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Why Every Child Should Train Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu

Introduction In an age when kids are all too likely to sit at home and play video games, the benefits of getting out there and learning something new at the same time as becoming fit and making new friends has never been clearer. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is a brilliant way for children to socialize, improve their fitness and have fun. Here are Reasons Why Every Child Should Train Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. 1. Bully Prevention A child who has experience in BJJ will be able to control an attacker and neutralize them in a realistic scenario. They will develop the ability to take an attacker to the ground and control them. They will also understand how to escape uncomfortable positions or avoid being pinned underneath a bigger and stronger attacker. Children with an understanding of how to defend themselves in a safe and controlled manner will have unrivaled levels of confidence. Martial arts is instructed with the idea that people should not go out and use their newly acquired skills unless it is absolutely required. Instead, the ideology behind Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is learning how to defend yourself from an attacker without having to punch, kick, or inflict damage on another person. For many reasons, punching and kicking is usually not an ideal option for self-defense. Firstly, striking in an uncontrolled situation where anything could happen. Even in a self-defense situation, striking is not always the preferred way to defend yourself. The preferred way to defend yourself should be to neutralize a situation and not cause damage while avoiding taking damage yourself. In this case, no one gets hurt. 2. Helps them socialize In this ever-changing world communicating digitally became normal part of our lives, as days go by this can be seen in children as well, instead of playing outside, our kids are more inclined to stay at home and talk or play with their peers via mobile devices. By training with other children of different ages, it is ensured that a child develops necessary social skills from their beginnings. These social skills will stay with a child through their education years and into their careers and will ensure that they enjoy success in many aspects of life. Rather than playing undertaking activities or hobbies that do not improve social skills, BJJ provides the opportunity for children to enjoy physical exercise at the same time as learning social skills with newly found friends. 3. Learning and Positive Mindset Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu has a clear and well-defined progression structure for children. This system of progression teaches children that reward is gained through effort and an investment of time spent learning. For example, almost every move requires repetitive practice so that it could be used effectively, just like learning multiplication table or a text in homework, repeated practice makes it better. In this way BJJ encourages children to develop a growth mindset in any field they decide to pursue. 4. Improved Body Awareness and Coordination Brazilian Jiu jitsu is filled with techniques that develops flexibility, fine motor skills, balance and endurance. Learning and executing these techniques makes children stronger and more aware of their bodily movements. Moreover, these skills then spill over to other sports and activities in their lives and aids in making them more successful in learning new movements faster. Conclusion As shown Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Is beneficial to children for many reasons. Children can learn great problem-solving skills while also becoming more disciplined individuals. Children can meet lifelong friends while also learning to defend themselves and prevent altercations all together. Introduction In an age when kids are all too likely to sit at home and play video games, the benefits of getting out there and learning something new at the same time as becoming fit and making new friends has never been clearer. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is a brilliant way for children to socialize, improve their fitness and have fun. Here are Reasons Why Every Child Should Train Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. 1. Bully Prevention A child who has experience in BJJ will be able to control an attacker and neutralize them in a realistic scenario. They will develop the ability to take an attacker to the ground and control them. They will also understand how to escape uncomfortable positions or avoid being pinned underneath a bigger and stronger attacker. Children with an understanding of how to defend themselves in a safe and controlled manner will have unrivaled levels of confidence. Martial arts is instructed with the idea that people should not go out and use their newly acquired skills unless it is absolutely required. Instead, the ideology behind Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is learning how to defend yourself from an attacker without having to punch, kick, or inflict damage on another person. For many reasons, punching and kicking is usually not an ideal option for self-defense. Firstly, striking in an uncontrolled situation where anything could happen. Even in a self-defense situation, striking is not always the preferred way to defend yourself. The preferred way to defend yourself should be to neutralize a situation and not cause damage while avoiding taking damage yourself. In this case, no one gets hurt. 2. Helps them socialize In this ever-changing world communicating digitally became normal part of our lives, as days go by this can be seen in children as well, instead of playing outside, our kids are more inclined to stay at home and talk or play with their peers via mobile devices. By training with other children of different ages, it is ensured that a child develops necessary social skills from their beginnings. These social skills will stay with a child through their education years and into their careers and will ensure that they enjoy success in many aspects of life. Rather than playing undertaking activities or hobbies that do not improve social skills, BJJ provides the opportunity for children to enjoy physical exercise at the same time as learning social skills with newly found friends. 3. Learning and Positive Mindset Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu has a clear and well-defined progression structure for children. This system ... Read more

