December 16, 2024 • 16 mins
Are you new to Jiu-Jitsu? Feeling nervous about your first class or unsure what to expect? In this episode, we cover the most common beginner questions, from what to wear to class to how to deal with nerves. We also explain what Jiu-Jitsu is and how to get started safely. This is part one of a two-part series designed to help beginners feel confident as they start their Jiu-Jitsu journey.
Topics Covered:
- What is Jiu-Jitsu?
- Wrestling with submissions: controlling opponents using joint locks and chokes.
- Fun descriptions: "Origami with people" or "folding clothes with people in them."
- Do You Need to Be in Shape?
- No! People of all shapes and sizes can start.
- Jiu-Jitsu inspires healthier habits to improve your skills over time.
- How Long Does it Take to Get a Black Belt?
- Average: 10–12 years, but it depends on dedication and consistency.
- Some achieve it in as few as 4–7 years under ideal circumstances.
- What to Wear to Class:
- Compression shorts, sweatpants, or athletic wear.
- Avoid jewelry, piercings, or anything that could cause injuries.
- Gi vs. No-Gi Jiu-Jitsu:
- Gi: Training with a kimono; allows for grip-based techniques.
- No-Gi: No kimono; techniques rely on body grips, similar to wrestling.
- How Often Should Beginners Train?
- Train as much as your body feels comfortable.
- Start slow and listen to your body to avoid injuries.
- Will You Get Hurt?
- Minor injuries are possible; major ones are rare with safe training.
- Tap early and often to stay safe, and avoid unsafe partners.
- What Does Tapping Mean?
- A way to signal that you give up to avoid injury.
- Tap the person applying pressure, the mat, or use your voice to make it clear.
- Dealing with Nerves:
- Nervousness is normal, even for experienced practitioners.
- Warm up properly, and ease into rolls during your first class.
- Hygiene Tips for Jiu-Jitsu:
- Shower appropriately, but not right before class.
- Cut and file your nails, wear deodorant, and keep your gear clean.
- Use compression gear to reduce skin infections and protect against mat burn.
- Why You Should Use a Mouthpiece:
- Protect your teeth during training.
- Inexpensive options with warranties are available online.
Key Takeaways:
- Jiu-Jitsu is for everyone, no matter your fitness level.
- Start slow, stay safe, and maintain good hygiene.
- Focus on learning and having fun—it's a marathon, not a sprint!
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(00:00):
So are you new to jujitsu? Are you trying to figure out like how often should I train as a beginner or how do I deal with these nerves before my first class? What does tapping mean? You know, how long does it take to get a black belt? Some basic, basic beginner questions. What is even jujitsu to begin with? We're going to dive into that today. So without further ado, let's get started.
(00:25):
Jujitsu, the easiest way that I like to explain to people, they say like, you know, they all the gentle art and all this is not really that gentle of art. For me, I like to say is wrestling with submissions. So if you're familiar with grappling, wrestling is focused on the ground and is focused on joint locks. So breaking things, breaking arms, breaking knees, breaking ankles, breaking arms. If I said that shoulder,
(00:55):
whatever the case may be and choking people out, right? You can choke people out with your arms, you can choke people out with your legs. Shoot, you can choke people out with cloth, like clothing. You can choke people out with their own, like arm as well. So there's a there's a lot that goes on with jujitsu, but it's a way to control another person. I like the other explanation I heard as well. It's like, it's like origami with people or like folding clothes with people in them. I think that's
(01:25):
another good way to to look at it. There's another question that is, you know, a common one that's like, do you need to be in shape to start jujitsu? No, I mean, I've seen huge people started jujitsu people that were like, way out of shape, like 280. You know, I seen bodybuilders that were around like 280 as well. And they you start slimming down. It's not from jujitsu that makes you slim down, by the way, you slim down because you want to do better in jujitsu.
