This valuable lesson stuck with me from White – Black Belt

Back when I was a White Belt 17 years ago. . .

A time when we watched vhs tapes and walked 23 miles in the snow barefoot uphill just to get to BJJ practice.

I read an interview that deeply affected the way I practiced. . .

It was with Dean Lister who at the time was an American killing it in the ADCC. And in the interview he said something to the effect that he trained both gi and no gi but that he didn’t focus on many techniques that couldn’t be adapted from one to the other.

And that lesson stuck with me to this day.

Because I love both and I don’t want to be limited to one form of grappling over the other. And this is the reason why I can win a gi competition on Saturday and then win the no gi competition on Sunday.

I’m not limited to one or the other.

And all of the big names in grappling that I study closely are the same. They are able to put on the pajamas or spandex and win.

In contrast I have friends and have watched competitor’s who game falls apart if they’re put into a gi or have to take it off. They became too reliant on one type of BJJ.

Moral of the story, don’t ever become to reliant on only 1 type of BJJ.

That said some of the grips in the kimono can be tough to deal with if you don’t know how they work.

To give you a little boost to your understanding of grips I’ve prepared a sweet bonus for you.

From March 23, 2020 until April 3, 2020 if you invest into any of the courses on www.Chewjitsu.net/products (Video Courses & Products Tab) I’ll gift you my Get a Grip series which is all about dominating that grip fighting battle. I even show some tricky options to kill the posture-killing cross collar grip.

In addition I’m including a special set of videos from a Florida seminar where I taught 1 half gi and 1 half no gi techniques. If you study it closely this could be instructive to your understanding of adjustments in and no gi.

To claim the bonus, just grab whichever course gets your attention the most and then send an email to “support@chewjitsu.net” and we’ll hook you up.

Talk to you next time.
-Chewy