Bro, that's brutally hard. I've been training exclusively no gi for 7 years and recently tried some gi. It seems like you're wrapped and nothing works out as fast or smooth as it should. It's like your body decides to act 2 or 3 seconds later than your mind. So yeah, congrats and very well done!
I think it's the same the other way too. After 2 years and Blue belt, I tried No-Gi for the first time and it was FRANTIC. Couldn't keep up with the pace, couldn't grab the guy, couldn't hold him in any position!
@@MrLouka123 LOL yes the other way around is hard, specially because you know the essence of gi is gripping and what can you grab in nogi except trying a sweaty arm
Honestly that was impressive, I feel like you could have very well played spider guard in the gi, especially against that Tatoo guy to try to break his constant side pass. Anyways congrats on third place !
Awesome breakdowns Josh, I enjoy watching your videos a lot. It helps me see holes in my game and how I have to improve as well! Keep up the good work brother!
Bro this is so impressive. It shows that principles and concepts beat specific moves. Im only 3 months in predominantly gi and i learnt a lot from watching
The choke the guy was going for from under was a baseball bat choke. It's a 'trick' choke sometimes, as he can then give you side control or even back, and if you take the bait, that actually finishes the choke. See Magid Hage videos for examples he's a specialist. Also you were lucky they didn't do too much special gi stuff, namely spider guard or worm guard. That would've put you in big trouble if you're not experienced with it. Also the gi does allow your opponent (and yourself) to attack more efficiently too so if you train with the gi and are able to defend successfully then it means you probably will have improved your defense in no-gi...
I was so glad to see you posted a new video. I really enjoy your videos and learnt shoulder crunch and single leg x watching you. Nervous for my first comp in 1 month
Yeah its very similar but you have to negate or break grips, which is it's own thing. Leg pummeling helps. Fun video man keep it up. Been training for a year and started late (i'm going on 29) but I watch a ton of film and enjoy your content.
You can be a black belt and have a very poor fight IQ/competition mindset. In some videos josh out pointed some brown belts becauses they didn't fight against the sweeps
great vid josh, me and my boy saw you and came up to you that day aswell, was awesome seeing you, your second matchup was actually against one of our teammates, good work out there
You're very techniqual so I'm sure you will fall in love with the gi. Adding new grips and guard variations might open up a whole new game for you. And yeah, one pant grip is dangerous, two pant grips is code red 😅
Grab their sleeve, then kick towards them to free your pants from that grip. Then go straight for a lasso hook, that'll serve you well enough for now to deal with frustrating pant grips
This may be a silly question but i'm just wondering how you are so capable of taking down black belts while only a blue belt yourself. Is it that you just don't try and go for a higher belt or is it that you're just a different breed. Keep up the amazing work, love the vids
Great video as usual Josh. How do you handle the adrenaline of competition? I notice I always have nerves and even when I feel like I'm going at 80%, it's realistically 100% and I gas way faster than in the gym even if I'm in great shape.
practice a lot is a gimme, but practice playing with you mentality as you roll. have times where you are extra aware of your cautiousness, times where youre extra aware of your berserking, and play around and see if you can be in neutral mindset when you roll. numb and fun go together, if you can have fun and go "numb" youre more likely to go into the natural flow mode as opposed to the natural panic mode.
also get warmed up prematch, break a sweat get your heart rate up to burn off that adrenaline. For me i try to have a playful relaxed but hyper aware mindset in the matches
meditate hella before the match and visualize the nerves while ur meditating. before every roll in the gym i just go very flow and relaxed the whole way so when i compete i just walk very slowly and move slowly. the key is not to be a spazzy white belt but roll like ur a flowy black belt. remember that starting very relaxed and flowy at the beginning of your match will 1) conserve ur energy and 2) remind both u and ur opponent this is literwlly just an on open mat
Best to hand fight and not let them get the pants, but if they do….I grab their sleeve on the gripping hand and pull the sleeve towards me while kicking out my leg. Usually does the trick.
The difference is pretty significant. We mostly train gi at the gym I’m part of and not having anything to grab is weird when we do no gi. And that’s why I’m happy I have a wrestling background😂
@@Trevor_CS2 I think I focused on the right things at first. The winner of a match is usually decided in the battle of passing vs guard so I worked on that a lot. I was also just pretty obsessed with jiu jitsu lol
@@JoshRichBJJ Thanks for the advice man, makes alot of sense. When it comes to drilling specific movements your working on or you found over the net, how could I go about drilling these techniques without a coach? I ask this because gyms typically have a set curriculum and we don't get to choose the techniques we work on while at the gym.
