I have been training Brazilian Jiu Jitsu somewhere around 10 years and love bringing those stories to the blockchain. Besides tales of training and competition, I believe it is a community service to implant high-quality instructional content on the blockchain. Whether it exercises your brain a little, helps you with your training or even inspires you to try it out if you haven't yet, time well invested!

A Blue Belt is a huge step for people who train because it is a right of passage from the beginner's white belt, but it means you are a higher-level beginner in the grand scheme of things. I haven't worn a blue belt in a number years but have already posted our white belt curriculum here . I use these white and blue belt techniques in every fight and I love picking up on new details while learning it again. It would be great to see old bjj friends like Hive account@bjjlifestyle, Hive account@disc-jitsu87, Hive account@knightbjj, Hive account@evecab, Hive account@matkodurko, Hive account@jiujitsu, and Hive account@bigapplebo who have been repping BJJ on the blockchain for years.

Blue Belt Curriculum - Omoplata from Spider Guard

This video is from a live class edited down to the technique demonstrations. So, it effectively brings you in on a class of some high-level instruction of this cool technique.

Personal perspective/take-aways:

Omoplata was such an exotic and old school shoulder lock submission, I felt so proud when I hit my first one in sparring!
These are 2 of the toughest and nicest guys you will meet. Ryan is the gym owner and head instructor while his demonstration partner is 'Gripstrength' Greg who has been training almost as long as I have.
I like where this is in the curriculum, right after the Triangle from spider guard so that you already know an option when your opponent squares up to defend.
The final part of the lesson goes a little more into reacting to reactions which hints at how much of a chess game you have to develop in order to become good at BJJ. The more you know, the less you realize you know! This edition of the Blue Belt Curriculum is dedicated to all of those brave souls venturing out to try training BJJ or other martial arts themselves for the first time. The next edition will get some sweeps from Spider to gain you some points in competition, or get the dominant top position with control.

Review and Background

" "jj4l-logo2_1_orig.png"" The Jiu Jitsu for Life Team is based out of Toronto Canada where Jorge Britto leads by example. Probably a dozen world champs have trained with this team and a dozen academies across the continent. I trained there for a couple years and moved away from the big city only to be lucky enough to have Toronto BJJ instructor Ryan O'Shea set up his own gym here at https://stratfordbjj.com

This curriculum is not universal, but one we follow as good basics for each belt to fill out your game. Developed by Brazilian-born black belts, it is heavily rooted in old-school technique but open enough for new developments and concepts like the latest Mikey Lock, Tarikoplata, Buggy choke, or what-have-you. Our head instructor Ryan is a world-class instructor and this has been your free seminar. " "blue belt border.jpg""