tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-421588795787161961.post3283875970837055374..comments2011-09-07T12:22:49.944-07:00Comments on Fifty/50 BJJ Cailín: Self Awareness: Are you a spaz?BJJ Cailínhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17513043772499828646noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-421588795787161961.post-67807603094418408172011-08-29T12:59:32.346-07:002011-08-29T12:59:32.346-07:00Love this post.
You are also a spaz if you find ...Love this post. <br /><br />You are also a spaz if you find that people you roll with get hurt more often than with others.<br /><br />I think it is hard to recognize in the moment when one is spazzing.Shark Girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00614995646635993850noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-421588795787161961.post-69821452334846071672011-08-21T10:24:48.889-07:002011-08-21T10:24:48.889-07:00Great post, Jen. I especially appreciate your &quo...Great post, Jen. I especially appreciate your "aside" thought, coming from someone who runs a school. I recently <a href="http://resiliencejiujitsu.blogspot.com/2011/07/tell-it-like-it-is.html" rel="nofollow">reflected on my communication</a> with teammates as an individual. <br /><br />Allie also raises excellent points that I sort of addressed in my post, ie. about talking not working. In a similar vein, I suspect that people might think I feel that way about how they roll because I'm a "wimpy girl", when I know for a fact guys don't like it either, but they don't <b>say</b> anything.<br /><br />Overall, I think some people are ready to listen, like the blue belt in your post, so maybe it's still worthwhile to be honest.Ashleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00389820287771206112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-421588795787161961.post-8705838411277322982011-08-20T09:48:00.916-07:002011-08-20T09:48:00.916-07:00Really good way of explaining it. A lot of spazzy ...Really good way of explaining it. A lot of spazzy guys I have seen who are getting an instructor beat-down because they are so spazzy have no idea that a message is trying to be sent. They think, "We're fighting and that's why he is beating the crap out of me." It isn't until they hear a conversation about the instructor going hard on someone else to show them they need to calm down that they realize that's what has been happening to them. It makes me wonder like you said about whether or not it would be beneficial to be more direct. I've asked my instructor about it before and he said that usually just telling someone to stop using muscle doesn't work. A lot of times, they just think that what they are doing is aggravating you because it is difficult to deal with. They have pride. But if they are using all their strength and getting no where, eventually it will dawn on them that strength isn't working and then they will really start learning how to use jiu-jitsu. <br /><br />The other thing my instructor said that has really stuck with me about spazzing is that if you can't breathe and speak normally while you are doing a technique, chances are that you are using too much strength.A.D. McClishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07019434821749308292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-421588795787161961.post-57457485731101101452011-08-19T12:07:35.181-07:002011-08-19T12:07:35.181-07:00Lol, love the 2nd guy's response. Oopsies...
...Lol, love the 2nd guy's response. Oopsies...<br /><br />I do think most coaches aren't direct enough about spazzing, especially once someone has been training for a while or has rank. Maybe they're waiting for the student to just grow out of it or figure it out on their own?<br /><br />We have a guy who, when he was a high blue belt, was normal until he rolled with a higher belt (and particularly with our instructor). Then he spazzed <b>hard</b>. Our coach did Ryan's stuff with him until one day the blue got mad and demanded to know why the coach rolled with him that way. Coach told him he was being a spazz. The guy had a fit and stormed out, and stayed out a few days. But once he calmed down and talked to our coach, he acknowledged what he was doing and set about fixing it.lesliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05603807319832815566noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-421588795787161961.post-31487815254689889582011-08-19T11:36:40.445-07:002011-08-19T11:36:40.445-07:00Best definition of a spaz that I've ever heard...Best definition of a spaz that I've ever heard:<br /><br />Spazzing is moving with lots of energy but very little purpose. <br /><br />If you don't know what you are doing, but you are doing it as hard and as fast as you can, then you're spazzing.<br /><br />Credit goes to Kintanon, who trains at one of the Alliance schools in GA.clinzyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16630950341551938482noreply@blogger.com