Massive props to you for being willing to show your losses and skill gaps, Tyler.

You gave Thao a lot of respect. So respect for you. I liked watching that roll. Good pace and you two were able to think about the roll and situations you were being put in.

Thanks for keeping up that great work, I really really really enjoy your content

Anyone who says you should not be a black belt is crazy. You have some serious skills.

This is an amazing video, with a great mindset behind it. Thank you for posting this.

Love your channel my friend! To me it is a good representation of the BJJ culture. Fun, energetic, and refreshing... the world has enough elite muscle heads, you just show love and roll! Big props

Looks like an awesome class thanks for posting!!

Man, videos like this make me wish you had more subs. You really make some of the best BJJ content on KZfaq.

Super humble, love the content, definitely just got another subscriber

You rock dude! God Bless you! Thanks for the great content!

Keep up the visiting gym videos! Fun to see different levels of black belts rolling and their styles.

I really enjoy these videos of you visiting different bjj gyms they’re really informational

Keep em coming man

Great content Tyler! 50 yr old Brown belt here. My style is very similar to Thao, though he looks like he has really good balance too. For sure things would have gone differently if you attack the legs. I also have mega grip strength as an old guy (6ft 200 pounds) but lately I've been attacking legs more simply bc I'm old and I can haha this is one of my favorite channels and I didnt realize that I hadnt subscribed even though I look at this site weekly. Good luck and thanks for the awesome content! *BTW I'd love to see you attack legs more in the gi against lower belts like purple, not finishing the leg locks but just grabbing it so I can see how you do it since you'd probably do it at will.

It always amazes me how proficient guys can be at one specific sub, like your guillotine. I rolled with a guy that could armbar from almost anywhere it seemed like.

your content gets better and better!! It def took A LOT of time to create this... you'll be at 100K subs in no time!! If you're ever in the Boston area, let me know!!

I just found your channel. Really liking the content 😊

i really like your channel and the videos are entertaining. I hope you reach 100K soon !!

love the content

I need to learn your shallow guillotine, it's looking super strong!

This was great content

Please keep these videos coming!!

Mike is friggin awesome man

Great vid editing is on point

Love the travel vids

pretty nice, thanks for the info

the ONLY true way to be an open and learning martial artist. TEST what you know, be open to learn, and "absorb what is useful".... keep at it

You deserve your black belt. There are just different levels of black belt. And with your open mind to get better, you will. Every loss will build up to more and more wins.

Amazing competition training!!!

Would you make a tutorial on the "Oil check"?

I love seeing the other warm ups from other gyms. I personally am not the best grappler but I really try to give it all in warm ups. Interesting they were doing sprawls and wind sprints. My former instructor would have us do that for punishment.

This was great lol

This channel should definitely have more subs.

An old coworker of mine did alot of kyokushin, he told me that the black belt was the beginning of his journey. Maybe its a good way to look at it. Up untill you earned it you were following somone else his path, now follow your own!

Just subscribed to you, brother you get these taps with these guilotines that are usually low percentage, hpw have you managed to perfect it from so many awkward positions, any videos you have explaining the little critiques

This place is brutal. They are training you to be really good. My gym does classes and then open mat pretty much.

You definately deserve your black belt ! Osss

Solid content. I usually dont sub to other youtubers. Nice.

Very very important to train and roll at other gyms, lots of other gyms.

This man is a total fuckin legend

Coach Thao is a physical specimen

This channel is just fucking on fire.

Our gym has an unwritten "no oil change" rule in that because we have a lot of mma fighters, if you change someone's oil...you might get elbowed in the face. I'd rather just be fishhooked. You're also right about not knowing how hard to roll with an instructor at his own gym. It's a bad look to sub him in front of his own students, so I just defend and release subs (knowing in my head that I had it). However, and I've confirmed this with other high belt gym travelers, everytime I go to an open mat or visit another gym...the instructor puts me with 3 or 4 of his best students, then wants to do the last roll with me when he's fresh. (this is my wife's youtube acct, too lazy to change). One time I visited a very Brazilian gym and one guy actually whispered "watch your back, you have a target on it"...and this was during the pre class line up.

Would love to see a video about who you got your black belt from

The arm lock from minute 6:36 was awesome.

