as a(n attempted) practitioner of both jiujitsu and Stoicism, I love how both of them have broad applications in so many areas of life, and as you point out, in each other.
For me it was realising that it takes far more energy to escape from a position once my opponent has settled than it does to escape before they settle. Play to your laziness, don't let them settle it just makes it harder.
I started BJJ at 55 with a shoulder replacement and later a knee replacements I adopted the idea I'll train today in a way that will allow me to train tomorrow I'm really not happy with that I'm not aggressive enough the video gave me some good ideas thank you
Thank you! I needed to hear this. As a white belt that has had some success fighting off my back, I find that sometimes I accept that position too easily.
Journaling really helps keep you consistently focused on certain problems each time you train. Without journaling I can’t really think through a problem, identify a solution, and practice applying that until it becomes a part of my game. Journaling allows my mind to flow in a different way than just daydreaming about it
I definitely run into the same problem. It's certainly not being "lazy" for me. I have pretty good base and a high ability not to get put on my back easily. So the problem for me comes in that when I do, it's because I've been fighting so hard to prevent it, that I'm cooked. The will to escape that situation is there, just not much energy left to do so. If I can survive long enough to recover, I usually do alright. If not, then I'm just done for.
Im waiting for someone with too much time on their hands to go through all his vids and collect all the ambulance moments, putting them into a single video with some fun background music
If I can provide you with some possibly unwanted advice, keep moving, and remain dynamic (don’t spaz out), they don’t have to necessarily be fast, they just have to have a purpose. If you move with purpose, you don’t waste energy, your opponent wastes their energy by doing 3 moves to counter your 1.
I've been training off and on for a while and it was actually Andrew Wiltse (the buzzsaw passer) who mentioned this view of not accepting inferior positions in one of his videos. I started to integrate this into my own game in the last six months and I felt my performance shoot through the roof. Instead of always trying to play from bottom, suddenly I was able to smash a lot more people just by changing my viewpoint. I even had one newer training partner tell me that he didn't know how to channel aggression like me - I told him it wasn't aggression, it was just not accepting the bad positions without a struggle.
There's also the concept of picking your battles to increase longevity. You don't want to accept losing positions but not at the cost of grinding down your body and losing reps or worse.
Learning how to NOT just accept a bad position is such a skill set. Our coaches at my gym havnt taught any of that, it’s something we have to pick up, but I’m seeing a lot of white belts really struggling with that. I still do as well just not as bad as when I started. Anyway, all great points!
En mi gimnasio igual no enseñan nada de eso. Y creo que es un error La retencion de guardia y los escapes es lo primero que se debería enseñar. Y no lo digo yo lo dicen los mejores profesionales. Saludos
as my username suggests i’m a stoic wrestler/bjj guy and grappling makes my stoicism stronger. it reinforces and gives me a microsystem to enhance my philosophy
Also, accept that when you start this process, your results are going to suffer for a little while! I've been working on the same sort of thing in the guard pass battle, and the truth is, I'm a lot better at preemptively recovering from side control than I am at preventing the pass. And the harder I fight to stop the pass, the deeper shit I get in when they do get to position, so a lot of my usual pathways get closed off. It sucks to feel like you're performing worse, but it'll make us better in the long term.
I've got the same issue. I think with me it's purely mindset going in to the training. If I've had a bad day amd I'm feeling negative about my training I'll adopt the "what's the point" mindset. Honestly you just gotta push through it and say fuckit and just go for it even if you lose.
craig jones' power bottom instructional instilled this idea of never accepting bottom position (I've never wrestled btw) been working on this for the past year, such a simple concept and my teammates have mentioned that I'm really hard to hold down
Another Stoic aphorism I find applies often to BJJ is to do the thing that scares you. I'm coming in from a judo background. I'm better at takedowns and side control than your average white belt. My guard game sucks. I've been forcing myself to stay in guard, or de la riva or similar positions *because* I suck at them. I can sweep and pin all the other white belts and feel like a bad ass. But my BJJ won't get better unless I do the thing that makes me uncomfortable.
