I started jiujitsu in no-gi with no athletic background other than (1yr) rugby and soccer back in highschool (I’m 30). I got promoted in about 6 months just by treating drills/situationals/rounds as if I’m about to compete lol. Not aggressive tho. Watched a bunch, and I mean a lot, of jiujitsu on KZbin and try to reenact them on the mats. People thought I could wrestle but I just mimic what the pros do lmfao Going on month 8 of this journey and I still consider myself a white belt tho!

I might get some use of my BOB XL for some grappling, but how on the fence I've been about a grappling dummy just tells me not to. Maybe if I use the one at my school and get hooked, maybe. Otherwise, I need... friends.

Never try and sit into the butterfly guard, but use butterfly hooks all the time. This makes way more sense. Thank you!

I hurt my neck bridging and havnt been back on the mats since. Was a 5 year bb. Scared to even go back.

You mean social media post like KZbin videos?

Great video and I feel for the injuries keeping people off the mats. I suffered a severe herniated disc by being stacked while applying a triangle when I was 18. I’m 37 now and been training JIU JITSU on and off since then. Back has never fully recovered and goes out 1-2x per year causing several months of not being able to train. Stay safe on the mats

Love Chewy, he's a great teacher...what I took away is I'm setting up to turn their body away from me at my discretion.. and the body follows the head, so it starts with the cross face

Been obsessed by the Shultz headlock choke since watching Matt Hughes hit it. Still my personal favourite given how decorated Ricardo Almeida was too

Adam 😂😂

Skip to at least 60sec

As a blue 2 striper myself i have been trying this since white belt and ive done all of that motion hip thrust while lifting the leg but still cant sweep them. Am i missing like a small detail or should i be more angled a certain way? I am the smallest one in class too so it could it be a size difference and maybe it works on my size instead?

The worst things about the local competitions in Australia, there is no warm up mats. Makes it so much harder to warm up

I am 70 kgs, everyone is bigger than me and big guys often go as I was big too, hehe.

It’s only weird if it’s a kids class student who trains there until she’s at a legal age then is dating someone from the gym who has trained with her since she was a kid but they were an adult.

My favorite sweep! Pendulum is so goated

I live in Tucson what gym is Dave’s

An issue I have is that at many of the local tournament venues don’t have warmup mats, which makes it difficult to get in warmup rolls. Any suggestions for rolling warmups when no practice mats are available?

I have the exact same issue, only a bigger guy lol. 6ft 300 lbs. Being very aware of weight makes it difficult to train to your potential because finding training partners is already difficult when you're big. What ends up happening is I get less out of each roll, and roll timidly and not usually very assertive for fear of injuring training partners and making it more difficult than it already is to train consistently. The end result is a back slide that has kept me at blue belt for four years and change. I don't care about belts, I care about performing at the level, and that's hard to do when you can't really train assertively for fear of injuring someone. It then tanks your cardio, because you can't push yourself as much and you start this inevitable backslide in skill, in my opinion. I haven't found the solution yet, so here I sit. Good to at least know that there are other out there.

My nerves are through the roof and haven't slept well for the last 2 nights. Tomorrow is my 1st match, and I at 54 got combined with 30 year olds. Really needed to hear this.

Training sporadically? So I assume like 5-6 times a week.

I find it's hard to find a warm-up spot at tournaments. Some have no area at all. I've warmed up and did nothing before a match and I have to say I've had mixed results. Chewy is right about the intensity. It could be shocking.

This video is about 8 months too late LOL

I haven't competed in bjj yet but I've won regional medals in fencing. Never have your first match of the day be when it matters.

I've been doing bjj for 2 years now. I've been to two competitions, each a year apart and performed exactly the same, no wins and no points. It's like me at a competition and in class are two different people. My anxiety is horrible at them that I almost don't want to do them. My coach says it's not required but I don't wanna be the only one that doesn't compete. He says I'm not losing because of my BJJ skills. I'm losing because of my low self confidence and my pre match drug usage. Not to sound like a junkie, it's my prescription anxiety medication. He says I need that anxiety for that fight or flight. I'm getting stuck in bad positions and just accepting it. I've struggled with anxiety and low self esteem my entire life. My coach still promoted me to a 4 stripe white belt even though I don't think I deserve it.

