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`uninitiated. Seriously. Ihere are so many awful things about having any conversation with anyone
`who doesn't do Jiu Jitsu and yet it's almost unavoidable if you are remotely serious about your
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`For starters, we very often have physical marks on our bodies (neck, hands, face...) When people
`see the various abrasions and contusions that we accumulate as we train they sometimes feel the
`need to ask about them, and we are more often than not happy to explain, unti they react to our
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`People have a realy hard time comprehending the motivation we have to train. So very often the
`words "I can't, I've got to train" come out of my mouth. So very often the words “I've got a
`compelition that weekend" come out of my mouth. And the responses to that are generaly a
`combination of confusion and amusement. There is nothing funny about this. I need to train. Shut
`up, stop trying to get me not to.
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`Thae are al very mid annoyances to trying to explain BJJ to people. We've all heard the various
`things that stupid people say. Ether asking if BJJ is ike karate, making fun of the fact that we cal it
`BJJ or referring to it as roing with sweaty men instead of recognizing the beauty of the art.
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`I've seriously considered lying to people and teing them I play another sport. Insisting that I am on
`a footbal team or something. Or that I do crossfit. People dig crossfit right? People suck. Explaining
`Jiu Jitsu to people sucks. The worst part is that it's unavoidable. I've basicaly given up on trying to
`get around it.
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`As far as getling people to try jiu jitsu, for the most part you're better off getting them to donate
`you a kidney. I'm not saying there aren't people who you can get to try out a class, in fact there
`are a few people I've gotten to try out a class, but those are few and far between. Famiy
`members? Nope. Friends? Mehhhh, People are either inteimted in trying it out or are not, and there
`wl come a day when most of your friends are people you have choked or have choked you.
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`depends on the kinds or relalionships you have. I've got a few teammata who realy have an
`imprmsive turnout of their friends when they compete, and that's lovely. I'm just not one of those
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`My experience with friendsffamiy is divided into 3 categories of people: the
`uninterated, the Intermted, and the unintelgent.
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`Uninterfited people just won 't go into BJJ, they realy don't try to understand about
`it, and so basimly won't talk or ask much about it... ‘to each his own‘ attitude, no big
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`Interested people are tricky because they actualy want to know and try BJJ but they
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`I am truly sorry that you encounter people who are that unenightened! Al it took was
`3|] seconds of the first BJJIMMA fight I saw to be completely hooked, and a person
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`Coming back from an injury, what to do and what not to do
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`injury in EJJ) as I came back to rolling I found myself with some
`I know I lcnowthis topic has be done to death, but lately [well specially since I managed to have my first
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`back but everyone completely forgets to tell you, because is minor afterwards but annoying and important right there,
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`Your muscles will be tight. I know it makes sense, but they do get tight .. not only muscles, expect your tendons to be tight too. Recently I had an MC]. injury, the result
`was my knee was a bit more stiff, the therapist said is normal, but you should NOT stretch it by force, it'll slowly come back down into the normal setup if you stretch you will
`have a stretched ligament and feel how it moves from side to side which while not dangerous is VERY unnerving (specially
`out ofan injury)
`Expect your teaxnniates to avoid the inju.r_-V. That‘s what we do, make sure to tell them you are coming back and if you think you can sustain a pass, this is very
`important because you want to work your muscles back into shape but you don't really want to overworkthem [I did)
`it really does feel like the injury happened again,
`isjust unnerving but it might take you of training for a day out ofbeing scared [I did)
`Expect high belts to roll with you. And is good, you should actually go for it as they have the technique and control not to injure you.
`Avoid the 10096 rolling partners like the black plague. I thinkthis one is selfexplanatory, that guy that cannot do flow rolling, or is a bit too spauy [sp?)
`I-‘low roll. This one will allow you not to ‘forget the chaining ofmovements.