2nd degree grey belt, whenever I roll with lower white belts some of the techniques I Try don't work but when I roll with color belts it does (yellow other Grey's) what am I doing wrong?
This is exactly me. I always give to side. My guard is almost non existant. Unless its no gi. I can do some guard retention and scramble to feet and take better position. But in gi i just let them take side and learn to get out or defensr the sub looking for a sweep with their mistake. But i need guard and this video came out at the perfect time 😂😂 its like manifesting 😂😂
You have those voices too?! Sometimes, I hear Cartman "Give it up you fat turd!" So sometimes, I'll start singing while I'm rolling, to silence the voices. Not great for pacing my breathing, but it's definitely thrown the other guys for a loop. .
make that your new goal.. not to submit, but to NOT get your guard passed.. become a beat in that area.... this is coming from someone whos been doing it since 2012........... although i had 13 years off haha.. so im still a white belt haha
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as a(n attempted) practitioner of both jiujitsu and Stoicism, I love how both of them have broad applications in so many areas of life, and as you point out, in each other.
“The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing” Marcus Aurelius
Great 👍🏼 quote
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For me it was realising that it takes far more energy to escape from a position once my opponent has settled than it does to escape before they settle. Play to your laziness, don't let them settle it just makes it harder.
I started BJJ at 55 with a shoulder replacement and later a knee replacements I adopted the idea I'll train today in a way that will allow me to train tomorrow I'm really not happy with that I'm not aggressive enough the video gave me some good ideas thank you
Thank you! I needed to hear this.
As a white belt that has had some success fighting off my back, I find that sometimes I accept that position too easily.
I love your content brother. You tell people everything that I’ve been taught, it’s nice to have reassurance that I’m on a good path.
Journaling really helps keep you consistently focused on certain problems each time you train. Without journaling I can’t really think through a problem, identify a solution, and practice applying that until it becomes a part of my game. Journaling allows my mind to flow in a different way than just daydreaming about it
I definitely run into the same problem. It's certainly not being "lazy" for me. I have pretty good base and a high ability not to get put on my back easily. So the problem for me comes in that when I do, it's because I've been fighting so hard to prevent it, that I'm cooked. The will to escape that situation is there, just not much energy left to do so. If I can survive long enough to recover, I usually do alright. If not, then I'm just done for.
Ambulance always on time 😂
Im waiting for someone with too much time on their hands to go through all his vids and collect all the ambulance moments, putting them into a single video with some fun background music
As a WB, this one really resonated with me. Thank you for doing these!
If I can provide you with some possibly unwanted advice, keep moving, and remain dynamic (don’t spaz out), they don’t have to necessarily be fast, they just have to have a purpose. If you move with purpose, you don’t waste energy, your opponent wastes their energy by doing 3 moves to counter your 1.
@@OneStripeRyan That's really insightful. I know I do end up wasting a lot of movements/grips. Thank you for the advice!
Muchas gracias Chewy, justo lo que necesitaba. Voy a enfocarme en la retencion de guardia ya que me gusta hacer guardia. Saludos hermano 👍
I've been training off and on for a while and it was actually Andrew Wiltse (the buzzsaw passer) who mentioned this view of not accepting inferior positions in one of his videos. I started to integrate this into my own game in the last six months and I felt my performance shoot through the roof. Instead of always trying to play from bottom, suddenly I was able to smash a lot more people just by changing my viewpoint. I even had one newer training partner tell me that he didn't know how to channel aggression like me - I told him it wasn't aggression, it was just not accepting the bad positions without a struggle.
Thanks for this! Top notch coaching right here.
Bro, I needed to hear this. Great video, thanks Chewie! 😄
There's also the concept of picking your battles to increase longevity. You don't want to accept losing positions but not at the cost of grinding down your body and losing reps or worse.
This is so spot on.
Thank you Coach!
Phenomenal advice!
