The Best & Worst Advice I Ever Received in Jiu Jitsu
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Bernardo Faria explains the Best and Worst advice he ever received in Jiu Jitsu in this video.
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Bernardo Faria is a 5x World Champion. Bernardo started training Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in Juiz de Fora - MG, Brazil at the age of 14 in 2001. After receiving the Black Belt from his first instructor Ricardo Marques in 2008, He moved to Sao Paulo to join BJJ legend Fabio Gurgel and his Alliance team. After many years of training and winning many major titles, Bernardo moved to NYC in 2013 to train and teach at Marcelo Garcia Academy. In 2015 Bernardo achieved his dream of winning the IBJJF World Championship Open class title and his division, doing the double Gold and becoming the 1st in the IBJJF Ranking and also chosen as the best athlete of 2015.
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I'm a 47 year old purple belt that rolls with 16 year old blue belts, they're faster and stronger than me, way more cardio. No way am I gonna tell someone not to use strength or speed. Shoot, I don't tell anyone anything when I roll come to think of it, I always believe in "Iron sharpens Iron".
I’m a 41 year old blue belt. Never lift weights, bjj is my only exercise. We should be outclassing the strength of those whippersnappers with our old man muscle.
I'm 60, 2 stripe blue. I'm at the point where I have to balance going hard, while being careful at the same time. I usually do 5-5min rounds 4 days a week and I mix them with flo-roll to going hard depending on how I feel and who it is. For me now, it's about not getting a serious injury. I've had plenty of pulls, black eyes, etc., but nothing that took me out for 6 months-YET! And, i'm OK with occasionally getting beat by lower belts that are younger, faster, stronger smarter. I'm just happy to be able to do it. You know how it is...
@@tributetobobo I do know and I love to hear it from others 🤙 at a comp last year I had five in my masters 2 bracket for nogi. For gi in the afternoon there was supposed to be the same five but three split. Other guy I went against said us older guys have to stick together. Couldn’t agree more
Them: "You're gripping too hard..." Me: "I'm a rock climber, this is like 20% of my grip."
I get that all the time! I am told my grips actually hurt! hahahaha! I say...........well, then break them!
I am 50 and a ex climber, I often get told that my grip strength is crazy. 😁
If you were one of my students I'd give you one week mandatory of sparring while holding a tennis ball in each hand just for a little perspective lol. By the end of the week you would have figured out how to do most of your favorite moves without grips and end up hitting a new level once you reintroduce the gripping. You'd be surprised how much good can come of that kind of training....you get a boxer to spar with the heel of his back foot against a wall for a week or two and THEN give him the ability to move backwards again and the guy hits a new skill level. Give it a try!
I haul and cut quarters of beef off the rails. I've torn several Gis (never on purpose) and I've got monster grips because everything I do has a handle and therefore a grip challenge on it (knives, cleavers, hooks, etc.). But you know what - I'm a super heavywieght, so I'm not running around chasing the smaller and faster kids in the gym. I need to slow them down, and they in turn need to learn how to break grips or deal with them. Diversity in training partners is a beautiful thing.
kkkkk.....same here. (Ex climber 48 years )
"If you're not getting tired, then you're good to go." That's a really good metric and I've never heard anyone say it. After all, jiu jitsu is a strength multiplier but if you multiply it with zero strength, you still get zero lol.
Exactly this! Roll with a strength you can control!
A guy your size using proper technique should feel heavy and strong. I'm relatively older and smaller, 62yr old 130lb blue belt, but I can feel the difference between a new large white belt trying to muscle me around, and a more experience upper belt using proper technique and feeling strong and heavy. I always prefer training with more experienced partners.
Said perfectly ! Find that middle ground
Ha! Your instructor story made me laugh. Too funny and real talk at same time.
