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[Munki]

Congrats

Thanks man

 

[juliushandle]

Don't know if this was ever posted but I love this message. I'm a part of a gym now with no affiliation and an open door policy and it's a beautiful thing. We got seminars from guys of all affiliates. This month Keenan is coming through.

https://youtu.be/B2ABI4v05ZE

 

[Banglish]

Did this thread die :'|
When to my first training after pulling my back, ended up rolling with my first black belt.
Strange how you feel "better" when you're rolling with upper level belts.

 

[PastorOfMuppets]

Did this thread die :'|
When to my first training after pulling my back, ended up rolling with my first black belt.
Strange how you feel "better" when you're rolling with upper level belts.

I actually just started up doing it regularly again after about a year off. Very rusty but I am holding my own vs more experienced black belts so it makes me feel good.

 

[pr0cs]

Blew my meniscus out. Pretty bummed out. Side effect of too much time in the gym and not enough recovery.
Now the long wait to talk to the specialist, love public health care.

Suspect I'll need some sort of surgery as any torquing below the knee makes something pop out and hurt like a mofo

 

[Brerlappin]

Did this thread die :'|
When to my first training after pulling my back, ended up rolling with my first black belt.
Strange how you feel "better" when you're rolling with upper level belts.

Its been somewhat dead of late. I haven't trained all summer due to a combination of work, sickness, and injury. I was going to go back this coming Monday but I had to go to the doctors yesterday as ive had asthma issues for the last 3 weeks. Now I'm off work til next Thursday so I doubt ill be back to training until at least the 11th. And id say if I do go back then ill literally just be drilling, I'm not sure I could even do warm ups without wheezing. I get this shit every September. All year round I'm fine, come the end of Aug/early September, my chest gets tight and sore, I start wheezing and shit, it sucks. I can at least do weights at the gym tho as it doesn't get my breathing/hart rate up.

Pr0cs, really sorry to hear that about the knee too man. What happened?

 

[v1oz]

I actually just started up doing it regularly again after about a year off. Very rusty but I am holding my own vs more experienced black belts so it makes me feel good.

How long did it take you to get the BB.

 

[Rawr Its Ry]

First class in over a month, it felt so good to get back on the mats! Did a fundamentals class to try and ease myself back into things. We had a 3 stripe wb visiting/considering changing teams to our gym from a very heavy competition based school. In over 2 years of training I don't think I've experienced someone resist that hard/drill bust for drills before. Had to try and explain to him our way of drilling and idk if he got it or not after

 

[pr0cs]

Pr0cs, really sorry to hear that about the knee too man. What happened?

Side effect of miles on the knees, years of skateboarding and snowboarding as a kid.
I knew there was something wrong late June but refused to quit going to the gym.
Eventually drilling guard passes had a teammate push down on my knee and I could feel the inside right of my knee tear. Don't actually remember driving home because I was in so much pain.
Trying to keep in shape, biking and weights which don't seem to impact the injury too much. Going to fundamentals class tonight because I miss bjj so much. I'll double bag (two sleeves) my knee so I don't make it worse. It will be impossible to hold a guard but anything is better than watching everyone else train.

 

[Rawr Its Ry]

Anyone else following ADCC results?
Who TF is Craig Jones and how did he sub Lo and Murilo????
Edit: add Chael sonnen to the hit list daaamnnn

 

[Brerlappin]

I finally went back to training tonight. Oh my god I have forgotten literally everything I ever learned😂 I was so bad. My cardio is awful, I've had bad chest (asthma) issues for the last few months, so I've just been hitting weights at the gym. Tonight was the first bit of cardio I've done in ages. I felt gassed 1 minute into the little bit of positional sparring I did. I spent a full minute trying to finish a collar choke in guard without seeing the fucking easy armbar I could have gotten. But it was just great to get back to it. I might not have finished the collar choke but I tapped out that fucking self sabotaging voice that kept telling me "don't go back, you suck, no one wants you to come back".

 

[juliushandle]

I cut my toe exactly one week ago and it kept me off the mats all week. This morning I was able to roll 100% and might have gone too hard on my training partners due to my excitement. Felt great to be back.

 

[Brerlappin]

I cut my toe exactly one week ago and it kept me off the mats all week. This morning I was able to roll 100% and might have gone too hard on my training partners due to my excitement. Felt great to be back.

Congrats man, welcome back

Had another class last night, chest still felt a bit shitty, and i still fuck up left and right, but i managed to escape a closed guard, and even tho i didnt manage to pull stuff off, i was at least thinking a bit better and trying to make stuff happen, instead of just lying there hoping fro the best lol. Im nowhere near the level i was at before my break, but hopefully i can get back there soon

 

[pr0cs]

Blew my meniscus out. Pretty bummed out. Side effect of too much time in the gym and not enough recovery.
Now the long wait to talk to the specialist, love public health care.

