May 22, 2025 • 27 mins
The age old jiu jitsu sayings rendering strength useless with impeccable technique were maybe true for a period of time. Buuuut now those big and strong guys are also doing BJJ. Have you been told to stop using strength in rolls? We say, f%$@ that noise. While having technical prowess is really the ultimate goal, your strength is also a skill that you need to train. Getting stronger will only help your jiu jitsu, and if it's something you've left out of the regime, it's time to add it in now... (Do it using our app if you feel so incline)
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
A good martial artist does not become tense, but
ready.
Essentially, at this point, thefight is over, so you pretty
much flow with the goal.
Who is worthy to be trustedwith the secret to limitless
power?
I'm ready.
Strength is more important thantechnique for BJJ beginners.
(00:37):
Hear me out, Stay with me, fam.
Here's the thing.
For the mess part, we're alwaystaught technique over strength.
Don't use too much strength.
But what people are missingwhen you start BJJ?
If you're not strong, if you'renot robust, you're going to
crumble.
And you could be the mosttechnical person in the world.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
If you don't have a degree of physical strength,
you're getting smashed Bro therewas a Harvard study done of the
kinds of people coachesactually that specifically give
that piece of information, andit was found that they're all
weak cunts.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Imagine Harvard.
Thank you, harvard.
We appreciate your use of the Cword.
As Australians, we love it.
Now here's the thing, myfriends.
It is the biggest challengewhen you start jujitsu that
you're like well, what do I needto do?
What's the most important thingfor me to do?
Do as much jujitsu as I can, beas technical as I can and, yes,
of course, learning jujitsu.
(01:30):
We're here to learn conceptsand ways to move our bodies, to
strangle other humans.
But I don't know if you've hadthis experience, joe, but I've
definitely had this experiencewhere I have been more technical
than the person I'm rolling.
So in this case, I have beenmore technical than the person
I'm rolling.
So in this case, this gentlemanis called Big Jace.
He is 145, 150 kilos of rippedjacked, island of strength,
(01:56):
massive unit.
He was part of Mark Hunt's fightteam when he was preparing to
fight Frank Meir back in the dayand he totally KO'd Meir with
one of those classic walk-offknockouts Beautiful thing, I
love Mark Hunt's knockouts andhe trained at AET.
I don't know where he trainsnow, but this is back before Big
J.
He was a purple belt at thetime.
(02:16):
I was actually a black belt.
What could I do to this guy?
Gi, or no Gi, not very much,like I could barely move him.
He knew enough jujitsu that hecould just stop what I was
trying to do.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Even though I was trying to, like, trick him and
lure him in and all he had to dowas be non-compliant because he
was so big and so strong I Imaybe I got a sweep out of him
and maybe I got some kind offootlock or something, but it
was just.
It had to be such a surprise,because my technical ability was
not more than double his.
(02:52):
Wasn't far enough ahead, no,and so when you're at a beginner
level, when you first startjujitsu and you don't know much
jujitsu, and you're in front ofsomeone who is physically
stronger they might be the samesize as you, they're tougher
mentally, they've got a betterphysical condition.
As the roles go on, you willcrumble.
They will not.
(03:12):
And this is the thing that'snot talked about enough is that
you need to be freaking robust.
You need to be so determined.
Not only do you need a degreeof physical strength, but mental
strength, and that comes fromdoing challenging things
physically.
So when you come to somethinglike jujitsu, you don't just
wilt.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Yeah, I guess um, could I say.
Maybe the example of big Jsounds like a fucking handful by
the way I have rolling countslike that Nightmare.
That's why I don't Um.
But you know, maybe it's a bitmisleading to to the person
that's like all right, okay, youknow, maybe it's a bit
misleading to the person that'slike all right, okay, 145 pound.
Islander, 145 kilo Islander,it's like a 300 pounds.
(03:50):
I'm fucking converted to theimperial system.
But the but, but you know,thinking about, like, I'm
thinking about the middle-agedmom that showed up to the
advanced class that I wasteaching advantage last year.
Sure, that had a great time andit's like I fucking love this
but had never done anything likeyou know it before.
Right, never done any jujitsu.
Probably maybe you went to thegym a few times.
(04:11):
Um, but I'm like just themechanics of what's going on.
Even like if the firsttechniques she was to learn was
like, hey, this is a frame, thisis how you just fucking try to
stop someone like pressing in onyou or whatever.
Um, like, yeah, I had to teachher the technique for that, but
(04:31):
she just needs a level ofstrength that's going to allow
that to work.
Yeah, like there is there isthere is a, a level of, a level
of force production to make thetechniques work.
Definitely, and and of course,any, you can teach the
techniques to anyone thatdoesn't know anything and it
will become, it will bebeneficial, be helpful, but it's
(04:51):
probably gonna be prettyineffective against someone who
also knows such techniques.
Well, this is the thing right.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
There's always the discussion, or we're gonna
unpack a degree of mythologywithin jujitsu, which we all
kind of love in a way.
Right, which is this idea ofthe smaller person beating the
bigger person?
The foundation on which thisgame was built?
Yes, sir, and you know, theGracies really pushed it as a
bit of a mythology.
But if the big person alsoknows jujitsu, well then the
(05:19):
smaller person's kind of they'rekind of fucked.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
The problem is you're only ever doing jiu-jitsu with
other people that do jiu-jitsu.
Oh yes, you're not fightingcunts on the street, no, no, no,
unless you're me of course, ofcourse, the natural in the
streets.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
But what I'm saying here is that, for the best part,
coaches do their best to try topair like sizes, because we
also know that the chance ofinjury is higher when you put a
smaller individual with a muchlarger individual.
Not blaming the biggerindividual, I'm not blaming
anyone in any situation here butif you talk to anyone like any
(05:57):
of the kind of under 150 poundtype humans, male or female,
they will look to work withpeople their own size, just
because there is way morevariables when you go much
bigger than that.
Now, why am I so adamant aboutstrength and it being more
important technique forbeginners?
