The Real Reason Most BJJ Warm Ups Suck & Why People Hate Them 

If bjj guys stopped spending all that time shrimping down the mat they'd have time to actually practice takedowns

I don't understand why some coaches get mad about their paying customers arriving late. Our coach says "we're all adults with our own lives, I don't care if you have to be late, I'm just glad you're here"

I used to hate warmups at my old gym. Where I train now, the warmup is drilling the moves we learned the day before. It's perfect.

I tell my students, "I'm not here to get you in shape that's on you, I teach you BJJ." I also found better feedback by making my warm ups more more grappling structured. One example, instead of just shrimping from one side of the room to the other I have them shrimp with someone in the guard trying to weigh down the hips. Another is bear crawls except somebody has seatbelt or locked on the hips. Just making the boring warm ups a little more realistic. Reply if ya want more ideas.

honestly tho the dude pays to be there if he wants to be late and waste his money so be it

Worst thing happens at my gym sometimes: we do warmups sometimes for 30 minutes... then we do 40 minutes technique and we only have 20 minutes left to roll. Not always but when it does happen it fking sucks

I had to leave a couple of gyms with Brazilian coaches who wouldn’t allow me to train for showing up late. I’ve got a job where I can’t control my finishing time, sometimes I’ll come out at 17:30, sometimes I’ll come out at 19:30. It’s definitely not ideal but I need a job to pay my bills. I go from work to the gym directly and you’re going to tell me that even though there’s an hour of class left and I am paying to do this thing as a hobby in the evening, I now need to go home without training? Lol absolutely not. Thankfully I found a gym with coaches that are understanding and realise that me arriving late is not me being disrespectful on purpose, but me getting to training as soon as I can.

Skipping warmups, especially skipping them and then joking about being allowed to, is horrible etiquette. However, you're completely right that warmups can feel pointless if they aren't purpose-driven. I've made changes to my warmups after this video.

I dont like the super hard warm-ups. I come for bjj, not a fitness boot camp.

Honestly, I like warmups. I help out at the gym so I'm usually busy the first 10 minutes of class and end up missing them, it sucks. Feels like I'm behind everyone else when I first step onto the mats.

Chewy with on-point advice, as always. When I started jiu-jitsu the warm-ups were 1/3 of the class and they were tough. They were great for conditioning. But not everyone comes to class for a workout. Over the years our club changed the class format slowly to the point where any warm-up we do is grappling related. Sometimes we jump straight into drills. The classes I coach always start off with a flow roll to get bodies warm under very little resistance. The added benefit is that it encourages participants to learn how to let go of speed, strength, and ego, and focus on efficiency and being a good partner. Then I jump into different drills and games that increase in intensity until the free rolling portion of class. The club's head instructor/owner is far more technical than myself, so instead of trying to mimic his classes I generally try to explore broader concepts in my classes. I feel like I'm just at the start of my teaching journey and hope to continue chipping away at becoming a better coach. Last thing I'll say is that I think clubs should consider offering different classes. Some that involve less conditioning but more technical instruction or games. And others that cater more to the students who are looking for that conditioning.

There's a difference between a warm up and a 30 minute calisthenics session in a 60 minute jiu jitsu class. Makes you wonder if the coach does any preparation for class. PS: It's safer to roll without a warmup than to go roll with muscles that are too exhausted to protect your ligaments and tendons.

I used to train with a physiotherapist who was of the opinion that our warm ups were one of the greatest injury risks in our classes.

I am white belt and I am going only to beginner class. Our warm up is like 15 minutes running, break falls, various rolls and so on. And I love it, it is a great way to do cardio, it is hard, but for me it is part of getting better

As someone who overheats easily and sweats profusely, I hate martial arts "warmups". It's kind of hard to concentrate on learning when you are hot, flustered, and have a severe case of swamp crotch. It's the same feeling I get when I arrive to work late after a frantic dash where it takes a solid 10 minutes to return to a calm, neutral state so I can actually focus. It's just not pleasant or productive. I'm already strong, I'm already flexible, I already train cardio. I don't need to do a mediocre 20-30 minute workout masquerading as a "warmup" before I start learning. All a warmup needs to do is lubricate the joints, activate the muscles, and fire up the cardiovascular system.

