It's true man. There is a dude in my gym I shit on for six months straight because I knew once he could get me, it'd be game over forever and sure as shit, I've beaten him once in about two years. Savage. Some people just got it and some have to be patient. It comes for both eventually.
While true, I don’t think that’s what Josh’s success can be attributed to. He was attending 9 classes a week. That’s 3 times more than your average BJJ student. His success is due to his commitment to the sport and hours on and off the mat studying Jiu Jitsu
I mean it took BJ Penn 3 years to get his blackbelt, there are some people who are naturally gifted and have the ability to progress quickly at a level most are incapable of. Josh is obsessed, driven, focused, and a natural athlete. Keep killing it man!
@@cannedtuna55 lol I don't think it counts as only two years of training when you started BJJ as Olympic silver medalist judoka -------------------------------------------------------------------- To become a Silver Medalist in Olympic already a monster too.
It actually took bj penn 5 years to get his black belt he was training for 2 years before he met Ralph Gracie then he got his black belt after 3 years with Ralph but still really good to do it in 5 years but most people would probly do it in that time if you had 2 years training then spent everyday one to one coaching with a Gracie for 3 years
People just don’t do the math. Bro said he went to class 10 TIMES A WEEK. Ok, do that for 1 month, he’s averaging 40 HOURS ON THE MATS Most people only go 2-3 times a week. So compared to that, most people are barely getting more then 10 hours A MONTH He’s literally having FOUR TIMES the amount of time regular people spend training. How does it not make sense to you guys? Belts don’t matter, TIME does
Correct me if I am wrong but bjj is about knowledge and progress . So if he trains a lot and get a lot of knowledge, how is he a white belt? I've seen some people getting 2 stripes on the belt and then move to the other belt because of how much they were training and progressing. But they did not hang in the white belt sandbagging...The only thing legit here is him competing against brown belts but saying he was a white belt is sandbagging
People really forget that 1-3 years means different things for different people. Some people might make it all the way to purple belt and only have 700 hours of mat time in the span of 3-4 years, spending most of the time drilling with no resistance and then getting 15 mins a class of free rolling time. Meanwhile a white belt that is focused and training every day could get 700 hours of actual hard sparring and competition experience by the time they get their blue belt just a year or two in. Those two people are going to be at a very different skill level in the 1-3 year scope of their training time. Fun video! Shoutout to my boy Sid that heel hooked you at the end there, he just moved to MD to train at our gym. Great kid.
So i was trying to do a rear naked choke, on my practice partner, and he defended it with by tucking his chin, and criss cross his arms so that his forearms are sort of hugging his neck, I was wondering how to counter that? And to still get a head choke or rnc? Thankss
You want to get your choking arm across their chin and grab their shoulder. It's possible to finish the RNC with their chin inside but if you have that arm across, you can also use it to lift up their chin and start bringing your other arm under their neck. So the battle is hand fighting until you can get that hand on their shoulder, which is complicated but here's a tip for that: Reaching across and grabbing their armpit with your choking hand is a good place holder, it puts your choking arm in a position where at any point you can bring it up and start threatening the choke. Hope that makes sense and helps!
You confirm my theory of focusing on a few things and getting really good at them. Also not being afraid to roll with folk at a higher skill level. It gets you good quick compared to rolling with those of same level or lower to feed your ego.
Theres arguments on both sides but if hes ONLY training nogi alot of coaches dont want to premote people who dont train in gi. Regardless, dont watch this video and hate on him, he’s literally telling you what you can do to accelerate progress: study ju-jitsu off the mats and increase your time on the mats. Watching this as a bluebelt and realising I should be watching more tape and instructionals and APPLY the knowledge. Other channels such as JordanTeaches and Less impressed more improved SHOULD be a MUST watch if you want to see accelerated progress. You cannot simply just turn up, here josh shows that doing the outside homework and applying it WILL improve your performance ❤️
I've trained with this guy (I'm a 5-6 year purple belt), and 1000% percent believe Josh's training time. He has the game of someone who is extremely extremely good at 1-2 things offensively, great defensively all around and not afraid to experiment. People that can be this laser focused can definitely get that good in a short of amount of time if they were truly obsessed from day one. That being said, he's definitely an outlier talent wise. Super tough, and can't wait to see where he goes!
He went straight through the good instructionals by the best nogi player of all time. And studied them extensively. No wonder he became that good. Bravo champ. You deserve the praise.
Hey josh your jiujitsu is on Other level, can you please share the yt chanels or instructional do you watch to learn and understand somo position in bjj?
