Today’s video question comes from a Blue Belt who recently moved to a new BJJ gym and doesn’t feel up to the standard of the new gym. His question to me was how to deal with the situation he’s facing.

In this video I give 3 different ideas as to what could be going on and as to why he doesn’t feel up to the standard of his new Brazilian Jiu-jitsu gym. And if you’re moving to a new gym hopefully the ideas are useful to you as well!

-Chewy
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In a recent video I posted about tapping too early in BJJ. I did a poor job of explaining my ideas in detail. A lot of times I try to make the videos quick, snappy and easy to take in. But in some cases, longer detail is required for a nuanced situation.

In this video I reply to a few of the comments. But more importantly I explain in more detail my philosophy for using submissions in Brazilian Jiu-jitsu. After watching the video you’ll get a clear understanding of my ideas on safety, injury prevention and training hard.

The original video is here: https://youtu.be/_7Eoj5qKSPc

Hope the video helps clear up the idea and add on to the previous video.
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With 20+ years of grappling and competing you learn a few things.

And today I’m going to give you an important rule for your Brazilian Jiu-jitsu training. Probably 1/3 of the questions I received revolve around some form this idea.

That rule is. . .

You must understand the paradox of BJJ progression.

Here’s what I mean.

On one hand you remove your dependency on the outcome. A lot of times this gets worded to something like trust the process or love the journey not the destination.

From personal experience. Detaching myself from the immediate outcome was one of the biggest breakthroughs I ever experienced in BJJ. It freed me from worry and allowed me to become more aggressive, creative and unafraid of “what ifs”.

Here’s the flipside to that.

You still have to recognize good performances and bad performances.Or perhaps you prefer well executed vs poorly executed techniques. When you fail you can’t simply dust it under the rug and ignore it to focus on the journey. You need to break it apart, dissect it and crack open the lessons to be learned from the experience.

It’s a balancing act.

You have to roll like failures don’t exist but objectively look at every failure with a magnifying glass.

And truly understanding this paradox is one of the key ingredients for having a good mindset for getting better at BJJ. At least in my furry faced opinion.

-Chewy
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Today’s video is from one of my Brazilian Jiu-jitsu classes were I went over a couple of simple Guillotine choke counters. There are a lot of counters and defenses to the guillotine choke. But these are 2 of my bread and butter defenses that have served me well over the years in grappling.

The 1st one is the roll out which is executed from a full guard style position, The 2nd one is the hop over which is super useful when shooting in for a takedown.

The hop over is generally ideal while still moving (especially with takedowns) whereas the roll out is last moment counter when they get a good snag on your neck.

Hope these defenses are useful to you and your BJJ training.

-Chewy
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Do Black Belts have bad days on the mat during BJJ training? This is the question I got from one of my White Belts in the gym and 1 of the followers who is a Purple Belt.

In the video I answer the obvious, which is YES, of course I have bad days. But I’ll explain why I have less bad days during my Brazilian Jiu-jitsu training and how I do that. Hopefully you can take an idea from the video to chew on for your own training.

Hope the video is helpful to you regardless of your current skill level in grappling.
-Chewy
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This morning 1 of my White Belts was coming back from an injury and had a question for me. Here’s what happened.

​He was doing Brazilian Jiu-jitsu and then added weight training on top of it. He was enjoying clanging and banging so he cranked it up to 5 days of heavy lifting a week. Soon after he ran into some nasty tendinitis in his arms and had to take a couple of weeks off from training all together.

​No BJJ or weight training.

​Now that he’s healthy again he wants to add lifting back in. But he asked yours bearded for a wee bit-O-guidance. And so I’ll share with you what I shared with him.

​The big mistake he made was by not focusing one 1 of the MOST important parts of training.

​The routine!

​See, he went hard. But lifting (like BJJ) only blesses you with its benefits after a long period of consistency. And so when you add in lifting you need to set a schedule and then eaaaasssseee into the intensity over a period of time. This gives your bucket of bones time to acclimate and gives you time to set a routine.

​1 of the keys to surviving for the long haul in BJJ, the weight room, your diet. . . anything that’s worthwhile really. Is long term consistency.

And a routine that’s been executed to the point of making it habitual is the often-ignored backbone of that.

So hopefully that’s helpful to you.
-Chewy
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I share a story from my grappling career that would have been my most embarrassing moment. I share the story from my early wrestling career because it illustrates a point I wanted to make in regards to a question I received.

That question was, “What should you eat the day of a BJJ competition?”

I know why people ask this. They’re looking for some magical food to give them better performance. But as I’ll share in the video it’s a bad idea to change your diet in any major way right before a Brazilian Jiu-jitsu or any sort of grappling competition.

Now if you have a terrible diet. Then focus on changing that 1st rather than changing it the day of.

Hopefully the video is useful to you and your competitions.
-Chewy
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Recently I had a bunch of people ask about my warm up routine before BJJ competitions. This came about after some videos where I mentioned having a good warm up before matches is probably 1 of the most important things for performance that you can do on the day of the competition.

In this video I’ll give you a general idea of what I do the day of competitions from the moment I arrive to the venue to the moments in between matches.

Now there are lots of ways to warm up for Brazilian Jiu-jitsu competitions. This is my way of doing it. If you plan on competing, try some of the ideas out and see which ones work for you.

The video is a little longer, but I wanted it to be as useful as possible for someone getting ready for a Jiu-jitsu competition or match.

Anyways, I hope the video is helpful to you in your next BJJ competition and thanks for watching.

-Chewy

P.S Here is the gym bag video for BJJ competitions I mentioned in the video: https://youtu.be/f3wy-jPLgeU
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In today’s Bjj technique video I show you 4 fundamental full guard sweeps that every White Belt should learn as early as possible. I call them fundamental sweeps because they’re essential techniques that have useful movements which can be used in a myriad of positions in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. And I say that every BJJ White Belt should learn them early because they can be used to setup combos and other attacks that will serve them well until they’re a Black Belt.

For instance the scissor sweep is a good basic sweep that is great for learning to open your guard and progress to open guards later on in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. The bump sweep is great as a sweep but also is incredibly effective off-balancing technique that can lead to lots of other options in Brazilian Jiujitsu. And each closed guard sweep in this video has the same qualities to it.

Hope the video is useful to you and your training.

Thanks for watching.
-Chewy
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