I always explain it like this: Early on, after sparring, you realize what happened after you get home. After training a while, you start to realize what happened on the drive home. A while later you start to see it right after it happened. After many years training you start to see it while it's happening. Eventually you can see it before it happens... until training with someone much higher level than yourself... then you still see it after it happens. Ha!
I can't tell you how grateful I am for this video, this is exactly the advice I needed. Analysis paralysis has been my number one issue and all the other "beginner mistake" videos I've watched made it way worse, talking about how white belts are too spastic, too aggressive, rely too much on strength instead of technique, etc. Even if that's all true it really got in my head and I've been overthinking so bad during my rolls. One video even said to only do moves you've learned and if I went to class today and followed that advice in the sparring portion I'd keep freezing and giving up when I hit positions I wasn't familiar with. Today I'm going to just be in the moment and follow my instincts like I did when I was a kid just having fun wrestling with my dad, knowing I can do my analysis later. Thank you!!
Congratulations on 100k subscribers! Well deserved. Deliberate planning is inflexible and slow, which explains why mindful awareness and adaptability are fundamental across all martial arts. The "aiki" in aikido or aiki-jujutsu is the method of harmonizing with your opponents energy, rather than forcefully exerting one's own will. This concept can be applied to the appropriate selection and timing of counter techniques. A tendency to overcommit to a particular technique leaves one open to feints and baiting tactics. "Everybody has a plan, until they get punched in the mouth." -Mike Tyson "Empty your mind. Be formless, shapeless...like water." -Bruce Lee
Thanks coach I’m exactly the same as you said only started back again three months ago after over 22 years off. Three of our coaches came to train with you last month in sweden hence how I found your channel.
Finding a partner that is in the same page or willing to practice the moves as opposed to smashing you is key. As a white belt, the higher belts have helped me immensely. And also doing kind of ‘warm ups’ of things I want to stay fresh such as the sweeps before or after class has helped me big time
That is great advice. I started BJJ late in life and often asked partners to put me in a guard or turtle or choke to start, and i would work in getting out instead of starting standing up or no grip. It helped me compartmentalize skills.
I don't think any of the learning styles in BJJ exist in a vacuum, and they actually do need each other. Drills, specific training, positional rolls, and full rolls are all important to development. If all you do is drill, you won't know when to use it. If all you do is various types of rolls, then you won't have the right mechanics. Drilling gives me the muscle memory that when I'm in a roll I can actually try a technique. As a beginner, there were a lot of techniques that it was tough to assess if it was a technical flaw or tactical flaw (I messed it up or I used the wrong move at the wrong time), and drilling helps mitigate those technical flaws so I can troubleshoot better. In the end, it doesn't matter much. When I go train, I'm going to follow the lesson plan that Professor is giving. This is a video that should be aimed at coaches building lesson plans, and not at beginners who have no control over the class structure.
In my Opinion, to learn BJJ way faster and better if you sparr against weaker Opponens which allowes you to Practice certain Techniques (exp. Armbar) you can do all the Techniques really slow, almost like you drill on someone who is resiting. As your "perfecting" your Techniques, you slowly up the pace of them. I noticed that this proces also helps me if when sparred against much better or equaly good Opponens. But caution advised im only a humble white belt.
Rolling with lower belts is definitely useful, unless you are the lowest skill in the room. There is multiple tools in arsenal to get better. Rolling with people more skilled is good for working defense ect. Specific is my favorite for really targeting specific problems but I use all.
I guess my question is how you can assist this overall mindset in applying to newbies. Maybe we've just had a run of bad luck but recently we've seen a lot of new people and several of them have managed to hurt themselves by trying to force things. Mostly this seems to be the person not realizing that they're in a really bad spot and then trying to resist something that they basically can't. Like trying to resist a sweep and getting their knee rolled over at a bad angle. Oddly, it doesn't seem to be happening with chokes. [Edit] Maybe this is because we have so many people starting off in no-gi and then attending gi classes so they don't know many chokes? I dunno. [/Edit] It's to the point that I almost kinda feel like there are two ways to go, have someone supervise every white belt roll/only allow them to roll with upper level blues (people who will recognize the situation and not allow it, even taking an "L" if necessary to avoid someone getting hurt) and above or simply say that there's a cutoff for going live and that if you don't have enough stripes on that white belt you can't roll.
When I start sparring I have no idea how to start. It’s like I’ve practiced an arm bar when someone’s allowing me to do it to them but then it’s like how do I actually get to that. I’ve been doing jiu jitsu for 4 days lol and it just look all types of confusing to me.
Jon love your videos! My legs aren't as long as yours and I'm not as tall as you, but otherwise I think we have similar body types. So I really like your content, makes it feel more applicable to me.
Man just struggled last night. Guy a belt below me who’s younger, stronger, and explosive just got the better of me. I know you say technique can overcome strength but I just felt so overpowered
Yeah it is absolutely an advantage for them to be stronger it really is, but it is absolutely true that there is someone small and less strong as you who could beat the person you lost to. So you just need to refocus and figure out exactly what components of your game to fix to be able to overcome your opponent in future. Acquiring technique isn’t easy though it requires reflection on your matches, studying solution specific sparring then then testing them again. It’s not easy but is 100 percent doable if you are willing to put in the work. If it was easy to become technical then everyone would be, if you are the one who is willing to push through and evolve it will be that much more rewarding when you do. Just don’t get discouraged from failing it’s part of the process.
When you pin you opponent or stall them and have a moment to think about the various options available ahead of you, would it actually be bad to think a little?
If you actually have a moment to think, and you are in the gym nothing wrong with trying to recall a detail or something if you have full control. General though you should be reacting to the moment, those kind of thoughts on a detail will naturally come to you when they are relevant
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/niche#:~:text=There%20is%20a%20debate%20about,older%20of%20the%20two%20pronunciations. Both are considered correct. Historically Neesh pronunciation is a newer development. If you are gonna be that guy you should at least be correct. Regardless who cares lol. 👍
@@JonThomasBJJIn fairness, "niche" is very clearly a loanword from French, and "che" isn't usually Anglicised as "tch" for other words. But your point stands.
