okay guys i'm here today gordon ryan a huge honor for me as always and guys yeah today guard is going to explain here to us one concept that he has that it's amazing that's what every white belt and blue belt should know so in jiu jitsu so he was explaining to me like what what every white belt should focus in jiu jitsu from white to blue belt and then what every blue belt should focus your jutsu from blue to black belt so can you share that everywhere yeah um so there's nothing worse than walking on
your first day and just having no sense of direction as to where you should be going um you know many people walk in they get they get taught a new move every day and so here's a move today here's just move tomorrow and do your best with it um the whole goal of our sport is to be able to submit your opponent okay um picture yourself on top mount against somebody and you want to go for an arm bar but you know that if you go for that arm bar from top mount and you lose
it and you end up on bottom and maybe inside control or with your back taken perhaps uh that there's no way you're ever going to be able to escape all right the chance of you attempting that arm bar drastically decrease because of the fear they'll get held in a situation or submitted uh if you were to lose that arm bar so you end up just holding positions you hold mount for the whole round and then you know nothing ever happens you kind of lose that sense of going into a match with the idea of okay
i have to control this guy but i also have to eventually submit him so what gives you the confidence to open up and to go for attacks and try to go for submissions is your ability to escape both bad positions and submissions so that if you have the confidence where you can escape now you're on top mounted an arm bar you can confidently go for that arm bar knowing that even if you miss it you end the bottom bottom guard bottom half guard bottom side control bottom mount with your back kick in with you and
an arm bar yourself the guy pat the guy ends up and mouth on you and after you fail and you know he gets an arm bar that you can either escape those bad positions or those submissions okay so the first and first thing you should be looking at um which is the opposite of what most people tell you most people tell you how to attack first is actually escaping bad positions and submissions okay so from white to blue belt you should focus on your pin escapes and submission escapes all right this will give you the
confidence at later belts to be able to go in and actually attack your own submissions knowing that if you end up in a bad spot that you can escape and easily go back into your offensive attacking cycle so from white to blue belt you start by first learning how to escape and defend and then from purple to black belt that's when you focus on going in and attacking people okay you have submissions you have positions guard passing sweeps things like that right but without the ability and the confidence to escape bad spots you're never going
to have the confidence to go and attack submissions knowing that you could end up in a bad spot good so we're so kind of breaking down here so what you did on your career white and blue blood you pretty much focus way more on escapes than attacks and then purple brown and black you kind of switch a little more to attacks if you had to break down like belt for a belt yeah that's what i should have done it's not what i actually did um but when i when i started to train under john i
was a i was a blue slash purple belt when i started training full time with john and my escapes were terrible if i ever got to a bad spot i wouldn't be able to escape so john basically started teaching me as if i was a white belt because when i started training with john i was very very bad at jiu-jitsu um so the first thing john taught me was escapes and once i was confident that no no one could hold me down and no one could submit me uh well that gave me the confidence to
start going into attacks because john started us with leg blocks so every time i would try to put an ashigarami in place i would either get my guard passed and my back taken people would crush me or they'd take my back and at first i was just getting held down with people past my guard or getting my back held for the round and i was getting so frustrated that i couldn't escape uh and then john was teaching us leglocks and escapes at the same time so that i could go have the confidence to go for
leglocks knowing that even if i got my guard passed i would be able to just escape and go right back into attacking so i did it the wrong way coming up that's why it took me so long to progress from white to purple brown belt but then at brown belt when i started to have the cop i started to have that confidence and gain that confidence my career really started to take off from brown belt until the current date so if you would teach the young warren iran you would teach him escapes as white belt
focus 80 on scapes blue belt you would excuse capes or you would start switching yeah so first positional escapes then submission escapes and then you start to build a blue to purple belt from not only escaping but escapes into attacks okay have to remember there's offensive and defensive cycles you can't just escape escape escape defend defend defend because then your opponent stays in an offensive cycle where every time you go to defend they just keep attacking so you're only just defending it's no good um you have to get into a situation where you go into
escapes right into attacks on submissions okay that should be obviously you have to learn some submissions you can't just go all the way you can't just spend four years from white to purple belt focusing on you know not having any submissions but your main focus should be on escaping defending submissions and then transitioning into going from a defensive cycle where you're going from bottom side control or bottom mount instead of just escaping going right back into your own attacks whether it be a sweep or a submission the guy has your back and instead of escaping
and and the up top guard you escape and you go right into a leg lock for example yeah no man that's amazing and guys guarder just launched today actually a new structural video all about the mindset and mental game for jiu jitsu and it's amazing he talks about every single subject i mean like how to choose school you're gonna train how to train if you're a hobbyist person or if you're a professional athlete how to train for lower belts with higher belts what should we do in the weekend of the tournament and every single subject
you can imagine about the mental and mindset game he made an instruction all about this and it's it's at vga fanatics.com so make sure to check that out and that was an amazing word thank you so much thanks guys please help me out to grow my youtube channel just click subscribe and to watch more videos just click under see more videos i hope you enjoyed bjjfanatics.com use the promo code youtube faria to get 10 off any instructional video improve your jiu jitsu faster
