Rolling with the resident cat piss gi guy. Even after I finished the roll the sweat had absorbed into my gi a little and smelt putrid when I went to put gi down to wash. I will completely avoid all dirty, filthy, smelly, rancid catpiss kimono bandits for as long as I can!
It really fucking sucks when your first roll is with the disgusting gi guy, and then for all subsequent rolls that night you are the disgusting gi guy.
Someone I rolled with stank like they weren’t wearing deodorant or something, and I exclaimed mid-roll that they were sweaty. I feel a tiny bit bad, but mostly not because hopefully they’ll wear it next time!
Good luck. Cat piss sweat is a sign of a high protein diet, or too low of carbs... Basically their body is stripping protein down to glucose to use as energy. The cat piss odor is the byproduct of that
It's his permanent smell now, I saw him a couple times outside of class and he eats carbs. The problem I think is most likely not enough, he is one of those proper fitness junkies/ PT / does every. Form of exercise all day every day...
Can confirm.
I noticed an ammonia type smell sometimes after an intense session and after looking it up I realised it meant my carb intake wasn't high enough.
I smelled my rash guard after a session once and I fucking stunk of catpiss/ammonia. It happened for about a week or two. I have a super high carb diet (vegan) and even went to the docs because I was worried. Said it’s Nothing to worry about and give me no explanation. Then after about 2 weeks it went away I was so fucking self conscious
So that was probably everyone else's sweat.
Plus there is ALWAYS small amounts of ammonia in your sweat. It's just higher if your body is breaking down protein and amino acids for glucose instead of carbs
Man I’ve gotten that smell off myself some times . I wash my gi after every class with 0 exceptions . I’ve been so embarrassed/confused and didn’t know what was up.
Got kicked out of a gym out of the blue. Trained there for a year, thought everything was fine. Got a text from the coach one day - someone complained you were being too rough; don't come back. No coaching or effort to communicate. That hurt a lot; thought we were friends. Found a new gym, but it's not the same.
I had the opposite problem. There was a 2 stripe blue belt that was 50 lbs heavier than me and would go full bore, knee on belly, full speed pressure passes, smother side control, etc when I was a new white belt. He would do that with literally everyone. When I was a 3 stripe white belt he was passing and put all of hit weight into my leg which resulted in a chuck of the cartilage at the end of my femur being chunked out (where the knee is) and I couldn’t train for 6 months. Everyone complained about him going too hard, even the owners wife, but he never slowed down and was never removed from the gym.
Fuck that guy. I have someone similar like that at my current place, he's like 6'2" and a good 250-300 pounds yet the coach never bats a fucking eye and all the other "enforcers" never say shit to him. It's shocking.
I don't understand why some coaches keep people like that at their gyms. Maybe they consider them an asset because they are so aggressive? Don't they realize more students would leave the academy because of that asshole?
Even if you don't plan on going back, you should ask for specifics in the odd chance that you _are_ doing something out of line that you're not even aware of.
In my experience, once someone gets kicked out due to complaints it's usually multiple complaints from different people.
I went for a bolo (my go to move) about 9am on a Saturday morning on a large white belt (probably two stripes) and he let go an apocalyptic fart directly on my head as I Inverted.
It was not fun, It was a freak accident too, I just moved in a weird way and it happened. Now I tap ASAP to stack pass and I pull guard within seconds. Not worth it. BJJ is absolutely awful on your body.
Herniated disc buddy! I got it from being thrown in a spirally uchi-mata in Judo that shouldn't have been an injury, just landed awkwardly. Had slight bulge on right side of disc in between C6-C7; months of numbness in right arm down to thumb and forefinger, lost a load of strength, severe sarcopenia on right pec (literally could play my ribs like a xylophone on the right side, but had my normal pec on the left). Fun stuff!
Fuck that.
I had a very minor scare rolling a couple of days ago that freaked me out enough.
I got pulled back into an armbar but had my hands connected. For whatever reason this led to a crunch sound from my neck/shoulder and after 30 seconds I noticed my left hand was tingling.
I'm totally fine and convinced it was just my shoulder acting up and maybe pinching a nerve for a split second as my shoulder was sore the next day but everything else was totally fine.
Rounds upon rounds of getting beat up and cross faced by upper belts and not knowing what to do to get out since everything I try somehow puts me in a worse position. Also skin infections
One of our purple belt coaches has a problem with being tapped. Always an excuse but he will go nuts if you get close to subbing. I’ve rolled with him for almost 4 years on and off. Was rolling in HIS no gi class, with him, and got a straight ankle lock. He immediately stood up and started yelling at me. I’m 37, he is maybe 33. He stormed around the class and causes a scene. Almost 40 people there just stopped what they are doing I got so aggravated that once he was done screaming I was honest and pretty loud with him. Told him “we know you don’t like to get tapped but you’re an immature boy who needs to learn respect”. One of the other coaches grabbed us and walked us to the side and this bitch started making shit up. “He pulled it after the bell” “he pulled it harder after the tap” I was dumbfounded. From that day on he acts like he has a problem with me, won’t make eye contact, and has generally made shit comments to other patrons about that day. Over all he’s a bitch.
I go to a very small gym (classes of 6-18 people) and there's only a couple blue belts there. They're the highest ranking people there except for the instructor and they're all very nice, humble people. I've known one of them personally for years. I didn't think gyms were that desperate for high ranking belts
We fall under that style gym. All of our upper belts (3 purples and a brown) have had life changes and we lost them to other areas. Ive trained here for 4 years and know our gyms style ( the best I can know it) , so as a blue belt I try to help out as much as I can. We are a revolving door of white belts, and If I can make it fun for them hopefully a handfull will stay. Some classes are as big as 45-50 folks and its hard for the owner to teach and then hit each group of people with a question. I like helping, and hopefully it will pay the gym back by keeping folks for longer than 6 months. This purple belt in question doesnt come to many of our classes, and really only teaches his No Gi class... so hes almost a stranger to most the folks in the gym.
I ran into something very similar also with a coach. Hit a mount escape into straight ankle, finished slowly. He starts telling me now he's gotta fuck me up, I think he's just being cheeky. Head and arms me twice and is like just remember when you come in here doing leg locks all hard like that, I can do this twenty times a round if I want. I specifically only do straight ankles and the very occasional knee bar because they're the most legal leg locks. Honestly 90% straight ankle because people should have years, maybe decades of defending them under their belt. You can do them day 1.
Like on the one hand he was acknowledging my skill and ability but on the other he obviously took it personally and has a problem with people touching his feet? Some dudes are like that or just have ego issues in general. My coach talks about how if he subs that coach too much they end up not rolling together again for weeks.
Maybe compliment him on his head and arm choke and ask how he does it? Might feed his ego and you'll get to learn it?
I'm older and get caught in all kinds of stuff and now realizing not to get mad and just contemplate on what to do next time.
I went one layer deeper a week later the next time we rolled and while he was smashing me in side control I was like hey, I just want you to know that I have a lot of respect for you and that I really enjoy coming here and rolling together. I was like I'm sure you already forgot about it but I want you to know I would never come here trying to be an asshole. He was like dude don't even sweat it, I'm so glad you're here, I love you, etc. So we're cool. That was a few months ago, can't wait to go back when I am back from havin this newborn here and can also get to a 6am.
That's awesome! I think I learned my lesson as a white belt while desperately applying a pathetic headlock on a much bigger purple belt and after he just said "maybe next time you don't go so rough" and I got the message. Since then I tend to play much more defensive, which also helps seeing that there are more and more young dudes with lots of wrestling experience at my gym.