(01:55):
And you have more of a passion to want to work out to watch your diet, to do certain things. jujitsu creates because you want to be better on the mat. So you have to take care of your body. It gives you another reason to take care of yourself. So at least for me as well, it gives me a reason to stay in shape. And yeah, you can be small, you can be big. It obviously helps if you're in shape already. And it helps if you've been an athlete, like, of course, those things helps because we're talking about
(02:25):
grappling, we're talking about fighting in a sense, right. So absolutely, the better shape you are in is definitely going to help. But do you need to be in shape? Absolutely not. It's a journey, right? It's a marathon. It's not a sprint. This is something that takes years, right, which kind of goes into another question, like, you know, how long does it take to get a black belt? I mean, if you're if you're in shape, and you know, you're extremely dedicated, you got the right instructor, right instructor, and you're in the right gym culture, and you got the right training
(02:55):
partners, I mean, there's people who got black belts in four years. The average person, I think it's around like 12 years or so, like, you know, 10 to 12 years, I think usually. And if you're really dedicated, but maybe, you know, it could it can even be seven years. So it's a range, but it's definitely going to take a while. So it's not a sprint. It's a marathon, you know, so start however you are. And, you know, what should you wear to class your
(03:25):
first class just you know, I would say if you had any compression shorts already on hand, I'm not going to make this like overly difficult or overly expensive if you just got some shorts. Sure, you got some sweatpants and t shirt. It doesn't it doesn't it doesn't take much. It doesn't take much.
Obviously athletic wear don't wear jewelry, don't wear rings, earrings, gauges, take them out, piercings, take them out, right, because obviously you're going to be on the floor, you're going to be grappling, you're going to be rolling around and you don't want those things to hurt you at all, you don't want any cuts.
(04:04):
There's another question I hear goes, you know, what is the what is the difference between gi and no gi jujitsu. These are, these are definitely two distinct styles. This is definitely jujitsu. Gi meaning like a kimono like you're wearing this like pajama that we call the pajamas. And that's used to honestly control people to be able to toss people around.
(04:34):
To be able to control their legs control their arms, do certain submissions with it as I mentioned earlier. Whereas the no gi, you know, this one is a is a little bit scarier for people when they get first getting started one because you don't know the rank and experience of anybody that you're training with.
With the gi you clearly know who's a white belt and who's a black belt, right, you clearly can see that no gi you can't see that. So it's more is more along the lines of wrestling. There's no cloth grips. So you got to, you really got to rely on the body, you got to really got to rely on the, the grips that you take is much different from being able to grab clothes and no gi, there's no clothes for you to grab, right.
(05:17):
So it's just like you got to hook the person's body, you got to grab in certain ways to be able to control the individual but at the same time, they're both jujitsu is just slightly different forms.
And there's, there's, I like this question, you know, how often should you train as a beginner, I would say train as often as you like and feel comfortable doing. Right, like, that's honestly a personal preference, you'll see people say you know two, three times a week. But what the main thing is, what are you doing jujitsu for? Are you doing for a light workout? And you have other things that you're doing? Like you know, just who's just something that you do on the side, you just want to do it once a week. That's perfectly fine too.
(05:58):
Right, whatever it is, if you're somebody who wants to go like balls to the wall and go, you know, two days, then do two days, right, but you got to make sure you listen to your body, your body might be telling you like, hey, I can't take this.
Like, it hurts a little bit or whatever, like you're just tired, give your body a rest because you don't want to go in and then you know, something might tear something might pop, just from you doing something very basic because your body is so run down. Right, you know, our cars need oil changes.
(06:29):
You know, we need the tires rotated, you know, sometimes we need the tires replaced, we need things like you know, we need things, we need maintenance done on our cars. Just like that we need maintenance done on our bodies and we need to continuously maintain it and listen to it.
If not, you will get hurt faster and more often than you should in jujitsu. Really, and which kind of leads me into the next question of like, will I get hurt in jujitsu? Most likely, yeah.
(07:00):
Most likely, we'll get hurt. Am I talking about major injuries? Most likely not. Unless you're, again, with unsafe training partners and what does it mean to be unsafe or what does it mean to train safely? The best way to do that is to tap early and to tap often.
