Even Black Belts Can Overthink Coming Back To BJJ After Time Off
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- I got a question from Operation Random on RUclips about coming back to Brazilian Jiu-jitsu training after a 3 month lay off. They say that they're nervous about returning to their BJJ gym and starting their grappling training over again.
In this video I share a recent story about one of the Black Belts and Purple Belts in my gym who just returned. I share this because layoffs and experiencing some nervousness or anxiety about getting back into Brazilian Jiujitsu is not just a White Belt thing.
When we first start something new there is fear of the unknown. Later on the fear comes from our own expectations.
But either way the fear is imagined and generally the reality of the situation is better than the imagined fear.
If you're getting back into BJJ after a bit of a lay off I hope this video is helpful to you!
Thanks for watching the video.
-Chewy
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I went back as a blue belt after a 3 year break after breaking my rib. I got my blue belt in 2010 and had been travelling around a lot since 2011 (moved cities\counties 4 times for work) so I spent 7-8 years as a blue belt. Finally got my purple belt in 2018. Going back was the best thing I ever did. Hoping to get my brown belt soon!
Herr Mayhem you train in Germany?
@@dainerduff-dings No, Brisbane Australia.
I have a hard time upon returning if I miss more than 4 days in a row, lol. Thanks for the video!
Literally just got back into the gym after a 4 month layoff! Didn't think about it at all lol, guess I'm lucky. Just DO IT!
Dude I know.. I dont get it. I've taken 3 month breaks all of the time for work.. deployments etc. Never thought twice about "I'm scared to go back" lol
Oh hop off your high horse haha, obviously the video isn’t for you then 😂
@@The.Dormanator I just didnt think that there were men that actually think like this. Sorry.
This is how I feel about coming back in February. I haven’t trained in two months. I’m a white belt though with two stripes. My life’s been a mess since I took a break. I can’t wait to come back. What I love about BJJ and martial arts in general is the discipline it adds to my life. My gym also has kickboxing, it’s amazing thank God I found this gym.
hey friend. four stripe white belt here. remember you'll be treated as you were before your break. all that will have changed is some of the other white belts will be better. it's just a matter of acceptance. I hope everything in your life is a bit smoother now, and good luck!
danrhyev thanks bro
I just came back to my gym after recovering from an elbow injury for 3 months. So happy to be back, but was defo a little nervous about returning. Being a 3 stripe white belt (was actually given it today for returning and having been training for about a year even though i'm a little rusty), it's nice to see that people get these feelings at all levels. Thanks for the wisdom as usual Chewy! Preach!
I relate to this 100%...I haven't been training as consistently anymore. When I came back back after a long time off from training I was super paranoid about what others would think of me (i'm not dedicated, I'm lazy, i'm not the same guy anymore, etc.). I understand it's completely irrational and silly but I still feel a touch of that everytime I go to the gym. Once I get moving around on the matt a little those feelings fade and I'm glad I didn't bail.
Chewy you’re the man! I just recently stumbled across your channel and I just want to tell you to keep it up and keep educating. The Q&A portion is my favorite
This video could not have had better timing. Thank you so much. I’ve been out for 6 weeks due to daily headaches and facial tingling which I am working with my neurologist to find out. He was scared it could have been a clot from carotid dissection but luckily it wasn’t. Getting blood done soon. Guys at my school have been nothing but supportive and messaging me once a week checking in on how I’m doing and reminding me I always have a spot there and to come watch classes while I figure this out.
The support def helps ease the worry about not being taken seriously. But really what I tell myself is it’s my life and life just happens. And I’m thankful for such a supportive team. I’m a white belt with under a year experience btw. So much support. If they talk shit and make you feel bad, you’re def at the wrong school.
I’m just getting back about a month ago I’ve been a purple belt for about 8 years. Life hit , work , covid, all that stuff. I was super shook. Went to visit some friends and they put a whooping on me lol but showed me so much love. But it’s ruff .. overwhelming over weight. I get a lil stressed .. but I’m loving it and have fun. My professor and the other guys are super supportive and cool .. get back in the mat guys!!