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6 Primary Positions of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu

Compared to other martial arts, Brazilian Jiu jitsu( BJJ) distinguishes itself from multitude positions and techniques, which in result, might frustrate and infuriate beginner practitioner. And it is true, BJJ contains 6 primary positions, from which you have to work from bottom and top, as well as from left and right side. Add to that hundreds of different techniques from every position and you will understand complexity of this art. Therefore, following question occurs: how can we learn BJJ and get less frustrated? Answer lies in learning 6 primary positions. 6 Primary Positions of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu If you will look at any sparring or competition, you will see that people spend 90% of their time in following positions: 1a:  Full Guard: In full guard, bottom player encircles his legs around opponent and tries to defend himself, top player tries to get past his opponents legs to get to superior position. 1b: Open Guard In Open Guard, top player is standing while he is trying to get past the legs,bottom players goal is to sweep the opponent or defend the position. 1c: Half Guard In Half Guard, top player must constantly pressure the bottom one to completely get past of the opponents legs, bottom player, on the other hand, tries to sweep or gets back to the full guard. 2. Side Control In Side Control, top player managed to get past the legs,and now has better advantage to attack or transition to better position. During this time bottom player tries to escape and retain his guard. 3. Knee on the Belly Knee on the belly is long transition between Side Control and Mount (next position). Top player usually uses it to pin the opponent on the ground and safely transition to superior position. Bottom player tries to defend himself and tries to disrupt opponents actions. 4: მაუნთი (ანუ Mount) In Mount, top player managed to get into dominant position from which he can attack and create an opening for better position. Bottom player tries to defend himself while trying to sweep the opponent into less superior position. 5. Rear Mount In Rear Mount top player has total dominance over bottom player. 6. Turtle In turtle bottom player has defensive superiority and waits for good timing to attack, meanwhile top player tries to break the position to his favor. Positional hierarchy of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu For top and bottom players positions mentioned above have their advantages and disadvantages, it goes like this:                          Conclusion As you noticed, it is better to be in the top position, compared to bottom, however in the beginning try to learn following skills: 1. To understand in which position you are in: During sparring ask yourself a question: Which position am I in? What can I do from here? How can I go to my favorable position? 2. Always try to advance in positional hierarchy step by step : Guard—> Side Control—-> Knee on the Mount—–> Mount–>Rear Mount or Guard—> Side Control—->Mount—>Rear Mount რა თქმა უნდა ამ გადასვლებსაც თავისი შესაბამისი ტექნიკის სწავლა ჭირდება, მაგრამ ამას დროთა განმავლობაში ისწავლით, დასაწყისთვის კი ზემოთხსენებულ პუნქტებს მიაქციეთ ყურადღება. Of course you will need to know specific techniques for these transitions, and you will learn them during training, meanwhile focus on above mentioned skills. It will really reduce your frustration and will pave way for you to enjoy this awesome journey.

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The Facts on REAL Strength For Grappling Athletes

