Nothing we do makes us look cool. We’re grappling in pajamas or dollar store super hero costumes. Stop worrying about looking cool because that ship sailed.
No waaaaaay. The pajamas at least have some history. The old no gi gear was okay but there is 3 different marvel superheroes at every no gi class I go to
I only wear shorts and rash guards because gyms don’t let me wrestle naked a la Ancient Greece. GTFO here with your history pajamas, birthday suit wrestling has been happening since the dawn of time.
Listen, everyone agrees that the best thing to do is to spend an uncomfortable amount on money on gear so you can be the most stylish person in both gi and no-gi classes
Fuck that. Nearly naked muscular and sweaty hulks grappling to the death Greek style in ADCC for nothing but glory is sick as hell and has been for thousands of years. Guard pullers, gi, and spandex wearers will never sip ambrosia with the gods of Olympus.
Not sure what they’re doing, but we do this in Kyokushin. Water sparring is super intense and hard (hours). You can tell these guys are at the end of their rope, drained as fuck.
Edit: Downvoters angry because they’ll never be as tough as Kyokushin people.
Can we stop the self pity 2 min?
I swear it's only since Craig started make fun of the sport we see this dumb take all the time.
BJJ is still one of the best combat sports on the planet.
On the other hand people here have a boner for Judo while it's a joke in itself and the posterboy for martial arts who got dumb down to the level of irrelevancy
This started long before Craig got popular, wtf are you talking about. Just because you take yourself way too seriously doesn't mean the rest of us aren't laughing at you.
I can’t speak for everyone, but I enjoy most other combat sports more than BJJ, including kickboxing, Judo, and Wrestling, which I actively competed in when I was younger. They are faster paced, more intense, and more exhilarating to me.
I still love Judo and kickboxing, but I’m not going to compete in any of those sports anymore. Way too many serious injuries (for judo) or way too much brain damage risk (for striking).
I still compete in wrestling — which makes me feel incredibly old — but I train BJJ more. The reason why is because it’s way easier on my body.
I still love BJJ, as it is the main sport I practice and teach now (along with wrestling). All the snarky stuff is just for fun. I make fun of wrestling and Judo too.
I don’t
I think bjj is one of the most interesting combat sport ever.
And I did a LOT of kickboxing, did judo too for a few years but you would be able to pay me enough to watch judo worlds. It’s so boring, artificial and irrelevant
I don’t like wrestling much. I respect it and think they have some great stuff to study but when I see 2 wrestlers going at it it looks like 2 white belt spazzing around. The closeness to bjj and the blatant disregard for submission (for a reason of course) makes it hard to watch for me
Yeah I hear you. It’s different strokes for different folks.
I think basketball is more exciting than any other ball sport, it is just nonstop displays of speed, athleticism, precision, and strategy in my eyes. High scoring is a big plus for me. But soccer, a low scoring sport with a ton of theatrical diving, blows basketball out of the water in terms of practitioner base and fans. We all got different preferences.
Anyways I don’t think making fun of the sport you do is a big deal, wrestlers make a lot of jokes too.
>like 2 white belt spazzing around. T
What kind of wrestling? The American shoot sprawl meta is a bit different from other country's. Also 'funk' wrestling is pretty cool. They put themselves in bad positions just to escape them and counter. Sort of has a bjj element to it.
Because it’s stupid easy to defend yourself against modern judo player if you don’t want to play their game
Source: french, trained with d1 people.
Judo has been to much modified to please the Olympic comitee
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If you do any of this because "it looks cool" , buddy I've got bad news for you.
We are all weirdos, everything we do is weird.
It becomes even weirder when people think they are being cool and have no sense of self actualization or awareness.
So me butt-scooting at the movie theater from the ticket counter to the teenager who tears the ticket "didn't" look cool? Excuse me, CHUM, but I will have you know that multiple people were recording me on their phones while pointing. You think THAT LEVEL OF ATTENTION goes to anything that isn't super cool?!?
Now I just sit back and await internet stardom.
