Street fighter quit 15 minutes into 1st BJJ class
Let me tell you a story about this one time a street fighter came in for one of our gi classes.
I asked him, “Have you ever trained before?”
The guy looked around side to side and said, “Well. . . not Jiu-jitsu.”
I could tell he wanted to say something more. So I asked, “Have you trained something else?”
The man in front of me looked down at his left hand then his right (which were balled up into two fists covered in poorly done tattoos). His eyes raised back up making direct contact with mine and his fists moved up to the middle of his chest and he told me,
“I’ve trained in the street with these hands.”
Now I’m a professional and so when he said this. I kept a big ole smile on my face and remained helpful.
But deep down. . . I was a mixture of amused and annoyed.
Anyways, I gave him a spare gi and paired him with one of my advanced guys to help him. I thought maybe I could convert him over to training instead of street fighting.
During the class we worked on some grip fighting and takedowns.
As I tell my guys. Control the grips and you control everything. So it’s a super important aspect of grappling.
In case you’re curious the grip fighting techniques I show in my classes are the same ones I show in my Get a Grip video series. If you want to get your grappling grippers on proven ways to break and control grips then press the link below.
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Back to the story!
My conversion hopes were dashed after about 15 minutes into class when I look over to see him sitting on the bench taking off the spare gi and putting his shoes on.
When I asked if he was leaving he said, “Yeah, I’m not good at all this Gi fighting stuff. I need more skin on skin contact.”
That’s literally verbatim. Skin on skin contact. I’m not sure if he was coming on to me or if it was more of a desire to roll with his shirt off like MMA fighters do in their fights.
But either way, he left, and we all had a little chuckle from it. And hopefully the story made you crack a grin as well this morning.
Have an awesome weekend. Talk you Monday.
-Chewy
