Purple belt submitted by white belt! 

Hey brother, jitz over 40 here, and a black belt. A couple of observations: 1. With a huge guy like that maybe combat base might be a better choice of start rather than letting him try to pass from the get go. He doesn’t need any advantages. Get on top! 2. Your guard work is coming along nicely, but you made a couple of mistakes that you already commented on in the video. Get those butterfly hooks in, or keep the closed guard. Closed guard will protect you better and wear on him. 3. Once he passed and had that arm, instead of framing the arm tight, try moving your body ON TOP of your own arm as well. Scoot it under your shoulder. Easier said than done with this guy I know, but that way it’s his strength against your body weight. 4. No shame in tapping early, there’s a reason why your are still training healthy, and that’s the reason. Sometimes we just get caught, and you knew you were caught so better to reset than ruin your jiu jitsu career over stubborness and ego. Well done overall. I enjoy your videos, keep the content coming. -John from San Diego

Super smart for tapping early. Always good to see good practices being shared instead of feeding egos. Nice work.

Respect for also sharing your taps 👊

Jesus Christ, that’s not a man..that’s a bear 😂

Interesting roll, fun to watch. That guy is an absolute unit!

Loved the videos, and so many lessons from this one. Thank you for sharing your journey with us.

Hey Anthony, just stumbled upon your channel and I really appreciate it. Thank you for posting videos with such detail and objective description of what's happening. Great learning on fighting a larger opponent in this video. Going against such a massive opponent with so much strength is impressive.

This was a great vid and kudos to you for not being too proud to post it. A guy like this becomes extremely dangerous with just a bit of knowledge. If it was his first time on the mat you probably could have won. However, once a monster like that gets the concept it’s a whole different matter. He seemed to be a good guy and was absolutely aware of his size/strength and being very careful with you. A guy like that with an ego is a danger to almost everyone

Not just much stronger but also younger! Good fight!

I’m a new white belt. I feel like I’ve learned a lot about retaining guard from watching you, putting hooks in and hand fighting. I try to emulate your calmness when rolling. Big fan of the channel keep up the good work!

The Boyd Belt system is real. Every 20lbs is a belt. Every 10 years younger is another belt. If you do the calculation he's actually a higher belt than you.

Just glad you survived and didn’t get hurt. That guy was a giant!

Wooo! That guy was a tank! 270 lbs and all muscle! Thank you for sharing.

As a 43 year old purple belt i know how tough these types of dudes can be. With just a few months of training they get real tough to deal with. Love the videos they help me to realize im not the only one struggling with some of the athletic younger white belts.

Respect to both of you. You for posting the video and not having an ego, and him for having regulated control which is not common for a white belt especially one that has the potential to submit higher belts.

Thanks for posting the video. Love your channel. I'm a 53 year old purple belt and empathize 100% rolling with younger, bigger guys. It can be a humbling experience. I feel that if you can at least hold off, slow down and control the younger, larger guy then that's a win. So many people our age can't even fight their way off the couch, so staying in the fight is a victory in itself. You did a great job against a very large opponent that has a good base of skill. Great point on tapping early. I do the same thing, because at our age recovery from an injury is a slow process. Our young man recovery would have been days or weeks. Over 50s recovery is weeks or months or maybe never so discretion is more important than pride.

Love narrated rolling style videos.

Good video. Much respect.

Im a 40 year old blue belt, RESPECT for what u doing! And RESPECT for the white belt for his art to roll, he´s got it!

Just found your channel. I'm a 46 yo blue belt that has trained off and on since my 20s. I've seen my body go through changes and tapping early is important now. I've changed my goals from advancing quickly to maintaining longevity. I'd rather train as a blue belt for 20 more years than have to call it quits as a purple belt in 10 or less. I fully support your reasoning for tapping in this situation. Very smart.

Definitely one of your bigger "visually different sizes" videos. While I'm definitely not as big as him, I do get the struggle of having to go 50, 30, sometimes even 20% strength to really practice and hone a technique because of a size disparity between me and my training partner. I do love how you defended and had him relatively off balanced while in different guards. I think I counted 3 or 4 times where you could have pretty effortlessly swept him had he not known how to use his weight to his advantage. Both of you look like amazing peers to roll with :)

What a beast of a man! You are brave to roll with someone this big and strong!

