Adonis

You should be fine. I am jealous! I wish I did wrestling in high school especially for the benefits it would given me for bjj now. Better take downs, scrambling, weight cutting, mental toughness and constantly on the go will teach you how to out work someone, gramby rolling ect... So many great benefits to wrestling. Judo is great too with the grip fighting, Kazushi, judo style take downs and much more. Get as much wrestling as you can. I am not sure about others on here but I find it tough to find good wrestling coaches and partners as an adult who isn't in school anymore. I really wish I did as much wrestling as I could in high school and college.

Thanks I will try that out.

As PS1 said the belt ranks are same for bjj in general all around for the adults. The requirments and procedures to get each belt vary from instructor to instructor. Some have Belt Tests, with varying requirements. Some don't and instructor hands you a belt when he feels your ready for it. Some have stripes some don't. Example Jacarae out of Atlanta(Alliance) They don't do stripes at all. Some base it on getting promoted quicker because of competition. Some don't. Some it can be soley based on Competiton. One student of Baret Yoshida said he will only prommote someone to a belt level if they win a major tournament. Belts just depends on the standards of the instructor. Some schools may have tougher guys than others. It all depends on the standards of the instructor.

Yeah that is jiujitsu. I know this before but still suprised every time I think I know a move really well and find more details that make it so much better. My favorite part is those minor details after finding them out seem so much common sense I start thinking "why didn't I think of that before" I know every one goes through that though. I remember story of Rickson teaching Helio some stuff about the mount. I was surprised about it at the time. Now, I know no is going to know every. Still be learning until the day we die. Pedro Sauer is encylapedia of bjj. It's crazy! I wonder if I will ever know as much as he has already forgotten.

Kind of odd I am trying to picture it but can't. I will try it out none the less. What grip are you using for that Figure 4/RNC grip or palm to palm grip? before i would walk out at 90 degree perpendicular with palm to palm grip and my chin on their face. to keep the gap closed so they can swing their arm out. All I did was go flat hips to the mat and drop my shoulder down towards my wrist/floor area as opposed to just squeezing. I will try the elbows one too though.

So I was reading another thread about Nova Uniao guys being pretty good with head and arm choke. One person mentioned Shaolin being excellent at it. One of guys who trained with Shaolin came on and mentioned details he did to make it tighter. I been doing the choke for years and I have no idea why I didn't think of it. I use the same detail for more pressure from side control. Basically take the weight off the knee's so it's just toes/ball of the foot ont eh ground and drive with the under hook arm around the head with the shoulder in the neck. I never thought of using the same pressure for head and arm choke. I just kept going perpendicular and driving my shoulder down wether I have a figure four /rnc grip or palm to palm gable grip. I prefer the palm to palm grip. So I worked it today and got quicker results for the tap as well as my partner saying blood choke came on quicker when I took my knees of the floor and drove with my feet foward driving the weight pressure from my shoulder into my opponent neck/arm. Still after all this time suprised I didn't think of it earlier. Those fun ahaha moments of jiujitsu

I really don't know why he let him up the first time. Later on not in the video he revealed he thought he guy had a weapon. So sure good use of controling the wrist from mount so the guy couldn't get it, maybe Ryan was afraid of the friend jumping in. Still if he was afraid the guy had a weapon why let him up at all until the police arrived? Also biggesgt thing is BJJ Black Belt Dave Jacobs sitting at the table the whole time still munching on his pizza like a boss. Nothing comes between Dave and his Pizza. Nothing! LOL!

I agree about white belts doing 50/50. Not my favorite guard position at all. as for 93 guard. That name is taken from Robson Moura who said he first learned it in 1993. They are all knee shields just played different for different reasons. Example knee shield at a diaginal angle across the chest or on the sternum, or knee shield where the ankles are crossed and just the knee on upper area of the shin are into the partners near side hip. (Mike Fowler played that one a lot for his half guard) 93 guard is more shin in the armpit area, withe knee/leg at 90 degree angle. More played by Robson Moura and others. It has its advantages and opens up for mutiple sweep options and less likely to get smashed down against teh other knee for passing.

