
Ep. 232: Mental Models for Featherweights, feat. Josh "Kintanon" Wentworth
BJJ Mental Models
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The Weight Athleticism Spectrum
When I started to compete against people, my own size, my shit did not work the same. My knee shield half guard game is fantastic against somebody that outweighs me by 80 pounds but it does not work at all against someone who weighs 140 pounds. And if you want to be good against both people, your own size and people who outweigh you by 50 pounds, you're going to have to have games for both of those people. There's a spectrum to the weight and athleticism that matters when you talk about this, right? The worst football player in the NFL is still a superhuman athlete,. If you grab a random 300 pound NFL linebacker, they can probably do a backflip.
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