3 Mistakes I made when I was New to BJJ (After Wrestling) 

iRuckiz thanks bro!

There was a study in the mid 00s where they had two olympic wrestlers go at it for a full match and when they were done they took their lactic acid levels and others and in the end they concluded that a round of full power wrestling between two equals is around as tiresome as runnin 800m as fast as you can and straight after deadlifting your pr.

Old comment haha but so true! Im a wrestler just started bjj. First session I threw up my dinner😂😭 and keot going after. Like he said Idk how to turn it off. My competative drive stops me from caring about being tired

Ditto for me on this, I was good at wrestling, after 4 months of BJJ I'm just starting to not get guillotined when attacking legs, but I still give my back too often, especially to the higher belts who know and can "sense" that I'm going to do that. The plus side, just as you staed in your comment, is that when I am in side control, or mount, none of the blue belts in class can do much with the constant pressure i exert, and even the purple belts in class have a hard time moving me off the top. One more plus is grip strength and knowing how to grab parts of my opponents body. I had something that resembled a darce choke (or maybe some kind of anaconda) last night, and got a tap without even choking the other white belt, just because he was under me, and I wasn't letting go of the head and arm I had, and there was nowhere for him to roll. Learning proper hip movement and attacks from closed guard are taking a long time for me....even after four months, I'm not 100 percent comfortable on my back

Double leg: 1) drive your ear into the hip, and the shoulder into the middle of the body, it's really hard to guillotine when you don't have room to put your 2nd hand through. 2) always try to grab the opposite knee from the side that you are getting guillotined (not the leg, grab the gi and hold it for dear life), if you work up your grip strength then you can latch on to that thing like nobodies business, then when they attempt to pull guard with the guillotine in place it's usually possible to just go over their leg into side control at which point the guillotine does nothing. Single leg, similar rule applies just drive your ear into their body (usually hip/upper leg), its difficult to put in the 2nd arm to complete the guillotine. If you are getting caught earlier, before your ear can make contact with their body/leg you are probably starting the move from too far away. Or maybe you are just too predictable cos the guys know you are a wrestler, which means they will look to sprawl/guillotine every-time, so it may not even be the case your doing something wrong, but more-so the opponent just already knows what your are going to do, if you know the opponent is itching to sprawl throw in a hip toss that will take advantage of that. You can start a double leg/single leg from the typical grips (one on the collar, one on the elbow) so maybe try get these grips first, then go for the double leg instead of trying to dive in on the leg from distance. As for rolling on to you stomach, (i'm assuming you are starting out in side control facing away from the opponent, so terrible position) you can actually roll to your stomach, there is a good way out of it, you opponent will go for the seat belt, you take the opponents arm that is towards your waist, ideally you should go for it with both hands (which means you move the top of your body to be resting on shoulder and head), then lift your waist up and create a frame. Your butt, should clear the opponents arm. So you're making a triangle with outstretched legs + your head/shoulder while your arm is holding their arm so that it crosses your butt to your hip. At this point it should relatively easy to re-guard as they don't have good control. Good luck.

James Galbierz I’ve been doing it for 7 years

just explained myself right now haha all good it's all in good fun and i will learn not to do it eventually

@@OmegaDonut Kinda funny seeing this comment from 4 years ago because now I AM the purple belt that beats the bad habits out of wrestlers, lol. Just keep at it. Once those bad habits are gone you'll have a leg up on everyone else

@@gearsgames4931 yeah man im just enjoying it so far, im not worried at all about belt ranks. I’m doing jiu jutsu cause the sport sounds fun and is a good workout and good self defense to complement my wrestling

@@gearsgames4931 btw thanks man! Appreciate the kind words!

youtube search catch wrestling, it has helped me amplify my wrestling aspects

Curious if you stuck with BJJ

idk about that i've never been taken down by a bjj guy

Depends on the position, you need to know the range of submissions, some moves have a tiny range of movement between tapping and injury. Some have a huge range between tapping and injury, I would tap to the high risk ones faster. Likewise if you are fighting a high level/big guy and you know they could just crank it if they wanted to and they are really close, just tap. But in all other cases you should force them to finish, my arm bar defense is a result of years of stubbornly fighting arm bars, i have super long arms which when i started were very prone to arm barring, the amount of leverage someone can creating with a long arm is massive, but now I don't fear it at all. But it's 10 different techniques for fighting arm bars side by side, and switching constantly to keep them guessing, you can't develop that if you just tap to arm bar straight away. Lastly chokes, i always fight chokes, my neck is strong as hell now, again it's years of getting choked out that developed that strength, and it wins you matches because choking someone is very energy intensive, it's very different for you to use neck muscles versus your opponent burning out their arms. Prevention is still super important, if a black belt is choking you, you will be choked out, they normally have a super developed squeeze, but if you're fighting white/blue/purple then you will win plenty of fights by simply letting your opponent burn out their muscles.

That's a perfect flushed out statement on the mentality. I tap soon on armbars if I know I'm not escaping. It's when someone has a choke that you know your neck can sustain and you feel them squeezing as hard as they can when it's not there. Same as armbars, if my neck is getting cranked I'll tap quick.

Honestly just do it. They compliment each other very well. And when you have a good fondation in both you can use techniques from one in the other in ways most coaches wouldn't think of

Do it I never wrestled until my Junior year and was a state qualifier and wrestled in college.

Robert Sanchez you lying, what Weight and league?

125lbs NJCAA. Then transferred to SF State and dropped out. You can call me a liar, but I gain nothing by lying to one guy on the internet. I now just train BJJ at Ralph Gracie, and coach high school wrestling.

Its not even being about a freak athlete, it just came really natural. I don't have any physical advantages, just was able to pick up the movements like I did it my whole life.

Thomas Jackson do it bro! Wrestling will be even more deadlier.

Hunter Nelson they should both be learned if you have the time but if you are short on time the do bjj

If you ain't moving, you're losin

Josh Clarry what’s your question?

Same

Oh and the fact that low singles and sweep singles are so dangerous unless your fast enough to get around someone before they put you in a gullotine.

Hope your competition went well!

Daniel Gennaro if your a wrestler then why did you spell it like ressler

Ask a black or brown belt to show you how badly they can beat you. (Not in an arrogant way. Just ask them to demonstrate.) You will instantly realize how much more effective BJJ is. I realize it's 5 months later, so you probably figured that out by now.

Yes. 4:22 Also, IBJJF does not allow certain grips in the gi. Ex. fingers underneath/inside the cuff of the pants

Your Father nope

Sort of but not as much

Rudolph Angel nah BJJ is all about ground game that’s it