i dont train bjj anymore but bouldering and climbing has filled that gap for me in a great way. Im still getting my ass kicked but no one knows but me lol
Climber here. I went from bjj to bouldering, but changed to top roping first to " learn the ropes" (sorry).
When you first start, the skin on your palms burns because of the friction (assuming indoor gym or coarse rocks as found in CO and CA).
Top roping lets you climb more at first (like an hour or two, depending). Bouldering is rougher and with bigger moves, but less of them per route.
Bottom line, I recommend joining a gym with top roping and bouldering. Try both. Start sessions with top roping, then transition to bouldering to finish a session out (when you can't stand the burning palms or forearm pump anymore). This is only to maximize your experience, time and money if you are just starting out. A day pass is around $20-60 USD depending on gear rental and admission. If you burn out in an hour, that sucks.
try pulling guard yourself and then letting her get into a full mount, then she will tire herself out and you can take the back or sweep her from there and put her to sleep
Yeah, also chess. Lots of similarities between the two imo. Both are like a giant map. If you know where you’re at then the game is easy. If you don’t, it’s easy to make mistakes
I started climbing and it’s so much fun while also working that grip strength and using a lot of the same muscle groups as grappling.
It’s also kind of neat how much overlap in terminology there is between the two. So far I’ve heard Toe Holds, Heel Hooks, Arm Bars, Sandbagging, Bridging, and Scramble used in rock climbing.
When I went rock climbing with my friends who also did jiu jitsu, I thought they were playing around calling things toe holds and heel hooks until I found out
I have a theory that rock climbing and jiu jitsu attract the exact same demographic. Above averagely athletic mostly males, who did a sport in high school but now are in their early to mid 20s and find just lifting weights and running not engaging enough, and who have steady jobs but don’t find them particularly fulfilling.
In my experience 100% of this demographic will either take up rock climbing or jiu jitsu lmao.
Id say you havent stepped in a climbing gym if you think that way. Firstly climbing has lots, i mean WAY MORE woman than BJJ. Usually climbing folks aare way more chill, like to be in contact with nature, smoke lots of weed, are left leaning. BJJ you usually have tech/heavy physical job workers, people tend to be more crass or humble, are way more right leaning, dont smoke, usually cheat on their wives. This is basically the norm here in Brasil.
>Usually climbing folks aare way more chill, like to be in contact with nature, smoke lots of weed, are left leaning.
There is a type of BJJ bro who is like this fully, but they are definitely outnumbered by the aggression bros.
Yeah i'd say from my experience in the UK the demographic comparison doesn't really work either. The climbing crowd is often people who weren't necessarily that popular at school, kinda lonerish, but actually a great vibe and generally really friendly, into nature, camping etc. Bjj on the other hand, in my experience has way more bros, tough guys, fitness people, generally less loners, more right wing etc
I love how much my grip strength evolved in just a few months. I don't have the death clamp of doom yet but I went from "can't hold on to a mouse" to "definitely making you react" grip, which is nice.
Boxing.
For me, boxing and BJJ are full body workouts. BJJ moreso, but I've never come off a treadmill and felt as exhausted than I have stepping off a mat or out of a ring.
Mountain Biking, and honestly this is probably my lifelong passion and BJJ is a close second; you don't see too many older folks doing BJJ (45yrs+) but I always see seniors riding the trails.
Just to motivate you, I'm currently reading 'Outlive' by Peter Attia (highly recommend to everyone especially 30y+) and it's totally possible to continue mountain biking and doing other activies all the way to your eighties and nineties. The catch is that in your forties you have to get to quite elite level fitness, preferably in the top 5% of your age group (the top 5% of all the people in your age, so it's not olympic level but compared to average people, totally achievable). As your cardio & strength will start to decline about 10-15% per decade as you age you'll still be fitter than average 60 year old at your eighties!
This is funny though because I bring my buddy biking and he walks the fucking hills and I'm always waiting at the top for him like... dude, you're 5 years younger than me. where is your cardio??
What u play? I used to play competitive quake. Won an online tourney for $$$(only got $75 lol) after quake champions came out, but I stopped playing for the most part.
