If you can't finish a triangle, then use it as a restraint to get an arm. Also, start out with someone your own size, you don't need to go after the biggest guy in the gym. There's an advance being small. Weightlifters are often small as there's a smaller distance for weight to travel. This concept applies here also, but smaller people don't realise that they sometimes have it easier.
Resist using strength as much as you can. Slow down. Accept the bad positions and learn the correct way to frame, create angles, timing for bridges/shrimping etc., more mat time, focus on recovery and reflection. It takes how long it takes. I was a white belt for four years! (Covid lay off included lol 1.5 years)
@@Stick_jitsudad808 In time you will find that it’s much easier for you to make space while under much larger people, and weasel out of tighter positions because you’re smaller. I know I do!
5'9 140lb white belt and having a lot of success against the bigger guys. A few things that have helped me... 1. Try to create space so you can use your speed 2. Attacking with guillotine or darce constantly. Im not even trying to submit with these but they can annoy my opponent and be distracting 3. Try to remain on top whenever possible and focus on position first. With the guys 200+ I wont even go for a real submission attempt until I get the back 4. Have good fitness. I have just enough strength to make the big guys work and I can outlast them with my cardio. Once theyre tired your chances will improve drastically Happy hunting!
As a 43kg blue belt, i would always find myself at the bottom but knowing that i'd able to create space to sweep heavier opponents give me comfort at the bottom if that makes sense😅
Great advice, I’m a 64kg blue belt, your video reminds me of my struggles when I was a white belt and some of my current struggles still as a blue belt but I’m definitely doing better against bigger guys than when I started training. Most of my game against bigger guys is to either sweep them or submit them from guard, I also find that is way easier to handle bigger guys if you can out cardio them.
my advice would be to roll with the biggest person, every time; this gets you acclimated to the worst case, and makes everyone else a cake walk by comparison. also, use what you do have: being smaller, you're likely to be faster, more flexible, and have the ability to take advantage of space made by larger classmates.
Agreed! Good old fashion exposure therapy! Just make sure you stay safe. When you are newer, you aren't use to talking on someones weight yet. It adds up over time.
Great video and solid advice all around! Blue belt here, a year in. 5’7, 135lbs. Small frame, agile. These tips also apply to Blue belts as well. Developing my bottom game with distance management, frames, sweeps and playing different guards is a big part of my development. I fought against being on bottom for four years before just accepting things and working with what I got. I say this because for YEARS I would be stuck on bottom and I’d just attack, attack, attack. It was 50/50 or more 30/70 I’d be successful. Not the greatest ratio by any means but in my defense I was a white belt. At blue, I am way more thoughtful in my approach to learning and more aware of what needs to be fine tuned and corrected.
I’m facing this issue in my gym and had some questions around it. I’m a white belt 5’8 and 160lbs and most of the guys in my gym are well over 200 and they’re also upper belts (blue and above). I can’t immobilize them in any kind of offensive position. If I mount them they just throw me off of them with ease. One of these guys weighs 250lbs and in my first few rolls with him he was gentle and letting me work. Just this past week he turned up the intensity and I felt like a toddler getting ragdolled. He was much faster and explosive in his movements and cranking out the submissions really fast. I was tapping out every few seconds and I felt like I was walking a tightrope to avoid injury. My questions are: What causes your partners to initially go easy but then to dial up the intensity like that? Is it for my own benefit? And are the rolls where I just get ragdolled and submitted left and right still helping me make progress?
Thank you for the video. Thoughts on learning from an instructor that’s your size? Ie should a 170lbs student be training under coaches that are 200 lbs plus
I think you can learn from all size of instructors! Students just need to understand that at times, certain techniques might work for their instructor better because of their size. But I’ve had big guys be able to play my small man game and it’s annoying 😒
Been training for 3 days. The most frustrating is my stature. I’m only 5’0” and most of my classmates are at least 5’7”. Can’t take them down once they got control of both my sleeves. Was also taught collar and sleeve takedown but my foot doesn’t even go up to their hip before I try to pull them down (unsuccessfully).
see mikey musumeci vs seif Adil....everything is possible! they are always bigger n stronger than me.... then some happened.... im a 50 2-wb train for 2 years.... what happened is i begun to heard i was technical... so i shut the f up n research what it meant.... sticking to it!! oss.