I don't get why so many people say start with the gi? It seems like nogi gives you a good base of techniques and general principals and adding the gi just makes it more complex. Wouldn't layering on the complexity make more sense from a teaching standpoint? I would think more things will transfer from nogi to gi than vice versa.
I find that your best content is when you're learning togetherr with your audience. A good guide for grips and grip location in the gi would be an awesome content. You dont have to make it an instructional, but as you roll in the gi u can explain your steps.
Been training Strickly no gi for 4 years. But I try gi once in a blue moon and those fucking guard passes by gripping the pants kill me. Gi also tends to destroy my fingers 😶
This is how the gi should be used to enhance gripping like a training tool, spider guard, lasso, and the likes are a complete waste of time unless your highly skilled and have time to Add in other things once mastering more appropriate skills, throws, pins , locks, etc or are serious about gi competition to win a advantage and waste time. I teach bjj full time and can't stress this enough outside of gi competition its useless.
Jiu jitsu is to be trained in the gi.. It's more technical in every sense, you have more guards, chokes and submissions.. For blue belt like yourself it's better to stick to the basics and train in the gi at least 4 times a weak
I HAAATE when they grab my pants. I say the same thing, gi torreandos are the bane of my existence. 😂 I’m primarily no gi as well, but I have had a significant improvement by completely denying my opponent grips On my pants. A great counter to pants grips is usually spider guard. Even though you may not have any spider guard sweeps, it’s great for setting up triangles, omoplatas or transition to a spider dela riva, spider lasso or any other guard of choice. The best part about the gi is it REALLY enforces that rule of denying your partner of grips of their own and dominate the gripping exchanges. It’s easier to get away with it no gi, but the gi will punish you for not winning those early grip battles.
Great work! You put yourself through a unique challenge and had some good success and some excellent learning experience. I can’t think of a better way to spend the day. 😊
In BJJ, I often find people attribute most of their success to solely technique, regardless of any spirit/experience, even though fighting is mostly mental. So stuff like you doing very well in a Gi contest makes sense to me, same way it makes sense to me Eddie Bravo submitted Royler Gracie when he was only a brown belt.
I've recently moved to a nw city and joined a Gracie gym - really enjoying it so far, but going from a lot of no gi, to somewhere where everyone is excellent in the gi has been tough to adjust to 😅
Ive never really understood the training Gi vs No gi debate, unless you are at the absolute top level in the world looking for that extra 0.1% I find training in GI helps in developing escapes, as the added friction forces better technique No gi helps developing attacks, as the lack of friction forces better control to get to the finish Why choose when you can benefit from both
I started no-gi years ago and when I switched to Gi I was tapping left and right to collar chokes. Then I learned to defend and apply them. Now I do mostly gi. Today at class I had taken my opponent's back and worked the rear collar choke, but was stifled, so I switched to RNC and got it immediately. It's like gi guys sometimes forget the RNC exists at all.
Yeah people were telling me that it was hard to get the rnc in the gi, so in my second match I was hesitant to go for it. But later I forgot what they told me and I was able to make it work
A blue belt with a released butterfly system (which is basically all Gordon Ryan stuff) lmao. Good shit tho my guy. This was a fun watch. Your gi matches are already more fun than your no-gi ones since you don’t do that stalking bullshit.
I didn't expect you to do so well in Gi as well, good job! I once trained no Gi for 2 months straight and when I went back to Gi my defense was pretty bad lol
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Bro, that's brutally hard. I've been training exclusively no gi for 7 years and recently tried some gi. It seems like you're wrapped and nothing works out as fast or smooth as it should. It's like your body decides to act 2 or 3 seconds later than your mind. So yeah, congrats and very well done!
Thanks! I felt like that sometimes too, gi is a different animal. I like being free in no gi lol
You know it’s real when he has Japanese tattoos
This is why I train both
I think it's the same the other way too. After 2 years and Blue belt, I tried No-Gi for the first time and it was FRANTIC. Couldn't keep up with the pace, couldn't grab the guy, couldn't hold him in any position!
@@MrLouka123 LOL yes the other way around is hard, specially because you know the essence of gi is gripping and what can you grab in nogi except trying a sweaty arm
This was actually really interesting having a large amount of experience but having absolutely none with the gi.
Its a totally different ball game, theres guys that I roll with who whppp me in No-GI but as soon as we put on the Gi, totally different outcome!
@@nusa8498 that's true
Blue belt...
@@adrianojordao4634 He's training 6 days a week so not your average blue belt...
@@Raumance I agree this guy is a very high level blue belt. He would smash most hobbyist purple belts and even higher
Honestly that was impressive, I feel like you could have very well played spider guard in the gi, especially against that Tatoo guy to try to break his constant side pass. Anyways congrats on third place !