(06:18):
Now we can go to the other endof the spectrum.
Obviously, you get a guy likeGordon Ryan and there's a video
of him rolling um, like theworld's strongest man, like he's
rolling martin, yeah, hapthor,and he rolls martin slickus, um,
you know, and those guys areundisputably the biggest,
strongest humans and he sweepsthem and he gets on top of them
and you're like, yeah, gordonryan is the best but he's not
(06:42):
overpowering them.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
No, actually like no.
No, they're doing their best,but they have no jiu-jitsu.
Yeah, they literally is thebest, but he's not overpowering
them no.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Actually like yeah, no, no, no, they're doing their
best, but they have no jiu-jitsu.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
They literally have zero jiu-jitsu.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
But you can see that like they present a dilemma.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
It is tough.
It is tough and Gordon's got touse everything he's got, but at
an elite level, of course,whoever has the highest level of
technique.
The idea of strengths and andand physical capacity is assumed
Like, if you're an elite levelgrappler, you're a black belt
and you're trying to be a worldchampion.
Yes, you gotta be fuckingstrong, yes, you gotta be
(07:13):
flexible, yes, like that's allgiven.
But when you're a white beltand you get started, it's like
no, be more technical.
Like don't overpower people.
Fucking getting overpowered iswhat happens.
Like that's, that's whathappens and it's kind of it does
get pretty raw.
You know there's a lot of memeslike.
You know.
It's like the simpsons meme,where there's like two I can't
remember.
It's like it's like moe'stavern and they're like standing
(07:36):
around and there's like I thinkI can't remember if it's homer
and who it is rolling around onthe ground but it's like blue
belt, belt, white belt, purplebelt, and they're all throwing
money and it's got two whitebelts fighting to the death.
It's kind of like that.
It's kind of law of the jungle.
When people have a low skillthreshold, whoever's more
athletic is doing better here.
(07:57):
And I want to talk about howthis goes into longevity,
because a lot of people we know,like not just personally, but
what we understand about jujitsuis people absolutely flame out
in their first two years.
This is the sad thing.
We want people to get in, wewant them to get their black
belts, we want people to staythe course because it's
(08:18):
rewarding, but invariably peopleget injured, people get, uh, I
guess, defeated in a lot of ways, like because it can be very
defeating.
Sometimes when you go tojiu-jitsu you feel like you're
not getting better and typicallythe person who brings a degree
of confidence and athleticcapacity has the ability to
(08:39):
smash more.
And we do see it all the time,whether it's judo or wrestling,
coming to jiu jujitsu and you'vegot someone who's technical and
then they just get someonewho's just ultra determined
bringing the smash and morephysically capable and they tend
to prevail.
And this is where I feel it isnot understood.
(09:02):
I got this from a guy calledTony Butaji and I don't know
where he got it.
He's a high level SSE coachfrom Australia.
Shout out, don't know where hegot it.
He's a high level S&C coachfrom Australia.
Shout out, I did his veryadvanced course.
Sorry, I did his course, whichwas about advanced strength and
conditioning many years ago andhe's a very smart fella and he
said this and he said before youcan have endurance, you must
(09:24):
have strength with which toendure.
And he was saying that a lot ofthe mistakes people make with
marathon running, like longdistance swimming, anything that
requires endurance they neglectthe strength work because
they're just trying to build thegas tank.
But if you do not have a degreeof physical robustness, you do
break down over those longerdistances and your technique
(09:46):
does go down and you can'tmaintain your technique because
you don't have the neuralefficiency.
And really what he wasadvocating for in this course
was it doesn't matter what sportyou play.
If you take that athlete andyou make them stronger, they
will have a better, longercareer.
Why do we not look at jujitsu inthis way?
(10:06):
Why is it that we're like nostrengths, don't worry about
that, fuck the gym, justtechnique?
This is where I feel is amassive falling down in our
understanding of athleticdevelopment and I believe this
is why people are churning out,people are getting injuries
because they're not robustenough yeah, I mean, I would
think that you know, the dilemmafor for the everyday folk is
(10:27):
that they're not an eliteathlete, right?
Speaker 2 (10:28):
They don't see themselves as an athlete, no,
and coaches don't see theirstudents as athletes.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
No.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
And jiu-jitsu operates in this special space,
that it's like, hey, we foundthis activity that's going to
bring you youthfulness and it'sgoing to bring you physical
confidence and, you know,amazing self-defense ability and
that's kind of what it's soldas right, sure, and that's the
whole.
Just show up and train jiu-jitsusaved my life.
All of that is almost liketribute to this idea that, like,
(10:57):
oh, there's all these othersports and shit and science, but
jiu-jitsu is outside of that,it's its own thing on a pedestal
.
I feel like the concept like,say, if you take something like
crossfit, whereby crossfit saidvery deliberately, if you train
crossfit, you are a crossfitathlete, right, and that's what
(11:17):
they call people who do crossfit.
Now, like, you go to crossfitgym, I'll tell you there's
plenty of non-athletes in there.
It's a mixed bag, right, butbut to their credit,
everyone's's like we're athletes, you're an athlete, coaches
call everyone athletes and it'slike there is something kind of
cool in that, in that it holdspeople in theory, holds them to
(11:38):
a higher standard, sure, so Iwould think that, yeah, like, if
we were able to change people'sview, coaches' view of those
who practice jiu-jitsu, then theidea of, yes, strength is an
essential part of this thingwould not be so far-fetched.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Yeah, and look, love or dislike CrossFit, right.
However you feel about CrossFit, they have produced weapons.
If you speak to someone andyou're like, oh, what do you do
recreationally, they're like,yeah, I do CrossFit.
You're like, oh, fuck, this isgoing to be a tough role.
Like you know that person'sthere and they're doing hard
(12:14):
shit, whatever you think abouttheir technique or anything else
.
Let me just throw back toTaekwondo and I know a lot of
people hang shit on Taekwondobut when we were doing sports,
taekwondo, competing, we hadcertain fitness requirements.