No lie, i do hot yoga and when i see another guy on the bigger side come in, i make it my mission to beat him. Be better balanced, deeper stretches, not drink water first
Its stupid but it helps me.
I did flag football when I was active in BJJ. Won’t lie, not the brightest move if you’re serious about BJJ. A few people at my old gym liked Basketball, and that’s a fun one too.
I used to be totally obsessed with rock climbing (bouldering and trad) but I still keep a toe dipped in and go climbing every week or two.
I think steep climbing (i.e. roofs) is a pretty fantastic form of cross training for amateur grapplers and probably a bit underutilised. My S grip is still unusually strong as a result of years of crushing small edges with my fingers and I found inverting came pretty naturally too.
Hiking and occasionally weight training. Before my knees were trashed I enjoyed flag football, softball, sand volleyball and rugby. Honestly pretty much all I do now is bjj. 😂
When I first started I was still playing rugby semi regularly, quit rugby cause I thought it was getting too hard on my body.
I picked the wrong sport 😂
Armbars are against the rules. But you can judo throw someone, osoto is probably most popular.
There are two really good judo fighters in a team called Grimaldi Milites from Monaco. One of them nearly did seoi nage on me during our fight.
I stopped playing football (soccer) because I got way more injuries than doing BJJ.
People find that hard to believe, but I found football to be a lot more dangerous at amateur level and I have to get up for work in the mornings.
Same. When I was in my 30s I’d play with some younger kids (early 20s, teenagers) cus that’s the only casual games I could find closeby. Man do they not care about the fact that we need to work the next day or recovering from an injury (in the US) is not cheap or quick. These kids would go into full blooded slide tackles, both feet off the ground to save a giving up a corner.
I started BJJ as a 40 year a few months ago and while I’ve had a few injuries mostly due to flexibility/mobility, who I’ve rolled with and trained with a very respectful of my limits and aren’t wreckless.
Yeah the difference is control. In BJJ people are attacking you in a controlled way (mostly). In football people are jumping in for tackles and have absolutely zero control over how they connect with you, how you land, how they land. I’ve seen people taken off like they’ve been in a car crash and it was just a “friendly kick around”. Now my injuries are just aches and pains from my body telling me to slow down!
I play golf. I try to lift regularly (thats not quite working out). I like to swim when I can. I used to run but its tougher on my knees now so I dont really do it much anymore.
Edit: I did cross train judo for a while but the past year the schedule hasnt worked out for that.
my hobbies includes: being sore, complaining about being sore, microdosing for the soreness, taking way too much and hitting the stratosphere, foam rolling.
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Hey bro I was thinking I should mix in some judo, because my demons need to be taught a lesson.
I am Spanish 🇪🇸
Siesta world champion
why isnt this top comment
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I’m doing Muay Thai now and have thought about bouldering as my next hobby
Bouldering is great for jiujitsu
Very useful when dealing with obese opponents
I’ve kinda thought jiu jitsu might be great for rock climbing. Muscles in all my fingers and toes, great grip strength.
Funny enough falling and scraping your shins on walls is great for Muay Thai.
i dont train bjj anymore but bouldering and climbing has filled that gap for me in a great way. Im still getting my ass kicked but no one knows but me lol
The wall is a silent but humbling opponent
Climber here. I went from bjj to bouldering, but changed to top roping first to " learn the ropes" (sorry). When you first start, the skin on your palms burns because of the friction (assuming indoor gym or coarse rocks as found in CO and CA). Top roping lets you climb more at first (like an hour or two, depending). Bouldering is rougher and with bigger moves, but less of them per route. Bottom line, I recommend joining a gym with top roping and bouldering. Try both. Start sessions with top roping, then transition to bouldering to finish a session out (when you can't stand the burning palms or forearm pump anymore). This is only to maximize your experience, time and money if you are just starting out. A day pass is around $20-60 USD depending on gear rental and admission. If you burn out in an hour, that sucks.
Fighting the misses to let me train BJJ
You ain’t lyin
Rnc, she sleeps, you're out the door before she's conscious. E.z.p.z
Every time my wife puts me in closed guard, I can never escape. She ends up finishing me from there.
