025 - BJJ Beginner Tips with Ritchie Yip

BJJ Black Belts Ritchie Yip and Stephan Kesting have a wide-ranging discussion, centered around tips that BJJ beginners need to know.  

Material covered includes:

• Whether beginners should in their own class or mixed in with more advanced people
• Things to look for when checking out a new school
• How to avoid situations where you’re just going to get maliciously rag dolled by senior students
• How instructors can teach a class of differing levels
• What the the only real spiritual benefits of martial arts training is
• How to tell if a martial arts school is run by a complete A-hole
• Why training with black belts only is a huge mistake
• What happens when people interested in taking a kickboxing class end up in the jiu-jitsu class by mistake
• Why learning jiu-jitsu is much harder than learning boxing, and how not to get discouraged during that learning process
• The most insane idea Stephan has ever had for making a training dummy
• And much more...

For more about Ritchie check out www.infighting.ca

For more about Stephan check out www.grapplearts.com