It's fine if you want to get your back taken and then promptly choked out
That's when you tuck your chin!
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It's fine if you want to get your back taken and then promptly choked out
Just wondering, why is turning on my stomach bad? I hope this isn't like asking why it's bad to be on your back in judo, because then I'll feel stupid. But wouldn't giving your back be better in a self defense situation, protecting your face and head and such? Or does it have to do with points in competition?
That's when you tuck your chin!
It's the same as turning your back to an opponent when boxing or kickboxing. You can't see what they're doing and can't defend what you can't see. In a real fight you're likely to get smashed when doing that in pure bjj you're in a position to get chokedJust wondering, why is turning on my stomach bad? I hope this isn't like asking why it's bad to be on your back in judo, because then I'll feel stupid. But wouldn't giving your back be better in a self defense situation, protecting your face and head and such? Or does it have to do with points in competition?
It's the same as turning your back to an opponent when boxing or kickboxing. You can't see what they're doing and can't defend what you can't see. In a real fight you're likely to get smashed when doing that in pure bjj you're in a position to get choked
2 points for a takedown, sweep, or knee-mountI see. That makes sense. By any chance do you know how the points system works in tournaments? The coaches touched on it a bit but not much.
Just wondering, why is turning on my stomach bad? I hope this isn't like asking why it's bad to be on your back in judo, because then I'll feel stupid. But wouldn't giving your back be better in a self defense situation, protecting your face and head and such? Or does it have to do with points in competition?
The only advantage to being on your stomach in a fight would be to protect your face, but that advantage is easily outweighed if the attacker can think beyond "punch him in the face and knock him out."
Lol your first sentence reminded me of master kens video on bjj. He said something like "jiu jitsu is abbreviated to bjj which stands for bull **** just like judo" lolBJJ is Basically Just Judo but inverted in that the focus is on the ground work instead of the standing work. Everything you learned in judo is allowed in BJJ except some of the things that have been removed in judo due to the Olympic styling such as single leg and double leg take downs are still prominently used in BJJ. Due to the focus on the ground work, you'll probably be leagues ahead of higher belts in your takedowns/throws. BJJ has really fleshed out a lot of different guards for controlling folks from the bottom that work better for some folks than others. You'll learn a lot of closed guard and half guard in the beginning but later you'll learn variances on the half guard and an assortment of open guards: butterfly, de la riva, reverse de la riva, single x, double x, lasso, etc.
I've never been to a BJJ school that has been anymore formal than just bowing in and out at the beginning/end of class respectively. You usually shake hands with everyone at the end and here (a school in Hawaii), we all hug. The coaches are all called coach. When I trained in Japan, my instructor was called either sensei or Professor (as he was Portuguese).
Lol your first sentence reminded me of master kens video on bjj. He said something like "jiu jitsu is abbreviated to bjj which stands for bull **** just like judo" lol