Like we had to do a certainamount of push-ups, certain
amount of sit-ups, certainamount of squats, like in order
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for you to hold your level atblack belt, you had to maintain
a certain level of fitness.
That was the requirement.
There's no such requirement injiu-jitsu yeah you know this
when you get grad.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
You said that was sport in the sports, taekwondo.
Yeah, I mean, but was therelike another, like a non-sports?
Speaker 1 (12:53):
version.
Yeah, you could grade, but evenas part of your grading you had
to do like it didn't matter ifyou're a blue belt or you're a
red belt or where you were inthe spectrum of belts.
At each belt the fitnessrequirement got harder, even for
the non-competitive ones.
Yeah Right, the fitnessrequirement for the competitive
ones was higher again.
I mean, we were doing beattests, we were doing all kinds
(13:13):
of shit which I actually feltwas not that specific for
Taekwondo, but they were like no, this is an Olympic sport, this
is what you must do.
And so it was like fuck, you'vegot to be really freaking fit
here.
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Speaker 1 (14:11):
And here's the thing I'm not saying everyone has to
train like athletes.
But hear me out, if you've gotsomebody who has a month's worth
of jujitsu but they have fiveyears of weight training, and
then you've got someone who'sgot a month's worth of jujitsu
and never been to the gym, whodo you think is going to fare
(14:32):
better if they're the sameweight?
The power to weight ratio goesto the person who's experienced
some resistance, and we reallyknow that.
And we also know that in life,even if you don't do jujitsu,
you've got better longevity,you've got better health.
If you lift weights, your bonesare denser, your nervous
system's more developed, you'remost likely more coordinated.
(14:52):
This is not to say that strongpeople don't get injured.
This isn't to say that strongpeople don't struggle with
jujitsu, but I feel like there'sa negative connotation which is
associated with strength, whichis oh, you're a strong cunt,
you must be dumb, you usestrength, you don't use
technique, you must not be smartat this thing, not true?
(15:13):
I know some insanely strongpeople, very technical, very
smart, and that is why they areso strong, because they really
pay attention to the fuckingdetails.
I really want to make a casethat if you are neglecting your
strength training.
You are holding yourself backand, regardless of what your
(15:34):
coach says, if you just take abit of time outside of that,
you're going to kill anybodywho's not.
I really think this is.
It's hard to dispute, eventhough I'm sure there'll be
plenty of people in the commentstelling me to go fuck myself,
but I'm all about that.
So I think the biggestchallenge is how do you make
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strength part of your life nowthat you've started jiu-jitsu?
Because for most people they'relike, oh, I just want to do
jiu-jitsu, right, that seemslike oh, but we do push-ups.
Push-ups are like strengthtraining.
Right, we do rolls and we carryeach other and stuff.
That's good shit.
Yeah, that's good right.
And I think, if you've neverdone any physical conditioning
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before, yes, it is good.
There's many cases of peoplestarting jujitsu losing a bunch
of weight, developing healthierhabits.
Bunch of weight, developinghealthier habits.
Yeah, I think jujitsu is acatalyst for better health and
better fitness for many everydaypeople, but the thing that is
being neglected is peoplegetting a practice of
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cultivating strengths whichrequires a mixture of not only
body weight.
Stuff like calisthenics is good, but it also has a limitation.
People are like, oh, I do yogathat keeps me strong.
Yeah, there is a strengthcomponent, depending on your
yoga practice, but it's limited.
And so when you've got big Joeyfucking jumping guard on you or
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trying to do a fireman's carry,that's a totally different
stimulus, you know.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
When you see Joey at fucking 7.30m at the kebab shop
after a big afternoon out on thebeers man, you better know he's
your knees better be ready forthat guy.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
You better have some strength eccentrically.
Oh my kebab.
I can see it now.
Beer in one hand, kebab in theother.
All right, joe, give it to me.
Mate sun's.
Sun's just setting Time to gohome.
It's late, hang on quickly.
I'm just going to axe this guy.
The reason why I say this Iwant to give you an example of
two one person, very intelligentguy, greg.
(17:36):
Very smart.
Uh, greg glassman, the creativecrossfit.
Oh no, actually, funnily enough, this guy's in much better
condition.
Uh, greg glassman, legendarilynot the fittest guy ever, but
anyway, not to worry, shout out.
Uh, you built crossfit andcreated a business that has made
more injuries than any otherbusiness.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Um, I don't know if a jiu-jitsu guy can accuse a
crossfit creator of that.
I don't think that's fair there, there's a parody there you
know, there's a similarmentality.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
The poor hearted mentality is there, right?
So greg, very technical guy,really smart guy, came to
jujitsu with a very keen intentto learn and was also a bit of a
10th planet fan.
He was just training at the gymI was teaching at and he he was
always asking me questionsrelevant to how about rubber
guard, how about this, how aboutthat?
You know he's really intent andso he was a really bright
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student of sorts.
I think he probably mid, mid tolate twenties.
And we've got like a 15 year oldkid called Levi, meat axe, kind
of farm boy, blonde, juststocky.
Kind of played football, kindof didn't like, just rode bmxs,
didn't give a shit, just gettingit right.
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Love the energy, drink, oh,this kid, he just put he he
would drink or consume anythingyou put in front of him.
But you couldn't levi likemonster, just just a behemoth.
And we had to kind of thissounds unfair, right, his energy
was so high, like just 15 yearold boy energy and just super
resilient, very strong kiddidn't have a like.
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He was in the gym with hismates fucking around, but he was
just active, he's active.
He didn't live on a farm, hejust lived out in the far out
suburbs.
We, we had to beat the shit outof Levi just to kind of temper
his energy.
Like you really had to roll himhard.
He, he had only one gear whichwas a hundred percent, because
he thought that's how you doanything in life.
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Greg, on the other hand, was notabout that.
Greg's like hang on, you got to.
Let me know, hang on, wait.
Like.
Because Greg was intent onbeing technical, because he's a
technically minded guy and itwas very important for him.
