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onwards and forwards. This is a good bit of progress compared to the winters. I never got to the De La Riva since my coach just wanted us to swing leather, but I am glad that you are doing more complex things. I had brusied lips and a mark from dirlling body kicks. Mostly wrist and ankle injuries though from improper landings and bad takedowns.
Half guards are a weird bjj thing wherein if you train mma, half guard can be death due to strikes, so you miss a lot of these fun tools unless you are specifically training submission wrestling. Leg locks too.
You can now start looking at instructionals too, so Craig Jones has great ones where he, as a submission guy, shows how absic wrestling can counter a lot of submissions but also vice versa in a very effective way. You should try giving your back up with time, there are plenty of times when you cannot get up without doing so. Sakuraba had a non-existent guard and always showed his back as he would be able to shrug off the Brazilians and beat them up again. Great person to see how far limited grappling can go if you are smart enough. Most of the lore around BJJ is completely fake, and the sport has a lot of marketing to make it mystical or at least did back in the day. Sakuraba kinda put a stop to this.
For women, the grappling aspect makes a lot of sense from a layered perspective. Women have piss poor grip strength, if you grab a girl and she is noteicabley strong, you will think twice before engaging with her. Most communication is nonverbal, strength is a cue that you cannot miss even when drunk. If a girl is out and she has rolled with guys who are big, trained and scary before, she will not freak out if some creep acts funny with her. The added benefit of concrete means that usually, one hip toss is enough to fend wierdos off. Submission wrestling is awesome. Do keep us posted.
p.s. beware of finger injuries from using gis. Every gi competitor and many hobbyists get hand issues from gripping the gi. Many might use the gi but would never use grips to save themselves trouble. Also, if you get stacked, just open up the guard even during hard rolls, the vertebrae damage is not spoken about enough.
Again, good work, man. More people can and should pick up basic physical culture and how that allows one to prolong youth and vigor.
On the topic of grip strength, as an aging judoka, I picked up one of those rock climbing finger boards and a peg board. Those are really handy for working the same tendons and joints in a slightly different way, and I think they’ve helped protect me from sport-specific overuse injuries.
I never had a gi since rash guards have replaced them nearly completely in many places. People use a lot of handed finger extension to counter the effects of gripping, my reasons for using it is so reduce damage from using my keyboard.
How long did you practice for?
Bands probably would have been even better for me, actually.
I was a very competitive (within a few state area, not like actually competitive with genuinely good judo players) judoka for about 10 years. Most people, myself included, seem to age out of intensely competitive judo pretty young, even at the amateur level, just from wear and tear. At 30, they put you in the Master’s division for old folks. 😂
This isn't surprising, wrestling is probably even more intense. Submission grappling is the only combat sport you can do forever since even scaled down versions are pretty fun and productive.
I would have done judo had we had any combat sports here. Submission wrestling, the current strain comes out of judos lost groundwork and a lot of inputs from Anglo wrestling forms. Both those things are extinct now sadly.
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