#52 Solo Episode: Top 3 Lessons From Josh's First 100 Jiu Jitsu Classes

10/15/23 • 31 min

This episode is a little different. Josh does a solo episode and shares his top three lessons from his first 100 jiu jitsu classes! The lessons are: to relax, clarify your intentions, and pave your own way. He concludes with one actionable piece of advice to incorporate these lessons. Hope you enjoy the solocast!

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#51 Check In: Josh Joined a New Gym, Jake's Wrist Injury, Ecological Approach, Seminars, and Cold Plunging

In this episode, we talk about a bunch of topics! Josh moved up north in San Diego and decided to join Legion American Jiu Jitsu. We talk about the class structure there, his first impressions, and more. Jake tells us his opinion of seminars, the story of his recent wrist injury from rolling, lessons from the high-tripod type of passing, our experiences with cold plunging and more. We also talk about the ecological approach and evolutions in how Jake's been utilizing this approach in his teaching. Hope you enjoy!

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#53 I'm Getting Stuck in Knee Shield Half Guard, How do I Progress?

Lately, Josh has been getting stuck in Knee Shield Half Guard so today we talk about how to progress your position. We cover the principle of connecting to the opponents upper body, different tactics for doing so, the dilemma of attaching to the near vs far arm, how to prevent the underhook and other attacking topics. Hope you enjoy!
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1-800-BJJ-HELP - #52 Solo Episode: Top 3 Lessons From Josh's First 100 Jiu Jitsu Classes

Transcript

Speaker 100:00:10.650

Welcome to the 1800 BJJ Help podcast . This episode is a little bit different . I ,

Speaker 100:00:18.836

as you noticed , am here solo without Jake , so it's a different episode . I just wanted to share my top three lessons from my first 100 classes of Jujutsu . It's been a little over a year that I've started consistently training Well , kind of on and