July 2019 to November 2020. That's 1 year and 4 months. Bear in mind that he was still wearing a white belt all this time when apparently most schools promote someone in 6 months. Corona lockdowns are what messed with this story, I feel like it would've been even more miraculous were it not for lockdowns. I don't know much about BJJ besides watching TH-cam but I believe him and I believe that this is possible.
Honestly.I never went to my schools belt promotions and I would roll pretty well with the black belts as a white belt. They would catch my ass slipping if I didn't know what they were going for though.
You seem humble, that's a good sign. Wishing you all the best on your journey. The one that studies a lot, will progress a lot. But we all know, you're just a secret Black Belt from Pakistan ;)
Inspiring stuff! 👏🏻 I’ve just started a few months ago and have found your content really helpful, any tips for what I should focus on as a white belt to progress like you? Of course I won’t be able to progress as quickly as I’m not a black belt from Pakistan but I’ll try my best 👍🏻
Focus on guard, guard passing, (and wrestling if you’re not a dirty guard puller like me lol) those are the main things that are gonna decide who “wins” a roll. And always have moves or concepts to work when you roll. Don’t just come and roll aimlessly. Hope that helps!
I think you're probably good at playing things out in your head when you watch youtube vids and read books. I do the same...I'm always reviewing in my head what I did in a rolling session....I look at all my mistakes and then think of ways I could have escaped or avoided certain positions. The other day I was on the verge of submitting a blue belt, but i was so gassed from previous rolls that I couldn't finish. It was a good learning experience.
Honestly I think belts don’t really matter in competition, it all boils down to mat time. Some brown belts and black belts have been training 1-2x a week for well over a decade and than you have blue belts that train 6x a week and are athletic and compete regularly.
do you use all your strength in training? sometimes I only use 30% of my strength so as not to hurt anyone, but sometimes there are people who don't understand this. Should I use my 100% strength?
You should do both. Doing it with power works your strength and cardio more. You need strength to pull off certain moves. If you never use force you'll never be used to doing it for real. You also need to be able to pull off the technique under pressure. If you always go all out you'll struggle to get new techniques down so you should take it easy sometimes. And always be controlled, to not hurt your partner.
can you even progress in belts if you never train with gi? some guys in my gym train only no gi for 3 years and they still are white belt, but they submit bluebelts, just because they never train in gi. was wondering how that goes and how you get a new belt if you never train with gi
Congratulations on getting blue belt! It's good progress, but I also just realized it has a bittersweet ending also; you will no longer be a white belt beating brown belts, but you will be a blue belts beating brown. Cheers for a good run while it lasted; you inspired me to beat my first brown belt as a white belt too!
It's probably just as simple as natural skill, and hours on the mat. I've been doing BJJ for years, and you'd probably destroy my purple belt ass - because you've got more mat time than me. Constantly competing helps too. Even seasoned competitors only do a few a year, and it sounds like you're regularly competing and visiting other gyms, so you're going to have even more hours on top of this.
I personally know someone who is currently training with a top team. I don't want to give names but he's a young kid who's dominating right now let's just leave it at that but he had that same obession with BJJ when he first came in and I knew immediately just from his demeanor that he was going be giving me hard time in a few months if he keeps this up. Just watching his progress from him going from completely sucking to absolutely wrecking everybody. When he was a green belt (i can't remember but i think that's for kids) he was giving the purpble and brown coaches that work. I remember once after practice he'd go to his journal and had like just a flow chart of technique transitions what worked and what didn't work and took notes of his sparring. Just watching him go from 4 years time from white belt to ADCC level is just incredible. So yeah i think your case is credible. You have the obsession, you trained with top tier people and constantly rolled so i mean it's quite credible to me that you as a "white belt" would be tapping brown belts. I honestly do want to put him on blast right now because i'm so happy for him doing his thing as a young kid. I think you may have rolled with him before. I hadn't checked your videos lately but you've been traveling and i think did spend a day at his gym or with his team.
I think people underestimate VOLUME and PASSION. You said it yourself, you were obsessed; going 9 times a week and consistently thinking about jiu jitsu. There's no better way to get really good at something than just doing a lot of that thing and having it always on your mind
i started bjj about 4-5 months ago. my older bro has been doing it most his life and was coaching at a point. he has always messed with me /grappled me when doing random shit like be at the mall lol, so one day i came in and finally im hooked. ive always been a decent athlete and super long, so ive picked up VERY quick. been tapping out blue, purple, and brown belts. Everyone thinks i have experience , all i did was play basketball till i graduated high school. some people do progress quicker, my first day or two i threw my leg over a black belt and damn near choked him out... thats when i was like well shit lol. im sure my brothers experience and always being around has helped, but did not expect to be a killer 4-5 months in. theres a kid who joined 1 month before me, levels behind and its just due to not being in there and getting correct mat time.
