How to Train BJJ and Grappling for a Long Time - Grapplers Guide Soapbox

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[lethalchickenent]

Due to money and time constraints due to other obligations. I can only train twice a week (it used to be once a week for the last few months but I've made some changes lately)....

How would you plan out your training if you only had two days to train?

[jasculs]

@lethalchickenent How are your two training days spaced out? Are you working out any other days outside of class? What kind of workouts? How many classes can you take during one day?

[buffgeo]

Like the vid, Love the message. Only thing is if your not an idiot, training with idiots or learning from an idiot your probably at a good school. For most people at a good school they'll never get hurt or if they do it will be very minor. The hardcore 3% (competitors/fighters) are the ones that sustain 99% of the injuries.. so to say that BJJ training has a high risk of injury i think is misleading... it doesn't have any higher rate of injury then any other sport with equal amount of contact.

[jasculs]

@buffgeo Thank you for your comment. But in my experience I don't agree with you about the injury thing. I honestly do not know one person who has made it to Black Belt (or probably even Brown Belt) who hasn't experience some sort of injury or something hurting them. I honestly don't care about other sports. I'm talking about martial arts that the general public take. BJJ is now officially a commercial martial art and out of pretty much most of them BJJ and MMA are up there in injuries.

[jasculs]

@buffgeo also I know you stated minor injuries. Unfortunately a minor injury is still an injury. There are many ways to decrease the injuries at a good school with a good instructor and with good training partners like you mentioned and they will be much less but the odds are still much higher compared to other martial arts that the general public participates in. Thank you for for the discussion as well. Jason

[finnegan518]

Jason I have been training this way for several months and what a difference. I feel rested and refreshed as opposed to thinking that every class has to be adcc. Great stuff as always Jason.

[jbravo41]

4th Not accepting professional advice 5th not being willing to move on and train with pros 6th learning grappling because you want to fight constantly and having no peace of mind 7th not loving the art 8th not dropping your ego 9th having unrealistic goals, thinking you gonna be the next UFC champion 10th not maturing and growing as a person, e.g "we have to hit each other in the gob" in every training session, all of that will keep you from becoming a good fighter/grappler/martial artist

[Propagandawar23]

I agree. I have been injured several times. Bad knees are bad knees. I protect them now. I was lucky coming into this understanding injuries because I wouldbe probably walked out with the first one. Being older I now space it out. I'll still train 3-5 days a week generally training hard once a week these days.

[Torgo1969]

Nice vid. I have a cardiac device so contact sports and intense exercise in general are life-threatening for me, but I appreciate the passion that grapplers have for their exercise.

[burientopteam]

Big fan since the "closed guard technique flow" series vid. More good stuff.

It gets harder to know "how to train" most effectively after you get past purple belt and the importance of being more and more self-directed really shows. That's been my biggest adjustment over the past year and this video helps give me more ideas of how to structure things and get better while on the road to faixa preta.

[alfzonic]

as always great videos thanks man, support bjj 4 life!