okay guys I'm here today for John Daniel here huge honor for me Brian Gleek and guys Joy is just starting a new series for older people and it's called ageless Jiu Jitsu and John can you explain a little more super excited about that and the a big part of our customers is older people and I think like every Jiu Jitsu school I visit it's always like 30 35 years and plus and uh and I think it's different to learn in one instruction of video for for athletes and for those guys who play Jujitsu as a
hobby so can you explain a little more whatever the the content of the video is expressly for older athletes and also physically compromised athletes people who they might not be old but they've got something maybe past injuries or um they're just not athletically mobile they just feel they're less flexible they have less endurance less physical strengths and their training Partners maybe they just don't come from an athletic background remember there's plenty of people that are young uh 20s and 30s but they just never played Sports before yeah and that's a problem you know certainly at
age 28 you you come and you you're going with guys who have been you know doing wrestling and Jutsu since they were children and then suddenly you were thrown in there and you're 28 you never never even played soccer or something it's hard so um it's not only for uh older athletes but just basically anyone who feels like their physicality is a little compromise either by age or some other set of circumstances and um I always thought I was peculiarly well qualified to teach this because I'm an old that's very true so I I feel
like this is something I can I can help people with I started YouTube very late I was 28 years old when I started I started with a crippled Lake and since then um had many physical problems and of course I'm getting old now I'm getting close to my 57th birthday so um as a result I think this is a subject I can I can teach pretty well um now normally Bernardo when we uh do these these YouTube videos we just go straight to technique but today I want to do something a little bit different I
wanted to ask three questions because you're a great teacher too and and um I'm sure you've you've thought about this in the past what would you say there are three questions I'm going to ask the first is what do you actually lose as you age that's relevant to jiu jitsu so the first question is what do you lose the second question is what do you keep and the third question is what do you gain as you age in Jiu Jitsu okay so what do you lose what do you keep and what do you gain and
uh uh I'm curious Brian you you teach alongside me for so many years like what do you guys think you lose as you age because of judicial performance probably speed is absolutely one of them it goes okay I'm gonna throw out the idea of Mobility your Mobility almost always decreases with age flexibility would be another one cardio cardiovascular strains goes down okay you keep certain kinds of strengths but you definitely lose uh cardiovascular stress now close to your point Brian not only do you lose speed but I'm going to say you're also lose a lot
of explosive strengths as well okay so I'd say the things you are most likely to lose as you go through the aging process or you just didn't come from an athletic background you just had no background in athletics and now you're trying to start Jiu-Jitsu it's going to cost you in terms of cardiovascular endurance explosive strength speed flexibility and Mobility those are the things you'll most likely to lose either because you're getting older or because you had no athletic background and you've been thrown into a room where now you've got to Grapple against people who
are good athletes next question what do you keep what's the last thing you lose as an older athlete those if those five things are the first things you lose what are the last things you lose things that you keep knowledge I'm going to come back to that soon because I actually think you've gain that um what do you what what do you keep I mean I've been with plenty of people who are a little bit older who are as as strong at holding yeah as anyone else I would say that isometric strength is the thing
you keep more than anything else it's the physical attribute that you keep okay in particular grip screen you've uh I've gone with people in their 70s who felt like they had the grip of a 20 year old um uh you tend to lose your strength downstairs first your legs go pretty quickly but your upper body holding strength stays for a long long time and um I've seen people be very effective at just isometric tension and holding uh well into the 60s so this I believe is the last physical attribute that you leave and then the
interesting question what do you think you gain as you get older I'm going to come out and say this first I think you gave wisdom and patience yeah okay I would say patience too yeah yeah as an old wrestling you gain wisdom and patience now here's the interesting question if we have a clear understanding of what we lose what we gain and what we keep we need to build a training program for older athletes based around those three enzymes we need to teach a set of techniques that have minimal requirements for explosive strength cardiovascular endurance
Etc as we as we name them we need to have a a training program that focuses on the one thing you get to keep which is the ability to hold tension in an isometric fashion for long periods of time against younger and fitter stronger opponents and we've got to mentally have a game which and not just the game but a training program that pushes you towards the idea of patience and wisdom you're going to beat people with tactics rather than physicality and that's exactly what we're trying to do in this video now the video is
actually part of a series but I don't because this is the first in the series and which is yes we started off with no gee there's going to be a geek one and there's going to be a nogi one and we further divided each into top game so the first video is the one that we're looking at now is going to be nogi bottom game yep that will be followed by nogee okay then it will be ghee bottom game and gee top game because uh I generally find with older athletes they generally favor gear training
just as much as they do Noki younger athletes typically like to know D stuff more um but uh I generally find people over 30 typically uh like to play more than geekanks it does slow things down a little bit more so I wanted to do both gear no gee for this and um uh but today we focus on the idea of the nogi bottom game now getting back to our inside sites about what we keep what we lose and what we uh and what we gain one of the major messages of this video is the
idea that if we're going to slow down control and overcome people who are younger fitter and more athletic than ourselves you're going to do it through close body contact the more contact and connection you have with your opponent the more you can determine and control where their body moves so the whole notion in this video is to funnel your training and your game towards scenarios where you maximize body connection to your opponent now it can't just be naive Body Connection if you're in the bottom out of position you've got a lot of you've got a
