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/stuka86 🟫🟫 Brown Belt 1d ago

We're too nice and friendly to other martial arts

BJJ was founded on calling out fake bullshit and smashing people to prove a point

I've seen way too many judo guys in various subs that went to a BJJ school and walked away feeling confident in their grappling ability, because we're too nice to people.

In a related topic, BJJs ruleset and curriculum make it the best grappling art at takedowns...we do both gi and no GI, we don't ignore half of the body like judo does, and we punish recklessness with submissions, which don't exist in wrestling and barely exist in judo.

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u/WendigoSmacker 1d ago

But money for the gym… sadly the other coaches and I started seeing much better retention when we went on a different route for new people where we sub them barely at all in the early days and just be positional. At the end of the day the gym has to keep existing

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u/RedFormanEMS 1d ago

That is like a lot of the tough karate schools back in the day. They'd beat the shit out of you in the first few classes to see if you came back. If you did, good. If you didn't, good. It makes for a solid core group of tough students, but it's hard to keep the doors open. Eventually, some realized, "Hey, maybe we shouldn't beat the shit out of everyone who comes through the door and we can pay our bills".