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Jerome Louis posted:Got double gold at the Phoenix open today Congrats! Also, I didn't know there was another Phoenix area grapple goon. Where do you train?
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I forgot to say how excited I am to pop into the dojo tomorrow for the first time in two years. The concussion + covid put me in quite the dog house. I'm pretty hype to meet Nathan Orchard.
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Jerome Louis posted:Got double gold at the Phoenix open today yeesh. good work man. what belt level if you don't mind as it doesn't diminish the accomplishment like, at all.
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Jerome Louis posted:Got double gold at the Phoenix open today grats!
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Jerome Louis posted:Got double gold at the Phoenix open today Hell yeah! Congratulations!
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FreakyMetalKid posted:Congrats! Also, I didn't know there was another Phoenix area grapple goon. Where do you train? I actually train in Sacramento, a group of us went out there to compete, was a lot of fun.
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Marching Powder posted:yeesh. good work man. what belt level if you don't mind as it doesn't diminish the accomplishment like, at all. I'm a master 2 purple ultra heavy. Not as prestigious as adults for sure but still pretty stoked cus this is my 2nd ibjjf comp ever. Doing pans and masters worlds next.
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Jerome Louis posted:I'm a master 2 purple ultra heavy. Not as prestigious as adults for sure but still pretty stoked cus this is my 2nd ibjjf comp ever. Doing pans and masters worlds next. Ouatanding. If I compete again, it will be in bjj.
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Jerome Louis posted:Got double gold at the Phoenix open today Good work!
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We are all masters ultra heavys right?
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heeebrew posted:We are all masters ultra heavys right? And Masters lightweights
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heeebrew posted:We are all masters ultra heavys right? soon. much sooner than i'd like.
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Masters 2 middle weight brown belt. I don't compete though, so those are just stats to consider when you want to know how good or bad to feel after rolling with me.
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Aug 2, 2021 21:32
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Masters 3 ultra Heavy Purple here
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What does the number after Masters represent
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Pron on VHS posted:What does the number after Masters represent you tell us, porn on vhs
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Pron on VHS posted:What does the number after Masters represent Basically the group you fall in based on when you were born.
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Pron on VHS posted:What does the number after Masters represent how many gi's you have to wear.
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Masters purple. MW or LW. I rarely compete though.
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Pron on VHS posted:What does the number after Masters represent How many 5 year increments you are older than 30 Masters 3 is 41-45 year olds https://bjjtribes.com/what-are-ibjjf-bjj-masters-age-brackets/
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Since it looks like this thread is full of the Olds, what sort of injury prevention/protective stuff do you all do for shoulders and knees? A hand injury makes boxing a no-go so I'm looking to switch up my off-day workouts.
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rotator cuff attention is absolutely mandatory for me, though i've twinged my knee a few times now and can feel an injury incoming. for my rotator cuff i literally follow the first google result as often as i remember to https://orthoinfo.aaos.org/en/recovery/rotator-cuff-and-shoulder-conditioning-program/
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Xand_Man posted:Since it looks like this thread is full of the Olds, what sort of injury prevention/protective stuff do you all do for shoulders and knees? A hand injury makes boxing a no-go so I'm looking to switch up my off-day workouts. I do shoulder dislocations with my belt before every session, and if you have access to a chin-up bar, I know some guys who swear by dead hangs. For knees, I just wear low-profile kneepads on days we'll be doing a lot of wrestling shots and generally try to play cautiously and avoid positions that put any kind of weird torque on them. The better answer if you're dedicated enough is "heavy squats with good form".
