JEKIPEDIA - a glance into my world

In the Bali seminar in August, the great Royler Gracie demonstrated a “miracle” escape from the triangle choke.

He tapped.

The message was clear: injuries aren’t worth it – and that goes for everyone.

We want BJJ to be a positive force in the world. Take the advice of the Jedi Master’s Jedi Master, Yoda. Don’t let the Dark Side of the Force win.

These points will help

Check your ego at the door
Take care of your training partners
Don’t crank submissions and give your opponent a chance to tap
Tap early
Take extra care when training with newbies, women (if you’re a man), or people much lighter than you.
For women, newbies, or both, choose your training partners carefully
Dangerous moves to be careful with in training.

BOTTOM LINE: Check your ego at the door.

“Ego is the BJJ demon,” says our very own Jedi Master Niko Han. It’s something we all struggle with, all of the time, at every stage of BJJ, on and off the mat.
Ego can slow down learning, make us bad training partners, and most of all, highly potential to be downright dangerous.
Ego is what makes someone crank a submission.
Ego is what stops someone from tapping when they should.
Ego is what makes you slam your training partner
Please note, the ego does not mean you’re arrogant or sombong. It can just mean you’re afraid of losing, have to “win” every roll (even though it’s not a competition), especially with those you perceive to be less skillful or physically weaker. The ego is also what stops you from rolling with certain people for fear of losing.
So please, as far as you can, leave your ego at the door during training.

Point no. 1: Take care of your training partners
We are here, coming together for a common goal: to get better TOGETHER AS A TEAM.

As a team, it matters a lot less whether we win or lose during training sessions. What matters is to improve ourselves, physically and mentally. Take the opportunity to practice different moves that you’re not too comfortable with, to practice with different body types, people with different strategies, and different skill levels.
As a team, we are expected to throw away our egos and help each other. For instance, the more experienced students letting the least experienced try some of the moves just being taught (and try different defenses and escapes), giving them chance to practice their defense and escapes, and guide them on when to tap.
In relation to injury to training partner or yourselves, think of the following consequences:
a. Injuring a training partner means you will have less people to train with, as people will be reluctant to train with an ‘unsafe’ training partner
b. Injuring a training partner mean you expose the club to certain degree of reputational risk
c. Getting injured means medical bills to pay and reduced efficiency during our day-to-day work, which potentially affect the total income of the injured individual

So, as a team, we don’t beat the crap out of each other to satisfy our individual ego. As a team, we help each other get better, regardless what level you are in.

Point no. 2: Don’t crank submissions and give your opponent a chance to tap.

This leads on from Ego. Cranking submissions and/or doing super-fast submissions which doesn’t give your opponent a chance to tap. We’ve all either done it or had it done. All of us hate to lose, but not giving your opponent to tap means that you put your training partners in danger. Moreover, it is a sign of lack of mastery in technique – as mastery of technique means control – which means knowing how much, how to apply the force, and when to stop.

If you are about to apply a technique which you are not too familiar on how to control it, then do it slowly and take a lot of extra care when applying it. If you end up in an awkward position with a potential submission, then be careful and don’t move too fast, or you might give your training partner a submission without giving them a chance to submit (since you don’t realise it’s a submission)

Point no. 3: Tap early
Training is training. You can always tap. Sometimes injuries happen because a person won’t tap, because, yes, you guessed it. The ego.
Tap early. Save your joints. It’s not worth breaking bones or joints. You’ll fight another day instead of going for physio for at least the next 6 weeks.
Tapping doesn’t mean you suck. It means that you have a lion’s heart to admit your weakness, improve it, and be a better player
Tapping means you can train on the next day, reflect on what happened, and close that weakness at a faster rate, as you will stop training if injured

Point no. 4: Take extra care when training with newbies, women (if you’re a man), or people much lighter than you.
If you’re more experienced and/or heavier and stronger, you probably have an advantage. But you might still want to “win” the roll, so you go hard. So, as much as the art is designed for the weak to triumph against the strong, you have to take extra care under these circumstances.

Firstly, with people physically weaker than you. Consider this: 60kg fighter against a 80kg fighter. If we have 80kg fighter on top, the 60kg fighter is pressed against 1.33 times his weight, while if we reverse the position, the fighter on the bottom will only have 0.75 times of his own bodyweight pressed against him. You see how the pressure to the lighter person’s bodyweight is multiplied? So, take into consideration of this factor when fighting against lighter training partners.

Secondly, newbies. The newbies tend to lack the experience to know dangerous positions and sometimes might not tap in time, or even, diving into dangerous positions not intended to happen. If you think it’s dangerous, let them go and start again.

Thirdly, Women, as they tend to have lighter bones , smaller bodies, and weaker pound-per-pound against most men.
Please understand (if you’re a man), a BJJ or any martial arts environment can be an intimidating place for a woman. That’s why men generally outnumber women 10 to 1. Ironically, as any martial art is designed for the weak to triumph over the strong, women probably need it the most.
So, when training with these three groups (even more so if a person is included to more than one of these groups), use it as a chance to train your technique, sensitivity, reflexes, and finesse (detil2 halus).

