The other day I was rolling with one of my Purple Belts and after the roll he came up and asked:

I just want to know how you stay so good at Jiu-Jitsu, but you don’t train that much?

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He references the fact that I only train, roll live, about 3 to 4 days a week depending on various factors.

Sometimes it’s less.

He also mentioned how I’ve been training since 2003 and is curious why I’m not another broken Jiu-Jitsu Black Belt?

Today, I’ll share a few ideas to help you with longevity and sustainability that worked for me in my BJJ journey.

Hopefully you found these ideas helpful.

Thanks for watching.

– Chewy
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Today we’ve got a question from a Jiu-Jitsu Coach (Assistant Coach) who recently had a brand-new White Belt come into class to try out BJJ. Here’s the kicker though…

The new student is 71 years old!

This guy has minimal mobility with his body and has bad knees that soon need replacement, so the Assistant Coach spent a good amount of time trying to analyze what the older gentleman could and could not do.

During the training, he has the older gentleman doing solo movements. After the class, he talked to other coaches and asked what they thought he should do to help.

They suggested that he help the older student find a specialist and should stop working with him.

But the older guy continues to come in and wants to train, and so the Assistant coach wants to take on the challenge of an advanced-age student.

He wonders if I have any advice for this particular situation.

Here’s what I think…

– Chewy

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Today’s video came about while look at my questions from Instagram.

The question comes from a young guy, and the subject is training with his coach, and it was obvious that he had this outdated mindset, which I had when I was younger, which will inevitably hinder you Jiu-Jitsu.

In the video I’ll give a couple of analogies to help everyone understand how ridiculous this mindset can be, and how BJJ is one of the few sports where this is even a thought.

Specifically, I’ll talk about the student/athlete & coach relationship at the highest level in sports like Basketball and Football, where you’ll never run into the conflict that my messenger has.

When it comes to BJJ, a lot of times, there are these unrealistic expectations of what a coach should be, especially in relation to that coach training with his/her younger student/athletes.

This is just unrealistic.

To dive deeper into this, many of us, especially when we are younger, have this mindset that, if while rolling “I can beat up on my older coach”, then “I have nothing to learn” from them in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.

This outdated mode of thinking doesn’t account for a lot of nuanced things, especially in relation to the coaches age, health, goals, etc.

Hopefully, if you are young and have fallen into this “coach must be a savage” trap, then you have a bit more perspective.

Remember, winning a roll isn’t everything. There’s so much more knowledge to be gained when you realize that. Keep learning and take what you can from your coaches as long as you can.

– Chewy
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Today we have a question from Victor, who has an issue that all of us are going to, or already have, experienced at some point in our BJJ Journeys.

He is 56 years old, a blue belt, started training Jiu-Jitsu when he was 48 years old, and is a relatively small grappler.

Victor says he has no athletic background and has struggled with certain handicaps in the past. He also says when he’s training, he feels a bit clumsy, and he really struggles to find any success during his rolls.

He says that he was recently rolling with one of the younger upper belts and became very discouraged. When his coach saw this, he said to Victory that he should “Just have fun”.

This apparently triggered something in Victor, and he send this question:

What do you do when Jiu-Jitsu is no longer fun for you, and you know you’re not going to get better?

Well, in this video I try to dive deep into that question and chew on a few ideas surround this issue that many people in the Grappling community run into at some point or another.

Hopefully if you’ve found yourself in a rut like Victor, then the ideas in this video are helpful to you.

– Chewy
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Tripod guard passing was inspired by Demian Maia passeing guard in MMA. It’s a highly efficient and stable guard pass suitable for older grapplers in both gi and no gi. https://www.grapplearts.com/oldguard for more info about how to dominate and smash younger grapplers on the mat without throwing your back out, losing your breath, or tearing a hamstring.