Yeah man that’s similar to me, in the beginning everyone thought I had experienced but I was just wrestling with my friends and doing high school sports. But it must be an even bigger help having someone so experienced in ur family too
me too. I was top dog in naturally wrestling with friends, and better if they were more vs me, cuz i timed them running in and used it against them lol.@@JoshRichBJJ
This was awesome. Thanks for posting. I was really into watching JJ before I actually trained as well. I wrestled a handful of matches in high school and always liked to wrestle friends and family. So when I did go to BJJ, I was doing stuff they weren't ready for and people didn't like that. I was into moves they didn't even do. I can definitely see someone like you streamlining the training process with the knowledge you already have.
You were getting a surprising amount of head grips/control leading into a successfully knee slice/pass, any recommendations on that? My passing especially sucks
The difference in people also depend on how much you train and how much information you take in. Me for instance I watch youtube every day on info for bjj. As well as training it helps tremendously. TH-cam wasnt around in the past and theres sooo many good coaches and informative videos to help you understand every little detail. Which in turn helps people learn faster, maybe not rank up as fast, but definitely get a better grasp than those who dont train as much or watch videos/read on the art.
one thing that halped me progress fast was realizing all grappling is, is controlling peoples feet and knees with your feet, knees and hands. It's basically frames, posture and structure vs anothers frames, posture and structure.
its hilarious i spent the same time training pretty much. started in 2020 and i do nogi only as well. won grap industries with all subs. still havent gotten a promotion to blue hahahah. before anyone says it i know im sandbagged just moved to 10th planet finally and i compete with purple belts and sub most of the blues haha. when i told micah i was a white belt he laughed. the most hilarious part is while i was already 3 years in i convinced a friend to start at a different gym and in 8 months got his blue and i can submit him at will pretty much hahaha
im not saying this guy is not legit.... but why is he beating 2 brown belts to face a blue belt in the finals? idk man something fishy here. Not impossible, but certainly either exceptional or something odd/unexplained going on
I know it might sound like a dumb question, but any advice for someone that is practicing BJJ for about 4 months now (around 3 times a week) that is smaller than his opponents in the gym (and smaller wouldn't be an issue, but I feel the difference in power between me and my sparring partners)? I tried to focus mostly on defense (so how to defend from being on my back) but it's frustrated that while I'm not getting subbed as easily now, I still find it difficult to transition positions and get in favorable ones due to my lack of strength. Any tip would be highly appreciated! Oss.
Being smaller is definitely tough, mainly I would recommend working your guard retention. If a bigger person passes you it’s pretty hard to escape. But if you’re good with your frames, it will be hard for bigger people to pass you and you’ll be able to start sweeping them and getting on top. My main advice for that is don’t let the then control your torso. So like don’t let them get an underhook on you and don’t let them hug around your hips. Keeping your knees to your chest is a good way to stop this. Hope this helps!
Hey im gonna enroll bjj on September, and my question is can bjj help me grown muscle ? Like a little bit ? Im a skinny guy and i don’t know if gym is necessary
@@scootlol6482 haha it’s a pretty cardio intensive sport so if you burn a lot of calories doing it. If don’t eat more food on the days you train you’ll just lose weight 💀. But get that protein in and eat more food and you’ll be good 👍
What I want to know, is how the students in your class were able to ignore the professor in the video (2:32)? As a professor, I have no problems getting people to interact face to face. However, the Live online sessions can be brutal. He appeared to be a lively professor and they seemed to be jaded.
Any advice for a guy learning lots on TH-cam and instructionals but professor says he doesn’t want to see “TH-cam” stuff or things he doesn’t teach? No other gyms nearby. Learning and progressing greatly but held back on promotions because of it feels like.
One of my coaches got his brown belt in 4 Years and he’s a solid brown belt, and our main coach got his brown belt in 8 years and it took him 12 to get his black belt everyone is just different 🤷🏽♂️
Out of interest would you put some of your progress down to jumping into competition so early. I recently jumped into my first went 1-1 both on points. I feel this is the best way and I want to compete again like straight away. I loved it. Just wondering if I should just keep competing ?
