It's not as fast, but I've found that adding some cake to my diet has done a lot to maximize my weight. Just try mixing in 2-3 sheetcakes with 2nd breakfast and dinner, and in no time, your training partners will be able to feel the difference when you're in top positions.

Dear Nick, years ago, I've added a major tool to my ground game: I lay down on my back, and lay a 150 or 200 lbs sandbag on my chest and or belly. I breath with this sh%/t load for a while, to get use to being smashed and crushed on bottom. So far, that has done wonders since most of the instructors who roll with me, cant cook me and they're almost forced to shift gear and get into a sub attempt.

I'm a 35yo white belt looking for simple cues and hints to improve my game. This is extremely simple and very well-explained. I watched your video and applied the solar plexus pressure in class : game changer. Thanks a lot Chewy ! big fan from Paris, France

We need more content like this! Stuff like this is so simple yet makes a huge difference in your game!

THANK YOU!!! I am 47 and just started about 2 ago. Have had about 8 classes and this will help a ton! Thank you!!!

I was fortunate enough to learn this style of pressure from my first coach and learning it early on in my journey has helped me conserve my energy and take away my training partner’s energy immensely. Some people don’t understand how important pressure is until they get wrecked by someone who is good at it

Ok thanks I'll implement this tonight in class, and good roll with Jordan. It's great watching youtube black belts roll with each other, very exciting and entertaining guaranteed to get views would you do a roll with Eli knight please

I watched this yesterday and had to come back to this video. I made this adjustment today during my rolls and I (and my partners) immediately felt the difference. Once I arched my back on some of them their breathing patterns got disrupted and they were struggling a bit just from the pressure! As a white belt this was a massive game changer thank you Chewy!

Adam? Adam.

Awesome stuff as always, Chewy. I greatly appreciate you putting this content out there!

so cool of you to be transparent and honest. I have felt the same way last couple of years, especially after my knee surgery.

Thanks for this. This is exactly where my game is at right now.

This looks like a game changer for certain types. Gonna try it out; thanks for the video!

Holy cow this is EXACTLY what I wanted to learn after rolling tonight. Thank you so much

was just watching your top pressure video from like 3 years ago! Thanks for these videos, super helpful

This is awesome. And I don't know how neither of you ever crack at Adam's comical stoicism. I can't stop laughing when I see it.

Thanks for this tip on the solar plexus. I just used it in sparring tonight and got someone to tap just from pressure, which I wasn’t expecting. Thanks again!

I watched this video and tried it out the next day at class. I noticed a huge difference! Thanks man!

My coach actually just gave me examples of pressure so this resonates really well with me.

Thank you so much for this video, it improved my top pressure so much. Rolling with much larger opponents and they commented on how much top pressure I was generating. 45 years old too

This is awesome Chewy thank you! Sometimes in my own game I try to surf my opponent's body while applying as much pressure as possible. Like a mud slide!

This is something I'm going to try next time I'm sparring. As others have said, it's a simple and effective tool to have in your arsenal. Cheers chewie!

Going to implement this on my next roll, thank you!

As a 51 year old white belt, 225 and 5'9" -- this is fantastic advice. I only just started using my weight, and oh my god is it helpful. I'm excited to bring this awareness into the gym (the diaphram info is great, and specific).

Excellent point.Thanks!

Thanks Chewy ! Simple things are often the most efficient.

Good stuff as usual brother!

Thank you, Professor Chewy.

The old man jiu jitsu stuff sounds great. Looking forward to it 👍

Thank you 🙏 I needed this, you got a new subscriber.

These are great tips Chewy! I have been going over this weight pressure thing with my son. He is 9 and will be in his second competition this weekend. I call it "Thor's Hammer" to help him remember because if you apply it right your opponent has a really hard time lifting you off.

These are the details us 35+ year olds need to hear. Thanks Chewy! Appreciate you

Thanks chewy! Appreciate you 🙏

I'm a bigger guy and I've always been uncomfortable using my weight as a primary tool in my rolls. When I do it definitely helps, but it almost feels like cheating when I'm rolling with a similar or higher belt but who is 50 to 100 lbs less. I don't want to be the guy no one wants to roll with because I use too much pressure. Some say its okay but when I use it I commonly get comments about the pressure and how much it sucks. On the flipside, if I don't practice with that pressure during rolls, I'll never truly learn how to use it to my advantage. Thoughts on when to use pressure depending on your training partner's size/weight/skill? Thanks for the great content!

This is weight distribution that we call 100kilos. Master Rickson, and Professor Henry Akins talk/do all the time. I am in my late 40's and only weigh 150lbs. This helps me tremendously when rolling with the younger athletic guys in our academy. I make them carry my weight to tire them out.

This is super helpful thank you

Trainer was going over this last week in class. Practicing with my partner - damn gassed me out quick, its excellent.

