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Do I set New Years resolutions? This is the question I got recently.
I originally answered this question on my email list. And the big idea that I shared was about how I break down goals.
Here’s what I mean. . .
For me, I tend to be a little bit hyper and all over the place. If you’ve watch the videos sometimes I have a tendency to speak quickly and all over the place.
This energy is great. But sometimes it causes me to lose sight of my goals.
But back in 2016. I thought about all the things I’m good at in my life. Like weight training, Brazilian jiu-jitsu the gym business, teaching, etc. And when I thought about them. I realized that they were all things that I did everyday.
So when 2016 New Years rolled around. I set my goals and then started to look at daily things I could do to make those goals happen.
While I certainly didn’t hit every goal. I hit more goals than I had ever hit before.
And I’m sure if you talked to my business partner Joe. He’d tell you that there was a change in me around this time. I became much more focused and better at completing projects we had for the business.
So while I don’t have everything figured out. I have found a huge value in focusing on simple daily tasks / daily rituals to make the big goals happen.
I wanted to share, and I hope it’s useful for you.
-Chewy
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Does your BJJ belt lineage really matter if you plan to teach?
Of course this is my opinion, but assuming that your belt lineage is legitimate. I really don’t think it matters as many people think.
As a young coach who was a brown belt. I had an obscure Brazilian Jiu-jitsu lineage for most. But I was still able to be successful in competitions and as a coach.
I’ve grown a gym that’s nearly 10000 sq ft and has hundreds of people training.
I accomplished this not with my really cool belt lineage. But because I was very much invested in the success of my students and my drive to help them.
Now, all that said, I think lineage can be important in a few cases. But if you’re someone who is looking to become a Brazilian Jiujitsu coach or instructor.
I think your belt lineage is less important when compared to who you are as a person and how you teach your students.
-Chewy
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Everyone wants the ability to roll with bigger stronger people in Brazilian Jiu-jitsu, right?
I mean it’s part of the mythology of BJJ. That technique trumps all. That some of the Gracies were smaller, weaker people and they were able to win their opponents.
In this video I explain how if you want to be a Giant Slayer in BJJ you have to be willing to walk in the Land of The Giants.
What I mean by this is that if you want to be able to use your Brazilian Jiujitsu techniques against bigger people. You’ve got to be willing to roll, drill and train with big guys during your BJJ training.
I share a short story about one of my smallest students who was forced to learned how to use his BJJ against some of the biggest guys in my gym.
If you’re a smaller weaker person and you’re trying to beat bigger people in BJJ. I hope this video is helpful.
-Chewy
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Have you ever heard of the term “Gym Enforcer” at your Brazilian Jiu-jitsu academy?
It’s a pretty simple idea. Just like the old hockey enforcers who were sent out to check certain players on the ice. A gym enforcer is there to check certain behaviors on the mat.
In this video our friend Dee was put in the position as gym enforcer by his coach.
There was a mat bully in the BJJ gym he trains at who was roughing people up unnecessary and not being safe. The coaches had talked to the guy. But he still continued.
So Dee, who is a BJJ Brown Belt, was told to put it on the guy and he did.
The bad part for Dee is that the guy hasn’t made it back to training since. And he feels like maybe he ruined someone’s Brazilian Jiu-jitsu experience.
In this video I share that the idea of a gym enforcer in your Brazilian Jiujitsu gym is fairly common.
You don’t rough people up unnecessarily but you need people to be aware of reality.
If you were on a basketball team and you had a new player who wasn’t very good, but better than some, begin talking trash to the players. You might have one of the better players school him on the court to check the situation before it becomes negative to the whole team.
I also share how being a gym enforcer is helping maintain the safe boundaries inside of your gym and share a term I read in a book called Iron John.
The term is Walled Garden, and simply means establishing a secure place for us to cultivate ourselves.
This cultivation cannot happen if people are creating negativity inside the ranks of the gym.
Enjoy the video!
-Chewy
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BJJ sport training is one of the only sports I’ve ever seen where there is very little methodology of how hard to train.
Most sports combine some mixture of hard and lighter elements of training to round things out.
But Brazilian Jiu-jitsu often doesn’t. So practitioners often fall into this misconception that the only way to get better in BJJ is to GO HARD all the time.
In today’s video I answer a question from our friend who is asking about how to roll with weaker smaller people during BJJ training.
He says this not because he wants to adjust to them, but because he implies that he isn’t going to improve if he rolls wit them.
I try to debunk this myth by sharing how I rolled with mostly White and Blue Belts for some of my early Black Belt competitions.
Very similar to weaker people in the gym. I could crush them if I wanted. But I roll with them very deliberately to improve and prepare myself for Black belt matches.
If you’re in a similar situation in BJJ. I hope this video encourages you to think a little differently about how you can train with smaller, weaker or less skill BJJ training partners.
Talk to you next time!
-Chewy
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