sucked my entire time as a White Belt, I mean I sucked compared to other White Belts. I'm fairly capable now so my coach can be honest and it's ok so he's like "yah you were terrible, I thought you hated me and were trying to make me look bad as a teacher for the first month or so"
then as a Blue Belt I still was pretty lousy for over half my time there but I was about the same as other Blue Belts so that was an improvement.
Now I am a Purple Belt that has a fairly simple game that I can implement well against most any opposition including Black Belts. #HumbleBrag
just to be clear the Black Belts beat me more then I beat them BUT before there was just nothing I can do, now if I get my game started it is very difficult for anyone to get back into play.
everyone regardless of belt gets good at their own pace
What is your opinion of a BJJ practitioner interested in opening a BJJ school, but has never won a competition, or even a match at a competition?
For example, I've been training since 2011, with a little bit of wrestling from Middle/High school. I have competed in both wrestling and BJJ, and I have never won a match (except ones where my opponent forfeits before the match). During my time in the military I taught hand-to-hand combatives and loved teaching. I love helping guys out at the school who are just trying BJJ for the first time. I feel as if I truly have a passion for teaching. However, I have no competency from competition that would show someone my technique and approach to fighting actually works since I've always lost matches. I can hit submissions in rolling at school, but I understand that isn't an environment where opponents may be going 100% all the time. I hope you can cover this and give me some feedback on becoming an instructor with a losing record. -Rob
What belt are you? Also, to be honest, I find it very hard to believe that if you are a high belt (I assume you are at least a high purple belt or higher to even contemplate opening a school) you have NEVER won a match, unless you only competed like once. Although not 100% necessary, or the only factor in being a good teacher, I do think that some competition success (at any level, doesn't have to be ADCC or worlds) is soo helpful in teaching b/c you know what works when it counts. In my humble opinion, go out to small local tournaments and compete. Give yourself a year or so to be an active competitor and sign up for every competition you have access to.
I’ve competed 11 times, which I’m not sure if that’s still a low number, but I assume it is. And I think you’re hitting the main idea with your reply. Competition success, not just participation. So between 2 years of wrestling, and 11 BJJ competitions (local, not high level tournaments) I genuinely have never won a match. I have a silver medal from a Fuji tournament only because there were just two of us in my weight/belt division (middleweight/Brown). I refuse to claim any level of success off a silver medal given as a default just because there were no other competitors. I have no clue how I’ve even been promoted up to this point, but that’s a whole different animal. If I’ve never won anything, do I even have any business opening my own school? Do I need competition success or is competition participation enough? I think I have an opinion on it, but I’d like to hear what the community has to say.
Go for it. No rules say you can't. If you can teach and are passionate about it then go make it happen. Honestly I don't think most people will care. They'll be happy just to learning a new sport.
Why not make a goal of winning a few comps?
I love you Chewy.
Love you channel thank you brother
"I fear the man who has practiced one kick, ten thousand times. Not the man who practices ten thousand kicks once." Bruce Lee
Lol You're girlfriend saying that just made me laugh lol. That's funny
There was a third white belt who the other two was unable to suit because his main focus was survival.
Think I will focus down on a handful of moves
I am a white belt. Most of my group are advanced level guys. Some of them are competitors. Our trainer focus on all members but because this is advance group he pushes advanced techniques.
I’m convinced my way forward is to work on just a few moves as I get overloaded on these weekly new moves that I can’t remember nor execute properly
indeed virtually everyone learns better that way BUT definlatey do the reps of the demonstragition techniques cus that is how you find new things that do fit into your game AND if your instructor is good it will be set up in a way that it is teaching your body how to move even if you don't realize it.
What dvds are you talking about ?
QUESTION! I’m the only girl who consistently trains at my small gym. My frustration is that whenever a new or young female comes in I automatically get paired into drilling and rolling with her. I understand that they are new and are probably most comfortable with another female. But I’m a strong white belt, who doesn’t like to play patty cake all day with the new people. At this point I feel like it is hindering my training. Is there an appropriate way to reach out to my coach to ask to stop always pairing us together? Or is helping out the new people just a part of the journey? Thanks in advance, please keep me anonymous if you decide to answer within a video 💜
It's typically once a week that we are having a new girl train with us. Those nights are almost solely spent training with them, so it takes away from me being able to actually drill sweeps/submissions/whatever. I know everyone has to start somewhere, and I hate to be rude, but I want to train and drill hard for upcoming competitions
Aly G I think that you should take advantage of that situation to practice on your offense more.