I was pretty impressed with the instruction. As said earlier it was broken down very well, as well as being very detailed. Great supplement to add in on regular training at a club. Unless you can get reliable partners as stated earlier. I ended up getting the video's for free for the Gracie Combatives and most of the 1 stripe video's for blue belt from a friend who baught them for me. I am more interstead in the Bully Proof set to help supplement kids training, as well as the Empowerment stuff. I really like there methods of structure for all their programs. I am not a fan of the online ranking system, but as far as instructionals go, they are fanstasic especially the details for the basic techniques and the methods for practicing them.

This is one of my favorite sweeps from there. I don't get it that often as I need to rep some more to get some key details down. The vid I posted was Vitor "Shaolin" Ribiero showing the sweep. Great instructional on it. I love the angles, and direction he shows it makes the over head sweep so much more easier. The area I need to work on more is dealing with keeping the cross grip and pants grip and baiting or forcing the person to feed me their weight. So I am working on Grip fighting more from there. I Play knee shild guard different, were I do more 93 guard style were the Shen of the top leg is in the arm pit as opposed to the knee on the ribs sternum area. What do you guys think of that guard and that sweep? Does any one else play this guard as part of their game?

Fun guard to play and to pass. Who else plays this type of guard?

Something has to be right for how well they do. If some one recruited, they can't recruit every one. Something has to be proven. I can understand if it was just JT, Fowler, Hall ( when he was with him) Jimmy Haribison (who's been with Lloyd for ever) Jimmy took Eurpeans, brazilian, pan ams, and worlds at black belt. When I started paying attention to his other guys like DJ Jackson, Sijara Eubanks, Nyjah Easton, Kennan Cornilius his kids and teens ect... his teaching, and training his guys have to be on point to get those results. Like you said something is going on to get those results. I know some don't like him and dismiss it as recuiting, but it can't be all of that for those results. Sure I know those who find the Marketing annoying, and all of that stuff. However he is doing something right. Thats why I am interestad in his drilling methods and transitions. His planning and thinking process of it. Thats why I was curious what others think of that. It can't be recuiting its to many people he has doing well for it to be that. It can't be the marketing. Marketing only produces results in the bank account, it doesn't turn up wiins on the mat alone. Any thoughts on that?

ps1 thats not true. He has guys he is proeducing from scratch doing very well. The toher guys who came form other teams JT. Torres, ect.. came on their own accord. People switch teams all the time. Who switches to a team that isn't doing well or creating results? Atos has tons that switched to ti, people witch to alliance, humita ect... Who has Lloyd Recruited? It doesn't mean any thing if guys come to him. Who has Lloyd recurited personally? Team is getting results if people want to transfer there. I have heard that from my team. Some one telling me about Lloyd trying to recruit a couple of are purple belts. They were blew at the time. I ask them about it, and found out the truth. He definetly wasn't trying to recuit them. So I would love to hear names of people he did recruit? Ryan Hall (I know he is no longer with Lloyd), Fowler, JT Torrest chose to go to him. so who?

http://blackbeltsweepsecrets.com/grappling-blueprint/ Definetly interestead in this. His team is killing it out there in competition. They are doing extremely well. So his game planning and drilling systems he has been talking about seem really interesting. Any thoughts on it?

Thats neat you been with Pedro he is a great instructor. For which me saying that is a mass understatement. Pedro is phenominal! Which you already know. Yeah I don't really understand connection concept. I would like to feel what Rickson is getting at with it. I am thinking of Andre's review regarding the basic armbar from guard. I believe the conection is the feel of each postion or transitino to the actal armbar and the ability to gain leverage from it and the right timing to move from each one. Just more work on the basics and alot more mat time.