If you see somebody that does not, how do you say, respect the tap, or you hear of there's a gym that does not respect the tap, don't even go. Don't even roll with those individuals. Somebody who's been training like for myself, I've been training for 10 years.
(07:32):
I'm a brown belt and no, like I will not, I will not roll with somebody who does not respect the tap. No, I don't care what your rank is. I don't care. I don't care at all, because now it's unsafe. It's very unsafe.
I don't, like the likelihood of you catch me and say, it doesn't matter. It does not matter. Right? You have to, you have to be willing to say no to people. If somebody has hurt you as well, like maybe, you know, you didn't, maybe it might be your fault.
(08:04):
Maybe it might not talk to your instructor. Right. And really be wise with, you know, how your pain tolerance, if you start to feel a little bit of pain, just tap. If you don't know how to get out of some of some something.
It's okay to tap, especially if you're, if you're, if you're early on, you're probably going to be tapping to things that you shouldn't tap to. It's okay. They'll teach you and you rather, you'd rather be safe than sorry. Right. Because I've had white belts when I roll with them,
(08:34):
experienced guys when I roll with them and they tap to like some pressure, they felt uncomfortable. And I just let them know like, Hey, I let go, I let go. And I just let them know like, Hey, like, that's not something that you should be tapping to. Right.
Because it's not really stopping you from doing anything. It's just a little bit discomfort. Right. So you got to just know, you got to start learning what's like, what's uncomfortable and what is pain and what's the difference between between those things.
(09:06):
Very, very important, but don't, don't just assume if you feel uncomfortable, tap, tap, and then eventually your comfort level will grow. Right. And hopefully you have like trading partners that want to invest in you being the best version of the grappler that you
(09:27):
possibly can be because you're going to ultimately push them to another level as well. And I actually tapping, I should explain this tapping is basically when you like, you're probably going to hear the sound like, you know, you just basically touch the person tap on them.
(09:48):
And that will allow the person to know that they would have gotten a submission, they no longer need to continue. I'm waving the white flag, you won. Let's reset. Very, very important to tap the individual that is applying the submission to you, or either or either verbally say it or
(10:12):
stomp with your hand, stomp with your feet. If you're going to tap with your feet, you make make sure you stomp multiple times. So it's clear that is a tap if your arms are like tied up in your mouth is being like, covered or whatever the case may be, which are there are
submissions like this. So it will force you like the only thing you have to are your your feet and you you have to stomp. Do not just tap lightly on the mat to not do any of those things. Because if you don't tap on your own body, because if the person doesn't know you're tapping and they can't see you, you have to make sure that they can feel it. Right? Like tap them like a couple times. And then it will go. And so very, very important.
(10:57):
Very important. Very important. Last question I want to address is, you know, how to deal with nerves before your first class. To me, again, somebody who's been training for a while, I get nerves going to a new gym. For the first time, I get nerves going to a new gym or another gym that I haven't been to for a while I get
(11:19):
nerves, I get nerves going to going to open mat. I get nervous if it's not my gym, I get I get nervous because you never know what really is going to happen. But don't hide from those nerves. Those nerves are okay. Accept them, invite them in. It's okay, it's going to keep you alert, it's going to keep you aware. The biggest thing that I would say is make sure you warm up this also goes with the getting hurt in jujitsu part, make sure you warm up your first round if you're rolling should be a very light round, you should not be doing anything crazy.