Now Levi was maybe a little bitheavier than Greg, even though
they're similar size.
Greg's kind of taller, a bitlonger.
Every time Levi wouldabsolutely obliterate Greg Every
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time.
Why?
Because Greg was so focused ongetting it right or getting
things perfect.
Levi's, like I'm just trying tosmash, like is this about
domination?
Okay, I'll dominate.
Like what do I pin?
Do I get his back?
Do I do I smack?
What do I do?
You know, he was just sowilling and so robust, even if
we hire belts would beat himdown for a couple of rounds.
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He just popped back up.
You know, kind of like back up.
You know kind of like a kitten.
You know, when you see the likecat just whap the kitten and
the kitten just kind of comesback.
There is a, and now there's a10 year age gap here, right, so
there's, there's plenty of that.
But what we have is we have theexample of someone who's not
necessarily very technicallyminded, very physically capable
(20:44):
and just has an unparalleleddetermination.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Well, I might even argue because I think that
represented me a bit when I wasyounger.
Sure, it wasn't even adetermination.
You've just got boundlessenergy and you've got the
physicality to support that andso you just keep going.
You don't even know you'regetting like, even when
someone's putting a beating onyou to be like slow down, young
man, yeah, you don't evenrecognize you're getting beaten
(21:09):
up, you're just like that was asick role.
Next one you want to go, bro,got rinsed.
You know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Yeah, but yeah one gear and there's no thinking
involved there.
Yeah, who's winning the roles?
Levi, the guy that does this,does and I believe that this is
many jiu-jitsu coaches kind ofnot shame it, but they're like,
nah, man, you got to rolllighter.
Like don't go, don't smash Greg, like take it easier, you know.
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Like you got to let him work.
It's like man, fuck that.
Like this is an outcome, likeyou've shaken hands, you bump
fists, it's on.
And in that moment you have todo to the best of your ability
what you can.
And really, because Greg was sofocused on being more technical
and not if he twisted his wristor he got a bit stacked or'd go
(22:00):
, ah, no, stop.
But in the heat of the momentyou can't stop.
And this is an important lessonfor many people out there that
at some point in your training,no matter how fit and strong you
are, you do get tight.
And you see it in wrestling.
You see it where both athletesare very evenly matched and
they're scrapping, they'rescrapping, and then at a
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critical point, someone is moredetermined than the other person
.
They're just in the heat of themoment, they just want it more.
Where does strength and forceproduction come from?
It comes from here, and I'm notgoing to get into nature,
nurture personality or anything.
Someone could just be a reallymean, hard-willed kind of person
(22:46):
.
But in that moment where bothpeople are exhausted, it doesn't
matter how technical they areor not the person who really is
just like I'm just going to dothis thing, they're the person
who passes the guard, they'rethe person who gets the takedown
and really that comes fromdoing hard things.
Lifting heavy stuff is somethingthat really does build
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confidence and determination.
There is that, if you don'thave that in your life and don't
get me wrong jujitsu is a greatthing to have as a
determination builder.
But if you've got someone whoonly has jujitsu and then you've
got someone else who hashowever many even not that many
years, maybe just 12 months ofhard lifting, I believe that,
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not even just on a chemicallevel, they will have more grit
and will therefore have more,better outcomes more frequently,
and this will help them intheir jiu-jitsu path.
Better outcomes more frequentlyand this will help them in
their jujitsu path.
So I mean you, you probablyyou've probably seen it a number
of times, joe in terms of justsomeone being a bit more
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physically capable, beatingsomeone who's maybe more
technical or a higher belt oranything like that.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Yeah, often I mean, fuck, I think I did that a lot
to people, right, we would justuse my physique out like someone
that's a higher belt than me,whatever, and then I'd just go
ham on them and then, you know,whatever, give them a hard time.
And people do that to me nowtoo, you know.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Tables are turned.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Yeah, and so I'm like well justice, fair Karma.
But yeah, I mean, I thinkanyone that's ever rolled with
um, someone that comes from arugby background- yeah you know
you got some, some trial kidcoming in you can see it on him.
You're like, fuck, you play abit of football, yeah, rugby,
okay, or you know rugby league.
You're like, okay, it'sprobably going to be hard, got
the traps.
Or yeah, it just got thatfucking like, I'll just go head
(24:34):
first into the battle, okay, uh,just take him down, you know,
and they're like just like abull.
And you're like, fuck, and you,you often, you often
overwhelmed with the physicality, and maybe then you switch on
and you're like, okay, I fuckingstart playing a little bit
smarter here.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
But the, the person that just comes in with that
grit and that physicality andthat strength, does have a great
advantage and look, I think,even though a lot of people
don't want to acknowledge it, ifwe we throw back to Nicky Rod
in 2019, I think that is a grandshow of a person who took their
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athleticism and overpoweredpeople with more technical
ability.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
That's a great example actually.
And now he's obviously layeredbetter and better technique on
top of that.
But still, his, his strongsWell, actually no, I'm not going
to say that, cause he does hekind of rolls quite differently
now, yes, but yeah, he used thatfor a long time, right when
he's like I'm just going tooutwork this cunt and just
almost like, brutalize them,yeah, and then I'm going to get
to my position and then myfucking technique of body
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locking and passing is just justgonna fucking take the back and
choke like he was cartwheelpassing he was just jumping like
he was relentless he wasn'ttechnical jiu-jitsu.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
And that's not to say that nikki rod, when he was a
purple belt, wasn't technical inhis own way, but the people he
beat were multiple time worldchampion black belts and he was
all over them, right, and sothat is performance at the
highest level.
So when we boil it back downand you're just getting started
in jujitsu, if you uh doesn'tmatter what your coach says to
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you, if you put that time intojust twice a week going to the
gym lifting some weights, you'renot even sure what you're doing
, but you just gradually gettingthat little bit stronger, a
little bit stronger.
