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[The Threat]

Hello all, new to the forum here. I'm 18 years old, will be 19 come January and in the last year ive fallen in love with the whole aspect of brazilian jiu jitsu and what not, without actually taking one single class.

In sept. when i head off to school, there are 3 traditional japanese jiu jitsu schools in the area, which dissapoints me but I guess it willl have to do.

For the last few months I've done nothing but workout using online MMA style workouts, and studied over and over on Sumbmissions 101 and practiced the techniques with buddies. Both of us un-experienced.

Is there anything I can do to become somewhat sound to the basics of brazilian jiu jitsu before actually taking a class? Routines? Workouts? Drills?

All I have now is submissions 101 and some palls.

[Tom Gavrilos]

Thats a good start. Finding a few more experienced people to roll with would help as well.


Most importantly ask people on here welcome on board!

[Ari Bolden]

Hey Threat:

Spidaman had the same concerns as you about traditional Jiu Jitsu vs BJJ. He was surprised and has enjoyed his JJJ classes a lot.

Many traditional JJ classes have ground work and sub grappling in them. Don't cut the style short (the teacher might be a closet bjjer too)

Take my school: self defense, JJJ, sub grappling and bjj style jj (10th planet)...Not too many complaints over here :)

Where are you located?

Welcome to the BJG forum!
cheers
Ari

[The Threat]

Thanks guys. You can call me Brad.

Im currently located in a small country side town in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia Canada, and in sept. will go to school about 2 -3 hours from here in Sydney, Nova Scotia. Which is aproximatly 5 hours away from Halifax, Nova Scotia, the nearest place that offers BJJ. Cape Breton Island offers only JJJ.

But with many complaints, we are recieving BJJ and MMA in 2 years.

[Spidaman]

Ya I was looking for a BJJ school with little luck and I settled on a JJJ school nearby. So far I am really enjoying it. We do ground work and submissions every 2nd class. Also one of my instructors I'm pretty sure is a closest BJJ guy. He doesn't often instruct because he's very busy but when he does we always dedicate most of the class to ground work and subs. With just a month of classes I have learned various wrist locks, sweeps, passes and submissions (Yellow belt kata). Remember that their is a lot common in JJJ and BJJ so if you do 2 years of JJJ and then a BJJ school opens nearby, you'll easily be able to go up the belts.

[The Threat]

Thanks alot for the input spidaman and everyone else.
Thats all really good to hear. I just can't wait to get in there and learn regardless of what it is.

Untill then, submissions 101 will have to do lol

[Ari Bolden]

Brad:

I'd be happy to come out there for a seminar sometime. Save your beer bottles for a jj bottle drive!

:D

[The Threat]

haha nice, where abouts are you located Bolden?

[Ari Bolden]

My gym, the Dragon's Lair (home of Submissions 101) is located in Victoria BC.

[The Threat]

Very nice. I would love to be able to have that calibre quality and resource available to me around here. When i finished up my trade in the next couple of years I deffinitly plan to set out to a top notch gym and learn from the best.

Any idea where the nearest Gracie Academy is located from Nova Scotia?

[Ryan]

Nova Scotia is so beautiful. I drove throughout the province with my family once and loved it. Halifax was by far my favorite. Great food!

Anyway, give JJJ a shot and if you don't like it then cool.... atleast you gave it a shot. I didn't think I was going to like Judo and I did. I don't even have a BJJ school or JJJ school in my area. So your pretty lucky

[skitlishis]

I would suggest going with the JJJ if that's all that is available and pick up Jiu-Jitsu Unleashed (Eddie Bravo's book). Winning in Jiu-jitsu is all about knowledge and technique, so the more you know, the better off you'll be. I learn just basic groundwork in my MMA training, but by using the book I have that edge that some of the others don't have.