I am a brownbelt and teach BJJ myself. I have bumped into new students that just have the right reflexes in the begining. They dont know why they do things, but they still react in the right way. These student also goes far really fast. Id say he is a natural and should continue to train. :)

Martial, these reaction videos and jiu jitsu stuff is awesome. It’s a real refresher from the ufc content and it allows us to connect with you on a more personal level when you’re making videos about your passions (which all of your viewers share as well)

This guy was spot on, jiu jitsu is for everyone. I find very interesting that there is less ego in combat sports/Martial arts than in actual TEAM sports. I love training jiu jitsu, you are not only learning, but you are also growing.

I've been doing jiu-jitsu for around a year now and for me it looks like he has a pretty good understanding of position. For me it looks like he has done a little bit of BJJ because he has a fairly solid base. I hope he continues on his BJJ journey because he could go pretty far. Also, thank you for the content Martial, quality as always.

I think it can be 30 days of experience if literally its been all you've been doing. I did really well when I first started because I would go home everyday after class and just watch competition match footage and take notes and drill movements. Was fucking addicted. Also i have found that people who have any kind of sports experience just tend to pick it up faster. Like he did train Mauy Thai so part of his brain is wired to be a physical learner. I think its possible he got that good but at the same time its not typical.

i have been doing jiu jitsu for 8 years , and to be honest , i see a lot of new guys coming lately and i was amazed by some of them , by how natural they are with understanding they are leaving arms or legs hanging, or understanding when they are putting the weight wrong and losing the positions . Some thinks that might come to us "naturally" because we practiced , sometimes some people are just naturals at some sports. Hope he continues because he looked really fast on the mat.

30 consecutive days of training, especially when you start with an athletic background like he has, will absolutely get you to your first stripe at pretty much any gym in America. The thing is, most people don't train every single day. So 30 days in the gym takes them a lot longer than 1 month. Combine that with the colored belts playing with their food, and yeah this is pretty believable to me lol

Really enjoyed this Martial! Would love to see more reaction content to Martial Arts based stuff. Its fun to watch these things with the input of someone who enjoys it so much and also is knowledgeable.

Aye man, it’s 2021, dude is a athlete, smart and had a month to practice. I personally do think he has had watching experience and just went with what he’s seen before or learning as he was rolling but a lot of us learn fast now :)

The brown belt was definitely going easy at the 30 day roll, but still the dude was doing great for a beginner. Im 5 months in to bjj.

TLDR: Bjj is just a good experience and amazing for character building. It benefited me so much. I was a skinny nerd who was bullied by basically everyone like all my school life. Mostly due to my physical condition called dyspraxia which causes hand eye foot coordination problems and sometimes speech problems (slight stutter and slurred speech when not fully calm). Being bullied made me nervous all the time that made all my symptoms worse which led to more bullying. After school I was basically a scared wreck, I was sick of feeling that way so I decided to do martial arts, that brought me to bjj.....and mate I fell in love. I just loved the actual sport of bjj and wanted to get better...just because I liked it. I was still pretty meek for a while...till certain things happened in training. I started being put up against all the new white belts who had a 'chip on their shoulder' because I was the smallest guy in the room, super polite, looks geeky and as one brown belt told me "can be a killer if they want to". I starred to dominate people I would of been scared of on the streets, even almost seriously hurt a few really stubborn guys who started to get rough. After that....it was a weight being lifted from me, the world didn't seem as scary, still as negative...but I didn't feel the danger all day every day. Now I am so much different. I know have the actual confidence to positively impact those around me and it feels good. If it wasn't for bjj I would probably be cramped in my flat not even confident enough to get a job.

It's always so crazy for me to see this guy online. I train where he was and rolled with him a couple times

Martial, BJJ practitioner here. You asked us to reply. I saw much of what you saw in the first scenario where he attempted the pass and then again when he was doing his 30 day review with the guard retention. Granted, I still believe his opponents were going easily, he's sandbagging youtube some. Maybe he had privates, previous experience or watches the sport.