(11:49):
You should just be moving your body. Right? Like, you know, don't do stretching first because stretching doesn't help your muscles actually like stretches them out in a sense of allows you to get damage from my research that I found. I'm not a doctor, I don't really know, you know, but from the research that I found, and from my experience, it's much better to do a jog to do some jumping jacks to move, like, you know, get the blood pumping. And then you go into the role you stretch after, after you're done doing jujitsu, then you stretch out the
(12:19):
muscles and, and then legaments and tendons and things of that nature. Don't do it before because it might actually be a little bit more harmful. I know I said the last thing I wanted to talk about was nerves, but I feel like I can't end this video without talking about hygiene. Right? The hygiene that we should be having don't shower right before class unless you're a construction worker, or something along those fields and you work in like, I mean, maybe a gardener, you know, a landscaper, and you're very dirty. Maybe if you work those types of professions,
(12:49):
yeah, you should probably shower. You definitely should shower before getting on a mess. But if you're not in that profession, you don't want to shower right before maybe an hour before two hours before. Because when you shower, you're going to be taking off the natural the good bacteria off of your skin as well. And you want to make sure you have the good bacteria to protect from the bad bacteria as well. Right? If you come in fresh, and you only get bad bacteria, then things can like, you know, skin infections can can can start to have it happen. Also, maybe you might want to invest in getting like
(13:19):
long compression sleeves, compression like pants and the rash guards that cover up to your wrist and up to your ankles. And in that situation, you know, it helps with matte burn. And it helps with like the skin to skin contact, it limits the the skin infections that you will be able to that you will get potentially. And
(13:43):
definitely apply deodorant apply a lot of deodorant on your underarms, you can even also apply deodorant on your chest as well. You can use baby powder for the crotch areas, the sensitive areas, right. And as a way to kind of smell good, you can put baby powder on your chest as well. You can put baby powder on your clothes, whatever the case may be, you want to smell fresh, make sure you cut your nails. And after you cut your nails, usually they're kind of sharp, so you need to file them down. And this is what I mean when you do jujitsu, it makes you kind
(14:13):
of like all around better person. Like you also should be brushing your teeth using some mouthwash at the bare minimum at least chewing gum. Because you don't want your breath to be rocking. And people tap in just from your breath, and not wanting to roll with you or you don't want to be the stinky guy, make sure you wash your
gi and let it hang out dry, right hang out to dry washer belt as well. And let it hang in dry don't turn and dry or you're not going to be able to wear that gi or those rash guards anymore. If you want to use a laundry detergent, I would recommend using oxy and distilled white vinegar. Those two combinations a like especially if your clothes really stink, it will knock it out, it will it will get rid of the odor and will smell really good and very, very fresh.
(15:01):
And you won't have any issues with training partners. Now obviously, are you always going to smell the best? Probably not. But try your best right? Make sure make sure you're not cutting anybody with like sharp nails and things of that nature. And with that, make sure you have a mouthpiece because one mistake can run you a couple $1,000. So just get like a cheap, you know, see see Sue.
(15:26):
A mouthpiece, I think it's like 20 bucks on Amazon, like get one boil, boil it and then fit it to your mouth. And they'll protect you like register it and you know, if anything happens, I think they give you a warranty up to like I don't know if it's 10,000 $30,000 or something like that, right? Check it out. It's definitely going to help you more than it's going to harm you not rolling with a mouthpiece rolling with a mouth without a mouthpiece is dangerous to to your health.
(15:56):
And well being and others as well. So you know how many times I got need in the face need in the mouth specifically, and I had a mouthpiece and so everything was okay. If I hadn't had it, I would be losing teeth. So this one's a little bit longer of episode, but I really do hope that this was very helpful foundational help episode for beginners. Usually I talk about more advanced things, but I wanted to do this for beginners and this is going to be part one, we're going to do a part two as
(16:25):
well and dive into more questions to be able to make sure that there's a lot of clarity in terms of what it is that you need to do and need not to do or should not do. But until let me know what you guys think in the comments until next time I see you guys.
So are you new to jujitsu? Are you trying to figure out like how often should I train as a beginner or how do I deal with these nerves before my first class? What does tapping mean? You know, how long does it take to get a black belt? Some basic, basic beginner questions. What is even jujitsu to begin with? We're going to dive into that today. So without further ado, let's get started.
