Not necessarily pretending. Just because he’s a white belt in BJJ doesn’t mean he’s new to grappling. He could be skilled in Catch Wrestling for instance. Not all white belts are built the same.

@@darkcircle899 I totally agree you know the thing is it’s like as a wrestler as a Sambo guy as like a guy that does catch wrestling it’s all grappling a judo Guy! He absolutely could have a lot of that kind of stuff and I think he has a lot of wrestling experience or something but the thing is a lot of Jujitsu guys Pooh Pooh that but then when it comes to this and they say oh well what about that that guys doing this and blah blah blah. The thing is they need to have more wrestling understanding of grappling understanding from different styles in jujitsu. Don’t be like judo and just because a wrestler can take them down outlaw all wrestling moves to do takedowns in judo. Learn how to defend yourself versus it mean there’s so much good things that you can teach both sides of this! So the big thing is last class that I was teaching it was about not letting anybody ever put their arm behind your head, never ever let your opponent put their hand in front of your neck inside control or when they have your back or anything. Professor Pedro Sauer would always tell me don’t have them put their dirty feet on you so those are very good things to work on when you’re trying to be better at your jujitsu. Then there was a lot of times when guys had like a lot of different concepts and different things they could’ve done one of my students sent me this and I was looking it over and I decided it class I will talk about a blast double and I will talk about how to defend myself versus that as being a multi state wrestler the rest of the college and has been wrestling since I was four years old but yet I’m a black belt in Jujitsu! I told my student I said OK look over this video and tell me what you would do if you were one person or the other and then we can talk about it that way I can get my students to really see more of what could happen or what could not happen and then I can also teach more things to them and help them get better at jujitsu

@@darkcircle899 Grayson St. Laurent is a CIS level wrestler from the University of New Brunswick.

Maybe he's a wrestler

He looked like a wrestler to me

I’m gonna have the zebra belt. With horizontal stripes. 🦓

His next belt will be white with red strips.

Lmao

He can only be the belt he's been given

@@MrNickW123 pretty sure collegiate wrestlers are supposed to compete at blue belt in many tournaments even if theyre a white belt at their gym

appreciate it my man

@@anthonylongobardo2623 I didn't know that. Other kid. Looks great

@@griffinmaathuis9423 Well you looked good anyway. No shame in that loss

Bwahahahaha

Hahaha

This! That blast double was fierce.

for real!

Yeah all legit white belt moves…

And weight disparity. This was an “absolute” match.

To be fair he gave the double away by standing upright like that

Great comment

Why sand bagger? Maybe he's just like myself,who's training in MMA gym where he dose jiu-jitsu once or max twice a week for last 4 years and enters tournament with zero grading, just like myself.. When I go to train at a local bjj club with my gi and zero stripes white belt around my waist,I can hang in very comfortably with purple belts,bud dose not make me a sand bagger,I just don't have anyone who can grade me by bjj rules.. ;-)

@@andreasseimas1130 i’m fairly certain you can just decide to compete at a higher belt rank except for black, you the definition of a sandbagger

@@skyrimaddic87 according to the most people that I've spoke about this matter,they told me I can only compete white or blue belt category, but for my first competition I have to compete along the white belt category.. Hope somebody can correct me on this matter if that is wrong?

@@andreasseimas1130 That’s literally sand bagging. You’re a sand bagger.

@@andreasseimas1130 do no gi and move up to intermediate or advanced. You're wasting your own time and money competing against white belts if you can hang with purples

He hit a perfect shot right away and a lat drop hes a wrestler who got sandbagged. Wreslers are supposed to start at blue for competition if they’re all state level or wrestled in college.

@@ShawnSwander I think that would be a bit unfair, regardless of how good someone is at wrestling, once they put on a gi and someone knows how to use it to their advantage (especially at blue).. It doesn't matter if you shoot a nice double, the collar chokes will still be an easy target

@@victor_tempestbjj You should consider a wrestler isn't going to compete with zero experience. they learn how to use the Gi too and they have a background to learn more quickly than average. I'm 16-0 and never been scored on because of wrestling I did forfeit once due to injury while taking someone's back because I have a bad knee but it was a best of 3 and I won the other 2 matches 12-0 and 18-0. People think choking a college wrestler would be easy but they don't consider that EVERYONE tries to choke us off our shot so we' get good at defending it fast and a lot of chokes are "dirty" wrestling techniques that we're familiar with. I won a 64 man IBJJF world championship at blue belt after training a few months 6 matches without giving up a single point because I"m a college wrestler. My hardest 2 matches were against college wrestlers. If anything it was unfair to my opponents that I had 25 years of grappling experience and they had less than 4. Most black belts imo shoot worse than JV college wrestlers.

