I got my blue belt and am fighting the urge to be a lazy fuck and crutch easy rolls against white belts. Purples are sending it against me right now and heel hooking the shit out of me. I have to talk myself into going to the other side of the mat every night when I can just spam k guard triangles on white belts.
As a hobbyist I go in with a plan to try 2-5 things but I have to adjust based on my training partner. A passive white belt I can play more vs an aggressive white belt I’ll be more defensive to avoid injury. Then the athletic purple and blues goal is at least slow them down to give me time to think. Few people match pace which allows both of us to try new things where some people only do what they are good at.
Def a reactive player with 3 years in the game. But after a pretty serious concussion from bjj. I almost feel like i have to be reactive and more defensive just to protect my head from further injury. Hard to tap into that aggression i had before the injury.
@@josephwhite7913 yeah it sucks pretty bad. I had to take an entire year off. Really contemplated coming back or not at all. But now my entire goal of every class is to just leave uninjured
@@gabrielaraujo6286 I can't 100% recall. But I believe I had a Dela Riva guard on a young highschool white belt, he tried to break my hooks and back step out. He backstepped and spun his heel straight into my face. Broke my nose and I ended up having to go on short term disability for work for a month. Basically non functional for a month with severe migraines. Been over 2 years since then and I still have headache and migraine issues unfortunately.
2.5 year veteran I like playing evens. Start off reactive, capitalize off the odd player’s mistake, then switch over to aggressive. Unless it’s a new white belt or visitor then aggressive until the first tap and switch over to reactive 😅
I find its easier to teach someone to be aggressive since theyre quite passive and flowly rather then the opposite. Ive been training 9 years actively and my biggest issue is how much i get dodged by the blue belts and some of the purples i usually just end up rolling other brown belts which is nice but i find only a handful of blue belts have the grit to roll brown belts. I even give the lower belts positions. I find the white belts are more eager to roll me i think blue belts have the mentality of knowing a lot when they know so little. Usually around purple people realise they dont know much and the game is complex. I think if someones passive they can learn to have gears a lot easier then someone who's trying to always push forward. momentum is easier to build then slow down possibly.
52, grizzled (early 2000s). My game in the last few years is patterned after Priit Mihkelson and Chris Paines. Both are so specialized at defense that most jiujiteiros feel their offense is BS. I dont also, flip, switch to offense with one major sweep, from there my top game is monstrous. My instructor noticed my style and handed e a licence to smash white belts at will and go full steam on em. If I wasnt grizzled, that would never be possible, but going from 0 to 100 on white belts ? Ok, cool. Never thought instructors could allow us to do that.
With all the wrestlers who are white belts in my gym, that would make perfect sense as advice to purple belts rolling with guys half their age who tend to be more aggressive naturally and quite capable if they’re coming in with a grappling background.
Im a 46 yo 4 stripe blue belt that’s been training since 2019. I’m 39-12 w 37 subs in all tournament matches combined (IBJJF, Naga, JJWL etc TCO..). Best midlife crisis ever🙏
Badass brother! Thanks for inspring me. Any tips for a white belt about to transition into blue in terms of mentality/how to improve? Awesome stats too man. Cheers.
A few things here: First of all by definition if you aren't one of the handful of people in the world that gets paid to compete in Jiu-Jitsu you are a "Hobbyist". So by Hobbyist you are talking about 99.8% of all the people who train BJJ. Second thing. Trying new things or different ways of doing things is good. Adding in stupid shit like inverting when you train for self defense is not good. You have to be able to tell the difference. You also have to have enough common sense to pass on the latest trends and focus on solid fundamentals. Third thing: Yes, people create new techniques every day. Most of it garbage because it is meant to be used only for sport against other people using sport BJJ. These techniques typically are not practical for self-defense and tend to fall apart quickly when strikes are involved. This is also the technique collecting phase that happens around blue belt and some never grow out of it. There is a reason we see the same techniques working in MMA and actual fights most of the time.
You definitely get more gears with time. I have 7 years of bjj, brown belt in the last year, and still do the mistake of going too reactive with the wrong person and paying the price for it. Yesterday I went with a white belt in BJJ that's a high level adult competitor of Judo black belt. I started being super reactive with him as he was just a white belt, but he went for the kill since the start. Almost blacked out from an Ezekiel before tapping to him. My first coach always said: "Going with someone you don't know, especially white belts, you always make them tap as soon as possible, than you dictate the pace of the rest of the roll, so they know who's in charge". Didn't follow that advice this time...
What traps would you recommend watching out for?
I got my blue belt and am fighting the urge to be a lazy fuck and crutch easy rolls against white belts. Purples are sending it against me right now and heel hooking the shit out of me. I have to talk myself into going to the other side of the mat every night when I can just spam k guard triangles on white belts.
