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Had my fifth session ever of BJJ today, nearly 8 months removed from the fourth one. Had a lot of fun rolling and trying to defend against stuff. Still had the absolute poo poo beat outta me. 
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CommonShore posted:Jealous I am treating each session like mana from heaven because all it takes is one slip-up in quarantine and Melbourne goes right back to lockdown.
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Nov 30, 2020 05:31
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Count Roland posted:That really sucks dude. congrats!
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Jan 27, 2021 03:32
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Today I felt like I had a bit of a breakthrough with keeping back control nice and tight. We'd been practicing it for the past few weeks but I never felt like I was secure enough to start trying to attack while rolling but today something kinda clicked and I found it way easier to stay tight and low. Didn't get any submissions but felt secure enough to start threatening them without letting my partner escape.
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Feb 12, 2021 10:23
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Mechafunkzilla posted:Respect the shoulder of justice  there's a blue belt I get to roll with fairly frequently whose top side control is absolutely crushing. If he wants to hold me there there's basically nothing i can do; my only hope it's catching him when he goes to attack or change position. We're similar weights and all, too.
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May 24, 2021 08:39
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Jerome Louis posted:Got double gold at the Phoenix open today Hell yeah! Congratulations!
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Aug 2, 2021 06:01
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As a dumb newbie it took me way too long to realise that just because I'm not immediately passing someone's closed guard doesn't mean I'm not making it exhausting for them to try and maintain it. It has made closed guard a lot more fun for me. I also wind up in half guard a lot so it's something I've been trying to get way better at as well; luckily the instructor really likes playing from half guard so he's always happy to go through it with me.
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Aug 6, 2021 08:03
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Absolutely up for all 4
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Aug 22, 2021 08:11
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FreakyMetalKid posted:When the skill gap is large enough, sometimes I just lay there and wait for the other guy to lose. Sweeps and back takes just present themselves. lol, this happened to me last night. I'm an idiot white belt and was rolling with a purple belt. I was in top half and hosed up a knee-through pass and basically without him doing anything ended up in bottom closed guard. We had to take a break 'cause he was laughing so hard.
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Nov 12, 2021 02:06
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Totally anecdotal but after I added a 4km run, 3 times a week to my routine I noticed my gas tank for boxing sparring and rolling improved dramatically
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Nov 30, 2021 04:01
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Congratulations!
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Dec 18, 2021 03:55
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is it weird that I want to get really good at that just from the name alone?
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Jan 8, 2022 09:04
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Melbourne, Australia. Our instructor is one of Peter de Been's students. We are a super tiny class, though.
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Jan 12, 2022 00:48
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signed up for my first comp at the end of the month. fat old man's white belt gi here we come! looking forward to getting choked out in the first 20 seconds...
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Feb 18, 2022 10:57
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Just got absolutely plastered in my first match. Got taken down, couldn't recover guard and he passed straight through into scarf control and americana'd me. He won the division, at least! And I've got a bunch of stuff to work on for next time.
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Feb 26, 2022 02:04
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Tacos Al Pastor posted:Dont feel bad. My first match I got wristlocked...standing up! It was over in seconds. This happens to a lot of people the first time they compete. The most you can do is go back and work on the things that you had problems with. I'm glad to know I'm not alone! I'm excited to get back on the mats and work on it. I also got to watch a lot of other matches and I was a little surprised with how much I was seeing and understanding about what people were working toward so things must definitely be sinking in.
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Feb 27, 2022 23:58
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We do blocks of positions as well but the amount of time we spend on each depends on how well everyone's picking everything up and how much content our coach wants to put into each position. Then we'll usually do a week on transitioning from that position to the next one or defending against it and start the next block. If we've reached a bit of a dead end or someone has a burning question than we might do something completely different at the end of the block, it's not really set in stone.
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Mar 3, 2022 23:02
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Congrats!
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Apr 23, 2022 06:26
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Noice, congrats!
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Apr 29, 2022 04:25
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Did an interclub thing on Sunday that went way better than my first comp. Got a couple of takedowns (snapdown and a hip toss) and was basically in mount for the whole round. I completely blanked on attacks once I was there - just partially remembered a whole bunch of stuff (cross collar, bow and arrow, ezekiel, americana) but never got the finish. Progress feels good!(Shame one of my eyes got clipped during the boxing bout tho and now I'm getting around looking like a stupid Solidus Snake  )
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May 18, 2022 07:58
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Michael Transactions posted:Work on taking the back from mount, see how you could do it from there. The back is the easiet place to get submissions. Watching the video back I can totally see how I missed a bunch of opportunities to take his back but was too fixated on getting the submission from mount. In my head I was telling myself that I know finishes from mount I just have to remember them...
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May 21, 2022 01:30
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L0cke17 posted:This is just the #1 lesson to learn in all things in hugfighting. I'll get there one day 
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May 22, 2022 02:48
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FiestaDePantalones posted:Words were said; mistakes were made: Pyle posted:Sup, goon! We also had a surprise belt ceremony. Congrats goons! Head Bee Guy posted:i dont have a belt yet, but a guy was rolling with said “good job today” I am probably a million years away from getting a belt but when someone tells me that I'm getting better it makes me feel great all week
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Jun 10, 2022 00:40
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knuthgrush posted:The folks saying they don't have a belt: is that just no gi? Our gym starts out white belt in gi but they don't give people who do no gi only belts. It's mostly an mma gym though. Oh, I just mean I'm a white belt. Our gym doesn't do stripes either
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Jun 10, 2022 07:21
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seconding "pass or sweep!" especially as a white belt, it's really good to get heaps of reps in against a bunch of people at a decent intensity
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Jun 21, 2022 00:15
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Jack B Nimble posted:Yeah, those are still positions where you can both pass and sweep, so the burden is on the participants to make something happen. You could easily have a coach or referee tell them both "30 seconds or you're both out" in a King of the Hill situation. We do the same. Also a lot of the time people waiting to have a go will start yelling out cues to try and get one person or another to get the sweep/pass. But if something gets properly stalled out then both people will get pulled out.
