Does your school prepare you for tournaments

Lookyoung · 06-25-2008, 12:32 AM

I go to a gracie barra school and I notice are classes do not prepare us at all for tournaments. Our instructors really don't put a big emphasis on competing. Its great working techniques but I feel for a school to have success in tournaments you probably need to pull out the stop watch and train 5 minutes and make it with a ref and point scoring when rolling. Also they should have judo and wrestling classes at the school to prepare you for takedowns (My school doesn't have that. I feel that you will have more success at a tournament if you train with a purple belt as your instructor from your garage with a few sparring partners. My goal is not to win a ton of tournaments but I am going to compete soon and feel that I am not tournament ready.

Does your school train specifically for tournaments or is your school more laid back and is the rolling free? Do your instructors emphasize success in tournaments? At our school they could care less if you lose or even compete?

The advantage to the way my school does it is there are less injuries. The atmosphere is more friendly, and brazilian jiu-jitsu wasn't meant to have a time limit I feel. The way tournaments are set up its more of a wrestling match.

UrbanSavage · 06-25-2008, 12:37 AM

We do a lot of matches in front of the class where everyone just watches two guys go at it tournament style while my instructor gives away points/basiclly serves as a ref. Doing that definetely helps a lot in getting ready for tournaments. Also, I'll stay after class a lot when wrestlers are there so I can drill takedowns.

codemonkey76 · 06-25-2008, 12:55 AM

we learn takedowns in BJJ class, sometimes we will mentally keep score when preparing for comps. Also we do the occasional stand-up sparring, just for the takedown, and then reset on the feet.

Also leading up to comps we will do more positional sparring, start off mounted and work escapes, and once you escape, start mounted again, and stuff like that.

vitor3000 · 06-25-2008, 01:13 AM

Nothing like a good shark tank imo

damit2hell · 06-25-2008, 01:53 AM

our school prepares for comps hardcore, and there is a big emphasis on doing well at competitions. From what guests and viewers have told us about our regular classes, we train normally what they do for comps, and when its comp time, it gets pretty brutal cuz our instructors aim is the training in the gym should ALWAYS be harder than any competition

sprite · 06-25-2008, 03:07 AM

only when my instructor "sponsors" a tournament do we prepare. i notice that there are only few tournaments where my instructor tries to rally the dojo. other times when there are tournaments he doesn't "sponsor" he doesn't even say anything.

but i don't need to rely on my school preparing me since i prepare myself.

Halfbreed83 · 06-25-2008, 03:35 AM

BANNANASPLEET · 06-25-2008, 04:02 AM

i prepare myself like a spartan

MokeGrappler · 06-25-2008, 04:13 AM

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Originally Posted by UrbanSavage

We do a lot of matches in front of the class where everyone just watches two guys go at it tournament style while my instructor gives away points/basiclly serves as a ref. Doing that definetely helps a lot in getting ready for tournaments. Also, I'll stay after class a lot when wrestlers are there so I can drill takedowns.

Yeah, pretty much the same. And we'll do more cardio.

PhillyD45 · 06-25-2008, 07:52 AM

No but we go live for about 45 mins to an hour every class.

It's only once a week so it doesn't help me out with cardio too much.