Jiu-Jitsu Schools Have Changed, but Is It A Good Thing?! - Kama Vlog

[@momentum8640]

Great video as always!

[@MonacoRocha]

Ryan .. I love Your Videos Very Down To Earth ... Reality. .. Thanks Obrigado

[@evankrhodes]

Professor Kofi! A great guy. Todd Tanaka a highschool classmate. Cool how we know the same people and how it was back then. Love your videos!

[@midgettosser100]

Yesterday I was at a 7:00am class with 1 other white belt (I'm 4 months into this awesome art and he is 2 months). I'm 44 years old and he's 51. Since it was just the 2 of us our Professor said, "We'll do self defense this morning. Coming up in Brazil we used to do this all the time, I don't know why we don't do this anymore". He proceeded to teach some awesome front kick and body lock RNC stuff that Royce used. I can tell you how much I appreciated this. I'm American living in Luxembourg and our teacher is Leonardo Neves, black belt under Leonardo Vieira, under Cavalcante. I'm so happy to have access to a teacher of bjj like this, but I'm also aware that the best representatives of bjj today also recognize what you say, that today's bjj is forgetting something very important. Love your channel 🤙✌

[@russellward4624]

Yes Nino is a Gracie Barra product. It’s nice to see someone give him the credit he deserves. This generation seem to think Eddie Bravo invented everything under the sun.

[@KamaJiuJitsu]

Eddie is a newbie in my eyes!

[@subscriber10304]

Yes great insight. That make me think how crazier things were in the 80's and before in Brazil with dojo storm, challenges and things of that nature...

[@William.H.Bonney]

Awesome story by the way

[@cabalofdemons]

Sport schools are tough, probably the toughest schools in the BJJ kingdom. This is because the students train for competitions and have a single goal which is to win.

[@KamaJiuJitsu]

Different kind of “tough.”

[@Rhardebeck]

I tend to think that sports jiu jitsu is fine for fighting the average Joe with no experience. I personally, like to roll until submission without points, etc. Cage fighting is totally another game.

[@cabalofdemons]

@@Rhardebeck Students that train in "sport" jiu-jitsu schools train for the kill. They don't just play points, their main objective is submitting their opponent. Sub-only tournaments are fun though.

[@Rhardebeck]

@@cabalofdemons , I am humble enough to just perfect getting out of a strong side control, etc before I start critiquing others. Back when I started in 92 we had no names for positions. I just got back into it and my thinking is do what you like, plain and simple.

[@cabalofdemons]

@@Rhardebeck That works. Heck, for that's what you need in a self-defense situation.

[@jw4111]

Wrestling was designed to be a grind when I was young and it was necessary. However, most bjj students practice to learn and have fun.

[@Drwcorner]

The big question is, what do you do when you have NOTHING but competition schools in the state?

[@KamaJiuJitsu]

Come visit the nearest KJJ academy location for a week a quarter to learn the KJJ Modules?

[@cesaralvesdemoraes3187]

Get in there and compete my dude. When you have a chance you can pick up on the stuff that was neglected there and you will already have a strong base. Also do some boxing. It's one of the best things for self defense

[@DUARTE99]

I’m not gonna lie. I miss the old BJJ/GJJ days like crazy. I still enjoy training of course, but the old days were the best.

[@Soldier-of-God.]

