The most awkward BJJ situation for me was when I was rolling with this guy and he, out of the blue just says to me, "Is my cup bothering you"?
Ummmm.....
rofl wtf?
I once ended up in mount but facing the wrong way lol
This happens to me a lot against other whitebelts after half successful/failed omoplata or scissor sweeps
fuckin' weird thing to say. makes me think he might've been getting turned on by you lol
I don't find it that unusual. Cups can be really annoying, particularly if the guy has your back and is driving his cup into your spine. Also during knee bars and arm bars, I don't normally care when people wear cups, but when I get caught in those positions it's pretty irritating.
I just swung one leg over so I would be facing one side and took side control instead. The only thing I would think to do from that position is maybe a leg lock but most of these white belts rolling with us don't know how to defend it yet.
A fat lady sat on my face and made me tap. It really stink! And she was a purple belt.
Lol, right?
I was like, "Umm, no, it's fine"
But really, it hadn't crossed my mind at all, I was thinking about how I wanted to sweep the guy or whatever and he says that. Odd.
I've met a judoka who thought that only when training the ground game, the person trying to pass the guard shouldn't stand. How the hell to pass a guard then? I'm sure a guy like Roger or Marcelo Garcia may know how to do that, but I don't.
How do you tell people that? "Hey dude you smell like a chessboard"? I don't want to be "that guy".
In judo newaza we never stand up to pass the guard. I assumed that this was because if one person stood up in judo tournament competition that a ref would view that as "lack of progress" and restart both from the feet.
I mean, obviously if he's training BJJ he should adjust to the BJJ rules and training environment, but in the context of judo that's not bizarre behavior.
i think you'd be the first 'that guy' to ever exist.
When I started BJJ, my instructor at the time was one of those guys who sweats profusely after just breathing deep.
The problem wasn't the amount of sweat though, it was that for some inexplicable reason, his sweat smelled like an old chessboard my mom and dad used to have when I was a kid. I remember playing tons of games with my dad on that old ass chessboard. It was wooden with velour lining on the inside where you kept the pieces, and the top was marble, so were the pieces themselves. The reason why I remember this chessboard in such detail I chalk up to the fact that smell is such a powerful memory trigger. And this guys sweat smelled JUST like it. The first classes I was overcome with such huge nostalgia it was difficult to focus on BJJ :/
How do you tell people that? "Hey dude you smell like a chessboard"? I don't want to be "that guy".
i think you'd be the first 'that guy' to ever exist.
i didnt know that. why is it viewed as a lack of progress? Some of the most common/effective passes/guard breaks now days are from standing.