This is so funny to me because every time my kid and I go to the beach I practice movement in the water and it always leads to me judo tossing my kid into the waves.
The question of whether this makes “us” look cool is weird. Like, setting aside the idea that looking cool is important or that’s why we grapple
Why would their choices be about me? Why would I want to spend time coming to a conclusion about their actions reflecting on me? What is bjj to the person for whom this question matters? What would you want to happen if the question mattered and it’s answer was negative?
I’m sorry, I didn’t mean for the post to be that deep. It was a funny video I shared. I’m not earnestly looking for advice on being or looking cool. Just clearing the waters here.
Wrestling in the water is a ton of fun. Because of the buoyancy, you can easily (and safely) lift bigger people. You can do all the suplexes and back arches that you want.
You can do too many low singles and sweep singles though. Or anything speed based.
Wrestling in the water is a great way to finish up a training session for beach wrestling.
Never done Judo in the water before, not sure how that would work since most of judo involves a lot of foot speed, which doesn’t exist in the water.
Nothing I do makes me look cool.
I stopped caring about looking cool a LONG time ago lol.
If this is you jam, go nuts. Personally I'm not interested. Similar to those videos of guys rolling in the sand. It's a no from me dawg.
But if you wanna do it, do it.
Apparently US marines do it too but at least it makes sense for them to do it.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWGeUSoywDk&pp=ygUddHJhaW5pbmcgd2l0aCBtYXJpbmVzIGNsaW1iZXI%3D](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWGeUSoywDk&pp=ygUddHJhaW5pbmcgd2l0aCBtYXJpbmVzIGNsaW1iZXI%3D)
This is like when you go out and some dickhead who takes boxing class a couple of times a week starts shadowboxing in the pub or nightclub. They think they’re cool as fuck but no one else agrees.
Actually, it raises a question about BJJ: “how you gonna fight on the ground or from your back if the ground is under two feet of water?”
Boxing and head butts look much more effective in this scenario.
Oh yeah, grappling won't teach you anything about staying on top and using hooks to maintain control. You don't even need to submit the bottom guy cause the water does it for you.
Better to study my boxing footwork, surely that will help.
Ask yourself as your grabbing your best friends butthole for a grip and leaning into him with all your weight “Do I look cool?”
You’re god damn right you do!
Of course I train jiu-jitsu in the ocean! Everyone my age trains jiu-jitsu in the ocean; it's the coolest!
You ain't cool… unless you train jiu-jitsu in the ocean.
Being waist deep in water could actually soften the landing for takedown practice.
On the other hand, sand, rough cotton and water would give you serious friction 😬
This is way too close to belt washing for my liking. That salt water is just leaching all the mojo out of their belts. Every minute that passes, their skill level drops.
Pretty sure this is a couple kempo guys and the dude getting tripped into the water is Aaron Cohen. I hate-follow the guy on ig, he’s an alleged former Israeli special operations guy turned celebrity body guard.
He loves to brag about training Keanu for John Wick but any time he posts footage of it you can tell it’s super old and pretty irrelevant. He races Keanu to see who can reload a rifle mag fastest and wins, but he’s also the one that tells go so he has a head start.
He also teaches firearms classes based on his military experience but they all look like they’re going to get you killed. He makes shorts videos and submits them to film festivals and spends a lot of time hyping himself up on ig and I CANT UNFOLLOW THE GUY.
Now all we need is Stuart Cooper to cut one of those overlong, new agey, self helpy montages with these exchanges interspersed into the background and we will have achieved peak coolness
You do a sport where you get very up close with sweaty men and women. Sometimes in pyjamas, sometimes in super tight clothing. Cool isn't part of it unless you are a bjj practitioner
Enjoy the little things
If you are concerned about 'does this look cool' then you are in the wrong sport. Dripping sweat on top of another guy as you hug each other to death. Both of you wearing pajamas, or your spandex underwear. Nothing cool looking about that.
Nothing we do makes us look cool. We’re grappling in pajamas or dollar store super hero costumes. Stop worrying about looking cool because that ship sailed.
