haha i hated seeing all those injury post, but I hurt my knee pretty bad last night. hope it's not torn acl but it's swollen and I cant walk. beat.

Awesome man. There was a thread on the UG about starting BJJ and this post pretty much summed up everything, and everyone agreed. (The Gameness Gi part can be ignored, OP was asking about Gis.)

"1st Rnd KO - I started 5 months ago. Here's what I have found:

1) Where a cup
2) Wear a mouthpiece.
3) Gameness Air. $139
4) Eyes and Ears Open, mouth closed.
5) Fundamental Drills will take you a long way. Sometimes less is more.
6) Guys that are better than you will help you get better, unless you try to show them
how tough you are by going nuts. Then they will give you nightmares.
7) If you are old like me(46), don't worry about tapping, recovery takes alot longer at my age.
But don't be a pussy either.
8) When rolling with a girl, you will only think about banging her until she locks a sub on you.
Then she's just another dude in class. After class you will think about banging her though.
9) You are going to have tons of fun, if you let yourself.
10) Leave your ego at the door."

Noooooo. I hope its just a tweak.

thanks a lot cc, was hopin ud see it. im sure ill be askin a lot of questions if i can get myself to stick with it.

i see ur DL vid, how often are you liftin each week? how much does that interfere with training? im gettin back to my peaks on SS and gonna have to figure out how to scale it back a bit prob if i do a few classes each week.

this cup is uncomfortable reminds me of my football days, might need to try out a diff one. i got some blank boardshorts off amazon that had good reviews

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...A2DB6KVVPFCGDM

waiting for those

Yea pretty much all cups suck but you get used to them pretty quick. I am trying to lift twice a week at least, on top of doing BJJ 3 times a week and usually a day of boxing. Anymore then that and I am pretty ****ty on the mats really imo, especially if I am really burnt out from squats etc, and my legs just die easily wrestling.

I did 2 hours of open mat BJJ this morning then 90 minutes of a legit wrestling class. Was pretty cool. The guy and girl teaching it just had a kid a few months ago and are getting back into it so it wasn't toooo grueling but was pretty good. Hes from Poland so she has to translate a lot of stuff for him haha, but it was pretty solid. She wrestled in the Olympics for the Aus team and he was the Olympic team coach.

They are in the front, I am the extremely handsome guy in black 2nd from the left.

that's awesome.

3rd guy in black from the left next to the Brazilian flag looks pretty tough.

Big guy right under the flag? Yes hes brand new. I think hes 235 and covered in tattoos. Hes pretty cool though, I thought he was going to be that "guy" at first. He will be a handful eventually once hes finds his base, but I can handle him for now. Hes strong as **** though but new guys just make so many mistakes and get swept so easy. That doesn't last long though.

Haha, I was talking about Jigoro.

Nice thread so far. For the guys that train in the gi/no-gi, I have a YouTube channel over at www.youtube.com/GBEscondido. Some of the techniques have been featured on some grappling sites such as the DstryrSG.

If you're ever in the North County San Diego area feel free to come on in and train with us. Most of the vids are from actual classes, some are for drills, no-gi, etc. Feel free to comment on the vids and also I'm open to taking any suggestions for what you might want to see.

I rescued this bitch from getting archived I demand more videos

All I got is a few new lifting videos, not sure anyone wants to see those, although I lift specifically for grappling. I also am thinking of making a BJJ video series with a unique idea, I will run it by you guys soon.

Eddie Bravo "MASTERING THE SYSTEM" episode 34 (feat. Ronda Rousey)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ix8Yw5zUEE

Just saw this posted on Twitter and thought you guys would enjoy it, I know Caught Clean will.

Haha I like Eddie even though I disagree with a lot of his stuff. I liked the part on stretching the beginning, I am trying to get more flexible in my hips, its a huge problem for me.

So I thought I would run this by you guys, see what you think.

I really like filming and editing things and have been trying to think of a good project for awhile. I can paid for youtube views now so I was brainstorming ideas. I was thinking since I am supposed to get my blue soon I could make a little series on going from white to blue. Since I am still quite new in term of BJJ, I have gone from a complete beginner to say a novice over the last year and a half. While I am not in any position to teach, I was talking to my coach when he told me he sometimes gets somewhat frustrated with new people and has to remind himself its been several years since he was a white belt and he didn't get a lot of things back then either. Based on this I think it somewhat puts me in a special spot because I can pass on things I felt helped me a ton coming to this point. Things I felt work really well for a beginner, while still advocating the basic and fundamentals of course.

Problem is I think it might get a lot of flak because some people don't want to hear it from a newer guy like I am pretending I am a teacher or something. I thought it has potential though. Thoughts?

So I was thinking liek a video a week or something, just go over a certain technique that really clicked for me as a beginer, other tips etc, since say a black belt who was a white belt 10+ years ago might not reemmeber what helped him as a white, other then just drilling the basics etc, but the number 1 thnigs new guys want to learn is how long it takes to blue, why wont this work for me etc.

I think the number one thing for beginners is fundamentals and not trying to pull off fancy passes and sweeps that they see on YouTube or from high level competitors (unless it's guys like Roger who use the fundamentals so perfectly). I think Roy Dean has a really good series on level/belt progression as well as Saulo's book. Anything to help others out is always a positive CC, I'll be an interested viewer.

In terms of beginners who have tons of questions, most of them can be simply answered by train more, train more, train more. The beauty of this art is that you can watch YouTube and comp videos and talk theory all day long, but if you're not on the mat drilling, drilling, and drilling, you'll never get any better.

Totally agree. The videos wouldn't be advanced stuff, but more basic things that I found that clicked early and worked for me as a beginner.

Cmon bump! Dont let this die!

Sick all week, got zero grappling done it sucked.... uhh here is something somewhat relevant, my current favorite exercise.

Your first pull should be 2 moves, not one single motion (very common beginner's mistake. I did it for a long time before reading up and correcting it. It's actually dangerous to jerk like that in one motion, just a heads up).

It should be a slower dead lift and then a snap w/ a hop, placing you underneath the bar. Once the bar has reached your thighs, begin the second explosion while dipping under the bar to catch it. Your arms shouldn't be lifting the bar at all during the dead lift portion. Yours do, that's why your balance is kind of thrown and the bar goes uneven. It should just be a slow dead lift, and then explode and catch. There's a lot of videos online for it. It's probably the hardest lift to get down properly. It took me a few months to be really comfortable with it.

Yea I am just starting to get into it, thanks for the tips though. Starting to feel better each time.

Yeah, it's just one of those lifts that takes some time. I did the exact same **** as you for a while. I'd be really careful if you add more weight though. My brother did PC's like that and hurt his back even more. :-/

PCs = SRS BSNS.

Sigh, sad weekend for BJJ here. My gym hosted a BJJ tournament this weekend where a competitor got flying headbutted from behind by a (non bjj practitioner) friend of his opponent. There was a 10+ ppl brawl and cops had to be called.

Video of the incident is on facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/Brazilian.J...Eastern.Europe

Where's the video?