Learning how to NOT just accept a bad position is such a skill set. Our coaches at my gym havnt taught any of that, it’s something we have to pick up, but I’m seeing a lot of white belts really struggling with that. I still do as well just not as bad as when I started. Anyway, all great points!
En mi gimnasio igual no enseñan nada de eso. Y creo que es un error
La retencion de guardia y los escapes es lo primero que se debería enseñar. Y no lo digo yo lo dicen los mejores profesionales. Saludos
as my username suggests i’m a stoic wrestler/bjj guy and grappling makes my stoicism stronger. it reinforces and gives me a microsystem to enhance my philosophy
Also, accept that when you start this process, your results are going to suffer for a little while! I've been working on the same sort of thing in the guard pass battle, and the truth is, I'm a lot better at preemptively recovering from side control than I am at preventing the pass. And the harder I fight to stop the pass, the deeper shit I get in when they do get to position, so a lot of my usual pathways get closed off.
It sucks to feel like you're performing worse, but it'll make us better in the long term.
Chewys beard is carved from oak
I've got the same issue. I think with me it's purely mindset going in to the training. If I've had a bad day amd I'm feeling negative about my training I'll adopt the "what's the point" mindset. Honestly you just gotta push through it and say fuckit and just go for it even if you lose.
craig jones' power bottom instructional instilled this idea of never accepting bottom position (I've never wrestled btw)
been working on this for the past year, such a simple concept and my teammates have mentioned that I'm really hard to hold down
It's like I sent this to you lol. I was just telling my wife about how I was experiencing this last night.
Another Stoic aphorism I find applies often to BJJ is to do the thing that scares you. I'm coming in from a judo background. I'm better at takedowns and side control than your average white belt. My guard game sucks. I've been forcing myself to stay in guard, or de la riva or similar positions *because* I suck at them. I can sweep and pin all the other white belts and feel like a bad ass. But my BJJ won't get better unless I do the thing that makes me uncomfortable.
For me it was that I was puzzling too much instead of getting into a higher gear and just go.
2nd degree grey belt, whenever I roll with lower white belts some of the techniques I Try don't work but when I roll with color belts it does (yellow other Grey's) what am I doing wrong?
Great 👍🏼 advice - Chewy knows…
Just stand up 😂
This is exactly me. I always give to side. My guard is almost non existant. Unless its no gi. I can do some guard retention and scramble to feet and take better position. But in gi i just let them take side and learn to get out or defensr the sub looking for a sweep with their mistake. But i need guard and this video came out at the perfect time 😂😂 its like manifesting 😂😂
Chewie did you get new equipment? The camera quality is clear af
You have to realize that if they pass your guard it will be much worse. That makes me fight harder earlier to prevent being smashed later.
Amber Lamps
Is your gym next to a hospital? 😂🤣
I don't know about his gym, but ours is maybe a quarter mile from one and he has way more interrupting his days than we do by far. Lol
@@shawng746 So then we are looking at a positive deviation. 😂 My gym is next to a smoothie shop… If no music you can hear the blenders
You have those voices too?! Sometimes, I hear Cartman "Give it up you fat turd!" So sometimes, I'll start singing while I'm rolling, to silence the voices. Not great for pacing my breathing, but it's definitely thrown the other guys for a loop.
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AMBERLAMPS 🤣
Anticipation, nature's way of ensuring you suffer twice.
I can relate
Chewy dropping Greek philosophy in his bjj video ….followed by ‘AMBULANCE’
Hey wanted to add that I meant this as a compliment and I love hearing him pull jn philosophy
It’s because Bjj teaches you to work from positions and doesn’t teach you how to scramble for the areas in between the common positions
Hello I want to learn BJJ death touch secret moves where do I go to learn?
make that your new goal.. not to submit, but to NOT get your guard passed.. become a beat in that area.... this is coming from someone whos been doing it since 2012........... although i had 13 years off haha.. so im still a white belt haha
The math ain’t mathing
@@forgivenx19 i was kind of joking... i done it years ago and started again lol
Sounds like a white belt about to quit to me.