lot of body contact with your opponent but it's not good so it has to be advantageous Body Connection and that's exactly what we show in this video we look at the idea of survival skills as an older athlete one of the first things you you start running into is the problem of bad starts when everyone else is younger faster and fitter than you very often they get the first shot and you have to Better Dig yourself out of a bad situation so the first skill we look at is survival skills we just get put in
a terrible situation bottom mount bottom rear mount etc etc and you've got to dig yourself out of there so we show how to survive and frustrate a younger fitter opponent who's trying to attack you from an advantageous position hold officer tanks long enough to frustrate them and then work your way back into a situation where you have so much body contact with your opponent and it's advantageous on your part that you can slow them down control things and start to use your best weapons which is your patience and your tactics your wisdom your grappling wisdom
almost everything we do pushes and funnels the game towards half guard scenarios because half guard is the position which requires the least in terms of flexibility body movement explosive strength Etc it's where isometric strength is is used you hold on and connect your opponent and maximize connection between your body and his and as a result you can slow things down that's when you start wearing people down controlling them and getting to your finishes now with regards to finishes we have to be very careful what we looked at there because a lot of finishes do require
flexibility there's certain kinds of armocks where you've got about a spin and dirt and move around and these are not applicable to a to an older athlete so we were very careful on our selection for submission holds they all had to pass a test that they didn't require you to go to advert and come up onto your shoulders someone in their mid 50s could apply these quite successfully and they were all sent around isometric tension and holding so that old reference could Excel on them no and also like uh one thing I see a lot
about the old guys is that they're a lot less Risk Takers than the younger ones so I think the yeah so you typically find that as people get older they become much more risk-averse yeah that's because when things go wrong for an older athlete they tend to it's harder for them to recover and that goes back to our point about survival skills yep you've got to teach them how to survive folks so they become less risk-averse for a younger feder explosive athlete you can get into a bad situation just explode your way out things like
older athletes don't really have that option so when they do attack it has to be a very high percentage attack very interesting to get them in trouble um so Brian let's start off with some ideas here in terms of um uh post body contact if we're going to work out of half guard situations we'll worry about a tie up as much of their body as possible the beauty of so many of the standard half dive positions is they create contact over the whole length of your opponent's body all the way down from the ankle to
the hips To The Head and Shoulders is being controlled by my body position I'm in contact with my phone with the entire left side of my body and as I bring my arm inside now we get the right side as well okay and you've got contact inside both of your training Partners legs all the way from his right ankle all the way up to his head and shoulders with my head and arms in like so and it's from situations like this we can get underneath the training part in the center of gravity as he goes
to base multiple situations like this now he's a hundred percent on the defense and what kind of strength are we exhibit in here but this is all isometric strength people are all the way up into their 60s can exhibit this was with no problems okay it doesn't take a lot of strength and explosiveness to be effective in this position in order to be effective all I have to be able to do is rotate small amounts to lift and run to be able to move his body in order to be able to go out from underneath
him I just had to be able to move my body out to an angle okay these these are not big explosive movements if he goes to put a wizard back in place with the back in place and from here we're ready to go and start renewing our attacks okay there's just so much body contact if we elect to come up onto our base it's not a difficult thing there's still so much body contact leg to leg you're controlling your training partner's hip if he goes to whip me back down to the floor from here you
can just go right back in that same position we were just in and it's from situations like this that we can just manipulate someone's body with playing between supine positions and coming back up okay this from here that there's so much body contact it's going to be very very hard for opponents to use whatever explosive strange advantages etc etc that they have so the whole thing is to funnel the game in towards half guard positions once we get to those half Garden sessions it's about overturning your opponent and getting up on top um interestingly for
nobody we're not going to focus too much on closed guard because to be effective nogi with closed guard typically requires quite a bit of flexibility in the ability to come up on your shoulders interestingly with the ghee later on we will be looking at closed guard because then you can start using the collar a lot more and that will make it much more advantageous yeah and I think like we think here it's a lot easier to close the guard than go gear right and yeah so so this is very very interesting so for old guys
nogi on the board you would suggest they have wear yes yes I got it yeah almost a whole game in this video is to funnel everything towards half guard so every Escape leads to half guard yeah and then we create situations where we're affected from every kind of half that we just looked at a tight waist variation and we're going to be effective too in situation where he has the underwear and from here we still need to be effective and we look at off-balancing people from positions like there's in creating situations where they say come
back up now you've got the kind of body concept you need to be effective right so regardless of whether we have underhook or alcohol all we need is body contact we've got the majority of the surface area of our body in contact with his and it's advantageous on our part you're going to rather be youngest longer athletes so the whole game is to take crisis situations where you can survive long enough you're not going to get beaten in the first 30 seconds you can hold on slow things down and start to use that wisdom and
