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Speaker 3:Hey, what's up guys? My name is Zach . Uh, Joey. It's okay. You could try to guess where I'm from. I won't, I won't be offended. <laugh> <laugh> . Uh, quick question about rolling with females. We have a few gals that come to my gym, but it seems like they're never there on the same day. So there's always like one chick and a bunch of dudes and I feel bad because I could tell that the girls want to roll sometimes. There's a few that are pretty hardcore , but they don't have another female partner to roll with. Um, I'm wondering <laugh> , like I would love to approach them and ask 'em to roll with me. I'm a married dude. My wife comes to class with me sometimes. No creepy vibes whatsoever. I just want these chicks to be able to have the chance to train as much as they want to without feeling uncomfortable. So have you guys ever dealt with this? I just wanna be a good juujitsu partner and make sure everybody's getting what they need. And it seems like the girls really have a hard time getting everything they can get out of class because they don't have another partner to roll with. So is it creepy if I ask 'em if they wanna roll with me or do I just look like a dude that's trying to hit 'em up because I'm too tired for all that I've got my check . I just wanna train juujitsu and make sure everybody else feels comfortable as well. So thanks cast .
Speaker 2:Cool, Zach . What a legend. I'm gonna say it's a country vibe. Definitely country vibe. I would say maybe even , 'cause you said gals and it's almost like a little , I'm thinking a little bit of like a , a muscular Kenny Powers, I mu <laugh> , you know, it's got a little bit of that speaker , I'm , I'm guessing it's gotta be somewhere in the south. Could be. But uh , you got me there Zach . Don't wanna pigeonhole you, but I'm , I'm , I'm getting that vibe. It's a great question. That's a very , uh, that's a very sensible question. Uh , I don't think you need to be concerned anything about creepy vibes. Like no , it is an awesome thing to go, Hey, do you wanna roll ? Yeah . Right . Whether it's a a , you know, female, male, whatever. I think it's good to acknowledge that it's, and we've spoken about this on the show before, it's a tough one. Like Jiujitsu is tougher for women than it is for men because of the fact that there's not many women in it. Sure. Right. Not girls or women. Right. And so yeah. Training partners of their size is, is less and all those other things that come about with the, you know, whatever disparity. I think that you should like cultivate a training relationship. Like, like, hey, let's roll. I'm like, let's roll every session and let's, like, and probably what you're gonna need to do, like you do with all your training partners is you tend , I I find you tend to get into a , a style of training with each person, right? Yeah. You're like, oh , this is the, the , the cat that I have to go really hard on because they're nonstop. That's what they bring. Or this is the cat that's like 20 years older than me and I , I play a little bit slower and pretty chill. Yeah. You know, or maybe it's like, oh , I'm way stronger than this person. So I'm, I I I try to just like, use some techniques that I'm not that good at and I get, I I defend more and get in a bad positions. I don't know . Yeah, no, I'm, I'm, I'm with you. I think that's a really, I agree with everything Joey said there. I I just think it's, it's personalities, right? You , you might roll with a woman who is trying to take your freaking head off, so you have no option but to match that energy. And I'm very much, whenever I roll, it's just match and mirror. So if someone's bringing heat, you just try and meet them . Or if you sense that somebody's trying not to go crazy, then you just Yeah. Kind of going with that. And it's really up to you to have that agreement with your partner that you understand this is, this is gonna be a bit of a harder role. And if you're a bigger, stronger human, yeah, you would always, you know, employ discretion around how much pressure you put on them. But look, if your wife's there at training, she trains, I would say she would get it. And if everyone knows that you are taken, so to speak, I think it's pretty easy to manage the, the creepy element. Most people who do juujitsu are not given two about getting up close and personal . You know, you accidentally punch someone in the boob or just kick you in the face. Like it's just, you know, it's jujitsu game the game. It is the game. So I feel like we have talked about it on previous episodes, but I feel like understanding your training partner is the most important thing. Gender to the side and just kind of making sure that you are rolling them , uh, on terms that they're happy with whatever that looks like. Yeah. Next question also, Zach . Whoa . So z hang on a second.