I didn't expect warm up would make that much of difference, but I took your advice a few videos back and I was so surprised how a good warm-up made my matches so much easier cardio wise. I dedicate my gold to you.

Emergency Talker

As someone who plans on competing after nursing school, this is great advice. Thank you 🙏

Feels illegal to be this early to chewy

I compete very often, and never warm up. I like to sit and relax before matches. I don’t typically get nervous anymore.

Third is still really good @ no gi worlds 😝

After analyzing why I bombed my first comp, this is one of the things I realized. I had no warm up. There were other things too but definitely going to warm up properly next time. Thanks for the video.

I came from boxing and KyoKushin. Then I got my Black belt in Judo. Then in 1994 I started BJJ. In 1998 I won the US Open LoneWolf Bjj tournament here in Colorado. Then in 2008... I went in to the advanced/Expert division of Hybrid Submission grappling World tournament. In the final match I went against Malcolm Havens at the time he was the x3 Olympic Gold medalist and x10 World Champion. I had him beat by 4 points... less than one minute in the match and he got me with a headarm choke after i escaped all six previous attempts. 1st time I had ever been subbed in competition after over 220 matches and lots of trophies and medals. So..What did I do after my 1st loss by sub?? I trained power lifting weights for 8hrs then as soon as I was done lifting I had all the best guys at the gym start with the choke already in place and I had to escape. I have never gotten choke by that move since. Good luck and I hope this helps.

Great show!

Yep. 5'6" 160lbs and 59+ y.o. Purple Belt doing this for 8 years. Think of larger training partners as a puzzle. However, make sure you set boundaries with them.

Im an older grappler. When I say, lets go light. I mean it!

All you guys make me feel okay about being a hobbyist. I am 43 year old Brown belt, I don't have a gas tank, and I have asthma.

In a good school the, "LETS GO LIGHT spazz" gets smashed by the black belts so much they find another school.

Quit that gym.

Unfortunately for this guy, moving to a new gym is probably gonna be the answer. If a coach/owner is already lax about something as basic as hygiene, it’s doubtful a new student is going to convince them to do a 180.

What Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, as a still quite young martial art, clearly seems to be missing is more guidance for practitioners on how to properly warm up, roll safely and how to cool down and "rearrange" your body/get tenions out at the end of a class. The warm ups are mediocre at best in most places I saw or heard of a systematic cool down as part of the curriculum is pretty much non existent. There is no widespread systematic approach on getting people to learn how to spar slowly (conscious breathing f.e.) from the get go, instead a lot of people start ripping on their joints and trying to break each others bones from lesson one with full force at full speed. What the hell do people think is gonna happen? It's a shame actually, because theoretically is a great, great tool to learn about yourself, life as such, to stay fit, creative and much more. The way most classes are being run now, with the 0 - 10 or maybe 15 minutes warm ups and no cool downs in most classes, it is doomed to cause a tremendous amount of injuries, especially looking at how the overall health of the average person has declined over the last decades. The younger generations will get injured even sooner and more severely because of how physically unfit most of them are. We need to adress this as a community. It's far more important than any new technique on how to break something. We need to invest much more time in learning how to maintain health.

"Correct me after I tap you"

Liked for the use of circuitous 👏🏼

Brother, I literally just experienced this. A nasty bacterial infection on my knee that spread all the way down my shin up to my hip. My leg would throb with so much pain and agony as it swelled leaving me to use a walking cane for 3 days. Worse part is that I regularly practice good hygiene by skipping everything and anything without a shower following BJJ. It left a sour taste in my mouth about the sport I enjoy most 😢

Why does that guy stand like that

Hi, I got a question for you. I really want to compeat in bjj competitions, but I am very scared of breaking my bones or be injured in any way. Do you have any advice for me on how to get through with my fear so I can compeat?

Thank you so much, I have been getting smashed. I can't wait to work on some of these tips.

Won my first tournament using the third technique. Simple and VERY effective. Thanks Chewy

These people will talk themselves out of any situation. Bunch of Johnnie Conchran's, " If the tap is legit, I still won't submit"

Which is also a good reason not to bone feet.

I’d say the most gut wrenching way to lose is to have your opponent force your legs into a knee reap position, forcing the DQ