Suspect I'll need some sort of surgery as any torquing below the knee makes something pop out and hurt like a mofo

First day back after my surgery and 6 weeks recovery.
Nearly one year older, certainly one year fatter

Do we have any bjj players left here or have they all gone in the leftist scourge?

 

[RokkanStoned]

First day back after my surgery and 6 weeks recovery.
Nearly one year older, certainly one year fatter

Do we have any bjj players left here or have they all gone in the leftist scourge?

I think EviLore might, from what it seemed like in the Anthony Bourdain thread, though I'm unsure if he's actively practicing. I'm mostly self-practice HEMA sadly, so no bjj.

 

[EviLore]

I'm an inactive blue belt. Been down and out the past year with severe depression both before and after the October nonsense, so I need to get some practical yoga in to prep my body before I can go back to rolling, but 100% getting back into BJJ within a few months unless some old man injury shit crops up.

My regular (i.e. 3x/week or more frequently) BJJ training history is 2005-2006, then 2010-2011 (blue belt achieved), then after I moved to Austin and switched gyms to here I broke my ribs rolling against aggro spazzes twice in a row under incompetent instructors, had six month recovery periods each time back to back, then changed gyms and the first session at the new spot (good rep with good people, but unlucky outcome...) I rolled 45 minutes with a purple who hadn't taken a shower or washed his gi (smelled horrible, ugh) and I got staph on the scar tissue on my knee from him (scar tissue from my time doing Muay Thai in Thailand...not from the Muay Thai, though, from a motorbike crash lol) and I switched to Muay Thai/Kickboxing for a year or so after that out of frustration from all the BJJ down time. Been inactive in combat sports since 2016 though.

There's a good BJJ spot in Austin I've been recommended by my former sparring partners though and I'll be returning to active as soon as my body's in tolerable condition for it. I'm way out of practice so an athletic white (like an NCAA wrestler or whatev) with a few weeks of fundamentals could probably win on points against me easily right now, yuck, which is unacceptable haha. With my resting heart rate down and some of the flab off I'll be back to a solid blue rolling level. With some practice I can usually hang with non-competition purples and avoid getting subbed, though typically I'll be down on points (can sub purples low percentage though). Amateur and pro MMA fighters and competition ready players purple or higher in my weight class or higher (men only obviously) can take me consistently at my current skill level + proper fitness + being in practice. So I'm not king badass by any stretch or anything, just competent.

BJJ is my true love as far as combat sports go, though. It has so much depth of technique and freedom, as well as mental component. I enjoy Muay Thai quite a bit, too, just not much as far as sparring goes on the striking side since I value my brain.

 

[pr0cs]

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BJJ is my true love as far as combat sports go, though. It has so much depth of technique and freedom, as well as mental component. I enjoy Muay Thai quite a bit, too, just not much as far as sparring goes on the striking side since I value my brain.

I'm surprised that bjj hasn't helped much with the depression, it in essence saved my life going through my divorce 5 years ago. The separation was incredibly nasty, floating around bankruptcy due to lawyer fees, worries about starting over, my kids, all the "big plans" I had. Being a goal oriented person I had my life planned out and my divorce exploded that notion into a million pieces.
BJJ gave me that outlet to burn off stress and oddly enough being smashed by people every second day taught me that no matter how shitty I felt, how desperate I felt my life was becoming my will to live was stronger. That if I could survive that sweaty, hairy motherfucker leaning on my neck, that sense of drowning, the thought to quit, that I could survive anything.

That all being said, I took way too much damage. It cannot be understated how important a good gym is. Being an older fellow (40 when I started bjj) I needed to train smarter, needed to roll with like minded people. The first gym had too many meat heads looking to be the next big deal and the gym owner used the fodder like myself to act as training partners, conditioning training for the important gym members going to the worlds, the ones that would bring the gym glory not the old farts like myself who were actually paying their bills.

I got a torn shoulder, my meniscus and of course staph in my hand once (which is a bit terrifying).

I quit for a year but found a new gym that had some great people, an instructor that follows a syllabus making it much easier to understand where you are lacking in fundamentals and a more relaxed atmosphere where the flailing new white belts are put with blue or higher to reduce the flailing.

I'm 45 now, I still enjoy bjj. Both my kids are in it now. My son does it I'm sure because he knows it makes me happy (he'd much rather play another round of r6 siege) but my daughter is really good and is putting the pieces together much faster that I did.

