Bulletproof For BJJ Podcast
This is the official podcast of the Bulletproof For BJJ movement. Hosted by JT & Joey. Each episode the founders break down problems that Jiu-jitsu people experience, giving guidance and tips to improve your training for BJJ. With the goal of helping every body on the Brazilian jiu-jitsu path reduce their chance of injury, improve their strength and mobility to become more resilient.
Bulletproof For BJJ Podcast
Rolling smaller teammates, Managing BJJ with New Borns & Charles Allan Price.
What other BJJ related podcasts do you listen to? Our great friend and fellow Strength coach Charles Allan Price hailing from the UK gives the boys props. If you are interested check out Charles and his partner in crime Eoghan O'Flanagan as they go deep on all things BJJ.
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If you are a bigger frame human do you consider how much you squash your fellow training partners?
Our friend Maria is getting good quickly but is concerned about rolling rough with smaller less competitive training partners and not sure how to approach it.
Soon to be father of 2, our guy Chris is about to have a new baby and not sure how he can get his training in. He has limited options but doesn't know how to choose which classes he should do and how to fit it in. Staying consistent on the mats when you have a newborn is a juggle and JT & Joey give some good tips on how to get through this challenging time.
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Speaker 1:Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another Bulletproof for BJJ podcast. I'm JT. I'm here with Joe Q&A for BJJ. You've got some questions. We've got some answers. Go to bulletproofforbjjcom. Click on the podcast tab, scroll down. There's a red button. You can leave us a voicemail. Let us know who you are, where you're from, we'll help you out.
Speaker 4:So we haven't done the Q&A for a few weeks now. Do you need me to bring your mic down as well?
Speaker 1:No, never. You haven't done the Q&A. Turn me up in the headphones.
Speaker 4:Because we've had an issue with the podcast desk. It was related to the Bluetooth, which you know. We resolved it Tech shit, we're good, but so it's good now. So we got a little bit of a backlog, but we're working through them. First one I've got to replay.
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Speaker 2:Charles Lollaprash. Big shout out to Joey and JT Shout out, Mark McQueen. Love you fellas.
Speaker 4:What did he say at the end? Mark McQueen, I think so. Is he referring to your head? I've got no idea. So that's Charles Allen Price. That's a homeboy of ours. Yes, big, shout out. Charles, big up, big up, he speaks fast, he does. We played that. We played it like two months ago, and it was just like oh, that's some English cunt who?
Speaker 4:wanted to say big ups, totally missed that. It was a friend of ours and big love to Charles. Charles has the podcast with Owen Flanagan. Yes, he's Owen O'Flanagan's strength coach. He's got great shit on Instagram. Check their podcast out.
Speaker 1:Charles and Owen experience. We saw him at the ADcc. Yeah, we hung out a bit. Owen and flanagan is a killer and will also be at the cji and owen's a killer at the party too oh yeah, yeah, he was something charles fucked up and had to fly out before the after party.
Speaker 4:He assures me he hasn't made the same error this time around. Thank goodness, because the cji after party is gonna be lit. Um. So yes, let's jump on to the next one, cp hey guys love the podcast.
Speaker 5:Uh, tonight in one of my roles I found myself in a little bit of a quandary. I hit a really good straight ankle lock on another white belt. However, he tried to blast backwards out of it and I let it go. The round ended. Afterwards the coach kind of accused me of sandbagging and not performing to potential. Not performing to potential, you know. Kind of my question is when should I start focusing on that tap? And, you know, should I be worried about the other person's safety, to kind of get it. Thanks, guys, Much love from the US.
Speaker 4:All right, CP fair question.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and look, man, man, I would say this it's a bit of a dynamic to juggle the expectations of your coach and just gauging yourself right, because there'll be times when your coach wants to push you on because they feel that's the right thing for your jiu-jitsu. But at the end of the day you've got to make the call in the heat of the moment because you've got to know what was the right thing to do for you, and sometimes you're wrong. Sometimes you're right, but it's much better for you to win or lose based off your own reasoning and determination, than anyone else, like your coach, can just look across and be like, oh, he gave up on that footlock, but if you had injured the person, then you also have to live with that and that's. That's something you've got to deal with. Right? You thought it was the right idea to let it go. Your coach maybe didn't, but I would say, ultimately it comes down to your decision in the moment and you probably made the right decision yeah, yeah, I agree.
Speaker 4:I think, um, it's a tough one for us to know because it sounds like there's a bit of context to maybe the coaching that you've been receiving.
Speaker 4:I'm thinking if the coach was a reasonable cat and and you know, I consider myself a reasonable cat and I might have a response like that to a student who I've been telling them like hey, stop stop letting things go, like I, I want you to like see it through to the end.