The answer, like most answers in life, is clear, honest communication. We need more of that in all aspects of life.

You could also ask him what he thinks of the warmups as a way to get input.

My current gym does not do warmups, just straight to technique. I guess you could consider the technique drilling the "warm ups". Most of the the higher belts, if they are there for technique, usually just end up assisting people to do the technique correctly or just drill whatever they are focusing on for the last few weeks. I can understand if they "skip" warmups if the technique is basic sometimes.

Nick! Great topic great video, great feedback! 👏💪😎💯

I had a coach who expected us to clean the gym after each class. We pay $160 dollars a month and he also wants free labor from us? Fk that, and he wasn't even nice about it either

Awesome video brother. Appreciate u.

Great vid! thanks for sharing.

Absolutely agreed. In fact, I have stopped attending many bjj and other martial arts classess because their warmups weren't good and because the teaching also progressed far too fast and without a consistent theme for the day. In other words, it all felt kid of... a mass of "things", instead of a coherent, well-though lesson that progresses slowly enough for one to truly learn.

Never really thought about it until this. Our warmups vary from shrimping, rolling, etc., down the mat, all the way to doing endless amounts of abs on normal days. On open mat we do way lower intensity stretching before unarguably the hardest day of the week. I like lower intensity drilling that ramps up being used as a warmup.

I love this! Active warm ups are so much more effective!

If a person is paying for the class it doesn't matter. It's their $ they are wasting. There are 22 other hrs in the day for exercise, when I show up to JiuJitsu I want to learn JiuJitsu not exercise. That's just me.

Our warm ups is about 5-7 minutes. Im getting older so i start 10 minutes earlier to strech and warm extra😊

At my previous gym the warm up was like 10 minute max, forward and back rolls and shrimps and that was about it. Then open guard drills for a bit, self directed and then class starts. I liked that, the boring part was over quick and then you could work on some stuff during the open guard time. My current gym, at the lunch class (which is all i can get to) - no warm up at all, you warm up by doing the technique and then by the time for rolling - you're well and truly warm. That's great, i get there a little earlier because i'm over 40 and need a bit of extra time to get my joints moving but it works really well and is a better use of time. I like the idea that exercise is the students problem, and teaching bjj is the instructors problem. If you want to be fit (or more fit than just drilling and rolling will get you), then that's on you. Another really good one i liked, i visited a really high level judo club down here - olympians on the mat, etc. I was expecting some gnarly gruelling warm up . Instead they busted out a rugby ball and played a game of keep the ball away from the other team. After we did that, everyone was warm but not tired and we got into some training. it was great.

I like your take on this. My bjj coaches have us do warmups that are at least relevant: motions that are similar to what kind of drills we'll be doing. My muay thai classes however, the coach is phenomenal, they want us to "train tired" so the first 20 minutes of our class is a straight up P90X/Insanity cardio kickboxing/calisthenics class, it's annoying. Paying $120+ a month, I can run and do lungees mountain climbers, etc etc etc on my own time. What I do not have access to on my own time at home is heavy bags, partners who hold pads, sparring partners etc. It's really annoying when half a class is spent just jumping around..

Warm ups at most Jiu-jitsu gyms SUCK. They do. Period. I'm not here to do exercise. I'm here to learn Jiu-jitsu. I also don't know what the big deal is if a paying member shows up when he wants. If they wanna show up late every single class, oh well.

hey man keep up the good work

I would love people in my gym tj hear this. Our coaches don’t seem to care about class anymore or how much value we’re getting from it.

We just had Paul Schreiner in the gym to teach a class and do a seminar. For the warm up we partnered up and did drills like passing guard from standing, fighting for underhooks, and some other standing/clinch oriented drills. It was really good. It got the blood flowing and also served a technical purpose.

it's great to see you are such a progressive coach. the old fashioned way (been doing it this way for years), is not always the best way or is no longer the best way.

I apply the idea here in reverse often. When following a HIIT workout, etc., I'll often modify the exercises to fit them into a context of some technique or BJJ principle.