Haven’t even started yet but I feel like that’s a good thing to recognize even now before I experience those lulls.
Start soon man! The first step is the hardest one. I started in oktober and it's really awesome.
Start tomorrow! Find a gym Now, find out tomorrow’s schedule, and go! Lol. I’ve never heard anyone regret it, even if it’s not for them in the long run.
@ArminEghdamiDrums @Ian Carey
I’m in the transition of moving states (military) plan on starting next week, that’ll be when I get to stick around the new area long enough to hit up the gym I’ve been eyeing.
Bradley Coleman not 100% up to date but look at www.military-jiujitsu.com/?page_id=238
Bradley Coleman many posts also have free Brazilian Jiu jitsu clubs which I used to supplement what I was getting from a dojo. OSS 🤙🏾 🥋
I needed this video. Im in the same boat. Thanks brudda!
Glad to see this, going back on the 1st after a year off :s (only a two stripe white)
Cal Good for you!!go have some fun bro
Lol #me as well. Glade your going back brother. Oss.
Thanks guys!
Recently did this after a 7 year layoff. (3 stripe white) Go have fun!
I just started three weeks ago. I loved it the first week, but over thought it and talked myself out of going the second week. I forced myself to go to the 6 a.m. class today knowing I was heading the way of not going back. I’m so sore, so glad I went, and so needed this video. Time for a shower and a coffee!
Hey Chewy, your videos are always filled with great content and I have always enjoyed your insight and suggestions!
This and your recent success in your own bjj career have inspired me to get back into gym been out for a long time and been training since 2003 and am only a blue belt and just got that last year and immediately had life happen and left will be trying out new gyms today ( have moved since I last training)
Hey Brotha,
I am really enjoying your videos, music, techniques and random ideas you talk about. Thank you!
46 yo brown belt here with three months back. I was off the mats for 7 yrs after consistent training for 8 yrs.
Some of the nerves were there for me, especially as I have moved to a new area and walked in totally unknown, competitve ATT gym.. However, I felt like home almost immediately.
My jiujitsu is soft, and I am probably a pale blue, if I had to rank myself. But the plan is to be back to form in 12 to 18 months and continue til....
awesome side effect... my 15 and 13 yo sons started training with me!
Thanks. I needed this one.
Tore my ACL wrestling at my gym a couple months back. Had my surgery and working hard to rehab myself. I’m dying to get back but I know it’s not time yet. I try not to worry about what it’s gonna be like when I get but all I can do is work out and get even more fit than I was before my injury!
Fantastic video. Thanks!
super helpful man. currently out bc of a broken collarbone for the next one and a half months and this is good to know
Hey Chewy I’ve been watching your videos for a while now and I like them even though I train Muay Thai it still gives me tips. My question today is what do I do because I’m at a gym right now where it’s in a church with not the best facilities as it’s a small space with carpet I like the trainer he’s legit but I’m not sure if it’s best in the long run as I want to compete and have fights however I don’t believe anyone has had a fight there in the last few years or ever he himself has but I’m unsure if it’s at the current gym should I stay or should I go to a different one where I live that has fight cards every 3 months. Thank you I know it’s a different martial art but please can you help me I need advice and guidance
whenever someone doesn't show up in class for weeks, we all try to bully them into coming back, your guys want you there, you will make their day by coming back
Even if you don't know why? They could be sick, injured have family problems
@@warbastard01 well, it's always friendly bullying, just to get the point across that we miss them. If it's something serious, of course everyone understands
Blue belt here. Been out for a month due to a rib injury. Nervous about going back too. Thanks for the question and video.
i went back to judo after a 30 yr break! lol......the colour of your belt doesnt matter, just let your training partners know you are rusty and getting back into slowly, it takes the pressure off, roll slow at first, make sure you bring up safety rules, ie.....i protect you and you protect me, no one gets hurt.....im avoiding full sparring (randori) until im ready, half intensity or throwing entry practise etc.....sensei is fine with it and appreciates it as they dont want unnecessary injuries.....even after such a long break, im amazed what i remember too, nothing forgotten after so many previous reps, itl come back to you soon enough.