Speaker 4:Good day lads. Zach here. Um, I've been binging your show lately. Really great stuff . Thank you. I'm pretty fresh in the grappling scene. I'm a two stripped white belt, probably about 12 months in for Jiujitsu and Orange Belt and Judo probably about eight months into that. Oh yeah. Um, my question is how do you deal with being a big guy that trains majority of the time with majority smaller , um, training partners? Because when it comes to competing the size discrepancy, when , when it comes to actually facing someone in your weight division , um, as being throwing me off, any tips around that? Um, any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
Speaker 2:That's a tricky one. It is tricky. Look, I feel when you are the bigger human , uh, you've got to , and you , you're rolling with smaller people, you've gotta try to be more technical. You know, you're not, you're not gonna use as much of your physicality, like try to express as much jiujitsu as you have. Now , obviously you're early in the game, so maybe you haven't got like a big arsenal of techniques, but you've got greater bandwidth for messing up if you're a big human. 'cause if it goes sideways, you can always just power out. Yeah , you can. You don't , not that you have to, to a point . Yeah. Yeah. Up until a point, and you would even find this in judo Zach , that like, if you're much bigger and stronger than the person you are , you are uh , doing standup with, you can just kind of grip 'em and stop 'em from moving and they can't do much. If you are competing, you actually need to seek out bigger training partners. Yeah. Like, you know, I dunno where your coach is at, but you , your coach would probably be aware. You're a big human. You're not getting those roles in. For you to be competitive in the heavyweight category, you've gotta go somewhere where you can throw down with the big monsters. If you don't do that, you're not gonna be a successful competitor. Yeah. Maybe like, maybe it's , it's a case of trying some different classes at your gym, like meeting with some different crew that maybe you don't cross paths with normally and finding somebody you're like, oh , we're a good match for each other. And then like, hey, let's, let's really make an effort to come to Friday nights together or Saturdays or whatever and get a couple of rounds with that person. Yeah. Surely. Yeah. You would think there's gotta be someone that's oversized there. Here's an alternative kind of view on that. Um, I rolled on the weekend , um, at , at a gym here in Sydney. Bunch of good guys. First role was with a, with a really good black belt and alliance black belt. Can't remember his name. Little bazillion guy. Like really fast, really technical, amazing guard, right? I'm the bigger guy in the role. I need to employ all of my strength and weight against a guy like that. Sure. Because I cannot match him on a speed agility or even not technical level. But like his guard was like, you know, he , he , his guard was able to overcome my guard defenses. He's touching me in places I've never been touched before. <laugh> so mystery . And Adam, my coach Adam, our friend, was the first person to tell me that. He's like, bro, when you are rolling with someone who's uh , smaller than you, they're going to use their advantage, which is usually speed and like quickness movement against you. So you gotta use your advantage. And likewise, when you're rolling against someone bigger, you gotta be fast. Sure . So of course I'm not gonna employ that against someone who is not only smaller, but also like a blue belt. Like , uh, you gotta respect the skill discrepancy. Um, but it's just an interesting thing. So maybe then for you Zach , it's like, alright , who can I roll with that's better than like, they're gonna be smaller 'cause you're the big guy in the gym, but they're better, technically better. You could say in on some, in some way. There, there's a balancing out of attributes. Yeah . In which case just go for it. True. You know? Yeah. Yeah. I I guess if the person is game and, and has that Yeah . And has that ability to take big guy pressure, then yeah, you could, you could kind of take the lid off it a little bit. But ultimately over time, obviously we dunno how big you are. I mean, he could be a big Harris kind of , I'm one 90 kgs bro . <laugh>, you gotta seek out some big bodies. Yeah . Last question. Coming in from anonymous, know guy's always leaving us questions.
Speaker 5:Um , uh, I'm not grasped , but Josh Sanders says that stretching was pointless.