When I first started going to my gym and got really into it and was kind of showing up at advanced classes I wasn't supposed to come to but was never turned away from I noticed my professor using two distinct flows to class. For the white belts he would do sole sort drill that specifically taught your body a motion for the technique of the day but that motion was also a warm up I noticed it really helped me learn things when my body was already trying to figure out the motion. But for the advanced classes he'd kind of just do a stupid short warm up technique and go nuts on the rolls and I always wondered why it flowed so differently.

I’ve been training for about 6 months now, I’m young and athletic and I feel like I have accomplished everything I need out of the warmups and no longer need them. I know how to break fall, I know how to shrimp, I know how to forwards and backwards roll properly. Warmups just make me sweat faster which isn’t fun when you’re about to start drilling.

I recently started a new school and their warm ups consist of reviewing past techniques! I like it so much more and find to to be way more valuable than other warm ups.

I never get places that want to penalise you for being late. A lot of gyms approach with the "just keep showing up" mentality to improve but if you then start calling out people who are late when life gets in the way, they're gonna start picking to just not show up if they're gonna be late and no one wants that!

We have 3+1 types of shrimping, plus another turtle type movement for some of our warm-ups, though there is one other shrimp type I am gonna ask coach to throw into it. Sometimes it's a positional hierarchy drill where we move through the hierarchy (upper belts are allowed to violate the strict progression of the drill and throw curve balls at the person doing the drill. Or we just rep out white belt syllabus for 15m. A lot of it is about warming up our minds as much as our body. Getting us to focus on getting every detail right, not just getting the most reps.

As a white belt who also does yoga, a lot of the stretching in BJJ warmups feels pretty ineffective. & then of course every week someone's out with a different injury 😂 the higher belts at the gym can all crush me at rolling, but I feel like in terms of proper warm up/stretching I have to take matters into my own hands & do a quick 30 mins of warm up before class if I dont want a broken body when I hit 40. The days I do that (or better, go to yoga earlier in the day) are usually when i have my best rolls!

Good idea about the warm ups

Warming up is crucial though to not get injured, we do a full high contact sport. It should just be a basic warm-up and straight to technique. Or come early and get your extra stretching in, that's what a lot of us do.

Feel like I need any kind of warmups to loosen up. Feel like people that don't are more easily injured, and even when drills are in the middle that has some cardio, and I have a decent second wind when we go to rolling compared to going in cold. Maybe I'm weird. Warmups suck but I stay on weight and get my body lose, particularly my somewhat bad back so I'm grateful for them. Also things like reverse shrimps and sit outs up and down the mat are great for core strength. But I digress, besides body movement we do some arm bar hip movement warm ups, triangles, etc. Chewy you should do a video or two showing some good series of BJJ functional movement warmups, that'd be fantastic. You got me thinking a series of like 3 guard passes in a warm up you do over and over in sequence, switch with your partner after a minute or whatever would be really beneficial.

At my gym the evening classes which are large do a traditional warmup then techniques, then positional sparring. The day classes are small 10 - 15 guys at most. No warm up right Into techniques, then positional sparring then 3-4 rounds. Ive adjusted my schedule to make day classes.😀

our "warm ups" are 3 minutes passing drills, and 3 minutes sweeping drills

In my previous gym, our coach made us do warmups that included running with all sorts of bs added to it like running backwards, doing jumping jacks while running, etc. And even though my ability to do them increased, it did not translate to my stamina and endurance while drilling the actual techniques.

Ive been re thinking the whole education process lately. We took the kids out of state school . Theres a self directed learning place we're looking at where the kids decide what to learn . They can walk in and out of classes as they please. Apparently its working well.

Yeah, thats resonates - running in small 30m circles + just shrimping from one side of the room to the other + push-ups😑 I try to do my own dynamic warm-ups sometimes, but coach could see its as disrespect Im projecting to know better, so it's bothering me and I can't get him vocal or open about, sad :c

Chewys role in this videos remind me of something I did when I was younger. I was helping with my friends relationship even tho I didnt have a girlfriend myself, only because I wasnt emotionally invested in them. Its like, we all know the answer to most of this questions ourself, but its the emotions that cloud the logic.