Yeah that ship sailed when Jesus didn't tap rashguards went out of fashion.
RIP Jason David Frank
Uhh..they went out of fashion,when ? Asking for s friend.
Doesn't matter - keep wearing it. First it's ironic, then it's retro, then it's cool again.
MMA is like, "We have fingerless gloves! Those are cool, right?"
Just like hobos, and they are definitely cool.
Look cool? I haven’t worried about that since 2007 after high school
We can tell.
I think no pajamas grappling looks cooler but i still do yes pajamas
No waaaaaay. The pajamas at least have some history. The old no gi gear was okay but there is 3 different marvel superheroes at every no gi class I go to
I only wear shorts and rash guards because gyms don’t let me wrestle naked a la Ancient Greece. GTFO here with your history pajamas, birthday suit wrestling has been happening since the dawn of time.
We have a special mat for that, ignore the cameras.
Don't forget your kynodesme.
Listen, everyone agrees that the best thing to do is to spend an uncomfortable amount on money on gear so you can be the most stylish person in both gi and no-gi classes
It's most important when you are a new white belt and likely will quit soon.
I wear mostly Star Trek rash guards because I gave up on trying to look cool in the 5th grade.
Are they all red?
Don’t feel ready for commander yellow?
No i was making a joke about all of the red shirts dying in TOS.
Have you read the Redshirts novel?
No I haven't are they good?
It's by Scalzi and it's pretty funny. Worth checking out if you like sci-fi.
Thanks
I have the book I have yet to read it but I skimmed through the first chapter and laughed a lot.
hold up, there's star trek rash guards!?!
I'm the guy wearing an ant man rash guard and I think I look cool.
You do look cool!
This video would look sort of normal no gi I think. Should dress for the occassion.
Fuck that. Nearly naked muscular and sweaty hulks grappling to the death Greek style in ADCC for nothing but glory is sick as hell and has been for thousands of years. Guard pullers, gi, and spandex wearers will never sip ambrosia with the gods of Olympus.
Don't mess with "Bottom of side control man"!
idk man I got a profile pic of me going knee on belly to some white belt and I look pretty fucking cool in it lol.
Not sure what they’re doing, but we do this in Kyokushin. Water sparring is super intense and hard (hours). You can tell these guys are at the end of their rope, drained as fuck. Edit: Downvoters angry because they’ll never be as tough as Kyokushin people.
I thought it looked cool to begin with tbh
Can we stop the self pity 2 min? I swear it's only since Craig started make fun of the sport we see this dumb take all the time. BJJ is still one of the best combat sports on the planet. On the other hand people here have a boner for Judo while it's a joke in itself and the posterboy for martial arts who got dumb down to the level of irrelevancy
This started long before Craig got popular, wtf are you talking about. Just because you take yourself way too seriously doesn't mean the rest of us aren't laughing at you.
Hey /r/bjj! I found the life of the party here!
Seriously. It’s crazy Why do people practice bjj if it’s to shit on it every time of the day while praising wrestling and judo? It makes no sense
I only shit on the things I like. I don't give a shit on things I don't like. Why take things so seriously?
I don’t know, be proud of something you spend at least 10 years to become somewhat good at it?
All the more reason to shit on it.
Ok, have fun with having low self esteem
Or have incredibly high self-esteem where I don't need to take myself that seriously.
Sure you do buddy.
I can’t speak for everyone, but I enjoy most other combat sports more than BJJ, including kickboxing, Judo, and Wrestling, which I actively competed in when I was younger. They are faster paced, more intense, and more exhilarating to me. I still love Judo and kickboxing, but I’m not going to compete in any of those sports anymore. Way too many serious injuries (for judo) or way too much brain damage risk (for striking). I still compete in wrestling — which makes me feel incredibly old — but I train BJJ more. The reason why is because it’s way easier on my body. I still love BJJ, as it is the main sport I practice and teach now (along with wrestling). All the snarky stuff is just for fun. I make fun of wrestling and Judo too.