I congratulation but if you dont do gi you cant call yourself any belt. The whole point of the belt system is that with the gi you have so many more techniques to learn so it gives you more options to attack and to defend. If people do no gi grappling which is awesome but if you dont compete in the Gi or train in it any no gi grappler will get smoke by a gi grappler but it will take a short amount of time for a gi grappler to transition to no gi faster. You always see gi guys moving to no gi but never the other way around. A blue belt can learn leg locks and pretty much that will be his entire game and win every match bc 99% of the schools dont teach that
Some people do have natural athletic ability to start with, and this can help, but no one is good without serious technical knowledge. And technical knowledge never gets internalized without a ton of training.
Training 9 times a week is nuts. I cant do that while still getting proper sleep and remaining injury free. I have 2 reoccurring injuries that have plagued me for years now
you should make a video on how you got good, so fast it seems like you used intrusctionals a lot, unless you're trying to keep all the good secrets to yourself
@@tededo Show me a gym where a white belt is tapping brown belts, I'd say the same thing. I'm not disparaging him at all, it's the coach and promotions I'm speaking to.
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Some people refuse to believe that there are people who progress faster than others 🤷♂️
Josh Vs Josh Collab? I'm subscribed to both of you guys I would watch that👍
It's true man. There is a dude in my gym I shit on for six months straight because I knew once he could get me, it'd be game over forever and sure as shit, I've beaten him once in about two years. Savage. Some people just got it and some have to be patient. It comes for both eventually.
While true, I don’t think that’s what Josh’s success can be attributed to. He was attending 9 classes a week. That’s 3 times more than your average BJJ student. His success is due to his commitment to the sport and hours on and off the mat studying Jiu Jitsu
Some people just got it
Nah he’s taking tren
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Yep that’s a new your apartment alright lol @1:19
Fuck im the complete opposite, i feel like i cant do a damn thing right and progress feels so damn slow
What do you do for conditioning/not gassing out?
I mean it took BJ Penn 3 years to get his blackbelt, there are some people who are naturally gifted and have the ability to progress quickly at a level most are incapable of. Josh is obsessed, driven, focused, and a natural athlete. Keep killing it man!
Thanks man! I’m no BJ Penn but I try lol
It took 2 years for Travis Steven to get his Blackbelt. Some people are basically monster.
@@m5a1stuart83 lol I don't think it counts as only two years of training when you started BJJ as Olympic silver medalist judoka
@@cannedtuna55 lol I don't think it counts as only two years of training when you started BJJ as Olympic silver medalist judoka
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To become a Silver Medalist in Olympic already a monster too.
It actually took bj penn 5 years to get his black belt he was training for 2 years before he met Ralph Gracie then he got his black belt after 3 years with Ralph but still really good to do it in 5 years but most people would probly do it in that time if you had 2 years training then spent everyday one to one coaching with a Gracie for 3 years
People just don’t do the math.
Bro said he went to class 10 TIMES A WEEK.
Ok, do that for 1 month, he’s averaging 40 HOURS ON THE MATS
Most people only go 2-3 times a week. So compared to that, most people are barely getting more then 10 hours A MONTH
He’s literally having FOUR TIMES the amount of time regular people spend training. How does it not make sense to you guys? Belts don’t matter, TIME does
@EverybodyLovesGreg literally bro, I max out at 5, ik some schools have 4 classes a day, so maybe he’s doing 3 days 3 hours a day idk
Correct me if I am wrong but bjj is about knowledge and progress . So if he trains a lot and get a lot of knowledge, how is he a white belt? I've seen some people getting 2 stripes on the belt and then move to the other belt because of how much they were training and progressing. But they did not hang in the white belt sandbagging...The only thing legit here is him competing against brown belts but saying he was a white belt is sandbagging
People really underestimate instructionals with techniques you want Vs random techniques from coach
Definitely, they help you build your own game and fill the holes in your jiu jitsu
People really forget that 1-3 years means different things for different people. Some people might make it all the way to purple belt and only have 700 hours of mat time in the span of 3-4 years, spending most of the time drilling with no resistance and then getting 15 mins a class of free rolling time. Meanwhile a white belt that is focused and training every day could get 700 hours of actual hard sparring and competition experience by the time they get their blue belt just a year or two in. Those two people are going to be at a very different skill level in the 1-3 year scope of their training time. Fun video! Shoutout to my boy Sid that heel hooked you at the end there, he just moved to MD to train at our gym. Great kid.
Very true, I was lucky to be at a gym that let us roll as much as we wanted. Also yeah shout out to Sid, man is a beast
You progressed quickly because you were “youngry”: young + hungry.