Awesome breakdowns Josh, I enjoy watching your videos a lot. It helps me see holes in my game and how I have to improve as well! Keep up the good work brother!
It’s great to hear they’re a help to you man!
Bro this is so impressive. It shows that principles and concepts beat specific moves. Im only 3 months in predominantly gi and i learnt a lot from watching
LETSS GOOOO !!!! joshypooo posts once again
The choke the guy was going for from under was a baseball bat choke. It's a 'trick' choke sometimes, as he can then give you side control or even back, and if you take the bait, that actually finishes the choke. See Magid Hage videos for examples he's a specialist.
Also you were lucky they didn't do too much special gi stuff, namely spider guard or worm guard. That would've put you in big trouble if you're not experienced with it. Also the gi does allow your opponent (and yourself) to attack more efficiently too so if you train with the gi and are able to defend successfully then it means you probably will have improved your defense in no-gi...
It's not a trick choke...
I was so glad to see you posted a new video. I really enjoy your videos and learnt shoulder crunch and single leg x watching you. Nervous for my first comp in 1 month
train hard, you got this 💪💪
That’s awesome to hear! Nerves are definitely normal before a competition, it’s sick that you’re going out and competing
Yeah its very similar but you have to negate or break grips, which is it's own thing. Leg pummeling helps. Fun video man keep it up. Been training for a year and started late (i'm going on 29) but I watch a ton of film and enjoy your content.
Started around the same time and age as me, has it consumed your life too 😅 Don't worry, we got this
any channels you recommend for gi jujitsu?
Lowkey wanna see more of you competing in the gi 👀 with a little more training in the gi, would make it a lot more interesting
Nice work. I remember being surprised going back to the gi after 10p how much of my game held up.
You can be a black belt and have a very poor fight IQ/competition mindset. In some videos josh out pointed some brown belts becauses they didn't fight against the sweeps
Man great vids your last video blew up man congrats on the views keep it up
Thank you bro will do!
@@JoshRichBJJ I'm thinking about going to a tournament because of you I'm watching all you videos lol I'm stealing all your moves
no gi is fun and free flowing. Gi is academic and demands attention to details. a good combination.
great vid josh, me and my boy saw you and came up to you that day aswell, was awesome seeing you, your second matchup was actually against one of our teammates, good work out there
Thank you bro!
S tier content. Enjoyed how you switched it up. Keep it up dude!
love your vids. and I've been doing bjj for now 7 year also you make bjj easier
Good stuff! make an instructional about no gi guard retention!
You're very techniqual so I'm sure you will fall in love with the gi. Adding new grips and guard variations might open up a whole new game for you. And yeah, one pant grip is dangerous, two pant grips is code red 😅
Props for posting all the matches 👍
Wow! Man your skills are legitimate!
Thanks!
That was fantastic commentary 🤣🤣🤣
The bit about tattoos had me in fits
Well done on the medal
josh.. outstanding job ! keep up the good work !
Josh this was awesome to watch! The gi is my worst fear 😂 it took a lot of balls to do this 💪
babe wake up josh rich uploaded!!!!
good job my sand bagging brother
Thanks bro 🙏
This is one of the only jujitsu rolling commentaries that I've enjoyed.
subbed, i really like your videos.
Thank you, happy to hear it!
i think your ability to invert gives you a huge advantage as well
first thin to do if your opponent grabs your pants is gripping his sleeve and kick you leg free
Word, that makes sense thanks
Good stuff. You should practice no gi with gi pants so you can get used to opponents grabbing your pant legs and practice breaking those grips.
Grab their sleeve, then kick towards them to free your pants from that grip. Then go straight for a lasso hook, that'll serve you well enough for now to deal with frustrating pant grips
The gi offers a lot of advantages it would be more of a challenge going from gi to no gi competition
This may be a silly question but i'm just wondering how you are so capable of taking down black belts while only a blue belt yourself. Is it that you just don't try and go for a higher belt or is it that you're just a different breed. Keep up the amazing work, love the vids
Great video as usual Josh. How do you handle the adrenaline of competition? I notice I always have nerves and even when I feel like I'm going at 80%, it's realistically 100% and I gas way faster than in the gym even if I'm in great shape.
practice a lot is a gimme, but practice playing with you mentality as you roll. have times where you are extra aware of your cautiousness, times where youre extra aware of your berserking, and play around and see if you can be in neutral mindset when you roll. numb and fun go together, if you can have fun and go "numb" youre more likely to go into the natural flow mode as opposed to the natural panic mode.