That’s definitely what 30 days of bjj for someone fairly smart and athletic looks like. I been training for about 2 months 3 days a week (so about 30 classes) and I noticed huge improvements. Most of his improvements are in escapes and defence which is all you can really take in when you starting. Seems legit.

The first time I rolled with a black belt it felt like I was falling whilst on the ground 😂 he had me in his butterfly guard

I fuckin love this content

Martial, I been loving the reactions! Can't blame you for wanting to take a breather off UFC 4 either 😂😂😂

I think that he was right in saying he was a sponge. He went twice a day on some days, effectively doubling his time there and focusing solely on Jiu-jitsu: no distractions, no other socials probably, no cheating day… It seems like, like you said, he's an athlete. It is entirely possible in the realm of learning, not just jiu-jitsu or martial arts, to gain knowledge if you focus and put all your might into one thing. I think he's an extraordinary learner, and focused individual.

I trains BJJ and this guy is both athletic and has great natural proprioception (awareness of his body in space). Being athletic alone places him above average already.

Lmao “no homo” got me laughing great video marital (I’m 30 seconds in but we know the quality is always great)

I am no fighter but my friend was doing Jiu-Jitsu for like 8 years+ and we love to watch amateur fights / ufc etc. etc. And when we look at those people (amateurs) he always is suprised how well they can figure some JiuJitsu moves by themselves. We are from small town where a lot of drunk street fights in from of bar happens and when we watch those with a drink in our hand and also he told me that sometimes things just click and you can fight pretty smart even without training. I dont understand it but i love when people fight. Sry for my english.

Im a blue belt 3 stripe, been training 2.5 years and this dude impressed me..The blue belt tried to do his thing but the brown belt definitely let him work. The female brown belt at my gym would not have lol, she would have tapped him mercilessly lol We have a 25 year old newly minted blue belt and he was like him, picked everything up without effort, tapping brown belts with heel hooks as a 2 stripe whiter belt, just a beast.

Maybe he did some wrestling in highschool so he had some base to grappling. Doesn’t mean he did BJJ

I’ve seen guys progress quickly so it is believeable and even if he did have a base he still progressed so much from day 1 to day 30

This man is laughing the whole time he watches the video, makes me feel good

I’m convinced that the brown belt just wanted to cuddle with him

I did BJJ for a solid 2 years , and it just looks like he has the right instincts about certain things that just allow him to do things naturally even if they don’t make sense to him

Hey Martial, as someone thats been doing both Gi and Nogi for 7 years, here's what Ive noticed about some levels. Girls nogi vs gi: most girls that Ive rolled with over the years tend to be more aggressive with their attacks and set ups in nogi whereas they are more reserved in the gi. The reason is (especially the ones who study Marcelo Garcia) once someone grabs a hold of the gi, your freedom of movement becomes very limited. You cannot do shots effectively, if at all, because all the other person has to do is just stiff-arm your sleeve or collar. In nogi, its all about handfighting. Although girls are smaller and lighter, they have to rely on their speed, so if they are good at handfighting, the only other option is to shoot in, pummel, or pull guard and pray they are not experienced with head & arm attacks. Personally, I think the girl was going light on him in their matches and letting him work. Otherwise a Brown belt would not allow a new person to pass their guard that easily.