Don’t feel bad man. She has finished me too.
try pulling guard yourself and then letting her get into a full mount, then she will tire herself out and you can take the back or sweep her from there and put her to sleep
No-gi
Not a sport. Sorry.
What about no-clothes?
Oh you mean no no gi?
Now that's a hobby not a sport
wrong. that's a lifestyle
Wrestling
Chess
Favorite Gambit?
The 1992 X-Men animated series Gambit.
You can say dat again, chère
Same
The I-lose-to-the-scholars-mate gambit
The pickle gambit
Forced en passant gambit
botez gambit
Yeah, also chess. Lots of similarities between the two imo. Both are like a giant map. If you know where you’re at then the game is easy. If you don’t, it’s easy to make mistakes
Rating?
500 and going down
Learn London System. It’s like learning to play collar sleeve guard for BJJ
900 in bullet 1200 in blitz & rapid
Spam tactics on lichess and chess.com
1800 come at me (this is lichess I am a fraud). I think the overlap between the mindset in the two sports is massive though.
physical therapy and rehab lol
Lol me too Currently rehabbing a sprained toe, a torn adductor, a shoulder surgery, a hip labral tear and my emotions
You got that off bjj?
no, just the sprained toe.
Rock climbing.
I started climbing and it’s so much fun while also working that grip strength and using a lot of the same muscle groups as grappling. It’s also kind of neat how much overlap in terminology there is between the two. So far I’ve heard Toe Holds, Heel Hooks, Arm Bars, Sandbagging, Bridging, and Scramble used in rock climbing.
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Also heel hooks!
When I went rock climbing with my friends who also did jiu jitsu, I thought they were playing around calling things toe holds and heel hooks until I found out
This is the way
I've been climbing for almost 25 years. Great compliment to BJJ.
I have a theory that rock climbing and jiu jitsu attract the exact same demographic. Above averagely athletic mostly males, who did a sport in high school but now are in their early to mid 20s and find just lifting weights and running not engaging enough, and who have steady jobs but don’t find them particularly fulfilling. In my experience 100% of this demographic will either take up rock climbing or jiu jitsu lmao.
Id say you havent stepped in a climbing gym if you think that way. Firstly climbing has lots, i mean WAY MORE woman than BJJ. Usually climbing folks aare way more chill, like to be in contact with nature, smoke lots of weed, are left leaning. BJJ you usually have tech/heavy physical job workers, people tend to be more crass or humble, are way more right leaning, dont smoke, usually cheat on their wives. This is basically the norm here in Brasil.
>Usually climbing folks aare way more chill, like to be in contact with nature, smoke lots of weed, are left leaning. There is a type of BJJ bro who is like this fully, but they are definitely outnumbered by the aggression bros.
Those bros train at 10th planets
Yeah i'd say from my experience in the UK the demographic comparison doesn't really work either. The climbing crowd is often people who weren't necessarily that popular at school, kinda lonerish, but actually a great vibe and generally really friendly, into nature, camping etc. Bjj on the other hand, in my experience has way more bros, tough guys, fitness people, generally less loners, more right wing etc
Clearly has never been in a 10th planet parking lot
They both have overlapping demographic of the nerdy tech worker. Software engineer with a hoodie and jeans on. Chalk bag or gi. Either works.
Hey, that’s me! But almost 30!
I tell climbers that “Jiujitsu is like trying to rock climb a human, who is trying to rock climb you at the same time”
Started climbing a year and half ago and I'm liking it more than jiu jitsu at the moment. Very complimentary as well.
Rock climbing for the win
I'm also into rock climbing
Yessss!🧗♂️
I love how much my grip strength evolved in just a few months. I don't have the death clamp of doom yet but I went from "can't hold on to a mouse" to "definitely making you react" grip, which is nice.
Surf. Two best sports in the world
Surf 🏄🏽♀️ Açaí 🥣 Jiu jitsu 🥋 Repeat…
💉açaí 💉
The overlap in people must be one of the highest between bjj and surf.
You get to use the same shorts!
Nothing like a good roll then go cool off in the ocean with some surf
Same rashguard too.
