The kimono and other apparel is clean and has its original color, the training place is cozy and clean with a good smell, people are working out with heart and the atmosphere is warm. Cleanliness is the most important factor though.
It is a part of BJJ lifestyle when BJJ people after shower, clean and smelling well leave a training facility with a great mood and feeling of achievement.
I like those grappling tips on grapplearts.com (By Raphael Nogueira and Marcelo Dunlop) very much. It is very difficult to think something better than those tips over there. No need to invent a wheel again:) If you didn’t read them before, enjoy:)
There are many positions, but main positions in importance order are:
Although guard is cosidered as “neutral”, in my opinion, practitioner that is on the back is in better position as he can apply offensive techniques. The one, that is in the guard should seek a way to get out of guard as soon as possible, to be able attack or be safer from attacks. You should always try to move to the direction of more important position. For example, if you are in sidemount, you can try attack from this position or move to mount, to knee mount or back mount if situation permits.
Of course, there are much more position variations, but mentioned above are the most important, other positions are just variations of the main ones.
Most common and dangerous are Mount and Sidemount (of coutse you will be most of the time in guard or keeping the guard, but those positions are as not dangerous as Mount and Sidemount), therefore you must concentrate on escaping those positions first.
Here are very interesting interview with my master Carlos Lemos Jr. Here you could hear what a real Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is about.
Hope you will like it as I do…
Second part of the interview:
Just decided to throw some basketball in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Why? I like the song written for 2011 Eurobasket, I wanted you to know that basketball is a national game of lithuanians and basketball is good for BJJ warmup:)
Hope, you enjoy as well…
If you are just starting learning BJJ, then learning strategy defines the way to acquire basics as soon as possible ant to make basic techniques automatic and very precise. Only then you may look for a fancy mystic techniques. Anyway, advanced student not necessary means a student that knows techniques that are very difficult to remember. Advanced student, first of all, knows basic techniques very well and also knows how to chain up those techniques in many effective ways, and most importantly, without much thinking (techniques->tactics).
New student should first know most important positions in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in domination order (I will post about that in very near future:)), and to know which positions are the most wulnerable to be in. In training you should concentrate on most wulnerable positions first. Then you should learn two most basic escapes from each position and one basic attack from each category (choke, lock…) from that position.
I strongly believe in saying that “if you don’t know the destination, no wind is good for your ship”. I think that the idea has a great power in all life situations. In case of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, if you are coming to training session and do not know what to expect to happen, then you are not controlling process of learning. If you cannot control your learning process, at least at some degree, then your learning of the art will be very slow. Learning process is similar everywhere – at school, university, business courses, job… You should know requirements of exam to prepare for it well.
I believe that learning strategy pyramid approach to preparing yourself as a BJJ artist is very helpful. Pyramid looks like this:
Yes, there is no mistake, strategy comes first, then techniques and only then tactics. Anyway, that’s only my opinion. I hope, you will find something helpful:)
Strategy defines what you have to learn in what timeframe and sequences. Then come techniques, as an alphabet. And techniques are refined, joined/grouped for learning tactics (tactics in this sense is absolutely different animal than competition tactics, though).
That’s for the first post:) If you like it, post a comment, share a link and come next time for more…
