Been teaching beginners for 6+ years now. Learning how to move well and how to be a good training partner are foundational. Then the jiu-jitsu can come easy. Love the content!
Can only speak for my experience but I feel our coaches give us enough instruction when giving guidance on how to be a good training partner. The guidance is pretty clear and over time one should figure the norm. The issue I think is when people don’t after half a year +, this comes with sparring when they only know one intensity eg hard. It seems it’s nearly like a learning/character dysfunction.. On the last point, personally liked lessons when there was less, which made it more
Not only are you comparing your guitar playing the others, but every lesson you use a slightly different guitar, and the guitar actively tries to screw you up at every step.
That's a good question. I think with BJJ it depends on what part you're focusing on, the art or the martial part. The martial part is just a handful of techniques that are useful. Breakfall, shrimp, get up in base. Even breakfalls are questionable. Closed guard and a few submissions like rear naked choke, armbar and triangle maybe. Positions would be side control, closed, guard, mount, front kick, jab cross and a couple of takedowns. That's it. The old Gracie stuff. You can learn that in an hour.The art is infinite.
@joeguillaume296 feel free to do a sales pitch, but it seems like the whole system is questionable. Like class 1, you go in, learn a single technique, and then roll for an hour, getting your ass kicked? They'd never do that in any striking art.. It's so counterproductive. Then everyone talks shit about why no one goes back. Then you have competitions where you have a guy just pull guard or sit down and but scoot(not all. I know. And i enjoy watching the matches where the guys try and actually try and incorporate some of the Judo the art came from). I'm supposed to believe this is the end all be all of martial arts? Add in the lies and revisionist history of the gracies.. it all seems like a huge scam. I enjoy learning some of it, but I think Judo and gongkwon yusul are much better arts, though GKYS is hard as hell to find in America.
@@drew123994 not sure what part of history you missed but there's tonnes of old Vale Tudo fights where Gracie jujitsu is used. UFC 1,2,3,4 Gracie in action. It's one thing not to like it but to question it's effective is just not an accurate description of reality. Look at the last Robert Whitaker fight in UFC. That was BJJ. Tonnes of evidence of its effectiveness. Is it the end all be all to martial arts? Absolutely not. Pretty damn close though.
@joeguillaume296 I think you missed the part of history where the gracies stacked the odds or had stupid AF rules, or they would change rules for themselves last second.. They also got beat a lot, but the marketing giant family isn't going to market those rules. All the early UFCs proved was grappling would beat striking when the striker didn't know grappling. Judo has ALWAYS beat bjj.
@@drew123994 like I said, if you don't like BJJ that's fair and your opinion but to say it's not effective is just not accurate. The judo vs BJJ argument is ridiculous. It's the same art. Only the sport rules are different. You have a bad experience at a BJJ gym. Move on.
Been teaching beginners for 6+ years now. Learning how to move well and how to be a good training partner are foundational. Then the jiu-jitsu can come easy. Love the content!
Comparison is the thief of joy
The best BJJ podcast ever!
Can only speak for my experience but I feel our coaches give us enough instruction when giving guidance on how to be a good training partner. The guidance is pretty clear and over time one should figure the norm. The issue I think is when people don’t after half a year +, this comes with sparring when they only know one intensity eg hard. It seems it’s nearly like a learning/character dysfunction..
On the last point, personally liked lessons when there was less, which made it more
Not only are you comparing your guitar playing the others, but every lesson you use a slightly different guitar, and the guitar actively tries to screw you up at every step.
Part 1 done, must feed the tism need part 2.
If a martial art is that hard to learn and be competent in, is it really the best martial art?
That's a good question. I think with BJJ it depends on what part you're focusing on, the art or the martial part. The martial part is just a handful of techniques that are useful. Breakfall, shrimp, get up in base. Even breakfalls are questionable. Closed guard and a few submissions like rear naked choke, armbar and triangle maybe. Positions would be side control, closed, guard, mount, front kick, jab cross and a couple of takedowns. That's it. The old Gracie stuff. You can learn that in an hour.The art is infinite.
@joeguillaume296 feel free to do a sales pitch, but it seems like the whole system is questionable. Like class 1, you go in, learn a single technique, and then roll for an hour, getting your ass kicked? They'd never do that in any striking art.. It's so counterproductive. Then everyone talks shit about why no one goes back. Then you have competitions where you have a guy just pull guard or sit down and but scoot(not all. I know. And i enjoy watching the matches where the guys try and actually try and incorporate some of the Judo the art came from). I'm supposed to believe this is the end all be all of martial arts? Add in the lies and revisionist history of the gracies.. it all seems like a huge scam. I enjoy learning some of it, but I think Judo and gongkwon yusul are much better arts, though GKYS is hard as hell to find in America.
@@drew123994 not sure what part of history you missed but there's tonnes of old Vale Tudo fights where Gracie jujitsu is used. UFC 1,2,3,4 Gracie in action. It's one thing not to like it but to question it's effective is just not an accurate description of reality. Look at the last Robert Whitaker fight in UFC. That was BJJ. Tonnes of evidence of its effectiveness. Is it the end all be all to martial arts? Absolutely not. Pretty damn close though.
@joeguillaume296 I think you missed the part of history where the gracies stacked the odds or had stupid AF rules, or they would change rules for themselves last second..
They also got beat a lot, but the marketing giant family isn't going to market those rules. All the early UFCs proved was grappling would beat striking when the striker didn't know grappling. Judo has ALWAYS beat bjj.
@@drew123994 like I said, if you don't like BJJ that's fair and your opinion but to say it's not effective is just not accurate. The judo vs BJJ argument is ridiculous. It's the same art. Only the sport rules are different. You have a bad experience at a BJJ gym. Move on.
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