When it comes to strength and conditioning, many Grapplers especially BJJ practitioners still train like amateurs. I have trained many fighters; many are weak and don’t want to make commitment to strength training. I mean real strength work; heavy squatting, deadlifting and benching; triples, doubles or singles. They are not unlike other sport athletes that overdo the skill work and neglect the strength component. When they strength train it tends to be the metabolic cardiovascular type that actually zaps their strength. It makes you feel good-like you’re in shape but does nothing to improve your strength. BJJ fighters are the worst offenders; all they want to do is roll, roll, and roll. I get it; the skill work is extremely important but by gaining strength your skill ceiling is able reach higher levels. Given two athletes with similar skill levels, the stronger one will usually prevail. Ask Frank Mir. When he fought Brock Lesnar, he was the more superior technically skilled athlete but was severely overmatched in the strength department and lost. That is why he sought my help for the Cheick Kongo fight. He realized a deficiency in his game. Unfortunately I’m not sure he committed for the long haul after that fight. It all starts with strength. It is a confidence builder. When you know you are stronger than your opponent, it opens up your game plan. You spend less energy than your opponent; you get injured less and recover faster. If you want more work capacity or strength endurance, first increase your strength. Increase your power, first increase strength. Increase speed, first increase strength. The stronger you get, the more able you are to convert that strength to power and speed and endurance. Increasing strength to body-weight ratio improves quickness and the ability to change direction. I’m not saying don’t do functional exercises or metabolic training. They both have their place in your training tool box but you can only get so strong balancing on Bosu balls (is that Functional?). The basis of your offseason should be improving your strength in areas that will help correct your weaknesses. Increasing absolute strength in pulls, presses, and squats will correct a lot of weaknesses. I was hired to train the Azerbaijan National freestyle wrestling team before the Rio Olympics. They felt that they were superior technical wrestlers as compared to the USA but lacked the strength and conditioning that the USA wrestlers displayed. I was told to “build tanks”. So I implemented a block periodized strength program that focused on eccentric, isometric, and concentric muscle contractions that occur in a wrestling match. I then peaked them out with a power and speed contrasting program before the Olympics. The end result was 5 overall medals, more than any other country. If it wasn’t for an injury sustained by our heavyweight the week of the matches we would have won medals in all classes. 2 wrestlers on the podium he would 10-0 in training camp earlier in the year. Did we do some distance and metabolic conditioning? Yes we did. We also did sprints and agility drills. But the emphasis of the program was to get them stronger. We strength trained 4 days a week in the morning followed by wrestling in the afternoon. Training camps were typically 2 weeks long with 5 to 7 days in between camps some of the wrestlers were resistant at first; or their personal coaches were, but after wrestling in some preliminary competitions and feeling the strength improvement, they were sold as was the Russian coach that was in charge of the team. As we try to make training unique, cute, fun and entertaining but it all starts with the basics of improving strength first to improve sport performance. The outdated mindset of many combat athletes must change; strength training done properly will not slow you down, get you “bulky or tight”. It will do the opposite. I also believe the CrossFit methodology of training is wrong. It gets you to be great at performing about 70% of maximum. I was a World Champion Powerlifter and a 7 time competitor-2 time finalist in the ESPN WSM. I didn’t try to make my athletes be powerlifters or strongman. CrossFit is a sport. Not a performance enhancing program for athletes. Can some segments be used to help sport performance? Absolutely, just like powerlifts and Olympic lifts can be utilized, but to implement a wholesale CrossFit program for combat athletes is a mistake. But I see fighters training that way because they feel like it mimics the length and pace of a fight. They go to camp for 4 weeks or longer and strictly do round length simulation metabolic training and it depletes any strength work they have done previous to camp. All combat athletes at every age are worried about fatigue. The best way to combat fatigue is to perform at maximum intensity recover (intervals) and repeat. The stronger you become the higher the level of intensity of the interval. Maintaining strength during weight cut before the fight is also essential, all the more reason strength training should not cease during fight training camp. Training percentages used may have to be adjusted to accommodate the weight drop but low volume high intensity strength training will help to hold on to strength while bodyweight drops.All disciplines of mixed martial arts can benefit from improving strength. Ask yourself how much time are you devoting to the one aspect that will help raise the level of all the areas of your fight game? It’s not complicated, stick to the basics. Stick with developing strength. When it comes to strength and conditioning, many Grapplers especially BJJ practitioners still train like amateurs. I have trained many fighters; many are weak and don’t want to make commitment to strength training. I mean real strength work; heavy squatting, deadlifting and benching; triples, doubles or singles. They are not unlike other sport athletes that overdo the skill work and neglect the strength component. When they ... Read more

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What Should You Have In Your BJJ Gym Bag?