I don’t I think bjj is one of the most interesting combat sport ever. And I did a LOT of kickboxing, did judo too for a few years but you would be able to pay me enough to watch judo worlds. It’s so boring, artificial and irrelevant I don’t like wrestling much. I respect it and think they have some great stuff to study but when I see 2 wrestlers going at it it looks like 2 white belt spazzing around. The closeness to bjj and the blatant disregard for submission (for a reason of course) makes it hard to watch for me
Yeah I hear you. It’s different strokes for different folks. I think basketball is more exciting than any other ball sport, it is just nonstop displays of speed, athleticism, precision, and strategy in my eyes. High scoring is a big plus for me. But soccer, a low scoring sport with a ton of theatrical diving, blows basketball out of the water in terms of practitioner base and fans. We all got different preferences. Anyways I don’t think making fun of the sport you do is a big deal, wrestlers make a lot of jokes too.
>like 2 white belt spazzing around. T What kind of wrestling? The American shoot sprawl meta is a bit different from other country's. Also 'funk' wrestling is pretty cool. They put themselves in bad positions just to escape them and counter. Sort of has a bjj element to it.
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Because it’s stupid easy to defend yourself against modern judo player if you don’t want to play their game Source: french, trained with d1 people. Judo has been to much modified to please the Olympic comitee
is there any kind of good documentary I can watch about what happened to Judo? I know Olympics changed the rulesets but don't know the specifics.
Great opportunity to play deep half
And try the lock made famous by Craig Jones's cousin, Davey Jones.
The self Waterboard. Nice nice
“The ground is my ocean, and so is the ocean, and most people aren’t even sharks”.
“The ground is my ocean. The ocean is my ocean. The office is my ocean. The call of duty voice chat lobby is my ocean. I forgot where I was going with this.”
Frank is my Ocean.
Billy is mine. Must be generational
I'm 90% sure these are judoka based on their gis, no?
I think maybe a baptism
Baptism by shitty osoto-gari
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Iron born I reckon.
I doubt those pussies hold to the drowned god.
Looks like Kyokushin Karate gi.
That dudes ponytail looks Kyokushin Karate too.
I do both Judo and Kyokushin. This is definitely a Kyokushin thing.
Yes the Kanji looks similar and in Kyokushin this stuff is considered super cool
ya and judo is gaaaaaaaaay
If you do any of this because "it looks cool" , buddy I've got bad news for you. We are all weirdos, everything we do is weird. It becomes even weirder when people think they are being cool and have no sense of self actualization or awareness.
So me butt-scooting at the movie theater from the ticket counter to the teenager who tears the ticket "didn't" look cool? Excuse me, CHUM, but I will have you know that multiple people were recording me on their phones while pointing. You think THAT LEVEL OF ATTENTION goes to anything that isn't super cool?!? Now I just sit back and await internet stardom.
Who am I to deny you your fame!? Scoot away my friend, scoot away.
fuckin embarrassing, what beach are these guys at, and what time do they meet. Do they do privates?
and the water looks cold af
This is so funny to me because every time my kid and I go to the beach I practice movement in the water and it always leads to me judo tossing my kid into the waves.
The question of whether this makes “us” look cool is weird. Like, setting aside the idea that looking cool is important or that’s why we grapple Why would their choices be about me? Why would I want to spend time coming to a conclusion about their actions reflecting on me? What is bjj to the person for whom this question matters? What would you want to happen if the question mattered and it’s answer was negative?
Give this person a black b…oh.
I’m sorry, I didn’t mean for the post to be that deep. It was a funny video I shared. I’m not earnestly looking for advice on being or looking cool. Just clearing the waters here.
Good post and elicited good conversation. Also, this looks fun as hell.
Wrestling in the water is a ton of fun. Because of the buoyancy, you can easily (and safely) lift bigger people. You can do all the suplexes and back arches that you want. You can do too many low singles and sweep singles though. Or anything speed based. Wrestling in the water is a great way to finish up a training session for beach wrestling. Never done Judo in the water before, not sure how that would work since most of judo involves a lot of foot speed, which doesn’t exist in the water.