Getting so far up your own ass that you unironically refer to it as your ju-jitsu journey
16 years doing jiu-jitsu I believe I've been all of these at one time
As a hobbyist I go in with a plan to try 2-5 things but I have to adjust based on my training partner. A passive white belt I can play more vs an aggressive white belt I’ll be more defensive to avoid injury.
Then the athletic purple and blues goal is at least slow them down to give me time to think. Few people match pace which allows both of us to try new things where some people only do what they are good at.
Def a reactive player with 3 years in the game. But after a pretty serious concussion from bjj. I almost feel like i have to be reactive and more defensive just to protect my head from further injury. Hard to tap into that aggression i had before the injury.
Same here man, i had post concussion for 5 months and just got back to training
@@josephwhite7913 yeah it sucks pretty bad. I had to take an entire year off. Really contemplated coming back or not at all. But now my entire goal of every class is to just leave uninjured
May I ask how you got concussed from bjj? Did you land on your head while wrestling or something?
@@gabrielaraujo6286 I can't 100% recall. But I believe I had a Dela Riva guard on a young highschool white belt, he tried to break my hooks and back step out. He backstepped and spun his heel straight into my face. Broke my nose and I ended up having to go on short term disability for work for a month. Basically non functional for a month with severe migraines. Been over 2 years since then and I still have headache and migraine issues unfortunately.
2.5 year veteran
I like playing evens. Start off reactive, capitalize off the odd player’s mistake, then switch over to aggressive. Unless it’s a new white belt or visitor then aggressive until the first tap and switch over to reactive 😅
I find its easier to teach someone to be aggressive since theyre quite passive and flowly rather then the opposite. Ive been training 9 years actively and my biggest issue is how much i get dodged by the blue belts and some of the purples i usually just end up rolling other brown belts which is nice but i find only a handful of blue belts have the grit to roll brown belts. I even give the lower belts positions. I find the white belts are more eager to roll me i think blue belts have the mentality of knowing a lot when they know so little. Usually around purple people realise they dont know much and the game is complex.
I think if someones passive they can learn to have gears a lot easier then someone who's trying to always push forward.
momentum is easier to build then slow down possibly.
52, grizzled (early 2000s). My game in the last few years is patterned after Priit Mihkelson and Chris Paines. Both are so specialized at defense that most jiujiteiros feel their offense is BS.
I dont also, flip, switch to offense with one major sweep, from there my top game is monstrous. My instructor noticed my style and handed e a licence to smash white belts at will and go full steam on em. If I wasnt grizzled, that would never be possible, but going from 0 to 100 on white belts ? Ok, cool. Never thought instructors could allow us to do that.
With all the wrestlers who are white belts in my gym, that would make perfect sense as advice to purple belts rolling with guys half their age who tend to be more aggressive naturally and quite capable if they’re coming in with a grappling background.
Why would you want to smash white belts at will and go full steam on them?
@@mikebasketball11 I think the instructor knows that OP doesn't intend to go full steam all the time, just as the need arises.
Im a 46 yo 4 stripe blue belt that’s been training since 2019. I’m 39-12 w 37 subs in all tournament matches combined (IBJJF, Naga, JJWL etc TCO..). Best midlife crisis ever🙏
Badass brother! Thanks for inspring me. Any tips for a white belt about to transition into blue in terms of mentality/how to improve? Awesome stats too man. Cheers.
This is gold, thanks!
1 year is a veteran??
A few things here: First of all by definition if you aren't one of the handful of people in the world that gets paid to compete in Jiu-Jitsu you are a "Hobbyist". So by Hobbyist you are talking about 99.8% of all the people who train BJJ.
Second thing. Trying new things or different ways of doing things is good. Adding in stupid shit like inverting when you train for self defense is not good. You have to be able to tell the difference. You also have to have enough common sense to pass on the latest trends and focus on solid fundamentals.
Third thing: Yes, people create new techniques every day. Most of it garbage because it is meant to be used only for sport against other people using sport BJJ. These techniques typically are not practical for self-defense and tend to fall apart quickly when strikes are involved. This is also the technique collecting phase that happens around blue belt and some never grow out of it. There is a reason we see the same techniques working in MMA and actual fights most of the time.
You definitely get more gears with time. I have 7 years of bjj, brown belt in the last year, and still do the mistake of going too reactive with the wrong person and paying the price for it. Yesterday I went with a white belt in BJJ that's a high level adult competitor of Judo black belt. I started being super reactive with him as he was just a white belt, but he went for the kill since the start. Almost blacked out from an Ezekiel before tapping to him. My first coach always said: "Going with someone you don't know, especially white belts, you always make them tap as soon as possible, than you dictate the pace of the rest of the roll, so they know who's in charge". Didn't follow that advice this time...
Amazing video. I dont even train jiu jitsu but the concepts extend to muay thai perfectly.❤️
i hope to one day be a grizzled hobbyist