Aly G I agree with PatduDMD. Drilling with new people helps me work on the smaller details of a technique. Also, explaining a move to them helps cement the technique in my head. I save going hard for open mat/sparring.
As one of the few girls at my gym, embrace it. Teach her. Before you know it, you two will be each others' favorite training partner. In the meantime, when instruction is done for the session, ask other people if they want to roll too. No biggy. Most people will totally welcome a extra few rolls. It's live drilling that you learn from the most anyway. Don't be that person that's always only looking out for themselves and their own improvement. When I first started a purple belt took me under her wing and I give all my gratitude and best rolls to her to this day.
I have a follow up question or two, are you sure you are getting a new lady in every week and they almost never stay? or do I misread that?
also can you tell us how the classes where you train are structured? I understand you are paired with them for the skill training part of class (doing reps of the techniques that are taught that evening) but what happens after that? does everyone keep the same partner for the entire evening?
I can give better feedback when I understand better what the overall situation is, but yes helping the new people is definitely part of the journey. I spent an entire week where I train rolling with almost all White Belts (I had 1 round, the entire week with a Black Belt and they were injured so we basically just moved and kept it very light) so we are talking about a Weeks worth of rolling at the time was maybe 40 rounds of 8-10 minutes each and 39 of them where White belts!) I may have sat a round or two if I had been needed to but I was in the shape to go all 40 rounds in a week. anyway that was pretty rough emotionally because I was like wtf I'll never get better like this so I know what you mean in a way. anyway I'll give my thoughts on it after. I have actually trained at places where there was only one regular female and where there are dozens so I have some potentially usefull advice.
Your story sounds a lot like mine. We seem to be very similar in jiu-jitsu atleast.
In my case I have different phases...sometimes I tend to have an overload phase in which I try to do everything and at some point I realize that I can't do shit, so I come back to my basics and add what works for me. Right now I am on a Guillotine Choke phase 😬
Same for me! I started training not long ago but am now trying to only work on things that we've drilled that week rather than trying to work on a fancy kimura set up from guard that I won't be able to pull off. Think for me it's about trying to get better at a single or two techniques each week rather than trying to learn how to do an electric chair or anything silly
Exactly what Kama Jiu Jitsu channel says. Basically if you are very proficient at foundational movements you will beat folks most all the time.
Fear the man that has practised 1 kick 1000 times instead of the guy who has practised 1000 kicks 1 time each. No perfect but whateva
It actually has a name, "log jam" is when you know 10000 techniques and your mind goes blank during an altercation. Jack of all trades, master of none.
My coaches name is Shaun and we play a lot of De La Riva I felt like this applies to us so hard lol
Hi Chewie, I am a two stripe white belt in bjj and been training for over a year. I am having a problem when it comes to rolling, when Im rolling im usually almost always on bottom and getting mounted on by higher ranks and even no stripe white belts at time almost tap me out. When it comes to drilling techniques, I feel like Im getting the more hang of it from one year ago, but it's just executing them in real time rolling is what I have a problem with, so my question is how can I get better at rolling?
Just my 2 cents... I would work on mount escapes, but specifically getting to half guard and/or full guard (or open guard if that's what you are comfortable with) then work your sweeps and subs. In my opinion, people who figured out the bottom game early are among the best guys in my gym in the long run.
as a brand new white belt all I thought about was getting my first real submission where someone didn't give it to me. So at first I was just focusing on attacking and like you kept ending up ot the bottom and eventually getting submitted. Once I started focusing on survival and then escapes, I ended up spending less time on the bottom and eventually go a submission or two from more experienced white belts.
Roger Gracie is a perfect example of this. A move at white belt is exactly the same at black belt, just done better
It always triggers me the top of the wall mats are uneven.
