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so if you're watching this video you
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probably already trained Jiu Jitsu and
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maybe you've noticed it's actually not
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the easiest sport to get better at so I
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decided to make a step-by-step guide to
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try to help speed up the process for you
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and make it easier to learn so the first
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thing to understand is Jiu Jitsu of
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course it's a physical sport but it's a
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largely cerebral sport as well if you
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think about it the difference between
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you and someone who's much better than
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you of course there may be physical
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differences maybe someone's in better
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shape but really it's their pattern
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recognition and their ability to make
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good choices at the right moment so if
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you took your current conditioning level
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and you just took the knowledge and
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timing of a world-class competitor and
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you could download it into your head
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like the movie The Matrix you would be
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able to perform really well and win
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matches so the real goal of course is to
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increase your conditioning but it's to
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actually make your body adapt and
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understand when is the best time to make
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a move a lot of people associate getting
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better with just going into the gym and
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getting a lot of hard rounds in but
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really the hard rounds of course they
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help your conditioning they don't
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necessarily help your ability I
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identifying the right times for moves an
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analogy I like to think about is imagine
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if you just had five people and you were
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going to try to make them become very
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high level of Jiu Jitsu and they had no
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access to any form of online content or
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any instruction and they just train
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together every day right how long would
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it be until they accidentally discovered
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the idea of an omo plotter or how long
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would it be until they accidentally
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discover the idea of a matrix or a heel
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hook right so they could train for five
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years killing themselves every single
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day going really hard and never make
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those discoveries so just by watching
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One instructional or learning one detail
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from learning from someone you can say
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five years of effort of developing new
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technique when you understand this you
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understand how important it is to be
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efficient and smart with your training
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to speed up the learning process the
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next principle to understand is that
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really all Jiu Jitsu is is a combination
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of multiple mini positions it's multiple
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different skill sets if you try to
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understand the mass of an entire Jiu
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Jitsu match it's very difficult because
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there's so many different patterns
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happening like you can do a triangle
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choke you can hold Mount you can do a
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matrix you can finish a hill hook and
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all of those things are completely
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different skill sets in fact I would
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argue there's more in common with soccer
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and rugby than there is between doing a
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heel hook and finishing a triangle choke
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so in the beginning when you learn you
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want to focus on learning separate
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positions and as you learn all these
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different positions eventually all a
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normal match is is a collection of
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multiple specific positions so then the
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big question for you becomes what
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positions should you work on first so if
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you don't know what to work on first the
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first step in this process is go into
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the gym and do normal sparring and
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completely turn your brain off a lot of
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people when they go in sparring they try
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to like have a game plan or have
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something on their mind but when you're
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in a tournament or if you're doing like
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a self-defense thing and someone attacks
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you you don't have time to think you
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cannot be in a match trying to plan out
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what you're going to do next so how you
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act when you're in a real sparring match
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and you're just having to fight that's
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what your real jiu jitsu is that's like
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what's your core knowledge is so when
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you don't know where to go in your game
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go into the gym and just do a night of
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normal hard sparring at the end of that
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sparring the most important part it's
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not the sparring but it's your
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reflection after the sparring what you
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need to do is actually analyze in your
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matches where you have problems and
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that's going to be different for each
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person maybe you struggle to get out of
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side control maybe you got a triangle
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choke and you couldn't finish it you
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need to identify these problems now
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realistically there's going to be a lot
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of problems most people have tons of
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they can work on in their game so you
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want to pick the things that are going
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to give you the most bang for your buck
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if you're new this is often end point
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positions like if you can't finish a
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triangle choke or you can't hold Mount
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then even if you get to the position you
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can't control it so you want to start at
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the end positions first once you've
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successfully identified problems that
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you think are worth working on then you
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want to start specific training so say
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the first day you come in and you do
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hard normal rounds you identify two or
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three positions you have problem for an
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example we could use finishing a
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triangle choke and escaping side control
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now you want to get with a partner and
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start in that position and Spar from
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there if you get out of side control
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stop if they hold you inside control and
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tap you or progressed amount stop reset
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go back this makes you focus on the
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small position that is way easier to
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break down than the Jiu Jitsu as a whole
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of course even working on this it's
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going to be really difficult there's
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going to be positions you just don't
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know what to do and this leads to the
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next thing which is you need to be using
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instructionals and you need to be using
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competition footage to help speed up the
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process like the analogy I used before