Nice narrative. Thank you. 55yo 150# 4 stripe Blue here. I’ve got a couple of 270#ers that I roll with at the gym. Now both Blue. They’ve progressed to learning that muscling through is not in their best interest when they someday will need to roll/compete with folks their own size & technique and power management (IE using the absolute least amount of power to get the job done) is better. So our rolls have become pretty enjoyable (and trustworthy) as I get to roll with the big guys almost 2x my weight and explore what elements of my JJ work and what doesn’t … like trying to get Kimuras on guys with arms 2x the thickness of mine. Watching your roll, classic white belt move to hyper-focus on the Americana to the exclusion of other techniques … and yah, eventually it’s safer to just tap and reset than risk him snapping your arm. I try to get/hold top position and pressure out … but more often than not, with the size and power difference, end up playing bottom and often end up in “defensive JJ” playing Hawking/Runningman / Panda & Turtle just to survive. I don’t roll with folks much over 220# that I don’t know give my age and lack of comp level strength & conditioning. Anyhoo. Thanks again.

First off great roll....watch your videos all the time they are great... Secondly kudos to you for having the balls to go up against that side... You can clearly tell that guy is not a kid, he is clearly inbhis 40's if i had to take a guess....that is not beach muscles he has on him...he has mature muscle which i think comes from a powerlifting background....either way great roll... wouldnt want to get into a road rage incident and have that guy exit the car....😂

Thanks for these and keep going. Being a 40+ competitor myself its aweosme to know theres more of us out there that want to keep going into our prime :)

I'm a 48 year old Luta Livre white belt 18 months in. This is my daily experience! I'm smashed by guys 40lbs heavier than me. I learn so much from your channel and I love the narration. Looking forward to every upload and I think age-wise and build-wise we're very similar (wish I had your experience though!)

HO-LEE-CHIT, if that white belt walked into my gym….. my hamstrings would pull THEMSELVES 😵‍💫. 45yr Blue and I’m not small….you’re amazing!

I used to have a very similar game to him. I'm 6'4 and 240 lb. My coaches started forcing me to play off my back and work from bad positions and my jujitsu became much better because of it. I'm now a purple belt and rarely use that Americana strength tactic because frankly it doesn't always work against other giants or skilled competitors.

Im a 40yr old blue belt. I started trainning leg lock as a white belt. Im so glad that i learn leg lock at the start. Going againt these big dude is not a problem for me. Im not leg locking white belt. Its gives me alot of entries and escapes if i cant sweeps them

Holy hell dude, you sparred the hulk! I think every white belts main belt is the Americana. We dont realize we have feet and legs for a while.

takes balls to post a video like this....respect

Well, all that hard work Helio put in has been subverted. No pun intended.

Tap early. Tap often. Well done Brother. I agree 100% with telling him to try to be sneaky about it - because while you're being sneaky and just waiting the other guy will likely make a mistake and other submissions will show up. But, you remember being a white belt and being hyper focused on ONE submission - when you get like that you can't see aaaaanything else. lol Again, very well done with the tap. We live to roll again.... OOOOOSSSSS

Absolute unit of a white belt.

Mssive respect for even sparring with that guy, regardless of what belt he has.

You are very technical; you very much deserve your belt!

That dude is a beast.. as a fellow older upper belt.. It's always tough on the ego competing against guys like this.

61 year old white belt here. Last year I sparred with someone almost double my weight and half my age. Totally smashed. It is what it is. Love your Stay Calm mentality though! Great videos!

Great job

So wise that you tapped to avoid injury.

This morning I (2-stripe blue belt) rolled with a 4-stripe white belt. I experienced something similar. I’m 5’8” and 175 lbs and 40, never lifted weights until my late 30’s. my opponent was 6’3” and 240 lbs and in his early 30’s and played sports through college. I knew I was out of my weight class but I didn’t really appreciate his strength until he grabbed my gi. I didn’t even bother trying to use any strength since I knew I’d tire myself out and I wouldn’t accomplish anything. He tapped me more times in those 5 minutes than everyone else I’d rolled with earlier this week.

Perfect example of don't underestimate anyone.

Brilliant commentary - strength/size matters a great deal.....but you look relaxed.....