I train at the only BJJ gym in town. And it's pretty obvious to the entire class that our instructor quit caring about us students a long time ago. Almost all of us students are white belts, one stripe or less, and some have been training there regularly for more than 5 years. Our instructor puts out a few minutes of info then usually sits in the corner while we roll then at some point he leaves. Usually without the class even knowing. He almost never rolls with us students. Any suggestions for those of us that still care
not important yeah, dont waste you're money there. Taking the Gracie university courses online and practicing with the peers you know now would probably be more beneficial.
damn I'm sorry you are in that situation, a 5 year White Belt is crazy. I have a few questions
1.) is your instructor a Black Belt (if he isn't he is not permitted to move anyone out of White Belt no matter how skilled he gets them he needs a Black Belt to sign off on a promotion so perhaps that part of it is somewhat understandable)
Also bear in mind that even if he has a Black Belt, that means he is 'permitted and knowledgeable enough to teach' it does not mean he is automatically GOOD at teaching! The teaching side of it may simply not be his thing.
2.) the White Belts that have been there years (5 even!) are they noticeably better. In other words can you tell for the most part who has been there the longest based on their ability or has everyone stagnated?
3.) any idea where the instructor trained to get his belt? don't ask him if you don't know I'm just curiuos typically there will be a linage on the wall somewhere.
anyway get back to me and yes I do already have some suggestions but I'm going to put all my thoughts in the answer post after I read the response you have to those 3 inquiries so that it's altogether. I was actually in a pretty similar situation but (and I am not trying to compare horror stories) it was actually worse in our case because some of his established students from before when he was putting out good skilled Grapplers would come in every now and again to say hi and train with us expecting us to know what we were doing and we didn't so we would get smashed. They never trained regularly tho so we didn't get to actually learn from them just get destroyed.
Anyway all is not lost and it might even be advisable to still train there.
I have a 4th question, what kind of fees are you guys being charged if you don't mind my asking.
The techniques I use are all strength and explosive based moves. It works well on big guys and even better on smaller guys. It's fine tuned to what works for me. I do have 2 or 3 options incase my first doesn't work.
when you say explosive are you talking about like injuring people.....
that wont get you far when you get to a better jiu jitsu guy if you dont focus on technical over power
Explosive as in quick movements.
My go to move is arm drag to back take and I have to muscle my opponent.
i think having a go to move gives people a chance to figure out your jiu jitsu game besides people will find a way to counter your muscle eventually
I'm a three stripe white belt and I hardly ever tap anyone unless they have slim to none experience. I have good defense though. I get tapped more often than I tap others. What is your suggestion for getting the tap more often? thanks
Along same lines that he's talking about in this video. When it comes to submissions, even the most high level folks have 1-2 favorite positions and their games are predicated on getting their opponents into the positions that they feel most confident in. It's really the same concept as any sport, really. Basketball teams with small skilled players try to get their opponents to run with them; teams with size advantages try to slow the game down. In BJJ, submissions start to happen when you identify your favorite position and then a favorite sub from that position. I've seen blue belts who've gotten super slick w/triangles from the guard put brown belts in really bad spots and even catch subs when they've mastered a particular position. The key to growth from that point, is build off that strength (remember every sub has a counter and every counter opens a new opportunity) and not stunt your development by getting tunnel vision.
I agree with the above. depending on your build and the positions you find yourself in most often I'd just work it from there. you say you don't get subbed much does that mean you are often on bottom defending? if so I'd start looking at establishing half guard if you are a short thick fellow or full guard if you are long lean type.
also do you have a preference for gi or no gi?
if you happen to be a short or average height fellow with a thick build and good base of strength I'm your guy! if not I still will have advice just wont be as much based on experience
@@bigmember5908 oh I'm a short and thick build give me advice please Iv been working on being on ground cause being on top seems easy cause I'm heavy hehe (fat bastard) ... It's big bones and all muscle I swear
And both no gi or gi would be good
casey arrow well, and understand I don't know how exactly your school is set up as far as rules go so some of this you might need to modify or disreguard altogether because I don't want you to get in trouble but what I tend to find people with our build being good at is to follow:
Typically Full/Closed Guard is a lost cause for us as far as our Bottom game goes. Half Guard and X (Regular or Single Leg) are usually good options for our build types. Sometimes OpenGuard works for us as well but I'd look at Half Guard as my primary bottom option because in or out of gi it is basically the same and it'll give you that base of "safety" as a position you can return to with confidence whatever grappling situation you find yourself in.
As far as attacks from bottom for myself Keylock variations and Omuplata have been where I get the most success, again good in or out of gi and as a nice benefit both attempts also permit a Sweep attempt due to how effectively they let you control the post. Omuplata not likely from half Guard mind you but you will find people that you can get into a full guard situation and it wound up being a good option for me when I had initially not thought it would be. A lot of people say Butterfly guard should be good for us to for myself I have not found that, you may wind up being a great Butterfly player tho so consider that as well.