Not BJJ but I've been forced out of TKD for a few years due to injury and am hoping to be able to come back this year! this was very encouraging.
Hello Chewy.
I have watched a Ton of your videos and have learnt so much.
If you can reply to my question it would mean a lot.
I am 36 now and ten years ago I gave BJJ a go.
I was reasonably good and picked up techniques fairly quickly.
I only practised for ten months or so in NO GI as the concept of becoming a black belt was not on my radar and I only practised BBJ to help me with my my MMA.
I come from a striking Kung Fu background.
Now I think about the time that has passed and regret not knowing what I could know or maybe should have been.
Long story short,
In my shoes,
Would you dare go back and meet old faces who are now highly more advanced then you and can tap you out in every way imaginable making you feel even worse?
I understand black belt is not the end of the journey,
Only the beginning,
And I know you recently achieved 3rd degree black belt.
Congratulations 🎊
But truly Bro,
My shoes,
What would you do?
Go to a gym tomorrow night or morning, just go! A lot of gyms offer a week free of training. Forget about the past, that's a sunken cost that only becomes more costly as you think about it, and refuse to go back.
training in any martial art involves respect and comraderie bro.........i would expect your old training partners would welcome you enthusiastically as you not only bring a returning training partner but also an awesome set of alternate skills ..... they probably knew kung fu and mma was your main thing anyway right?
I'd go back if I were in your shoes!
Really helpful 😍
OSS! 🥋
I have been wanting a new chewy rant.
I am the king of taking breaks. I've been going to the same gym for over eight years and have maybe two years worth of training total. I'm notorious for showing up consistently for a month or two and then taking three to four months off. Every time I take one of these breaks I worry I'll be criticized for it when I get back and someone will say something like, "How long before your next break this time?" But none of that has ever happened - it's always been smiles and open arms. I'm only writing this for anyone that might be in a similar situation (i.e. taken multiple breaks) and watched this video thinking Chewy's words wouldn't apply to them since they've taken more than one break - you couldn't be more wrong. Unless you were a part of some cult-like gym, your training partners will be nothing but happy to have you back.
Thanks Chewy this is a good message 🙌
You're welcome!
Started again last year after a 7 year layoff. I left as a stud heavy weight came back as a fat ass. It’s totally worth it.
Thanks chewy.
I was gone for 5yrs and then again for 3yrs..I got lazy and insecure about training... I got in my head and wasted a lot of time...I just recently got back on the mat..
Chewy you rock brother
This is me right now. 4 months off after 17 months. Problem is I need a new gym...good times
This really resonates with me bc im at my 3rd gym and still with less of 1 year of exp cumulative. Due to health problems, work injury, covid, 2 gym closing, im always switching gym😅 even told my current coach that this is either my forever gym or im a bad omen😂😂
I have this same issue. I started training almost a year ago and only have one stripe on my white belt. This is all due to me randomly taking multiple months off at a time or sometimes only coming in 4 times a month etc. it’s frustrating going back after a while due to the fact that Iv been going for almost a year but don’t feel like Iv made much progress, especially in rolling since I have rarely rolled. It’s frustrating still feeling like a fresh newbie that isn’t comfortable rolling and has the “I have no idea what I’m doing” mindset when people recognize me and know Iv been going for about a year /:
Bruh, I took off 15 years of BJJ before i finally got back into it. Strolled back into class, saw 2 familiar faces, one of whom was the instructor and he said "DUDE! You could have been a black belt by now if you stuck with it!"... Yeah that hurt a little. But its good to be back man.
Needed that. Always thinking about other people views about me or am i good enough or will be good enough.
Don't be afraid to go back and just stick around for the drilling aspect of class. No one says you have to roll. Build your stamina back up and your game slowly.
Even at the lowest level at practice in real life, we always doubt ourselves! The best thing to do is just do it jump in! Regardless off the consequences! We are our should have said myself! We need to get over that sh””! We hold ourselves back. Just do it if that’s what you want to do! Many of my best experiences in life was doing things that I didn’t want to do!