`Chess roll. This one is new for me, and is an excellent game I started to play with my professor, one move at a time, you do a move then partner does one move. First it
`allows you to understand what is a move, where does a move stop? is a triangle only one move? [Pro tip: no is not, 1. setup, 2. adjust, 3. submit)
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`And more importantly, do not be afraid to say “can we go light?”, muscle memory is what you are really looking forward, not a battle, at least not when you are coming back.
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`it happened t_his past monday, came in all excited and ready to roll. “Igor thr's”I even told myself and how to leave the ego out ofthe door, come in and start the warm up.
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`Then body weight exercises Yep someone did something stupid, you faneepalm and hope the professor is not mad and then the phrase eomes out:
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`Hey all, I'm sorry I didn‘t write before, but I was injured and I’m sure you didn‘t want to read my rants and wishful thinking on going baekto rolling...
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`BUT I'M BACK!!! yesterday was my first day fully back, and god I have some tips and thoughts about this, so here are some tips I learned by having a grade 2 partial tear in my MCL
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`1. There is N0'l']-IIl.\'G as dangerous tha.n leaving your legs soft (not engaging your muscles) in ANY part of the training
`That’s howl got injured, my leg was soft, we were doing drilling andjust left it there and twisted for a cross knee pass, ouch! heard the pop ofit going in an out on a side, the muscles
`were not engaged, so while you are doing it soft and controlled it does NOT mean to not engage your muscles, make sure you knowhowto consciously trigger your muscles (is
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`Living with a black belt: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
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`Vi-‘ell guys I’m so sorry I stopped posting, but I had some personal things to take care of and I couldn‘t really update the blog, but I’1n back!!!
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`Ok so everyone knows that I live wit_h a blackbelt, who is also my professor, so I've always wanted to write this post, The good, the bad and the ugly of living with a blackbelt
`that this is written with the real facts but in ajolcing manner (this is so Matheus won’t choke me to death after he reads this! O_O), I hope you enjoy.
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`The Good
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`0 Most black belts are pretty chill, they are balanced people. Yes, I will be the first to admit that there are black belts that are not nice people, but they are way less t_han in
`the "non—jiujitsu” world, (let’s call that NBJJTV, looks cool!!
`ol( fine we won‘t use that) so having a focused roommate is a good thing.
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`0 It’s like having a BJJ encyclopedia at home. Don’t get me wrong, believe me I’ll complain about the same thing, but if you ever have a quick Fix problem you really
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`Is interesting to see how much BJJ has surrounded my life, to the extent that my BJJ professor Matheus Andre is my roommate, so I’m in what could look like an awesome position,
`I actually live with a black belt, who is my professor who is an active roller
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`And because of that, we barely talk BJJ at home. Vife do talkbut is mostly not technique but we talk about concepts sometimes, the old days, but I’ve never really asked him formally
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`1. Matheus, how did you start Jiu-Jitsu?
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`My father is an excellent chess player, so much that he actually played into a draw with a grand master so I learned from him, in school they had PE and chess, I was a fat kid
`liked chess. There I found a friend, Rodrigo, who did Brazilian Jiu-jitsu and also chess and started to tell me about doing it, I said “You wrestle with guys? and pull them? that’s kinda
`weird”. The same weel(I got bullied, I had a hat and it had a lot of pins and it was at that time super cool, so I got it stolen by a few guys and they started to run, I ran behind them for
`around a mile, I remember going over the train tracks and then I was in their neighborhood so they stopped and confronted me, and then I had to run the mile back!!!
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`Then my father learned about flie situation and told me that ifI came home beaten up I vmuld get a whopping! He always wanted me to try martial arts so it was his way of supporting
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`myself open guard (my teacher was very old school, and prefened closed guard). But I
`got better and better with it, but I still preierred wondng top game. lflgured there was no
`reason I couldn't wom both So I told myself, if I could sweep my opponent from bottom, I
`was allowed to play top game as much as Iwanted. It felt right, because il felt like I earned
`my position. I didn't steal it by muscling someone. it also improved my guard game
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