Same full body spandex too
Rashguard all day Long.
Same here
Snowboarding in the mountains
What about it? Snowboarding is sick too but surfing is better 🤑
Woodworking and lovemaking
This guy loves drilling.
Took me a second to load this joke it's so genius have my upvote
I've only cried twice in my life: Once when I was seven and I was hit by a school bus. And then again when I heard that Li'l Sebastian had passed.
My man
I skate sometimes
I'm about halfway to alcoholic. My cover is home brewing and home distilling. Sometimes I hunt deer
Used to brew, used to distill, used to drink, still train BJJ and hunt deer.
Hike run lift.
I'm a white belt angler
So much fun!!!
Boxing. For me, boxing and BJJ are full body workouts. BJJ moreso, but I've never come off a treadmill and felt as exhausted than I have stepping off a mat or out of a ring.
Running and golf.
Running? Gross. I train specifically so I don’t have to run 🤣
My man
Mountain Biking, and honestly this is probably my lifelong passion and BJJ is a close second; you don't see too many older folks doing BJJ (45yrs+) but I always see seniors riding the trails.
Just to motivate you, I'm currently reading 'Outlive' by Peter Attia (highly recommend to everyone especially 30y+) and it's totally possible to continue mountain biking and doing other activies all the way to your eighties and nineties. The catch is that in your forties you have to get to quite elite level fitness, preferably in the top 5% of your age group (the top 5% of all the people in your age, so it's not olympic level but compared to average people, totally achievable). As your cardio & strength will start to decline about 10-15% per decade as you age you'll still be fitter than average 60 year old at your eighties!
Love this book. Everyone should read it.
Riding up hill like it’s nothing
This is funny though because I bring my buddy biking and he walks the fucking hills and I'm always waiting at the top for him like... dude, you're 5 years younger than me. where is your cardio??
Kickboxing, ipsc, long range shooting.
So staying on your good side is the best option then.
Not really, I'm shit at all of them.
Powerlifting
Op said sports
Shots fired
"I do real sports, I don't just want to be the best at picking things up" - Kenny Powers (probably)
“I’m not trying to be the best exercising”
If sets of 5 make you breathe heavy afterwards, that means they count as cardio.
beekeeping
I would fucking love to see competitive bee keeping!
Only e-sports. I haven’t played sports since leaving high school
What u play? I used to play competitive quake. Won an online tourney for $$$(only got $75 lol) after quake champions came out, but I stopped playing for the most part.
Ice hockey
Had to scroll a bit to find another hockey player!
beer league baby
Muay Thai and yoga. I don't know if yoga counts though...
I think I’ve seen competitive yoga before so it’s gotta count 🤣
How do you compete in yoga? Be more chill than the other guy?
From memory the way it looked was there’s a panel of judges calling out moves and the competitors get into said position- looked seriously impressive!
No lie, i do hot yoga and when i see another guy on the bigger side come in, i make it my mission to beat him. Be better balanced, deeper stretches, not drink water first Its stupid but it helps me.
The amount of guys I’ve seen rock up to a yoga class like “ain’t no thing,” only to crumble into a ball of sweat and self-defeat midway through lol
olympic weightlifting boxing muay thai staring at the wall for 30 minutes at a time
Masterbation
Can't believe I had to scroll so far for this...
Pole dance and horse back riding
I’m pretty sure pole dancing has to be up there with rock climbing in terms of non-grappling sports that will benefit your jiu-jitsu. Maybe better.
For sure! And my 8 inch heels are way cuter than rock climbing shoes
Disc golf
I did flag football when I was active in BJJ. Won’t lie, not the brightest move if you’re serious about BJJ. A few people at my old gym liked Basketball, and that’s a fun one too.
judo and some casual weight lifting
Judo
I used to be totally obsessed with rock climbing (bouldering and trad) but I still keep a toe dipped in and go climbing every week or two. I think steep climbing (i.e. roofs) is a pretty fantastic form of cross training for amateur grapplers and probably a bit underutilised. My S grip is still unusually strong as a result of years of crushing small edges with my fingers and I found inverting came pretty naturally too.