I agree 💯 the warm ups should work for technique that is being shown in class. It makes more sense and is more understandable

I used to train in a gym where pretty much all the purple and brown belts arrived to the class 30' late. And no surprise... the warm up sucked.

Is that "The Road Less Traveled" on your bookshelf? Great read regardless.

I'm guilt! I don't do the warm ups 90% of the time. It's a waste of time. Drilling or light roll is a better warm up... Just my 2 cents

Wasn't warm ups, but in wrestling, one of our conditioning workouts, was circle in stance, sprawl and shoot. It was still hell. But it was working on stuff related to what we did in wrestling, and doing that for 30 mins as opposed to do between 50 and 150 sprints in an allotted time limit as low as 7 seconds down and back across the basketball court, was much favored by us.. we didn't get what we favored, especially for punishment for losing/not winning by as big of a margin as coach wanted us too.

Perfect class for me: Flow rolling, light stretching, technique, situationals (start at 35-40%) and then rolling.

If a student is paying dues to be a member of the gym - then he's paying for his time. If he wants to come in with 15 minutes left in class - well, he's wasting money. I agree with the attitude of "Whatever - glad you're here. Let's get you going". I think "late is disrespectful" is too old-school. That mentality is declining (thank God), and in another 20 years will be gone all together. You're paying. Come get your 10 minutes if you wish. Come get your 90 minutes if you wish. Buy a steak - throw half of it away. That's up to you.

We just flow roll to warm up. 🤷🏻‍♂️. I’m sure some will criticize, but I like it and feel like it does a good job of warming me up while at the same time making my jiujitsu better instead of calisthenics that don’t. That said, I’m chronically late! Haha. Not by a lot, but 5 minutes or so and about half the time. In my defense I’m usually coming from work and get there when I can.

My gym does grip fighting, take down drills then technique. I love it

Thank you for mentioning that the stretches need to held for time. I really need more dexterity. ✊🏾 #whitebeltproblems

I used to hate warm ups, until sensei came up with a brilliant idea. We'd play soccer on the matts, but we could use thows, sweeps, and takedowns on the other team. If you ended up on the ground, you had to wait at least 5 seconds before getting up and joining again.

I used to do easy warm ups when i taught a class, because i always skipped the warm ups when i was a student. but firas zahabi changed my mind on this, and ive been doing short but tough warm ups the last year. Firas was saying in no other serious fighting martial arts like boxing or kickboxing or wrestling, do they do lazy easy warming ups and focus the classes mostly on technique. a strong body makes a strong mind.

If they are paying students don’t worry about it warm ups are essential but they choose to be skipping them no problem it’s their loss . I’ve seen people get hurt and lack basic movements because they skip warm ups so let them go 👍

Im a white belt at a high level school and I don’t do 90% of our warmups…I find myself beating up my body more during warmups than during the actual rolling portion of class. I can just show up 10 minutes before class and can warm myself up. Nobody seems to have an issue with it.

So I'm not knowledgeable, I've never tested past white belt and it's been years since I've rolled. The class I did, the warmups were generally a few laps around the gym, shrimping across the gym, forward rolls with your foot out when you complete the roll, and a couple other things that warmed you up, but were techniques that actually helped for when you roll.

My gyms warmups are hand fighting, takedowns and guard passes. That’s plenty for a “warm up” I don’t want to go to a jiujitsu gym to do a group cardio exercise, I want to learn and then the cardio is open mat or drilling

Yay! The 25 year old coach feels like watching men run in a circle while yelling out commands for random jump squats on a matted floor for 10 minutes.

I teach classes, and I tend to treat drilling as a warmup, although sometimes depending on the type of class its helpful to use repetition drills to develop good habits. I think wearing people out with jumping jacks is ridiculous personally and it wastes time you could be using on actually learning and training.

I am 59 year old brown belt and to be honest, I can’t do warm ups like I use to. It’s a big deal just getting to class for me. I rather have a light role maybe at 30 to 50 percent. Just to get the aches and pain out .

Easy solution. We don’t warm up. Class starts exactly on time, everyone shows up early to stretch or whatever, but it’s very informal. I think that warm ups are a waste of the coach’s time and expertise, and this risks alienating more experienced players who have their act together, and show respect to their coach by showing up ready to roll.

