It’s like some bizarre game of Twister except on another human body. It is literally like nothing you’ve ever done before. Phase 1 - I have no clue what I’m doing You just saw this move for the first time, we’ll call it the ‘sushi bar’. In the meantime expect to go through these four phases for just about every technique you learn for quite a while. If you do that, the rest will take care of itself. The most important thing is to show up and be consistent. I wanted to let everyone experiencing something similar that it’s ok, relax. I missed many an exit on the highway driving to and from BJJ class, rapt in concentration and trying to remember all of the steps to the techniques I just learned. It can be a huge source of frustration when you’ve just learned how to do all of these cool moves and you can’t remember how to do a single one of them after. This is multiplied by the fact that not only are new players trying to remember the technique they just saw but the three other ones the instructor showed earlier in the class. One thing just about everyone struggles with when starting Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is remembering all of the steps involved when learning a new technique. So, for those of you having a hard time with starting BJJ here is, in my experience, what you should expect: A lot of people quit before then just because they think they are doing so poorly when, in reality, what they were experiencing is fairly common.
And I didn’t gain that perspective and understanding until almost a year in. The real problem is I didn’t have perspective on how the learning process in BJJ works. I can distinctly remembering considering quitting a number of times when I was a white belt out of frustration and thinking that I did not have the athletic ability to train BJJ. This is something I’d thought I’d share for all the people relatively early in their training career.
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