Anybody here train? Always wondering how you all deal with the massive amount of right wing hogs that train in BJJ? What ranks do you people have myself I am a purple belt in BJJ and got my orange belt in judo right before covid hit.
Big fan of bjj. I attended a few sessions when the school I worked at had it as a free after school program. Wish I could get back into it; I'm not a fan of striking, so these two were my faves
Oh how awesome! I really wanted to get into BJJ but all the places in the small town I lived were full of guys and I didn't really want to roll with some cops & chuds as a lil' lady. I think judo is a super effective self defense tech as a toss and run is the best tactic to deal with a street altercation besides seeing it and avoiding it altogether.
I can only imagine getting into it if you aren’t a cis man is intimidating
My first exposure to Judo was some crazy amazing athlete, I don't want to say Olympic but it might have been, who came into my BJJ gym one time. He was talking casually with my professor as he was getting thrown and making being thrown part of his own plan. It was incredibly awesome.
To what extent do people bring up politics/ disclose their chuddiness in the gyms you go to?
The environment at my gym is very right leaning and lots of cops train there I just keep my own personal politics to myself and train.
So I take that to mean just casual chuddy comments and vibes? Honestly, yeah, keeping stuff to myself and training would probably be my strategy.
I'll confess, I have no personal experience with bjj gyms, I've only done a little boxing and the two places I went when I did that didn't have a strong chud vibe (that I could notice at least, if I where to go back and interrogate the people there many were probably right-leaning given the right wing attraction to violence and domination). *EDIT: thinking back, I'm pretty sure there were no outright cops there, so maybe that's the difference?
I have a bunch of right wingers at my gym and then libs as well. One of my favorite people tugged at my heart strings when he started posting shit about Yang. Another person loves the same fantasy books as me but is a rich vet. That's just posting though. I dare say we almost never get into politics on the mats - and these are people I've known for 6 years. Unless you count the act of being a cop as political - perhaps it's more to say we never get into electoralism or... national priorities on the mat.
As a purple belt, my greatest accomplishment in BJJ is this one time after class I was shooting the shit with people and my professors invite me and a few other people back behind the gym to vape weed.
And to be honest with you, one of the greatest rewards I have in martial arts in general is feeling like I can hang with everyone else. I go to competition class and I'll score a double leg on my professor. I'll be laughing with a 15 year old and an MMA fighter within a couple seconds of each other. I've heard a lot of people talk about not being ready for their belt or something: I accept mine in a heartbeat. I (used to) feel like I live up to the purple. I don't feel less deserving than the other purples. I would show up any gym and wear it. I hope to one day feel this way about Muay Thai and MMA, that as long as I'm in a place of fighting that I can make jokes, have a good spar, and feel comfortable in my own skin.
I feel ya I’m one of the smallest guys at my gym and it’s nice to know that this stuff works when going against big guys. It’s nice to know that all that time in the mat pays off
I love hearing stories about this. Martial Arts are seriously the biggest confidence booster.
3 stripe blue belt in bjj and orange in judo. Cops and boogers are everywhere in the southern martial arts scene.
Do NOT under any circumstances friend these people on Facebook or Instagram or you will hate everyone at your dojo.
Was wanting to get into Bjj or some kind of self defense/martial art if not for practical purposes then just to have some kind of routine besides work and gym but then the pandemic hit and though some places are still operational I don't feel like getting into such close quarters with people rn.
I do Boxing right now but my gym also has BJJ and it’s taught by some legend I guess. I think once I feel like my stand up is good then I’ll move onto BJJ.
My gym is really diverse so I haven’t heard anything political yet. But a few people wear those cringe grunt style shirts.
Judo looks like a beautiful MA but it looks the most intimidating.
Don't do BJJ myself but you should see it as a motivation to get better than them, then each time you beat a chud in a match you can lean over them and tell them communism will win.