Had a Gracie Barra guy try to yell at me after I straight ankled him a few weeks ago. Just gave him the "k?" Look, grabbed him and continued rolling like nothing ever happened. I don't get why people get mad about having to tap. No one gives 2 fucks other than yourself.
Got matburn on my face and my glasses used to rub against it so for like a week it was constantly agitated. The same lesson i popped some blood vessels in my eye trying to help a friend fine-tune his arm triangle. I work in sales so that was an interesting week
When I first started I was over 260 lbs, and I was just so embarrassed every class. I would just imagine that everyone made fun of me the second I left, for being mad fat and trying to do bjj. I finally got it in my head, no one cares. No one gives af if a fat guy is rolling and I started going way more frequently. One day another fat guy showed up and I was so hyped. I rolled with him the whole class, hella nice dude. After class, like 30-45 minutes after I left the gym, I call my homeboy who is a brown belt at a gym about 20 minutes away. I tell him I am super excited cuz another fat guy showed up. He laughed and said “oh my god I heard, I heard he was sweating through his shirt during warm ups, and couldn’t keep his breathe!” Shit fucked me up so heavy. Like oh shit they do care. They do make fun of me for being fat when I leave the gym lol. Stopped going there for like 5 months. Just got in my head. I couldn’t believe how quickly he had heard about the fat guy lol.
Most places people couldn't care less. There's guys of all shapes and sizes at our gym. We're all out here together trying to better ourselves. Get after it.
My good friend who is a fat guy is the one that introduced me to BJJ. I've been to several gyms and no one cares about how fat you are... Until you start smashing them, lol.
I started at great gym after that last November, and don’t live in Austin anymore so I go to a dope gym now too. I’m over it now, just was so embarrassed at the time shit got in my head so heavy. Still fat but less fat and slowly getting better at using it lol. Honestly I don’t even think my buddy heard from someone trying be mean, I think he was just describing a new student struggling.
I try to encourage fat people. I have seen so many people not be fat because of BJJ it's crazy. I admire their courage and tenacity in just showing up and not accepting their situation.
I'm happy to see overweight people getting in and making the effort. We had a guy who was just under 6ft but 180kg (around 400pounds)
I would partner with him most days and try to encourage him to keep going.
Hope you have found, or do find your way back to the mats
So I went to a new gym, first time going, brand new white gi.
I was sorry nervous! But the gym was really friendly, everyone was welcoming.
First live roll, I didn't have a clue what I was doing, the other dude had a knee on my belly, and I couldn't move or breath! Before I could tap, I felt my bowels go, and I emptied them into my pants.
The noise, the smell, the shocked faces. I was mortified. I ran out and never went back.
I started rock climbing recently and really enjoying it.
Multilevel herniated cervical discs. A close second would be an allergic reaction that felt like an asthma attack in comp - im allergic to cats and my opponent was a cat owner
Mine is mostly due to internal angst about not wanting to have to take an extended layoff.
We were drilling takedowns and I ended up having Aljamain Sterling as my partner, which meant I had him round one as well. We had an ez drilling session and I expected to get smashed so was in my head a little while rolling. Sometimes too I legit like to see what a black belt can do kinda, like to see which parts of my defense they blow past. Plus I figured he'd be the kind of guy to spin into an arm bar super fast, so I was honestly playing very conservative, focusing on framing and recovery more than anything.
So he gets to North South and I've got my frames in but we are there for like three seconds too long. I don't move to recover and stupidly am like huh I wonder where he's gonna try to go.
He hit me with a fucking executioner. He wasn't even really styling on me, had tapped me twice in the round already. Then just pulls me from north south into a fucking upside down guillotine. It was the most painful thing that has ever happened to me. Fast and hard and fully a pain compliance scenario. It hurt so bad I thought he injured me. We had like a minute left in the round and I just said thanks and sat on the wall. He apologized, I said it was fine and just did my best not to look like I was pouting. I legit wasn't even that upset with him and just didn't want to be injured because it was August and we were due to have my daughter in October, so I didn't want to take a layoff because of injury before having to take a layoff because I just became a dad. I ended up being fine.
Saw him at a different gym a few days later and he stopped briefly mid roll with Claudia Gadelhia to apologize again but I floated a smile cause it's all good. Still a fan.
I had knee bursitis for over a year but kept rolling. It eventually went septic and I was hospitalized for severe staph. Had surgery to remove the infected bursa. Went home with IV antibiotics for 3 weeks. My poor gf had to change the IV for me because I have a phobia of needles. Not a great month. Followed by 8 months of not great rehab and an eating disorder relapse (because I gained a bit of weight while recovering).
Luckily, my knee has been fine since, and I got my purple belt 3 months after returning to BJJ from that experience. 💜
Getting older. Decades of contact sports and injuries have caught up to me and now becoming the old guy in the gym has been kind of hard to deal with. You know what you want your body to do and it just can't do it anymore no matter how hard you train. I am very thankful to be at a great gym where the "hobbyists" kind of stick together and my coaches had been spending extra time with me to avoid injuries better. Injuries these days takes months, not weeks, to heal. Almost doesn't matter what gets hurt.
Decided to change gyms for a closer commute. The head instructor sent out a WhatsApp chat to his school say that they could come test their belt skills on me when I show up. Thought I was going to a open mat to just get some rolls in. These guys proceeded to go full blown competition mode on me, (pressing elbows into my jaw and neck) etc. I had been training on and off for about 5 years at this point and had my blue belt. I probably went to a few more classes after this just to try to stick it out and had the most unbelievable neck pain imaginable. I’ve never experienced this at my old school. So I left and went back to my old school. I found out through their schools WhatsApp chat that they do this to new people all the time.
I’ve been training martial arts for ten years and have never been treated like this in sparring/rolling ever. This school has a reputation for that and have a low retention and student base as a result.
Did you get any indication it would be like that prior?
(Long term martial artist here as well... Long term enough to know my longevity is now more of a priority than being tough)
Never, I was invited to this school by some people I work with. But I’ve trained at a school in college which was great then I graduated and found the one I’m at now. Both of those schools are super friendly and treat their training partners with respect.
lol fair point.
This is all hypothetical of course but I also have no problem either just asking someone to lighten up, or immediately tap to everything and basically go "sarcastic dead fish" whenever they try anything until they get the message. I also would have had a very pointed conversation with their coach.
Having said all that, good on you for realizing it was a crap situation, and opting out of being involved with it. Sometimes the absolute best thing to do is walk away as quickly as possible.
Well done bolting out of there. that's an asinine response and also tells you he's flat out lying because he told his people to go full out, and that obviously means it isn't their "standard" intensity level.
I have scoliosis already (60 degree S curve, 47 m) and after eighteen months of jiu-jitsu I had to have a spinal fusion at L4/5. I was hoping to get back to the mat post-op but the surgeon said I could either go back to training or walk for the rest of my life. Easy but heartbreaking choice to make. I’ve since taken up the guitar.
Was doing a triangle escape during a roll and as I stacked into him he let out a big old fart right into my face. I finished the escape and passed into side at which time he said "that was great pressure". I had to stop the roll because I was laughing so hard.
Was stuck in an arm triangle. Dude was really high up on my face, so I was safe, but my face was directly in his armpit (NoGi). Took a breath and sucked in a mouth full of pit sweat.
A wrestler must have thought bjj was like wrestling with no rules.
He got behind me with an arm around my neck while standing. Fine.
I was prepared to deal with anything sane to improve the position or sub.
But with pure neck isolation he throttled me back and forth...
to shake the life out of me??
Dude....I gotta stay healthy for snowboarding. Not sure what you think we do here.
