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Originally Posted by Anthony
Good times. Dave ran a pressure cooker on me that night. Made me defend everything, kept me moving. I reached lactic acid threshold twice, threw up twice. Nothing sucked more than hearing Dave giggle at me while I threw up. Everywhere I went, Dave was waiting with a submission, or just crush me on my back. Anyone who's never trained or sparred against a BJJ Blackbelt has zero idea what I'm talking about. It's the most humbling experience ever. I've also trained with Todd Nathanson at their Gym, the man is walking encyclopedia of Jiu Jitsu. His boys are top notch coaches and competitors. If you are in the Chatsworth area, worth a visit. Let's just say we had a 10th P Blackbelt come in once and had trouble tapping one of our purples.
One on one, BJJ is the king of fighting arts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrGjeyxYJjA
After 7 years as a bluebelt, I'm now a purple. Blackbelt seems reachable now. |
That was fun. Me telling you I'm a Black Belt is different than me showing you. lol
Training with lower belts for me is a different game plan. Coming after you with attacks and submissions isn't really cool. Especially because I'm Black and you were blue at the time. A very good Blue belt I might add.
What I do is let you do anything and everything you like, let you move, escape, throw fake attacks with no finishes and make it where nothing you do works. Then after a few minutes you start to feel that nothing works and you will start questioning if you actually know anything. (no disrespect)
Sounds mean, but what I'm actually doing is figuring out what you know and don't know, so when it comes time to teach and help you, I know what it is we can work on. Gageing you level. Tapping you over and over does nothing for both of us. Drooped my ego and Got tapping people out of my system when I was a purple belt. lol
Anthony is good and way knows his shit when it comes to BJJ. Knows its history, origins, who is who and knows all of the moves.
For me, it was everyday 2 times a day, payed my bills, competed for 15 years. Now its been 24 years in; Its more fun and games for me now, than being the very best at it.
Just Dave