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🥋 Should celebrities be held to different Jiu Jitsu standards?
Plus: the key concepts you need to be a strong guard passer.
Flowroll
March 13, 2023
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What up Flowrollers, it’s a great day to ask for easy rounds and proceed to go 120% balls to the wall.
Last week’s poll on lineage was a mixed bag… some people still think who you get your belts from is critical, while others have a sour taste in their mouth from “family and loyalty” being used as an excuse for poor business practices. Most people ended up somewhere in the middle though”
I can relate to this take:
Lineage is just one factor of many in your Jiu Jitsu experience.
Anyways let’s get to it, slap-and-bump 👊🏻
THE MAIN EVENT 🚨
Singer and actress Demi Lovato received her purple belt last month. Predictably, the internet went nuts with a debate over whether she really earned it.
Jiu Jitsu Times posted a really interesting interview with Chris Light, Demi Lovato’s coach. He went into detail about the adjustments he has to make when training high profile students:
Someone like Travis Barker, or another client of mine who was a brain surgeon, literally can’t afford to hurt their hands, or it’s a disaster.
Throwing them into a group scenario with other students who are still learning how to move and train collaboratively is simply too risky. So depending on what will best allow any particular student to get on the mats and keep training, that’s what I’m going to try to do.
What do you think… can you really earn a purple belt if you’re just doing privates with your coach and not getting in the mix with sparring in group classes?
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TECHNIQUE CORNER 🧠
Jordan Teaches Jiu Jitsu is one of my favorite YouTube channels. In his latest video, he breaks down a bunch of high level concepts for passing the guard.
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