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380 - What Do You Need to Know to Be a BJJ Blue Belt?

The Strenuous Life Podcast with Stephan Kesting

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How Many Techniques Are There in Your Curriculum?

I think sometimes we get lost in the self-fence sport debate. I think so long as you're sparring against resisting opponents, you're way ahead of being ready for a real self-defense situation and someone does not. And then as we've talked about in the past, the adrenaline dump you get from competing pushes you so much further ahead than just anything you can experience in the gym. If I teach you 300 separate moves like I teach you one takedown on its own, you have to learn 300 different examples of that. That's a lot of information. The way we solve this is by chunking things into game plans. We break it down into 16 topics, each with

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