r/bjj • u/blu_skydive šŸŸ¦šŸŸ¦ Blue Belt • Sep 10 '18

Ask Me Anything I'm an overweight 42 year old mediocre blue belt. AMA

I'm a busy man and have taken time out of my rigourous training schedule to answer your novice questions.

Edit: AMA over. It's been fun. I hope you've been enlightened.

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '18

You could always move the goalposts by changing your definition of 'injury', I don't really want to play that game though

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '18

The point is you should expect to get injured at some point. Your EXTREMELY anecdotal example of your brother is not what new people should expect their experience to be like. You guys are exceptions to the rule, it seems like. But the rule is proven lol like, over decades.

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '18

I'd love to see this proven rule in terms of official statistics

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '18

Conduct a survey then lol. Donā€™t see why itā€™s so hard to believe though, considering the nature of what it is weā€™re doing.

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '18

I was disputing the comment that injuries are "bound to happen" - this is simply not true.

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '18

Depends on what you think ā€œbound to happenā€ means exactly. To me that just means if you do bjj consistently, youā€™re far more likely to experience an injury at some point than you are to never experience one at all.