Speaker 4:You know, this is an important part of your journey, that if they then made that same mistake that I was telling them not to make, that I'd be like dude, like you know I could, or maybe your coach is just a bit of an asshole and you just kind of won't go on that hard, and now your coach has given you a hard time for not getting the tap. So it's a little bit hard for us to know, but I would think like, yeah, look, you don't. Um, if there's something that you can glean from that, like, like, glean that thing. So if the thing is well, I had the foot lock and they just kind of pulled out of it and I lost it well, then next time, like you could do a bit better in terms of securing it, yeah, and that doesn't mean you've got to hurt them.
Speaker 4:It just means a better understanding of the braking mechanics and the control, and then taking that through to the point of submission so that you're like, okay, I've ticked all the boxes of that sequence or of that position, yeah, yeah and, honestly, there's more than two sides to that coin in the fact that maybe they just wanted you to tap that particular person too you know like it's.
Speaker 1:There's another element there. So don't stress. Don't stress, you're early in the journey, you will get there but fuck mate, straight ankle locks, white belts, that's a.
Speaker 4:That's a beautiful combination right there. Yeah, get it. You'll enjoy those until the end of your days, do?
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Speaker 3:Oh, yeah, hi guys, this is Maria. I'm currently speaking from Germany. I started the jujitsu six months ago together with the Thai boxing. I've never done martial arts before and I was definitely afraid at the beginning of the sports A few months in, and my coaches and training partners are always giving me a good feedback, saying that I'm learning really fast and progressing fast, and I'm happy to hear it.
Speaker 3:Soon it should be my first competition and my problem here is, as a white belt, I'm trying to be careful while rolling to not hurt another person on or by accident. If I roll with skinnier woman than me, I don't know how to not use all of my weight and I'm afraid I'm not being fair if I'm not adjusting my weight to theirs, both with men and women. I'm afraid if I'm too spazzy and not careful enough. I usually stick to techniques we learn at the class and I'm good at transitioning from one to another when I feel the first one is not working, but I am not that creative because I'm afraid I would do something stupid and not logical and also that I would not be able to be careful enough to not hurt another person. Do you have any tips that would help me be more careful while rolling as a white belt and not being too spazzy. And also, I love your podcast and I love listening to you guys.
Speaker 4:Bye thanks, maria so nice.
Speaker 1:Yeah, what a legend. Well, it just I'm gonna say right now it sounds like you are far too self-conscious as a white belt. I'd agree, spaz, go hard, break some shit like. For me it sounds like, based off what you said, you've already made some really great improvements. You're competing within your first six months. It sounds like you're on fire, sounds like you're going great.
Speaker 1:The fact that you're considering your training partners already tells us that you're a considerate training partner. That's really good, you know. The thing is this even when you're trying not to squash somebody it's jujitsu you're squashing them. And even when you work really hard to be super careful about not injuring someone, you might tweak something. That's kind of the game. So the fact that you've already considered, hey, I don't want to be the injury machine indicates you're a good good on you. Well done. But also, if you're going to compete, you should know that you're going to be going up against injury machines. So I don't know if you guys ever remember there was like a show back in the day which was like battle bots or whatever and people would get like lawnmowers and oh yeah, choppers and shit.
Speaker 4:That's a sick show and they just fucking.
Speaker 1:They put them in a cage, yeah, and they just it's all about just destroying each other. That's white belt, like that's when you go to competition. That's fucking white belt. It sounds like you're a bit of a secret weapon. I would say you've already taken a great first step, but don't be so self-conscious. It holds your jiu-jitsu back.
Speaker 4:That's all I'd say yeah, um, first of all, I think it's cool that like germans are using the word spaz why not?
Speaker 4:I'm sure, there's a good german word for it too, but it's much more eloquent than ours, I'm sure, yes, but um, the yeah, I think, like, yeah, you're probably overthinking it a little bit. However, you did mention like when you're rolling with smaller women, and I think that, yeah, if you are rolling with people that you have a clear size and strength advantage over, you should be putting a bit of your concern towards not hurting them. Like, I think that's very useful in that scenario. However, when you roll with someone that is maybe equal size to you, when you roll with like men who are, who are, you know, be it maybe smaller, bigger, but if there's not a like, if they are a bit stronger than you or you're rolling with higher belts, you've got license to just go for it. And, of course, like we're not trying to be uncontrolled, we're not trying to like elbow our partner accidentally or do anything uncontrolled, but you should be.
Speaker 4:You should have plenty of people in your gym that you can really go hard with yeah and uh, and it's okay for you to do that and that's part of the game and so you know, if you've got a comp coming up, sort of prioritize rolling with those people more right yeah you know, if you're doing three rounds tonight, maybe you do one, one with one of your smaller counterparts and you go a bit lighter, and then two where you just rip in and, you know, try to smash.
Speaker 4:I think that that's like that's your right as a jiu-jitsu player. Yeah, definitely. And if you're concerned about like knowing who should I do that with, who should I not ask your coach? And your coach should be able to direct you.