@@ShawnSwander That's a really valid point, I can't argue with that. I guess in my head I consider the belt to be based off what an individual knows technique-wise and the ability to be able to use it in practice as opposed to utilizing knowledge from different sports/martial arts. This is similar to Judo, we have a lot of Judoka in my club and even the black belt Judokas put on their white belts for BJJ, same goes the other way around, we have a black belt in BJJ who puts on his white belt for Judo. Granted it's not quite as similar as wrestling and BJJ, I hope my point comes through as well. Maybe start them at 4 stripes white LOL but I think to be a blue belt, they need to be able to fundamentally showcase all the basic submissions, sweeps, escapes and whatnot

@@victor_tempestbjj Belt rank kind of depends on the teacher and the student. If a student isn't going to compete it's probably more based on their knowledge of techniques and time in rank. If you compete you need your belt rank to reflect your degree of competition more of you'll be sandbagging or losing all your matches. I'd say my rank mostly reflects competition level I'm a brown belt but my judo throws are terrible because my wrestling background and 10 years as a wrestling coach with smaller athletes makes it hard for me to do throws that land on the opponent because I can't really practice them without hurting someone. I also can do a lot of judo throws but I don't know the name of the throws very well because we call them something else in wrestling. Also my guard is weaker than my top game because no one ever takes me down so I never play guard unless I pull. So I guess that's why it's a martial "art" everyone has strong sides and weak sides.

If I'm not mistaken, wrestlers should compete as blue belts, at least in nogi

@@CarlosDaniel-od7bx no gi yes you can not compete with beginners, gi is different. IBJJF. Rule 5.5. "Collegiate wrestlers and judo blackbelts must compete in blue+" If you do not meet one of these two criteria you compete in your awarded belt decision even if it is white.

I would say he knows Wrestling and he also played football

@@jaredlynch2904 Thanks, mate

@@tyhatfield7156 with the force of that double yeah football makes sense because he went forward not to the side.

Yeah that was hilarious lol great attitude

had no idea who he was at the beginning..... found out pretty quick lmao

Way to keep it light. Great attitude. No one’s going home in a body bag. Had me rolling!

I’m marine biologist bubba

And I'm an Architect too.

Focusing mostly on importing.

lol. True commitment.

Not to give any outs for sandbaggers but if your coach is a purple belt, you can't get promoted until your coach gets his brown, which might take a long time under certain conditions. Happened at my gym. Coach was basically a brown belt waiting to get promoted, but didn't have a coach at the time. So he couldn't promote any of his students until that was dealt with. Had some crazy blue and purple belts in that gym. Guy with his purple belt has had it so long it looks white lmao

Haha! for real! what a loser the sandbagger is

Oh boy you gotta love that shit

Same

Not Necessarily sandbagging. This guy could literally just be someone who has done wrestling. I would actually say it’s likely he did wrestling to a high level with a shot like that. I know of 0 guys who just train BJJ and actually have a good shot. Wrestling gives you a huge leg up I was good enough to be state champion in my state and wrestle in College. When I went to a BJJ studio/gym or whatever it’s called I could hang with almost anyone in the room. On my feet I could tool on black belts. On the ground I had good body awareness and submitting me was hard for most people. The reality is he could literally be new to BJJ but just an experienced wrestler and have this same outcome. That was a lot to defend some guy I don’t know but people said the same thing about me in my early competitions I competed in, and it’s not cool to say someone is cheating because they are better than other people.

@@darkcircle899 he got bronze in the Olympics lol

@@ck3082 third at Olympic trials, never went to the Olympics.

@@Teganguenette lmao ok either way better than all of us

@@ck3082 Oh ok I didn’t know that, but like I said he very well may be a good wrestler. I was just saying you don’t have to be an amazing wrestler to do a double leg on someone that is no skilled at standing grappling but if he won a bronze medal he obviously is an elite wrestler.

Maybe was a wrestler? He's a collegiate wrestler bruv.

Its just a belt to differentiate the competitors in the match, they give it to you before you walk on the mat

yea lol i compete at about 165 and he was in the +205 category

Lol! I think he would smoke me when i reach black belt.

Ofc. He is an alpha male. Alpha males are competitive and reckless.

Agreed, competent with double leg, foreman's, and other takedowns. Was not comfortable on his back, unable to maintain hooks, failed to execute head & arm triangle, and other submissions. The necktie was cool and might be something he thinks is cool finish so practices a lot. Clearly a gi white belt in jiu jitsu or the opponent would have not been able to scramble and escape despite all the fabric friction and abundance of available but unemployed controlling grips.

@@jaredlynch2904 I found that he has a channel on YT that has one video. It's titled something like "wrestler turned whitebelt". The video seems to be highlights from this same tournament. So yeah, that's confirmed. :)