HOW TO GO FROM DEFENSIVE TO OFFENSIVE IN JIU JITSU 

Defense will ultimately create offense. When you have the defense skills to get yourself out of any tough situation, you'll fire off your offense without fear. It takes time but that's the goal

Hi Kimberly!! I love your videos so much! Maybe one day you can make a video about how you mentally prepare in the weeks leading up to a competition? Thanks for all the great content!!

I needed to hear this 🙋🏻‍♀️ I feel like I’m so far behind everyone else (all guys and I’m the only white belt no stripe) that I’m just chasing my tail all the time.

Thank you thank you thank you Kimberly, your words have helped me so much. Your message to me had me in tears.... Good tears 🤗

45 years old, one year in and relate to this hard! i always joke that all i’ve got is defense.

This was super helpful, thank you! I'm a 5'2 little blue belt and my coaches keep telling me I need to be more aggressive, haha.

As a 5ft. female, blue belt. I feel like I'm just now starting to be able to try submissions. As everyone I roll with, always men, is much larger and stronger than I am. Unfortunately I dont get to roll with other women often. But like you said! When you roll with someone better. They push you and make you better, even if you don't feel like it in the moment. I love your videos! Do you have any tips for staying tighter when holding someone in a position? I feel like there is a big jump in knowledge and skill between blue belt and purple. I've been a blue for a while now but still feel like I'm not near a purple level.

I found that, at the beginning, I was defensive for two reasons: 1. (the obvious) always fighting big guys! Not much can be done about this, and I learned a lot of great defense this way! It really pushed me. 2. My offense was not very successful, and going for attacks is so much riskier than holding off attacks. You go for an armbar, and then you fail, and end up in a worse position than before. So I would try to stay "safe" and "in control." But that won't last forever, trying to hold people off. I'm slowly realizing that training is where you get to take the risks and make the mistakes and its okay, because the roll re-sets at the end, and you get to try again and apply what you learned RIGHT AWAY. I've always been pretty aggressive, but as I try to get more offensive (and fail a lot) I'm having a lot more fun and finding that some things (like my passing game) really are improving!

My game - if it can be called that yet - is almost entirely defensive atm. 'I've become very adept at delaying the inevitable,' I said to my Sensei, eliciting much laughter in agreement. :)

white belt: survival. Blue belt: Defensive Purple belt: transition fron defense to attack Brown Belt: attacking Black Belt: Start all over again

defensive posture will get you killed. I gave up bjj and went into boxing and wrestling before coming back to bjj/grappling because the false security people get from the guard impedes progress in combat. Letting someone get on top of you is a death sentence; its always best to be attacking attacking attacking

Relax. The guy is a 4 stripe white belt, not a ufc champion