Great advice for those thinking about starting.

delrealdeal · 2 months

If you came to this thread expecting to hear stories about people that didn't submit anyone on their first day, you're gonna have a bad time.

usefuladjective · 2 months

While totally true, please dear god let this meme die. ; ;

dsgiv · 2 months

So true. I was pretty sure of my self because I knew a few submissions, and I could beat all of my friends whom are bigger and stronger than me that play football. But then I rolled with my instructor the first 2 weeks who is a purple belt that has trained for 7 years...... and he whooped my ass all over the place. Its a great felling to know that you aren't that badass you made your self out to be, because then you can still learn so much.

easily_fooled · 2 months

The scariest thing when you start to roll is finding out how easily you can get your ass kicked. I'm a white belt but any friends who dont roll I would essentially run through but when you're out at night you never know who you might run into, its really humbling.

Hesperus · 2 months

Image macros are the worst, and you should feel bad.

[deleted] · 2 months

I actually did, but not really. I was rolling with the main instructor (I guess I was so inexperienced he didn't want to set me loose on the general population) and he let me take his back and then told me step-by-step how to choke him, while he only resisted a little bit. It was probably good for me, overall, just to see what it was like to advance through a few positions.

Glaeal · 2 months

I caught a guy in a guillotine, but he was just as new as I was. He was the only person I could catch in anything.

I just remember feeling clueless. Our instructor let us roll, and I had no idea what to actually do.

[deleted] · 2 months

My first day will be tuesday (7/17). I fully expect to learn something that I can use defensively to put off the inevitable tapping I will do. I have no illusions about making anyone else tap.

PresidentIke · 2 months

Ching chong choppy choppy

Cardinal--Zero · 2 months

i was rolling last week, and kept getting stuck on my back, need to work on the counter and sweeps

derexan · 2 months

It took me maybe a class at most before I submitted people.

That's because I did american collegiate style wrestling for a year before it, and I was running 6 miles a day. But forget me, let's play devils advocate with someone else.

Lets just say an extremely athletic person shows up, you don't think on his first day he could give an OKAY whitebelt a good roll on the first day? A lot of martial arts/fighting/bjj is conditioning.

timothytandem · 2 months

New freshmen class coming in August, can't wait ;) We always get a bunch of Tapout wearing guys that come in and think they can beat anyone, then just get worked on the ground.

xMacBethx · 2 months

I did submit someone my first day, a three stripe blue belt. I guillotined him, he tried telling me that it was illegal. He didn't train there much longer after that.

ciscomd · 2 months

I submitted 3 people on my first day. One armbar, one guillotine, and one improvised gi choke that even surprised me when he tapped. All 3 white belts but they were all bigger than me and had been training for 6-9 months. I had read several bjj books and watched mma and bjj almost compulsively for about 5 years before I took a class, and rolling came very naturally to me.

MajorOuterReap · 2 months

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Cantstandja · 2 months

I rolled with a much smaller guy on my first time, and I kept just spinning him around and choking him. Then I had to wrestle a 240lb gorilla who would just sit on top of me.

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