Maybe get some advice.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
You've got a friend who lives, or you get a PT,
maybe jump on the Bulletproofapp, shout out.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
But doing something to cultivate your strength will
benefit your jiu-jitsu inunparalleled ways, and I just
want to encourage folks to getout there and do it.
There it is.
Folks Get strong and it's goingto help you so much.
Not only will it help you stayin the game, but you're going to
help you so much.
Not only will it help you stayin the game, but you're going to
have better outcomes every timeyou roll.
A good martial artist does not become tense, but
ready.
Essentially, at this point, thefight is over, so you pretty
much flow with the goal.
Who is worthy to be trustedwith the secret to limitless
power?
I'm ready.
Strength is more important thantechnique for BJJ beginners.
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Hear me out, Stay with me, fam.
Here's the thing.
For the mess part, we're alwaystaught technique over strength.
Don't use too much strength.
But what people are missingwhen you start BJJ?
If you're not strong, if you'renot robust, you're going to
crumble.
And you could be the mosttechnical person in the world.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
If you don't have a degree of physical strength,
you're getting smashed Bro therewas a Harvard study done of the
kinds of people coachesactually that specifically give
that piece of information, andit was found that they're all
weak cunts.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Imagine Harvard.
Thank you, harvard.
We appreciate your use of the Cword.
As Australians, we love it.
Now here's the thing, myfriends.
It is the biggest challengewhen you start jujitsu that
you're like well, what do I needto do?
What's the most important thingfor me to do?
Do as much jujitsu as I can, beas technical as I can and, yes,
of course, learning jujitsu.
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We're here to learn conceptsand ways to move our bodies, to
strangle other humans.
But I don't know if you've hadthis experience, joe, but I've
definitely had this experiencewhere I have been more technical
than the person I'm rolling.
So in this case, I have beenmore technical than the person
I'm rolling.
So in this case, this gentlemanis called Big Jace.
He is 145, 150 kilos of rippedjacked, island of strength,
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massive unit.
He was part of Mark Hunt's fightteam when he was preparing to
fight Frank Meir back in the dayand he totally KO'd Meir with
one of those classic walk-offknockouts Beautiful thing, I
love Mark Hunt's knockouts andhe trained at AET.
I don't know where he trainsnow, but this is back before Big
J.
He was a purple belt at thetime.
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I was actually a black belt.
What could I do to this guy?
Gi, or no Gi, not very much,like I could barely move him.
He knew enough jujitsu that hecould just stop what I was
trying to do.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Even though I was trying to, like, trick him and
lure him in and all he had to dowas be non-compliant because he
was so big and so strong I Imaybe I got a sweep out of him
and maybe I got some kind offootlock or something, but it
was just.
It had to be such a surprise,because my technical ability was
not more than double his.
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Wasn't far enough ahead, no,and so when you're at a beginner
level, when you first startjujitsu and you don't know much
jujitsu, and you're in front ofsomeone who is physically
stronger they might be the samesize as you, they're tougher
mentally, they've got a betterphysical condition.
As the roles go on, you willcrumble.
They will not.
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And this is the thing that'snot talked about enough is that
you need to be freaking robust.
You need to be so determined.
Not only do you need a degreeof physical strength, but mental
strength, and that comes fromdoing challenging things
physically.
So when you come to somethinglike jujitsu, you don't just
wilt.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Yeah, I guess um, could I say.
Maybe the example of big Jsounds like a fucking handful by
the way I have rolling countslike that Nightmare.
That's why I don't Um.
But you know, maybe it's a bitmisleading to to the person
that's like all right, okay, youknow, maybe it's a bit
misleading to the person that'slike all right, okay, 145 pound.
Islander, 145 kilo Islander,it's like a 300 pounds.
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I'm fucking converted to theimperial system.
But the but, but you know,thinking about, like, I'm
thinking about the middle-agedmom that showed up to the
advanced class that I wasteaching advantage last year.
Sure, that had a great time andit's like I fucking love this
but had never done anything likeyou know it before.
Right, never done any jujitsu.
Probably maybe you went to thegym a few times.
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Um, but I'm like just themechanics of what's going on.
Even like if the firsttechniques she was to learn was
like, hey, this is a frame, thisis how you just fucking try to
stop someone like pressing in onyou or whatever.
Um, like, yeah, I had to teachher the technique for that, but
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she just needs a level ofstrength that's going to allow
that to work.
Yeah, like there is there isthere is a, a level of, a level
of force production to make thetechniques work.
Definitely, and and of course,any, you can teach the
techniques to anyone thatdoesn't know anything and it
will become, it will bebeneficial, be helpful, but it's
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probably gonna be prettyineffective against someone who
also knows such techniques.
Well, this is the thing right.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
There's always the discussion, or we're gonna
unpack a degree of mythologywithin jujitsu, which we all
kind of love in a way.
Right, which is this idea ofthe smaller person beating the
bigger person?
The foundation on which thisgame was built?
Yes, sir, and you know, theGracies really pushed it as a
bit of a mythology.
But if the big person alsoknows jujitsu, well then the
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smaller person's kind of they'rekind of fucked.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
The problem is you're only ever doing jiu-jitsu with
other people that do jiu-jitsu.
Oh yes, you're not fightingcunts on the street, no, no, no,
unless you're me of course, ofcourse, the natural in the
streets.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
But what I'm saying here is that, for the best part,
coaches do their best to try topair like sizes, because we
also know that the chance ofinjury is higher when you put a
smaller individual with a muchlarger individual.
Not blaming the biggerindividual, I'm not blaming
anyone in any situation here butif you talk to anyone like any
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of the kind of under 150 poundtype humans, male or female,
they will look to work withpeople their own size, just
because there is way morevariables when you go much
bigger than that.
Now, why am I so adamant aboutstrength and it being more
important technique forbeginners?
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Now we can go to the other endof the spectrum.
Obviously, you get a guy likeGordon Ryan and there's a video
of him rolling um, like theworld's strongest man, like he's
rolling martin, yeah, hapthor,and he rolls martin slickus, um,
you know, and those guys areundisputably the biggest,
strongest humans and he sweepsthem and he gets on top of them
and you're like, yeah, gordonryan is the best but he's not
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overpowering them.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
No, actually like no.
