Earlier this quarter I went to the intro course put on by my college’s BJJ club. When the class was getting started, I was surprised to see that not many people were stretching out. I ended up training with a friend’s roommate that I ran into by chance. He had no martial arts experience whatsoever and was pretty out-of-shape. I had some wrestling training and a couple inches on him, so it wasn’t very challenging. Fifty minutes after working on the basic guard pass we started rolling. The instructor let us all know that the last half-hour of class was reserved for rolling and there were a few additional rules (no leg locks, neck cranks, etc.)
I stepped onto the mat with a guy who had about a year behind him. He kept the dominant position most of the time, but I don’t remember being submitted. At one point, we stopped rolling so he could help me work on the guard pass. I ended up with a mat burn on my left elbow and sore quads for the rest of the weekend (mental note: invest in under-armor).
I want to go back. The instructors hold a few informal rolling sessions per week and it’s one of the more popular MA clubs on campus. This quarter didn’t complement my schedule, but I’m roaring to get started next year.
Recently got a rubdown from my seniors in Wushu. They told me my back was really healthy, except for just under my shoulders, which were knotted to hell and back (somewhere around the teres major/minor & latissimus dorsi). They kneaded out what they could and said I could get more shoulder rotation by rubbing it out over the next few weeks.
I’ll probably ask a couple track & field buddies of mine to help, but is there anything I can do on my own?
This post was previously in the PT forum as it’s own thread. Between the title and the language used, I deemed this a troll thread. Not the bold text below.
[QUOTE=RumPIrate;2550305]Recently got a rubdown from my seniors in Wushu. They told me my back was really healthy, except for just under my shoulders, which were knotted to hell and back (somewhere around the teres major/minor & latissimus dorsi). They kneaded out what they could and said I could get more shoulder rotation by rubbing it out over the next few weeks.
I’ll probably ask a couple track & field buddies of mine to help, but is there anything I can do on my own?[/QUOTE]
Perhaps I’m wrong.
My apologies. I had thought “How do you treat new students?” would have been an exception, seeing how it directly related to newbie experience in BJJ gyms.
Rubdown/rubbing it out comment was a semi-juvenile joke in a serious post. “Recently I got a back inspection and massage from my seniors in Wushu”. I don’t really have an synonym for the ‘rubbing it out’ comment though…
[QUOTE=RumPIrate;2550314]My apologies. I had thought “How do you treat new students?” would have been an exception, seeing how it directly related to newbie experience in BJJ gyms.
Rubdown/rubbing it out comment was a semi-juvenile joke in a serious post. “Recently I got a back inspection and massage from my seniors in Wushu”. I don’t really have an synonym for the ‘rubbing it out’ comment though…[/QUOTE]
How about, “Breaking down the knotted tissue”? I can probably come up with half a dozen others.
The Technical forums are moderated for on topic threads and posts. So in the Advanced Grappling forum thread a beginner’s impression of the way he was treated or an instructor’s viewpoint how new students should be treated is valid. Let’s look at your middle paragraph:
I stepped onto the mat with a guy who had about a year behind him. He kept the dominant position most of the time, but I don’t remember being submitted. At one point, we stopped rolling so he could help me work on the guard pass. I ended up with a mat burn on my left elbow and sore quads for the rest of the weekend (mental note: invest in under-armor).
At no point in your post do you describe your impressions of the class as a new join. In fact based on your description, I’m unsure if this was your first class there or one of many.
You didn’t get subbed, you got some help with a guard pass (probably the single useful indicator that this is a decent place to train besides the instructor’s list of rules) and you lack mat toughness. Good to know, but not useful to an experienced grappler.
The PT thread thing seems to be merely a poor choice of words. I recommend a foam roller.
[QUOTE=jnp;2550317]At no point in your post do you describe your impressions of the class as a new join. In fact based on your description, I’m unsure if this was your first class there or one of many.[/QUOTE]
I thought among the questions posed by the OP’s video were:
“Would you come back?” (“I want to go back”)
“Introduction to class?” (Haphazard, bumped into friend of a friend and did tech with him)
“How did rolling go” (“After fifty minutes…”, additional rules & experienced rolling partner)
“The point I’m getting at is: Don’t overwhelm the new people” (Rolling partner takes time to demonstrate guard pass)
“How [you] liked the class” (If this is the impression of the class point you raise, I did side-step it. I meant to say that the extra rolling time was a plus, but that the lack of a coordinated warm-up surprised me. This is splattered between the first and third paragraphs without much context.)
All this happened over the course of a single class. I probably minced my words along the way, but I felt everything made sense in the context of the posted video.