My old gym used to warm up hard for about 30 minutes, then we'd drill, and finally we'd roll for a little bit. I used to like the fitness component, but then I saw it how Chewy does; I didn't like transitioning from hard fitness to light fitness back to hard fitness again. My new place just does the drilling as the warm-ups and it's a lot better honestly. We get loosened up from the drilling itself.

yeah, most of the time at my classes are taken up by warm-ups.

Not a BJJ coach, but a judo coach and blackbelt - I find with warm-ups, one thing that we try to do is to make our warm-ups fun, and relevant. "Fun" being that warm-ups might involve grappling-based games, maybe as one-on-one with rotating partners, or in group, team-based activities. The "fun" apsect is especially important for younger members like children, but is also quite important with older practitioners as well, like teenagers and adults. We want our warm-ups to be as accessible as possible, after all, some people might find it physically difficult to properly perform push-ups, for example. "Relevant" is to do movements that might be related to the technique we're working on. For example, if we're working on uchi mata (inner thigh throw), then we might do some single-legged exercises, like hops, hops to sweep, leg/hip rotations etc. Sometimes we might do the "fun" stuff first then "relevant" stuff later, or vice versa. We also try to keep warm-ups relatively short, like... 10 minutes, maybe 15 minutes max. It means we get more time to do judo. Personally, I used to do the 'hard exercise' kind of warm-ups that would go for like 30 to 45 minutes, because that is what I learned from my former coach and this is how I used to train when I was at their club... but it sucks. It's boring, it's tiring, and by the time you do randori (free practice, like rolling or sparring), you're so fatigued that you can't do your techniques very well. In my opinion, this style of training increases risk of injury to participants on the mat. When we trained this way at our old club under our coach, every session started with 30 to 45 minutes of hard, unpredictable and unstructured exercise. It should come as no surprise that three or four members all got serious injuries to joints such as shoulders and elbows. We had one brown belt who was always "late" to training and would skip the warm-ups, then he would just smash everyone in randori (everyone being fatigued) and our coach thought he was an amazing athlete. A friend of ours, who has competed at the London Olympic Summer Games in judo, taught us that it is not our job to try and make our members and athletes "fit", our job is to teach them judo. If someone wants to get "fit", they can do it outside of the club. If we want to do cardiovascular conditioning that's relevant to judo, that's where randori comes into play, both tachi-waza (standing techniques) and ne-waza (ground techniques), or with some quick, grappling-based warm-up games and activities. I imagine the same philosophy can be employed in BJJ. When it comes to being late, well... personally, I feel the warm-ups are important, and if someone doesn't do 'em, they are increasing their risk of injury, so it's a duty of care thing. If people are consistently late with poor reasoning, I feel that is disrespectful to not only the coach(es) but also the other members on the mat. We understand "life happens" and being late on occasion is okay, but if someone is late every single session simply because they can't get themselves organised (forgetful of time, falling asleep on the couch, distracted by video games, sitting on their phone watching TikTok etc.), I reckon that's a bit irresponsible and rude. We want people to be accountable and responsible - and we try to do the same for them. Admittingly, I will get particularly grumpy with those who are late due to being irresponsible with their own time, and they want to be competitive athletes in judo, to train for and compete in competition. Of course, in saying all this, we do have a couple of members who advise us in advance that they are likely to be late due to things like work, school, or they might be doing another form of exercise (like another sport or martial art) and they'll come to judo as soon as possible. That's okay. For the work/study-crew, they'll have to conduct their own warm-ups while everyone else gets into training. For the latter people, if they're still warm enough, they can participate in training right away. Just my two-cents, sorry for the rants. Great video, by the way. Excellent points.

I workout heavily the day before class so that I'm good n' sore come class time. I like to put myself at a disadvantage.