Just curious, are you cutting weight? I realized recently that was the reason I was gassing so quick so I stopped doing it
also get warmed up prematch, break a sweat get your heart rate up to burn off that adrenaline. For me i try to have a playful relaxed but hyper aware mindset in the matches
meditate hella before the match and visualize the nerves while ur meditating. before every roll in the gym i just go very flow and relaxed the whole way so when i compete i just walk very slowly and move slowly. the key is not to be a spazzy white belt but roll like ur a flowy black belt. remember that starting very relaxed and flowy at the beginning of your match will 1) conserve ur energy and 2) remind both u and ur opponent this is literwlly just an on open mat
Best to hand fight and not let them get the pants, but if they do….I grab their sleeve on the gripping hand and pull the sleeve towards me while kicking out my leg. Usually does the trick.
The difference is pretty significant. We mostly train gi at the gym I’m part of and not having anything to grab is weird when we do no gi. And that’s why I’m happy I have a wrestling background😂
this is cool to witness....do you just not go to any gi classes? you're a beast broski
Yeah I train at 10th Planet so they only have no gi classes. Thanks bro!
How many hours a week do you train? Great content btw!
Thanks! Right now I train 6 times a week, 45 minutes of drilling and about an hour of rolling each time.
@@JoshRichBJJ Besides instructionals and training often, is there anything else you do that you would attribute to your quick BJJ progression?
@@Trevor_CS2 I think I focused on the right things at first. The winner of a match is usually decided in the battle of passing vs guard so I worked on that a lot. I was also just pretty obsessed with jiu jitsu lol
@@JoshRichBJJ Thanks for the advice man, makes alot of sense. When it comes to drilling specific movements your working on or you found over the net, how could I go about drilling these techniques without a coach? I ask this because gyms typically have a set curriculum and we don't get to choose the techniques we work on while at the gym.
Sooo how rich are your parents? You clearly don't have a job huh?
You should've been competing at purple belt with 3 years no gi. Cool video!
I was asking myself this since I am training no gi but I like gi as well. Thanks for reading my mind 😂
The pants grip. Destroying guards around the world
Everything you can do in no gi you can usually do in gi but not everything you can do in gi you can do in no gi - Firas Zahabi
I don't get why so many people say start with the gi? It seems like nogi gives you a good base of techniques and general principals and adding the gi just makes it more complex. Wouldn't layering on the complexity make more sense from a teaching standpoint? I would think more things will transfer from nogi to gi than vice versa.
How do you improve cardio for tournaments?
For I just roll as much as I can without taking breaks!
@@JoshRichBJJ and it helps that you are young, your cardio is almost unlimited
@@GMunoz-oj5zb yeah that definitely helps
Lasso guard n spider guard can prove useful against the knee grips you almost had it set up in 6:11when you tried doing a guard-best of luck
Gotcha thanks for the tip
That was amazing I’m finishing up my 1st year of training, I hope to be that good at some point. How often do you train?
You have no business being a blue belt.
Nice video man! How did you feel your strength was in this tournament with the Gordon Ryan DVDs?
In general I definitely feel stronger, especially when it comes to pulling people in. Don’t know if I could tell in these matches In particular
What do you do for your conditioning? I just love how you continuously attack and want to be able to do the same! Its tiring lol
For some reason the gi makes the bjj more epic XD
I find that your best content is when you're learning togetherr with your audience. A good guide for grips and grip location in the gi would be an awesome content. You dont have to make it an instructional, but as you roll in the gi u can explain your steps.
what about no training at all in anything then going into a competition?
I’ll erase my memory and do that be right back
Lessgo 🤙🏾🔥
ur a g, brother
was this 150 or 170 lbs btw?
This was 155 lbs
This was 155 lbs
He’s a blue belt, so how is it he has no experience with Gi?
2:41 disappointed guard was pulled haha
Been training Strickly no gi for 4 years. But I try gi once in a blue moon and those fucking guard passes by gripping the pants kill me. Gi also tends to destroy my fingers 😶
The slapping edits XD LMAO
How do you have a blue belt in the gi then?
I have so many questions about this guy, how is he so good with so few experience
He trains 6 days a week with for almost two hours per training session. This is excluding his weightlifting or other exercises he does. That’s how
@@ahmadtahmass8941 Damn so more than 12 hours of training that's a lot
@@ahmadtahmass8941 Well remember many people have gotten their black belt in 6 years or less
I definitely think you're purple belt
How did you avoid Gi for 3 years? all gyms in my area are mainly Gi classes with 1 NoGi class a week.
