I'm 6'2" and in college I was about 215lbs and a very athletic and physically strong blue belt. I had a unique experience I will never forget rolling with a black belt who was probably in his 50's. I would get on top either in open guard or side mount, whatever, try to smash and it felt like he was "swimming" or was water beneath me. No perceived effort but he had complete control of me. This video cracked that code.

Another way to see this is something that I read in a book by Paulo Guillobel. The point was made by this question (paraphrased): "Would it be more difficult to escape from under a 200 pound wet rug or a 200 pound piece of plywood?"

@spaceisalie5451

Жыл бұрын

rug?

@AZ-kr6ff

Жыл бұрын

Awesome! Definitely the rug.

@keithcornell9521

Жыл бұрын

Your mom

Great teacher, really like the way he took his time to break it down from first principles and gave practical application.

@memorycloud4173

Жыл бұрын

Yeah very well explained. Takes skill to communicate effectively like that.

@rippedup4546

5 ай бұрын

Now we have a guy talking like Steve Whittier. smh

This is a perfect illustration of the principle of jū (柔, “suppleness” or “yielding strength”), which is the basis of jūjutsu (柔術, jiu-jitsu). I have been training BJJ for almost eighteen years, and I’m still trying to figure out how to really relax. Great video!

@MrPhilharmonica1

Жыл бұрын

My Judo sensei said that the Ju of Judo has been translated to "Gentle Way". I did Jujutsu/JiuJitsu for a couple of years before I did Judo 6 Years later. He said to me Judo is not gentle. He said it should be called the adaptable way. Which is why Judo and Jiujitsu are a reminder to me to learn to adapt in life. And success comes from continuing practice. I do not physically practice anymore. It was 1971 when I first started. I also tried Taekwondo for a couple of years. I love the grappling.

@WC-JKD-BJJ

Жыл бұрын

@@MrPhilharmonica1 I agree: Judo is not really "gentle" (and I have permanent injuries to my spine and shoulder to prove it 😄). The character 柔 (jū) literally means "gentle," but I like your sensei's translation as "adaptable," since it's closer to the way we use the term in judo and jiu-jitsu. The Japanese word jū comes from the Chinese róu, which is a key concept in Daoist philosophy, referring to the flexibility shown by green bamboo or water, which naturally bend to adapt to their surroundings.

@MrPhilharmonica1

Жыл бұрын

@@WC-JKD-BJJ Thanks for communicating. I appreciate what you wrote. Merry Xmas. I

@peekaboojujitsoo525

Жыл бұрын

@@WC-JKD-BJJ nice info on the etymology of ju...i always tell people if they want to understand judo, jiu jitsu, aikido better as far as philosophy, strategy, tactics, and techniques go then go to the root which is taichi and taoist philosophy.

@dianecenteno5275

Жыл бұрын

​@Westminster MMA Club Agreed, Judo / Jujutsu is anything but gentle😆. After 37 years of training, My back and shoulders can attest to that🤦‍♂️

I literally do this all the time and it works literally all the time. This and flexibility will make you a lazy beast.

Every two year old knows this, seems like we forget over time! good stuff, the older I get, the more I like Henry's style

That was a 10 minute seminar - Thank you !

I've listened an interview of one of Roger Gracie's training partner. He said, Roger feels like a thick blanket. This is what i teach my students now. Be the blanket.

I watch jiu-jitsu clips all day every day, and this is some of the best information I’ve found in a single video. Thank you! 🙌

"It's very difficult to push water" may be the greatest explanation for this concept I've ever heard. Excellent video!

@SGrosch

3 ай бұрын

Bruce Lee = Be Like Water kzread.info/dash/bejne/c4SslNt_cZOTcpc.html

Can't get enough details from you, Henry. Always amazing. 🙏🏽 Thank you, sir.

Man this was so cool to watch. Made me realise how tense I am when rolling. Thanks for posting!

Learn to relax - I felt it first time when I started rolling with a solid blue belt who super relaxed when rolling. After a few rolls I started relaxing and breathing normal as well during the rolls!

I love that laugh at 4:33 when people start understanding new concepts. awesome stuff

This is exactly the core mechanic of Tai Chi often described as softness, effective Tai Chi is mostly soft grappling and essentially stand up Jiu-Jitsu that incorporates mid and close range strikes, and seizes, and uses what's described here as contact to stifle, contain, and redirect your opponent's explosiveness, becoming in effect mud, the same way JJ employs by grounding them, and is a good stand up supplement for JJ practitioners and vice versa. The two systems merged do a great job of covering each others short comings.

@teovu5557

Жыл бұрын

except taijiquan does it in a unrealistic way with dated techniques. Great concepts for fighting that works for any system but horrible techniques(Taijiquan).