I hate over the top workouts in class because I can do that outside of class. Now I’m tired and my nervous system isn’t firing the way I want for the actual class and I’m not getting the most out of the lesson

We start with no warm up, straight into technique for 5~10minutes then we go live. In muay thai or wrestling the warmups are actually okay because we're doing the movements that we are going to use the entire session

Hey Chewy! I have a question. For people like myself, I have fast twitch fibers that like to be ramped, then cool down, then RAMPED, then cool, RAMPED, cool, RAMPED, cool, etc. and this is how I am supposed to properly build my endurance. I’m about 15% body fat, 235lbs, 6’3, 37 years old ex heavy weight wrestler 🤼, and I still gas out lol.. but I’m god mode until then. So the flow of training for me is strange. I need to win fast and easy. So I practice techniques this way. What would you suggest for someone like myself dude? I do 99% no gi, gi is for old guys that bow to picture frames from Walmart. Cheers Coach Chewy help! Thank you in advance!

Our warm-up is 10 minutes. Those of us that are older and need more time to warm up and stretch get there early. Ours is the last class of the night so while the class is only 60 minutes, most of the time it ends up going for 75 to 90 minutes. I am usually gassed before that, but it is cool because as other people gas I can ask more technique questions and not have to worry about getting in their rolling time.

Trying to workout if for the blue belt saying "see ya" ment he got rid of him from his club or let him carry on turning up just to rolling.

I train at a "traditional" BJJ school very proud of its Gracie lineage, proud to emphasize fundamental "beans and rice" BJJ. When it first opened we did a rather intense, long warm-up at the beginning of every class. The idea was this was for conditioning and to wear us out so we could then "learn BJJ" technique and not muscle our way through, or something like that. I think that was more optimum in the early days of BJJ in the US, most early adopters were relatively young, strong, athletic guys. Not so optimum for an old man like me who started in my 50's. We don't do the full warmup as often now, but when we do I would struggle to survive with enough strength and energy to benefit from the rest of the class. Fortunately we are also encouraged to take breaks, go at our own pace etc. so I've learned to drop some reps or laps and not try to keep up 100% with the young students. Ultimately a student needs to take responsibility to be observant, self-aware, and assertive enough to pace themselves appropriately for their age, size, condition etc. I would still prefer a shorter, 5-10 minute "loosen up" time for simple mobility, stretching, and focus adjustment in anticipation of the rest of the class, then maybe some light positional, technical drilling of fundamental movements with a mostly compliant partner. Something like the drilling from guard to setup an armbar, choke, or sweep, maybe others involving shrimping, forward/backward rolls etc.

My coach has never seemed bothered when I am late. I usually get fist bump and a "thanks for coming". I am almost always 5-10 mins late due to schedule.

Im a brown belt. I do the warm ups at my own gym as a good example but i never do them at the home gym where i train under my friend lol unless its flow rolling

Listening to this while im skipping warmups

I’m not a fan of warmups. Especially when class is only an Hour. At the school I attend Rigoro MMA we go right into position and work that for a good 30 minutes where we go live. Then we do 6 Rounds with diff opponents and that where class ends. Most times we stay after class to get more work in.

I was at a gym with an instructor that came from Brazil, and I ended up leaving that gym in good part because of the damn warmups. They were like 25-30 minutes long and just stupidly excessive. This gym had a VERY long mat and the warmups consisted of 5 rounds of shrimps, 5 rounds of Jacare's, 5 rounds of back rolls, 5 rounds of front rolls, and 5 rounds of breakfalls. While, yes, those are all legit BJJ techniques, it was stupidly boring and overly excessive. Once it came time to actually drill technique, you were still dead from the damn warmups. I think warmup routines and instructors not promoting people who do strictly no-gi BJJ are two of the biggest "old school" things that are bs and need to be changed in Jiu-Jitsu.

One of the problems is that moat warmups are not actually warmups. They're conditioning drills. And i really don't think that's the time or place for them. Should be more grappling-oriented, like pummeling/handfighting drills or designated winner drills or something like that.

I might be in the vast minority here, but I actually like a (brief) structured warm up. I train quite a bit, and little movement, some yoga flows, etc. help get my body moving and helps work out some of the soreness before training. I feel the same for my under-conditioned students who have been sitting at desks and in cars for 9 hours. That said, I mean, like, 3-5 minutes of movement, not 30 minutes of calisthenics and line drills.

