7 BJJ Commandments To Train Safe & Improve Your Submissions (Episode 397)

Speaker 1: What up, guys? Welcome to The Jiu-Jitsu Podcast, episode number something, something or other, doesn't matter. But glad you guys are here. Um, today we're going to talk about a, I'm going to share a stat with you that I'm pretty happy about, um, that I, I think is pretty I don't want to say important, but it's it's noteworthy. And um, we'll talk about why it is. And then we'll also talk about seven different rules or commandments to follow if you want to train safely, if you want to improve your jiu-jitsu, make your submissions better, and keep longevity in mind. So basically, seven tips, seven, seven commandments for safe and sustainable training. And if you do these right, again, you can mitigate a lot of the injuries associated with different techniques. Now, again, you can't eliminate injuries in jiu-jitsu. Ultimately, jiu-jitsu is one of those things where it's like two cars driving on opposite directions down the road, right? Like, you know, no matter how much you work on making everything safe, things just happen sometimes, right? Accidents happen. Uh, but nonetheless, some really useful ways to help be safe in your gym and train and actually get a lot from your training, and we'll talk about why. Um, so hopefully this will help you guys out with your training in uh 2026. Big thanks to our sponsors for helping make this podcast happen. Charlotte's Web CBD, they're one of the OGs in the CBD space. Been around for a long time. If you guys have never checked them out, they have a really cool story. They basically, there was this young girl named Charlotte. Um, and I like sharing this story because I think it's interesting. They had this young girl named Charlotte who was having a some certain illnesses that were supported by CBD oil, which was not really a thing that was widely available at the time. 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And so, don't feel too bad, but, you know, kind of keeping away from everybody because in this instance, just as a quick side note, for any of you guys that train jiu-jitsu, when you start getting sick or you're not feeling good, again, sharing is not caring in that sense. You don't want to bring that stuff around, you want to stay home. Even if, even if you think you could train, just stay home and heal up because again, it would be better for you not to run yourself ragged anyway. Speaker 2: Mhm. Speaker 1: And you also don't want to get everybody else sick. But anyway, that said, if you guys would like to get my daily email and also receive an ebook that I give away for free along with a video series, uh, check out my website at jiu-jitsu.net/join. When you join up, uh, you'll get access to my daily email that I send out, which again, thousands of people love the damn thing. They read it every day. Um, and then if you like that, you'll enjoy it. And then also, too, it comes with a free ebook and video guide that goes through ideas on how to get more focus with your jiu-jitsu and to get more, um, improvement with your skill from training sessions and open rolling sessions. A lot of you guys don't have the ability to sort of manipulate your training like coaches do, but you have the ability to manipulate your open rolling and get more out of it. And it'll show you how to do that. It'll just give you 12 ways you could do that. Um, so check it out at jiu-jitsu.net/join. Guys, with that said, let's jump into this podcast. [Music] Speaker 1: Here's the stat. I was I was mentioning that I have a a stat that I'm happy to share about or I'm happy to talk about. Basically, I've been training jiu-jitsu since 2003. And in that 20-plus long year journey of grappling with sweaty humans, I've won lots of competitions, I became a pro MMA fighter, but even with all that intense training, hard rolling and everything else, I've never injured anyone with a submission in training. And I've also never been injured by a submission in training. Now, I've accidentally injured people and I've been accidentally injured myself, right? So it's gone both ways, just not not with a submission. And this is one of the reasons why, you know, I'm 40 I'll be 41 this year. And with after 20-plus years of wrestling mileage on my body, I feel pretty damn good. I see some people sometimes, you know, they uh, it it's like this badge of honor. People talk about how jiu-jitsu's wrecked their body and this and that. I'm like, well, maybe you. But I've been doing this stuff for 20-some odd years. I feel great. My body feels amazing. Again, I'm still relatively young, but when you think about training for 20-plus years and you're at the point where, at least for me, I'm at the point where in most athletic things, people are kind of at the point where they're retiring, um, I'm still going strong. I feel pretty good. And again, I think this is important. Um, one of the the one of the reasons for this is because of the way that I've trained with submissions, because I tell you that a lot of uh, the people that came before me in the gym, like in uh, like the people the generation of jiu-jitsu practitioners that came