Ive been lifting for a while but I feel kinda aimless. I would like to start a sport that would add discipline to my routine.
Is bjj worth it in that regard?
I hate any sport except martial arts but I have a high paying job so any cte causing sport is out of the question like Muay thai
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It's a good sport, you just have to deal with nerds who finally can be physically dominant in something and navy seal wannabes. It's not that bad. Also if someone says "wow you're so strong" it's meant as an insult. They're calling you a lumbering gorilla with no skill and only muscles to rely on. Lift anyways and get strong. I've seen guys brute force their way out of situations in BJJ and win. Do plenty of cardio too so you can outlast your opponents and exploit their lack of conditioning. It's a very skill dominant sport but any advantage in physicality is a good thing regardless of how much skinny weaklings cope about it.
How long does it take to become a blue belt?
However long it takes you to learn the basics thoroughly
Giving out belts is more or less arbitrary between gyms or even individual coaches
At the gym I went to in college, it took around a year
i was in your shoes 6-7 years ago. i quit lifting, started bjj, never looked back.
only disadvantage is that you have to be at classes at specific times, which can frick with your schedule as you get older.
2 years at about 3-4 days a week is pretty standard
sometimes less if you have a good wrestling or judo background
A year is normal if you go regularly. If you are obsessive maybe 6 months.
>meant as an insult
not when you've got a wrestling background and your solid base makes literally everything they do a struggle
Any competent wrestler can slam a BJJ homosexual.
BJJ is unrealistic BS revolving on soft ground and heavy clothing to give closeted homosexuals an excuse to rub sweaty mens scrotums
All grapplers are homosexuals anon, just accept it
Why does seeing grappling immediately make you think about having sex with men?
>Why does seeing two men having sex make you think of gay sex?
I do no gi BJJ, and there have been many occasions where young athletic wrestlers come in and get destroyed in BJJ.
They put themselves into bad positions all the time.
>Wrestler loses to blowjobber in blowjob
Oh no
Have them go in with no rules
>IT'S MA'AM!!!
Lifting isn't as important in strict BJJ, especially when you are in Gi. Cardiovascular endurance will carry you pretty far though, don't get me wrong being strong can always help, and that is just as true here, but most of the time you are going to be angling for superior position, think of it like chess in that regard.
Yes, bjj is great. I will just say that wrestling as a stand-alone style will give you more options and dominance if you switch to bjj than vis versa.
If you can find a sambo, wrestling, or judo gym, consider them as well.
I’d argue that up until recently with leg legs and more fancy things, bjj was wrestling with submissions. The positions are almost all the same aside from guard
Wrestling isn´t that easy to get into past highschool/college and both wrestling and judo are harder on the body than BJJ, so more suited to the hobbyist imo.
>getting hit lightly on the head a few times a year
That´s not how most boxing or muay thai gyms operate lol
I doubt op is going to be training like an actual competitive fighter, so if he's just going to normie classes then that is absolutely how they operate.
Bjj is full of nerds. If you wanna do Muay Thai then do muay thai, you're not gonna get cte from taking casual Muay Thai classes and getting hit lightly on the head a few times a year you sperg.
It´s a great sport, very technical and fun. You can go pretty hard without getting injured or getting a concussion, unlike most other martial arts.
I used to do muay thai, but I grew more concerned about my brain health and can´t really go to work with a black eye, so pretty much in the same boat as you. Of course you can also get a scratch mark or something on your face from rolling, but it doesn´t really happen that often.
But be aware that it takes a few months to get the hang of the sport, so just stick with it for a while and see if you like it.
I think I will like it. I'm just afraid of being too injured all the time to continue lifting
I worked with this guy, he was an Italian homosexual and yes, vegan.
It would be so easy to flip that degenerate twink over the railings
Very fun, def reccomend. keep lifting too, it reduces your chances of injury by strengthening your tendons and addressing muscle imbalances
It's 90% cardio
All the worst long lasting injuries martial artists get is from BJJ and judo. Every BJJ I've spoke with always has something fricked up in their joints or neck of whatever. Maybe something like karate point fighting would be better
Thats a quilt anon. He's clearly an average Glasgow male