We do 30 min warm up in our Judo class and man.. that’s so stupid. After that 30 min fitness session the most of the energy is fully drained. Last week a Iranian Judo Black belt was in our class and that was really nice training. Not so much warm up much groundwork and Randori !

Warm ups are the worst. A slight run and a few shrimps up the Mat are enough, that and maybe some bridges. Then just one or two basic drill techniques before positional sparring is where it’s at.

IDK about you guys in the US, but your warm ups sound quite different from where I train. I've only trained with brazillian coaches and yeah, we run for a minute or two with variations but then the rest of the warm ups are exercises that are really useful for BJJ and Wrestling. Flips, cartwheels, bear crawls, single and double legs, sprawls, etc, like wrestlers do. Actually, a lot of the warmups we do here in my experience are wrestling moves, stuff we'll actually use in BJJ, grappling, MMA, etc.

Such a shame, in catch wrestling sometimes the warm up are the most fun part of the class. They can play games, we have bands on our ankles and the winner is last person with band on. Or in BJJ class done a passing warm up

As a white belt who's been training about 8 years, I've become pretty opinionated on the type and quality of training, and I think suboptimal training methodology is one of the reasons I'm still a white belt (there is also the fact that I'm just bad, but that is not the only reason). Most gyms only do no-resistance technique and then rolling. For untalented people like myself, this does not lead to improvement. There was one period of my life I actually improved significantly in BJJ, and that was when we had situational sparring every class. Situational sparring is so key to improvement, I'm even now a believer in "don't do static drills" (or at least minimize them) mindset popularized by one of the gyms in Josh Rich's video. I mean when's the last time you actually hit a technique in static drilling, in a roll, without situational drilling? I can probably name 1 or 2.

I hate warm ups, but I still do them, don't skip and don't act like a 5 year old with a temper tantrum while I'm doing them. The warm is good, but is boring now. It's usually, running, butt kicks, high knees, front rolls, back rolls, wrestling shots, backward and forward shrimps etc...I could see how a purple belt would be annoyed.... Recently they have had slightly different warm ups which were nice. We would do just a couple of the things I mentioned before and then we would do 30 seconds of grip fighting, into a slight take down or throw (not full commitment) and then rotate a few times. We would do transitions from kesa gatame to side control, knee on belly, mount and side control, Kesa, etc on the other side - 1 min then switch. I definitely agree drills like these are good because I feel like I am getting something. I feel like I'm learning and improving my game and in a practical realistic way, while also not overly exerting myself like full on rolling.

I've rarely seen black belts to warm ups. I prefer to drill positions/technique than do gymnastics but I'm a very large out of shape 59 year old.

Some coaches over use the warmups, just to kill the clock.

If only all coaches did this!

Here in Brazil by the time you get to purple belt you are almost expected to start skipping the warmups. Not that there is much of a warm up to start with lmao.

I firmly believe warm ups are far too often a time killer. 15-20 minutes of bs to make the class shorter for the teacher. It’s a total, joke…

I've had teachers that would exhaust you with the warm ups, and while i don't think it's a waste of time, it's not how I like doing warm ups. When you're dealing with an All Levels class its important to note that not everyone has had the opportunity to practice these warm ups 1,000 times and some have. That's why i do warm ups anyways My warm ups are basic movement drills, that I've noticed help people understand body movements when learning jiujutsu technique They don't last too long, not 20 minutes, more like 5 to 7 minutes Simple stuff everyone has seen before yes, BUT I've tried not doing them and when you get newer people come in they're lost if they haven't had the opportunity to practice them every class Then again I'm a believer in practicing something over and over even if it's boring.

Personally i hate being late for anything...i try to be at least 20 minutes early for class but thats a me thing...i need to stretch and roll my back out. Theres plenty of guys that come during lunch/after work or whatever my coach always just says "show up when you can but keep showing up".....if someone is late and then STILL just hangs out on the side for 20 minutes stretching and not drilling and they always seem to only be ready to roll then maybe say something but if they're late but hop right in then at least they're trying once they get there....not allowing people to train for something they pay for because they're a bit late gives the same vibes of old school not allowing people to cross train gyms.