I like to keep things as simple as possible. As I have said in many of my posts, I am nothing special, just an average guy who loves jiu jitsu. I love it so much that even though I am not as athletic as many of my training partners, I will put in the extra work to try to keep up. Through trial and error over the years, I have found moves that work well for me and I found better ways to break down the move so its understandable to the average Joe like myself. I hope they make your life easier and jiu jitsu more fun for you!
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Every now and then I hear brazilian jiu jitsu practitioners debate whether its better to learn with a gi or without. I figured I might as well add my two cents to the discussion.
I am an average guy, average athleticism and average jiu jitsu. I have been training jiu jitsu on and off for about 15 years, am an average brown belt and rarely do no gi. I had an interesting experience the other day in the gym where I train. We had a wrestler / no gi jiu jitsu person come in to visit. i asked if he wanted to roll and he said he didn’t have a gi. I said no problem, I’ll try no gi for a change. I said, I apologize in advance, I haven’t done no gi in a couple years.
We started rolling and it didn’t take long for me to realize I had no material to grab. He out wrestled me easy, and I ended up on the bottom and was able to pull guard. But, once there, I didn’t feel uncomfortable, and the adjustments came easy for me. I just kept grabbing the wrists, back of the triceps and back of his neck to break his base and set up some attacks. I got a couple of different arm bars, a triangle and a lucky scissor sweep where I grabbed his wrist and back of the neck. I did have a lot of trouble sweeping him. He had really good base and through most of our roll I was on the bottom.
Like I said I am an average joe jitsu guy who has trained with a gi 98% of the time and here I was doing really well against a bigger, stronger and more athletic person than myself. He had been wresting his whole life and doing brazilian jiu jitsu for years, but only no gi.
I definitely think that people who start bjj should start with a gi. Think about it. I held my own with someone who does no gi all the time and I hadn’t done it in a long time. I could adapt to his game and do well. He probably could do well wearing a gi as well, but because he didn’t incorporate traditional jiu jitsu, he wouldn’t know how to do a gi choke, for example. And, because he doesn’t know how to do a gi choke, he won’t know how to defend against it either.
Like I said, I am just an average guy, but thought I would add my opinion!
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Here is one of my favorite ways to break down the triangle choke from open guard. Let me know if you have some cool new techniques you want to talk about.
Ive been doing bjj on and off for 15 years. Ive been a purple belt for a while now and I hope to have my brown belt in the near future.
I am an assistant instructor under Professor Marcelo Carvalho at Global Jiu Jitsu Academy and head instructor at RocknRoll BJJ & Fitness.
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