this one goes out to all you beginners we're going to cover four Concepts that not only help improve your Jiu-Jitsu it's going to help you understand Jiu-Jitsu and it's most likely because of these two help you have more fun with your Jiu-Jitsu so it's enough gun bumping let's jump [Music] in the first concept I want to cover with you is over commitment of your own body weight let me paint a picture real quick you and your buddy are sparring he's on his back and you're in side body or side control you have your chest on
his chest except you're set back a little bit because if you overcommit your weight too far forward to the opposite side he can sweep you it's exactly what I'm talking about and we see this all over the place in Jiu-Jitsu now on the flip side of that token if you overcommit your body weight back on the opposite direction you allow him an opportunity to regain his guard so you have to be really really careful with what you do with your body weight I've heard many called Jiu-Jitsu the Battle of inches and I couldn't agree with
that more there's been so many times where I was probably an inch away from escaping a certain submission or certain position and there's been times where I moved myself an inch and got that perfect submission and that perfect disa I found that wrestlers understand this concept really well being a wrestler myself I grew up being trained to learn how to pin someone to the mat I also learned how to Escape those positions when being pinned to the mat that's very much a battle of inches because if my weight is too far forward or too off
to the side it's going to be easy for my opponent to shift my weight and get out of that position now this is something that I do believe you're only going to be able to improve with practice and time but being aware of it is going to shorten the duration at which it takes you to become better at this if you're a white belt and in your Jiu-Jitsu training you don't understand why you keep getting swept or you keep getting rolled it's most likely because your weight is too far forward or too far back backward
or too far to the side you're overcommit your body weight and understanding that is such a massive part of the process of improving it and don't let this one stress you out this is just one of those parts of Jiu-Jitsu that's going to take a while to get better at as long as you're being consistent with your training and you're being mindful of what's going on I.E what you're doing with your body weight you will get better trust me concept number two inside control now you'll see in Jiu-Jitsu the inside control pops up everywhere and
if you can get it get it whether you're able to Pummel to inside control from a standing position or you're able to get inside control from let's say open guard or spider guard or you're looking for a KNE cut and you're looking to move past your opponent's guard having inside control is going to be very beneficial for you generally or conceptually speaking inside control allows you to create space or take away space very safely it also puts you in a great position to affect your offense if you're new to Jiu-Jitsu and you don't know what
to to do with your hands staying inside of your opponent's hands and keeping your feet inside of your opponent's feet is usually going to be a good thing for you there are going to be situations where say you're engaging with a leg Locker that you're going to have to be careful about having one of your legs inside their legs but again this is a beginner's video we don't need to worry about the wha ifs if we worry about the wha ifs it's going to bog us down and we're never going to get anywhere eventually as
you progress you learn how to handle leg lockers and where to put your legs when you're dealing with a leg locker but for now conceptually speaking inside control as a whole is a great place for you to have your limbs when you're in a Jiu-Jitsu match concept number three position over submission now everybody wants to learn the cool submissions everybody wants to come to Jiu-Jitsu and learn 5 to 10 submissions right away but that's not really feasible if you can't hold on to the position itself before you can learn the Ezekiel choke from mounts you
have to learn how to hold hold the mountain position and before you learn triangle chokes from closed guard you have to know how to hold the Clos guard position more often than not when I see new guys coming to the gym they might learn a submission here or there let's use the rear naked choke for example I see a lot of new guys semile learn this one or they come to the gym brand new and kind of know it from watching UFC and let's just say they take their opponents back and they sink in that
rear naked choke it's halfway correct and the opponent starts to escape instead of transitioning to another position of dominance I see new guys hold on to these submissions for dear life end up losing their position completely and then end up in a bad position themselves because they should have abandoned their halfhearted rear naked choke a long time ago if you're a beginner and you find yourself doing this this is a good indicator that you need to learn more positions you need to get comfortable with the positions that allow the submissions to be effective right if
you can't Hold Your Position you don't don't have the submission being stubborn and holding on to a submission that isn't sunk in all the way or isn't correct or the position that supports the submission isn't stable or solid you're really putting yourself in a bad place and again if you find yourself doing this it's not something to be upset about it's just a good indicator it's a good Landmark that you need to improve in that area if I were you I would start practicing more with positional sparring I know from experience that a lot of
new guys have trouble holding Mount so why not work with your buddy or your sparring partner where you start and mount and he lays on his back and you guys positionally Spar from there with your goal being to maintain the mount it doesn't matter what submissions you know or can get what matters is that you can hold the position so focus on that and once you start improving these positions that you struggle with you'll start to see that your submissions that originate from these positions start to improve as well it's pretty cool and I just
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weightlifters are usually a bit more aggressive and they make a lot of big energy consuming movements and often I find that they hold their breath before they're doing this like they're bracing for a big squat or they're bracing for a big deadlift or a big bench press when in actuality this is a great way to gas yourself out even faster if you ever watch highle black belts these guys are geniuses when it comes to energy expenditure and they also are very good at controlling their breath throughout their entire match breathing is an interesting topic because
we already do this involuntarily we don't have to think about it we just do it automatically but it is very evident that most people especially those outside of martial arts don't do very much work to improve the effectiveness of their breathing especially under stressful or combat situations one of the things I like to do when I'm sparring is I like to listen to my opponent's breath and if I know that they're out of breath if I know they're tired especially if they're more tired than me I'll start to push the pace even harder one thing
I try to do for myself to improve my breathing is when I train I really focus on breathing only from my nose now this air that I get from nasal breathing is circulated it's clean and it's warmed it's a higher quality air than I'm going to get from breathing from my mouth now of course will I use my mouth if I need to yes it's like having a sixth gear but I try to focus on only breathing through my nose and that is something that I found to be very very helpful another thing I try
to pay attention to is not holding my breath before big movements and this is something I still catch myself doing from time to time I have gotten a lot better at this it's something that I've actively worked on over the past eight years that I've been training but not holding your breath is going to be a game Cher it might be difficult at first but if you constantly work towards this and you make it a goal of yours you will get better at it and you'll notice that you last a little bit longer your stamina
is a bit stronger you don't gas out so quickly I find that if I can keep my breathing a bit more calm and deep it's a lot more effective I find that when I get really tired my breath tends to involuntarily want to become fast and sometimes when it's fast it becomes shallow instead I force myself to breathe nice and deep and I try to keep myself calm when I'm calm and I'm breathing calm I tend to make better decisions and I tend to have better usage of my energy which both of these resulting in
better performance on the mats at the end of the day you're going to find improvement with all of these things with continued training and effort so try not to let it disappoint you or affect you negatively I know the white belt Journey can be frustrating and disappointing at times but you got to remember you're developing your defense you're developing a foundation for everything else to build on when you're blue purple brown and black so stay patient stay calm keep training I hope you guys enjoyed the video and got something out of it if you have
experiences or techniques or tricks or anything that can help the group learn comment down below right I'm just one guy I'm just one perspective we're all growing and learning together myself included so drop your knowledge down below I always appreciate you guys and with that being said you guys know how we like end them sometimes backwards always forwards I'll see you in the next [Music] one