Good luck with your journey
Haha I gotta start using that. Thanks man!
right I'm fuold = full + old
Wowww, damn that shoulder crunch butterfly sweep was beautiful. You just reversed a pro mma fighter that outweighed you! AWESOME.
You’re a beast. Keep it up 💪🏼
Thank you bro, I really liked your last video!
@@JoshRichBJJ Thanks dude means a lot, been watching your channel since I started bjj!
@@JoshRichBJJmaybe we should make a protégé vs protégé video?? 😤 Where you at Nick!
y’all should collab
This is the issue with BJJ'ers saying 'it takes 10 years + to earn a black belt'. Everyone progresses at different rates.
So i was trying to do a rear naked choke, on my practice partner, and he defended it with by tucking his chin, and criss cross his arms so that his forearms are sort of hugging his neck, I was wondering how to counter that? And to still get a head choke or rnc? Thankss
You want to get your choking arm across their chin and grab their shoulder. It's possible to finish the RNC with their chin inside but if you have that arm across, you can also use it to lift up their chin and start bringing your other arm under their neck. So the battle is hand fighting until you can get that hand on their shoulder, which is complicated but here's a tip for that: Reaching across and grabbing their armpit with your choking hand is a good place holder, it puts your choking arm in a position where at any point you can bring it up and start threatening the choke. Hope that makes sense and helps!
You confirm my theory of focusing on a few things and getting really good at them. Also not being afraid to roll with folk at a higher skill level. It gets you good quick compared to rolling with those of same level or lower to feed your ego.
Ego has nothing to do with it
You want to go slow too sometimes and are not ready for a brown belt
It's a comfort thing
well the best coach in jiu jitsu disagrees with you sooo...
Theres arguments on both sides but if hes ONLY training nogi alot of coaches dont want to premote people who dont train in gi. Regardless, dont watch this video and hate on him, he’s literally telling you what you can do to accelerate progress: study ju-jitsu off the mats and increase your time on the mats. Watching this as a bluebelt and realising I should be watching more tape and instructionals and APPLY the knowledge. Other channels such as JordanTeaches and Less impressed more improved SHOULD be a MUST watch if you want to see accelerated progress. You cannot simply just turn up, here josh shows that doing the outside homework and applying it WILL improve your performance ❤️
dudes super talented.. im a brown belt 15 years experience and I know this dude just gonna smoke me hahaha keep it up man!
Haha thank you man, will do!
I've trained with this guy (I'm a 5-6 year purple belt), and 1000% percent believe Josh's training time. He has the game of someone who is extremely extremely good at 1-2 things offensively, great defensively all around and not afraid to experiment. People that can be this laser focused can definitely get that good in a short of amount of time if they were truly obsessed from day one. That being said, he's definitely an outlier talent wise. Super tough, and can't wait to see where he goes!
9 times per week makes this more belieable
He went straight through the good instructionals by the best nogi player of all time. And studied them extensively. No wonder he became that good. Bravo champ. You deserve the praise.
Hey josh your jiujitsu is on Other level, can you please share the yt chanels or instructional do you watch to learn and understand somo position in bjj?
July 2019 to November 2020.
That's 1 year and 4 months.
Bear in mind that he was still wearing a white belt all this time when apparently most schools promote someone in 6 months.
Corona lockdowns are what messed with this story, I feel like it would've been even more miraculous were it not for lockdowns.
I don't know much about BJJ besides watching TH-cam but I believe him and I believe that this is possible.
Honestly.I never went to my schools belt promotions and I would roll pretty well with the black belts as a white belt.
They would catch my ass slipping if I didn't know what they were going for though.
Lmao that guy celebrating winning via heelhooking a whitebelt
A white belt that has trained every day for 9 months is always going to be better than a brown belt that trained for 3 years as a after school hobby
You seem humble, that's a good sign. Wishing you all the best on your journey. The one that studies a lot, will progress a lot. But we all know, you're just a secret Black Belt from Pakistan ;)
Lmao thanks man
Heck yeah! Man, I'm a fan. I just started my BJJ journey 3 weeks ago. I'm encouraged by watching your video. Thanks and keep it up!
That’s awesome to hear bro go decided to start training! Will do!
Isn’t that Gordon Ryan instructional $400?
I have my methods
Inspiring stuff! 👏🏻 I’ve just started a few months ago and have found your content really helpful, any tips for what I should focus on as a white belt to progress like you? Of course I won’t be able to progress as quickly as I’m not a black belt from Pakistan but I’ll try my best 👍🏻
Focus on guard, guard passing, (and wrestling if you’re not a dirty guard puller like me lol) those are the main things that are gonna decide who “wins” a roll. And always have moves or concepts to work when you roll. Don’t just come and roll aimlessly. Hope that helps!