(00:25):
Jujitsu, the easiest way that I like to explain to people, they say like, you know, they all the gentle art and all this is not really that gentle of art. For me, I like to say is wrestling with submissions. So if you're familiar with grappling, wrestling is focused on the ground and is focused on joint locks. So breaking things, breaking arms, breaking knees, breaking ankles, breaking arms. If I said that shoulder,
(00:55):
whatever the case may be and choking people out, right? You can choke people out with your arms, you can choke people out with your legs. Shoot, you can choke people out with cloth, like clothing. You can choke people out with their own, like arm as well. So there's a there's a lot that goes on with jujitsu, but it's a way to control another person. I like the other explanation I heard as well. It's like, it's like origami with people or like folding clothes with people in them. I think that's
(01:25):
another good way to to look at it. There's another question that is, you know, a common one that's like, do you need to be in shape to start jujitsu? No, I mean, I've seen huge people started jujitsu people that were like, way out of shape, like 280. You know, I seen bodybuilders that were around like 280 as well. And they you start slimming down. It's not from jujitsu that makes you slim down, by the way, you slim down because you want to do better in jujitsu.
(01:55):
And you have more of a passion to want to work out to watch your diet, to do certain things. jujitsu creates because you want to be better on the mat. So you have to take care of your body. It gives you another reason to take care of yourself. So at least for me as well, it gives me a reason to stay in shape. And yeah, you can be small, you can be big. It obviously helps if you're in shape already. And it helps if you've been an athlete, like, of course, those things helps because we're talking about
(02:25):
grappling, we're talking about fighting in a sense, right. So absolutely, the better shape you are in is definitely going to help. But do you need to be in shape? Absolutely not. It's a journey, right? It's a marathon. It's not a sprint. This is something that takes years, right, which kind of goes into another question, like, you know, how long does it take to get a black belt? I mean, if you're if you're in shape, and you know, you're extremely dedicated, you got the right instructor, right instructor, and you're in the right gym culture, and you got the right training
(02:55):
partners, I mean, there's people who got black belts in four years. The average person, I think it's around like 12 years or so, like, you know, 10 to 12 years, I think usually. And if you're really dedicated, but maybe, you know, it could it can even be seven years. So it's a range, but it's definitely going to take a while. So it's not a sprint. It's a marathon, you know, so start however you are. And, you know, what should you wear to class your
(03:25):
first class just you know, I would say if you had any compression shorts already on hand, I'm not going to make this like overly difficult or overly expensive if you just got some shorts. Sure, you got some sweatpants and t shirt. It doesn't it doesn't it doesn't take much. It doesn't take much.
Obviously athletic wear don't wear jewelry, don't wear rings, earrings, gauges, take them out, piercings, take them out, right, because obviously you're going to be on the floor, you're going to be grappling, you're going to be rolling around and you don't want those things to hurt you at all, you don't want any cuts.
(04:04):
There's another question I hear goes, you know, what is the what is the difference between gi and no gi jujitsu. These are, these are definitely two distinct styles. This is definitely jujitsu. Gi meaning like a kimono like you're wearing this like pajama that we call the pajamas. And that's used to honestly control people to be able to toss people around.
(04:34):
To be able to control their legs control their arms, do certain submissions with it as I mentioned earlier. Whereas the no gi, you know, this one is a is a little bit scarier for people when they get first getting started one because you don't know the rank and experience of anybody that you're training with.
With the gi you clearly know who's a white belt and who's a black belt, right, you clearly can see that no gi you can't see that. So it's more is more along the lines of wrestling. There's no cloth grips. So you got to, you really got to rely on the body, you got to really got to rely on the, the grips that you take is much different from being able to grab clothes and no gi, there's no clothes for you to grab, right.
(05:17):
So it's just like you got to hook the person's body, you got to grab in certain ways to be able to control the individual but at the same time, they're both jujitsu is just slightly different forms.
And there's, there's, I like this question, you know, how often should you train as a beginner, I would say train as often as you like and feel comfortable doing. Right, like, that's honestly a personal preference, you'll see people say you know two, three times a week. But what the main thing is, what are you doing jujitsu for? Are you doing for a light workout? And you have other things that you're doing? Like you know, just who's just something that you do on the side, you just want to do it once a week. That's perfectly fine too.
(05:58):
Right, whatever it is, if you're somebody who wants to go like balls to the wall and go, you know, two days, then do two days, right, but you got to make sure you listen to your body, your body might be telling you like, hey, I can't take this.