Great insightful perspective, on how things used to be, in your earlier days and years, of learning jiu-jitsu! At some schools, as you said there is that alpha male, competitive urge, of certain individuals wanting to prove, or establish their dominance over others. At some other schools, there is a much more relaxed, friendly and co-operative atmosphere. Just curious if I may ask, what do the white stripes, represent, on the red bar of your black belt? I am assuming those are the degrees of your current black belt if I am not mistaken? The reason I ask, is because I have commenced to watch your videos and I am still trying to learn, the grading system in your Gracie jiu-jitsu martial art. I have seen different white stripes, on the blue, purple, brown belts and so forth. I am just wondering how they work on a black belt, such as yours. I do not mean any disrespect, also please do not think, that I am questioning your rank. I ask given that in our Kyokushin Karate system, we have the white,red, blue, yellow, green,, brown and the black coloured belts. In the lower coloured level belts, beneath the black belt, we also have the intermediate level between each belt. That is to say red belt blue stripe, blue belt yellow stripe, yellow belt green stripe, green belt brown stripe, then brown belt black stripe (to be held exactly one year from the day it is awarded) prior to being eligible to grade for the probationary black belt itself (shodan-ho). This is just a plain black belt, with no embroidered name of the individual or the organisation in Japanese, as well as the golden embroidered golden bar, indicating the first degree black belt. Once the full year probation period has been completed, Japan dispatches a fully embroidered, brand new black belt, with the individual's name, that of the organisation, along with the golden embroidered, first degree dan bar. From then on all other degrees or levels on the black belt ranks, a brand new belt is issued with again the embroidered name, organisation name, as well as the corresponding number of dan golden bars, that the individual has graded for. That is to say second, third, fourth, etc number of dans. Sorry for rambling on, I wanted to explain how things work in our system of martial arts. I am just wondering how things work in your system. Thank you for your time, wishing you, your students and your family all the best. Greetings from Melbourne, Australia 🇦🇺, Osu!

[@William.H.Bonney]

When you trained under Rickson did you train with Henry Akins?

[@KamaJiuJitsu]

I did.

[@pinchesmurf]

I noticed that your belt looks a little less worn than before. What taboo's/superstitions are common in training BJJ and which do you adhere to?

[@KamaJiuJitsu]

That’s my new 2nd Degree belt I received from Master Dave earlier this month. But because I wash my belts with my Gis, I rotate between 6 different belts. Believe it or not, my dog chewed my original, worn out belt I received in 2012.

[@KamaJiuJitsu]

After having lost that original belt, the belts now are just a matter of clothing.

[@michaelgondokusumo5336]

I remembered Kofi when we learn and praticed Jiujitsu .... How is doing ?

[@storyofscripture]

Ryan, did you just get your 2nd degree?

[@KamaJiuJitsu]

Yes, sir.

[@thesaljaber]

Jiujitsu is not Jiujitsu! Why do academies and professors make their living off of training and getting promoted by people like Rickson, Royler and others. The Gracies fought, but the new generations don’t. Have Dave Kama, Henry Adkins ever pressure tested their Jiujitsu in real combat, MMA or old school challenge matches? This is not a shot at those guys, but where are the fighters that have been tested like the old school Gracies?

[@KamaJiuJitsu]

Meet Dave Kama, the Gracie Academy's first non black belt to do Gracie Challenges. This was just one of many. Back then, only the Gracie family members got to keep the video footage, so no one from the old days has their own footage, i'm sad to say. kzbin.info/www/bejne/ppevZqWdq6t8iqM

[@KamaJiuJitsu]

Today, we have a handful of students who can/will do things like we did in the old days of GJJ in the USA. but today, most people don't want to, nor do we require them to. You'll always have your "hard" individuals, but they're the minority, as it likely always was, come to think of it.

[@mrwright4815]

Dave Kama did as you call it pressure test his skills you can watch Gracie's challenge 5. I agree with you there are very few instructors left that have walked the walk. Dave Kama a Rickson Gracie Black Belt and head instructor at Kama Jiu Jitsu is the real deal.

[@styrofoamsoldier]

They are from MMA gyms. MMA is a lot more than just jiu jitsu, and even though I consider myself a student of jiu jitsu in particular MMA is much much more than just grappling or just jiu jitsu.

[@Rhardebeck]

My second class at the Gracie Academy David impressed me big time during a Gracie Challenge. Students get involved in BJJ for many different reasons. For me, it's an art and it's like playing chess. It's great for the health and fun. To me, an environment of training to street fight would at my age now at 59 could be discouraging. Hell, at 16 I would be into it