U were a inspiration for me to start jujutsu, and for that I want to thank you
I’m so happy to hear that, that’s awesome!
Love the content brotha hopefully we can train together one day!
@@BuiltByRico thanks bro I hope so too!
How many times a week did/do you train? And also, how much do you drill? Asking for a friend.
Bro Jazzie is my coach. In Pakistan. He’s never met you. And you’ve never come here. 😂
Thanks for pointing out which instructionals influenced you the most. Which instructionals have been your favorites recently?
Last two that have helped me lot were Jason Rau’s outside ashi instructional, and Ethan Crelinsten’s back control instructional
I think you're probably good at playing things out in your head when you watch youtube vids and read books. I do the same...I'm always reviewing in my head what I did in a rolling session....I look at all my mistakes and then think of ways I could have escaped or avoided certain positions. The other day I was on the verge of submitting a blue belt, but i was so gassed from previous rolls that I couldn't finish. It was a good learning experience.
How much is Gordon Paying you
$0 but at this point he should be
Honestly I think belts don’t really matter in competition, it all boils down to mat time. Some brown belts and black belts have been training 1-2x a week for well over a decade and than you have blue belts that train 6x a week and are athletic and compete regularly.
do you use all your strength in training? sometimes I only use 30% of my strength so as not to hurt anyone, but sometimes there are people who don't understand this. Should I use my 100% strength?
No you will get tired and probably not focus on technique
You should do both. Doing it with power works your strength and cardio more. You need strength to pull off certain moves. If you never use force you'll never be used to doing it for real. You also need to be able to pull off the technique under pressure.
If you always go all out you'll struggle to get new techniques down so you should take it easy sometimes. And always be controlled, to not hurt your partner.
can you even progress in belts if you never train with gi? some guys in my gym train only no gi for 3 years and they still are white belt, but they submit bluebelts, just because they never train in gi. was wondering how that goes and how you get a new belt if you never train with gi
10th planet is completely no-gi, so if they didn't promote no-gi, no one would ever get promoted
Congratulations on getting blue belt! It's good progress, but I also just realized it has a bittersweet ending also; you will no longer be a white belt beating brown belts, but you will be a blue belts beating brown. Cheers for a good run while it lasted; you inspired me to beat my first brown belt as a white belt too!
It's probably just as simple as natural skill, and hours on the mat. I've been doing BJJ for years, and you'd probably destroy my purple belt ass - because you've got more mat time than me.
Constantly competing helps too. Even seasoned competitors only do a few a year, and it sounds like you're regularly competing and visiting other gyms, so you're going to have even more hours on top of this.
I personally know someone who is currently training with a top team. I don't want to give names but he's a young kid who's dominating right now let's just leave it at that but he had that same obession with BJJ when he first came in and I knew immediately just from his demeanor that he was going be giving me hard time in a few months if he keeps this up. Just watching his progress from him going from completely sucking to absolutely wrecking everybody. When he was a green belt (i can't remember but i think that's for kids) he was giving the purpble and brown coaches that work. I remember once after practice he'd go to his journal and had like just a flow chart of technique transitions what worked and what didn't work and took notes of his sparring. Just watching him go from 4 years time from white belt to ADCC level is just incredible. So yeah i think your case is credible. You have the obsession, you trained with top tier people and constantly rolled so i mean it's quite credible to me that you as a "white belt" would be tapping brown belts. I honestly do want to put him on blast right now because i'm so happy for him doing his thing as a young kid. I think you may have rolled with him before. I hadn't checked your videos lately but you've been traveling and i think did spend a day at his gym or with his team.
I think people underestimate VOLUME and PASSION. You said it yourself, you were obsessed; going 9 times a week and consistently thinking about jiu jitsu. There's no better way to get really good at something than just doing a lot of that thing and having it always on your mind
i started bjj about 4-5 months ago. my older bro has been doing it most his life and was coaching at a point. he has always messed with me /grappled me when doing random shit like be at the mall lol, so one day i came in and finally im hooked. ive always been a decent athlete and super long, so ive picked up VERY quick. been tapping out blue, purple, and brown belts. Everyone thinks i have experience , all i did was play basketball till i graduated high school. some people do progress quicker, my first day or two i threw my leg over a black belt and damn near choked him out... thats when i was like well shit lol. im sure my brothers experience and always being around has helped, but did not expect to be a killer 4-5 months in. theres a kid who joined 1 month before me, levels behind and its just due to not being in there and getting correct mat time.
