There have been serious allegations circulating concerning SBG North Tyneside and its head coach,

The woman has reportedly been posting reviews about her experiences on the gym's online pages. However, there are claims that these reviews have been repeatedly reported and removed, raising questions about whether efforts are being made to silence her.

There are also allegations that the coach received money, gifts and other items from the woman, reportedly worth tens of thousands in total. The circumstances surrounding these exchanges remain unclear.

These are serious claims that have not been independently verified. Nevertheless, they raise important questions about safeguarding, accountability and how martial arts organisations respond when women raise concerns about misconduct.

Inb4 reddit gotcha shit. I want a real interesting conversation for once, Im sick of the shitposts.

Techniques in jiu jitsu act like organisms in an environment. The environment selects for certain traits and different solutions are evolved over time.

In grappling, you need to get off the bottom. You can use turtle or guard. They both do the same thing.

Wrestling cultures have used turtle for thousands of years, and there are references to leglocks in antiquity. But I dont think the guard is a truly necessary part of grappling, its merely another evolutionary response that does the same job but in a different way.

Think of how a sharks tail vs a dolphins tail functions. They both WORK, they just work differently. Turtle evolved from the environmental pressure of the pin. Guard evolved because of the Gi and no pinning rules.

The question is, why not just specialize in one or the other? It is time prohibitive to learn both to a high level, and they solve the same problem. Is the unpredictability of an integrated game worth the investment trade off in other areas?

🥃 discuss?

all those flashy ig steps don't work when I grab a single leg on my friends they start flopping like fishes hence im not able to get a good hold and finish the takedown, what should I do ? I only only basic subs like arm bar guillotine rnc and kimura what submission should I learn next i need to learn from bottom guard but I don't know how

Im curious about this

Please answer the question above

Also state your age - weight - years of training grappling - comp experience?

I’ll go first

75% handle with relative ease, 20% give me hard challenge or slightly beat me, 5% (maybe little more) absolutely fuck me up either subbing me multiple times or demolished on points

29 y/o - 175 pounds - training 7 years - competed at large local tournaments at blue belt and did well 14-3 record

Been to at least 15 open mats around United States (travel a lot) and these are general results

What have you noticed for yourself? No wrong answers

I feel generally if you have trained over 5 years and are young/decent athletic and aggressive - you will handle majority (50+%) of people at random mid level school open mat

I think this question is useful for answering one of most common questions for new people - “how long does it take to get “good”

Oie, tudo bem com vocês ?

Eu vou começar a praticar jiu-jitsu

Depois de muito tempo

E muitos problemas

Irei voltar a praticar jiu-jitsu