Like, it hurts a little bit or whatever, like you're just tired, give your body a rest because you don't want to go in and then you know, something might tear something might pop, just from you doing something very basic because your body is so run down. Right, you know, our cars need oil changes.
(06:29):
You know, we need the tires rotated, you know, sometimes we need the tires replaced, we need things like you know, we need things, we need maintenance done on our cars. Just like that we need maintenance done on our bodies and we need to continuously maintain it and listen to it.
If not, you will get hurt faster and more often than you should in jujitsu. Really, and which kind of leads me into the next question of like, will I get hurt in jujitsu? Most likely, yeah.
(07:00):
Most likely, we'll get hurt. Am I talking about major injuries? Most likely not. Unless you're, again, with unsafe training partners and what does it mean to be unsafe or what does it mean to train safely? The best way to do that is to tap early and to tap often.
If you see somebody that does not, how do you say, respect the tap, or you hear of there's a gym that does not respect the tap, don't even go. Don't even roll with those individuals. Somebody who's been training like for myself, I've been training for 10 years.
(07:32):
I'm a brown belt and no, like I will not, I will not roll with somebody who does not respect the tap. No, I don't care what your rank is. I don't care. I don't care at all, because now it's unsafe. It's very unsafe.
I don't, like the likelihood of you catch me and say, it doesn't matter. It does not matter. Right? You have to, you have to be willing to say no to people. If somebody has hurt you as well, like maybe, you know, you didn't, maybe it might be your fault.
(08:04):
Maybe it might not talk to your instructor. Right. And really be wise with, you know, how your pain tolerance, if you start to feel a little bit of pain, just tap. If you don't know how to get out of some of some something.
It's okay to tap, especially if you're, if you're, if you're early on, you're probably going to be tapping to things that you shouldn't tap to. It's okay. They'll teach you and you rather, you'd rather be safe than sorry. Right. Because I've had white belts when I roll with them,
(08:34):
experienced guys when I roll with them and they tap to like some pressure, they felt uncomfortable. And I just let them know like, Hey, I let go, I let go. And I just let them know like, Hey, like, that's not something that you should be tapping to. Right.
Because it's not really stopping you from doing anything. It's just a little bit discomfort. Right. So you got to just know, you got to start learning what's like, what's uncomfortable and what is pain and what's the difference between between those things.
(09:06):
Very, very important, but don't, don't just assume if you feel uncomfortable, tap, tap, and then eventually your comfort level will grow. Right. And hopefully you have like trading partners that want to invest in you being the best version of the grappler that you
(09:27):
possibly can be because you're going to ultimately push them to another level as well. And I actually tapping, I should explain this tapping is basically when you like, you're probably going to hear the sound like, you know, you just basically touch the person tap on them.
(09:48):
And that will allow the person to know that they would have gotten a submission, they no longer need to continue. I'm waving the white flag, you won. Let's reset. Very, very important to tap the individual that is applying the submission to you, or either or either verbally say it or
(10:12):
stomp with your hand, stomp with your feet. If you're going to tap with your feet, you make make sure you stomp multiple times. So it's clear that is a tap if your arms are like tied up in your mouth is being like, covered or whatever the case may be, which are there are
submissions like this. So it will force you like the only thing you have to are your your feet and you you have to stomp. Do not just tap lightly on the mat to not do any of those things. Because if you don't tap on your own body, because if the person doesn't know you're tapping and they can't see you, you have to make sure that they can feel it. Right? Like tap them like a couple times. And then it will go. And so very, very important.
(10:57):
Very important. Very important. Last question I want to address is, you know, how to deal with nerves before your first class. To me, again, somebody who's been training for a while, I get nerves going to a new gym. For the first time, I get nerves going to a new gym or another gym that I haven't been to for a while I get
(11:19):
nerves, I get nerves going to going to open mat. I get nervous if it's not my gym, I get I get nervous because you never know what really is going to happen. But don't hide from those nerves. Those nerves are okay. Accept them, invite them in. It's okay, it's going to keep you alert, it's going to keep you aware. The biggest thing that I would say is make sure you warm up this also goes with the getting hurt in jujitsu part, make sure you warm up your first round if you're rolling should be a very light round, you should not be doing anything crazy.
