White Belt Questions

[Blazek11]

- Im an athletic and strong WB 180 cm and 95 kg, 4 month of training, 3 classes every week (only misses 2 classes)

Oss everyone!
Im new in the forum, I have a few questions, and i don want to annoy mestre everytime. So i hope you can help me with your knowledge.
1- Every class we do armbar triangle and omoplata/americana training + the technique of the week + etc, but wen i am in a fight, i can not made that techniques, never results, why?
(Work for me any other technique then i learn from a blue belt o from youtube.)

2- I practique escapes but i can not be on top when i fight against a blue belt or higher, and i can not escape from bottom, they scores a lot of points when fight against me, top mount, side control, knee on belly, the question is: I will be able to escape soon? I must focus my training in escapes?

thanks and sorry for the Bad English...

 

[andrewm2211]

Short answer is Jiu Jistu is hard.

By the time we went over the escapes the third time or so. Or the technique of the week for the third time I felt like I was actually starting to land a few things.

 

[Who's Laughin' Now?]

The hip movement for the omoplata is weird if you haven't done grappling. It's also a strange move, you can hit it based on speed or you can grind it out if you can find the "rest spots" during the transitions.

Escapes will largely not work against people close to your size with more experience grappling because they were/are using the same escapes and know how and when to counter them.

Keep going to class, keep trying to use techniques to escape, and when you can escape regularly you won't need to worry (as much) about sub attempts leading to bad positions so you can work them more.

 

[AK Gerard]

4 months of training at 3 times a week is still very new in this sport. At this point you should notice you're usually able to get the upper hand on brand new people to your gym (assuming no previous grappling experience), but that's about it.
As for the techniques you drill every session, you'll rarely get those perfect moments for setting up the sub as you do drilling them. Instead, with time, you'll notice situations in which those techniques can suddenly be applied. I hit my first omoplata in a messy scramble, not from a transition from an arm bar as I'd drilled so often before. Also, class is the perfect time to experiment and see what works for trying to set those techniques up, but it's going to take a lot of trial and error.
Finally, escapes take a lot of work and may be next to impossible against those with more skill - it's just the nature of the sport. Just have to keep working on them.

 

[Dogstarman]

Stop worrying about it and keep training. If you aren't trolling, if you keep training you will look back on this post and laugh at yourself because you are so new. It will all work out in the long run you will see.

Remember jiu jitsu is a marathon not a sprint.

 

[trustdoesntrust]

- Im an athletic and strong WB 180 cm and 95 kg, 4 month of training, 3 classes every week (only misses 2 classes)

Oss everyone!
Im new in the forum, I have a few questions, and i don want to annoy mestre everytime. So i hope you can help me with your knowledge.
1- Every class we do armbar triangle and omoplata/americana training + the technique of the week + etc, but wen i am in a fight, i can not made that techniques, never results, why?
(Work for me any other technique then i learn from a blue belt o from youtube.)

2- I practique escapes but i can not be on top when i fight against a blue belt or higher, and i can not escape from bottom, they scores a lot of points when fight against me, top mount, side control, knee on belly, the question is: I will be able to escape soon? I must focus my training in escapes?

thanks and sorry for the Bad English...

The problem is that you see an armbar, triangle, omoplata, americana as one move when they are actually several small moves strung together to become what we call "armbar, triangle, omoplata, americana." Same thing with the escapes: you think of the escape as one move, but the escape is the RESULT of many moves strung together (push on hips, turn to the side, shrimp out, turn back, etc.). So, pay close attention to doing the individual parts of the move, and you may magically find that they suddenly start working for you.