I didn’t think he was going for a pendulum sweep. I use the same exact sequence but instead of holding the opponents right arm, I pull the sleeve/arm towards my belly to get the elbow there and then throw my left leg over their face to get an arm bar from the bottom. That armbar was there even if he was going for the sweep because they work together. Good stuff man 👍🏽

Being doing jiu-jitsu for 4 years and he's definitely had more experience

I’ve been doing jiu jistu for a little more than half a year about 2 days a week, so speaking from my limited experience I feel like he is new to BJJ but he was just blessed with being a fast learner and a natural athlete

i did jiu jitsu for a few years n stopped prolly 5 years ago now i was a yellow belt i think from wat i can see he seems to be naturally gifted with althetics all round and seems to have a keen eye in paying attention learning faster than some others would

Uncle was on the Raiders, other uncle in the Military, in my experience with training, I’m able to adjust and learn to a high level in a rapid manner aswell as use my succeptibility to addiction in the best way possible, it becomes a 24/7 priority and something I can’t escape. I need to follow my dreams fully

I think that how he got so good was by watching a ton of jui-jitsu on yt. I do it as well, every day befor I train I look up a new match on yt and it imporves my game usually.

Ive been doing jiu jitsu for years and i agree with henry wen he called cap, thats not 30 days worth of training, great effot tho

I’m a decently high leveled white belt. 30 classes you can do very well with improvements. He definitely improved most on conditioning and defending positions better. Most of the time as a lower belt rolling with a higher belts all you’re doing is defending subs. After training He definitely has the skills of a mid leveled white belt. Seemed like he had training before even on first day. The guy definitely did what a good blue belt do against decent white belts. Brown belt female seemed a bit sus unless she was being nice and letting him work. She looked more of a high leveled blue or low level purple belt with that roll with experience. Loved the bow and arrow tho one of my favorite gi chokes.

Sometimes it can be a natural instinct for somebody to do moves that look legit . I personally have never officially trained jiujitsu but the few times I’ve rolled I feel like I’ve pulled off jiujitsu moves without knowing what I’ve done . Sometimes it’s just bs but looks legit 😅

First of all I like how you can acknowledge someone’s features of the same gender without shame, people always talking about “that’s gay” I think that’s weird why can’t I acknowledge that someone has nice features without people thinking that I roll that way.😂 I don’t know why I felt the need to say that but anyways great video as usual martial!!

9:50 he starts trying to go for a kimura trap! failed it but he definitely knows some stuff.

It's real clear that Michelle was giving him a lot of room to work and felt comfortable surrendering more position than the blue belt. Blue belt was definitely fighting; Michelle seemed like she was there to roll and have some fun.

I’ve done bjj for around 6 years (mostly no gi) but from the looks of it this guy is either just a natural to the sport or has ATLEAST done a bit of wrestling.

6:55 *he almost had her in trouble there!*

Honestly u can learn some very basic little things about bjj just by watching someone else through fights and competition, it’s one thing I did and never really noticed I was good at years ago when I first started with bjj. I was like that with kickboxing aswell and could do things pretty well with no training.

im pretty sure hes watched some mma etc and gotten a mild understanding for bjj same as i did before i started training. i made the beginners progress very fast as he did but started slowing down to normal pace as it got more and more complicated

It is so weird to watch pure jiu-jitsu without that sense of urgency due to not getting punched or elbowed.

lmfao i was almost sure that blue belt was sensei seth....

Martial simpin for this man 😂

4:54 martial you funny dawg I was thinking the same thing

"Handsome guy, bright blue eyes, no homo"

The first day I rolled, I KNEW now to let them isolate any limbs. Instinctively, this led to me keeping my knees and elbows in. They told me that was a good thing.

been training for 8 years and i’m 15 so anything under 2 years of experience looks like 30 days but he does have some sort of understanding on day one so thinking he has some experience isn’t far fetched

Idk if it's comparable to BJJ but I had a friend who was a natural and an absolute prodigy when it came to Boxing despite having no prior experience and not being particularly athletic. Atleast not in the typical sense. He had very bad stamina, speed and strength when we started. But when it came to drilling, sparring and training in technique, even the coaches struggled to believe that he had absolutely no combat sport experience other than doing karate for like 2 months when he was 9. He was never even a fan of boxing before that, and still isn't really. When it comes to watching it. He mostly just sat in his room on xbox and the internet and was pretty unhealthy

Hes a freaking natural! Great job!

