Listening to the Right People and Ignoring the Rest !

Recently met up with an old training partner one who as always given me awesome advice on how to move my game up. You always find there are a few people you meet who are worth their weight in gold – you ask them a question and they respond in terms you understand – if you come across a BJJ practitioner like this listen very carefully and you’ll get some of the detail that you’ll miss during your normal training sessions with your instructor.

 

One piece of advice which I’ll share is how strength and power eventually will meet its match so your technique needs to be so much better than your opponent. Also don’t assume or be led to believe – muscle is being used when really its technique – which you are yet to master.

 

Be careful of listening to the nay sayers who claim anyone better than them or generally fitter than them is only using strength – judge each individual from their interaction with you and the advice they give to you – if you can’t do a technique well don’t immediately blame it on your lack of stamina or power.

 

Creating openings and getting positions sets you up for the submission – I now realise that and retract on my critiscm of “position before submission” as my understanding of BJJ has developed I feel I’m starting to “get” what the more advanced guys used to say…. I stand corrected !!

 

Be mindful of what others say and take benefit from the good traits of all those around – be they white belts, purple, brown or black. Take the good and leave the rest !!!! Good rolling to your all !