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Jun 21, 2022 14:08
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Mannetosen posted:Got my brown belt a week ago. Congrats!
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Jun 27, 2022 12:56
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Jul 27, 2022 06:12
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I'm gonna be a white belt forever 'cause I'm bad but I don't care because training is fun Honestly I really like the technical discussion when it happens because it at least gets me thinking about those things when I'm rolling. Even if I can't do anything about it at the time I feel like the added awareness helps me learn more and more until I can do something about it
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Jul 29, 2022 10:19
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starkebn posted:good seminar by Lachlan this weekend, be on the lookout for some cool poo poo from him come adcc Got to go to a seminar run by Mikael Yahaya (one of the Absolute instructors) which was also really cool. He's got a neat back attack system which felt pretty natural and some cool tips for setting up the head-arm triangle from side control and knee on belly. Competing this weekend and trying not to get into my own head too much. Just keep worrying that I'm gonna get on the mats and forget everything again
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knuthgrush posted:I could use some advice on competition. I'm 32 and started competing in February this year after maybe 9 months of training when you consider all the lockdowns we had in Australia. My first comp was an absolute poo poo show between the adrenaline dump, not understanding the way comps are laid out and a uniform fuckup. I don't think anything in class would've prepared me for it and I got tapped in like a minute and a half by a guy who executed my exact game plan but just better. The flipside is that after my coach talked me off of the ledge, my training was way better and more focused because I'd felt that pressure and knew what I needed to deal with next time. I still haven't won a comp fight but I can see progress in every comp and my training has gotten that much better for every time I've thrown myself in there. Can't agree enough about just doing it, learning from it and doing it again if you want to. My coach always says competitions are just another learning opportunity. If you're worried about injuries just tap early and loudly if you recognise you're beyond the point of recovery. Pretty much the only difference I noticed in comp was that when guys go for a sub attempt they just really loving go for it instead of easing it on. Somebody fucked around with this message at 21:51 on Sep 12, 2022 |
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stramit posted:Got me a second stripe on the old white belt. Small achievement but it’s progress. Noice, congrats!
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Sep 7, 2022 01:43
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Just ordered it. My current coach really enjoys talking about the history of BJJ and I always find it interesting
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butros posted:Grape juice CommonShore posted:
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knuthgrush posted:Gonna show some ignorance here: is it more common for gyms to give stripes or not give them? I've not get encountered a gym that didn't but I've only been to a half dozen or so places. Mine doesn't do stripes or gradings. Promotions are just a handshake and handing the belt over at the end of class. Tyro posted:Oh poo poo I got babby's first stripe on my white belt. Hope that doesn't mean people will start expecting anything from me. Congrats!! lol. I thought the ref was giving a disadvantage for not engaging at the end there but instead it's just a "c'mon man..."
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I've been working a lot of knee shield and the transition to deep half if they start wanting to come forward onto me or X if they stand up. I'm starting to get a couple of sweeps working while rolling which is really exciting!
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knuthgrush posted:This is cool! Congrats on your progress and I like the transitions. I might noodle with it a bit because I've been playing half a lot. Thanks very much! My last comp fight in gi I lost on disadvantages after pulling guard and despite a bunch of sweep attempts/opportunities I didn't hit any of them. My instructor's been helping me put together some of the missing pieces since and it's helped a lot. I think that the X guard transition might have some other, better options but the only guard I know against a standing opponent (besides seated/sit up) is X and for whatever reason I've really clicked with it.
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Defenestrategy posted:I'm finally getting a hang of stand up grappling I think. Like, I'm not getting take downs, but I'm getting into positions where they COULD happen and I'm actually seeing where it can fit in real time. Like I can get singles and doubles, but I've been trying real hard to figure out how to get close in attacks like Lateral Drops, Firemans Carrys, and Tani Otoshi in the gi. No real reason to post, just putting it out to the aether. That's pretty awesome though. I'm thinking of asking some of the good stand-up grapplers at my gym if we can do a bunch of standing sparring and reset once we get to ground just because I know, for me, part of what holds me back from really committing to a takedown is that when I inevitably gently caress it up I'm going to get crushed and expend a shitload of energy on the ground and I'd really like to get the standing reps in.
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I've got a dumb white belt question about climbing to high mount. I'll often get to the point where I've managed to get my knees behind their elbows and my hips are at about collarbone level and be ready to start grinding my hips forward to overcome whatever frames they've got left. But if things are slick at all (slippery mats, nogi, oildome) I'm completely unable to stop them from wriggling up a bit and strengthening up their frames again, even if I've chocked their head and shoulder with one arm. Is there something that seems immediately wrong about what I'm doing?Tyro posted:I haven't been approaching training from a competition perspective at all but there's a Fuji regional tournament (about a 2hr drive away) in a few weeks and I'm considering signing up. Would be novice white belt, masters age, unlimited weight class. Def agree with Nestharken and learn how to pull guard so you can get to the stuff you've practiced as quickly as possible. But otherwise have fun even if you do get your poo poo wrecked in 20 seconds!
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Thanks very much for the tips, everyone! I think I had it stuck in my head that mount is so close to the top of the hierarchy of control that getting to high mount is just something you should always try to do but I hadn't really interrogated that knowledge against where most of my success attacking actually comes from (side and back). Definitely going to keep trying though so I can develop the feel for it. After all, even if I lose position it just means practicing getting back there
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