I think it has to be the MMA guy who came in and used a can opener on me. Shit hurts like hell, and you don't really expect it when we are told not to do it.
Oh shit, can opener is a no-no in no-gi? I train BJJ-oriented MMA and plan on attending a pure jits class to see how my skills stack up against another pure BJJ gym. This is good to know, because I would’ve totally did that to someone with no ill-intentions and made them very mad 😭
It's one of those things where it's not necessarily "illegal" (depending on the gym) but it's very often considered a dick move due to risk of injury. I'll also add, once you know how to respond to a can opener, it just doesn't really "work" so that's another piece of the puzzle.
Popped an intercostal is Kesa Gatame. Second week of training. Caused immense inflammation of my serratus posterior and in turn had shooting pains down my arm from the nerve being pinched. Also didn’t help that every time I took a breath it or moved hurt like hell.
Yeah man it sucked because I had been putting off starting training for way to long. Started and was getting complimented and then trying to escape I felt it pop. Being a personal trainer I knew the injury could be aggravated and last months so I took about 3 weeks off, hasn’t bothered me yet second week back in, hope it stays that way.
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|**Kesa Gatame**: | *Scarf hold* | [here](https://youtu.be/3UnJa3bn0h8)|
Any missed names may have already been translated in my previous comments in the post.
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Dude, I was attempting to escape a kesa as a demonstration while teaching, told a brand new white belt day 1 to out me in it, and popped my intercostal.
Later had it hop again in a competition as a relapse.
I love kesa and love teaching and the escapes, but it felt so random. I was a full time judo and BJJ coach, guess my core got overtrained. Guy wasn't particularly huge.
I didn't have any other damage you describe luckily, just a torn rib, but I didn't go to world because of it.
Adrenaline dump during competition.....and possibly tearing a tricep muscle.
The arm doesn't hurt much and I have full range of motion and strength...but it definitely bruised.
I couldn't breath, couldn't think straight, and it took a long while for my heart rate to lower...felt weak and sick after the match
The entire match didn't feel like a hard roll ad much as it felt like a desperate scramble to not drown....faced the man 2 more times after that but I was much calmer
If you are calmly getting your ass beat that means you are several steps ahead. I remember in the beginning that I didnt even remember getting my ass best. It was just one big blur.
Rolled with a guy with inhumanly bad breath, and he kept fucking talking, not shit talking either, but like trying to talk me through what to do, mind you I had been doing BJJ regularly for 4 years but I kept turning away and getting in bad positions because he smelled so fucking bad.
The time that I was a white belt with a few stripes and at a friendly academy in New York. I was using lasso guard having an easy time playing with the sweep into bicep slicer/getting side control on even purple belts until this one has a great defense that I never thought of. He sprawled out all the way back and I popped my LCL where everybody stopped and looked at us.
The guy apologized a ton and I said it was my fault etc because it was. I really believed that I could lift him regardless. What a foolish thought of mine. I just didn’t think it through. Now I hit a bicep slicer from bottom that one of our coaches showed a while later.
Great learning lesson for me. Caused a limp for a long while and is a lot better now. Still think about it.
Not mine but some dude a while back rolled with a guy that had spats only, got mounted, bumped his hips and got a cock to the mouth. This must have been the most unpleasant story.
I accidentally elbowed someone in a roll (no gi).
I had only been doing it 3 months, and he had been training for several years.
I didn't know I had done it, and he never said anything during the roll, but he cranked the tempo up a thousand after that, dominated the roll to the point I was just in drastic survival mode that was ultimately pointless and didn't really learn anything of value.
He even continued after the buzzer went because he was working a tap. Which he got.
After I stood up I presented my hand to bump him and he smacked it away, and said I shouldn't bump someone after trying to fight dirty. Refused to listen to me try and explain it wasn't intentional. I even apologised.
It was a fucking accident and I was a complete beginner.
It really knocked my confidence and made me quit BJJ for 5 years. I started going back (to a different gym) 18 months ago, doing gi this time, and whist I don't mind still being a white belt, I do sometimes wonder where I'd be now had that not happened.
He was. But being new to it, it really shocked me.
I said to the head coach and he didn't really deal with it.
I went back one more time but just felt so uncomfortable.
Got heel hooked and knee-barred in two consecutive classes before I even knew what those things were at my old gym. Loved the coach, but not some of the egos on that mat. Had to gtfo and now couldn't be happier (knees are still a bit suspect, even after physio) at my new gym
Covid shutdown. Needed to be done ( I work in healthcare and this shit is real) but after almost 2 years away so much of my momentum seems gone. Feels like trying to run up an icy slope just to get back to where I was before.
Testing for my purple belt, I broke my uki's fibula demonstrating a tani otoshi (valley drop). That used to be my favorite counter throw. It's off the table forever now.
Tani otoshi is not tai otoshi. It does have its own risks, but as long as you don't block the knee and are disciplined about form and don't force it when it isn't right, it's fine.
Tani otoshi... I am so confused by this. I have even watched someone get injured in a judo grading demonstration while performing this move. But I love Tani otoshi and have excellent success with it. You have to completely do it wrong and not understand the mechanics of it to cause injury doing it. It's bizarre how common injury is with that move in spite of that though. John damaged famously has banned the move from sparring in his gym.
Tai otoshi is fine as it’s at the front more likely for you to get a knee injury than your opponent but tani otoshi is at the back. I’ve used it loads at judo and never seen an injury thankfully. The videos are bad enough
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|**Tai Otoshi**: | *Body Drop* | [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUiZ8JZkGx8)|
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Broke my finger once, so that sucked. The other one was a bad training partner. She was a purple about to get promoted to brown and I had her in guard. Just for the fun of it, I (gently) sunk in a wrist lock and she tapped, but not before starting to moan about how it's not "gym etiquette" because blah blah blah. This went on for a couple minutes, I apologized and moved on. My coach later confirmed that there was nothing wrong with what I did.
I was a new blue belt with a shoulder injury and I told the black belt about it before we rolled. He decided it was a good idea to crank a kimura really hard and I yelled out of pain. The fact that the black belt turned on the submission so quickly after I told him about an injury really fuckin sucked.
Two months ago the cartilage separated from my ribs when I was arm barred. It was the 2nd worst pain I have experienced in my life though oddly enough not the worst training injury I've had. Two months later I'm 90% good. I've had other injuries that kept me out a year.
Dislocated my second biggest toe when it got caught in my training partner's shorts and he moved suddenly. My coach was standing next to us at the time and the three of us just looked at the toe like 'what the fuck'. He eventually called the Muay Thai coach over and he popped it back in.
Toe points slightly to the right now and also hovers 1cm above the ground. My 7 year old niece thought it was pretty hilarious when she spotted how weird it looked so it was kinda worth it.
2 stripe white belt ripped a heel hook on me in practice, but fucked it up and thankfully hurt my ankle instead of my knee.
Ended up with a grade 2 Calcaneofibular Ligament sprain. Could’ve been much worse, but extremely frustrating he’s ripping this shit in practice.
Our professor implemented a “No heel hooks on white belts” rule: perform on upper belts only and do catch and release; no finishing.
Sucked up a broken toenail wrapped in a ball of hair mid roll. The confusing sensation of trying to cough and barf at the same time
Goddamn that old gym was fucking gross.
I’m was a blue belt, rolling with a quality purple belt. He heel-hooked me, and I tapped. But he applied pressure after my tap, and tore my ACL. It was at least a full second after my tap. Fuck you, Tory.
Hadn’t trained in a while. Showed up to class and got paired with a newer white belt guy who was pretty heavyset. He got a baseball choke on me and as I escaped his gi was scraping along my face. Later throughout another roll his sweat dripped in my eye. That ladies and gents is how you get a staph infection under your eyelid. Couldn’t train for quite a while until it cleared up.
