Knife and Stone BJJ

I was in the middle of a private lesson with a student recently when I came up with a description of what a beginner should be doing that I thought I´d share.

Those of you who know what neural pathway development is will understand already what I´m about to say.

Learning the basics of BJJ, and by that I mean the fundamentals up to Blue Belt, your escapes, basic transitions and submissions upon most of what you will do for the next twenty years will be based on is simple.

The example I gave was of a knife repeatedly grinding or cutting into a rock. Initially it doesn´t make much of a mark, but by grinding over and over and over again the knife makes a permanent and deep groove in the rock that might never leave it.

This is what you want to do from each basic position. Have a few simple well drilled moves that connect through all your basic positions. Become that knife and cut those basics into your own nervous system so even if you forget them, your body, when under pressure will remember them and come to your aid.