I live in Cali but they're way too far for me to train there

dixienormus93 Guess you're right. There are so many high level schools in Cali...Just throw a dart and pick one. Most notables to me would be 10th Planet JJ, Atos, Jean Jacques Machado, and Kurt Osiander.

Did he just say 10th planet? Haha and its ralph gracie not kurt osiander. Unless you specifically just want to go train under kurt.

@@CHopper1154 of course, what's wrong with tenth planet? it's still got jj machado all over it...

@@CHopper1154 and I thought Kurt started his own school

respeezy I crushed a lot of partners when I learned the genki sudo version years ago.. It felt bad and good at the same time.. hehe.

2 years later... How was suprise junk to face attack?

guigui1992 Lol i have been hitting a lot of flying/ jumping triangles lately actually i think i never hurt anyone with it, so thats good.

yeah. Well if you think about it, competing is their hobby but teaching and instructing is their profession. They're experts at it.

absolutely... like 4:05.. very cool

eli ertini nice

wildcat31772 there is no such a thing as "self defence BJJ" and "pure sport BJJ". These are maybe marketing labels. You are either good (on average 4 years of decent training) at BJJ or not. If you are, your chance of defending will increase but will be far from really good. If you are not, no magic moves you learn as "BJJ self defence" will not help you agains anyone who knows what to do.

+judokapavel there's a difference between sport and self defense. Self defense u train with strikes in mind. There's a ton of techniques that are extremely effective in competition but are useless in a street fight. A lot of schools will not teach certain techniques if they wouldn't work or they're just too risky to attempt in a real fight.

You are wrong. There are defenses against headlocks, bearhugs, learning to close the distance, deflecting punches from the guard. Youd be surprised how many young sport purple belts that can not get out of a headlock from a strong dude in a way that would not leave them exposed to a bunch of punches. And lets face it. rthese young guys cant take punches for shit either. they have no grit. SD escapes and learning to get punched and block punches teaches grit

Acho que ele so estava traduzindo para a lingua local.

If you're on top and you fall back to your guard, you lose 2 points under IBJJF rules. The majority of competitive matches (ie, both competitors are about equal skill) at the black belt level are decided by 2 points or less (ie, advantage or ref decision). Guard passes, back takes, and submissions are rare unless there is a big difference in skill, ie, the match-up isn't competitive. In training, points don't matter, but if your goal is to get good at top game, then you can't cede top position. Guard is a lot easier to learn than passing; it's way easier to sweep from guard than it is to secure a pass, and it's way easier to defend the pass than it is to defend a sweep. It's why guard pulling is the dominant strategy in black belt competition (except for heavyweights). Nonetheless, passing is still a core part of the sport, so if you want to get good on top (and not just be good at the "easy" part of BJJ), there's no shortcut except spending many hours on top trying to pass good guards.