One year white belt- I will learn a technique and hit it amazingly that first week, then for some reason boom not again for months and I’m trying the whole time lol. The weird thing is bolos, let me say i, before learning or really knowing what a bolo was had been hitting it in a couple cases naturally when apparently (in retrospect now) was at the right spot at the right time. However since learning it a month ago (from various locations) I’m spamming it every session and I am successful 50% of the time consistently, I’m getting to the back 80% of the time. So I’m successfully doing the bolo but not fully taking the back part (known problem I’m working) I do think my body was made for bolos the rolls the hip mobility for that move. I enjoy it a lot. Now time to work on back control more.
Great tips! My gym spends two weeks on the same moves and it’s the first time I’ve felt like this is something I enjoy and could learn. The idea of trying different moves each class sounds terrible to me. I’ve tried BJJ a few times in the past and that’s how those other schools were organized. I always ended up dropping out.
This is exactly my problem have seen and even drilled a lot of moves but don’t have them memorized enough to remember long term or hit them instinctively
It takes a lot of deliberate practice in active rolling for me to get techniques instinctive - feels like I get the most “additions to active toolkit” by searching for techniques in rolling for a week or two at a time.
Working movements and reps on air helps, so using a grappling dummy is a bit more effective than that, but not as good as working with a person. I would say that you need in person learning and training in order for your solo reps with a dummy to be most effective as far as building technical skill.
So maybe I'm confused, but you guys continue to contradict yourselves. This episode being about being unable to visualize all the different techniques. Yet you both talk about insisting on hitting the move of the day, steering away from things you recognize. How long has it been since you guys were white belts?
So the idea behind hitting the move of the day as much as possible is to actually commit more of that movement to memory due to the low overall repetitions you’re going to get as a white belt if you aren’t very deliberate about trying to do so. You aren’t going to remember it otherwise. Andre (guy responding to the comment) is 3 years out from white belt. Chase is significantly further out than that. Does that add some clarity? New to the YT and podcasting game so there is definitely room for improvement in delivering ideas and concepts. Appreciate the comment and feedback, thank you for watching!
