tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30740798.post9158198762110640473..comments2024-03-22T01:17:01.667-05:00Comments on Georgette's Jiu Jitsu World: Response from the trenches...er, the mats....Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30740798.post-66638637487337028062010-06-28T11:49:25.864-05:002010-06-28T11:49:25.864-05:00Great post, G-Stamp and Georgette! I'm with yo...Great post, G-Stamp and Georgette! I'm with you, G, on being a sensitive guy - it's a bit of a mental battle to engage in such an aggressive sport when you aren't aggressive by nature. Not that BJJ-ers are all aggressive meanies, but I just think for super-sensitive people it's just as easy to feel bad about sportive, athletic aggression as it is about angry aggression.<br /><br />Another thought that I haven't seen anyone cover is your weight will probably change with continued BJJ training. I know a lot of guys that have lost quite a bit of weight training jiu-jitsu without even really trying. I wouldn't be surprised if you find that weight margin narrowing just as a natural result of training hard.SkinnyDhttp://www.arcanumbjj.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30740798.post-10309249903081603922010-06-27T18:55:31.113-05:002010-06-27T18:55:31.113-05:00Good comments everyone, thanks. @leslie, most of ...Good comments everyone, thanks. @leslie, most of my classmates are a lot smaller than me. Also, our Professor assigns partners and I rarely get the opportunity to roll with upper belts. The pool of comparably sized potential partners is small. No big deal.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02600267842086890594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30740798.post-80095176978303573542010-06-25T15:38:15.669-05:002010-06-25T15:38:15.669-05:00One thing I forgot to add... someone at my school ...One thing I forgot to add... someone at my school (Neal) said this to another friend (Vidush) and it made me reflect. They said something like, when a bigger person is rolling with a smaller one, don't you know it sucks for THEM too, to have to resort to weight and strength? Because it means that but for those attributes, the smaller person would be winning. (Loose paraphrase.)<br /><br />Kind of made me feel better about losing subs to stronger arms than mine :) Even arms stronger than my core! :)Georgettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08705282002904234217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30740798.post-42720201558999936182010-06-25T12:37:16.964-05:002010-06-25T12:37:16.964-05:00Great post!Great post!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30740798.post-84993586972313334572010-06-25T12:15:27.917-05:002010-06-25T12:15:27.917-05:00Great post. G-stamp, you are clearly a thoughtful...Great post. G-stamp, you are clearly a thoughtful guy. If I could give just one piece of advice is to cut yourself some slack.<br /><br />While the issues are real, attitude is really important. If you're working with your partners without malice or a lot of ego, you'll be fine. It's all about awareness, and for right now, as far as I'm concerned, knowing that you need to develop some awareness is a great start.<br /><br />Thanks, Georgette, for the great post.Stevehttp://www.stevebjj.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30740798.post-25733996078835675622010-06-25T09:21:43.000-05:002010-06-25T09:21:43.000-05:00@G-Stamp: I think the fact that you're activel...@G-Stamp: I think the fact that you're actively thinking through and wrestling with this is a good thing. You're aware of the size and weight difference and are trying to make sure you're not simply exploiting that to get ego-boosting taps. It's also going to be harder for you since you're not an upper belt trying to help a newer belt -- you're a white belt trying to work and learn.<br /><br />I think deliberately going slow and concentrating on positioning within a position (pinning them by the location of your knees, elbows, feet, head, etc., rather than your weight -- no space, but not smashing) is a good thing, too, and will help your partners see that you are trying your best to learn. I work like this with the 90-lb 11-year-old girl. <br /><br />And as I said on the first post, relying almost exclusively on the arms is a huge component of "muscling". If you find yourself using your arms a lot to do everything, try to figure out how to do whatever it is without using your arms so much.<br /><br />Even some of my purples and browns will give up submissions or passes on me if they can tell that they're muscling it. (Sheesh, even <b>I</b> try to muscle things.) So don't worry if it takes a while to learn.<br /><br />Also, I as a small female go find small girls to roll with so I can see what I really know. Perhaps you need to try to find some larger guys to roll with once in a while.lesliehttp://bjjgrrl.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.com