Thanks for the tips, I'll try to do my best. Greetings

I'm a white belt and I've always done this naturally, it feels like the best control. I always get asked if I wrestled in high-school and get thing like "you're really strong". I never thought if it being more uncomfortable for them. I'll try to do it even more so now. Thanks!

Like my coach has always taught me, "Keep it simple. Simplicity is the most effective." This is such a simple technique but effective. Gonna have to try this out next time I'm on the mats.

Love it. I am 52 and have the same problem. Hope you make a series how transition to positions and subs. Thx

These guys are the best some-gi players out there

Thank you!

I have always done this for my mount, what I think of as "skydiving" position. I haven't thought of focusing on the same point from side control. Good stuff. Thanks

Yes! Thanks from us 40+ BJJ players out there!

Hey chewey! Don’t quite feel like, but happen to be a 77kg (170lbs) brownbelt. Whenever I try to apply PRESSURE on my opponents, I happen to be pushed away by my opponent. My impression is that if I hand my weight to my opponent, I give him the possibility to move my weight. Also I’m not that young amymore - turning 40 in a few weeks

Thanks a lot 🤙🏽

The best tip once you understand how to add pressure is to relax your weight which makes gravity pull you down vs being tense which makes you more like a board than a lead blanket where the bottom man cannot push on one part of your body and cause your whole body to follow. You should be more like a pile of heavy chain than a pipe. Also, when your sink your weight when you feel your opponent exhale, he will not be able to breathe in after 2 or 3 weight adjustments into his upper abdomen or solar plexus. The idea (I learned this from the best top pressure jiu jitsu player of his time, Rigan Machado. As a big guy without the flexibility of Royler or the mobility of Jean Jacques Machado, Rigan focused on making the man underneath him so utterly helpless and unable to breathe that they either tap from pressure or give you a submission to avoid the humiliation of tapping when to the casual observer it appears that the bottom man is not in immediate danger. My instructor who also learned a lot of pressure tactics from Rigan is terrifying on top. He started rolling in a Swiss ball to work on his balance by Staying on the ball without touching any body part to the mat. As he developed his balance learning to center his mass directly towards the ground at all times, he reduced the size of the ball ultimately drilling from swiss, to smaller swiss, to large medicine ball, to. Basketball, to sixteen inch softball, to lacrosse ball. Obviously, as the balls get smaller you have to touch the mat. But by focusing all the pressure directly towards the mat you learn to direct the weight of your body into a small area. Sparring him in side control or mount is like have a woman wearing stiletto heels standing on one leg going into your xyphoid process. Not to mention the weight that irradiates from that epicenter outward. It is tantamount to CIA torture interrogation. You feel like you are pinned under a heavy barbell while holding your breath on the bottom of a concrete swimming pool. It gets to a point where you start to think that if it goes on another 10 seconds I could die from suffocating. It induces panic, a defensive mindset and a helplessness and hopelessness that is hard to describe. I have seen him do this to high level guys you have certainly heard of but it would be uncool to mention training with specific names. In any case. Great explanation of the position /,body placement and methods of ensuring your opponent is taking all of your weight in the worst possible spot. Finally, people need to realize that the pressure game has far less to do with body weight unless you compare identically skilled guys who are training with a huge weight discrepancy. A 145 pound guy who can focus all his weight in a small area feels a great deal heavier than a 350 pound man who is keeping his weight on his posts, often times these huge guys can make it hard to escape because they envelope you but their weight is not crushing your lungs and diaphragm. It's like being locked rin a cage vs being underneath a boulder. Anyone who can develop a great takedown, a few high percentage passes, learn to hold side control through constant adjustments and who had tremendous pressure, can be far more effective and submitting people that a top player who has good submissions but leaves too much space and weight off his opponent. This is because If his opponent is constantly escaping his hips and making the top man move, submissions become less likely on good guys. Pressure renders a man useless so unless he wants to get ,5,% oxygen for 5 minutes he will give up the submission just to restart.

Poor Adam. Lol 😂 awesome video thanks Chewy!

Yeah dude. Gotta cook em. As a big guy I a found that I’ve gotten bummed out / down on myself because I’m always trying to play a lighter game with the smaller / younger guys… which is going to be inherently full of failure… and the whole never lose top control game is an important part of BJJ. I had to deal with it as a white belt, and so I’m not going to feel bad about it anymore unless someone has years on me. Ossss!

an excellent guide to cooking people, surely i will use this in my daily life

Hey, happy early birthday!

Gold 👍

Adam’s face at 1:53 is priceless

I've been loving the pressure game lately, any tips on pressure passing?

This is great we worked the toreando pass to knee on chest, etc etc etc Ezekiel Choke lol.

Adam trying to pretend like being Chewy's uke isn't the highlight of his day

Pressssch..one of the things I've found at 45 and being fairly sucky is guys notice the pressure I developed doing mostly privates with a friend while I was rehabbing a serious injury. He was all about pressure pressure pressure

Welcome to old man jiu jitsu. 46 and I have to adapt a lot of things to work for my body.