@mmurmurjohnson2368

Жыл бұрын

@@teovu5557 Agreed, pressure testing, realistic or actual combat implementation, a realistic peripheral fight culture or the lack thereof will make or break any fighting system. But I've witnessed street guys incorporating Tai Chi with both softness and actual martial intent, grappling oriented, and it's crazy effective, and vicious, wasn't anything nice or gentle about it at all, it was dirt ugly. Excels at safely neutralizing explosive opponents while targeting their vital areas and does indeed mirror Jiu Jitsu. Tai Chi I would argue requires a very high fight I.Q. though, and most of the folk I've seen employ it effectively were already very good fighters, and used it to seize and choke, to seize and break/lock, or to seize and strike a vital area, never to trade blows or to just strike or go toe to toe, it seemed to work best as a method of capture and kill. Allegedly derived from observing a snake killing a bird of prey, Tai Chi really seems to shine in 3 second to 5 second long brief counter-engagements as opposed to brawls.

@lowlowseesee

Жыл бұрын

Tai chi is not stand up JJ lol. It’s not trained with resistance

@mmurmurjohnson2368

Жыл бұрын

@@lowlowseesee LOL, I meant they share similarities, not exactly the same, and yeah, I totally agree with you, that most don't realistically pressure test. I'd say this for all martial arts but especially Tai Chi, Wing Chun, Aikido, these styles work.........but don't deceive yourself, IF YOUR GOAL IS TO NEUTRALIZE GORILLAS - THEN YOU'VE GOT TO TRAIN AGAINST GORILLAS, - AND ROUTINELY - PERIOD, FULL STOP. Both physically and psychologically, consider cross training with boxers, Thai boxers, wrestlers, ex-convicts, rugby players, bikers etc. places where there's more of a pressure test/conditioning culture to weed out the real from the fake. There's also something to be said about the fact that the people who developed all three of these systems were already very seasoned fighters with very high fight I.Q.s who employed their crafts in life and death circumstances that most of us are gratefully insulated from today. I studied a style of Kung Fu but learned to fight by sparring with a Liberian civil war refugee, a hard karate guy who'd been through some real grizzly stuff, and his Karate was far from theoretical. No, his karate wasn't better, but his understanding of war absolutely was, and I credit his Karate for making my Kung Fu effective.

@rstuff886

Жыл бұрын

Stop

Such clear and through explanations!!!! Henry ROCKS!!!

that's one of the greatest bjj lessons I ever seen on YT

very clean instruction technique, no vague language or anything and good illustrations. you are a good teacher!

one of the best descriptions of instruction

Best explanation on this subject I have ever seen. Henry is an amazing practitioner and an even more amazing teacher.

Dude, this is freakin amazing. You're an amazing teacher, Henry. GREAT STUFF!

wow thats a very important details that other jujitsu instructors on youtube failed to explain clearly

@jestfullgremblim8002

Жыл бұрын

Yeah

This is gold!!!

Always look forward to an upload, thanks!

this is GOLD, thank you Henry.

Wow this was amazing. Guys in my gym love the stiff arm from bottom side control.

GOLD !!!!! Thank you, Henry!

This is golden. Thanks for sharing man.

What an amazing concept!!!

Awesome teaching. Great class. Happy New Year!

Im so glad this was in my subscription box!

Bruce Lee wasn't joking when he said 'be like watta'.

I may not know him personally, but the love of his craft and those he instructs stands out in this video. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

great explanation on an often overlooked concept. Thank you!

Insightful and concise video. 🤙🏼❤️

So i've been training for just over a year now and for the past few months , I've had this suspicious feeling that I might be training in a Mcdojo, after watching this video and learning this concept, it confirms my suspicion. This is such a simple and yet a powerful concept that they have not taught us in my year of being at my gym. I will be leaving the gym come January for a new one.

@pixelcultmedia4252

4 ай бұрын

I can't say whether your gym is or isn't legit but it's fairly common for most gyms to teach multiple techniques, drill them, and then open up the class for open sparring. Only some gyms deal in concepts, as it's challenging to cover concepts across multiple inconsistent waves of training students across multiple training sessions. Seminars (which I believe this is) are usually a better venue for teaching concepts. That and during open mat, discussing training theories with your coach.

@johnthree1611

Ай бұрын

​@@pixelcultmedia4252, Sounds about right. I attend Gracie Barra, and you could make the assumption of what the main commenter is saying, but it's all about communication, and asking questions, and even drilling.

Amazing video to explain a complex concept. Tx!