I hope you can still find time and drive to go, hopefully it can help you through your depression like it did for me.

 

[BrettWeir]

After I moved to Austin and switched gyms to here I broke my ribs rolling against aggro spazzes twice in a row under incompetent instructors, had six month recovery periods each time back to back, then changed gyms and the first session at the new spot (good rep with good people, but unlucky outcome...) I rolled 45 minutes with a purple who hadn't taken a shower or washed his gi (smelled horrible, ugh) and I got staph on the scar tissue on my knee from him (scar tissue from my time doing Muay Thai in Thailand...not from the Muay Thai, though, from a motorbike crash lol) and I switched to Muay Thai/Kickboxing for a year or so after that out of frustration from all the BJJ down time. Been inactive in combat sports since 2016 though.

The worst part about moving and BJJ is finding that right school. Same thing happened to me in a recent move, now both of my shoulders are completely jacked up. Not due to spazzes, but due to egotistical ass hats trying to prove how good they are. As a Purple belt, being in the same school system for 7 years, it completely took me off guard (no pun intended). Now I'm out of that school.........but also out of training. I can't even frame or post without extreme pain in my shoulders.

Hope the new place works out for you.

I'm surprised that bjj hasn't helped much with the depression.

That all being said, I took way too much damage. It cannot be understated how important a good gym is. Being an older fellow (40 when I started bjj) I needed to train smarter, needed to roll with like minded people. The first gym had too many meat heads looking to be the next big deal and the gym owner used the fodder like myself to act as training partners, conditioning training for the important gym members going to the worlds, the ones that would bring the gym glory not the old farts like myself who were actually paying their bills.

I got a torn shoulder, my meniscus and of course staph in my hand once (which is a bit terrifying).

I quit for a year but found a new gym that had some great people, an instructor that follows a syllabus making it much easier to understand where you are lacking in fundamentals and a more relaxed atmosphere where the flailing new white belts are put with blue or higher to reduce the flailing.

I'm 45 now, I still enjoy bjj. Both my kids are in it now. My son does it I'm sure because he knows it makes me happy (he'd much rather play another round of r6 siege) but my daughter is really good and is putting the pieces together much faster that I did.

I hope you can still find time and drive to go, hopefully it can help you through your depression like it did for me.

Were similar in age, hah. Regarding the depression part, BJJ is a funny beast. Being our age, rolling against younger competitive lower ranking guys can really put a beating on the ego. Yes, I know we shouldn't compare ourselves to others, but we're human. We all do it. After 7 years of training (purely self defense BJJ), walking into a new competitive sport BJJ school and having 16 year old Blue Belts run through me was not good mentally......for a while.

Hoping your injuries heal well, and it's awesome your kids are in it. My son used to do it, but now refuses to. My daughter will be starting within the next month.

 

[pr0cs]

BJJ is a funny beast. Being our age, rolling against younger competitive lower ranking guys can really put a beating on the ego.

It's true and I'll agree it can be a gut check. All of my work friends of similar age and disposition all think I'm nuts and suggest golf and other less physical sports but I love bjj too much to do something so comparatively passive.

When I'm feeling run over or "old" I just look around the mats and see that I'm often the only guy my age still rolling and that eases the ego pain.

 

[Cindi Mayweather]

Who still trains?

 

[porkchopexpress]

I'm taking up BJJ for the first time at the age of 48.

It's something I've always wanted to do but for whatever reason I never did, too busy, intimidated maybe, but I am doing it now because I think I have reached the "who gives a shit" part of my life.
Hopefully I won't humiliate myself or be confused for someone's dad LOL.

That's it.

 

[EverydayBeast]

Very respected sport I don’t mind watching it, and it almost always wins a fight with that ability it’s the best defense in MMA.

 

[chixdiggit]

I'm taking up BJJ for the first time at the age of 48.

It's something I've always wanted to do but for whatever reason I never did but I am doing it now because I think I have reached the "who gives a shit" part of my life.
Hopefully I won't humiliate myself or be confused for someone's dad LOL.

That's it.

We have a guy at the gym that started at 66. Been going a year strong and loves it.

 

[porkchopexpress]

I'm taking up BJJ for the first time at the age of 48.

It's something I've always wanted to do but for whatever reason I never did, too busy, intimidated maybe, but I am doing it now because I think I have reached the "who gives a shit" part of my life.
Hopefully I won't humiliate myself or be confused for someone's dad LOL.

That's it.

First white belt only class done.
While I knew it was thinking and technique based I was surprised just how much it was. It was also a lot more fun than I thought it would be. I really hope I can fit this into my Schedule. It was really a lot of fun.