BJJ Mistakes Explained: How to Fix 7-8 Common Errors (10-Min)

And mistake number three I just call it speedy Gonzales and I'm guilty of it too. It is very difficult to do things slowly when you get excited and eager and we can call it sloppy Joe too because you go full speed before you have made all the mistakes. I think the reason why you're speeding up things is that you're the speed can always make up for for it feels like the speed can make up for your inexperience in a position. So if I'm gonna do an ankle pick if I just do it fast enough I'm gonna catch it before he reacts and then I can tilt him over.

Maybe true sometimes but the best people in the world at the technique they're not really fast they just they have incredible timing because they know exactly how to do the setup they know exactly where to grab they know exactly how to combine it with another technique and none of those things can be learned when you when you're fast. Speed kills learning and you can't feel the mechanics of it either like when I when I do this one and I just jank this one down I never have time to turn my wrist to get the X-stroke perfectly if I just do it fast the body is slow it needs time to assimilate and it's hard to problem-solve when you're doing it fast that's one of my favorite solutions to the Speedy Gonzales is the chess it's your turn take your time do whatever you want boom okay now you can't move now it's my turn that's a super nice way to actually stop and think and another mistake is knowledge hoarding you see this a lot in in guys that are really excited about Jiu-Jitsu and they trained for a few years they watch all the DVDs they know all the names they know all the fights they know all the history of every move they become like an encyclopedia and they love hoarding they're hoarders of knowledge they just want to to know everything and it makes it very difficult to get good when you know everything best example is my friend Zack from BJJ Fanatics he's been the uke of the best guys in the world and he said whenever he's in a position he's just completely overwhelmed with techniques that you know he basically learned every technique in Jiu-Jitsu because everybody all the best instructors thousands of instructors have used him and he filmed them so he his mind is completely overwhelmed with technique so so it's it's impossible for him to to just you know it doesn't matter how much you know it's what you can prioritize and actually put into practice that matters and on this one I wrote analysis paralysis and this is true for coaches as well if you're gonna show me your favorite guard pass I only let you do it once and then I start commenting on it I think this is a big mistake and for yourself too you do one drill and then you talk about you do one rep and then you talk about it for five minutes you can't do that you you need to do it at least three times in a row and shutting up before you can do it like if you do the same mistake three times in a row then it's gonna be valuable to talk about it but analyzing and analyzing it it's not the way it's just like when we're talking about a technique and we start to talk for 15 minutes I'm showing you a guard pass I'm showing the group of guard pass and then everybody starts asking questions about it but what if and if and if and if and if and if and if we're analyzing it to death and we're not practicing it I think analysis is of course valuable sometimes but not to the extent where you get paralyzed by it and then context blindness is another big big mistake you know you know what but not why okay I know that I should do this here but why you need to understand all the problems and all the mistakes and the context in order to know why and doing moves in isolation it takes a long time to learn when you're just okay when he is exactly in this position then I'm gonna do exactly this and one of the things that is a you know a question that I hear a lot that I know they are blind to the context is give me a moment one good example of context blindness is that when people ask how do I solve this problem and the coach often answers don't end up there this is not a problem that you saw this is a problem that you prevent and that context the reason why coach no knows this and not you is because he understands the context context he knows that you have ten problems now but if you go back a little bit in the sequence you only had one problem but you let it escalate and now you have ten problems and this is the kind of the perspective that we want to develop by not being context blind and then one of the last ones is pattern lockdown you're stuck in one way of doing it you always do the same thing you always grab the belt when you pass the guard and that's that feels like that's the good thing to do but down the road you have many problems because you didn't underhook the head instead and another way of being completely locked into a pattern is to always drill on one side you have your favorite guard passes your favorite guard sweeps but you never practice it on the left side because of why really why really why why aren't you practicing on both sides because the muscle memory doesn't work you can't just mirror it's just like try to write with your left hand instead of your right or just you know do something that's on you you can you can tell that it doesn't translate immediately to the other side and if your understanding of the left side if you always do it on the left side your understanding of the left side is going to increase so much when you start doing it on the right side because you get to be a beginner again and that beginners mind and that perspective that you get from being completely fresh at something is incredibly valuable so try to not get stuck in your ways and not get stuck on one side and then you are avoiding a big mistake and I think the last the eighth big mistake that we make is being a bad partner when we do techniques we don't give enough resistance and when we spar we give too much resistance when you're drilling drill like it's sparring but don't take over the technique and do your attacks just try to stop the person from doing their technique so that they really have to work for it so make them get it but they have to always work for it obviously after they know the technique and be a little bit unpredictable don't be fast but be a little bit unpredictable and see how help them problem-solve and in sparring give them less resistance give them assuming that you're on the same level that your partner is a little bit worse than you then you you practice plan B and C instead of just going plan A full force so if you can I think these two things makes you a good partner to to open up when you're sparring and to tighten up when you're drilling and there you have eight mistakes that you make in jiu-jitsu that you can avoid to get better