patience to work your way patiently back into the half guard regardless of how your opponent is holding you under hook or over hook we have to be effective from there and we've seen this idea that from half guard there's so much body contact between you and your opponent that the whole game slows down and that's where all the wrestletes or people who are less athletic can start to win they use time as a weapon slow things down frustrate people and ultimately turn them over and go into submission holds all the submission holders we look at
are relatively they're very very forgiving in terms of the crew rates none of them require you to be able to go up onto the points of your shoulders and invert and spin underneath people they're things that people who are older or have no athletic pedigree could easily incorporate yeah yeah so Ojo so I'm curious about the submissions from the borrow game okay I can expect the ones from the from the top game which one you will pick for the old guys but from on the bottom game which one can you give an example okay then
in a situation where a guy's here working inside my clothes God a stand the juju guitar me in these kinds of situations will require quite a bit of flexibility to be able to move out on our training partner because he tries to work this kind of it requires me to come up on the points of my shoulders okay from situations where we start off like so it might take quite a bit of flexibility better go into this if he pulls his arm out and we elect to go into a triangle from this position again these
are things that require quite a bit of flexibility okay so things like that were rejected in favor of situations where we could go for example from here the only movement required is a short shallow one out to the side okay someone in their 60s can easily get into a position like this there's no inversion it's just your two knees isometrically tense locking up and going into situations where from here we go on the attack okay lying on your side is not physically challenging at all okay the things we're trying to avoid are those which require
some kind of inversion up onto the points of your shoulders these are more difficult for older or less athletic people but the idea of just getting to an under hook on someone and from here guitar mates this anyone can do at any given moment and it's based on the idea of isometric tension that locks our opponent's head in place between our knees and from here we're ready to go okay so all one selected worth ones with minimum requirements of flexibility great I would expect that maybe Kimura Maybe not so much from bottom position we did
sellers but um uh for example the standard camera from hot dog was covered because really very little is involved once you get the hand behind the back really the onus is on him now to move as he goes into a defensive role we just follow them nothing so that was incorporated because it required no flexibility whatsoever okay but other forms of Kimura say for example he locked his hands defensively where we have to start putting our body around the corner taking people over these do require more flexibility again I don't think they're going to be
appropriate for someone who's had no athletic pedigree or was in their late 50s so some variations would be more left out but those that required no special skills of inversion or some kind of radical body movement those were left in okay and John one personal question here so every very old guy that I train with Isa somewhere later they do this if we're gonna help people call this the the half girlfriend thing here that locks the leg yes yeah so is that what's your thinking about it how do they call her I forgot the name
like when they stretch of the leg you're talking about a scorpion or a scorpion yeah yeah oh what you're thinking about that position for yeah that is a good question um it's a position I used to make use of a lot uh many years ago because it's very good for stopping initial entries into leg locks okay you've got a guy in half that top who likes to backstep into lead logs um or swing his leg around yours I would use it to shut people down from doing that um but the only time I uh see
it as a truly valuable position is when you combine it with a scoop grip so just by itself okay just just yep got holding here it doesn't do a lot of good it's very easy for Brian to just take his foot up to his buttocks weaken the connection and then take his foot inside mine so I can't follow it and then start passing it's also very easy for Brian to take his heel and put it underneath my two heels push up disconnect and then from here straight through foot goes inside and past the side position
okay so just by itself it doesn't do a lot of good against someone who knows what they're doing however if we have our arms underneath his and we lock things up in the inform this position we start elevating our opponent's weight up onto his hands to go and get into this position now it's useful okay there's a whole bunch of leg locks we can enter into from this position there's a whole bunch of useful sweeps um The Sweep from here the sweets from here can be very useful but the finishing to them can be challenging
for older athletes it's from here he's going to be trying to push and walk into you and now you're in a situation where it's his ability to go into you versus your ability to Heist and so for some athletically compromised athletes this could be a tough battle to win okay so um I I would I definitely had taught those in the past in videos but uh I I don't see many 55 year old athletes yeah coming up today putting them down for this music it's their Hip Heist versus The Other Guys ability to score on
them and it's going to be tough for a 55 year old man to win their battle so um I didn't incorporate uh scorpion work in this video no yeah but I'm super happy that you're doing this series because I think that's something that everybody needs especially for Logie because I think like nogi is training training training yes and nobody ever thought how to deal with no gift for older people you know like the big sort of preconception as the Nokia is the young athletic person's game yeah you even do see a generational change in Jujitsu
like most of the new generation in Jutsu they train exclusively no geek and um when you go to like a a local Jiu Jitsu School typically see the older people train in the game they're just kind of a generational thing but it's changing over time and now the game is definitely going towards nogi and um many of the older or less athletic people in the squad like oh man this is going to be tough like I'm the least athletic person in the gym can I keep up with this and so I wanted to create a
training program for people who came from nowhere to make themselves much more competitive in Nokia training yeah no that's amazing yeah so guys John is just starting this year so the nogi viral game is the first part of the series and it's going to be at bgj fanatics.com very soon maybe by the time you're watching this video it's already there so make sure to check that out and thanks so much thank you thank you please help me out to grow my YouTube channel just click subscribe and to watch more videos just click under see more
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