This is one of these topics has a lot of nuance that when I’m rolling with guys much larger than me with poor technique I can tell they are trying to bridge the gap with strength. They are performing the moves poorly and trying to force them to work with strength. Getting stuck in a head an arm choke that’s loose but they try to squeeze you to death. Other is those guys that just bear hug your torso or head and hold on for dear life. Other than that it’s more intensity matching. Some new white belts will come at you 80-100% only wanting to win and I’m trying to work a game plan and try some new things at 50-70%. I tell them to slow down think a bit as it’s sparring, we are learning together. Make it a chess match.
Using strength is not my cup of tea but I would never complain about others using strength. Everything others do is a gift, a way to improve ourselves.
"Conditioning is your best hold"- Karl Gotch
thank you for good advice
The idea of not using your attributes is most important for a life long practitioner. Eventually, all of your strength, flexibility, etc will be gone and you better have developed extremely good technique by then or you'll be a black belt trying to use attributes that aren't there anymore and get tapped by young athletic white/blue belts. Relying on your attributes is what causes black bets to quit later on down the road when they get into a weird mental space when their ego gets hurt. I like Pedro Sauer's philosophy on this: train 80% of the time from the very beginning as though you ARE an old man with no physical attributes because you will be one day. Nothing wrong with exercise or hard sparring rounds of course but if one of your main goals is to stay on the mats till you die like Helio, then I think putting natural attributes to the side sooner rather than later is for the best. I love your videos man, you have a super infectious happy personality, I'm sure the culture on your mats is phenomenal.
Strength applied over time is better than strength alone.
Ricardo Marques...legendary instructor that flies under the radar!
There’s a time and place for everything: speed, strength, explosiveness, etc. seems like it would be self correcting if anyone is using too much of one thing or another with either burn out or injury
I hear this a lot in videos. As a new white belt I'm not sure if this is referring to cardio tired or tired muscles. As an out of shape 40 year old the warm ups, drilling, and rolling all wear me out cardio wise. Muscle wise unless we do an insane "warm up" abs and hips are the only thing getting fatigued.
Preach brother.
I wish I had heard this earlier. I used to get those complaints all the time till it messed up my ability to use my strength even against heavier classmates and higher belts.
I started two months ago, and everyone tells me how strong I am, and my professor is kind of a not very strong guy, he always goes on about using technique over strength. I usually only use about 50-75% strength, and people say that I am super strong. I think strength is an excuse.
I am in my later 40's and I have no problem with people using strength with "COMMON SENSE" as alluded to by Professor Faria. I have an issue with much bigger guys using it on smaller guys like me when things don't go their way. I am roughly 5"6, 160 lbs. I heard a very respected BJJ professor in my area basically say if you are a solid 20 to 40 pounds bigger than your partner who is of similar experience you should be able to go sub maximal intensity and still at least hold your own because if you can't you basically suck. I have a Judo background but recently have switched to BJJ primarily due to not wanting or able to take high impact throws. My ground game is rather undeveloped but I do have a decent base and gripping. I recall some earlier sporadic experience in my younger days in bjj because when they couldn't submit or sweep me, some of the bigger blue and purple belts go ape shit. I specifically remember a purple belt going crazy hard and trying to leg lock me when I am just a white belt there to try a class. When I was more involved with Judo and helped teach Judo, I would never allow such equivalent behavior to less experienced players. When I was teaching Judo, I encouraged the stronger Judokas to work on their lesser techniques against weaker players and give them the throw if the entry was good nor grind them down too much during grip fighting. In bjj I mainly try to flow roll and if I get caught I will tap like a champ but it seems there are quite a few blue and purple belts who treat the roll as if it is the finals of the ADCC. The other Judo instructors and I would call Judokas who try to murder everyone on every randori session "Everyday Olympians". I don't care if a guy similar in size to me uses their strength but it's the bigger guys who try to squish a beginners like me when things don't go their way. It seems generally that brown belts and above typically have less ego. By the way the real good ones seem to use timing to make me feel like a helpless child.
