Brazilian Jiu Jitsu thread

[iona]

lol!
you get better with 2 legs though.
What’s your favourite throw/ trip?
You ever tried suicide throws?

and wtf is this shit with Jackson Sousa?
Read all about it on FB.

Guard pull to DLR/RDLR to back take Favourite throw ffs LOL. If I really had to choose I prefer wrestling over judo but still gonna pull guard before either of those. Do you bother with the judo stuff much or mostly stick with wrestling?

What's the Jackson Sousa thing? I'm not on Facebook or owt.

 

[Virtual Blue]

 

[Virtual Blue]

Guard pull to DLR/RDLR to back take Favourite throw ffs LOL. If I really had to choose I prefer wrestling over judo but still gonna pull guard before either of those. Do you bother with the judo stuff much or mostly stick with wrestling?

What's the Jackson Sousa thing? I'm not on Facebook or owt.

My judo is shit and I can’t no longer shoot in wrestling! I use to shoot from everywhere but my knees are gone. Or it could be confidence.

Nowadays I just counter - with neck attacks or suicide throws (if they catch a single leg on me).

You must be really good now. What’s your Nogi game like?

 

[iona]

My judo is shit and I can’t no longer shoot in wrestling! I use to shoot from everywhere but my knees are gone. Or it could be confidence.

Nowadays I just counter - with neck attacks or suicide throws (if they catch a single leg on me).

You must be really good now. What’s your Nogi game like?

Ah shit, injuries or just wear & tear?

I keep somehow ending up not training for a year or eighteen months, even before covid Nice to see that the muscle memory for the stuff I use most came back pretty much immediately this time though. Not done any no gi for ages but I go through phases of preferring / being better at one then the other when I'm training both regularly. You?

We need to have an urban open mat when covid allows!

 

[iona]

Ugh fucksake, just seen your post about the Jackson Sousa thing. Grim.

 

[Virtual Blue]

Great finish.
We do the most beautiful art.

 

[Virtual Blue]

Been fucking around with the false reap.
Its real effective against bigger or faster opponents.
Try it (if you haven't already)!

 

[Virtual Blue]

Been fucking around with the false reap.
Its real effective against bigger or faster opponents.
Try it (if you haven't already)!

 

[iona]

Nice finish here from one of the guys I train with (match starts around 2:45)


I picked up a new favourite sub last week from someone I'd not rolled with before. It's like a choke / suffocation / nose crush, with enough neck crank in the mix that it's probably not IBJJF legal. It's fucking horrible and I love that shit.

Its real effective against bigger or faster opponents.

That would be everyone in my case. It's a hard life when your top game is all slow, grinding crossface pressure passes but you fight light feather

 

[iona]

Cheers VB, that and some of the x guard stuff you sent me before look fairly safe to play around with while I'm meant to be taking time off after surgery.

 

[iona]

Impromptu Dan Strauss guillotine class just now

 

[Virtual Blue]

Impromptu Dan Strauss guillotine class just now

Do you ever hit them?

 

[Virtual Blue]

Cheers VB, that and some of the x guard stuff you sent me before look fairly safe to play around with while I'm meant to be taking time off after surgery.

i forgot i sent you that!! years ago - you must be an expert now.

some nice tips in this vid

 

[iona]

Do you ever hit them?

Guillotines aren't really part of my game tbh but who knows, maybe now I'll start.

i forgot i sent you that!! years ago - you must be an expert now.

I still haven't watched much of it Just have a very short attention span for watching videos and I learn with my body, not my brain, so have to watch one technique ten times just to get enough of an idea to start drilling it and then lots more time before it's sunk in enough to move on to something else. It is useful though, thanks. Been playing around with that false reap you posted the other day and really liking it when it works, just need to protect my outside foot better and stop them grabbing it when I first go to transition from RDLR.

Obviously I've ended up not actually taking time off after surgery Been looking at comps instead, few things coming up that I've got my eye on depending on how soon I feel up to it. Can't remember if you compete much?

 

[Virtual Blue]

Guillotines aren't really part of my game tbh but who knows, maybe now I'll start.

