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More BJJ White Belt Tips

Focus on Consistency and Quantity of training over a longer period of time
Whoever trains the most improves the most. This doesn’t mean the new white belt who turns up to train every class for the first six months then quits. It means those who train consistently even if its only 3 classes a week but turns up at the same times every week , month after month, year after year will get better results than the someone who goes hard for a few months and then quits.
Focus on playing the long game and don't expect quick results or you will get frustrated and quit,

'Infinite' game vs 'Finite' game

There are two types of games, Infinite Games and Finite Games.

It helps to see BJJ as an infinite Game. The goal of an infinite game isn't to win but to keep playing the game. You cant really ‘Win’ at Jiujitsu because really you are competing against yourself. There are definitely shortcuts to win in the short term but they will ultimately hurt your long term progress.
‘Infinite games, the players come and go, the rules are changeable, and there is no defined endpoint’
The Goal of the Infinite Game of BJJ is to keep training and keep improving throughout your entire life.

Train through injuries

If you are doing BJJ for any length of time you will pick up injuries along the way. If you train smart you can limit the injuries but they're always going to happen. You just have to deal with them and train around them. If you arm is injured, use your other arm, if your leg is injured use your other leg, if your neck is injured just work on your open guard.
Tell your training partners what you can and can't do before rolling. If you can't roll just turn up and drill techniques, if you can't drill just turn up to watch the class and learn as much as you can.

Treat BJJ as a game.

Don't try to learn and memorize all the techniques. The students who make the most progress with their training are those who see BJJ as a sport and try to learn it & practice it as such.
Even if your primary motivation is to learn BJJ for self defense you’ll get better results by learning it as a sport.
When kids start playing sports such as football or basketball they just jump right in and start playing the game, they don't spend too long trying to memorize and perfect hundreds of techniques or watching endless videos explaining the tiny details of each move.
Even if you do memorize all that information you’ll never be able to use it under pressure because you haven't spent enough time playing the game under match conditions. Just jump in and start playing the game and then the techniques you’re learning will make sense.

Pack your training gear the Night before.

Commit to which days each week you're going to train. Pack your training gear the night before and make sure you turn up to class. Even if you get delayed at work or stuck in traffic and miss the start of the class, still get in there and train. If you miss your intended class just go to a later class instead. Some training is better than no training.

Advice for BJJ White Belts

BJJ is a very complicated martial art and it can seem overwhelming to new students. Other martial arts get around this by designating different levels of techniques for each level of students.

Karate white belts only learn a few basic kicks & punches before progressing to more advanced techniques and Katas as they move up through the ranks.

BJJ is different. There are no ‘advanced’ techniques. If you watch the most advanced BJJ fighters such as Demian Meia in MMA he is using the same basic techniques ( Take-down, Guard Pass, Rear Naked Choke) that he learned in his first six months of training.

The difference is in practicing these fundamental techniques over and over again so you can apply them against increasingly better opponents.

The first tip I would give anyone is to understand what you are learning. BJJ is the art of controlling an opponent , taking away his ability to move or strike you and getting to a position where you can apply a submission hold.

This will typically follow the hierarchy of positions as follows: Takedown > Guard Pass > Side Control > Mount > Back Control. Alternatively, BJJ also allows for the scenario where an opponent has already gotten the upper hand in a fight either by knocking you down or taking you down, in this case the strategy would be: Recover Guard > Apply Submission OR Sweep > Mount > Back Control.

Understanding how to get these positions and escape from them is the most important part of your BJJ training. Submissions are the most eye-catching technique but if you are just randomly attacking for submissions without first controlling your opponents movement then you are not really doing BJJ. For the same reason if you are swinging wild punches hoping to knock out your opponent rather than using Jabs, feints, slips and footwork then you are not really doing boxing.

BJJ is one of the only styles of martial arts which you can safely practice (spar) against resistance right from the beginning, provided you have good quality training partners who will train in a sensible manner rather than just trying to beat you up or impress you with their tricks.

Sparring is the key to improving in BJJ because it allows you to ‘feel’ the movements which build them into your muscle memory. BJJ is a skill just like riding a bike or swimming, you can have the techniques of swimming explained to you all day but until you actually get in the pool you won’t get to ‘feel’ them and only then will you get feedback about whether you’re doing it correctly or not.

Make sure that when you are ‘sparring’ you don’t waste time talking about techniques, asking too many questions or trying to explain techniques to your partner. Training time is for training not talking.

My class format and curriculum is designed to cover the most fundamental techniques and allow students to improve quickly. I teach a different position or subject each week. Each class will typically cover 3 techniques and I will emphasize the 4 most important steps in each technique.

In an average class, that will be 12 points of information that you will have to remember. For this reason, it makes no sense to ask your training partners about other random techniques, it is a huge waste of time for yourself and your training partner and you won’t remember any of the details.

Don’t be in a hurry to learn trick moves so that you ‘win’ against your training partners. Invest the time to learn the basics well. Double leg Take-down, Guard Pass, Arm Lock from Mount, Maintaining Back control, Scissor Sweep, Arm Lock and Triangle Choke from Guard.

When we first opened the gym we had a Kung Fu guy who would pull off all manner of crazy techniques against our new students in sparring. I could see that our guys were getting a bit demoralized by this and were thinking ‘why are all the techniques I’ve learned not working against this guy?’

I explained to them that what this guy was doing would work against people who’ve been training for 2 months or less but the techniques that we teach will work all the way up to highest level and within 6 months they will easily be able to beat up the kung fu student in sparring at which point he will quit and go train somewhere else where he can use his moves on another batch of newbies thereby making himself feel like an expert all over again.

Don’t be in a hurry or try to take any shortcuts. I’ve been doing BJJ since 2000 and had already done Traditional Japanese Jujitsu and submission grappling before then. I received my blue belt in 2003 and Black Belt in 2012. I still feel I have much, much more to learn about BJJ and Grappling and I still learn and expand my knowledge every day

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