Speaker 2:<laugh> <laugh> amazing. What was the , what'd he say? I'm not, I'm not, I'm , I think he said I'm not a grass . Like I'm not a, it's a Scottish term for like, I'm, I'm not a snitch <laugh>. Okay. You know what I mean? Anyway. I used to you with the , well no, I used to watch a lot of BBC back in the day 'cause I was only allowed to watch the A BC . Yep . Like man having a strict left wing up the bill upbringing. Yeah. The bill or Yeah , Claude Greengrass <laugh> like , and the bill that was so boring, he's grasped me up. Did your parents watch Inspector Rex? Yeah. Yeah . Right . All that Inspector Rex is a police show from Germany about a police dog called Rex Rex . And Rex always feels the ham sandwich that his partner is . It's so stupid, hilarious stuff . Anyway, mate, look, Josh Saunders. Josh Saunders a notorious, big, strong heavyweight Australian competitor representing Australia at A DCC last year. Yeah . One , one of the best at that weight in Australia says that stretching is pointless. But see that's, that's a very general statement. And you know, the man loves a soundbite . To his credit, you know , I've rolled Josh before. His hips have reasonably, he, he has huge strong legs, like more so than his upper body. I mean, he's got a big upper body, but his legs are chunky. But he's, hi . He's actually re reasonably mobile. He's actually surprised me in how well he moves. I dunno if that's relevant to his lifting. He's obviously gonna say it's got nothing to do with stretching. Um, I'm, I'm gonna say this, let's recontextualize that and say Josh Saunders has said that in terms of jujitsu performance, you know, like competitive performance. Can you be really good at jujitsu and not be super flexible? Maybe you can for sure, but how long can you do that for? Because I'm gonna say once you get that peck rupture, once you get that bicep rupture because your muscles have maybe developed too quickly, 'cause maybe you take steroids and your tendons and ligaments haven't kept up , uh, then you're gonna have to do some stretching after you've had surgery and get some movement back in that bad boy . Because for longevity it matters in the short term . Maybe it doesn't matter. So not being a grass , but just saying if you, you're interested in being healthier, incorporating some stretching is there. If you, you know, and I would say performance, it still matters too. It's just so far Josh Saunders in his, you know, rocket rise in Brazilian jiujitsu hasn't needed it. Let's see where he's at in three or four years. Yeah. It's , it's a , it's very contextual, right? It's it's the same way, like when Danaher says he hasn't seen no physical condit effectiveness of any strength conditioning. And it's like, well, fair enough. Because based on like, he's like, I'm just interested in the best like creating the best athletes . It's not, it's not fair enough because GSP did a ton of train conditioning. No , no , no . But he's so did his other athletes . No , no , but he's saying no system is better than another. He's like, just whatever. They're all pretty good. Whether you're doing gymnastics or power lifting or No , but no, no . We don't have to go into what Danaher said, but continue . But my point being is that if we're talking strictly about performance on the mat for that person, well there's gonna be, there's gonna be biases, right? And so yeah, definitely. What , what we see at the heavyweight division is that there's not a lot of flexibility involved. Generally. Sometimes you see a heavyweight competitor like Victor Hugo, where you're like, they got a pretty flexible guard. Like even um, old mate , uh, cyborg is actually in his lower body, very flexible, right? Like tornado guard, inverting and Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So in that regard, yeah, whereas we're not really talking about, like for us, we're not interested in the elite levels of competition. We're interested in keeping people on the mats healthy, strong for a long time, and also so that they can live a healthy life. And that's where stretching is super important. Um , but I would also argue that for like someone like a Josh Saunders is a bit of an outlier. So while he hasn't had to do any stretching and he's still one of the best at his weight, I would say that the majority of people who are doing jiujitsu probably could benefit from doing like their jiujitsu performance would benefit from stretching. I would also argue you don't need steroids to do Jiujitsu, but maybe Josh Saunders would disagree with that. It's up to you . I'm not a grass , but it's, it's, it's for the people to decide. No, it's not like you've gotta think about what works for you. Obviously Josh Saunders is doing very well and is a great competitor. Hats off to him, thumbs up for sure. We need to dig a little bit deeper than the soundbite to go, is this the correct information for me? That's what I would say. And I would say probably not just putting it out there. Yeah, agreed. Alright , my friends, we love you to bits , we love when you send us in these questions because we like to give you information that applies to you. And hopefully when we answer these questions, you get that little bit of like, sweet, I , I understand something a bit better and, and maybe your jujitsu life gets a little bit better. And you know what we get out of this whole process. I was saying to Joe the other day, we hit that million download thing and I was like, whoa, now did , now I can just retire. No <laugh>. Oh sweet . Hang up the mic. We'll just keep reposting old episodes, bro . Yeah. Don't worry about new content. But that's not what it is. 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