I love to watch you grapple so much. I enjoy your comment a lot. 50 here. Grizzled seasoned grappler. I never go bottom with a bigger guy, perhaps my wrestling background is preventing those beasts from smashing me with their top game. As fro the Americana defense, I don't think you lack strength, I just think you didn't use the proper good old defense: Gile Lachlan, hid your elbow and arm under your side, so that he doesn't have your arm at all, and forced to switch his game to dive in, zoom in focus on something else, that is when big white belts go blank.

Looks like a considerate white belt with some awareness of his size and strength. It can be really hard as a big guy to dial strength down as it's almost reflexive. Technique isn't bad either for white belt. Good vid

Hey man, great videos! What microphone are you using? the quality is so clean

That looks like a grizzly bear mauling someone!. Kudos to you.

I'm a 55 y/o 4 stripe blue belt, don't let this guy get on top, ever....

Great you have a channel like this- 50 year old 175 blue belt and some good stuff here! You should maybe do some discussion shows with other older guys, that might be cool too🤙🏼ooss

this dude is a beast!! What has he been eating?? Jeepers😮

Im a 50 year old blue belt just gotta submitted multiple times tonight by a young strong white belt. Nothing to be ashamed of.

wow this guy was using sheer power and he was fast as well. Great learning experience here.

I have a guy exactly the same at my gym and he is a black belt but to be honest, I couldn’t care less about the tap. I am more afraid of an injury due to his weight. At 59 I feel it’s easy to snap a bone so I try to be careful and don’t wait to the last second to tap.

He reminds me of the character Grossberger from the movie Stir Crazy with Richard Pryor.

I've been attending BJJ classes for approximately 4 months. I am a smaller 5'4" and 145 lb guy and feel your content really helps me with technique for larger guys. If people are less experienced but much bigger, do you ever feel bad about being submitted in these situations?

Nice We Defy shirt.

Man the size difference is massive 😮😮

It’s good to see that the big guy is so controlled. A white belt that size could be very dangerous if he was spazzy.

I’m interested in your future rolls with this guy. It’s a tough puzzle to solve because I have few guys like this at my gym and they can just Americana me in my closed guard. I’m looking to try a couple options against them. 1 - If there standing wrestle up and try single leg dumping them over. Based on certain reaction I’m really looking for the back. 2 - if they are on there knees just stand up and run around to their back. I’m not saying these work but I’m finding there almost no gaurd you can play with these guys in most cases. They can just smash you.

Thanks for the content you keep putting out ! Do you strictly train bjj or do you perform other workouts to improve your bjj performance (like weight lifting , calisthenics, yoga etc ?)

This is my life.

I would love to see him a year from now when he has a bigger arsenal to work with.

Hey man, I have a question for you. I noticed that when you roll with people (and Billy does this here too), sometimes you look away, as though you're not relying on your eyesight to see what your opponent is doing, but rather using peripheral sight? Is that some kind of technique? Greetings from Croatia, from one stripe white belt. Love your vids, and keep up the good work.

Do you play much half guard? As a larger purple belt with judging by his knee brace similar knee problems I don't enjoy passing smaller guy's half. If he has knee problems he likely will not want to do any kind of standing knee cut style passing which limits his game, and allows you to keep the weight off with the knee shield while you work. You seem to like butterfly which would easily work into half butterfly approach. Good stuff dude.

Billy Smash! :)

2:41 I can't even imagine how much pressure you felt there. Doesn't look like he's using all his weight/strength either.

Rolling with the super strong guys is always an experience. I feel like there is a tiny box called the submission box and mentally I’m sure this inexperienced guy can’t put me in that box. Then he grabs me and to my surprise and dismay I discover that he has the sheer strength to jam my entire person into the box like a stuffed animal. Weird analogy, I know.

Go deep half brother attain a back take

Oh, man, I gave up mentally about seven seconds after he started applying pressure. Dude is a monster.

I'm like some weird combination of the both of you in this vid; me? 65 years old, Blue belt 250lbs. I am the the BIG bloke, strong grips, crushing pressure; with only one game ...'Get on top, Stay on top - crush the will to love from them'.

Dam. Reminds me of something Andrew Wiltse said. 'You can't arm bar a gorilla'. Apparently its tough defending against one also.

I have a 260+lb purple belt training partner (im 160lb blue) and it's a challenge just to survive lmao. I've gotten quite good at the leg game though to try and have some sort of path to victory against such giants.