(11:49):
You should just be moving your body. Right? Like, you know, don't do stretching first because stretching doesn't help your muscles actually like stretches them out in a sense of allows you to get damage from my research that I found. I'm not a doctor, I don't really know, you know, but from the research that I found, and from my experience, it's much better to do a jog to do some jumping jacks to move, like, you know, get the blood pumping. And then you go into the role you stretch after, after you're done doing jujitsu, then you stretch out the
(12:19):
muscles and, and then legaments and tendons and things of that nature. Don't do it before because it might actually be a little bit more harmful. I know I said the last thing I wanted to talk about was nerves, but I feel like I can't end this video without talking about hygiene. Right? The hygiene that we should be having don't shower right before class unless you're a construction worker, or something along those fields and you work in like, I mean, maybe a gardener, you know, a landscaper, and you're very dirty. Maybe if you work those types of professions,
(12:49):
yeah, you should probably shower. You definitely should shower before getting on a mess. But if you're not in that profession, you don't want to shower right before maybe an hour before two hours before. Because when you shower, you're going to be taking off the natural the good bacteria off of your skin as well. And you want to make sure you have the good bacteria to protect from the bad bacteria as well. Right? If you come in fresh, and you only get bad bacteria, then things can like, you know, skin infections can can can start to have it happen. Also, maybe you might want to invest in getting like
(13:19):
long compression sleeves, compression like pants and the rash guards that cover up to your wrist and up to your ankles. And in that situation, you know, it helps with matte burn. And it helps with like the skin to skin contact, it limits the the skin infections that you will be able to that you will get potentially. And
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definitely apply deodorant apply a lot of deodorant on your underarms, you can even also apply deodorant on your chest as well. You can use baby powder for the crotch areas, the sensitive areas, right. And as a way to kind of smell good, you can put baby powder on your chest as well. You can put baby powder on your clothes, whatever the case may be, you want to smell fresh, make sure you cut your nails. And after you cut your nails, usually they're kind of sharp, so you need to file them down. And this is what I mean when you do jujitsu, it makes you kind
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of like all around better person. Like you also should be brushing your teeth using some mouthwash at the bare minimum at least chewing gum. Because you don't want your breath to be rocking. And people tap in just from your breath, and not wanting to roll with you or you don't want to be the stinky guy, make sure you wash your
gi and let it hang out dry, right hang out to dry washer belt as well. And let it hang in dry don't turn and dry or you're not going to be able to wear that gi or those rash guards anymore. If you want to use a laundry detergent, I would recommend using oxy and distilled white vinegar. Those two combinations a like especially if your clothes really stink, it will knock it out, it will it will get rid of the odor and will smell really good and very, very fresh.
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And you won't have any issues with training partners. Now obviously, are you always going to smell the best? Probably not. But try your best right? Make sure make sure you're not cutting anybody with like sharp nails and things of that nature. And with that, make sure you have a mouthpiece because one mistake can run you a couple $1,000. So just get like a cheap, you know, see see Sue.
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A mouthpiece, I think it's like 20 bucks on Amazon, like get one boil, boil it and then fit it to your mouth. And they'll protect you like register it and you know, if anything happens, I think they give you a warranty up to like I don't know if it's 10,000 $30,000 or something like that, right? Check it out. It's definitely going to help you more than it's going to harm you not rolling with a mouthpiece rolling with a mouth without a mouthpiece is dangerous to to your health.
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And well being and others as well. So you know how many times I got need in the face need in the mouth specifically, and I had a mouthpiece and so everything was okay. If I hadn't had it, I would be losing teeth. So this one's a little bit longer of episode, but I really do hope that this was very helpful foundational help episode for beginners. Usually I talk about more advanced things, but I wanted to do this for beginners and this is going to be part one, we're going to do a part two as
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well and dive into more questions to be able to make sure that there's a lot of clarity in terms of what it is that you need to do and need not to do or should not do. But until let me know what you guys think in the comments until next time I see you guys.
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