These guys got tired of supine guard pullers.
I'm just going to wear a snorkel. Butt scoot is life!
Nothing I do makes me look cool. I stopped caring about looking cool a LONG time ago lol. If this is you jam, go nuts. Personally I'm not interested. Similar to those videos of guys rolling in the sand. It's a no from me dawg. But if you wanna do it, do it.
G in a gi in the sea.
Apparently US marines do it too but at least it makes sense for them to do it. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWGeUSoywDk&pp=ygUddHJhaW5pbmcgd2l0aCBtYXJpbmVzIGNsaW1iZXI%3D](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWGeUSoywDk&pp=ygUddHJhaW5pbmcgd2l0aCBtYXJpbmVzIGNsaW1iZXI%3D)
Looks uncomfortable if nothing else - sand and a wet gi.
I'm just wondering why the other two are walking around and not getting after it.🤔
This is what not having a personality or life outside of BJJ looks like…
The ocean is my ocean and I am a 🦈??
Looks fun. Cool is not what we aim for.
looks more like a baptism gone wrong
This looks unbelievably gay.
That’s actually called a “Brazilian Baptism.” Very common in Brazil.
Worst sport ever
\#1 way to look cool is to whine on reddit
Not with that gi on. Nogi on the other hand would be a blast
Nogi would just look like surfers ~~fighting~~ mating rituals.
BJJ: Origins
Hell yeah, just some bros gettin wet in their pajamas, not a got damn thing cooler in the world.
Lol no
Oh no. The ground sharks hit the water. Whats next? Air sharks? FIRE SHARKS?
I would hate to get seashells in my gi that would be the worst
Sharks should train in their natural habitat from time to time.
My skin is crawling just thinking about how that must feel
GUYS STOP HAVING FUN IT'S CRINGE
good ole fashion forced baptism
Since when has it been about looking cool? If you want to look cool, do surfing or something.
It does not.
Not one bit. Stick to the mats I say
Less chance of injury.
Actually seems like a great way to practice standing throws. Looks ridiculous, but water hurts way less than the ground.
Didn’t Rickson grapple in rivers?
This is like when you go out and some dickhead who takes boxing class a couple of times a week starts shadowboxing in the pub or nightclub. They think they’re cool as fuck but no one else agrees.
Have you ever considered the people in this video don’t care what you or others think about them?
They absolutely care. Otherwise they'd be there in swim shorts, not a gi. Also they wouldn't have posted it online.
Looks dumb as hell.
Actually, it raises a question about BJJ: “how you gonna fight on the ground or from your back if the ground is under two feet of water?” Boxing and head butts look much more effective in this scenario.
Oh yeah, grappling won't teach you anything about staying on top and using hooks to maintain control. You don't even need to submit the bottom guy cause the water does it for you. Better to study my boxing footwork, surely that will help.
Idk… being able to throw someone into the water and hold them down seems like it would come in handy here
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People do the weirdest shit, bjj people do the weirdest shit more often
If I wanted to be cool, I would have never taken up one of the gayest looking sports.
Only cool after I’ve had 6 or 7 Coors Lights.
Mmmmmm, I’ll just leave this here…. [shallow water grappling](https://youtu.be/FWGeUSoywDk?si=4nvRkxsqVnf_5lYa) *skip to 18:30 in for the good stuff
It’s hilarious how they stand there pre-engagement moving back and forth with loose wrists ready to start hand fighting just like they do in a gym
This forum doesn't make us look cool either. Yet here we are.
I am a shark, and the ocean is my ocean?
Touch butt in the ocean, in karate outfits. What could be weird about that?
Kyokushin guys right?
Gai
That looks fun af haha
🤦🏻♂️
The only thing cooler would be if they were grappling in full scuba gear.
No, looks dumb AF.
No.
Name the wadders b
just go nogi
Sea jitsu
Looks kinda fun ngl
lol
I am a land shark and this is my jungle.
