attn south african dude who wants his brown belt

[ifreez]

Nothing wrong with pulling together a free club where you share information and collectively develop the material but charging people for incomplete information is so beyond unethical. It's just plain dangerous. These douche bags are putting the safety of their students at risk with this bullshit.

There's a few BBs whom are pretty popular and prolific in the BJJ community here that were self taught, and that had schools from the beginning (usually as blue or purples). In fact some of the highest ranked BJJ guys here guys that were pioneers in Toronto were self taught, and progressed through the ranks, while having schools, although they indeed had extensive previous martial art training. Only recently a couple Brazilian BBs settled here to either open schools or teach, starting as BBs. Also, Salvosa, one of the guys I speak of, of Salvosa BJJ, is a great inspiration to me in my future ventures.

They affiliated themselves with various BJJ grand masters, Silvia Behring, and Marcus Soares, who is Carlson Gracie's highest ranked BB, and then did a sort of distance learning through them.

There are a lot of Karate studios with very little actual BJJ experience that now have posters popping up in their windows of them doing arm bars, and yes it seems dangerous; however, I'm not going to criticize them too much, because some people are also quite vocal against blues and purples running BJJ schools. It's all very relative.

[derrick ikwueme]

jiujitsu is fun but dangerous, & no Karate school should play around with joint locks, and heel hooks, a game of death & dismemberment should be respected

[ifreez]

^^ It's true, I agree that it is beyond dangerous.

There is TMA guy here with maybe a year of grappling experience that runs a TMA school and now advertises 'exciting subs' -- in a grappling class that he was teaching he cracked a girl's sternum while doing a elbow to sternum neck crank.

I really don't know why they feel they (TMAs) need to put up ads of them doing armbars and rncs all of a sudden.

[AJ Camacho]

There is TMA guy here with maybe a year of grappling experience that runs a TMA school and now advertises 'exciting subs' -- in a grappling class that he was teaching he cracked a girl's sternum while doing a elbow to sternum neck crank.

That is freaking insane. Those old school TMA guys probably scare me the most when it comes to the ad hoc teaching of submissions. Some of those old school karate dudes have those weird sort of 'Foot Fist Way' sort of ego issues that only come from years of developing the proper swagger for board break and freestyle demonstrations. Plus some have a casual "scene it all" type of mentality and think that their 30+ years of karate will seamlessly translate into their ground work allowing them to excel. It doesn't.

Wrestlers can scare me too, but that's only when you get the 110% guy who is always trying to impress his invisible coach who's usually his dead dad that taught him wrestling but never told him he loved him. "This 110 percent kimura is for you dad! RAHHHH!! SNAP"

[ifreez]

^^^ Haha! I had a guy come in once, an athlete who was totally a 110% type of dude. He was a total beginner who would grad anything and try to twist, pull, squeeze it as hard as he possibly could, all red in his face and all.

Anything he could grab hold of, he put all his power and might into it, leaving no reserves, and his face would get super tense as though he was fighting for his life with one last push.

Funny shit.

[derrick ikwueme]

That is freaking insane. Those old school TMA guys probably scare me the most when it comes to the ad hoc teaching of submissions. Some of those old school karate dudes have those weird sort of 'Foot Fist Way' sort of ego issues that only come from years of developing the proper swagger for board break and freestyle demonstrations. Plus some have a casual "scene it all" type of mentality and think that their 30+ years of karate will seamlessly translate into their ground work allowing them to excel. It doesn't.

Wrestlers can scare me too, but that's only when you get the 110% guy who is always trying to impress his invisible coach who's usually his dead dad that taught him wrestling but never told him he loved him. "This 110 percent kimura is for you dad! RAHHHH!! SNAP"

damn good analogy AJ, I practice safty at all times, and still get bangged up, when drilling with white belts, sometimes it's like taming a wild animal. so wild animals teaching is a accident waiting to happ

[Clinton lawrence]

i would love to be a 110 percent wrestler if bill cosby was my dead dad / coach that would be funny as