Getting Better in Jiu-Jitsu: How Rickson Trains as the Worst Practitioner in Class - Kama Vlog

[@JUJTS]

This is the best advice I have heard in Gracie jiu-jitsu. Ryron and Rener Gracie also share the same philosophy. The best advice ever in the history of Gracie jiu-jitsu. Thanks so much for keeping the spirit and philosophy of Helio Gracie jiu-jitsu alive!!!!!!

[@noobzoar]

I believe this is the real objective of keep it playful. Love it!

[@duncansutherland47]

Thank you Professor Ryan. I’ve been intuitively doing this for a little while now. It’s taken a lot of the pressure off of having to defend some sort of reputation that exists in my mind. Like you said, it’s also helped me to take more chances. I have a lot more fun rolling as a result🙏😊

[@tagg1080]

This is my preferred method when working with less experienced guys, I will say let them do their A game move. I will then let them get 4/5 steps and stop them, and let them work out how to finish it. I will generally let them do a couple variations until they have seen all of my defenses, and have a solution for each. In my opinion this is the best way to get them to learn. if all they do is the same entry every time with the same finish, they are not learning that much. But if i can force them to conceptually understand the move by getting to it different ways, and finishing the sub with different ways, then they improve their overall understanding a lot more. And hell, there are certain people at my gym that know all of my counters to certain subs and I legit have to fight to get out of them because I have done this with them too many times, even though in other areas I am above them. Great stuff!

[@cldavis33]

Again - timeless lesson here. Put Ego down, learn, grow.

[@bono894]

Great advice. This is a lot like my belief that a higher belt should never hold any knowledge back from his or her training partners. This is, of course, assuming the knowledge stays within the academy. It is tempting be apprehensive about doing this because there is always the fear that the lower belt will one day end up beating you. Doing so, however, is of mutual benefit for both parties. Your training partners become much more difficult to deal with and, as a result, you are constantly having to rethink your game and further refine your technique. Iron sharpens iron.

[@kalenhouse]

Great philosophy. To be humble and always believe there's always room to improve and over come adversity.

[@scottysmithjr4034]

Excellent advice! This is a very difficult concept to grasp do to the fact that it takes REAL comfort one the mats. Some are only comfortable when playing from the front.

[@fearthetriangle]

Thank you for sharing knowledge. Sometimes to understand more we need to stand under.

[@ifireblade09]

Makes sense. That's how you get your practice in for the core defensive concepts.

[@MonacoRocha]

Love Your Vids Ryan.. SO Much Real Info... !!!!

[@arminkaltak9052]

Love the Videos, great work.

[@utubeyelper]

Thankyou always professor for your wise words & insight..🙏🙏

[@whoanellynelnel3874]

Compete with yourself not everyone else has been my mantra for a few months now.

[@hixonish]

Excellent. Makes so much sense!!!

[@michaelbarnhill2685]

As a 4 stripe white...I absolutely hate....Hate....my training partner going full rag doll. It does absolutely nothing. And is NoT how the worst person in the room would behave. The best training partners, take their skill all the way down, but increase the physical resistance. Its the same concept as what you speak, but for the love all that is self defense...no one rag dolls, except the panic frozen victim

[@808BJJ_Black_Belt]

Awesome 👏🏻

[@EvosBasics]

Great video and advice! =] Be humble, be hardworking, be kind

[@TheDharuma]

Awesome. Mahalo

[@johnsilva2846]

Do you recommend that a person puts themselves in bad positions as a white belt? Or is this for higher level belts? Thank you I enjoy the content on your channel.

[@johnnyzaldana4841]

Excellent Advice!!!

[@BJJandBS]

That is about the most distracting background for a video you could pick Ryan. Great content though.

[@kojo68]

I put myself in vastly inferior positions and train like that up until the tap...I can’t imagine Rickson letting ANYONE tap him

[@manemgeoff2118]

Fantastic insights and advice once again!! Was just wondering professor Ryan... could you do a video on Roger gracies recent comments where he said in a recent post “I don’t drill. But I am a huge fan of specific sparring. For me specific sparring is where I make the most improvements and refine my technique.”

[@shinka6670]

That seems a bit misleading in the wording. Roger not drilling is not the same as a blue belt not drilling. He knows how to do everything, the rest of us mortals need to ingrain the responses.

[@carlosgarita7094]

I read the article. He basically says drilling is important but he doesn't do it because he doesn't need it anymore! Not your case or mine.

[@Subeffulgent]

I like the approach. 👍

[@wm6549]

Great advice.

[@TheFefiiiii]

Hey, so i have a question. i am a whitbelt in jiu jitsu, and i am really considering to get private classes from my trainer, but as i was looking through you videos where you were talking about schools having no curiculum, or having a curiculum but not following it, i am really worried if it would be worth it to get the private classes since my trainer doesn't follow curiculum (he started teaching us a de la riva gurad instead all of the basics you talk about) . My question is, would it be worth to get private classes with him and how to go about it, meaning , should i tell him that i wanna to for example: mount escape, side escape, passing guard etc. or what? i know the question is loaded but i wanted to explain the context behind it , thank you

[@KamaJiuJitsu]

Wish I could tell you. I’ve had privates that helped from a couple instructors that helped, and privates from many others that didn’t help at all.

[@TheFefiiiii]

@@KamaJiuJitsu thanks for the answer

[@Italiangentleman2394]

Do you guys do any no gi ?

[@KamaJiuJitsu]

All summer long.

[@Italiangentleman2394]

Would love to do a class with you guys sometime !

[@Famouswolf]

You ever talk about how Eddie bravo was one 0f the first one to focuse on jujitsu for mma that no one supposably Like him doing no gi jujitsu is that true you know anything about it

[@KamaJiuJitsu]

while his style of jiu-jitsu is somewhat different (kinda based on the stuff Nino Schembri pioneered a decade earlier), i don't believe what he does is innately better for MMA than other styles. Rickson comments on it somewhere...

[@scarred10]

10 th planet has had no significant success in mma,its just no gi bjj and Eddie has never trained mma so I dont know how his bjj is more mma specific.

[@Glenn056]

@@scarred10 he trains Tony Ferguson and plenty others

[@scarred10]

@@Glenn056 nobody has been able to use his methods in mma consistently. Furthermore, he never fought himself in mma.

[@Glenn056]

@@scarred10 could say similar about John Danaher, he has never once competed but coaches some of the best grapplers in the world

[@andrewkarl5174]

Just because you’re great does not make you a great teacher.

[@MrBluemanworld]

I understand what you're saying but I disagree about actively convincing yourself wrongly that you're the worst person in the room.

i enjoyed that... doesn't apply to me!😂 but...

[@coyoteclone]

I'm like white on rice.