Point no. 5: For women, newbies, or both, choose your training partners carefully.
Most of you know this already, but you really have to know who you’re rolling with. Senior grades, people who’ve been training a long time, are usually safer to train with. White belts and new guys, even if they are nice, might end up hurting you out of inexperience.

In addition, although it has been pointed out on point 4, please make sure that you are comfortable with your training partner. Despite the fact that we have put certain levels of safety standards into our class, some tend to be safer training partners than others, and you can observe during training.
Take BOTH of these factors into account when choosing your training partner

Point no. 6: Dangerous moves to be careful with in training.
I’m not saying don’t do these moves, but apply them with extra care to your training partners. Make sure you know when to stop to give your opponent chance to tap:
Armbar from the mount
Americana
Kimura from guard, side control, or any time.
Heel hooks
Knee bars
Neck cranks (often illegal, anyway). Note that a slight difference in some chokes can result in neck cranks (eg: side choke, guilloutine choke)

Final Thoughts
As a closing remark, safety is always paramount in our class, even more so since we are learning a lethal art. Having said so, I would like to highlight that any action showing gross negligence on safety of others, or any intentional harm toward others, will not be tolerated to ensure a safe and enjoyable training environment for everyone.

Our club is named “Synergy”. Synergy means that team members help each other improve, not about who’s the king of the hill. Synergy means taking care of each other during training, so that your training partner can improve and push you even further and able to make you a better fighter.

SO TRAIN HARD AND TRAIN SMART

thanks to bramono “houdini” Lunardi for the article

November 29, 2008
Where: Townsquare Cilandak, South Jakarta
Registration/Weigh-Ins: 9:00 AM Technical Meeting: 10:00 AM
Start Time: 11:00 AM

The Indonesian Grappling Federation is extending a cordial invitation to all martial artists to the 4th Indonesian Submission Championships on November 29, 2008 in Townsquare Cilandak, South Jakarta.

The Championships will be a great opportunity for all students of the grappling arts in South East Asia, including Jiu-Jitsu, Wrestling, Sambo, Judo and any other style of martial art to come together to compete and exchange techniques in a friendly and competitive environment. All styles of martial art are welcome to join this competition. The competition rules have been designed to encourage fast action and submissions. But also do not favor one style over another as points are awarded for positions and techniques from all of the aforementioned martial arts.

Submission grappling is the fastest growing martial art in the world and our mission is to promote and socialize submission grappling in Indonesia. The sport is highly competitive with the athlete demonstrating his techniques, abilities, and physical and psychological condition, with the objective of rendering his opponent into submission without the use of punching, kicking or any form of striking action. Valid moves are those which take an opponent to the ground, and neutralize, immobilize, and strangle him, or apply pressure on the large twisting joints.

Competitions are the lifeline of the sport and are the most important aspect for all those directly or indirectly involved. However, victory is not granted at any cost; fair-play is always the main guideline. Therefore, there are certain moves ruled illegal namely, biting, hair pulling, sticking fingers in the opponent’s eyes, mouth or nose, striking the opponents genitalia, finger twisting, and any other move that gain an unfair advantage with the use of one’s fists, feet, elbows or head.

Ethical behavior is what gives this sport credibility and security, which are indispensable factors in any sport. Through high standards of behavior, the sport has reached spectacular heights elsewhere in the world. Therefore, because submission grappling will one day soon become part of the greatest sporting show on earth, the Olympics, we need to promote submission grappling now as a sport in Indonesia.

With these thoughts in mind, we hope that you will come and support the 4th Indonesian Submission Championships on November 29, 2008 in Townsquare Cilandak, South Jakarta.

PRIZE MONEY

1-3 Place Champions: Rp.4,000,000, Rp.2,000,000 & Rp.1,000,000 !!!

1-3 Place Absolute Division Champions: Rp.8,000,000, Rp.4,000,000 & Rp.2,000,000 !!!

dalam sparring tentunya semuanya ingin menang dan kadang kala keinginan untuk menang itu sangat mengebu2 sehingga kadang kala kita bertarung terlalu kasar dan bisa aja menimbulkan cedera yang ngga perlu ke pasangan tanding kita. definisi kemenangan buat gw ngga harus menang poin ato bikin lawan tap. tapi gimana gw bs belajar menahan diri dan tetap rileks walau dalam tekanan. sebisa mungkin no excessive force sehingga kedua belah pihak bertanding dengan kemampuan penuh tapi tetap aman dan fun. tentunya kalau mereka menganggap kita adalah partner yang baik, yg selalu berusaha menjaga keselamatan pasangan tanding. mereka akan senang sparring dengan gw.

wah ga kerasa akhir november nanti bakal ada pertandingan grappling, gw pengen banget ikut walau kans-nya kecil. buat cari pengalaman aja n tes skill gw udah ampe mana. mudah2an ntar ngga malu2in disana hehehehehe…

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