Advice for BJJ white belt practitioners – Coach Firas Zahabi

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Coach Zahabi gives advice to BJJ white belt practitioners – how to train right in order to make progress without wasting time.


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  1. drill more is true! dont just roll with higher belts, it reinforces bad habits. Drill More! Yes, excellent advice.

  2. Mr. Firas, hello. I am a white belt and been training for 13 months. My coach said i was blue belt ready like 5 6 months ago, but he wont promote me without competition expirience (which is fine by me). The thing I'm struggling with is that I find drilling a waste of time. When we learn new move I only need to try it for like 10-15 times, and it enters my memory. I than try it on sparring, and it usually fails couple times at 1st but than i can hit it any time. Is it normal, and should i just shut up and drill, even if i feel like its not doing anything for me?

    P.C. I feel like rolling with higher belts is what actually makes me batter….

  3. This answers exactly my question i sent earlier. Great advice i will carry this with me. Thank you.

  5. PURE GOLD!! Thank you SO much for this, Coach! I'm a fit 45yr old who's trained gymnastics and lifting his entire life while maintaining the same mobility and flexibility I had when I was a kid…yet as a BJJ newbie, I feel exactly what you described. Going in and rolling 3 times a week when you don't know WTF you're doing is just incredibly taxing, while the return on investment is very slim. My instructor is a 3rd degree Renzo Gracie Black Belt who is an excellent teacher and mentor. He told me "Come in and do the drills portion of the class as many days as you want but keep the actual sparring/rolling to 2 days a week and no more." This coming week I will start doing (FINALLY!, LOL) what both of you have said. Learn the steps and THEN later down the road, get on the floor and dance.

  8. Sadly most schools are meatheads with 3×1/3 programs and force full on sparring on white belts , totally uninteligent

  9. My classes start off with technique then rolling. Would it be acceptable to go 4x a week and on two of those days do the technique and leave? Maybe make an excuse like you have work or something… 😂

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