Did he have experience in wrestling prior to BJJ? He looks very comfortable in those positions, and his use of Americana is something I would think of as a wrestlers move (key lock).

I've rolled with that type of monster. It's scary and humbling.

I can feel the pressure but we need him in jiu jitsu just as much as skinny practitioner to re enforce that jiu jitsu is for everyone

at 3:10 , what other submissions can you do or think of? Or even advancing a movement. was thinking armbar

Not only is he a big and muscular, but is he on rods because that's a huge advantage.

I’m on the same boat as you size wise. Watching that roll, it looks like DLR or single leg x could be the best option to ME. Why? All your weight will be wrapped around one leg, which seems to give you a fighting chance.

I think he's so new that he doesn't know much, he knows the Americana (which is one of the easiest submissions to understand) and that's probably his only tool (so everything becomes a situation to use Americana in). He will branch out and get a bit braver in time. Also I get that typically if you are a purple belt you let the white belt work guard passing, but with this kind of strength, weight, age and size advantage there is no shame in switching that around.

Guy is also going to be on the juice.

thats a monster of a man lol white belt or not any kinda of training on him will be deadly for most.

I’m 6’5” 255 and basically this guy in my academy. Most guys won’t roll with me because I outweigh most by 50+ pounds. It’s kind of frustrating. This guy seems to be using more strength than I do most of the time.

Anyone that says strength and size doesn't matter is full of shit. And when you add in a couple months of training, they are extremely tough to deal with. I am a 48yr old 160lb, 5'8" 4 stripe blue belt, and I know exactly how you feel in this video. Your defense is awesome though to hold that gorilla off for that long. Nice work!!!

178 lb 52 year old purple belt….I have a couple guys like this at my gym. I don’t like rolling with most (whites and blues) because they want to play top game rather than recognizing we can enjoy the roll more if he works on guard and let me try to pass. Gotta play top game against them or all my rolls against them end up looking like this and what’s worse you end up spending a ton of energy and risk getting hurt. If I was built like this I probably wouldn’t worry about Jiu Jitsu 😂

tapping way early is so smart. It is just not worth it at all. You know he is going to get it. Who cares. Stay healthy. Keep training. Just freaking tap.

Billy is also on PEDs. Which is normal in sport. But its always funny to see naturals try to deal with the enhanced

Wait until he learns top pressure subs. He was just doing a pull up to pull you under him instead of moving himself up past guard 😂 holy moly that’s a big man.

Im not sure if “he won all his matches by americana” was an inside joke 😂

“All muscle “ is a bit of a stretch 😂

Dudes is built and looks like a powerlifter or strongman

My club has lots of white belts and blue belts who are big guys like that. And they often outweigh me by 60-70 pounds. I just practice my defense because I figure if a monster like that can't submit me in five minutes, then that's like a win for me. That said, there's no shame at all with tapping when you need to. I tap more than Sammy Davis Jr, lol!

sparring isn't won by the person who tapped the other one more times, but by the person who learned more from that sparring

Like a dog on a bone. Good on you. Check your ego at the door. Tap early. Tap often. Live to roll another time...

Congrats to survive against this big guy. Not easy to do this.

Probably also would have been good to have a conversation with him afterwards about trying to actually learn and use jiu jitsu, instead of just trying to brute strength you into a submission. He's not really learning anything here. He's already demonstrated he knows how to do an americana. Another conversation he'd benefit from is to keep things moving during sparring and if you find yourself in one position for a period of time, to move on and start working something else.

He should try submitting with other techniques instead of always using the Americana.

These videos of people getting subbed by dudes that outweigh them by 100lbs cracks me up........ what did you think was going to happen. Youth plus 100lbs will eliminate that belt real quick....... that's what I feel like the younger generation of jiu jitsu athletes fail to understand....... as an older dude who trains also...... I don't worry too much about getting subbed by someone closing in on 300lbs........ it's also a way to get hurt very easily..... our bodies are not made to be dealing with someone that big..... or we ourselves would be that big..... I hope that makes sense.

You can't let a guy that size flatten you out. You missed a few opportunities to come under him for leg entanglements (k guard, single leg x). That's the only way your going to sweep/submit a guy this size IMO.

Is he 100% natural for sure do they ask for a test at your place of training

I don’t think that you should have pulled guard, you could have arm dragged to back take.