Thank you for this advice.

Thats how i see it. BJJ is a game. You play it.

I love the metaphor of the ball rolling and how easy it is to relate that to rolling in jiu jitsu. Gonna try to keep that in mind in several areas of my life. I'm about 9 months in, still only one stripe and been feeling a lot like that cube lately, just sort of struggling from one bad position to another never really making progress. The frustrating thing is that I feel this has been my mindset from the beginning, trying to go slow and fully understand what I'm doing, not fighting just to win, working together with my partner so we both improve. I find this only works if both partners have this mindset and I seem to constantly end up rolling with brand new students who outweigh me by 60lbs and I just get stuck underneath them trying to take it slow and keep calm while they smash me into the mats until I get injured. Then I miss class for the rest of the week and get paired up with another brand new guy the next week. I don't know what to do about that. Anyway , I'm really enjoying your videos, thanks for sharing your insights.

Lol. I'm a crap blue belt of 3 years after a 12 year break and starting at white again. I'm still bad and have been overtaken by superior beings over and over. Giving up again.

This was great information. Thanks.

I'm currently a 1 stripe white belt, approaching 4 months of training so safe to say I'm very new and inexperienced. But I've learned a few things. I've memorized the 6 positions of side control, learned a couple arm bars etc. but I definitely still have a long way to go obviously. Taking it slow is one thing I certainly need to work on when I'm rolling against higher belts. Especially when I'm caught in a side control position. Side control escapes are definitely one of my biggest priorities right now. Just gotta stay calm though, one step at a time.