Drewlock

Available for privates If you've been following and it's shaped how you think about grappling, this is a way to bring it into your own training. Learn Jiu Jitsu drewlock.gumroad.com/l/lessons

@Vibelawyer @marchingAnt21 lol appreciate it

@drewlock @marchingAnt21 I went back and made my purchase. At minimum I’ll enjoy showing the books to my grandchildren and telling them the story of it’s ordering. I’ll also enjoy ostentatiously reading it in a café. And talk about the importance of printed media 🙏

I came across this idea of walking up to the edge of nothing. You can’t enter it. You can’t fully know what’s there. But you can feel where your knowing ends.Roll with someone who’s really fluent in Jiu Jitsu and you’ll feel it instantly. There’s something he’s doing you can’t even name. You can’t trace the cause. You can’t see where it’s coming from. That’s the edge. It’s where your old perceptions stop working and new ones appear. The common response at the edge is to retreat back to what you already know. Grip harder. Force techniques. Try to collapse the mystery into something familiar or freeze. On the other side of the edge is a perception you don’t have yet. Something he can feel that you still can’t detect. It’s in the tension. Where the weight is shifting. Which options are opening. Where the exchange is going before it becomes obvious. A fluent grappler is not stronger or faster. He’s tuned into a layer of the exchange you haven’t learned to feel yet. That perception only develops if you’re willing to stay at the edge long enough for a new perception to form. Learn Jiu Jitsu

@thegrtwh1te lol, yea you can get it online, the link works understanding-grappling.netlify.app

@drewlock So it is available online through the link? Or just local? I’m a bit confused?

Out now, locals only edition. The version I wish I found 10 years ago.  My first real attempt at putting this method into a physical form. This is the most authentic version I could make, the one I had to write for myself first.  I want to see what happens when this work lands on paper. When somebody reads it, sits with it, lets it generate insights over time. Because that’s what this method still does for me. It keeps generating insights. There’s a lot of meat on the bone here. I’m still discovering things inside this framework, and my students are starting to prove it too. I know it works because I can see it in myself, and now I’m watching it show up in other people. This one isn’t made for scale. I made this for myself. For my kids. For my students at the dojo. For the locals I train with in person and online. This October will be 10 years solo owning and operating my own academy.  Ten years of figuring out what a place like this is actually for. The next thing I want to write about is the dojo itself. How you cultivate a place with space and time for risk, ritual, and relevance.  That’s what I’ve always optimized for. As an owner, you can be good at monetization, good at distribution, good at competition, but would you actually want to be a student there?  For now, this is the locals only edition. A little collector’s item from the early stage of the project. Not sure how long I will make it available. So if you're reading this, you're a local. Go pick it up. Tell me what insights start showing up for you. Let’s build on it together. Shout out to the locals Learn Jiu Jitsu

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@Vibelawyer @marchingAnt21 lol, I’m not a blackbelt in publishing. Streamlined it as best I could, still hunting for better ways to set it up.

@drewlock @marchingAnt21 I didn’t buy it but I got really far through the ordering process before I finally give up because I didn’t have some of the billing information on me and I wouldn’t be surprised if I go back and finish ordering it and it turns out to be the best 33 bucks I ever spend 👍

@marchingAnt21 Appreciate it! I’m sure you’ll enjoy. Looking forward to hear what kind of insights it brings you.

@drewlock 🫡

I had to go back and watch it too. Didn’t really notice it in the moment, but I got him pushing into my grip and anchored his weight into the opposite leg. What you can’t really see is the sweep was sticky. I followed his foot in the air as long as I could, so he couldn’t just put it back down That’s why it looked smooth. I didn’t just catch the foot. I stayed attached to it.

@D_The_Husband @RGAZ4LIFE Good call

You make a great point. One of my favourite parts of Jiu Jitsu is the rolling. And I don't mind giving up a position if it means I'll be safer in the long run. For example, if we are falling in a way that might hurt me but I could get out of it if I scramble, I'm finding I usually would rather lose the position and be safer than possibly hurt myself scrambling at 40 years old.

Feeling this. I wouldn’t trade being a world champion in my 20s if it meant being too broken to train in my 40s. I’m a couple years from 40, and more than anything I want to make this last. I’m aware I’m probably as durable as I’ll ever be, so I’m trying to send it while I can without taking too much chip damage. The plan is to stay on the mats for another 20 plus years. I’ve always had a strange intrinsic motivation for Jiu Jitsu. Not necessarily to win, or even to constantly improve, but to roll. I just love the act of doing it. Should I have committed harder to competition when I was younger? Probably But I also know that path could have left me injured, burned out, or disconnected from the thing I actually love. Learn Jiu Jitsu

@bkwhite65 Good call

@drewlock My Professor says I did it right starting at 52 because my body wasn’t beat to hell and I can still train 😎

@BJJTN68 Good to hear!

@drewlock I am going to be 58 in June and I train 6 days a week. Recovery and being smart with rolls has me looking forward another 10 plus years.

@runliftrunlift Feeling this. Happy with what I still have left in the tank and caring more about loving the art for the long haul than burning myself out chasing a younger version of success.

The difficult part of being a Masters athlete is occasionally looking back on what was, or what could have been, and learning to let go. The best part is realizing how fortunate you are to still be doing it at all. I may not have the ability I had 10 or 20 years ago, but I’ve never had more fun than I do now.

@slicktrad3r To be fair he was gassed

@drewlock I’m sorry but how did he not react or defend at all to the foot sweep at the start of the clip

In Jiu Jitsu, style is the recurring shape of your value judgments. Not one judgment, but the pattern behind many judgments. One person values serious play, intrinsic motivation, and the feel of the exchange. Their style becomes exploratory, adaptive, and hard to articulate. They follow openings, test edges, and learn through sense of touch. Another person values winning, getting better, and proving progress. Their style becomes more linear, more narrow, more measurable. Every roll becomes evidence. Every mistake becomes a verdict. Every exchange becomes a test of identity. They may reach an intermediate level fast, but the mindset that gets them there becomes the very thing that keeps them from reaching fluency. One style is organized around possibility. The other is organized around proof. I’m not saying one is right or one is wrong. I’m saying they produce different timing, different cultures, different relationships to being. Learn Jiu Jitsu.

@ogaloganho Good call, grips doesn’t need to be perfect to take your shot. To be fair he was getting tired.

@drewlock seriously, since I come from judo, while watching your video I started thinking about some bad habits I still carry with me Althought you were making a kind of "soltinho" Overvaluing the grip is one of them.Id never try it without a great grip n you did that

@ogaloganho Give it a whirl

@drewlock I'll try doing de ahi barai with this kuzushi you did next time

Style is to Value Judgments as

@YesITrainAlways Yeah, I feel the same with Jitsu Jitsu setups. If his timing is off, he's getting launched.

Whiff punish