I been smashing hazy IPAs, imperial stouts, and pork chops. My heaviness game is on point. (I might need some tips on where to buy new jeans, though. )

Chewster, how do u feel about giving your old belts to teammates after you get promoted. Do u still have all your old belts? Can we see them?

adam: "adam" 💪

I’m brand new to bjj, weigh 150 max. This is interesting! Also, I noticed your pant loops are on the back - am I wearing my gi pants wrong or are there different types?

Starting to learn the pressure game from the bigger guys I roll with…they can get me gassed pretty quick with pressure and I had to learn how to return the favor😂

41 yo blue belt, i feel personally attacked. 🤣 great video as always chewy

I'm sorry, I missed everything you said at the end. I couldn't hear you over Adam's death stare. 😂

I call it "dropping the anchor". It's so effective that if you can out wrestle someone who's better at Jiu Jitsu than you, you can often beat them just by squashing them and slowly working an attack.

Uffff PRESSURE my fave!

Sometimes it sucks knowing other people can watch this video too 😢

40 year old purple belt. It’s a hard thing to adjust to, realizing even been in good shape and rolling 3/4 times a week. I’m slowing down, compared to the 20 year old blue belts who can train twice a day, never get tired, and have explosive cardio for days. I guess this is the reason they have masters divisions.

Man Im getting some pressure from the other guy's stare...

Next question is, when do I use my full amount of pressure and when do I let up (i.e. smaller training partner, newer, etc.)?

I'm Turing 35 this month, i started BJJ two months ago rolled like a spaz with great success for the first month.. Then realized i should ease up and focus technique and less strength now i suck even more.. I've held off using my weight 100kgs and size 6.4ft as i dont just want to squash my training partners, maby im being to nice?

QUESTION FOR EVERYONE! I've been doing BJJ for about 10 years, and obtained a purple belt with 2 stripes. My career ate up most of my time and i stepped off the mats for over 5 years. I just came back (and to a new school)a few weeks ago and I'm STRUGGLING. Some blue belts are submitting me, I'm gassing out after a few rolls, forgot some of the basic techniques, and I'm pretty much a rag doll to even the freshest purple belts. Although i shouldn't, I cannot help but feel ashamed by coming into a new gym, with this rank, and displaying this kind of performance. I did strip off my stripes so i can start over at this new place. Ill still show up and hope my timing and technical skills return in the upcoming months. Any advice for someone whos upper rank returning after a long layoff in a new place? Thanks!!

Welcome to old man jiujutsu It’s for everyone

When we are drilling top mount moves we ask our partner how the pressure feels. If they can easily speak, you're not in the right spot and not enough pressure.

This is why I think it’s BS when people say nogi will takeover completely. There are so many hobbyists who are 30+/40+ and it really helps to slow the game down to a manageable pace!

Being a super heavy, I just have to slightly press down 😂

Started at 37, 8 months ago. Never going to be able to be one of those super mobile guys 😫

Can you use pressure on heavier people? I am about 143lbs and young but i love taking stuff slower

I give a little space in full mount so they can't roll me over but o Its give and take I can't give space all the time sometimes the bridge doesn't work when you give a little space.

How about north south?

I don't keep pressure when I'm in mount it's to easy for them to turn me when I'm attached so give a little space here and there so they don't know when to bump. Try it it works.

Chewy what is best in life? -crush your enemies -see them tapped before you -hear the them gasping for air

Your partner look's like he didn't enjoyed this experience xD I agree, pressure from top is brutal, it makes people wanna rethink their life choices xD

Sweet.. thanks for that.. I have guys lighter than me giving me grief with this.. payback time 😁

Adam is looking beefy!

Why do I need to get my ribs bruised all the time from my "team-mates" jamming their knees into them. And then I'm out for a week to heal up again. I don't understand the point of this, I'm a white belt.

I'm an old (41) 3 stripe white belt and have just discovered deep half.

So, if nothing else, this forgetful 55 year old white belt who could afford to lose a couple will be putting this into use ASAP. Lay on someone with focus? I think even I can manage this. Thanks Chewy!

Sounds like you may need TRT

I am 33 Chewy, I got about 30minutes of good competitive rolling in me and then I need everyone to stand the F back. I cant breathe. lol

Thank you. However, more audio description could be useful for those of us who are blind or visually impaired.

Yeah I went to a gym and the teacher did knee on belly into the "sweet spot" for about 2 minutes straight. Full pressure I believe. I didn't tap. But that + hearing him talk about how much money he makes as an engineer I decided he probably wouldn't care if I got injured and took my business elsewhere. Maybe that makes me a pussy but the place had bad vibes. (Not comparing this to that though)

That's my shit

Day 2 down...

Man I dont need any more help being heavy on top, my wife’s cooking does that for me.

I’m in my 30s and up

Is Adam still alive😂😂

@ 4:31 I don't think Adam likes this.