Ep. 232: Mental Models for Featherweights, feat. Josh "Kintanon" Wentworth
BJJ Mental Models
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How to Handle Weight Disadvantages
As a black belt instructor, I want to be able to beat up my 250 pound white belts. It is exponentially more difficult to handle the weight disadvantage as your opponent's skill level goes up. A brown belt that outweighs me by a hundred pounds is insanely more difficult to deal with just it is not even close because they know what to do with that extra hundred pounds way better. If you are ambitious and athletic and like really want to pursue a competitive, hardcore training program so that you can compete effectively against people who outweigh you by a 100 pounds, you can do that. But that requires a commitment that most people are not willing to make. There are guys that are fantastic in their weight
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