No, they're doing their best,but they have no jiu-jitsu.
Yeah, they literally is thebest, but he's not overpowering
them no.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Actually like yeah, no, no, no, they're doing their
best, but they have no jiu-jitsu.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
They literally have zero jiu-jitsu.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
But you can see that like they present a dilemma.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
It is tough.
It is tough and Gordon's got touse everything he's got, but at
an elite level, of course,whoever has the highest level of
technique.
The idea of strengths and andand physical capacity is assumed
Like, if you're an elite levelgrappler, you're a black belt
and you're trying to be a worldchampion.
Yes, you gotta be fuckingstrong, yes, you gotta be
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flexible, yes, like that's allgiven.
But when you're a white beltand you get started, it's like
no, be more technical.
Like don't overpower people.
Fucking getting overpowered iswhat happens.
Like that's, that's whathappens and it's kind of it does
get pretty raw.
You know there's a lot of memeslike.
You know.
It's like the simpsons meme,where there's like two I can't
remember.
It's like it's like moe'stavern and they're like standing
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around and there's like I thinkI can't remember if it's homer
and who it is rolling around onthe ground but it's like blue
belt, belt, white belt, purplebelt, and they're all throwing
money and it's got two whitebelts fighting to the death.
It's kind of like that.
It's kind of law of the jungle.
When people have a low skillthreshold, whoever's more
athletic is doing better here.
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And I want to talk about howthis goes into longevity,
because a lot of people we know,like not just personally, but
what we understand about jujitsuis people absolutely flame out
in their first two years.
This is the sad thing.
We want people to get in, wewant them to get their black
belts, we want people to staythe course because it's
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rewarding, but invariably peopleget injured, people get, uh, I
guess, defeated in a lot of ways, like because it can be very
defeating.
Sometimes when you go tojiu-jitsu you feel like you're
not getting better and typicallythe person who brings a degree
of confidence and athleticcapacity has the ability to
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smash more.
And we do see it all the time,whether it's judo or wrestling,
coming to jiu jujitsu and you'vegot someone who's technical and
then they just get someonewho's just ultra determined
bringing the smash and morephysically capable and they tend
to prevail.
And this is where I feel it isnot understood.
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I got this from a guy calledTony Butaji and I don't know
where he got it.
He's a high level SSE coachfrom Australia.
Shout out, don't know where hegot it.
He's a high level S&C coachfrom Australia.
Shout out, I did his veryadvanced course.
Sorry, I did his course, whichwas about advanced strength and
conditioning many years ago andhe's a very smart fella and he
said this and he said before youcan have endurance, you must
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have strength with which toendure.
And he was saying that a lot ofthe mistakes people make with
marathon running, like longdistance swimming, anything that
requires endurance they neglectthe strength work because
they're just trying to build thegas tank.
But if you do not have a degreeof physical robustness, you do
break down over those longerdistances and your technique
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does go down and you can'tmaintain your technique because
you don't have the neuralefficiency.
And really what he wasadvocating for in this course
was it doesn't matter what sportyou play.
If you take that athlete andyou make them stronger, they
will have a better, longercareer.
Why do we not look at jujitsu inthis way?
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Why is it that we're like nostrengths, don't worry about
that, fuck the gym, justtechnique?
This is where I feel is amassive falling down in our
understanding of athleticdevelopment and I believe this
is why people are churning out,people are getting injuries
because they're not robustenough yeah, I mean, I would
think that you know, the dilemmafor for the everyday folk is
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that they're not an eliteathlete, right?
Speaker 2 (10:28):
They don't see themselves as an athlete, no,
and coaches don't see theirstudents as athletes.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
No.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
And jiu-jitsu operates in this special space,
that it's like, hey, we foundthis activity that's going to
bring you youthfulness and it'sgoing to bring you physical
confidence and, you know,amazing self-defense ability and
that's kind of what it's soldas right, sure, and that's the
whole.
Just show up and train jiu-jitsusaved my life.
All of that is almost liketribute to this idea that, like,
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oh, there's all these othersports and shit and science, but
jiu-jitsu is outside of that,it's its own thing on a pedestal
.
I feel like the concept like,say, if you take something like
crossfit, whereby crossfit saidvery deliberately, if you train
crossfit, you are a crossfitathlete, right, and that's what
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they call people who do crossfit.
Now, like, you go to crossfitgym, I'll tell you there's
plenty of non-athletes in there.
It's a mixed bag, right, butbut to their credit,
everyone's's like we're athletes, you're an athlete, coaches
call everyone athletes and it'slike there is something kind of
cool in that, in that it holdspeople in theory, holds them to
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a higher standard, sure, so Iwould think that, yeah, like, if
we were able to change people'sview, coaches' view of those
who practice jiu-jitsu, then theidea of, yes, strength is an
essential part of this thingwould not be so far-fetched.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Yeah, and look, love or dislike CrossFit, right.
However you feel about CrossFit, they have produced weapons.
If you speak to someone andyou're like, oh, what do you do
recreationally, they're like,yeah, I do CrossFit.
You're like, oh, fuck, this isgoing to be a tough role.
Like you know that person'sthere and they're doing hard
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shit, whatever you think abouttheir technique or anything else
.
Let me just throw back toTaekwondo and I know a lot of
people hang shit on Taekwondobut when we were doing sports,
taekwondo, competing, we hadcertain fitness requirements.
Like we had to do a certainamount of push-ups, certain
amount of sit-ups, certainamount of squats, like in order
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for you to hold your level atblack belt, you had to maintain
a certain level of fitness.
That was the requirement.
There's no such requirement injiu-jitsu yeah you know this
when you get grad.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
You said that was sport in the sports, taekwondo.
Yeah, I mean, but was therelike another, like a non-sports?
Speaker 1 (12:53):
version.
