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I am just curious as to the class structure, rituals and displays of respect in different schools. For example. At Jiu Jitsu Nation we bow entering the mats. We bow in and out of class. Students line up in order of rank. We never adjust our gis and belts facing an instructor or higher rank. When we roll (spar) we always give way to higher ranks. Meaning that if we bump into or get close to another pair and one or both is higher rank the lower ranks will get up and move to give the higher ranks the mat space. Many people feel your belt should never touch the floor but for us in BJJ the belt never stays on and since we are already on the floor so is the belt. lol We never wash our belts. We take great pride in wears our belts so much they wear out. Another reason we don't wash them as some people do this just to wear them faster. Curious to hear about everyones traditions.

Wear your belt out! Never wash it. Unless you left it in your gym bag sweaty and it stinks then wash it. Just don't make it habit. BJJ belts come off during sparring all the time so it's common for our belts to be on the floor. lol And as far as my spirit being washed away... the belt is symbolic, my spirit remains.

Close your eyes for a moment. Not yet, read this first. lol Picture two individuals, one standing before another who is kneeling. The standing figure has hands wrapped firmly around the others throat. The kneeling individual grasping at the others hands and gasping for breath. How would you respond to this situation?

I like the age requirements. BJJ belt system is different but we too have age limits on what rank a child can represent. After that the minimum required years handle the rest.

True story Bushido. However statistically most fights are about ego and neither person really wants to hurt the other. Mostly they just want to look cool in front of someone. Most fights end without anything following ie. injuries, charges, them knowing each others names.lol

Oh. They work a lot of wrestling in your bjj class??

I have trained with a few Olympic Judoka and their coaches. Very unnerving their grip game is. For every three times I would get thrown I'd thrown them once. Which for me was a confidence builder for competition. And yes other than that I have ever only seen one other school that offered high level Judo. As far as small circle and let me add Niseido as these I have first hand experience with. They don't fair very well on the feet or ground with judo or bjj. I have a Nisiedo representative near me and my blue belts take them down, control, sweep and tap them effortlessly. There is no comparison. We do have to remember that when there is an exception it is usually someone claiming to be more than they are. Which is stupid because it generally makes you a target in the school you have just entered.

Bridging on your head 10 or 20 times everyday will help a lot.That and learn how to keep them off your head. I suffered reoccurring back and neck injuries for a while and it taught me to not let anyone near my head. Really is the best policy.

I was once told" Be good at something. Anything." The idea mis that you only need to be good at a few things. Do them and do them very well. I know a few of you have touched on this. Just thought I'd reinforce.

The goal is to load the leg for reaping. If the leg is light there is a greater chance they will step off. A foot sweep requires the foot to be light.

What does the breaking point mean? breaking point  –noun 1.The point at which physical, mental, or emotional strength gives way under stress. 2. The point at which a situation or condition becomes critical. Let's analyze the definitions. The first suggests that there is a point at which an individual collapse due to stress. The second is the point at which a situation or condition becomes critical. Critical! So what does this mean to an athlete? It means that at the moment mental and emotional strength goes, the situation is now critical! If you allow your mind to go before your body, you will choose to quit. The mind is a matter of choice. Many people due not have the mental and emotional fortitude to push themselves beyond their comfort zones. Here is a secret. We ALL experience fear and pain. We all want to quit at some point. Now I'm sure everyone is familiar with the saying "Champions are made not born." I agree. At some point you will experience a moment of defeat, and if you can look back and be honest, you can even pinpoint the moment you made the choice to give up. You made a choice even before you had even lost. You felt overwhelmed. You felt as if you could not rise to the challenge. Even as I write I am emotional, because I remember those times vividly. I live with them and accept them now that I can see it was a CHOICE! It is within these learning experiences, should we choose to open our hearts and minds to them, that we will grow to be what we see ourselves to be. To be that champion. We all experience that moment of weakness, but we can choose to share that moment of weakness with the world and discover mediocrity or we can choose to override it and see through to what our heart desires. Know this. The human body is resilient and so is the spirit. Rather than deciding on what you can't take, what you just can't endure... let it go. Let go of the thought that you have boundaries and limits to what you can endure. Instead welcome all of life and every challenge as you would a friend. Push yourself through the fire. "He who walks the fire, breathes unlike the rest "

I have seen peoples lives change completely after training. Especially kids who are picked on and teenagers who have nothing else to do but get in trouble. Of course any activity can have this affect depending on what it teaches this person about themselves.

