Private Lessons

[Kyle Spalla]

Would any of you take a private lesson from someone that is ranked below you?

Even if I was a black belt if someone knew more than me, I.E. foot locks, kneebars, heel hooks and comes from a background that isn't necessarily ranked they might have a shit load of knowledge and I wouldn't mind paying to pick their brain.

[sean applegate]

Sure. If the information was valuable to me. I'm not a big deep half player, but if I wanted to be and saw a blue belt dominating comps with it, I would have no problem catching a private from him. On deep half.

[Martin.Harris]

If someone was able to dominate me on the mat I would pay for a private regardless of rank.

[Brian Debes]

I’ve taken a private from Reilly Bodycomb. He has no rank so technically he’s a white belt. That’s where I first learned the foundation of the leg locks that I have double digit taps in competition from. Or you could just take privates from cookie cutter black belts that show you the same old archaic stuff that isn’t adapted for nogi well. Your call. I had to pass dozens of those on my 6 hour drive to train with “white belt” Reilly. I take privates based on a game I like or if its just someone I like and have been training with.

[Brian Debes]

I’ve taken a private from Reilly Bodycomb. He has no rank so technically he’s a white belt. That’s where I first learned the foundation of the leg locks that I have double digit taps in competition from. Or you could just take privates from cookie cutter black belts that show you the same old archaic stuff that isn’t adapted for nogi well. Your call. I had to pass dozens of those on my 6 hour drive to train with “white belt” Reilly. I take privates based on a game I like or if its just someone I like and have been training with.

That said, as an afterthought I’d like to add that anyone with a good enough understanding of concepts to even develop a game like that probably deserves to be ranked. But I know a lot of good guys who remain unranked or ranked very low. One is in my gym running classes while I'm away. Scott Ray has given privates before.

[Tori Applegate]

Yea I'm with Jon...just a white belt. Lol. But yea, if I saw a two weeker was killing with a sub or even a pass, I'd want to know if even a small detail was different bc usually it's the one small detail that makes something that much tighter or have a higher success rate.

And also, everyone learns and progresses different. You could have someone that has done JJ for 2 years and then a guy can come in and excel 3x as much in 1/2 the time. Wouldn't the two year guy want to learn from that guy? Why not swap technique. I watched a video yday and a black belt said we are all even..equal if you will. Not only was that humble, but true!

We can all learn from each other, no matter our rank. Why does it have to be that a purple and brown belt can't learn from a blue or that white belts are stupid and no one wants to hear what they have to say on technique when they know how to finish a triangle better than some blue belts...Get what I'm saying? :-/

[Brent Smith]

I'm picking up what you're putting down for sure

[Will Thaxton]

I took privates from Brandon in his blue belt days and really got as much then I as I do now. I also once rolled with his instructor who has no "official" BJJ rank and he destroyed me and taught me a lot. I would say if I didn't know the person I would like them to be purple.

[Jonrivello]

triangles are my ish, I am offering a special 10p rate. 5 dollars gets you an hour of pure leg strangulation techniques. Who's going first

[Brent Smith]

..sounds like a trap..hmm