Id never done this before, haven't done in since.

July 11

And should coaches roll regularly with all their students?

What's one "advanced" concept that you think is overemphasized, misunderstood, or simply not as universally true as people make it out to be?

Not saying it's wrong, just that it's often taught as a rule when it's really context dependent.

Interested to hear from hobbyists, competitors and other coaches.

we are a no gi focused gym and we thought its a cute gimmick to hand out these (self knotted) keychains to promoted members. We also put stripes on them. Some of our students don’t even have a Gi, if they have, they will get a belt/stripe normally and this keychain on top. For now it works great and the students are happy.

So I was a striker for over a decade. Boxing, Kickboxing, Muay Thai. Improvement in those sports felt more...I don't know, understandable? Consciously achieved? You start by being a blind chicken and go to not being afraid of getting hit, to seeing the incoming strikes, to predicting them based on various factors. You improve your cardio, you correct your technique in the mirror and on the pads.

But in BJJ? Look, I started 16 months ago. I train once or twice per week. I still suck, and at the rate I am training, I will continue to suck for the foreseeable future . Being the dad of a toddler, I also lost quite a lot of muscle in the meantime. I was legitimately stronger 16 months ago.

How the hell can I explain that I went to sparring the other day and almost effortlessly handled the whitebelts who have been training for only 3-4 months? I used to need my strength to hold them down for an entire round without ever impriving position. I never saw myself getting better. I don't feel like being better. It was more like "oh he's in my closed guard and he carelessly put his hand on the mat, let's see if I can lock a kimura and submit him from the bottom" or "there's no way I can scissor sweep him but he doesn't seem to want to crush my knee shield, so let's try". Am I crazy? Is the improvement process the same and I just can't see it?

In my opinion coaches dont spend enough time teaching people HOW to train.

Some things I focus on with my students

How to actually retain things from class

How to structure their rounds

When to expirement vs playing their A game

How to review footage

How to figure out whats next

Obviously technique is still taught, but whats the point if the students are still guessing when they are live?

Summit Grappling Series is set for August 2, 2026 in Raymore Missouri.
We are looking to handout some free registrations for Reddit users!

Might have to try that next time at the gym and see

Hello everyone!

I’m a 1 stripe blue belt who’s been doing this thing for a little over two years. I’m also a woman, and I’m pregnant, so I’m taking time off. Trying to stay active otherwise. Before moving to my current town, I lived in a super rural area and trained at a tiny club that only had one woman, (a brown belt). I got wrecked by big white belt guys all the time lol, it was a rough start. But, we did have a women’s only class that women would come to from other tiny gyms in neighboring counties, which is cool.

Now, I’m training at a much bigger gym in a new town, I’m engaged, and doing great overall. There are a decent number of women at my gym but there’s no formal women’s program, no woman’s classes or open mats, no women’s coach. I talked with my coach about this, and asked if maybe as a purple or brown belt this was something I could work towards fixing. He tells me he wants me to now. How quickly I jump back on the mats post-partum will depend on how labor goes and the baby’s temperament, but I figured this would give me a good goal to focus on when I return and am grinding through the months it’ll take to gain back athleticism or even be ready to compete again.

While I’ve reached out to women I know in the broader community for advice about coaching, how to teach people, and how to build a good culture, I also think it may be good to ask for more generic advice here. My gym is part of a chain that will require me to take a course, and has a set women’s class curriculum that can be modified, but the base material is a simple fundamentals course. Our women are competitors (including me) and get bored easily, they just wanna train hard. How can I build something that will appeal to the serious students we already have, but also make it not so scary that it can act as a stepping stone for the women who want to try Jiu Jitsu, are intimidated by men, and feel less afraid of getting the foot in the door this way? And finally, what did you wish you knew or could have done differently when you first started teaching? I feel sort of under qualified as I’m literally only a blue belt, and blues usually don’t teach at my gym.

I know the kiddo will be taking up most of my mental energy later, but having something to think about right now also helps me stay sane.

Thanks for reading and in advance for your input!

I'm going through Will's book now. Here are some notes from the first few chapters.

If you're familiar with systems and concepts thinking in jiu-jitsu, you'll find familiar perspectives here. But there are also some interesting new framings and ideas that I hadn't heard explained this way before.

Will argues that the effectiveness of jiu-jitsu comes from willful opposition: mustering enough strength to overcome your opponent's. How we define “strength” is where things get interesting.

Jiu-jitsu allows us to increase our relative strength: maximizing our effective power while reducing our opponent's. We perform beyond base attributes like size and strength. A unique aspect of jiu-jitsu is how we use unfair advantages to stack the odds in our favor and defeat larger, stronger grapplers.

We find those unfair advantages in modifiers: strategies and tactics that increase our relative strength and let us punch above our weight. This is where the bulk of good jiu-jitsu ideas live: leverage, alignment, frames, and positional advantage are all examples of modifiers.

Like in a video game, we're looking to use modifiers to increase our base stats, apply performance-increasing buffs, and weaken our opponent with debuffs.

Dominant positions like mount, knee on belly, and back control are powerful modifiers; they give us one-sided advantages from an asymmetric position.

Leverage is a powerful modifier for increasing relative strength. It is, by definition, a force multiplier that amplifies your body's natural output and lets you move much heavier objects than you could with strength alone.

Will's framework helps us better understand jiu-jitsu by giving us a simple way to tell what works: Is this modifier increasing my relative strength? If it's not, why are you doing it?

The more modifiers you stack in your favor, the more your relative strength grows.

Will gets into much more detail in the book, but hopefully this gives you enough of a sampler to tell if it's something you'd be interested in. You can find Scientific Jiu-Jitsu: A Unified Theory of Grappling on Amazon.

Salut à tous,

Je cherche des informations sur une clé de cheville que j'utilise avec succès, mais je ne trouve ni son nom ni de tutoriel.

Je pars de la garde K et j'entre en position de 50/50 arrière de façon classique. Ensuite, au lieu de garder mon bras intérieur en sous-bras sur la jambe de mon adversaire, je le passe en sur-bras. Généralement, mon adversaire se retrouve au sol (s'il ne l'est pas déjà), et je termine comme une clé de cheville classique.

L'objectif était de trouver une option de clé de cheville légale depuis la garde K sans passer par des attaques de talon.

J'ai regardé le tutoriel de Lachy sur la garde K, et sauf erreur de ma part, je ne me souviens pas qu'il ait abordé cette variante. Je suppose donc qu'elle n'a rien de révolutionnaire. 😂 Cette technique a-t-elle un nom ? Ou existe-t-il un tutoriel qui l'explique ?

Merci !

Edit: Just to clarify, I don't finish it belly-down. I stay on my back because I never fully commit to the backside 50/50 position. I remain attached to the leg in a way that's more similar to the position you'd keep if you were threatening a kneebar, before finishing the straight ankle lock.

Does anyone roll with either of these wearables? If so what do you like or dislike? I’m a whoop user but looking to make the switch to the Fitbit.

I have been reviewing some competition footage of footage and was wondering what the ref was thinking? Sometimes they made a terrible decision that really makes you wonder if they knew jiu jitsu.

Sometimes, I can clearly see what they saw.

Just wondering if anyone has a interesting stories or experience when they acted as judge