I would most certainly assist if needed and other than that i'd probably just watch amused.

Just saw it. It was awesome! And they are enfluenced by those cultures. Not representative of those cultures. And to put China and Japan into a group is offensive enough to them. Wait till the second week in august???

True story. I agree and support that.

I mean really? The movie is gonna be saweet! I could care less. People have nothing better to do. Memoirs of a Geisha remember that? Chinese girl playing Japanese. What difference does it make. They felt she was the best for the job. ugh.

As a teacher I was trying teach something that a very small percentage of the population actually grasps. Somewhere around 3 percent. So far I only hear people justifying the reasons why they can't. My point of the post wasn't coming to class or my interest in hearing excuses for why one can't make it. An individuals story in dealing with the difficulty in which they find coming to class is only interesting if you are overcoming the obstacles. If so and so says they have to spend x amount of time and effort making it to class is only relevant to the teacher when he/she can look at this person as an example of someone who is overcoming a lot just to do what they want. My point was to inspire him. Not just to do class, but anything worth doing.

It wasn't my intention to offend. Just a common thing to happen. And you don't have to be a fly by night mma school to experience this. Any individual unfamiliar with the art will not see the importance or intention of most anything they see. Forgive me for not being familiar with your background, but your professor and mine are very good friends. As are everyone you have mentioned. Like I said was probably the language barrier.

I would probably beg to differ with not being the most technical. You can't be at the top of the BJJ world and not be. I sat in on a private lesson with Marcelo and he is a phenom. Most people watching straight jitz in action can't see the beauty or the details in it because the don't know what they are looking at. Also when the guy has very poor english it's difficult to be very detailed in your instruction.

Ha TIME MANAGEMENT bushido! And yes if it is unavailable it would be difficult. buy some dvds and find another body and DO IT!

My focus was more on time management and not that he had to be there. Regardless of what you feel about missing, 50 some odd hours and you don't know where they went can make you really think of the possibilities. You may even decide to do something you once thought you had no time for. Time management.

I'm taking all my students to see it this friday!

After missing almost two weeks of class I had a student come in and say to me"Sorry coach, I mean no disrespect for missing class." I appreciate the gesture and his posture. So I said "Come here, I want to show you something." From there I went on to ask him how many hours he had worked last week. 59. How many hours do you sleep at night? 4 I wrote down 6. How many hours do you spend in the gym lifting? 2 a day. And on we went. So lets look at this 59 hours at work 42 hours of sleep 14 hours in the gym (not mine) equals 115 hrs accounted for. There are 168 hours in a week. which leaves him with 53 unaccounted hours left. I'm only asking for 4. After our little sit down he was dumbfounded at the time he had left and couldn't say where it went. Most people aren't nearly as active as he. He understood and expressed at that point that he had obviously made excuses because he couldn't argue with the numbers. A how to attitude in life is crucial for accomplishing goals. Don't base what you are going to be, off of what everybody else is not.

While playing live. Try circling away from the leg you are going to reap. This will get them stepping forward with that foot. Make your entry. If you are to far away and you feel you are reaching with the foot, hook it anyway to scotch the leg and hop as if jumping behind them, which you are. The whole idea of breaking there posture back is to take the head out of alignment with the hips. Osoto gari can also be done in sequence with a shoulder throw. Osoto being part two. Which you will have more success with than a single entry. Train for 2 and 3. 1 is the setup.

I can remember every loss and how it happened, what went through my mind, and the mistake I made. Although, I have hundreds of matches and victories I can't remember any of the wins as vividly. The high I get from winning is fleeting compared to the sleep I lose over losing. But being highly competitive, it drives me. Each loss taught me more than winning... at least about jiu jitsu and what I needed to improve on. Take this time to determine what is missing from your training. Technique? Conditioning? Adequate training partners? Competent coaching?