Awesome ..Thanks !
I usually see its an "ego" thing. Not in a bad way where they are super cocky. But people are used to being at a certain level and giving a certain level of competition while rolling. I tell them to start off slow like going back to weight lifting. We can't go at max weight after a lay off. Ill have them do some of the warm ups. If they Get through 10 minutes of warm ups. without stopping I tell them to remember the 10 minute mark and to get further than that the next day. So that day they may do 10 min of warm-ups before gassing and then definitely do the technique and see how they roll. Then I'll tell them ok you got thru 2 rolls today without dying. Tomorrow we'll aim for 15 min of warm up and 3 rolls. Slowly have them build back up. Theyre usually back mentally by the end of week and we'll have one more buddy back on the mat 😊
i was away for more than a year due personal reasons and so many thoguhts were rushing in my head but the thing is... i was welcomed back as i've never left.
i got sick after two classes, -- goddamit,-- but i now don't understand why i had that much of anxiety two weeks ago and i can't wait go back to the gym again
When you come back after being away for a while the first thing some might say is where you been? The second is always glad your back or we missed you. Focus on the latter two comments.
I’m looking to start mma, and I was wondering if it would be worth it to do 1 kickboxing and one bjj class a week. Two classes is the most I can do a week. The trainers recommend I do a little bit of other styles before going to an mma class. Just looking for your input, thanks!
Hello I wanna share what happened in my gym yesterday
Basically I had trained traditional jiu jitsu lightly for 3 years (I began when I was 9) then I quit it and I hadnt returned to it until last november when I joined bjj, grappling and mma classes.
So I've been training for the last 3 months and I've been learning quickly.I am 18 years old, very tall and very flexible(not when i first came back though), plus i still kinda have the "technique" i learned when I was a child. I am loving these classes, and I believe contact sports may be my true passion, but yesterday this thing happened which triggered me.
So basically a 50ish year old man who began training in september (maybe even earlier) has rolled with me lots of times since i first began back in november. At the beginning, he could easily make me tap out quickly, and i couldnt escape his side control nor mount, but recently, since 2020 began i'd say, ive been winning him frequently, yet he hasnt won me once since then. At the beginning of January he was amazed and kinda "admired" me (wouldnt say that word in my mother tongue), he always complimented me when i made him tap, telling me i was learning very quickly etc.
So basically yesterday he asks me for a roll and i said sure, we start rolling i tap him out with an omoplata from a failed armbar attempt, he complained about me (for the first time of all we've rolled) being too agressive, like not being careful of harming other classmates and tbh that omoplata kinda was a bit risky but I assumed the fault and we just rolled again. He gets into my guard, gets armbar'd and taps, stands up and says "Im done" and left (not the gym, but the mat) and when later on our teacher told him to roll w me again he eagerly refused. Then when the class ended I saw him speaking with the coach, which kinda triggered me although I can't say if he was speaking about me or not
Just ask your coach to watch you roll. See if he thinks you are rolling safely. If the 50 yr old guy doesn't roll with you anymore don't take it personally. (It's really easy to get injured by an 18 year old when your 50) he is probably worried about been injured and not been able to work.
@@warbastard01 Okay, thank you!
Hey Chew. I have a question for you. I am in Barcelona training BJJ. Last week there was a seminar, where students from three different gyms came together. All of the sudden a white belt start rolling with a black belt invited to the seminar. The white belt made a scissor sweep that is illegal and broke black belt's leg. The fact is that the Coach of the white belt had warned this same white belt that this particularly scissor sweep was illegal.