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how long would it take people to
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discover the omo Plata if they weren't
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already taught it it's going to take you
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a long time to solve some of these
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problems so your your way of improving
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way faster than other people will be
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about your ability to borrow the latter
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from what those before you have done to
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speed up the process so when you
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identify a position that you're
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struggling in get a lot of video on that
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problem right and that can be both
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competition footage or instructional to
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give you ideas of what you need to be
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doing in the position now you need to
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balance the feedback between specific
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sparring in the position and watching
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the instructional if someone in an
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instructional shows a side controlscape
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that's great but if you specific Spar in
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the position and your opponent is
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holding you slightly different than what
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the person in the instructional is
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showing then what they showed is not
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going to work so you need the real
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feedback of starting in the position and
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identifying the problems of where their
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hands are what they're doing and then
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seeking out answers for those problems
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via it in the instructional or
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competition footage often in
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instructionals the person may not cover
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the problem you have and that's often
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where instructionals can be great or
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asking a coach next another major thing
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is drop the idea of having a game a lot
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of people imagine their Jiu Jitsu game
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like it's like something something
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they're engineering like a game they're
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designed finding it all has to fit
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together but that's not really a good
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way to look at it because whatever your
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skill level is you want to be
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significantly higher than that and with
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your current level you can't really make
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good decisions about what your game
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should look like when you're more
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advanced so an example would be imagine
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if a white belt came in and you asked
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them what do you want your game to look
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like 10 years from now they can't have
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an educated decision on that they don't
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know how positions work they don't even
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know what all guards there are or what
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All Passes they are right so instead you
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focus on developing general knowledge
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and as you have more general knowledge
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you'll be able to combine things in ways
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that make sense but whatever your
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current level is you won't be able to
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know what you can do until you have that
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future knowledge so like I said before
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the goal is to do regular sparring
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identify problem positions work on them
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additionally if you see positions that
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you know other people are really
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successful with even if it's not a
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problem in your game but you think it's
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a worthwhile skill to develop then focus
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on that and specific training but the
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main thing is that you're are developing
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specific training ability in these
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positions once you learn enough of them
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eventually all regular match is is a
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collection of all of those positions if
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you take someone brand new and you send
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them into normal sparring it's too
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complex if you play chess even if you
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have the world's best super computer the
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most powerful AI engine in the world
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cannot tell you what the best first move
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in chess would be I would argue Jiu
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Jitsu is even more complicated than
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chess because at least chess you can
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repeat the positions in Jiu Jitsu every
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opponent is different they have
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different strength levels different
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flexibility levels their ghee can be cut
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different they can respond differently
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there's so many different variables so
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you cannot always calculate it so it
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helps so much to break things down into
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small positions that you can break down
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and eventually all of it will come
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together finally after you've worked
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these positions and you've evolved in
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them in your specific training go back
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to regular training and do hard normal
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rounds and turn your brain off this is a
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very important concept A lot of people
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they get so analytical and that's good
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that's what makes you technical but you
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cannot do that during normal sparring in
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normal sparring you need to turn your
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brain off and trust that whatever your
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body gives you at that moment is the
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best thing you could do because then
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you'll react fast if you freeze you
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won't act fast enough for the moves to
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work an analogy I like to use it's like
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if you try to jump the technique of
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jumping makes sense you go you bend your
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legs you exert Force you go in the air
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but if you do it too slow even if you do
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the technique correct you won't go in
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the air because it requires a certain
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amount of force to be able to jump in
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the air and technique is the same way if
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there's a position and you make the
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right choice of technique but you do it
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too slow it still won't work so it's
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more important that during a regular
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round you move fast and hard and trust
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that what your brain gave you in that
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moment is the best thing you could have
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done of course you'll make bad decisions
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and as you identify those things then
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when you go into specific training later
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or the next day the that's the time to
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analyze what you're doing and try to
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reprogram your brain so you want that
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cycle of going into normal rolling
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turning your brain off getting real live
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feedback on what your responses are and
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then using specific training to
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reprogram the muscle memory in different
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positions and you continue that Loop
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eventually you'll find that all the
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normal rolls turn into is a combination
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of the specific training and if you do
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that long enough you'll have a good idea
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of what you're doing all the time all
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right guys I hope you enjoyed this video
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