Jiu-Jitsu

[Kev70]

Sorry for the late reply but college is killing me. I live in Collinsville VA. Our instructor pays a lot of attention to hand maneuvers and finger locks. He is big on submission without doing a lot of physical damage. He loves to talk about the three types of hinges and how to manipulate them. Then again, I think that he just loves to talk

[imoñ]

i train in shotokan, judo and jujitsu, i think its a good idea because all of them seem to complement each other and fill in the gaps in each others fighting style, (e.g shotokan dosent go down to the ground but judo and JJ do)

 

in my opinion its a good mix

[newbalance]

im interested in joining a jiu jitsu studio that is in the process of opening up as i speak. Im just worried about a couple of thing:

 

1. it is brazillian jui jitsu. what does this mean compared to reg jiu jitsu

 

2. im a tall lean guy, missing that low center of gravity that is advantageous to wrestlers, which will me an easy target with long weak limbs? is this ignorant speculation?

 

3.the ultimate fear is getting a dumb instructor and getting something broken because he didnt know what he was doing. A TKD instructor i have sometimes had us grappling one night, and I got put in a full nelson. I never grappled before, and was not told this was an illegal move conservatively speaking, the instructor never made the other guy release, and i had a sprained neck for about 2 weeks. Stupid instructors can be costly, and if my views are right, jui jitsu can be pretty intense with joint locks and submissions, etc.

 

any advice for a maybe-beginner in jiu jitsu?