I enjoy this video sound like you enjoy no gi more then gi you have amazing guillotine and very good sweep from bottom that old black belt samurai you face have strong grip he can control you and make it hard to pull any sub great roll hope to see more video Oss

Yo, Tyler you just have to start using Tom Seguras "you gotta protect yo neck!" clip from his Ball Hog special.

Love that Punisher Gi 💪❤️😎

I was just talking to a new blue belt about feeling like you don’t deserve the belt you have and how much worse that must be for black belts. The skill ceiling for black belts is so damn high, must get hard to feel deserving of that belt.

If you’re ever in Madison we’d love to have you at Sanctuary BJJ!

Honestly, seems like that professor Thoa you rolled with, was barely trying. Obviously there’s a size discrepancy. But my gosh just look at how chill and relax he is. Much respect for Tyler being willing to roll with a diverse set of belts and sizes of people.

Great video my question is? Why don’t you ask what you are allowed to use. That my first questions on rolling. I been asked to leave once when I heel hooked a blue belt. It was in the gi and wrong but should have asked.

You should check out World Jiu Jitsu in Eden Prairie sometime.

You made me think of an interesting idea. I'd love to hear your opinion. What if. Belts were limited and you had to steal them highlander style. One black belt per dojo. You get tapped you take off your belt and go back to brown. Purple belt taps you? He's a black belt for a minute till you get it back.

Love the music at the end (7mins) what is that? Who is it by?

Not easy going to a new gym. But so good for you.

Summary of the video series we have here: If Tyler punks everyone at a gym he gets to wear the blackbelt until the next video. If he does not embarrass everyone at a gym his belt is confiscated by himself until the next video.

Great video

you need more subs honestly

Hahaha 😄. Love this vid.

Any recommendations for lower belts wanting to visit other gyms? I thoroughly appreciate getting to train with other unique styles.

You never going be the best, there's always someone that's better than you and you'll always be better than someone else, you just prove this to me. More evidence same with me and other blue belts I dominate some, some dominate me. You're black belt bro

Good stuff

Go to Rio Jitsu in Apple Valley!

Nice video!

Does any gym allows heel hooks in the gi? It seems like there would be way too much friction to ever get out. Great video as always Tyler! You're the man! Definitely a black belt👊💪🦵

I train at prodigy! My daughter and her cousin do too!

Yes to everything you just did

I've been rolling for years and probably gotten fewer guillotines in my entire career than you did in that single video.

Professor Thao is the man.

Oil check joke? Instant thumbs up

Guillotine has always been my favorite choke, that ain’t gonna stop 😀

6:40 was that just an arm bar or a kimura or both?

Guillotine is on point. Definitely a nuanced position that I need some serious work on.

Does it bother you to hit the same submission over and over? Or do you just take whatever submission is available?

Will your bring Ben with you to any of these gym visits?

well you have a killer guillotine choke i give you that, in my mind you are a legit black belt, you are not Andre Galvao or Marcelo Garcia of course..the chinese instructor you rolled with at the end has few stripes on his belt, he is older than you, but maybe he has 10 years more of practise on you, keep rocking hard bro!

Lmao "wearing the black belt or burning the black belt"

Come to the UK please to train. 🇬🇧

amazing video.... how old are you Tyler ?

Mr french revolution over here.

Man I thought I went to a nice gym but it looks like a dungeon compared to this place and the last gym u went to.

Thao is badass

So, I wonder if the black belt you tapped is now feeling like he doesn't deserve his... Hahaha You put out some great content, man.

Why can't you heel hook in Gi? I've literally never heard this before

Spider guard with a collar grip is so hard to deal with,

Come to our karate school we wear bandanas and leather gi’s with no sleeves

You dominate first black belt because he's an old man already

very nice

Nice

is that a Punisher gi jacket?

The internet wants a Tyler Spangler / Hart2Hurt collaboration! 😎

1:49 another popular term for 'oil check' is "culo defense". 😉👍

“My first roll was with a black belt and just to be kind I started off slow” imagine 😅

What do you do when you run into someone with a huge ego that constantly tries to go harder and harder trying to one up you?

10/10 would Jim again? Who’s Jim?

.....that first black belt (older guy) should be demoted, dear lord.

Dangerous hood y’all were in. I hope you guys were safe.

I'm quite the opposite of you. My gi game is on point, need to train more no gi. Don't worry we all deserve our black belts

Try a joe moeiera gym