Very helpful, very clear

Thanks for a GREAT video. This has so many metaphorical parallels to the way we approach life. Our life stance is really, actually, a physical thing: how we hold and release our bodies, how we physically balance, angulate, and move with respect to other force vectors and static objects in our environment, is mirrored in our adaptability in the mental and emotional realms. These are generalized adaptive responses: if you want to change your approach to life, change the way you relate to it physically.

Amazing class thanks for sharing.

This is awesome! Thank uou

That was a really good lesson that we already know but we already forgotten about it. Thank you You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put it into a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

Golden nuggets, excellent ! Henry is my favorite coach.

That was great, the statue vs water was a very helpful analogy. 👍👌 Thanks!

This is great, thank you.

Valueable Thing!! Thank you very Much!

This great demo of application of it. That combined with comment section is gold mine of what relaxing means. I always would dislike when someone would say that but not explain what they mean

Great video.

Thank you from. Canada !! OSS

thanks for sharing this important knowledge

Hah. Amazing. Can’t wait to try this!

omg!!!! what a great instructor!!!

@Scott-xb7ov

Жыл бұрын

Yes. That was outstanding. Those are some lucky students.

I have been struggling with this as a 64 year old Blue Belt. Told to relax but not one explained what that means. NOW I know. This video almost made me cry. Can't wait to train tonight. Geez.

@joma0305

Ай бұрын

How was it?

Now THIS is the OG jiu-jitsu. Simple and effective

Brilliant!

Unbelievable!!!!

This is excellent.

Great illustration of the "wet blanket" concept. 🔥

This is hilarious 😂. Lesson learned

This is great stuff especially for me being new to this art. Thank you!

My old professor used to say "don't be like a stick, be like a piece of rope, I push one bit of a piece of rope that's all that moves..I push the stick the whole thing can move"

Amazing, it is one rare sport you can practice laid down and a key to be good is learning to relax

Amazing

You can be great at Jiu Jitsu, but not be a good teacher. Henry is great at both. One of the best.

Wow this was very informal I'll be watching more

Just like my renzo professor. I love it

Brilliant.

The statue analogy was spot on

Excelente, osssu!!!

I used to train w/you at Risksons, when you were a brown belt! Glad to see you have your own studio now.

Center of gravity 👌

Great tips

I hope you will come to Thailand in a while, would love to take part in your seminar!

this is a basic and essential aspect of tai chi. relax and turn. also called rolling ball body practice... good stuff...

Gold.

Nice 👍🏼

thank you

Brilliant

Concepts over techniques!

This is a common principle in internal martial arts.

Great shit

the old Ragdoll technique.... excellent...

Great video, as a great man once said, be like water my friend!

@AllForManKind77

Жыл бұрын

yep bro. Bruce Lee

Lol i LOVE this! This is good stuff. sadly too few understand this and it is hidden & too subtle for them to grasp :) Thank you henry!

@rollinOnCode

Жыл бұрын

@@danielcalvo4635 what?

@danielcalvo4635

Жыл бұрын

Sorry can't be bother explaining...I even prefer to delete my comment that having to discuss or read your posts...

@danielcalvo4635

Жыл бұрын

Don't worry bye

Good stuff

Great teaching! This is called waza in judo, bjj develop from judo this is a very good application on the mechanics of jiu-jitsu the how to yield to the movement instead of resist.

Gold

This is platinum…

„Be water, my friend“ Bruce Lee

Love to see several black belts in attendance.

According to my sensi Roy sunaka. 1 of 3 menko holders said. jugaro kano once visited O'sensei's dojo. He brought some of the senior students and when he watched osensei's (techniques what you see in the first part of this videois aikido too puer) it is a good example. he said that's perfect Judo. And his student said well then what have we been doing all these years. I suppose Master kano just smiled like a Buddha. As it was described to me." when you're walking down the street now the corner eye without being taught anything when you see someone about to bump in you what did you naturally you whip yourself sideways and open the door let them go by as much as you can it's natural it's in all of us why shouldn't we let that be our art. the art be just as simple as that'

Morales BJJ is a great school.

I like it, Bruce Lee stuff, be like water my friend

Oh I didn’t see it that way in jiujitsu, I love ground controls but dang this was an interesting demonstration.

Very old but often forgotten principle in martial arts.

Excellent instruction!

Great concepts that tend to get lost in 'modern' BJJ. Hey, did Morales remodel his school?

Such tiny but important details that r not readily visible. Great instruction.

I can't wait to get back in it!! BJJ, hapkido, MMA. I was in a toxic school but I'm still putting in the work!! This is a very neat thing to keep in mind.

@keithhere5292

Жыл бұрын

surprised that a thunderous criminal would describe a school as toxic

Yep amazing video worth 10s of hours of technics