Been a blackbelt for 8 years, got my second degree today

im brazilan and have been training for some time and already own 1 gi but my parents are going to vegas for a week and they want to buy me a new gi. i only know kingz and venum and was hoping someone could point out some good gi brand for them to buy

I am a competitive NO-GI white belt who is looking to develop a “roadmap” for my making my training more intentional.

Stand Up: Majority of my stand up game is counter-wresting, utilizing the arm drag, and seizing any opportunity to hip toss my oppressive. When those options prove unsuccessful, I establish connection then pull for Shin-to-Shin to SLX or RDLR to sweep or hunt for the back with the 🐉 or move towards other bottom game play.

Top Player: I typically pass using knee slices, headquarters, or spinning my opponent’s ankles and establishing some form of Side Control or North South then hunt for my position to submission

Bottom Player: I play 1/4 Guard to Dogfight/ Plan B/ Lockdown to sweep or hunt for submission. Shin to Shin and RDLR or DLR

Dark Arts: Shin to Shin> SLX sweep > Straight Ankle thats it.

Im interested in developing my RDLR and wrestle ups. Id love more insight on how to improve in those areas and systems im not aware of.

Oss

Example, back stepping from dela riva or single leg x. Someone told me that I shouldn’t back step unless my knee is on my opponent in these cases, but Ive seen videos where high level people do it online.

As the title suggests.

What do you eat before going to class?

When do you eat?

Why do you eat that food in particular?

I struggle to find something that's filling but not going to weigh me down when I get to class or I'm starving before I start class and now I can't eat or else I'm going to throw it up during class.

Hey all, long time lurker

I’ll keep it brief. I trained for about 4 years in various martial arts but mainly BJJ from age 18-22ish. BJJ specific training about 2x a week.

Last semester of college I felt like I was too busy to keep training and stopped. Fast forward 10 years and I’m now 33 and have been putting off coming back to just BJJ for a decade. I’m in a spot now where I feel like I can come back and frankly if I don’t soon I never will.

Does anyone have any experience coming back after that long? I’m a different person than I was as a college student. 10 years into a career, married with an 18mo old boy and another on the way. I’d love any perspective of anyone who had a similar situation, both how it was getting back and what the result was if you have kept at it for some time.

Lastly, if anyone is in the north OKC/Edmond area by chance I’d love gym recommendations. Recently moved. Thanks in advance.

I have an issue in bottom half guard where the guy on top will turn and face our hips (e.g. looking away from me) and basically use his side to pin me then slowly free his leg and pass to side control. At a loss for what to do; even though he has his back exposed, it's hard to find a way to get my inside leg outside him for a backtake.

It usually feels like their weight is off-balance but I'm unable to capitalize on it since bridging doesn't really move them.

I am in my third lesson in bjj and recently learned about the close guard. While attending the open mat I was a bit disappointed with my inability to effectively set up this position. I watched a few videos online about the various ways to set up close guard (How to Easily Set Up Closed Guard in BJJ by: JonThomasBJJ) but still struggle to pull off this set up. The issue stems from when my sparing partner places their knee to the centre of the guard, which prevents me from being able to execute this technique. What tips can you give me? Also what are the other ways I can learn to set up the close guard? Are there any resources you can point me to that explain all the different ways to set up the close guard?

Neither my highschool or middle school offered wrestling. All I care about is transfer to mma. I was looking at a 10p near me just to get something done until I make the move to a mma gym but i'm not sure what the practices are like there.

I know there are days for certain questions, but I need help now. I am just staring no gi. And although I’m a big dude with lots of muscle, I feel like anthropomorphically, I am just not built for grappling. I have weirdly small hands for my size, which makes hand fighting so difficult, even against smaller opponents. And I just feel so weak and I death gas after like 1 min of rolling even though I am not in terrible shape cardio wise (or so I thought). That’s just the physical side, but the mental side too, like trying to learn simple techniques is rocket science to me. I feel so embarrassed when I leave, like kids and guys almost 100 LB smaller than me are giving me issues especially when I’m gassed. I would be thankful to hear about others guys experiences as beginners and if this is normal. And if there are any suggestions with technique instructionals or strength & conditioning advice, it would be much appreciated.

I have a 78” reach and a 40” inseam so arm and leg triangles are by far my most effective submissions. However with my long arms I get caught in armbars more often than I’m comfortable admitting!

Moving there soon -- anyone got any recs or can give me the lay of the land? Thank you!

Hey I am teaching in Germany with two other blackbelts and we asked ourselves if Naga is wort the money. I mean I love the belt (as you can see in the picture lol.) but 110$ FUCKING DOLLARS FOR ONE CATEGORY IS CRAZY! SAME PRICE FOR KIDS AND TEENS!!!

