I competed two weeks ago I had 4 matches and lost every single one. I literally spent days saying I know my jiujitsu skills are better than what I showed! Loved this video so much. So real, thanks for sharing!
Even though it's definitely hard to show a losing match, us subscribers super appreciate it!! This was really interesting to watch. Your reaction time and technique throughout was so cool! 🥰 I have my first BJJ trial class tomorrow, so to see skilled woman BJJ fighters go at it in a real match has me a lot less nervous and more inspired and fired up instead!
I love your channel. I just started BJJ again 2 months ago and did my first comp since being back last week (🥇🥈) and I love how u show the ups downs of the sport and how competitions are mostly mental and how it's hard but u have to get back up and dust yourself off 💜🥊(Thank you for all u do).
Hey, losing is a part of the game, it does feel devastating sometimes, but it's gives an opportunity to improve on things and become even better! You got this Kim! :) bjj as any other martial art, is very complex in nature, there's always so many things to remember when you're rolling, and sometimes mistakes happen and you give your neck away, You did great up to that part! Stay strong and good luck next time! :)
Over 2 years later and this video is helping me at the moment. I lost my first comp (white belt) a few weeks ago and you’re right, all the training, eating right, getting my sleep - it was very hard to accept it. So thank you for your vulnerability and I’m feeling all the same emotions you were feeling in this video
Aw yeah it’s tough! We put so much work into preparing and then when we don’t get the results we want, it can be a bit discouraging. But all you can do is learn from your mistakes and get right back to training 🩵
Thanks so much for always being so HONEST with us!! You paint a super realistic picture for us about what’s true and not true about the sport. I know it probably sucks a ton to lose, but it’s super encouraging to see that jiujitsu isn’t always sunshine and winning. I’ve been training about a year and am really wanting to compete. It’s one of my goals for 2022, but I am super terrified of losing and becoming discouraged. Thanks for sharing your journey and letting us know it’s normal to fail sometimes. It makes it not as scary. You’re awesome, thank you.
Always trying to just keep it real on here :) Definitely compete! Especially with your first one, just focus on going out there and doing it. You have nothing to lose!
Great vlog! Thank you so much for your authenticity, love watching and cheering you on in your journey. I train wushu, which is a Chinese martial art. In Chinese, we cheer people on by saying "Jiayou" which means to literally add oil. Jiayou Kimberly!!! Keep up the fight!
I remember my first time competing as a one stripe white belt eight months into bjj. I trained for the competition for about two months and had no idea what to expect, as it had been since middle school since I had competed in a sport (I’m 25 now). The adrenaline was crazy, and everything was a whirlwind. My match was against a four-stripe white belt and I lost by points, not submission. The whole time during the match, I felt like a fish out of water. Couldn’t think. Couldn’t move. After, I had such a strong fight/flight response that I was almost crying. The panic and adrenaline and extreme disappoint was such a strange feeling. I’ve competed one more time since then and the experience was less overwhelming, but I’ll always remember that first match. The months of training, hours of waiting at the event… just to be wiped out in five minutes during my first and only match… brutal. But I’m always going to remember those feelings of disappointment and I definitely use those to remind myself of how far I’ve come and the goals I want to achieve! :)
It's a crazy feeling out there! So much different than the training room, right? We can train and train and train, mentally prepare, etc. but some days it's just not our day.
I enjoyed watching. You never forget what went wrong in a tournament and it truly makes you better. There are mistakes I have made in the past that I saw on video that I never made again. You level up so much faster getting out there. Way to go getting back to competing!
This was really brave. Thank you for your honesty. I really appreciate your channel. Can you make more videos where you breakdown matches/tournaments. There are several black belt match breakdowns but not nearly as many lower belt ones. I am a blue belt, and found your channel searching for blue belt breakdowns, and your video of the blue belt/purple belt breakdown popped up, which was super helpful for me to watch. I also really like your aesthetic, its girly and bubblegum, a refreshing break from the heavy macho normally associated with jiu jitsu. Thank you for being a positive voice and role model. I am going to continue exploring your channel as I prepare for my competition tmrw....
I think you summed up my comp experience perfectly. I competed once at white belt, I lost. I immediately burst into tears, not because I wanted to win really badly, but because after all the many hours of training I still failed. the time and effort I put in didn't show, mostly because I freaked out. but I turned it into something so negative, and turned it into self hatred. now at blue, I still am in a place where I don't want to compete because of it. still trying to work through this.
I've been there! It's so hard to work through these feelings. Honestly I'm still struggling with thoughts like this. When you're ready, competition is always there. But remember, your FIRST competition is such a wild experience that it's hard to base what competition is really like solely off that experience alone. I say give it another shot :)
Hi! I just recently started watching your videos and I love them. They're super helpful! I've been training for almost a year now, and I was wondering, do you tape your fingers at all for bjj? And if you do, can you show us how you tape them? Thank you for the content!
Hi! Yay that makes me so happy, thanks so much for watching them!! I don't, only if my finger is injured! So far my join's have been doing okay where I don't need to tape them every day lol. Check out "Chewjitsu" on youtube. He's a black belt and posts great videos. Search for the video "Athletic Tape vs. Monkey Tape for BJJ."
You are awesome. Thank you for sharing your video! It is somehow comforting to know that the low lows are still there even as you move up through the ranks. Makes the white belt struggles easier to know that there are even purple belt struggles! Thank you!!
Really appreciate this- I've been in judo tournaments where my match lasted two seconds. As a wise black belt told me- "It happens." Keep at it. You're awesome!
You win or you learn right? Or that's what they keep telling me anyway haha, trying to fight out of butterfly is always a pain, any thoughts on what you would do differently from the match?
