Have you ever experienced the power of a mentor in your life? Most of us have I’m sure, but that’s the subject of today’s video question. It comes from a guy who is in his late 30s early 40s and is wanting to help out one of the younger guys in the gym in a sort of mentor role.

He says that recently he’s noticed a teenage student who seems to be struggling with some things emotionally. As human to another human we can often tell if someone is “going though it” and he sees this young man is.

His question is about how he might extend a helping hand to the young guy. Share some wisdom with him and hopefully help him with whatever he’s having a tough time with.

In this video I share a few stories about how others have touch me through acts of mentorship and/or kindness and how I continue those acts on in my own way as an adult.

If you have the drive to help others I hope this gives you some help in preventing overthinking from helping make a difference in others.

Thanks for watching.
-Chewy

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Black-Belt/Adult/Male/Middle – Eliminator

In today’s no gi BJJ rolling video you’ll see me hunting Kimura catches and Back Takes while my student Justin (recent Brown Belt Masters 2019 No Gi Worlds Champ) is hunting guillotines.

When you watch the video I hope you enjoy the rolls themselves. But more importantly for your own training I hope you take the idea of focus to your own training.

When we are rolling there is a deliberate purpose to the BJJ training. We have specific techniques we’d like to aim for. Granted we don’t always hit them, it’s our main focus.

This is something you should be doing in your Brazilian Jiu-jitsu training all the time. This is how you improve the techniques and begin to develop styles and systems. You test the technique out, make mistakes, adjust and then re-test.

So again I hope you enjoyed the No Gi Brazilian Jiujitsu rolling session and maybe got something for your own training.

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-Chewy

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Black-Belt/Adult/Male/Light-Feather – Eliminator

Black-belt/Adult/Male/Feather – Eliminator

Black-Belt/Adult/Male/Medium-Heavy – Semi-Final

Black-Belt/Master 1

In today’s video I address a question from someone who’s just beginning Brazilian Jiu-jitsu and they’re curious about the high drop out rate with BJJ White Belts. He said he saw a video that said 90% of White Belts never make it to Blue Belt and he’s wondering why that is.

Additionally he says that he has been training for 1 week and realizes BJJ isn’t for him but that he will finish up his 3 month membership and then be done with it.

During the video I share a weird analogy that I used with my students about White Belts being like baby sea turtles. I know that’s weird but stick with me here. A baby sea turtle hatches and immediately it moves towards the blue ocean. During this dash into the water it lacks the ability to move well and is bombarded with obstacles (mainly birds getting lunch). The turtle has one choice, just keep going forward.

A brand new BJJ White Belt lacks the ability to move well on the mat and is moving towards the Blue Belt. Like the turtle the White Belt has only one option to improve, keeping going forward, more specifically just show up.

Here’s the national geographic video with the sea turtles I was talking about: https://youtu.be/Ipf0fehg5os

I also talk about the attitude of the person asking the question.

Hopefully this video is useful to you or at least maybe you’ll find the turtle analogy interesting.

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-Chewy
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In today’s video I show narrated roll with one of my White Belts during one of my no gi Brazilian Jiu-jitsu classes. I did this video in response to some messages I’ve received about doing a narrated roll and also about how I “take it easy” on some of my White Belts during rolling. This video will give you an example of how I like to roll with many of my less experienced training partners.

In the video you’ll see me exchanging movement with John. While I do roll really hard sometimes and give no space, I find that this type of rolling has a lot of benefits.

1. It allows me a chance to practice moves, techniques and ideas in live situations during BJJ training without the threat of being destroyed if I make a mistake.
2. It allows my partner with less experience to engage and try their own techniques out.
3. By focusing on constantly moving I improve my scrambling ability and even my cardio for rolling.
4. Another side benefit is that from a coaching stand point I get to feel what my students are up to and what could be useful to teach them in the future.

Over the years it’s valuable to learn how to shift your mindset and physical aggression into different gears. If you’ve watch my rolls in competition then you know I can “turn it on” when needed. But I don’t need to access that level of aggression everyday.

I hope that whether you’re new or more experienced that this video is useful to you and your training.

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-Chewy
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