In our club the head instructors for our association are Saulo and Xande Ribeiro. Both gentlemen come to Toronto quite often to impart knowledge and connect with students. We are taught daily by a Jorge Britto, an amazing Black Belt.
This week Xande Ribeiro, Mundial World Champion, is visiting the club for grading. Everyone is trying to impress Xande with their ability to submit.
This is a mistake.
We should be trying to impress Xande with our ability to persevere and our ability to adapt. I rolled with a guy yesterday and his main attribute was his ability to use his strength on moves that require very little strength. If you add strength to a movethat is levereage based you are not doing jiu jitsu you are now wrestling.
The end result was this guy was still submitted by a head and arm choke and when he tapped this is what he said. ” I only tapped because I am really tired”. To all the people that I roll with in the future; when I tapped it is because I am about to pass out or because I see no way out of the submission.
2 Comments
July 15, 2008 at 10:08 pm
must be the evening class
August 3, 2008 at 4:47 pm
Thanks for the post