If you start standing or on the knees you can look into a collar snap down or collar drag that can immediately turn into a Loop Choke.
Arm-Drags are also fantastic and again gi and nogi appropriate, the Lapel stuff of course is gi specific but it's such a good 1-2 combo that it's worth the investment in my view.
Where can I send you a question? Email?
But it's good to be familiar with a techniques and he's getting into it we all guilty, it doesn't matter what color your belt if you start practicing jiu jitsu you end be in a bathroom longer with your phone checking new techniques lol
in sao paolo now but it would be cool to practice at this gym with chewy for a month or so and party in Louisville
Hi this is that goes to Derby city in a like it so far
I fear not the man who has practiced 1000 kicks. But the man who has practiced the same kick a 1000 times.
Bruce lee.
Someone said, better to know 20 techniques greatly than 1000 badly
Inside trip, take down to top half-guard, smash him, Ezekiel. The end. It sucks, is not pretty or cool in any way, but that it was I got after 3 years. I keep trying other stuff, trying to expand, but really, when I have to kill fast, that’s it.
Elbow can be intense.
You look like you put makeup on, awww, you're so pretty in this video!
Don't know why but he reminds me of Elliott Hulse
exactly! Its because the way of speaking and breathing
«A jack of all trades is a master of none» seems to be accurate for white belts, I guess
I would compliment you on your pretty eye makeup too but somehow I am sure it wouldn’t go the way it did when your girlfriend said it! Like I will be the next one with the pretty eye makeup after you track me down 😊
As for the info, as usual good stuff and thanks 🙏
"Guy liner"
If i see one more Bruce Lee quote......
The philosophy is kinda like Muay Thai vs Taekwondo. Muay Thai has fewer techniques and is very devastating while Taekwondo has more techniques but lacks in power.
PatduDMD Tae kwon do does not lack power. Ever take a spinning back to the stomach? Spoiler alert* I’d rather take a Thai kick. Tae Kwon do just lacks practicality.
socalisskateable you can see those spinning kicks coming from a mile away. The snappy point kicks of taekwondo doesn't work at all. Have you ever took a kick to the thigh from a Muay Thai fighter?
PatduDMD yes I have and it hurts like a bitch. That doesn’t mean a good spinning side kick doesn’t also hurt like a bitch lol. I’ve done both martial arts and they both have their pluses. Just gotta know when to throw the right kind of kick for the situation.
I have also done both and I can tell you that while I consider MThai more practical by far, there is a huge difference between legit TKD and watered down belt factory / Olympic tag type stuff...
only a buffoon throws a spin kick without a set up, but the truth is that doesn't even matter because a spin kick isn't the only way for a TKD guy to generate power.
PatduDMD I kicked a guy in the inside of his thigh during my first heavyweight mma fight, and he vomited on the mats. He saw the kick and tried to step out but opened up enough for me to follow through to the inside of rear leg. TKD lacks that follow through power on round kicks, but that is MT's strength, along with the front push kick. Some TKD guys do have power on the turn kicks, and 180 back without leaving much of a shadow, if they train to fight. They also seem to use the universal leg chamber pretty well too, if trained properly. You can see it used by some of the top mma fighters today. That also applies to the Karateka mma fighters.
Through RUclips I got like a black belt in 2 month
COngrats!
there is a speech : dont fear the guy who does 1000 techniques...fear the guy who did one technique a thousand times. no just kidding, fear nothing, except moms and pregnant women...
I gotta be honest, I tuned out after about 4 min. 😂 Sorry Chewy! I still love what you do though!
I believe this is attributed to Bruce Lee. "I don't fear the mad that knows 10,000 kicks but the man that practiced one kick 10,000 times" or something like that.
So much water on the plate.
if you were a wrestler you wer never a real white belt (imho)
Apoaches
Y don't u marry your girlfriend? Is she not the one??
Ed Perez I don’t believe in “the one” but I plan to marry her.
Chewjitsu good too hear. Big fan from Beautiful Los Angeles California.
I mean damn you all in his business.....
My coaches name is Shaun and we play a lot of De La Riva I felt like this applies to us so hard lol
“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times” - Bruce Lee