E170 | The "Dirty Debater" Concept: How to Interrupted and Reset in Jiu-Jitsu

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And those people that I—that I train with that are so much better than me, I understand that they're going to get what they want at some point. I understand I'm not as good as them. I didn't have enough time on the mats hours-wise, not years, and they're just better than me. Maybe they're bigger, maybe they're stronger, maybe they're more technical, maybe they're younger. It doesn't matter. I have to understand, I'm going to lose this battle. I am going to lose, I already know. But I'm going to be as annoying as possible during this this endeavor. I'm going to fight an asymmetrical battle where my objective isn't to win, it's just to muck up everything he wants to do. It's to throw a wrench in there, it's to get my knee back into position when he thought he cleared it. It's to start getting an underhook even when it didn't feel possible. It's to get on my side when he's trying to put me on my back. It's to bridge when he thought he couldn't get me to move, where he didn't think I could move. Those little things is like what a dirty debater will do. It's just enough to bother them, it's enough to throw this enough to throw them off off guard, to make them have to think. And sometimes those days, especially as a hobbyist, 45, I call those wins. I didn't win the round. I didn't win the the exchange when it came to submissions. Maybe he didn't get a submission. That's a win. Like technically and and for the sake of my progression and what I'm able to do against someone that's so much better than me, that's a win for me. That's a positive. They should have been able to submit me and they weren't. Positive. And I understand the the pro may not look at it that way. They might look at it, "Well, you still lost on points." I don't give a fuck. That's not my point. My point is I wanted to survive against a much younger, much more technical, much stronger, faster, more athletic person, and they could not submit me. I survived, I was healthy, I got to fight another day. We're in good shape.

So start thinking about those little movements, the little things that you can do to annoy people. Be a little brother. And I know I'm throwing a bunch of little like thoughts and and and comparisons out there. I don't care which one you gravitate to, I don't care which one you like. Take one of them; they're all the same and at the end of the day. Be as annoying as possible when it comes to these these some of these rounds where you know you're just you're going to get worked. Um, and that's that's the fun for me. Sometimes people get annoyed and you can tell they're getting annoyed. Sometimes they'll even tell you afterwards, "Man, I I don't know, I couldn't couldn't get past your butterfly hook. I couldn't get past your knee shield. Your underhook kept coming back." Those are great things. Get known for that. And once you get really good at that, what happens is you get really good at interrupting people, and the people that are so much better than you, that those same tactics work even better against your own peers and even more so against the people that are not as skilled as you. So it's a it it's something that builds interest and allows you to grow, because now you can develop the game that you really want to develop because you were able to to to make these problems for people and buy yourself time.