We like to organize ourselves and try to focus on certain tournaments and try to go together as a big team. But we also have parents with 2-3 kids. Imagine that you spend 330€ for your kids on one day just to see them fight for 3 minutes... I don't think that this really helps the sport grow.

We only have like 2-3 events in Europe every year and the tournaments are well organized too, but I don't think that we will participate with a big team as we have been doing for the past 10!!! years. That makes me kinda sad.

What do you guys think? Should people spend more money for tournaments like this?

Greetings from Germany!

What submission do you/ have you never hit on people?

Mine is definitely guillotines.

Can’t wait to read all the “all of them” comments ha.

So in preparation for my upcoming tournament I’ve been practicing a lot more stand up since that is my weakest link. That basically just means going against a lot of the judo guys in my gym and getting tossed around. But I’ve especially been struggling with breaking their upright posture and setting up takedowns. What are some of your go to moves against judo players with good tall posture?

I think Anthony Smith will win that 50K bet with Alex Pereira. Letting him start with hooks in and on his back will be very tough to get out of. Hope that they actually go through with this.

what do you guys think? How easy would it be for you to defend a RNC and get up if you let someone start with hooks in? What is the highest level belt you think you could defend against. If you were Anthony Smith would you take that bet or is it harder than it seems?

Who are some Jiu Jitsu themed content creators to watch, I’ve mostly been watching B-Team and kinda wanna start watching others.

Hey all,

Maybe a question more directed at women or parents who had young daughters grow up doing BJJ.

What did it do for you emotionally and your personality while growing up? Did you find it helped give you more confidence through your teenage years or did it make you feel different? Did you feel confident in yourself to defend yourself during later years and did it make you more aware of your surroundings? Were you drawn to more “masculine” relationship partners that also trained or was BJJ not even a factor in that?

What’s the guard retention tech. when you use your right foot inside their left armpit?

Or, left foot to recover by posting off their right hip?

It’s like a cross hook guard retention?

You can use it to granby. But, really what’s the name of that specific hook, if there is one?

Just curious for my notes.

Also heard a leg hug is a good counter to it.

So I have a few years of wrestling behind me and have been interested in sticking with grappling now that I’m out of school so tried my first bjj class. It was a really welcoming environment but this one white belt felt kinda off.

When we began the open mat section and he immediately comes up to me to train even though I was already paired with someone. I was sure to tell him I’ve wrestled before since I’ve read about “secret wrestlers” being a thing in bjj.

I purposefully keep it as chill as I can. Even going in slow motion (like 30% speed) it’s still an easy double. He was bigger than me so I was trying to bring him to the ground gentle, but he kept slapping the mat and yelping whenever he came down.

Again, I was going really easy because I don’t want to make bad impressions, but this guy had no notion of escaping wrestling pins. After a few minutes of keeping him down (while he kept muttering about Dagestan?) I kinda just let him roll me over so he’s on top.

He starts working on some attempted submissions (none finishing me, but I would tap make him stop yanking on my arms/neck) but the weird part was he kept saying “My turn.”

Every time he moved positions or tried a new sub. “My turn,” “Hehe, looks like it’s my turn.” Almost like a catchphrase, very weird.

He also kept adjusting his belt and brushing the stripey part at one end. Not sure if that’s normal. Then afterwards he kept asking my what wrestling intructionals I watched. I tried to explain I trained wrestling for years, but he just kept asking what instructional works best.

Overall I had a good time at this gym, but is this kind of behavior normal?

original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/bjj/comments/1ck0q2q/newbie_walked_in_turns_out_hes_a_wrestler_strong/

EDIT: This is a follow-up shitpost guys. It's flared and everything. This did not really happen. It's based on the linked post above.

I’m a blue belt who is around 6’3”. I haven’t found a good game plan in my stand up yet. The gym I spent most of my bjj time always made us start from knees so it’s my weakest area. Im at the point where I’m trying to build 1-2 good moves that I can focus on in each position. I need something to think about during rolls or I just scramble and hope to land in good spots.

I do not like pulling guard as my guard game sucks more than my top game. Also, shooting on legs is tough because the vast majority of the gym is shorter than me. I’m willing to do it if the overall recommendation is a single or double.

Looking for advice. Thanks all.

I have comp in 3 weeks and I have been trying to plan my weight cut. For reference I weigh about 144 lean at around 12 - 13% body fat and I'm trying to cut to 135. I figured that I would have to do a water cut but this is the first time I'm cutting weight for a comp so I would to get some advice on how to cut weight safely.