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I meant to say an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of escape. And yes you will end up somewhere but the goal is to gain enough knowledge and ability to be able to prevent being in a bad position or submission.

You know Ps1, I was looking back over this thread and some much older posts and got to thinking about guard and the different types of guard. I thought about starting a new thread but I think my thoughts and questions will go nicely here. How would you categorize each guard? example: Defensive or Offensive Beginner-Intermediate-Advanced Here are my thoughts to start: Full Closed = Basic, Defensive Half = Intermediate/Advanced, Offensive Butterfly = Advanced, Offensive X = Advanced, Strictly Offensive Spider = Intermediate, Offensive The technical nature of each and when a student is likely to use them effectively is the basic criteria I used to place them as far as Basic intermediate and advanced. The offense, defense aspect I am looking at it from the point of view of what is it's main purpose for which it serves the individual. The reason I put closed guard as defensive is because you are so squared up it can be difficult for two beginners to create an effective angle. And just as life comes full circle so does Jiu Jitsu in the sense that two very experienced individuals can have the problem with closed guard. What you think?

Prevention is worth a pound of escape!

You can do it! Focus, tune everything else around you out. Good luck!

This is the most common question asked when teaching beginners anything. So I will answer this question for all my friends here at KF. As a student I heard this asked many, many times and the words echo in my mind. "Don't be there."

Since opening JJN I have gotten a bit out of shape. However over the last 3 weeks I have been rolling an hour to an hour and a half 4 times a week. At first it was tough but my body remembers and is has bounced back. Starting to feel really good and getting excited about competing in 2011. Already feeling it!

I think you are right and that word pretty much sums it up. I'm sold on it. I'll have Webster give you a call for your complete definition!

I'm trying to follow this with past posts included. Did you not refuse a position that would have given you a say so or more about things like this?

McSociety!!

I was told "First you learn how to tap, then you learn how to make tap." This doesn't really refer to the curriculum, but more so the process during the first year of rolling.

Look in some old phone books you'll find that most of those schools used to be karate or something else that jumped on the band wagon. If you find a legit black belt or close in one of those schools I'd go that route. Are there any websites to look at?

Hello!!!

I'm a bona fide zombie killa! And no one will ever be able to prove me wrong... I hope.

There is a national average that can be searched online. Also judo schools are difficult to come by. I would check out the ones in your area and then do a little background research on them. If everything you find out about them you like, just walk in and take a look around and speak to someone. Most schools will not give prices over the phone which is fine because you don't know what you are pricing over the phone so go see it and then ask.

I like!

If there are no other options in your area then I would get the information where I could. Actually this is how I got started in a garage before Luiz Palhares came to Nashville. Well not online but through magazines and video. I acquired enough information and skill to have some success in blue belt competition. Thats actually how I met Luiz. I have acquired a good bit of my technique through some seminars as well. Although I will say I got much more from some than others. One of the most significant experiences I have was being introduced to Carlson Gracie Sr. by Master Palhares. His style was simple and very effective. I use everything I learned from him. I did a seminar which was my introduction and then trained with him two more times before his death. I would say aside from Luiz he has been the most influential in my learning. Nothing will substitute an experienced instructor. Jiu Jitsu is on the rise and it will be available to everyone at some point. Some of you may just be the one who takes initiative and works hard to be the one bringing it to your area. Many schools are not open to introducing new styles into there programs and even worse are not open to bringing in instructors of other styles in areas where they may be weak. The right attitude will overcome any of these obstacles.

Uhuh! I saw em on tv!

Indeed!

YEZZIR!!!

I don't think I could have said this better myself. No, I'm know that I could not have said it better. Especially after re-reading it. So, one thing I do know is that I don't know everything. Sometimes, my wife would wonder if I do know anything...at all... Thanks. The best way to get a visual on it is to make a pie graph and give a sliver of it to the things we know. Next give a slightly larger piece of the pie to what you know you don't know and then the rest of the pie goes to what you do not know, that you do not know. It just makes you aware of how little we know. Which in a sense makes us all beginners to the very end. I think I am just now getting a firm grasp on bjj after ten years. And there is a world of martial arts out there that I know I don't know. And I'm sure there's some I'm unaware of. It will take a very long time to master what I know, if ever. In the world of grappling there are at least four other grappling styles(that i'm aware of off the top of my head) that I could learn and probably will never have time to get to it all. The best I can ask for is to feel comfortable and confident. However I would love to master grappling as a whole. I'm just very passionate about it. Realistically I don't believe this is a practical goal. I will be spending as much time as I can learning the best information I can find and pass it on to the best of my ability. Thank you for your time and attention as this is kind of long for me. That is all.

Parents are forever taking pictures and video while my classes are going on. I never really give it much thought. 99% of the time it makes facebook and just benefits the school because those pictures say more than I ever could about our program.

LOL don't get me wrong I'm not just open the being grabbed or struck. However I believe whether it's grappling or striking I feel more like you could escalate the situation out of your favor. An unsuccessful attempt on the groin will bring dire consequences. Besides you can't attack the groin with them on your back choking the life out of you. With an experienced bjj practitioner you will find very few opportunities to apply these tactics. There are strategies used to make the opponent think of only what one wants them to think about while grappling. An example is attack the neck and they will give up their arms. Unless you spend and extensive amount of time being choked and defending chokes the brain will override what you think you would do when no fresh oxygen is being received in the brain. Everyone goes night night with the choke. That just simply cannot be argued.

There is a small percentage of things I know. There is a larger percentage of things that I know I don't know. The vast majority however falls into the category of things I don't know, that I don't know. Some people however know it all. How very fortunate for them! lol

If there are 30 or so places on the body that could cause a knockout or death, is it possible I may accidentally run into one of these on accident and really hurt myself?? More so wouldn't this be accidentally prove repeatedly with contact sports like football and hockey?? it just doesn't make since and has never been proven. If there were 30 off buttons on the body I think we would all be doing this wouldn't we?