I still haven't watched much of it Just have a very short attention span for watching videos and I learn with my body, not my brain, so have to watch one technique ten times just to get enough of an idea to start drilling it and then lots more time before it's sunk in enough to move on to something else. It is useful though, thanks. Been playing around with that false reap you posted the other day and really liking it when it works, just need to protect my outside foot better and stop them grabbing it when I first go to transition from RDLR.

Obviously I've ended up not actually taking time off after surgery Been looking at comps instead, few things coming up that I've got my eye on depending on how soon I feel up to it. Can't remember if you compete much?

Nope I don't compete but my boy is part of the circuit....which has inspired me.
I'm looking at the Brighton Open - you doing it?

There aren't many people rolling at my age, let alone at brown belt level.
Lets see.

 

[sim667]

I've been doing Royce Gracie Jiu Jitsu for about a year now. I promised myself I'd take up a second martial art after I reached black belt in my first martial art which I did just over a year ago (I'm still training in that too). My training centre does RGJJ aswell as my first one and I could do sessions at no extra cost.

Its very different to the stand up fighting I'm used to, but I'm enjoying it. Need to have the right partner though.

 

[iona]

Nope I don't compete but my boy is part of the circuit....which has inspired me.
I'm looking at the Brighton Open - you doing it?

There aren't many people rolling at my age, let alone at brown belt level.
Lets see.

I fucked up and booked a tattoo for the week before, coz my tattooist needed to rearrange and that was the only date they had for months and for some reason I had it in my head that Brighton was the end of March rather than the beginning Might see about working it, if they aren't letting people in as spectators (assuming we're not back in full lockdown by then...) but I've not liked smoothcomp when I worked other events that used it.

 

[Virtual Blue]

I've been doing Royce Gracie Jiu Jitsu for about a year now. I promised myself I'd take up a second martial art after I reached black belt in my first martial art which I did just over a year ago (I'm still training in that too). My training centre does RGJJ aswell as my first one and I could do sessions at no extra cost.

Its very different to the stand up fighting I'm used to, but I'm enjoying it. Need to have the right partner though.

A black belt in 1 year? What art is that?

I've not thought about belts since my purple...
It means very little...all that matters is that I'm learning/ adapting and having the ability to heel-hook or choke someone at will.

 

[Virtual Blue]

I fucked up and booked a tattoo for the week before, coz my tattooist needed to rearrange and that was the only date they had for months and for some reason I had it in my head that Brighton was the end of March rather than the beginning Might see about working it, if they aren't letting people in as spectators (assuming we're not back in full lockdown by then...) but I've not liked smoothcomp when I worked other events that used it.

There's always the Summer one...

 

[sim667]

A black belt in 1 year? What art is that?

I've not thought about belts since my purple...
It means very little...all that matters is that I'm learning/ adapting and having the ability to heel-hook or choke someone at will.

No no no.

I’ve been doing another martial art for 6 or 7 years and got my BB in that.

I’ve been doing RGJJ for 1 year and got 1 stripe.

 

[iona]

There aren't many people rolling at my age, let alone at brown belt level.

Brown belt I train with, who's thinking of doing Brighton, was just complaining about the same thing. What weight are you?

 

[Virtual Blue]

Brown belt I train with, who's thinking of doing Brighton, was just complaining about the same thing. What weight are you?

74kg but 47 years old!
How old is he?

 

[iona]

74kg but 47 years old!
How old is he?

I'm shit at guessing people's ages but probably similar I think? I'll ask. ("How old are you coz I think you should fight some guy I know from the internet" )

 

[Virtual Blue]

I'm shit at guessing people's ages but probably similar I think? I'll ask. ("How old are you coz I think you should fight some guy I know from the internet" )

its really odd asking someone's age...why not ask what category he fights in?

 

[iona]

So this just happened

 

[iona]

(yes my phone is an actual potato)

 

[ice-is-forming]

So this just happened

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WooT

 

[Virtual Blue]

So this just happened

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Purple is me favourite belt!! Most fun!
Congrats!

 

[gawkrodger]

purple is deffo the best belt in BJJ. Wish I could have stayed purple for the rest of my life

 

[Virtual Blue]

purple is deffo the best belt in BJJ. Wish I could have stayed purple for the rest of my life

What is it like as a black belt?
Have you got 2 stripes yet? (the power to give out belts and make other black belts is kinda vampiric ).

Brown belt is fucking boring man!!