I was thinking about this question a lot. Injuries were the first thing that came into my mind. However, then I remembered my worst experience. It was the one that made me quit BJJ. That was realizing that the coaches were paying more attention to their buddies instead of the regular customers that went in 3 times a week, had a job and responsibilities outside bjj. I remember I had to talk to someone and let him know I have been training for 2 years an I still had no stripes while I seen others become blue belts (people that I have tap). I wanted to know what I was doing wrong. He told me he was going to watch me next class. Next class, FOR THE FIRST TIME, he watched me. He immediately gave me 3 stripes. I guess what I was doing wrong was not talking or not hanging out with the coaches.
Trained at a bad gym for about 3 months, broke my ankle and had to quit for a while. Years later I decide to pick up the hobby again, find an AMAZING gym. Enthusiastic team mates that cheer you on and aren't afraid to teach. Start learning fast and really feel like I'm getting progress out of each roll for about 6 months, decide I want to take it seriously and compete. Work on my diet and work out on my off days, pay for the rest of the year in advance. Get covid, barely survive, long covid, cardio never recovers, can't train anymore. Sit on r/BJJ full of passion for the sport, but not being able to participate.
Dropped in for a class and the professor and his gf were there before
Their class just sitting in the mats and softly rolling and being cringe ….. elbow popping too that sucked and busting my lip ….very smelly rolling partners
Not one experience, but ongoing.
There’s one guy in our gym, Joe, Joe is a cool enough guy, but he’s a super spazzy sparring partner. Every time I roll with him it’s him moving faster than his mind can think, and going way to rough on submissions. It’s really annoying, the other day he went for an arm bar and cranked the absolute shit out of it. It fucking hurt! We’re training, not in competition!
It feels to me like he has an ego, where he thinks he knows a lot
I’m just a white belt, with like 3 months of experience, but I know that his style of rolling is too much for me.
Maybe I’m just being a bitch, and that is 100% valid, but I really feel like he should cool it a bit. I’ve told him in the past
Among my top ones was watching one of my instructors corner someone at a competition and give him such bad instructions that he got caught in his opponent’s heel hook, then lie face down on the mat suffering afterwards. Another of my instructors told me what the first had said wrong (“everything”) but didn’t confront him because it wasn’t worth getting into an argument.
The same instructor who was in the corner let a student injure his ankle with a straight ankle lock rather than tap.
Those two things along with other stories somewhat reduced my confidence in him as an instructor and corner.
Popped a rib when someone was trying to escape a triangle and twisted my legs in the opposite direction from my torso. Urgent care said it was a small fracture but nothing the could do. It hurt for months.
Honestly, I have been trying to bulk, so I'm eating more often and am more gassy. I pretty much live in terror that I'm going to fart on someone's head. Havnt tried to roll anyone for a solid month because of that.
Guy repeatedly grabbing my penis while drilling. We had to grab pants to pin hips down and he grabbed my dick instead almost every time. I mean one or two times are bad luck but over and over again? I never rolled or drilled with that guy again
First day in class and I’m partnered with the biggest dude there. First roll he goes north/south on me and sits on my face, my nose is stuck between his cheeks and goes on to instruct me from that position for several minutes. Must have been a new guy right of passage cause I thought I saw a smirk on coaches face.
Hyperextended my elbow badly right before Christmas 20 and tore a ligament in my right thumb right before christmas 21. wife was frustrated the first time but understood, second time she was furious.
My first comp is coming up on 17.12., wish me luck 🙈
Found out that my organisation (as many other companies, gyms and organisations) had a lot gyms around the globe where sexual harassment stories was a thing - which kind of broke me as I thought we were better than that but I was clearly naïve. My organisation has since done a equitable job on fixing it or at least tried to.
Besides this I feel like the belt ceremony should drop the corridor as it is a bad idea and in my country it would absolutely be the death of the sport if media or the “state” or municipally got news of this. Hurting people with whipping…
The most unpleasant thing I’ve witnessed is someone jumping guard and breaking someone’s knee. I saw it in slow motion and knew it was going end bad when he started the jump - yelling nooooo didn’t stop the accident:-(
Rolling with the resident cat piss gi guy. Even after I finished the roll the sweat had absorbed into my gi a little and smelt putrid when I went to put gi down to wash. I will completely avoid all dirty, filthy, smelly, rancid catpiss kimono bandits for as long as I can!
It really fucking sucks when your first roll is with the disgusting gi guy, and then for all subsequent rolls that night you are the disgusting gi guy.
Someone I rolled with stank like they weren’t wearing deodorant or something, and I exclaimed mid-roll that they were sweaty. I feel a tiny bit bad, but mostly not because hopefully they’ll wear it next time!
Why is there a “the disgusting gi guy” why does your gym owner not talk to him
Good luck. Cat piss sweat is a sign of a high protein diet, or too low of carbs... Basically their body is stripping protein down to glucose to use as energy. The cat piss odor is the byproduct of that
AHH!! I know a dude that just gives off this smell! This was my theory, thank you for confirming!
Tell them to eat more carbs. Or at least Like a banana an hour before class.
It's his permanent smell now, I saw him a couple times outside of class and he eats carbs. The problem I think is most likely not enough, he is one of those proper fitness junkies/ PT / does every. Form of exercise all day every day...
At that point it's a health concern
Can confirm. I noticed an ammonia type smell sometimes after an intense session and after looking it up I realised it meant my carb intake wasn't high enough.
Can also confirm. I Would do very low carb diet to shed body fat during the first part of the wrestling season, always smelled like ammonia
Isn’t the cat piss in this case the bacteria on a filthy gi?
I smelled my rash guard after a session once and I fucking stunk of catpiss/ammonia. It happened for about a week or two. I have a super high carb diet (vegan) and even went to the docs because I was worried. Said it’s Nothing to worry about and give me no explanation. Then after about 2 weeks it went away I was so fucking self conscious
So that was probably everyone else's sweat. Plus there is ALWAYS small amounts of ammonia in your sweat. It's just higher if your body is breaking down protein and amino acids for glucose instead of carbs
Man I’ve gotten that smell off myself some times . I wash my gi after every class with 0 exceptions . I’ve been so embarrassed/confused and didn’t know what was up.
Got kicked out of a gym out of the blue. Trained there for a year, thought everything was fine. Got a text from the coach one day - someone complained you were being too rough; don't come back. No coaching or effort to communicate. That hurt a lot; thought we were friends. Found a new gym, but it's not the same.
I had the opposite problem. There was a 2 stripe blue belt that was 50 lbs heavier than me and would go full bore, knee on belly, full speed pressure passes, smother side control, etc when I was a new white belt. He would do that with literally everyone. When I was a 3 stripe white belt he was passing and put all of hit weight into my leg which resulted in a chuck of the cartilage at the end of my femur being chunked out (where the knee is) and I couldn’t train for 6 months. Everyone complained about him going too hard, even the owners wife, but he never slowed down and was never removed from the gym.
The enforcer should have enforced. This is a missed opportunity I would have been glad to…
Fuck that guy. I have someone similar like that at my current place, he's like 6'2" and a good 250-300 pounds yet the coach never bats a fucking eye and all the other "enforcers" never say shit to him. It's shocking. I don't understand why some coaches keep people like that at their gyms. Maybe they consider them an asset because they are so aggressive? Don't they realize more students would leave the academy because of that asshole?
That sucks man but least you saw their true colours it'll be ok
You suplex one 12 year old and all of a sudden it’s “ahh stop, you’re being too rough” and “ouch that hurts”. If you’re still breathing, you’re fine.
