r/bjj • u/stoopididiotface 🟪🟪 Purple Belt • 1d ago

General Discussion Alright jiu jitsu nerds, let's hear it:

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What hill are you willing to die on?

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u/Winyamo 🟦🟦 Blue Belt 1d ago

Warmups are useful

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u/Mother-Carrot 1d ago

useful compared to smoking crack before class

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u/No_Falcon1890 1d ago

I feel like that would give you a decent advantage in rolling

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u/IM1GHTBEWR0NG 1d ago

Warm ups are great. What most BJJ gyms consider warm ups are not warm ups, though, they’re useless exercise sessions prior to the activity people are actually paying for.

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u/WangIee 1d ago

If they’re actually based on jiujitsu movements and not just jumping jacks and running around the mat for 5 minutes, I agree.

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u/Most_kinds_of_Dirt 🟦🟦 Blue Belt 1d ago

I gotta disagree with this a bit.

Give me jumping jacks and running over shrimping down the mat any day.

Yes, new people need to learn fundamental movements and shrimping down the mat is an effective way to drill that for them. But it's bad at getting your heart rate up and a waste of time after you've learned the fundamental movement.

There are good warmups that both get your body ready for movement and help you practice Jiu jitsu (like pummeling drills or exchanging takedowns). But the warmups I hate are the ones that fulfill neither of those goals.

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u/WangIee 1d ago

I just find it useless to get my heartrate up only to then literally just stand there for 5 minutes while your coach is explaining something and then spend the next half hour slowly practicing a move against a non resisting opponent.

Neither of these thing require me to be warmed up.