Yeah man that’s similar to me, in the beginning everyone thought I had experienced but I was just wrestling with my friends and doing high school sports. But it must be an even bigger help having someone so experienced in ur family too
me too. I was top dog in naturally wrestling with friends, and better if they were more vs me, cuz i timed them running in and used it against them lol.@@JoshRichBJJ
This was awesome. Thanks for posting. I was really into watching JJ before I actually trained as well. I wrestled a handful of matches in high school and always liked to wrestle friends and family. So when I did go to BJJ, I was doing stuff they weren't ready for and people didn't like that. I was into moves they didn't even do. I can definitely see someone like you streamlining the training process with the knowledge you already have.
Some people just get better way faster, just how it, not everybody has the same journey
Congrats … u are very talented. I train for 8 years now Brown belt from Brazil
You were getting a surprising amount of head grips/control leading into a successfully knee slice/pass, any recommendations on that? My passing especially sucks
The difference in people also depend on how much you train and how much information you take in. Me for instance I watch youtube every day on info for bjj. As well as training it helps tremendously. TH-cam wasnt around in the past and theres sooo many good coaches and informative videos to help you understand every little detail. Which in turn helps people learn faster, maybe not rank up as fast, but definitely get a better grasp than those who dont train as much or watch videos/read on the art.
You don't talk about your mat hours or training schedule. That could probably answer the questions. Especially the ones from Pakistan...
one thing that halped me progress fast was realizing all grappling is, is controlling peoples feet and knees with your feet, knees and hands. It's basically frames, posture and structure vs anothers frames, posture and structure.
its hilarious i spent the same time training pretty much. started in 2020 and i do nogi only as well. won grap industries with all subs. still havent gotten a promotion to blue hahahah. before anyone says it i know im sandbagged just moved to 10th planet finally and i compete with purple belts and sub most of the blues haha. when i told micah i was a white belt he laughed. the most hilarious part is while i was already 3 years in i convinced a friend to start at a different gym and in 8 months got his blue and i can submit him at will pretty much hahaha
im not saying this guy is not legit.... but why is he beating 2 brown belts to face a blue belt in the finals? idk man something fishy here. Not impossible, but certainly either exceptional or something odd/unexplained going on
Meh... give us a call when you win ADCC or sub a world champion.
Watching this almost makes me want to warch a Gordon instructional. But no, I prefer he does all the watching.
I keep watching the hip switch pass and dude I guess I'm autistic but I can't make sense of it lol, care to do a break down?
Each section for the Gordan Ryan is like $350
The person who you lost to in your last match was that Noah from standard bjj?
Naw his name is Sid Tavolaro. Ironically enough he did start training at standard recently lol
2019? That's 4 years of training with a couple month break.
The last comp I did in this video was in November 2020
If you train all day for 2 years, you will be good. There’s no secret.
lol belts really don't even matter anymore its so confusing
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Come to renzo in queens ik you arent far cause you ran in psal
Bro post youy flex fight with andrewww
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I know it might sound like a dumb question, but any advice for someone that is practicing BJJ for about 4 months now (around 3 times a week) that is smaller than his opponents in the gym (and smaller wouldn't be an issue, but I feel the difference in power between me and my sparring partners)? I tried to focus mostly on defense (so how to defend from being on my back) but it's frustrated that while I'm not getting subbed as easily now, I still find it difficult to transition positions and get in favorable ones due to my lack of strength. Any tip would be highly appreciated! Oss.
Being smaller is definitely tough, mainly I would recommend working your guard retention. If a bigger person passes you it’s pretty hard to escape. But if you’re good with your frames, it will be hard for bigger people to pass you and you’ll be able to start sweeping them and getting on top. My main advice for that is don’t let the then control your torso. So like don’t let them get an underhook on you and don’t let them hug around your hips. Keeping your knees to your chest is a good way to stop this. Hope this helps!
Thank you very much man! Will definitely put it to the test on Monday's training! :) Best of luck with the competitions.@@JoshRichBJJ
Where did you get the back attack and other course
Yo I saw you at vanguard
whats up guys i actually am a sandbagger and my ego is huge
Hey im gonna enroll bjj on September, and my question is can bjj help me grown muscle ? Like a little bit ? Im a skinny guy and i don’t know if gym is necessary
If you eat enough then yeah it should help you gain some muscle
@@JoshRichBJJ oh, thats it ? Just by eating a lot ? 💀
@@JoshRichBJJ thx men appreciate your videos !!!🫶🏻🙏
@@scootlol6482 haha it’s a pretty cardio intensive sport so if you burn a lot of calories doing it. If don’t eat more food on the days you train you’ll just lose weight 💀. But get that protein in and eat more food and you’ll be good 👍
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What is a barfly guard?