The most dangerous is a new white belt, very heavy, young, who rolls with Level 10 violence. Getting stuck on the bottom means, you’re stuck. 😂 The big guy, being new to bjj, he’ll move in strange ways, which can be dangerous. I use speed against these big guys. I have nothing else, but a speed advantage. I go into rolls with never letting these heavy guys attack 1st. I use speed. Arm drags to take the back for a choke is my go to. I have to disregard “playing” bjj with heavy guys, especially the ones that go 100%. I use full power, speed, and attack.
Good stuff ✅ - my question is what is small and what is big? I’m 5’9” 188 lbs and lots of guys call me big, yet I feel small when I go against guys 220 or 250 + 😂 - it’s all relative, no?
I would say you are more medium! I usually consider small guys about 150 lbs or under. Honestly, you medium guys are annoying, because you can play a "small" guy game a lot of the time, but are a lot stronger and have more size.
Hahahah! I would say 150lbs or under. I’ve only recently hit 160ish. If my diet is on point and training a lot I’ll be 155. But most of my Jiu-Jitsu career, from white to black I ranged from 130-155.
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What advice would you give to a smaller Jiu-Jitsu white belt?
If you can't finish a triangle, then use it as a restraint to get an arm.
Also, start out with someone your own size, you don't need to go after the biggest guy in the gym.
There's an advance being small. Weightlifters are often small as there's a smaller distance for weight to travel. This concept applies here also, but smaller people don't realise that they sometimes have it easier.
Resist using strength as much as you can. Slow down. Accept the bad positions and learn the correct way to frame, create angles, timing for bridges/shrimping etc., more mat time, focus on recovery and reflection. It takes how long it takes. I was a white belt for four years! (Covid lay off included lol 1.5 years)
Awesome. I'm a 40 yo white belt. And I'm 5'3. Everyone towers over me.
@@Stick_jitsudad808 In time you will find that it’s much easier for you to make space while under much larger people, and weasel out of tighter positions because you’re smaller. I know I do!
Bigger people have weaknesses too! It's a delight to find them after getting smashed all the time. Keep going.
5'9 140lb white belt and having a lot of success against the bigger guys. A few things that have helped me...
1. Try to create space so you can use your speed
2. Attacking with guillotine or darce constantly. Im not even trying to submit with these but they can annoy my opponent and be distracting
3. Try to remain on top whenever possible and focus on position first. With the guys 200+ I wont even go for a real submission attempt until I get the back
4. Have good fitness. I have just enough strength to make the big guys work and I can outlast them with my cardio. Once theyre tired your chances will improve drastically
Happy hunting!
As a 3 month in white belt, I thank you for this sir!
As a purple belt I got alot out of this one! Thanks Chasen!
Fantastic! I'm happy to hear that!
As a 43kg blue belt, i would always find myself at the bottom but knowing that i'd able to create space to sweep heavier opponents give me comfort at the bottom if that makes sense😅
Absolutely!
I feel these concepts can still apply at Blue. Reinforces that I am not doing myself a disservice by continuing to focus on sweeps.
100%
thanks for your advice 👍
My pleasure!
Great advice, I’m a 64kg blue belt, your video reminds me of my struggles when I was a white belt and some of my current struggles still as a blue belt but I’m definitely doing better against bigger guys than when I started training. Most of my game against bigger guys is to either sweep them or submit them from guard, I also find that is way easier to handle bigger guys if you can out cardio them.
Great insight! Glade to hear you have started to find a game!
You definitely have the skills to be a much bigger youtuber. Keep up the good work man
I appreciate that! Thanks for your support and kind words!👊
my advice would be to roll with the biggest person, every time; this gets you acclimated to the worst case, and makes everyone else a cake walk by comparison. also, use what you do have: being smaller, you're likely to be faster, more flexible, and have the ability to take advantage of space made by larger classmates.
Agreed! Good old fashion exposure therapy! Just make sure you stay safe. When you are newer, you aren't use to talking on someones weight yet. It adds up over time.
@@ChasenHill yup, no shame in tapping to pressure. big or small, that's what we do.