He's in a better area
I train at 10th Planet so it’s all no gi
Cool
Now if only gordan Ryan could do it
Josh rich baby 🫡
2:39 anyone with tattoos >>>>>> anyone without
biggest humble bragger in bjj
Thanks I try
caught nbu
Potato soup
How tall are you?
I’m 5’8
This is how the gi should be used to enhance gripping like a training tool, spider guard, lasso, and the likes are a complete waste of time unless your highly skilled and have time to Add in other things once mastering more appropriate skills, throws, pins , locks, etc or are serious about gi competition to win a advantage and waste time. I teach bjj full time and can't stress this enough outside of gi competition its useless.
how is he still a blue belt lol
Jiu jitsu is to be trained in the gi.. It's more technical in every sense, you have more guards, chokes and submissions.. For blue belt like yourself it's better to stick to the basics and train in the gi at least 4 times a weak
He's daddy
“This position is not allowed in the gi” 🙄
Its a reap, it is very dangerous and can injure the knee seryously
Blah.
So much better. Than.
You made gi guys look overrated.
So that means that GR should be a gi world champion too
maybe you should compete in purples instead of sandbaging
"I have no idea how to break grips" relatable, and I train gi
😂
@@JoshRichBJJ i hate the gi with passion
Especially when they use it defensively to sabotage me when am so close to get the tap
I HAAATE when they grab my pants. I say the same thing, gi torreandos are the bane of my existence. 😂
I’m primarily no gi as well, but I have had a significant improvement by completely denying my opponent grips
On my pants. A great counter to pants grips is usually spider guard. Even though you may not have any spider guard sweeps, it’s great for setting up triangles, omoplatas or transition to a spider dela riva, spider lasso or any other guard of choice.
The best part about the gi is it REALLY enforces that rule of denying your partner of grips of their own and dominate the gripping exchanges. It’s easier to get away with it no gi, but the gi will punish you for not winning those early grip battles.
next up "i competed in a bjj tournament after a week of partying only"
ur insane,, actually so good
Great work! You put yourself through a unique challenge and had some good success and some excellent learning experience. I can’t think of a better way to spend the day. 😊
3rd in gi wth that's amazing good shit josh
Thanks Carlos 🙌
Hey josh I just started learning bjj and wanted to say your were a huge inspiration for me getting into it
In BJJ, I often find people attribute most of their success to solely technique, regardless of any spirit/experience, even though fighting is mostly mental. So stuff like you doing very well in a Gi contest makes sense to me, same way it makes sense to me Eddie Bravo submitted Royler Gracie when he was only a brown belt.
Yo josh just want to say you are a menace once you play some type of gi open guard the world will tremble bro
Thanks bro someday I will learn it lol
I did some GI training today after 7 months without it and it sucked id be working on a finish and here comes a weird choke from no where
I've recently moved to a nw city and joined a Gracie gym - really enjoying it so far, but going from a lot of no gi, to somewhere where everyone is excellent in the gi has been tough to adjust to 😅
bro i have never seen a blue belt as good as you
Even without gi experience, it's not cool to sandbag tourneys. It's clear your technical knowledge is above blue. Fight at purple.
He would if he could he couldn’t be promoted since he said in a previous video that you need two years in the blue to be promoted
@@emirkarabeg4686 You can sign up for the purple division as a blue belt.
Ive never really understood the training Gi vs No gi debate, unless you are at the absolute top level in the world looking for that extra 0.1%
I find training in GI helps in developing escapes, as the added friction forces better technique
No gi helps developing attacks, as the lack of friction forces better control to get to the finish
Why choose when you can benefit from both
josh ruotolo
I started no-gi years ago and when I switched to Gi I was tapping left and right to collar chokes. Then I learned to defend and apply them. Now I do mostly gi. Today at class I had taken my opponent's back and worked the rear collar choke, but was stifled, so I switched to RNC and got it immediately. It's like gi guys sometimes forget the RNC exists at all.
Yeah people were telling me that it was hard to get the rnc in the gi, so in my second match I was hesitant to go for it. But later I forgot what they told me and I was able to make it work
@@JoshRichBJJ Good content, BTW. I've watched several videos over the past few days. You've got a new subscriber.
@@johncannon3593 thank you!
A blue belt with a released butterfly system (which is basically all Gordon Ryan stuff) lmao. Good shit tho my guy. This was a fun watch. Your gi matches are already more fun than your no-gi ones since you don’t do that stalking bullshit.
Hey Bro, great video! I am looking forward to starting my Bjj journey. Great breakdown.
People who train GI are great with no GI. But if you only train no gi you suck at gi.
I didn't expect you to do so well in Gi as well, good job! I once trained no Gi for 2 months straight and when I went back to Gi my defense was pretty bad lol