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RE: Musings from the BJJ Gi #11, Lesson 12; body fold takedown, & positional control - mount
you definitely want a variety of types of partners to train with, both in terms of size and bodystyle BUT also getting used to the different games of bjj. it is also great if you get to train with some folks who's grappling base is not bjj. catch wrestlers, judoka, sambo dudes and luta livre types all feel different to roll with. pure wreslters as well but in a way not so much as the wrestling base does not have submissions so as wrestlers train more and more in bjj they become less and less alien to the pure bjj guy.
in my experience anyway
Thanks for the comment man! I'd love to mix it up with different grappling styles sometime in the future for sure, but at the moment I'm a little restricted with my resources (time and money), and also just getting the hang of the essential basics of BJJ self defence. I'm super keen and curious to discover the universe of ways that I can currently get my ass kicked though, haha! A solid series of lessons in humility is healthy for the ol' ego.
yes you can be learning and growing in bjj all your life if you chose to, so there is no rush to find others
but it is interesting when other people come in, I actually can often tell what someone else trained in before they came to us.
you will have to be careful when wrestlers and judoka come in, it isn't that they are naturally like with a bad attitude but what happens is they have very limited time so they get very used to doing things with a lot of force and they often cause injuries when they first come to bjj.
it was mindbogglingly frustrating to me until I figured it out because the most dangerous guy in the room was not the most skilled guy in the room but at the same time he was one of the nicer guys in the room. so it was very difficult to reconcile all of that in my mind until I got it figured out. The Judoka wasn't trying to hurt anyone, he was just used to years of grappling where you have a small handful of seconds to get your submission in and working or be stood back up. he was only moving as he had been trained to move.