Tbf I just started aswell and I had those same reflexes when I started can’t lie it just felt natural to do certain things. I think it just differs from person to person

Martial pumpin his tires 5 mins in

Another new video from Martial let’s get it mannn. I take these as mini lessons where we learn from the point of view of the man in training himself.

You gotta react to the Muay Thai one that would be another great video

Martial been absolutely loving theese reaction videos and how you actually add something to it and not just watching keep it up bro

Bro this man definitely has experience

i am a black belt in Taekwondo and this is super impressive to me of how fast he improved i mean that isnt saying much from me because i only know a little bit of what is happening in it its just still super impressive to me

If he is telling the truth, he has a ton of natural ability. My first month training my coach told me I was a natural as well, and I picked up a lot on my own just fighting with my buddies in their back yard, I didn't know what pulling guard was, but I did it instinctively, once of my favorite submissions to pull was a guillotine choke without knowing the actual name of what I was doing, so it is possible that his experiences have prepared him for it more than other people, but if this is a 30 day first timer, there is no doubt he is absolutely gifted.

Came across your video! Huge boxing and ufc fan! Learned more about BJJ in 10 minutes than I have my whole life! I never trained btw haha

you can learn how to break guard in one drill, nothing special but still impresive but not sure why martial freaked out lol

I think he moves well, he might have had some wrestling experience or something as a kid. He is definitely a natural. I am a brown belt and have been training for a while, every so often a white belt comes through the door who never trained and I am like bullshit. 🤣🤣

You could also argue his technique of pushing the legs to the side could have come from the mui Thai it’s common to catch the kick and push to the left plus a little recent experience with clinch work might have give him a slight grappling advantage

This could be his first day but he intently watched. My first class I literally had to swear to god I never been to a gym before because multiple people couldn’t tap me & I worked my way to mount

It really is that easy to learn so much I’ve been for 2 lessons and I’ve learned so much

Looks like 2-years of experience.

Bjj brown belt here... ive seen a some guys come in and are very atheletic and have a very good base and give ppl some work.

I think you underestimate how much basics people know just from watching MMA every weekend. I don't mean like actual skills, and technique, but you know what guard is, and what a guard pass is, and what an armbar is, just from watching MMA.

Yah I wouldn't be surprised if he watched a TON of YT videos before jumping into this and practiced those moves a ton before going to this class. I did that before I went to my first bjj class. And while I still got wrecked by everybody I at least was able to do a couple of moves.

To be real, I just started and some of these techniques that he performed like passing the guard and transitioning to side mount, if you’re like me, a newbie who watches endless BJJ matches it’s not 100% unlikely that you pick up some good technique. Just my two cents. Dude did good.

8:05 I always do that when wrestling with my homies we never train I feel like it’s just our natural reflex because our stomach is a very sensitiveplace

Man's definitely did some research before going but yea this just looks like a fan that's excited to learn that 1st day 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

when i first started jiu-jitsu i was in 6th grade. I went after school. My mom being a single mother had to work. So id go right from school to the mma school. Where i took muay thai, JKD, kali, and BJJ. there were different slots for both kids and adult classes for every discipline spread throughout the day. Since I was a bigger kid an d an athlete they let me do both. I would sty until closing doing every class I could until my mom got off work. man those were the days. I only did it for a few year until highschool where I couldn't make the classes because of varsity sports. and never got passed a white belt in BJJ or yellow in JKD but the amount of hours i logged in such a small period of time honestly showed and i could roll with blue adults on the regular and purples on a good day as a middleschooler lmao

I feel like in the first couple matches with Michelle, he did better than expected due to the fact that he’s a dude rolling with a girl. That makes a huge difference, even just in pure strength.

