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If you don't care about my little journey of getting excited about finally training then skip the next 3 paragraphs.
Originally I was just interested in Judo while BJJ was a minor interest. That's because when I would get into fooling around scraps with friends my first instinct was to use my "I-watched-a-guy-on-youtube" level grappling to get leverage and toss them to the ground. After looking up the philosophy behind Judo I was like huzzah I do a very crude version of this already so this should be a perfect fit.
Then I discovered the Grappling Forum (a lovely change of pace from the heavies) and I read up on a ton of people's experiences with BJJ and over time I became even more interested in BJJ than Judo even though I think it's going to substantially more difficult for me to learn. I can't tell you how many hours of this summer I spent watching people roll at skill levels ranging from Jacare Souza to random teenagers on youtube.
And finally after watching so many fights and hearing all of the Wrestling vs BJJ shit storms I have concluded that it's better to be good at both than to only be good at one. I've seen wrestlers get tapped and BJJ guys get controlled. (I've even seen it the other way around) I live in the United States so naturally Wrestling is popular at my school and there are resources available. Apparently Frankie Edgar is(or used to be?) assistant coach for the RU wrestling team. I don't intend to tryout for the team because that would mean a huge commitment to just wrestling as opposed to the aforementioned MA's so the club is a better fit. (Also I've never wrestled on a team before so I would almost certainly get raped but let's not dwell on that )
And now to the main topic here
My school offers BJJ, Judo, and there's a wrestling club. Each club meets twice a week and sometimes one day on the weekend. They all use the same facility so obviously they can't overlap hours however wrestling and judo can overlap days which is where I wonder if I'm nuts for thinking I can do wrestling for 2 hours and then be back in an hour for judo.
The schedules aren't finalized but on average I'd be doing each one twice a week and on one day (monday probably) I'd have wrestling and Judo on the same day within an hour of each other
About six days of grappling per week every day would be different.
I just want to do grapple as much as I can and use what I learn to my advantage everywhere else.
Anybody ever do something like this? Am I crazy for wanting to just start training 3 martial arts at the same time?
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Originally I was just interested in Judo while BJJ was a minor interest. That's because when I would get into fooling around scraps with friends my first instinct was to use my "I-watched-a-guy-on-youtube" level grappling to get leverage and toss them to the ground. After looking up the philosophy behind Judo I was like huzzah I do a very crude version of this already so this should be a perfect fit.
Then I discovered the Grappling Forum (a lovely change of pace from the heavies) and I read up on a ton of people's experiences with BJJ and over time I became even more interested in BJJ than Judo even though I think it's going to substantially more difficult for me to learn. I can't tell you how many hours of this summer I spent watching people roll at skill levels ranging from Jacare Souza to random teenagers on youtube.
And finally after watching so many fights and hearing all of the Wrestling vs BJJ shit storms I have concluded that it's better to be good at both than to only be good at one. I've seen wrestlers get tapped and BJJ guys get controlled. (I've even seen it the other way around) I live in the United States so naturally Wrestling is popular at my school and there are resources available. Apparently Frankie Edgar is(or used to be?) assistant coach for the RU wrestling team. I don't intend to tryout for the team because that would mean a huge commitment to just wrestling as opposed to the aforementioned MA's so the club is a better fit. (Also I've never wrestled on a team before so I would almost certainly get raped but let's not dwell on that )
And now to the main topic here
My school offers BJJ, Judo, and there's a wrestling club. Each club meets twice a week and sometimes one day on the weekend. They all use the same facility so obviously they can't overlap hours however wrestling and judo can overlap days which is where I wonder if I'm nuts for thinking I can do wrestling for 2 hours and then be back in an hour for judo.
The schedules aren't finalized but on average I'd be doing each one twice a week and on one day (monday probably) I'd have wrestling and Judo on the same day within an hour of each other
About six days of grappling per week every day would be different.
I just want to do grapple as much as I can and use what I learn to my advantage everywhere else.
Anybody ever do something like this? Am I crazy for wanting to just start training 3 martial arts at the same time?
Discusssssss