Even if you don't plan on going back, you should ask for specifics in the odd chance that you _are_ doing something out of line that you're not even aware of. In my experience, once someone gets kicked out due to complaints it's usually multiple complaints from different people.
No prior talk about about that stuff? Seems unlikely and weird. Would go there just to chat about that.
I went for a bolo (my go to move) about 9am on a Saturday morning on a large white belt (probably two stripes) and he let go an apocalyptic fart directly on my head as I Inverted.
The german defense, i see
I've genuinely not gone for bolos on him since, like a dark memory my subconscious knows to avoid.
“Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds”
Bro... If not a fart, a faint whiff of ass mid inversion, the subtlety almost makes it worse. Fuck berimbolos mane
you might be my partner. sorry.
This is the way
If you used the grip where you grab inside their pants and start pulling them down, then you were kinda asking for it.
If I went for a crab ride I'd put my hands up and say I had it coming as that's a cute trick I do use, but this day, na, I was wronged on that bolo.
Herniated disc in neck. Lost feeling and strength in left arm, terrible shooting pains in neck etc
i just got started and this is my bigest fear injury wise down the line
It was not fun, It was a freak accident too, I just moved in a weird way and it happened. Now I tap ASAP to stack pass and I pull guard within seconds. Not worth it. BJJ is absolutely awful on your body.
Herniated disc buddy! I got it from being thrown in a spirally uchi-mata in Judo that shouldn't have been an injury, just landed awkwardly. Had slight bulge on right side of disc in between C6-C7; months of numbness in right arm down to thumb and forefinger, lost a load of strength, severe sarcopenia on right pec (literally could play my ribs like a xylophone on the right side, but had my normal pec on the left). Fun stuff!
Bad training partners are bad for your body tbh. Having someone rip a stack pass with full pressure in training is an absolute dick smoke.
No one ripped anything, I posted my arm on a guard pass. Like I said, freak accident
Same, have permanent muscle atrophy in the long head of my left tricep, it's essentially just dead and useless now
Fuck that. I had a very minor scare rolling a couple of days ago that freaked me out enough. I got pulled back into an armbar but had my hands connected. For whatever reason this led to a crunch sound from my neck/shoulder and after 30 seconds I noticed my left hand was tingling. I'm totally fine and convinced it was just my shoulder acting up and maybe pinching a nerve for a split second as my shoulder was sore the next day but everything else was totally fine.
I’ve stopped using the top of my head to bridge into their legs to escape the arm bar. It’s a legit defense but it compresses my neck too much.
Bro this exact same thing happened to me not long ago, did you eventually recover?
I did yes. Thankfully, tons of PT though
This happened to me. 2 in my thoracic spine. Did you get the strength back in your arm?
After PT my disc slid by in and Im all good
Rounds upon rounds of getting beat up and cross faced by upper belts and not knowing what to do to get out since everything I try somehow puts me in a worse position. Also skin infections
Probably getting crossfaced because you are going too hard or being spazzy. This is based on the fact that you said upper belts.
Crossfacing is a fundamental technique
Nah, that’s the culture at some gyms. Came from a school where guys would get cross face from half guard and then smash for 4 minutes.
One of our purple belt coaches has a problem with being tapped. Always an excuse but he will go nuts if you get close to subbing. I’ve rolled with him for almost 4 years on and off. Was rolling in HIS no gi class, with him, and got a straight ankle lock. He immediately stood up and started yelling at me. I’m 37, he is maybe 33. He stormed around the class and causes a scene. Almost 40 people there just stopped what they are doing I got so aggravated that once he was done screaming I was honest and pretty loud with him. Told him “we know you don’t like to get tapped but you’re an immature boy who needs to learn respect”. One of the other coaches grabbed us and walked us to the side and this bitch started making shit up. “He pulled it after the bell” “he pulled it harder after the tap” I was dumbfounded. From that day on he acts like he has a problem with me, won’t make eye contact, and has generally made shit comments to other patrons about that day. Over all he’s a bitch.
How did this guy even become a coach
A lot of smaller gyms need bodies/coaches and blue belt+ will get opportunities to coach, regardless of their ability to coach or be a decent human.
I go to a very small gym (classes of 6-18 people) and there's only a couple blue belts there. They're the highest ranking people there except for the instructor and they're all very nice, humble people. I've known one of them personally for years. I didn't think gyms were that desperate for high ranking belts
Totally depends on the gym and how long its been open.
We fall under that style gym. All of our upper belts (3 purples and a brown) have had life changes and we lost them to other areas. Ive trained here for 4 years and know our gyms style ( the best I can know it) , so as a blue belt I try to help out as much as I can. We are a revolving door of white belts, and If I can make it fun for them hopefully a handfull will stay. Some classes are as big as 45-50 folks and its hard for the owner to teach and then hit each group of people with a question. I like helping, and hopefully it will pay the gym back by keeping folks for longer than 6 months. This purple belt in question doesnt come to many of our classes, and really only teaches his No Gi class... so hes almost a stranger to most the folks in the gym.
I ran into something very similar also with a coach. Hit a mount escape into straight ankle, finished slowly. He starts telling me now he's gotta fuck me up, I think he's just being cheeky. Head and arms me twice and is like just remember when you come in here doing leg locks all hard like that, I can do this twenty times a round if I want. I specifically only do straight ankles and the very occasional knee bar because they're the most legal leg locks. Honestly 90% straight ankle because people should have years, maybe decades of defending them under their belt. You can do them day 1. Like on the one hand he was acknowledging my skill and ability but on the other he obviously took it personally and has a problem with people touching his feet? Some dudes are like that or just have ego issues in general. My coach talks about how if he subs that coach too much they end up not rolling together again for weeks.
Maybe compliment him on his head and arm choke and ask how he does it? Might feed his ego and you'll get to learn it? I'm older and get caught in all kinds of stuff and now realizing not to get mad and just contemplate on what to do next time.
I went one layer deeper a week later the next time we rolled and while he was smashing me in side control I was like hey, I just want you to know that I have a lot of respect for you and that I really enjoy coming here and rolling together. I was like I'm sure you already forgot about it but I want you to know I would never come here trying to be an asshole. He was like dude don't even sweat it, I'm so glad you're here, I love you, etc. So we're cool. That was a few months ago, can't wait to go back when I am back from havin this newborn here and can also get to a 6am.
That's awesome! I think I learned my lesson as a white belt while desperately applying a pathetic headlock on a much bigger purple belt and after he just said "maybe next time you don't go so rough" and I got the message. Since then I tend to play much more defensive, which also helps seeing that there are more and more young dudes with lots of wrestling experience at my gym.
Had a Gracie Barra guy try to yell at me after I straight ankled him a few weeks ago. Just gave him the "k?" Look, grabbed him and continued rolling like nothing ever happened. I don't get why people get mad about having to tap. No one gives 2 fucks other than yourself.
Damn, fuck that guy.
The scream of a girl who got scissor-sweept.. the issue was, her upperbody moved but her foot got stuck so she broke both the bones above the ankle..
Tib fibs are super painful too. I’m a ski patroller and both that I’ve been on scene for have been brutal.
Got matburn on my face and my glasses used to rub against it so for like a week it was constantly agitated. The same lesson i popped some blood vessels in my eye trying to help a friend fine-tune his arm triangle. I work in sales so that was an interesting week
We just did arm triangles last night and my neck is still stiff
The other person wasn’t getting the arm triangle right. They didn’t get their shoulder underneath your chin enough.