There are so many of us who don’t know or don’t care about what items we should carry in our BJJ gear bags. We are always hitting the gym in a rush, forgetting to carry the basics. How many of us who go to the gym really pay attention to our gym bags? For me, it is just another bag with a towel and shampoo. In this post, we will be discussing a few must-have essentials that all BJJ gym bags should have. 1. A Bottle Of Water Carrying a bottle of water is so important yet so much compromised by many BJJ practitioners. Good hydration levels are incredibly vital when you are training. Therefore, instead of relying on the tap water or paying an extra dollar for bottled water at the gym, it is advisable to carry your own home/work-filled water bottle. And, don’t forget to keep taking on little sips from the bottle while you are training. 2. Rashguard Some BJJ gym will require all their members to wear a rashguard under their Gis. You can carry a rashguard and use it if you are into excessive heavy training. As it is made from polyester and spandex, it easily keeps you sweat free. When it dries quickly, it also provides a good relief. The use of antimicrobial technology restricts the growth of bacteria in the most effective way. There are different sizes available with flexible fitting options. Do carry a rashguard in your gym bag for heavy workouts. 3. Carry A First-Aid Your gym should have first-aid tools available on their premises; however, bringing your own basic first-aid materials will come in handy. You should carry antibacterial wipes, few bandages and pain relief medicines in your bag. Even joint braces can be considered in case if you are performing high-intensity exercises that put a lot of stress on joints. 4. Personal Hygiene Items Personal care items such as deodorant, travel-sized shampoo and soap, lip balm, baby or body wipes, and a moisturizer, should be carried in the bag at all times. You don’t want to face the disappointment of forgetting something that is essential to your workout. Most of the gyms offer you towels for rent, but it is better and cheaper to bring your own. Also, a feminine product should be stashed in the bag somewhere. 5. BJJ Gi This goes without saying, the Gi is the most important piece of equipememt… 6. Mouthguard Do not forget to carry a mouthguard if you are into other forms of workouts, a mouthguard is a protective gear that will prevent injuries while working out or training. 7. Tape In addition to this, you can carry Tape for fingers if you want to prevent finger injury. Tape for fingers also protects you from injury during a workout session. 8. Nail Clippers When grappling, nails should be trimmed at all times. Long nails means scratching your training partners and also breaking your own nail. 9. Carry A Post-Workout Supplement After your workout session is over, your muscles are in a worn-out state. Your objective now should be to create an anabolic environment for the carbohydrates and proteins to go straight into the muscles, and for that, you need to use insulin immediately post workout. The best are hgh supplement for athletes along with insulin produce great results together. Both create the best environment for IGF-1 production. Carry the Xtreme no best bodybuilding supplements in your gym bag, and follow the dosage as per recommendations mentioned on the cover. Drink plenty of water before taking the supplement post workout. Your BJJ gym bag should reflect your personality and personal goals. Here, we have listed only a few basic items that you must carry in the gym bag. However, the list is not comprehensive, and there are other items such as well fitted clothes, good shoes, and a good watch should also be kept in the bag. All these items will prove to be incredibly useful to any trainer who takes his or her training seriously. Repost BJJEE.com

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Japanese Coach Credits Crosstraining BJJ For Their Olympic Comeback

Everybody was strategizing hard before the Olympics. And newaza was a huge factor playing into all that. Just check out the report Dr. Rhadi Ferguson and Christopher Round wrote for Kayla Harrisoncomparing aspects of her game (including newaza) to those of her potential opponents. Now the Japanese Olympic Judo coach and legendary player Kosei Inoue talked about the strategy applied for the Teddy Riner finale and more. Coach Inoue was aware of the players his teammates might encounter and directed them toward Conscious development. One might ask what is the point of it and to this question Kosei Inoue answered to a Japanese website nhk.or.jp: “In order to respond to the new judo incorporating ethnic martial arts around the world, we had adopted the practice to cultivate the ability to respond to a variety of martial arts such as performing a training camp of Okinawa sumo and Brazilian jiu-jitsu. In addition, the staff was invited to specialize in sports medicine, I had been honed by working the body making sure that there are no loses to foreign players over the Japanese traditional “be-all and end-all judo” approach. While responding to a new judo, philosophy of coach Inoue many believed their judo will lead to victory and it was felt throughout the interviews.” One of the goals was to overthrow the world’s strongest man – Teddy Riner.  However the Japan selection fell short of that goal but cross training more than paid off. Japan won 12 medals at Rio in Judo, 3 gold ones, 1 silver and 8 bronze. This is the largest number of judo medals Japan has won at a single Olympics. Japan’s dominance wavered during the London Olympic games – at that point the Japan’s men failed to win a gold medal in any weight division. After that Kosei Inoue took over the coaching position with a lot of bravado: “No matter what you do, whether it’s your daily job or (athletic) competitions, you carry pressure on your shoulders. I think it’s the same for everyone else,” Inoue said in an exclusive interview with The Japan Times at his office at Tokai University, where he serves as an associate professor at the Department of Physical Education. “For me, it’s a position with the Japanese national team, but whether it’s heavy pressure, struggle or pleasure, I’ve made up my mind to deal with it.” Kosei didn’t mince words: Various factors contributed to our losses,” he said. “You can roughly divide them into mental, technical and physical matters. But you can’t pinpoint one particular reason.” “The world is progressing fast. You’ve got to be aware of it,” Inoue said. “Japan’s judo has been trying to do things its own way, as if Japan was the be-all and end-all of everything.” “Judo, when we refer to it in Chinese characters, that’s what started in Japan,” Inoue said. “But when it’s written as j-u-d-o, in English, it’s a complex sport that derives from other martial arts. For instance, it’s sambo in Russia, and Brazilian jiu-jitsu in Brazil. So it’s complex judo versus our judo.”

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