Hi, My name is righty. I am right handed. I started BJJ yet again. Please don't ask me the difference between a kimura and an americana.
new to martial arts and bjj Hi, My name is Will O. I'm from Toronto Canada. I started BJJ and muay thai 8 months ago, but because of a bad coach got seriously injured very quickly and spent 4 months disabled. Now I'm back - switched to a MMA style kickboxing from muay thai, and I've been going 4 solid months 5 days a week 3.5 hours of classes a day and another 2-3 hours of conditioning 3 days a week. 2 kickboxing classes and one BJJ class every day, except when we do judo throws occasionally, in which case I learn judo instead. I really love BJJ, I wish I found it sooner. This is the best thing i ever did, and I didn't find it till I was 31. Just hoping I'm not too old by the time I'm good to compete.
Welcome to MAP! 31's a fine age for competing (particularly in BJJ), if you've got the conditioning and disposition for it. Won't know till you try. :evil: Cheers!
Hey thanks for the welcome. Yeah I'm a personal trainer with a decent college education. I know my way around the weight room and how to condition myself... in theory. I have no practical experience training fighters. If anyone knows proven conditioning techniques for BJJ and MMA, I would be very interested in a private message with some links or details to things that are shown to work.
Hello everyone, I have been training martial arts my whole life and BJJ for a little while now. My name is Jason Brinn. I am excited to learn from everyone here in the community!
huge fan of MMA, currently own an online shop [link removed] Looking forward to meeting the peeps here! Mod note: Welcome to MAP! We have a general "no free advertising" rule, though. You'll see it in the "Terms and Rules" linked at the bottom of most pages. For advertising rates, you are encouraged to contact either of the Administrators. Again, welcome to MAP. You'll find some great discussions here!
Ya, so, since I restarted BJJ a couple days ago, after a 21 year absence doing other martial arts, I thought a thread-bump is warranted. For the last 2 years and 9 months I’ve been at a boxing gym. I started at level zero, and worked up to where I can competently spar at full speed, hitting with as much as 75% power. (Once, and only once, I sparred at 100% power.) Mouthpiece, helmet -- let’s go. Early this month I went 9 rounds of boxing against a guy, about 50% power, just to prove that we could last that long. Last week we went 4 rounds at 75% power. That was a lot more fun than the long fight. But for the last several months I’d already been thinking, I’m really not going to get much better unless I get into amateur competition. And at age 47, I don’t think that’s smart. That intense sparring last week really brought it home. Now and then a strong stray shot will land, and he’s not hitting with full power. A full power shot like that? That doesn’t really sound smart. This is my hobby, not my job. My real job is a desk job where I need my brain. No one is giving me money to hit me. I’m the one paying money for this, and getting hit in the head is not healthy. Sooooo .... So I’ve seen a lot of “BJJ Over 40” (and even “BJJ Over 50”) on YouTube and FaceBook and in written BJJ articles. I’ve never seen that for boxing, ever. It intrigues me. Safe rolling for old guys like me? A way to go full speed, and even full power, against a resisting partner, doing things that would actually work in a real confrontation, and probably not get hurt? And no will be be trying to hit me in the face? Really? That’s fascinating. Absolutely fascinating. So I tried 2 classes at the Relson Gracie school sort of near me, and decided to go for it. Home - Relson Gracie Arizona BJJ over 40 -- let’s see how this goes.
Nice! As a 46 year old I can safely say BJJ allows you to go full on and stay relatively injury free My only advice is to choose your partner wisely and learn to go with the flow if someone is really insisting on a sweep or similar - that seems to be when the injuries happen & in my experience you can develop a game that catches people after their power’s expended (the younger guys have better cardio generally so let them do the work)
I wrote some blog posts based on a survey of BJJ people over age 50 and posted them here and here. You may find them of interest.
I shall post on here as I just signed up for BJJ at a RGA academy in Reading. previous grappling experience was about 8 years in judo from 10/11-19 years old, then again at 26-28yrs old no gi and wrestling as part of MMA training. The last 10 years I have not done any grappling, so I'm glad to finally get back into it at 38 years old. I guess I could say I've never done BJJ before, but I am familiar with the terminology and some of the moves, I'm looking forward to sharpening my grappling game.
If you've trained nogi and MMA before, then you definitely have trained BJJ before, anyway good luck!!