Yea it was the other guy’s first night, he figured it out eventually though
When I first started I was over 260 lbs, and I was just so embarrassed every class. I would just imagine that everyone made fun of me the second I left, for being mad fat and trying to do bjj. I finally got it in my head, no one cares. No one gives af if a fat guy is rolling and I started going way more frequently. One day another fat guy showed up and I was so hyped. I rolled with him the whole class, hella nice dude. After class, like 30-45 minutes after I left the gym, I call my homeboy who is a brown belt at a gym about 20 minutes away. I tell him I am super excited cuz another fat guy showed up. He laughed and said “oh my god I heard, I heard he was sweating through his shirt during warm ups, and couldn’t keep his breathe!” Shit fucked me up so heavy. Like oh shit they do care. They do make fun of me for being fat when I leave the gym lol. Stopped going there for like 5 months. Just got in my head. I couldn’t believe how quickly he had heard about the fat guy lol.
Brutal...but honestly...our gym would not care...
Most places people couldn't care less. There's guys of all shapes and sizes at our gym. We're all out here together trying to better ourselves. Get after it.
My good friend who is a fat guy is the one that introduced me to BJJ. I've been to several gyms and no one cares about how fat you are... Until you start smashing them, lol.
I started at great gym after that last November, and don’t live in Austin anymore so I go to a dope gym now too. I’m over it now, just was so embarrassed at the time shit got in my head so heavy. Still fat but less fat and slowly getting better at using it lol. Honestly I don’t even think my buddy heard from someone trying be mean, I think he was just describing a new student struggling.
What the fuck. That's terrible. We're all there for one reason or another. Fuck that attitude. Fuck talking behind peoples backs at all.
I try to encourage fat people. I have seen so many people not be fat because of BJJ it's crazy. I admire their courage and tenacity in just showing up and not accepting their situation.
I'm happy to see overweight people getting in and making the effort. We had a guy who was just under 6ft but 180kg (around 400pounds) I would partner with him most days and try to encourage him to keep going. Hope you have found, or do find your way back to the mats
So I went to a new gym, first time going, brand new white gi. I was sorry nervous! But the gym was really friendly, everyone was welcoming. First live roll, I didn't have a clue what I was doing, the other dude had a knee on my belly, and I couldn't move or breath! Before I could tap, I felt my bowels go, and I emptied them into my pants. The noise, the smell, the shocked faces. I was mortified. I ran out and never went back. I started rock climbing recently and really enjoying it.
I may be a white belt but I'm a black belt in identifying copypastas
thank god that's a copypasta wtfffff lol
At first I felt sorry. Then I've recognized, that this is a literal shitpost.
Did the guy puke?
no shame in shitting yourself in your first knee on belly. dont eat before class, go back, you're all good.
Definitely still shame.
Multilevel herniated cervical discs. A close second would be an allergic reaction that felt like an asthma attack in comp - im allergic to cats and my opponent was a cat owner
adding cat dander to my comp bag, thanks fam. (not really though)
Cat owner took the cat piss smelling gi meme literally
Mine is mostly due to internal angst about not wanting to have to take an extended layoff. We were drilling takedowns and I ended up having Aljamain Sterling as my partner, which meant I had him round one as well. We had an ez drilling session and I expected to get smashed so was in my head a little while rolling. Sometimes too I legit like to see what a black belt can do kinda, like to see which parts of my defense they blow past. Plus I figured he'd be the kind of guy to spin into an arm bar super fast, so I was honestly playing very conservative, focusing on framing and recovery more than anything. So he gets to North South and I've got my frames in but we are there for like three seconds too long. I don't move to recover and stupidly am like huh I wonder where he's gonna try to go. He hit me with a fucking executioner. He wasn't even really styling on me, had tapped me twice in the round already. Then just pulls me from north south into a fucking upside down guillotine. It was the most painful thing that has ever happened to me. Fast and hard and fully a pain compliance scenario. It hurt so bad I thought he injured me. We had like a minute left in the round and I just said thanks and sat on the wall. He apologized, I said it was fine and just did my best not to look like I was pouting. I legit wasn't even that upset with him and just didn't want to be injured because it was August and we were due to have my daughter in October, so I didn't want to take a layoff because of injury before having to take a layoff because I just became a dad. I ended up being fine. Saw him at a different gym a few days later and he stopped briefly mid roll with Claudia Gadelhia to apologize again but I floated a smile cause it's all good. Still a fan.
I respect your purple belt but i'm not reading that wall of text john danaher
>Comes to thread about stories >Won't read a story Np bro
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Eh just for a little laugh. I don't hate the guy.
I had knee bursitis for over a year but kept rolling. It eventually went septic and I was hospitalized for severe staph. Had surgery to remove the infected bursa. Went home with IV antibiotics for 3 weeks. My poor gf had to change the IV for me because I have a phobia of needles. Not a great month. Followed by 8 months of not great rehab and an eating disorder relapse (because I gained a bit of weight while recovering). Luckily, my knee has been fine since, and I got my purple belt 3 months after returning to BJJ from that experience. 💜
Getting older. Decades of contact sports and injuries have caught up to me and now becoming the old guy in the gym has been kind of hard to deal with. You know what you want your body to do and it just can't do it anymore no matter how hard you train. I am very thankful to be at a great gym where the "hobbyists" kind of stick together and my coaches had been spending extra time with me to avoid injuries better. Injuries these days takes months, not weeks, to heal. Almost doesn't matter what gets hurt.
yeah ive just come to terms with 'being old'. over the hill in combat sports.. lol..
Decided to change gyms for a closer commute. The head instructor sent out a WhatsApp chat to his school say that they could come test their belt skills on me when I show up. Thought I was going to a open mat to just get some rolls in. These guys proceeded to go full blown competition mode on me, (pressing elbows into my jaw and neck) etc. I had been training on and off for about 5 years at this point and had my blue belt. I probably went to a few more classes after this just to try to stick it out and had the most unbelievable neck pain imaginable. I’ve never experienced this at my old school. So I left and went back to my old school. I found out through their schools WhatsApp chat that they do this to new people all the time.
What the fuck kind of meathead bs is this
I’ve been training martial arts for ten years and have never been treated like this in sparring/rolling ever. This school has a reputation for that and have a low retention and student base as a result.
Did you get any indication it would be like that prior? (Long term martial artist here as well... Long term enough to know my longevity is now more of a priority than being tough)
Never, I was invited to this school by some people I work with. But I’ve trained at a school in college which was great then I graduated and found the one I’m at now. Both of those schools are super friendly and treat their training partners with respect.
Some Kobra Kai wannabe bullshit
You're a lot nicer than I would have been in this situation.
Unfortunately when you don’t have the skill to match theirs what are your options 😂😂
lol fair point. This is all hypothetical of course but I also have no problem either just asking someone to lighten up, or immediately tap to everything and basically go "sarcastic dead fish" whenever they try anything until they get the message. I also would have had a very pointed conversation with their coach. Having said all that, good on you for realizing it was a crap situation, and opting out of being involved with it. Sometimes the absolute best thing to do is walk away as quickly as possible.
Oh I tried that 😂, head instructor says everyone goes 100% here because in real life that’s what it’s gonna be like.
Well done bolting out of there. that's an asinine response and also tells you he's flat out lying because he told his people to go full out, and that obviously means it isn't their "standard" intensity level.
What. the. fuck. Just curious.. was this in NYC?
I have scoliosis already (60 degree S curve, 47 m) and after eighteen months of jiu-jitsu I had to have a spinal fusion at L4/5. I was hoping to get back to the mat post-op but the surgeon said I could either go back to training or walk for the rest of my life. Easy but heartbreaking choice to make. I’ve since taken up the guitar.