Tell Casio Silva who is #1 in the world right now for his division not to use his strength! Yea, right! The dude is a tank and a great guy all around! You have to be strong to excel in this and any sport. You never hear anyone say that to a gymnast, field and track athlete. The "stop using strength" is an excuse for weaker guys who cannot handle stronger opponents. Even the smaller guys are amazing strong for their size and use every single muscle group in their bodies and at the right time.
I think that the "don't use your strength" thing has been twisted around into something it was never supposed to be. If you take a Casio Silva and another grappler who with the technique only approach and have them do a grappling match today and another one on their 75th birthday, I'd put my money on technique at the older age because neither of them have any strength and only one of them has a lifetime of experience training without strength.
@@mattmarkey7949 I cannot relate to your comparison at all in this circumstance...........and I can tell you Cassio has perfected his technique and his physical strength is secondary.
@@hubriswonk I've never seen him but I don't doubt it at all, I'm sure his technique is fantastic too. The comments section seems one sided so far so I was just throwing my thoughts out there. If two identical people with the same training partners etc spar as old men, I think the one focused on finesse the whole time will destroy the one who focused on winning every round as a young guy, even if he had to rely on his attributes to earn all those taps throughout the years. That's all, no disrespect to Mr Silva or anything like that!
@@mattmarkey7949 I see your point now.....Props to any older person that can get on the mat and train. Thanks to TRT I have been seeing more and more Master 6 and 7 fights that are very competitive. I am a Master 5 myself and hope to be as active in the coming years! I better start focusing more on my technique! hahahaha!
I never complain about the way someone rolls. I hope someone uses all their strength so I can learn how to overcome it. If someone is really that bad to roll with, I just don’t roll with them, and keep my complaints to myself.
The section from 1:37 to 2:24 should be a KZhead short!
saying don't use your strength is like asking someone don't use your speed or don't use your flexibility..haha
Ego is such a fragile thing. A world class top 16 year old can beat me handily. I'd be complementing them not trying to drag them down to my level. I mean there is an element of truth to not using too much strength. But it's all to do with being inefficient or lacking control. Efficiently using more strength than your opponent is called good jiu-jitsu, keep at it.
If I can be so bold as to add: learning to do the technique with strength and speed lets you do it slower and with less force when things are easier to control. Trying to do things with just the perfect technique doesn't necessarily translate the other way - and leads to jiu jitsu becoming a bullshido art.
I think the idea of strength being a negative is that it takes away from focusing on proper technique. If you have both, then by all means, use strength.
This bothers me so much that I almost quit JJ. I'm a 46 YO blue belt, 6'2" 240 lbs, very athletic and working a very physically demanding job. I don't know why anyone would advise anyone not to use their natural build, body type, size, skills, attributes, etc. I'm not trying to crush or hurt anybody, but guess what - I'm also not outrunning the 20 year olds because I don't have their speed, their mobility, their cardio, or their flexibility. I don't invert much because it's a lot of weight on my neck. Long legs are great for triangles but also really hard to hide in mount. Long arms get caught in the occasional armbar. Bigger bodies leave bigger gaps that are easier to exploit. There are moves that will work on bigger people and those that won't - I'm not doing anyone any favors as a training partner by acting or pretending, because they can get hurt or worse in a real life situation. On the contrary - use YOUR attributes; speed, agility, flexiblity, etc. to get whatever advantage you can. Trying to force me to play like a smaller guy is every bit as absurd as trying to make the little guy bench press me. Thank you Bernardio for these thoughtful posts!
I’ve competed over a dozen times in the last year. It seems to me strength & cardio is what wins competitions. We are mostly equal in technique, so it’s a wash.
Santa brought a small iPhone for my wife and a huge Honor for me
Now this is a real 230
There are no weight classes in street fights lol ya'll think demetrious johnson complained when he submitted the 250lb guy??
6’3 230 lbs that’s you’re going to have a really bad day if you mess with me levels
No “huge honor to me” on this video?
Jiu jitsu is one of the easiest things I’ve ever done. 😂
Why u bald
He donates his hair, be respectful
he donates his hair to charity to help children in Singapore.