That brown belt Michelle, is a purple belt masters worlds gold medalist She was definitely letting him succeed when he did that right stuff, zero chance he passes her guard if she doesn’t want. Not a trash brown belt at all

Martial just because he has basic human instinct on how to defend himself doesn't mean he's trained before 😂😂

I’m 41 going to be 42 in April. Dang I struggle with my MWF 10:00am -11:30am and Judo on Saturday 9:30am -11:00am schedule. That’s 6 hours of training per week. I’m 2 years into this schedule and maybe missed no more than 10 classes each year. I got my first strip on my blue belt in February of 2021. I absolutely don’t believe he is doing that well against a (3) strip blue belt as a 1 stripped white belt. No way. I have just started to NOT get tooled by (3) - (4) strip blue belts at our gym. I’m also starting to hold my own and hit reversals, and submissions on new purple belts from other schools. He absolutely looks like a 1+ - 2 years white belt. I can literally do anything I want at any time with white belts that are under a year in.

You can actually be a natural gifted athlete and go into a BJJ gym and hang on pretty well.I have seen many of these people. Many of them sadly quit and never become advanced BJJ fighters. Also the brown belt is a lady going against a strong young man, so you can basically remove 1-2 of her belts, so in the fight she is basically a male blue belt.

......the first 30 seconds. Ayo?!

I would say the possibility of him being brand new is big, those coaches are really sitting him down and teaching him so many things are far feet, hips and hand positioning. Also he seems like he got the “talk” which is really just don’t burn yourself out, think about where you are and how you know how to escape or progress.

That no homo was important 😆

This guy either did Jiu jitsu before or is extremely natural

This dude has to have trained before at least 5 months

it can martial if you take privates hit every class but theres many factors also come into play like being a athlete you have the drive cardio etc, specially if there is a wrestling back learning a bjj base would come pretty easy

Martial, we stopped the video at the same time at 15:40 thinking we smell cap lol the way he holds the knee in between for defense and is able to maintain some semblance of control while rolling i was like god damn wish i was like that after a month of grappling.

If you've watched some of these videos then sometimes you see that a very athletic person has some built-in hand-eye coordination and speed and power that makes them look a lot better than the average white belt. Especially if you're a athletic male who's much larger than the woman who has the brown belt. You may not beat her on day one but if you get to the equal belt status and you're a lot bigger than her you probably have a pretty big advantage. I've seen other videos where high level athletes rolled with jujitsu and they were normally doing much better than a normal guy who walked in off the streets.

Jesus Christ, is that a Mushroomhead T-shirt? I legit forgot they existed, which is weird cause I was pretty into them, back in the day.

@MartialMind Would love to roll with u one day my man, ive been training for about 18 years now, just got my black belt a year an a half ago, started when i was 8 years old, hope your enjoying your journey osss!

I've been doing BJJ for 4 years and I've also had 2 years off MMA and he makes a guard passing look so easy

He’s definitely at least watched it before the 30 days

What a fun concept for a channel. 30 days of something to see improvement

I think you’re underestimating people I was submitting blue belts like 3 weeks after the first time I ever stepped on a mat

I believe it as thirty days of training. not start class, and thirty days later, but actually thirty days. so like 10 weeks, I figure

Some people have a natural feel for rolling. For me BJJ is almost natural, I just have a feel for others bodies I know what’s gonna hurt someone if I twist it and I know how to put leverage and also squirm my way out of positions. However when I did wrestling it was like I was brand new because so much of the things I would have naturally done were illegal.

I myself have just watched bjj have wrestled with friends and never set foot in a place like this and know most of the stuff this guys does about keeping limbs in chokes leg locks arm bars etc so I’m not surprised this guy who looks athletic and smart could watch some videos and learn a bit before going into it

Natural talent plus hard work let’s see

Oh my good is Henry wearing Mushroomhead merch?

I did hear the instructor say you picked that up really quickly, so they taught him a lot more than just basic safety stuff, so def. not just a day 1 beginner like I'd be if I walked into any type of martial arts place.