Leg Locks & Knee Injuries, Better BJJ Skills & Wrestlers Teaching Jiu-jitsu

Do you train leg locks? Is there a greater chance of injury if you play with the fire that is the Leg lock game? If you need your knees intact to feed your family is it worth the risk of an ACL reconstruction?
As a white belt in BJJ what is the best way to expand your skills? There are so many different options to study the game and the boys breakdown what they prefer.
If you are a wrestler, ex-pro MMA fighter and now a Jiu Jitsu white Belt wrecking havoc tapping senior belts by the dozen- should you be teaching? People are asking how can they be beastly like you- how do you give advice?
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[@coloradoclif]

"Hi I'm Paul, I'm over 40 and need to go to work tomorrow"
That's the way I start every roll with everyone that is new to me. I've trained leg locks for a decade now with 0 injuries. Leg locks in my opinion aren't really much more dangerous than anything else. Frankly I'm more concerned about my neck and having a paralysis issue than I am about my knees/ankles.
That said, BJJ is a risk all around. If you're that concerned about needing to earn family income then it may not be the sport/hobby for you. Personally I'm rocking a large life insurance policy plus lots of disability insurance because I also have a family who needs my income. All just a choice.

[@natwilliams4076]

Im 6yrs in purple belt. 49yo and i train 3 days a week with no major injuries. Yesterday i injured myself showing off to my 6yo daughter in the kids pool!

[@RugerMarkMobile]

The number of times I see people essentially asking "My family's wellbeing hinges completely on my ability to make money with my body for the next 20 years, and I know catastrophic injury due to *someone else's* choices is a significant possibility, but I really like my BJJ hobby, is this irresponsibly selfish?" is kinda stunning.

[@jhordanperry]

As the head of my household it is kinda important for me to spend some of my time doing things for myself. Can’t live your whole life just for your family. You are still a person and your allowed to do things you enjoy

[@RugerMarkMobile]

@@jhordanperry for sure, and I didn't mean that as a harsh moral judgement, but there's a world of difference between "I get to choose to spend time/energy/money on personally-important things" and "I get to gamble with my family's long-term security because the risk feels low enough to ignore".
All I'm saying is that anyone not contending with the question "If a partner/oppo was careless and I blew out a joint, how fucked would my family be and could I defend taking the risk in retrospect?" isn't doing the right thing imho, and a fair few people I've seen asking seem to be avoiding it.

[@alintampa]

Drop the ego. Catch and release knowing that you could have destroyed the person's leg if you really wanted to. These are your training partners, for possibly decades. No reason to cause an injury due to ego.

[@lukeman8605]

haters will say Bulk Bogan wasn't featured on this episode.

[@MarkDavidMontalvo]

The "leg locks are too dangerous" argument is so silly to me. We are practicing how to break and strangle people. For me it comes down to gym culture. Terrible gym culture where everyone is just competing instead of training with their partners are the places where injuries are rampant. I'm a 46 yr old brown belt at a gym with heavy leg lock teaching and training, but we have very few major injuries because we make it a priority to take care of each other. It starts comes from the head instructors creating positive and good vibes only philosophy. All techniques are taught from white belt on (yes we heel hook in the Gi too lol). A bigger concern is uncontrolled falling body weight. So no jumping guard, flying arm bars or kani basami takedowns during training.

[@webdeveloperninja9220]

Heel hooking white belts is the best

[@jaredslater1459]

Just gotta make sure coach ain't lookin

[@grimsbybrazilianjiu-jitsu7423]

You can learn the leg game in class but not use them in sparring until you are comfortable, just request your partners only use straight foot locks, toe holds and kneebhaars.

[@TheYouTubeMechanic]

is your hair bleached?

[@raymondbaldonado3563]

Bro get out of that gym! Lol. People should not be getting regularly hurt from any submissions during training.