my first gym and with a brown belt. It goes without question that i got my ass handed to me. I learned nothing that whole week
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my first gym and with a brown belt. It goes without question that i got my ass handed to me. I learned nothing that whole week
I remember being shocked that the move I drilled earlier wouldn't work. It didn't occur to me that there would be a counter to the move. I also remember being frustrated that I hadn't figured out how to pass a blue belt's guard after the first week. I'd like to think I've deepened my perspective since then.
Was against a guy a little bit bigger than me. I did well, because I had been watching MTRG over and over and over.
Slightly on topic: when you guys started out did you think that the key to beating everyone was to develop a massive repetoire of moves and basically try each one until you caught your opponent with something he hadn't drilled in a while? I sincerely thought the only qualitative difference between a black belt and a white belt was a larger bag of tricks.
rolling for the first time is like masturbating for the first time.
To answer David's question. Yes, that is what I first thought. Mostly. I also remember thinking "Jesus, he's strong. How come he doesn't look a lot bigger than me?" Of course, that has to do with why the impression described by the first sentence is wrong. It's as much about developing "feel" and balance, and the application of leverage, as it is learning technique. Oh, and muscle response, or memory, whatever you want to call it. Yeah, it's a lot of stuff.
I got beat down by an All American wrestler, my size, for months. It was actually judo back then, not jits, and he was on his off- season helping his wrestling coach teach a one hour college phys ed class. I was a little, pot bellied, bottom of the barrel evening grocery department manager. We would do judo for real after the class was over. Oh, man! That was six months of Hell! So sore I couldn't move after practice. Blisters on the top of my feet. Fingernails all wripped off.
And then I choked him out with a standing lapel double fist choke that I learned from some book. I can still remember the little gasp he made when I put on the squeeze. And then he fell into me, so I thought he was fighting it, and I kept squeezing. And then I figured out that he was just dead weight, so I let him slide to the floor and woke him up like he had woke me up, a time, or two. First submission, Baby!
Fucking magic, fucking magic, fucking magic. ... Holy God! That was 24 years ago. Sheit! It's still better than sex ... most of the time. : )
If you learned nothing, you weren't paying attention. Every time I tap I learn something. At the very least you learned how to tap.Quote:
Originally Posted by RobertF
It's good for you homie. Every tap is a learning process. Rather than looking at it as defeat, look at it as a learning process.
Subconsciously, I thought I would fare better because of how many hours of instructional vids I watched. Then I got tapped by other white belts who were there only a few months before me. LOL. Reps mean a lot. And who teaches you means even more.Quote:
Originally Posted by David Stager
i rolled a black belt the first 2 weeks i was at my gym got my smashed for a good solid 6 minutes got told my weight distribution is shit that shook me to the core went away got humble worked on it learnt a lesson rolling higher belts i try to slow the roll down and learn some thing
My first jiu jitsu roll with someone was after weeks of instruction vids and practicing techniques and tendon streching for flexibility a little more than I had when I started it was after my second session of wrestling and I was going against my wrestling buddy and I let him take me down and shot straight for spider guard and failed miserably as he passed it during my slow ass set up of it and he got to side I turned and fought to butterfly guard down and then he stood up and I slid to a perfect x guard and I streched him out and rolled over keeping a hold of the leg and pulling off a kneebar where he tapped but to his defense he thought he knew juijitsu because he watched UFC and wrestled but I had horrible slow technique by that point bu I'm happy to see how far I've come
shit season of wrestlingQuote:
Originally Posted by James Bell
first time i rolled i did ok, at first, i used all my strengthand wore my self out. by my second match i was just getting caught in bad positions mount side control arm bars you name it.
Thanks bro. thats a good pointQuote:
Originally Posted by David Rosado
I only knew the kimura and americana. I knew what a guillotine was but didn't have the technique at all. The people i rolled with the first night were nice to me (read; not brutal) but i still got caught repeatedly. Whatever the position i ended up in, i remember thinking, "Ok, i have no idea what to do now."
i tried to gogoplata someone because I saw it on wikipedia
First time i ever rolled i got neck cranked and couldn't look left or right for 2 weeks after LOL
I was lucky, another white belt, around my size, he had a little more experience, I held my own and nearly had an arm bar.
I missed the point of the thread last night. LOL.
My first roll I believe was with Sarkis. He could easily break me in half. But he went easy on me. Everyone went easy on me, actually. I tapped a lot. Had no gas. Sucking air. I think the exhaustion sucked worse than tapping. LOL. I like rolling with the vets at my school. They teach me while whoopin my ass. LMAO. Damn, I missed rolling last night. Punk ass flu.
I still have moments. I'll hit a sweep, get on top and be like.....uuuuuuuh what do I go for now? lol. Like Scott told me, I have to flow more. I hesitate a LOT.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jason Guest
was on mushrooms. It was very strange, I had the great idea to go sign up for bjj. Raped by purple and brown belts.
first time i rolled i got crushed by some football player who watched ufc. i had to reevaluate my training and find a grappling school.
My first time rolling i tapped due to, sweaty gut to the face. Dude had 30 pounds on me and I can still taste the sweat. He basically had me in Judo side control and smothered me with his happy trail. I'll never forget it lol.
First time I rolled it was with a guy about 20 pounds heavier than me and I got my ass handed to me badly,but two things happened,first it gave me the motivation to want to train more and become better than the other guy.Second,I learned that it doesn't matter how many instructional vids you watch or study it doesn't mean shit unless you actually roll with someone or actually practice the techniques.
First time I rolled was at a Joe Moreira school. They all took turns smashing the hell out of me. I rolled with everybody in the school, and lost to everybody. Had to go to the bathroom and cry, it was so humiliating. At that time I said to myself "I can leave now knowing I can't fight, or stay and learn everything I can." Well here I am.
That's a dope ass quote. Congrats on making all the way to brown.Quote:
Originally Posted by WesleyPetersen
the first time I rolled was before I even knew what jiu jitsu was... I had never watched UFC... didn't know jack... I was going to learn some "karate" for fun... so i go to the class and the dude drops to the mats spreads his legs and says "come here".... I thought... "shit, find an exit... I'm about to get raped"