Right now, nobody, even the Coach or even my Coach, know what to do. Kick this guy out? Punish him? Or do nothing. It seems that at the end, they are going to do nothing. What do you think? What would you do?
ive asked before, but i think im figuring it out!
i want to get more girls into the gym. i feel like combat sports can be particularly useful to the smaller gender. (no offense ladies, your mighty, but statistically speaking, things can get tough for you).
for me (a giant guy) talking about going to "ass kicking day" is the wrong approach.
ive got this friendzoned chick that i hang out with a lot, and we got into talking about it as a capability thing.
instead of what excites me (basically kick the shit out of myself 'steel sharpening steel') more of an opportunity to push the limits of the human experience, and generally become more capable, and an overall better person.
i see you have a few chicks in the background of videos sometimes, id be interested to know what motivates them, any reasons they may have been hesitant to start bjj, and why they keep showing up.
great video. i need to get back in the gym and training but have been dealing with a heart condition and im just not ready yet. My biggest question on this is, i have a 7 year old who started training and has been doing bjj for about 8 months, he is a 3 stripe grey/white belt. he has competed twice and has 2 silver medals, and is the highest ranked in his class and trains 3 days a week sometimes 4 days. last few week hes trying to come up with excuses to not train. I think hes getting burnt out. i still want him to keep training but at the same time i dont want to push to hard and make him hate it. this week i decided to do other things instead off bjj to give him a little break. how do you think i should handle this so i dont ruin jiu jitsu for him.
Awesome, thanks
Here's a question... Been training for a month now and why do I suck? For reals tho a video just going through all the BJJ terminalogy would be cool.
Seeing the photos in the back, I knew you were strong, but I didn´t know you were that ripped!
Ive been off for about 10 months. Just a lot of shit happened, I got got sick etc. I need to go back soon. I feel im almost ready.
White belt here, trained manically for half of 2018, changed jobs.. No bjj anywhere nearby (less than 3hrs away). Just found a Gracie gym with half a dozen students run by a purple belt about 45mins away and now taking it up again. They don't roll until ("master cycle") what's with that? Thanks for the vid, describes my situation kinda
Hey chewy im thinking about quitting wrestling there is only 3 weeks left for me.But i just feel burned out of the grind.If i quit im going back to bjj.Any tips on telling the wrestling coach I just dont want to do wrestling anymore.
There is NOTHING wrong with going back and only drilling for a week or more and then sparring again. Or drilling and then a quick roll afterwards. Do that till you build your stamina and game back up. You might have people hounding you for a roll but tell them to bug off.
I was out 3 weeks. My instructor didn’t know I was gone lol
If i have some neck issues can I still train ? I have been skateboarding for 25 years and searching for something similarly difficult, technical, and challenging for me.
“Humans are really good about this” Chewy Says......
It’s official everyone, Chewy is an Alien👽. Explains his out of this world BJJ skills.
Haha.
I live like an hour and a half away.. in thinking about driving and joining your gym lol
It's easier to just not go back. I can't stand fighting through all that enthusiasm tidlewave again 🙄 ya know... Rolling and then... Yeh yeh OK dude, cool moves, thanks for proving I'm rubbish.
Well did u get into juijitsu for what other people thought?
Gotta off topic question For the comment section
What’s the first thing you’ve been submitted with, and what’s the first thing you’ve submitted someone with
Oddly for me the answer to both
Is the triangle
He BETTER be worried.
What are your thoughts on training at 2 different Jiu-Jitsu schools?
3 months? Try 3 years
What does "time off" mean? Is that Latin?
I'm not sure if this is a serious question, but just in case, it means that you are not doing that activity during some time
@@adrianarroyo937 Thanks for clearing that up lol
Hey chewy how old were you when you started bjj?
18
I had my first class a few hours ago. Is it common to have a blue belt instructor?
Everyone else was a white belt.
I guess it depends where you are. If you are in a big city, I would say no, it's not common. Probably there is at least one black belt instructor in that city. However, if you are in a little town, or in a very isolated area, maybe no black belt has reached that place yet, and the blue belt has to step up. Where I live, there are maybe 10 academies with black belts in a 50 km radius, but if you go further, you start to run out of academies, and if you are lucky, you may find a brown belt or a purple belt teaching classes to have someone to train with
I bet he got back in the gym and mailed everybody lol
You have a beard that would make Jesus jealous
Well... seems like Black belts are only humans too:)
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