Yeah, you could grade, but evenas part of your grading you had
to do like it didn't matter ifyou're a blue belt or you're a
red belt or where you were inthe spectrum of belts.
At each belt the fitnessrequirement got harder, even for
the non-competitive ones.
Yeah Right, the fitnessrequirement for the competitive
ones was higher again.
I mean, we were doing beattests, we were doing all kinds
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of shit which I actually feltwas not that specific for
Taekwondo, but they were like no, this is an Olympic sport, this
is what you must do.
And so it was like fuck, you'vegot to be really freaking fit
here.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
When you go to a commercial gym, there is a very
small percentage of people therethat actually know what they're
doing.
Most people are just wastingtheir time, and this is why we
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It's so that everyday grapplerslike yourself could benefit
from our multiple years ofexperience and not waste time
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We will see you on the inside.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
And here's the thing I'm not saying everyone has to
train like athletes.
But hear me out, if you've gotsomebody who has a month's worth
of jujitsu but they have fiveyears of weight training, and
then you've got someone who'sgot a month's worth of jujitsu
and never been to the gym, whodo you think is going to fare
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better if they're the sameweight?
The power to weight ratio goesto the person who's experienced
some resistance, and we reallyknow that.
And we also know that in life,even if you don't do jujitsu,
you've got better longevity,you've got better health.
If you lift weights, your bonesare denser, your nervous
system's more developed, you'remost likely more coordinated.
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This is not to say that strongpeople don't get injured.
This isn't to say that strongpeople don't struggle with
jujitsu, but I feel like there'sa negative connotation which is
associated with strength, whichis oh, you're a strong cunt,
you must be dumb, you usestrength, you don't use
technique, you must not be smartat this thing, not true?
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I know some insanely strongpeople, very technical, very
smart, and that is why they areso strong, because they really
pay attention to the fuckingdetails.
I really want to make a casethat if you are neglecting your
strength training.
You are holding yourself backand, regardless of what your
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coach says, if you just take abit of time outside of that,
you're going to kill anybodywho's not.
I really think this is.
It's hard to dispute, eventhough I'm sure there'll be
plenty of people in the commentstelling me to go fuck myself,
but I'm all about that.
So I think the biggestchallenge is how do you make
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strength part of your life nowthat you've started jiu-jitsu?
Because for most people they'relike, oh, I just want to do
jiu-jitsu, right, that seemslike oh, but we do push-ups.
Push-ups are like strengthtraining.
Right, we do rolls and we carryeach other and stuff.
That's good shit.
Yeah, that's good right.
And I think, if you've neverdone any physical conditioning
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before, yes, it is good.
There's many cases of peoplestarting jujitsu losing a bunch
of weight, developing healthierhabits.
Bunch of weight, developinghealthier habits.
Yeah, I think jujitsu is acatalyst for better health and
better fitness for many everydaypeople, but the thing that is
being neglected is peoplegetting a practice of
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cultivating strengths whichrequires a mixture of not only
body weight.
Stuff like calisthenics is good, but it also has a limitation.
People are like, oh, I do yogathat keeps me strong.
Yeah, there is a strengthcomponent, depending on your
yoga practice, but it's limited.
And so when you've got big Joeyfucking jumping guard on you or
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trying to do a fireman's carry,that's a totally different
stimulus, you know.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
When you see Joey at fucking 7.30m at the kebab shop
after a big afternoon out on thebeers man, you better know he's
your knees better be ready forthat guy.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
You better have some strength eccentrically.
Oh my kebab.
I can see it now.
Beer in one hand, kebab in theother.
All right, joe, give it to me.
Mate sun's.
Sun's just setting Time to gohome.
It's late, hang on quickly.
I'm just going to axe this guy.
The reason why I say this Iwant to give you an example of
two one person, very intelligentguy, greg.
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Very smart.
Uh, greg glassman, the creativecrossfit.
Oh no, actually, funnily enough, this guy's in much better
condition.
Uh, greg glassman, legendarilynot the fittest guy ever, but
anyway, not to worry, shout out.
Uh, you built crossfit andcreated a business that has made
more injuries than any otherbusiness.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Um, I don't know if a jiu-jitsu guy can accuse a
crossfit creator of that.
I don't think that's fair there, there's a parody there you
know, there's a similarmentality.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
The poor hearted mentality is there, right?
So greg, very technical guy,really smart guy, came to
jujitsu with a very keen intentto learn and was also a bit of a
10th planet fan.
He was just training at the gymI was teaching at and he he was
always asking me questionsrelevant to how about rubber
guard, how about this, how aboutthat?
You know he's really intent andso he was a really bright
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student of sorts.
I think he probably mid, mid tolate twenties.
And we've got like a 15 year oldkid called Levi, meat axe, kind
of farm boy, blonde, juststocky.
Kind of played football, kindof didn't like, just rode bmxs,
didn't give a shit, just gettingit right.
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Love the energy, drink, oh,this kid, he just put he he
would drink or consume anythingyou put in front of him.
But you couldn't levi likemonster, just just a behemoth.
And we had to kind of thissounds unfair, right, his energy
was so high, like just 15 yearold boy energy and just super
resilient, very strong kiddidn't have a like.
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He was in the gym with hismates fucking around, but he was
just active, he's active.
He didn't live on a farm, hejust lived out in the far out
suburbs.
We, we had to beat the shit outof Levi just to kind of temper
his energy.
Like you really had to roll himhard.
He, he had only one gear whichwas a hundred percent, because
he thought that's how you doanything in life.
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Greg, on the other hand, was notabout that.
Greg's like hang on, you got to.
Let me know, hang on, wait.
Like.
Because Greg was intent onbeing technical, because he's a
technically minded guy and itwas very important for him.
Now Levi was maybe a little bitheavier than Greg, even though
they're similar size.
Greg's kind of taller, a bitlonger.
Every time Levi wouldabsolutely obliterate Greg Every
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time.
Why?
Because Greg was so focused ongetting it right or getting
things perfect.
Levi's, like I'm just trying tosmash, like is this about
domination?