Great video and solid advice all around! Blue belt here, a year in. 5’7, 135lbs. Small frame, agile. These tips also apply to Blue belts as well. Developing my bottom game with distance management, frames, sweeps and playing different guards is a big part of my development. I fought against being on bottom for four years before just accepting things and working with what I got. I say this because for YEARS I would be stuck on bottom and I’d just attack, attack, attack. It was 50/50 or more 30/70 I’d be successful. Not the greatest ratio by any means but in my defense I was a white belt. At blue, I am way more thoughtful in my approach to learning and more aware of what needs to be fine tuned and corrected.
I just got my BB at 140 lbs. I could fucking write a novel for you.
Blue belt or black belt?? 😂
@@ChasenHill YOU SON OF A....my black belt lol
Chasen, "dead fish" don't flop bro... :D good video!
My mind is blown!!! 🤯🤯 you are a 100% right….wow that was silly of me 🤣🐟
I’m facing this issue in my gym and had some questions around it. I’m a white belt 5’8 and 160lbs and most of the guys in my gym are well over 200 and they’re also upper belts (blue and above). I can’t immobilize them in any kind of offensive position. If I mount them they just throw me off of them with ease. One of these guys weighs 250lbs and in my first few rolls with him he was gentle and letting me work. Just this past week he turned up the intensity and I felt like a toddler getting ragdolled. He was much faster and explosive in his movements and cranking out the submissions really fast. I was tapping out every few seconds and I felt like I was walking a tightrope to avoid injury. My questions are: What causes your partners to initially go easy but then to dial up the intensity like that? Is it for my own benefit? And are the rolls where I just get ragdolled and submitted left and right still helping me make progress?
Just a lil feedback you could prolly do with less edits it might be easier to watch but good video and good ideas with the edits
Thank you for the video.
Thoughts on learning from an instructor that’s your size? Ie should a 170lbs student be training under coaches that are 200 lbs plus
I think you can learn from all size of instructors! Students just need to understand that at times, certain techniques might work for their instructor better because of their size.
But I’ve had big guys be able to play my small man game and it’s annoying 😒
tysm for this video. i am 120 lbs :(
Been training for 3 days. The most frustrating is my stature. I’m only 5’0” and most of my classmates are at least 5’7”. Can’t take them down once they got control of both my sleeves. Was also taught collar and sleeve takedown but my foot doesn’t even go up to their hip before I try to pull them down (unsuccessfully).
see mikey musumeci vs seif Adil....everything is possible! they are always bigger n stronger than me.... then some happened.... im a 50 2-wb train for 2 years.... what happened is i begun to heard i was technical... so i shut the f up n research what it meant.... sticking to it!!
oss.
The most dangerous is a new white belt, very heavy, young, who rolls with Level 10 violence.
Getting stuck on the bottom means, you’re stuck. 😂
The big guy, being new to bjj, he’ll move in strange ways, which can be dangerous.
I use speed against these big guys. I have nothing else, but a speed advantage.
I go into rolls with never letting these heavy guys attack 1st. I use speed. Arm drags to take the back for a choke is my go to.
I have to disregard “playing” bjj with heavy guys, especially the ones that go 100%.
I use full power, speed, and attack.
Good stuff ✅ - my question is what is small and what is big? I’m 5’9” 188 lbs and lots of guys call me big, yet I feel small when I go against guys 220 or 250 + 😂 - it’s all relative, no?
I would say you are more medium! I usually consider small guys about 150 lbs or under. Honestly, you medium guys are annoying, because you can play a "small" guy game a lot of the time, but are a lot stronger and have more size.
@@ChasenHill that’s good to hear - I’ll take annoying 😆😆😆 - where does Large start 195 or 205 or 215?
How small is considered small? I'm trying to figure out if I qualify. You don't look small in your videos.
Hahahah! I would say 150lbs or under. I’ve only recently hit 160ish. If my diet is on point and training a lot I’ll be 155. But most of my Jiu-Jitsu career, from white to black I ranged from 130-155.
I’m pretty similar. 155 to 160.
I can deal with opponents up to 200lb.
But, some dudes are 250+. Strength vs strength is not an option.
So we mean weight and not height/length of limbs? Is height an obstacle?
Small man jujitsu game"?
Man that editing is way too much.
Thanks for the feedback 🙂
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