Need a breakdown of that knee slice hip switch pass man!
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hey josh u are doin great i never saw any channel in youtube that shows bjj journey the way you do.
anyhoo does anyjuan have any similar channel about wrestling that is a young and upcoming wrestler. vlog slash journey competitive things
@@wilsons2882 Thanks man, I think cayden henschel has a good channel for that
What I want to know, is how the students in your class were able to ignore the professor in the video (2:32)? As a professor, I have no problems getting people to interact face to face. However, the Live online sessions can be brutal. He appeared to be a lively professor and they seemed to be jaded.
Keep it up! Very inspiring.
Which bjj fanatics courses do you recommend for someone starting from scratch and progressing as fast as humanly possible?
Dang we started almost the exact same time. Stop by Atlas Grappling if you’re ever in Las Vegas.
Any advice for a guy learning lots on TH-cam and instructionals but professor says he doesn’t want to see “TH-cam” stuff or things he doesn’t teach? No other gyms nearby. Learning and progressing greatly but held back on promotions because of it feels like.
If you're beating brown belts... aren't you brown belt level?
Skill wise maybe but there’s a time requirement
One of my coaches got his brown belt in 4 Years and he’s a solid brown belt, and our main coach got his brown belt in 8 years and it took him 12 to get his black belt everyone is just different 🤷🏽♂️
Is there leaks of gordan ryan dvd instructionals because I can’t find it. Why don’t people just leak the damm thing
Out of interest would you put some of your progress down to jumping into competition so early. I recently jumped into my first went 1-1 both on points. I feel this is the best way and I want to compete again like straight away. I loved it. Just wondering if I should just keep competing ?
if a white belt subs a Brown belt the Brown belt is NOT a Brown belt
No disrespect, but are you a brown belt?
I congratulation but if you dont do gi you cant call yourself any belt. The whole point of the belt system is that with the gi you have so many more techniques to learn so it gives you more options to attack and to defend. If people do no gi grappling which is awesome but if you dont compete in the Gi or train in it any no gi grappler will get smoke by a gi grappler but it will take a short amount of time for a gi grappler to transition to no gi faster. You always see gi guys moving to no gi but never the other way around. A blue belt can learn leg locks and pretty much that will be his entire game and win every match bc 99% of the schools dont teach that
Some people do have natural athletic ability to start with, and this can help, but no one is good without serious technical knowledge. And technical knowledge never gets internalized without a ton of training.
Training 9 times a week is nuts. I cant do that while still getting proper sleep and remaining injury free. I have 2 reoccurring injuries that have plagued me for years now
Jiu jitsu has hobbiest, then competitors. One may only train once a week while the other everyday
you should make a video on how you got good, so fast it seems like you used intrusctionals a lot, unless you're trying to keep all the good secrets to yourself
I just watched a few moves from instructionals/TH-cam on the way to training, try to hit them in rolling than repeat that. Also I trained a lot lol
@@JoshRichBJJ haha I do the same thing AND train a lot and I'm not nearly as good
It’s mat time, if you train for 9 months but train for 5/6 hours daily then you will be better than someone who trains for an hour 2/3 times a week
Hi, Josh. You found your gift. Congrats 🎉
Seems like those instructional were worth their weight in gold
Bloody hell
In a gym i often visit, their instructor git his black belt in less than 7 years
a like for the content and for the ff7 Victory Fanfare
Talent and obsession can take you very far.
that shoulder crunch sweep is gold!
you're young I'm not I should just quit
My gym just had a guy win gold at 64 years old. Keep going bro
I think I know the guy who heel-hooked you. Is his name Sdyney?
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How....talent, mat time, and a professor that sanctioned sandbagging.
Where do you see sandbagging? Not all white belts are created equal, just like not all (fill in the blank belt holder) are created equal.
@@tededo Show me a gym where a white belt is tapping brown belts, I'd say the same thing. I'm not disparaging him at all, it's the coach and promotions I'm speaking to.
@@seamac7564he didn’t tap any brown belt in this video. He won by point.
@@novicelifts5197 Well.....that changes everything....
@@novicelifts5197that's still pretty impressive
Legit 🤙competition is the juice when it comes to leveling up.