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I’m competing for the first time but I’ll finally be in the olds division at the ancient age of early 30s. Pretty exited to see how my wrestling holds up since while I feel like I’ve become poo poo at it apparently my gym is known for being wrestling/sambo-esque heavy. I’m still pretty a rusty shade of blue belt after coming back from a 5 year near hiatus while I was in the military, but my relative athleticism and strength should be a huge advantage especially given I’ll almost certainly be the youngest. There’s one very old guy in the absolute no gi division that was a former pro MMA fighter that started doing MMA before it was MMA who probably has nasty leg locks which is was my weakness but has improved since I started training at this gym. Don’t want to end up dueling leg locks with someone like that though, I found his YouTube channel where he’s teaching leg attacks. He looks like a bear of a dude too so I think my only ideal options are to arm drag to his back and avoid tying up with him or pull guard and rip a triangle.
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Masters 1, black belt. I also don’t compete because it’s scary
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omg chael crash posted:Masters 1, black belt. I also don’t compete because it’s scary when did that happen?
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Masters 1 white belt, coming up to blue. At the age where the division is never too huge and they always merge with masters 2 hell last comp I was disqualified and still got bronze. I have cauliflower ear, I got it seen too/stitched up/milked took some time off took my antibiotics and the day THE VERY DAY I was scheduled to start training again I hit my face/ear with a wheel and I head that familiar expanding foam sound in my ear viola! It returns! Magic!
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omg chael crash posted:Masters 1, black belt. I also don’t compete because it’s scary Competing at white I would imagine is scarier.
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The only time my coach ever gave me anything less than total support was when I joked about aging into high masters by the time I had a black belt, thus competing with other "chill old men". She had just the slightest tone of reproach when countering the assumption that a bracket of old black belts wouldn't be terrifying.
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Masters 2 purple, middleweight moving towards lightweight. I haven’t competed since blue, I’m *already* scared of my division. I will compete in something when lockdown lifts just to build confidence, I think. It’ll only get worse forever
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02-6611-0142-1 posted:Masters 2 purple, middleweight moving towards lightweight. I have'nt competed since blue either and I am terrified of competing in the gi again, this time at purple. I feel more confident in nogi, but I dont know if my gi skills are up to snuff.
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I've never completd either, I'd be Purple Masters 3. I nearly competed at the end of white belt but broke something in my hand and when I got my blue I wasn't keen to compete at that level straight away. After that my neck and lower back problems have just gotten worse through training so I've just put off the idea of competing all together.
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CommonShore posted:when did that happen? Mid 2018. Only took me 14 years, follow your dreams
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omg chael crash posted:Mid 2018. Only took me 14 years, follow your dreams well idk if I caught that then - it certainly wasn't in my mental rolodex! Congrats if it didn't get posted two years ago
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omg chael crash posted:Mid 2018. Only took me 14 years, follow your dreams Only 14? Nice. I got my brown right before lockdown last year. I'm 13 years in right now. I'm thinking maybe 16 years will get me to black. Something like that. Obviously I'm not in a hurry so it'll happen when it happens.
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Do you guys track mat hours? For those of you at/approaching black, how many hours did it take?
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I have tracked mat time for the past few years, but I didn't track it during my earlier days. I think I could tell you how many hours I trained wearing either a purple or brown belt, but I don't have mat time stats for white or blue.
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I keep thinking about the 10,000 hours thing and that being the metric to hit "mastery" of something. If you train 5 hours a week, it would take you something like 38 or 39 years to hit 10k, which when you look at how long coral belts have been training I think the term "Master" actually makes a ton of sense. So if people are getting black belts within 12-15 years we're probably looking at maybe 3,000-4,000 hours?
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I don't track mat time hut it's an interesting stat to consider. Is that only rolling? Classes? Solo drills at odd times? I'm early in my journey and I could get a fairly close accurate estimate of my time so far.
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butros posted:I keep thinking about the 10,000 hours thing and that being the metric to hit "mastery" of something. If you train 5 hours a week, it would take you something like 38 or 39 years to hit 10k, which when you look at how long coral belts have been training I think the term "Master" actually makes a ton of sense. So if people are getting black belts within 12-15 years we're probably looking at maybe 3,000-4,000 hours? I know that this is a tangent, but the 10,000 hours thing is entirely made up out of literally nothing, so it's not helpful for tracking and measuring your own progress and learning.
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