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BJJ is easy. It just takes a really long time to figure that out.
I nominate this to become an actual BJJ quote....loved it
BJJ is easy. It just takes a really long time to figure that out.
Great posts, guys. Thanks. It's nice to know it's not just me. I guess what's been troubling me is the question of whether the practice of rolling and getting my ass kicked is in and of itself helpful. I guess it is, so off I go.
BTW, orange: most of the guys I roll with are failrly close to my size (5'10", 180), and they tend to be advanced white belts and blue belts, with the occasional purple thrown in.
b/c you are posting stupid things like this instead of analysing how you are getting beat and looking up techniques on youtube on how to escape/defend yourself.
you will not submit people very often or at all for the first few months.
and start going more than three times a week.
b/c you are posting stupid things like this instead of analyzing how you are getting beat and looking up techniques on youtube on how to escape/defend yourself.
you will not submit people very often or at all for the first few months.
and start going more than three times a week.
Great posts, guys. Thanks. It's nice to know it's not just me. I guess what's been troubling me is the question of whether the practice of rolling and getting my ass kicked is in and of itself helpful. I guess it is, so off I go.
BTW, orange: most of the guys I roll with are failrly close to my size (5'10", 180), and they tend to be advanced white belts and blue belts, with the occasional purple thrown in.
Ok, so you are train BJJ for 3 months and you are orange?
Is that a kid belt?
I think he's addressing the poster above named Orange-something who asked about his opponents' sizes.
I've been training for only about 3 months, so yeah, I know it's still brand new. But I can't seem to do anything. I'm constantly in positions/situations that I have no clue what to do. Although I "know" (that is, I'm aware of) a number of subs, I almost never pull them off. Can someone please tell me what the learning curve is like, and at what point do you start to see the puzzle? Also, aside from going to class as often as possible, what else can I do to help myself understand.view BJJ as the chess match it should be (or so I'm told). I mean, to me, just getting my ass handed to me 3x per week doesn't seem to be helping. :redface:
Suck it up candy ass. Sooner or later a bigger wimp then you is going to come through teh door.
Are you even trying anymore?
Where's the "hardness?"
P.S. When is the bigger wimp showing up at my school? You promise?
I am new also (3months), and i only pulled off my first submission in class about 2 weeks ago. It felt good to know that I was actually learning something and was lucky enough to pull something off. I am still getting tapped, but for the most part I am still playing the defense and just learning as I go. Every person is different and everything clicks at different moments. I think once you have successfully executed your first submission cleanly then will you start to think "hey now I get it.....sorta" It will come with time to do things but once it does you will find that your eagerness to learn will grow even more because the simplest of moves will start to feel second nature to you and you will be ready to understand all the different moves that are taught later on.