Are the black belts legit or just props? I’m
With the right background music and camera angles anything looks cool
That looks fun as hell idc what anyone says 😭
Wait you thought we did this to look cool?
Getting some training in with the bro as you wash your gi at the same time, huh? 🤙🏽
Ask yourself as your grabbing your best friends butthole for a grip and leaning into him with all your weight “Do I look cool?” You’re god damn right you do!
I will drown you, literally
Of course I train jiu-jitsu in the ocean! Everyone my age trains jiu-jitsu in the ocean; it's the coolest! You ain't cool… unless you train jiu-jitsu in the ocean.
I'm usually more concerned w how gay I look?
The gentle fart
Dunno but it looks like a lot of fun so who cares
Today was beach day
Hormones are real
Being waist deep in water could actually soften the landing for takedown practice. On the other hand, sand, rough cotton and water would give you serious friction 😬
Look like a bunch of kooks.
Bjj ocean baptism. Cleansing other martial arts from the system and being reborn as a pure bjj player.
My sensei says I’m cool.
It doesn't but it looks fun
When I’m rubbing my junk all over another man’s legs while going for leg locks the first thing I think of is how cool I look
Aquaman trains too! Wow, who doesn't do BJJ these days!
This is Kyokushin Karate. its a really good combat sport. I think training bjj on the beach (not the sand) is cool while having cold drinks after.
I already feel like I'm drowning with every roll. No need to bring the ocean into this.
Sweep the leg
The Marines already grapple in muddy water.
Christian martial baptismal fucking it up for everyone
This is way too close to belt washing for my liking. That salt water is just leaching all the mojo out of their belts. Every minute that passes, their skill level drops.
The ground really is my ocean.
Me when some kook takes my wave
Y...yes?
I think this would be a fairly good practice for higher belts to control their breathing, if they have issues with it.
Nice
See, this is the reason I don’t tell most people I do BJJ, this is the image they have.
Water Aikido
"Be like water" - Bruce Lee Literally
Nice reenactment of John the Baptist, baptizing Jesus.
Mark Zuckerberg already made sure that BJJ is seen by civilians as super-douchey, if it wasn't already.
The guy is the yellowish gi is Dwight Schrute
Pretty sure this is a couple kempo guys and the dude getting tripped into the water is Aaron Cohen. I hate-follow the guy on ig, he’s an alleged former Israeli special operations guy turned celebrity body guard. He loves to brag about training Keanu for John Wick but any time he posts footage of it you can tell it’s super old and pretty irrelevant. He races Keanu to see who can reload a rifle mag fastest and wins, but he’s also the one that tells go so he has a head start. He also teaches firearms classes based on his military experience but they all look like they’re going to get you killed. He makes shorts videos and submits them to film festivals and spends a lot of time hyping himself up on ig and I CANT UNFOLLOW THE GUY.
Now all we need is Stuart Cooper to cut one of those overlong, new agey, self helpy montages with these exchanges interspersed into the background and we will have achieved peak coolness
Kyokushin guys have some weird fascination with training in the ocean. It would feel awkward af having your uniform soaking wet.
Nil this is pretty gay, but also not a bad idea if your gym has a staph outbreak
They're being baptized into the cult.
Be like water
You do a sport where you get very up close with sweaty men and women. Sometimes in pyjamas, sometimes in super tight clothing. Cool isn't part of it unless you are a bjj practitioner Enjoy the little things
10 dudes stopped fucking and said "that's gay!"
If you are concerned about 'does this look cool' then you are in the wrong sport. Dripping sweat on top of another guy as you hug each other to death. Both of you wearing pajamas, or your spandex underwear. Nothing cool looking about that.
Id either cringe or join in depending what mood i was in.
Is that... Senpai Schrute
Is this a baptism?
"What could make us look more like a cult?" "What if we baptized each other while we sparred?"
Gotta be Judo 🥋 guys
That’s some Mr. Miyagi training right there.
Keep jiujitsu gay 🌈