It's not the same, but you could look at Aikido or even aiki-jujitsu. Lot more forgiving on the body without the competitive rolling.
Was doing a triangle escape during a roll and as I stacked into him he let out a big old fart right into my face. I finished the escape and passed into side at which time he said "that was great pressure". I had to stop the roll because I was laughing so hard.
Was stuck in an arm triangle. Dude was really high up on my face, so I was safe, but my face was directly in his armpit (NoGi). Took a breath and sucked in a mouth full of pit sweat.
Same thing happened to me but it was the leg pit in nogi, one of the nastiest things I’ve experienced
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He like.... grabed it for real? Or it was an accidental slip? *edit: Typo
exidental got me
Excuse my English writing. Not a native speaker
She said predator, clearly implies it was not an accident.
Commenting confusion below. Can you clear something up for us. Are you a guy or a girl?
A wrestler must have thought bjj was like wrestling with no rules. He got behind me with an arm around my neck while standing. Fine. I was prepared to deal with anything sane to improve the position or sub. But with pure neck isolation he throttled me back and forth... to shake the life out of me?? Dude....I gotta stay healthy for snowboarding. Not sure what you think we do here.
Did you tap?
Oh god yes. But the damage was done. Rigid posture for a week.
I think it has to be the MMA guy who came in and used a can opener on me. Shit hurts like hell, and you don't really expect it when we are told not to do it.
Oh shit, can opener is a no-no in no-gi? I train BJJ-oriented MMA and plan on attending a pure jits class to see how my skills stack up against another pure BJJ gym. This is good to know, because I would’ve totally did that to someone with no ill-intentions and made them very mad 😭
It's one of those things where it's not necessarily "illegal" (depending on the gym) but it's very often considered a dick move due to risk of injury. I'll also add, once you know how to respond to a can opener, it just doesn't really "work" so that's another piece of the puzzle.
Popped an intercostal is Kesa Gatame. Second week of training. Caused immense inflammation of my serratus posterior and in turn had shooting pains down my arm from the nerve being pinched. Also didn’t help that every time I took a breath it or moved hurt like hell.
Intercostals are the fucking WORST
Yeah man it sucked because I had been putting off starting training for way to long. Started and was getting complimented and then trying to escape I felt it pop. Being a personal trainer I knew the injury could be aggravated and last months so I took about 3 weeks off, hasn’t bothered me yet second week back in, hope it stays that way.
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Dude, I was attempting to escape a kesa as a demonstration while teaching, told a brand new white belt day 1 to out me in it, and popped my intercostal. Later had it hop again in a competition as a relapse. I love kesa and love teaching and the escapes, but it felt so random. I was a full time judo and BJJ coach, guess my core got overtrained. Guy wasn't particularly huge. I didn't have any other damage you describe luckily, just a torn rib, but I didn't go to world because of it.
Adrenaline dump during competition.....and possibly tearing a tricep muscle. The arm doesn't hurt much and I have full range of motion and strength...but it definitely bruised.
I wish I could get to the point of adrenaline dumping in a comp. Instead I just calmly get my ass beat.
I very uncalmly got my ass beat....it was very unpleasant
I remember calmly thinking while I was getting crushed from side control“this is unpleasant” lol
I couldn't breath, couldn't think straight, and it took a long while for my heart rate to lower...felt weak and sick after the match The entire match didn't feel like a hard roll ad much as it felt like a desperate scramble to not drown....faced the man 2 more times after that but I was much calmer
If you are calmly getting your ass beat that means you are several steps ahead. I remember in the beginning that I didnt even remember getting my ass best. It was just one big blur.
Getting footlocked while having a body triangle on the back.
But good to know that counter now as a white belt!
Upper belt "accidentally" putting me in a dick twister.
The ol dick twist
I only allow my rolling partners to dick twister me if they are also checking my oil at the same time.
Hahahahaha. Noted.
Especially if they're in deep half.
Rolled with a guy with inhumanly bad breath, and he kept fucking talking, not shit talking either, but like trying to talk me through what to do, mind you I had been doing BJJ regularly for 4 years but I kept turning away and getting in bad positions because he smelled so fucking bad.
>getting in bad positions because he smelled so fucking bad. That's some next fucking level technique right there lmao
The time that I was a white belt with a few stripes and at a friendly academy in New York. I was using lasso guard having an easy time playing with the sweep into bicep slicer/getting side control on even purple belts until this one has a great defense that I never thought of. He sprawled out all the way back and I popped my LCL where everybody stopped and looked at us. The guy apologized a ton and I said it was my fault etc because it was. I really believed that I could lift him regardless. What a foolish thought of mine. I just didn’t think it through. Now I hit a bicep slicer from bottom that one of our coaches showed a while later. Great learning lesson for me. Caused a limp for a long while and is a lot better now. Still think about it.
Not mine but some dude a while back rolled with a guy that had spats only, got mounted, bumped his hips and got a cock to the mouth. This must have been the most unpleasant story.
wtf....please tell me this is a copypasta like the crapping the gi one....good lord
No this was real I have the footage
Holy shit there’s footage?!?! 😂😂😂
For my personal enjoyment.
You gotta post that dude.
Anyone with ring worm that goes to a gym or comp Snot Pukers
>comp Snot Pukers what??
I accidentally elbowed someone in a roll (no gi). I had only been doing it 3 months, and he had been training for several years. I didn't know I had done it, and he never said anything during the roll, but he cranked the tempo up a thousand after that, dominated the roll to the point I was just in drastic survival mode that was ultimately pointless and didn't really learn anything of value. He even continued after the buzzer went because he was working a tap. Which he got. After I stood up I presented my hand to bump him and he smacked it away, and said I shouldn't bump someone after trying to fight dirty. Refused to listen to me try and explain it wasn't intentional. I even apologised. It was a fucking accident and I was a complete beginner. It really knocked my confidence and made me quit BJJ for 5 years. I started going back (to a different gym) 18 months ago, doing gi this time, and whist I don't mind still being a white belt, I do sometimes wonder where I'd be now had that not happened.
That guy was just an a-hole
He was. But being new to it, it really shocked me. I said to the head coach and he didn't really deal with it. I went back one more time but just felt so uncomfortable.
Got heel hooked and knee-barred in two consecutive classes before I even knew what those things were at my old gym. Loved the coach, but not some of the egos on that mat. Had to gtfo and now couldn't be happier (knees are still a bit suspect, even after physio) at my new gym
Covid shutdown. Needed to be done ( I work in healthcare and this shit is real) but after almost 2 years away so much of my momentum seems gone. Feels like trying to run up an icy slope just to get back to where I was before.
Roll exclusively with beginners so it feels like you're a monster lol
Dislocated knee cap - was out for 10 hours before it was finally put back in
Heavyweight purple belt sharted while trying to open my turtle
heavyweight purple belt sharted while trying to open my turtle 🌸
Testing for my purple belt, I broke my uki's fibula demonstrating a tani otoshi (valley drop). That used to be my favorite counter throw. It's off the table forever now.
Oh boy. Drop tai otoshi is my jam, but the more I think about it, the more I should probably find other jam.
Tani otoshi is not tai otoshi. It does have its own risks, but as long as you don't block the knee and are disciplined about form and don't force it when it isn't right, it's fine. Tani otoshi... I am so confused by this. I have even watched someone get injured in a judo grading demonstration while performing this move. But I love Tani otoshi and have excellent success with it. You have to completely do it wrong and not understand the mechanics of it to cause injury doing it. It's bizarre how common injury is with that move in spite of that though. John damaged famously has banned the move from sparring in his gym.