Okay, I'll dominate.
Like what do I pin?
Do I get his back?
Do I do I smack?
What do I do?
You know, he was just sowilling and so robust, even if
we hire belts would beat himdown for a couple of rounds.
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He just popped back up.
You know, kind of like back up.
You know kind of like a kitten.
You know, when you see the likecat just whap the kitten and
the kitten just kind of comesback.
There is a, and now there's a10 year age gap here, right, so
there's, there's plenty of that.
But what we have is we have theexample of someone who's not
necessarily very technicallyminded, very physically capable
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and just has an unparalleleddetermination.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Well, I might even argue because I think that
represented me a bit when I wasyounger.
Sure, it wasn't even adetermination.
You've just got boundlessenergy and you've got the
physicality to support that andso you just keep going.
You don't even know you'regetting like, even when
someone's putting a beating onyou to be like slow down, young
man, yeah, you don't evenrecognize you're getting beaten
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up, you're just like that was asick role.
Next one you want to go, bro,got rinsed.
You know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Yeah, but yeah one gear and there's no thinking
involved there.
Yeah, who's winning the roles?
Levi, the guy that does this,does and I believe that this is
many jiu-jitsu coaches kind ofnot shame it, but they're like,
nah, man, you got to rolllighter.
Like don't go, don't smash Greg, like take it easier, you know.
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Like you got to let him work.
It's like man, fuck that.
Like this is an outcome, likeyou've shaken hands, you bump
fists, it's on.
And in that moment you have todo to the best of your ability
what you can.
And really, because Greg was sofocused on being more technical
and not if he twisted his wristor he got a bit stacked or'd go
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, ah, no, stop.
But in the heat of the momentyou can't stop.
And this is an important lessonfor many people out there that
at some point in your training,no matter how fit and strong you
are, you do get tight.
And you see it in wrestling.
You see it where both athletesare very evenly matched and
they're scrapping, they'rescrapping, and then at a
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critical point, someone is moredetermined than the other person
.
They're just in the heat of themoment, they just want it more.
Where does strength and forceproduction come from?
It comes from here, and I'm notgoing to get into nature,
nurture personality or anything.
Someone could just be a reallymean, hard-willed kind of person
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.
But in that moment where bothpeople are exhausted, it doesn't
matter how technical they areor not the person who really is
just like I'm just going to dothis thing, they're the person
who passes the guard, they'rethe person who gets the takedown
and really that comes fromdoing hard things.
Lifting heavy stuff is somethingthat really does build
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confidence and determination.
There is that, if you don'thave that in your life and don't
get me wrong jujitsu is a greatthing to have as a
determination builder.
But if you've got someone whoonly has jujitsu and then you've
got someone else who hashowever many even not that many
years, maybe just 12 months ofhard lifting, I believe that,
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not even just on a chemicallevel, they will have more grit
and will therefore have more,better outcomes more frequently,
and this will help them intheir jiu-jitsu path.
Better outcomes more frequentlyand this will help them in
their jujitsu path.
So I mean you, you probablyyou've probably seen it a number
of times, joe in terms of justsomeone being a bit more
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physically capable, beatingsomeone who's maybe more
technical or a higher belt oranything like that.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Yeah, often I mean, fuck, I think I did that a lot
to people, right, we would justuse my physique out like someone
that's a higher belt than me,whatever, and then I'd just go
ham on them and then, you know,whatever, give them a hard time.
And people do that to me nowtoo, you know.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Tables are turned.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Yeah, and so I'm like well justice, fair Karma.
But yeah, I mean, I thinkanyone that's ever rolled with
um, someone that comes from arugby background- yeah you know
you got some, some trial kidcoming in you can see it on him.
You're like, fuck, you play abit of football, yeah, rugby,
okay, or you know rugby league.
You're like, okay, it'sprobably going to be hard, got
the traps.
Or yeah, it just got thatfucking like, I'll just go head
(24:34):
first into the battle, okay, uh,just take him down, you know,
and they're like just like abull.
And you're like, fuck, and you,you often, you often
overwhelmed with the physicality, and maybe then you switch on
and you're like, okay, I fuckingstart playing a little bit
smarter here.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
But the, the person that just comes in with that
grit and that physicality andthat strength, does have a great
advantage and look, I think,even though a lot of people
don't want to acknowledge it, ifwe we throw back to Nicky Rod
in 2019, I think that is a grandshow of a person who took their
(25:11):
athleticism and overpoweredpeople with more technical
ability.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
That's a great example actually.
And now he's obviously layeredbetter and better technique on
top of that.
But still, his, his strongsWell, actually no, I'm not going
to say that, cause he does hekind of rolls quite differently
now, yes, but yeah, he used thatfor a long time, right when
he's like I'm just going tooutwork this cunt and just
almost like, brutalize them,yeah, and then I'm going to get
to my position and then myfucking technique of body
(25:37):
locking and passing is just justgonna fucking take the back and
choke like he was cartwheelpassing he was just jumping like
he was relentless he wasn'ttechnical jiu-jitsu.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
And that's not to say that nikki rod, when he was a
purple belt, wasn't technical inhis own way, but the people he
beat were multiple time worldchampion black belts and he was
all over them, right, and sothat is performance at the
highest level.
So when we boil it back downand you're just getting started
in jujitsu, if you uh doesn'tmatter what your coach says to
(26:09):
you, if you put that time intojust twice a week going to the
gym lifting some weights, you'renot even sure what you're doing
, but you just gradually gettingthat little bit stronger, a
little bit stronger.
Maybe get some advice.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
You've got a friend who lives, or you get a PT,
maybe jump on the Bulletproofapp, shout out.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
But doing something to cultivate your strength will
benefit your jiu-jitsu inunparalleled ways, and I just
want to encourage folks to getout there and do it.
There it is.
Folks Get strong and it's goingto help you so much.
Not only will it help you stayin the game, but you're going to
help you so much.
Not only will it help you stayin the game, but you're going to
have better outcomes every timeyou roll.
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