Hello and thanks in advance for your time.
I'm a blue belt in Brazilian Jiu-jitsu (doing in for close to 3 about now) so you can know (atleast for a bit) where i am at.
I have a question about progess. I have read Saulo Ribeiro's book University of Jiu-jitsu and what has struck me the most was his anecdote about him fighting Helio Gracie and didn't submit him. He goes on that survival in Brazilian Jiu-jitsu is the first thing you got to do and then move on the escapes.
Now, eventhough i get my favourite submission (bow and arrow) a lot in training i want to train consciously at my game. I have more of a flow jiu-jitsu style (for as far a blue belt can have a style) because a lot of the guys tend to outmuscle me. I have a "lot of succes" (take this offcourse yet again as talking about blue belt level) with this and just go for their back but when they can stop this flowing (what my coaches tend to do) it gets a bit more hard.
So i thought i focus on defence and then escapes. I set the plan for following the class and during rolling keep practising certain escapes untill they become good (again good blue belt level).
The problem is when i rolled last practise with a insane good blackbelt i talked about me focusing on defence and escapes for now because of my flow style jiu-jitsu. His reply was that people who focus on those areas tend to have a slower progress in jiu-jitsu then others.
So the question now is: will focusing on these aspects of jiu-jitsu really slow my progress. Should i just stfu and train? Wich i probably should do but i want to work on consciously choosing area's off my game and improve them.
Thanks for reading my blue belt blues and i appreciate all help i can get. (Oh, the advice "talk to your coach" isn't really good right now because i did but that was before the other blackbelt said those things and is gonna be a week before i can go to the next training.)
I'm a blue belt in Brazilian Jiu-jitsu (doing in for close to 3 about now) so you can know (atleast for a bit) where i am at.
I have a question about progess. I have read Saulo Ribeiro's book University of Jiu-jitsu and what has struck me the most was his anecdote about him fighting Helio Gracie and didn't submit him. He goes on that survival in Brazilian Jiu-jitsu is the first thing you got to do and then move on the escapes.
Now, eventhough i get my favourite submission (bow and arrow) a lot in training i want to train consciously at my game. I have more of a flow jiu-jitsu style (for as far a blue belt can have a style) because a lot of the guys tend to outmuscle me. I have a "lot of succes" (take this offcourse yet again as talking about blue belt level) with this and just go for their back but when they can stop this flowing (what my coaches tend to do) it gets a bit more hard.
So i thought i focus on defence and then escapes. I set the plan for following the class and during rolling keep practising certain escapes untill they become good (again good blue belt level).
The problem is when i rolled last practise with a insane good blackbelt i talked about me focusing on defence and escapes for now because of my flow style jiu-jitsu. His reply was that people who focus on those areas tend to have a slower progress in jiu-jitsu then others.
So the question now is: will focusing on these aspects of jiu-jitsu really slow my progress. Should i just stfu and train? Wich i probably should do but i want to work on consciously choosing area's off my game and improve them.
Thanks for reading my blue belt blues and i appreciate all help i can get. (Oh, the advice "talk to your coach" isn't really good right now because i did but that was before the other blackbelt said those things and is gonna be a week before i can go to the next training.)