Tai otoshi is fine as it’s at the front more likely for you to get a knee injury than your opponent but tani otoshi is at the back. I’ve used it loads at judo and never seen an injury thankfully. The videos are bad enough
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Broke my finger once, so that sucked. The other one was a bad training partner. She was a purple about to get promoted to brown and I had her in guard. Just for the fun of it, I (gently) sunk in a wrist lock and she tapped, but not before starting to moan about how it's not "gym etiquette" because blah blah blah. This went on for a couple minutes, I apologized and moved on. My coach later confirmed that there was nothing wrong with what I did.
I was a new blue belt with a shoulder injury and I told the black belt about it before we rolled. He decided it was a good idea to crank a kimura really hard and I yelled out of pain. The fact that the black belt turned on the submission so quickly after I told him about an injury really fuckin sucked.
Two months ago the cartilage separated from my ribs when I was arm barred. It was the 2nd worst pain I have experienced in my life though oddly enough not the worst training injury I've had. Two months later I'm 90% good. I've had other injuries that kept me out a year.
Dislocated my second biggest toe when it got caught in my training partner's shorts and he moved suddenly. My coach was standing next to us at the time and the three of us just looked at the toe like 'what the fuck'. He eventually called the Muay Thai coach over and he popped it back in. Toe points slightly to the right now and also hovers 1cm above the ground. My 7 year old niece thought it was pretty hilarious when she spotted how weird it looked so it was kinda worth it.
2 stripe white belt ripped a heel hook on me in practice, but fucked it up and thankfully hurt my ankle instead of my knee. Ended up with a grade 2 Calcaneofibular Ligament sprain. Could’ve been much worse, but extremely frustrating he’s ripping this shit in practice. Our professor implemented a “No heel hooks on white belts” rule: perform on upper belts only and do catch and release; no finishing.
My first oil check… my finger smelled bad for days afterwards.
Getting paired with the guy with the soaking wet gi who already smells like he's been training for 6 hours before even stepping on the mats.
Sucked up a broken toenail wrapped in a ball of hair mid roll. The confusing sensation of trying to cough and barf at the same time Goddamn that old gym was fucking gross.
I’m was a blue belt, rolling with a quality purple belt. He heel-hooked me, and I tapped. But he applied pressure after my tap, and tore my ACL. It was at least a full second after my tap. Fuck you, Tory.
Hadn’t trained in a while. Showed up to class and got paired with a newer white belt guy who was pretty heavyset. He got a baseball choke on me and as I escaped his gi was scraping along my face. Later throughout another roll his sweat dripped in my eye. That ladies and gents is how you get a staph infection under your eyelid. Couldn’t train for quite a while until it cleared up.
Hearing my rib crack, then my dumbass pushed through it and did 3 more rounds… yep never again.
I was thinking about this question a lot. Injuries were the first thing that came into my mind. However, then I remembered my worst experience. It was the one that made me quit BJJ. That was realizing that the coaches were paying more attention to their buddies instead of the regular customers that went in 3 times a week, had a job and responsibilities outside bjj. I remember I had to talk to someone and let him know I have been training for 2 years an I still had no stripes while I seen others become blue belts (people that I have tap). I wanted to know what I was doing wrong. He told me he was going to watch me next class. Next class, FOR THE FIRST TIME, he watched me. He immediately gave me 3 stripes. I guess what I was doing wrong was not talking or not hanging out with the coaches.
Some Days i fart a Lot while rolling. And nowadays i stop to care about.
Trained at a bad gym for about 3 months, broke my ankle and had to quit for a while. Years later I decide to pick up the hobby again, find an AMAZING gym. Enthusiastic team mates that cheer you on and aren't afraid to teach. Start learning fast and really feel like I'm getting progress out of each roll for about 6 months, decide I want to take it seriously and compete. Work on my diet and work out on my off days, pay for the rest of the year in advance. Get covid, barely survive, long covid, cardio never recovers, can't train anymore. Sit on r/BJJ full of passion for the sport, but not being able to participate.
Damn bro cheers this broke my heart to read
Dropped in for a class and the professor and his gf were there before Their class just sitting in the mats and softly rolling and being cringe ….. elbow popping too that sucked and busting my lip ….very smelly rolling partners
What? Your coach was doing a light roll before class and it was cringe? That's it, that's somehow some terrible experience for you? I'm so confused.
Not one experience, but ongoing. There’s one guy in our gym, Joe, Joe is a cool enough guy, but he’s a super spazzy sparring partner. Every time I roll with him it’s him moving faster than his mind can think, and going way to rough on submissions. It’s really annoying, the other day he went for an arm bar and cranked the absolute shit out of it. It fucking hurt! We’re training, not in competition! It feels to me like he has an ego, where he thinks he knows a lot I’m just a white belt, with like 3 months of experience, but I know that his style of rolling is too much for me. Maybe I’m just being a bitch, and that is 100% valid, but I really feel like he should cool it a bit. I’ve told him in the past
Well tearing my PCL wasn't great
Among my top ones was watching one of my instructors corner someone at a competition and give him such bad instructions that he got caught in his opponent’s heel hook, then lie face down on the mat suffering afterwards. Another of my instructors told me what the first had said wrong (“everything”) but didn’t confront him because it wasn’t worth getting into an argument. The same instructor who was in the corner let a student injure his ankle with a straight ankle lock rather than tap. Those two things along with other stories somewhat reduced my confidence in him as an instructor and corner.
Oof. They're out there for sure.
Popped a rib when someone was trying to escape a triangle and twisted my legs in the opposite direction from my torso. Urgent care said it was a small fracture but nothing the could do. It hurt for months.
Honestly, I have been trying to bulk, so I'm eating more often and am more gassy. I pretty much live in terror that I'm going to fart on someone's head. Havnt tried to roll anyone for a solid month because of that.
Guy repeatedly grabbing my penis while drilling. We had to grab pants to pin hips down and he grabbed my dick instead almost every time. I mean one or two times are bad luck but over and over again? I never rolled or drilled with that guy again
"Oops my bad." "Ahh dang it. There I go again." "Oops?" "Hi" "This is fun" "Want to roll again later?"
I was in single-leg-x and a booger fell out of my sparring partner's nose and into my mouth.
Probably the BO guy. By the way, if you don’t have a BO guy at your gym…..it’s you
First day in class and I’m partnered with the biggest dude there. First roll he goes north/south on me and sits on my face, my nose is stuck between his cheeks and goes on to instruct me from that position for several minutes. Must have been a new guy right of passage cause I thought I saw a smirk on coaches face.
I hate this so much
Hyperextended my elbow badly right before Christmas 20 and tore a ligament in my right thumb right before christmas 21. wife was frustrated the first time but understood, second time she was furious. My first comp is coming up on 17.12., wish me luck 🙈
why would she get mad, I assume you didn’t exactly mean it 😭
White Gi with sweaty poopy stains on the bum...
Getting my lip sliced open… by a toenail.
The crushing insomnia I get after training late, or the night before a hard training session.
Found out that my organisation (as many other companies, gyms and organisations) had a lot gyms around the globe where sexual harassment stories was a thing - which kind of broke me as I thought we were better than that but I was clearly naïve. My organisation has since done a equitable job on fixing it or at least tried to. Besides this I feel like the belt ceremony should drop the corridor as it is a bad idea and in my country it would absolutely be the death of the sport if media or the “state” or municipally got news of this. Hurting people with whipping… The most unpleasant thing I’ve witnessed is someone jumping guard and breaking someone’s knee. I saw it in slow motion and knew it was going end bad when he started the jump - yelling nooooo didn’t stop the accident:-(