Speaker 1:Yeah for sure, coach, should be able to direct you yeah for sure. And also know that, like, if you're rolling um, doesn't matter man or woman of a similar size to you and they're a higher belt than you and you're like, oh, I can, I can armbar them or I can choke them, do it, do it. That's respect. You're giving them the respect of a good role. If you don't catch them and you don't do that, then you're weakening them in a lot of ways. So it is actually in their best interest for you to give them your best, so don't hold back yeah, we got um one of the coaches here at the gym, teamer.
Speaker 4:Yep uh, purple belt world champion yeah, one world's, one world's this year.
Speaker 4:She's an extremely strong and athletic woman and, uh, like you know, I I've, I've her train like, I've seen her in class roll with other people and even guys that she's clearly stronger than, and she has to like tone it down a bit, modify, and then when we roll, you can see she's like ah, good, unleash. And I'm often like fuck, tima, relax. Like you know, like it's surprising right Catches you off guard. But you know, know, she can just go for it and it's like.
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Speaker 5:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:Hey guys, chris here, really loving all the content you guys are putting out the sandbag program, I mean. I really appreciate everything you guys are putting out for us. Um, you've been following me probably for the full year now I've been training um, and I just kind of had a question about my particular situation. I really just want to hear your thoughts on a less optimal kind of training situation and how you might be able to supplement that. So, like I said, I've been training about a year now and I go to about three to four classes, which are a mix of competition and fundamentals. But really it's gotten harder and harder with my wife being pregnant and we already have a kid.
Speaker 2:So I'm probably gonna have to limit my jits to two days, um, and right now that looks like either two comp classes or two morning fundamentals classes, plus some like open mat on the weekend whenever I can. There's also a comp class on the weekend that I would like to go to sometimes, so it'll probably end up being about three classes most weeks. But the two fundamentals classes in the morning that I'm thinking about are run by a blue belt. Who is this really good wrestler? But I'm kind of worried about missing out on that knowledge I get from brown and black belts, which would it really be there during the comp classes anyways? Yeah, so just wanted to hear your thoughts on that situation. What you would pick, I'm leaning towards the morning fundamentals. I like top control and takedowns anyway. So I'm just curious to hear your thoughts, man, thank you.
Speaker 1:Okay, there it is One on the team and one to come. That's a challenging situation because there's so many things and, speaking as someone who has no children, I've never experienced a pregnant woman or a newborn. But I've got so many friends who are always wording me up because they see that I'm in the lane. I'm primed for that kid town. You know, I think when you're managing your own jiu-jitsu, you have to be flexible. So the fact you're like, oh, I'm just going to do the two mornings or I'm just going to do the two comp classes, hey man, I don't know, things can get wild. That first year of a young child you might get one morning and then one comp class. Right, I don't think you need to decide right now. What I would say, which is maybe something you haven't considered, is what happens when your wife is sick and your baby is sick and you can't leave the freaking house you need to have like a home gym set up. You got to train that baby up from day one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you need your partner you're going to need some smaller kettlebells, smaller sandbags to get them lifting. Um no, I I would say, the biggest thing that's been presented to me by all my good friends with kids and I'll let Joey speak to this in a second is you need to be able to keep your health and fitness up even if you can't even get to the gym. That's what I would say. I was like set yourself up to be as flexible as possible, because I think once that new baby comes, man, it's all better off.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I reckon you got the choice, the, the comp classes or the fundamentals. I think the fundamental sounds good. You're leaning towards it. Um, you know whoever's coaching it, right if it doesn't matter their rank, but if they've got something to teach you, which it sounds like the coach does, that's great, all I would say. And I, and I know that, like, if you you got, um, you know, if you've got a young family, that getting it out of the way in the morning is often the best way to do it. So that's I'm guessing that's part of your decision there. Um, the maybe where you will lack a little bit is if you're not doing any technical work around, like your guard and the other non-wrestling parts of jiu-jitsu. I don't know, maybe you can just see, because it's not like you want to be working on multiple different projects at one time anyway, but what you could consider right, if you say you got 12 weeks down the track and you've been like, fuck, we're doing heaps of top game and wrestling stuff and that's going great, but I'm neglecting everything else.
Speaker 4:Maybe you engage in an online platform where you can do a little bit of study at home. You do, you know 30 minutes. You go on Submeta and you subscribe to Lachlan Giles, like I did this week. Oh yeah, yeah, so good man. Yeah, I just wanted to. I was like I just need to review some shit and I'm like it's right here, it's so good, yeah. But you just get to practice that stuff. Even just watching it's going to help, but maybe then you can do some drilling and then maybe, when that baby grows up, get yourself a little drilling partner and shit. Oh yeah, guessing that's a few years down the track, but yeah, I think you've got a system there that's going to work.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that sounds good, man. Best of luck with that. That's a, it's a.
Speaker 4:It's a good time to be alive, Looking forward to it Also sounds like he's doing pretty well with the training grit following the sandbag program. Yeah that's great, that's cool. Like probably sounds like you got maybe a good little setup at home which is optimal. Yeah, I believe so.
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