First few lessons

[Rob_InDaUk]

Hey MAPers, I just finished my second JJ lesson and was wondering, I feel quite overwhelmed by all the different techniques I've been shown. Did anyone else feel like this when they had their first few lessons..or is it just me??

It could just be me being paranoid, but I would like your feedback all the same

Rob

[Rob_InDaUk]

The wretched King Minos has decided your fate. His tale wraps around his body 7 times.
The sweet light no longer strikes against your eyes. Your shade has been banished to... the Seventh Level of Hell!
Seventh Level of Hell

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Guarded by the Minotaur, who snarls in fury, and encircled within the river Phlegethon, filled with boiling blood, is the Seventh Level of Hell. The violent, the assasins, the tyrants, and the war-mongers lament their pitiless mischiefs in the river, while centaurs armed with bows and arrows shoot those who try to escape their punishment. The stench here is overpowering. This level is also home to the wood of the suicides- stunted and gnarled trees with twisting branches and poisoned fruit. At the time of final judgement, their bodies will hang from their branches. In those branches the Harpies, foul birdlike creatures with human faces, make their nests. Beyond the wood is scorching sand where those who committed violence against God and nature are showered with flakes of fire that rain down against their naked bodies. Blasphemers and sodomites writhe in pain, their tongues more loosed to lamentation, and out of their eyes gushes forth their woe. Usurers, who followed neither nature nor art, also share company in the Seventh Level.

Purgatory Repenting Believers High
Level 1 - Limbo Virtuous Non-Believers High
Level 2 Lustful Moderate
Level 3 Gluttonous Low
Level 4 Prodigal and Avaricious Low
Level 5 Wrathful and Gloomy Low
Level 6 - The City of Dis Heretics Very Low
Level 7 Violent High
Level 8- the Malebolge Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers Low
Level 9 - Cocytus Treacherous Very Low

[Rob_InDaUk]

Oops wrong thread!!

Rob

[Sub zero]

I sort of felt that way.Even though i had been training in kung fu for several years, i just wasn't use to being taught that way.

[Jim]

Second lesson? Don't worry Rob. It's kinda like the poo and blanket thing. The more you throw at it the more'll stick. You're not supposed to remember 'all' you're shown.

Did you get a requirements for next grading sheet?

[SoKKlab]

Totally Normal Feeling Robin,
I recently started going to Ju Jitsu. Although I've done lots of Martial arts, I'm a newbie at JJ.

I find being a Beginner frustrating, especially having to relearn Breakfalls, because I haven't done them for ages and am now rubbish at them and no I can't remember the techniques either.

But give it time and I will and so will you.

[Rob_InDaUk]

Originally posted by Jim
Did you get a requirements for next grading sheet?

No, haven't yet. My club is doing like a special summer school thing. Everyday it will be open from 8am to 10pm :D

Rob

[Bigfoot]

Actually I was not overwhelmed when I started. I was more in awe. I thought it was so cool what the others (especially the master instructor) could do. I knew that if they could do it, so could I. I saw it as an open door.

[Jim]

Are you intending to go 'long term' or just for the summer?

[Rob_InDaUk]

Long term :D I'm hooked, also i'm definately feeling the 'burn' LOL Pain is good right?? :p

Rob

[Joe karate]

is it tradititional or brazillian style??

[Rob_InDaUk]

Traditional

Rob

[karatekid]

i was like that tooo
but hey you will get over it
just belive in yerself
karatekid

[morphus]

Ju Jitsu & pain go together...............but it's terrific!:)

[Jim]

A bit scary when you said 'Traditional or Brazilian...'. I thought I'd stumbled into some 'other' website. :D

[Rob_InDaUk]

LOL! Dirty mind you have there Jim..

Rob

[pgm316]

Originally posted by Jim
Second lesson? Don't worry Rob. It's kinda like the poo and blanket thing. The more you throw at it the more'll stick. You're not supposed to remember 'all' you're shown.

Did you get a requirements for next grading sheet?

Nice way to explain it :D But true!

[pgm316]

Originally posted by Jim
A bit scary when you said 'Traditional or Brazilian...'. I thought I'd stumbled into some 'other' website. :D

And which 'other' website would that be!? :p

[kyokujitsu]

Originally posted by morphus
Ju Jitsu & pain go together...............but it's terrific!:)

Couldn't have said it better myself , is it okay if i quote? :D

[Kinjiro Tsukasa]

I was overwhelmed at first, too. Just thrown right in with the more advanced students, doing the same techniques they were (and lots of them); no beginner's class! It is starting to make sense now, however (about two months later). I'm even learning the Japanese names for everything, which I thought I'd never do. More than just individual techniques, I'm now starting to see the big picture. So, just keep it up; it will start to come together for you.

[Joe karate]

Originally posted by Jim: "A bit scary when you said 'Traditional or Brazilian...'. I thought I'd stumbled into some 'other' website."

Yea, i don't quite know what that means.

[johnson]

in jj when you are shown a technique it consists of lots of different moves joined together. eg swan block, punch the neck, hip throw, cross arm lock. When you first start you are lost with all of the combinations - its hard enough to remember the throw let alone the type of lock. Gradually you start to recognised each of the sub skills involved in the technique; eg umbrella block, back hand, body drop, cross arm lock - you think oh its one of them followed by one of those etc. Its not long before you can see a very involved technique once or twice and then can duplicate it. In jj this is how you get familiar with the vocabulary. Rather than spending ages doing one particular throw over and over eg just hip throw in jj you tend to do the technique in lots and lots of different situations and thereby get quite flexible at it- although it does take longer to get the hang of each move this way.

Something that i found extremely helpful was to keep a note book. After the lesson at home mime out on your own techniques aas best as you can remember them - even if only fragments. Then if you get 3 or 4 per lesson that you can recall - mime then each 2 or 3 times before going off to work each morning - like doing a kata eg step into hip throw arm around the imaginary opponents weight lift up with heels and turn etc. It doesnt take long to do but it really helps you pick up yore techniques - each to their own though.
regards