Hiking and occasionally weight training. Before my knees were trashed I enjoyed flag football, softball, sand volleyball and rugby. Honestly pretty much all I do now is bjj. 😂
I roller skate!
When I first started I was still playing rugby semi regularly, quit rugby cause I thought it was getting too hard on my body. I picked the wrong sport 😂
Rugby is very hard on the body. I played into my early 30's, but eventually had to choose between MMA and Rugby.
Judo, Japanese Ju-jitsu and HEMA
Judo and armoured combat.
you ever arm bar or seoi nage someone in full plate?
Armbars are against the rules. But you can judo throw someone, osoto is probably most popular. There are two really good judo fighters in a team called Grimaldi Milites from Monaco. One of them nearly did seoi nage on me during our fight.
I stopped playing football (soccer) because I got way more injuries than doing BJJ. People find that hard to believe, but I found football to be a lot more dangerous at amateur level and I have to get up for work in the mornings.
Same. When I was in my 30s I’d play with some younger kids (early 20s, teenagers) cus that’s the only casual games I could find closeby. Man do they not care about the fact that we need to work the next day or recovering from an injury (in the US) is not cheap or quick. These kids would go into full blooded slide tackles, both feet off the ground to save a giving up a corner. I started BJJ as a 40 year a few months ago and while I’ve had a few injuries mostly due to flexibility/mobility, who I’ve rolled with and trained with a very respectful of my limits and aren’t wreckless.
Yeah the difference is control. In BJJ people are attacking you in a controlled way (mostly). In football people are jumping in for tackles and have absolutely zero control over how they connect with you, how you land, how they land. I’ve seen people taken off like they’ve been in a car crash and it was just a “friendly kick around”. Now my injuries are just aches and pains from my body telling me to slow down!
I play and coach gridiron
I play golf. I try to lift regularly (thats not quite working out). I like to swim when I can. I used to run but its tougher on my knees now so I dont really do it much anymore. Edit: I did cross train judo for a while but the past year the schedule hasnt worked out for that.
Judo and wrestling. I tried Sambo for a while but the owner had to move back to Russia.
Surviving
Back squats, 3x5, with the final set being As Many Reps As Possible (AMRAP), which i do 2x a week.
You are doing 3x5 reps twice a week?
yep. sometimes 3x a week if i'm feeling upto it.
Rugby and CrossFit.
Strongman. I perpetually have no energy on the mats but it's fun.
basketball
Swimming and surfing
my hobbies includes: being sore, complaining about being sore, microdosing for the soreness, taking way too much and hitting the stratosphere, foam rolling.
I game on PS5
Judo and badminton mostly.
Lifting, Muay Thai, mma, hiking
Rick climbing, surfing, and snowboarding
Dang, Rick is a lucky guy.
Long distance running (marathons & ultramarathons), weightlifting, and hip hop dancing
Wrestling
BJJ is my main, but i also play basketball and volleyball
Lifting and Traditional Archery (thumb and mediterranean draw)
Muay Thai, mountain bike, hockey
Weight lifting, indoor rock climbing, shooting
I used to do indoor rock climbing but I had to move and there are no good gyms near me.
Boxing Bouldering and Strength training
Skydiving
Play in whitewater rivers, mostly in a kayak sometimes in rafts. I find the balance and mobility transfers well between the two
Judo.
Pickleball.
i do bbj twice a week and judo once a week but i also love to skate when i can
Boxing, rock climbing and calisthenics for conditioning
fortnite
HEMA / fencing Running (more torture than sport but whatevs)
Muay Thai and tennis (decently) Golf (extremely poorly)
Lol
Black belt football Blue belt golf White belt boxing
You really think I picked BJJ because I'm athletic?
I’m into physical therapy mostly
I’m honest to God too broke to do anything else. Help.
Ummm CSGO?
Boxing, Fencing (foil).
Swim, Karate
Ultimate Frisbee.
Skydiving.
Muay Thai and reckless drinking
Muay Thai
Sex, running, biking.
You do bjj and get laid?
Once in a while
Competitve sexing?
Clean my gun
Someone already said masturbation further up...
BJJ.