If one more person tells me to
shrimp out from under someone that has an extra 20 kilos on me I’m going to
snap. After getting a taste of what it is like to fight with someone my own
size I’m so over laying on my back and getting crushed from cem kilos. Jiu
Jitsu is definitely a sport were small people can dominate someone larger than
themselves, but seriously, technique can only get you so far before your being
crushed. It’s impossible to shrimp out if you have 100 kilos bearing down on your
measly 60 and an arm the size of your legs blocking your hips. “Try to shrimp”,
they always yell at me. “I’M TRYING TO BREATH”, I want to scream back.
After three months of repeating
this process every day I’ve come to the realization that trying to shrimp out
is impossible. The only way to get out is to patiently wait for them to leave
and opening (and stop yelling at me to “shrimp out”) and capitalize on it. All
over possibilities lead to a waste of energy that eventually will result in me
getting arm barred. Recently, I spent a whole seven minutes getting laid on,
trying to catch my breath, and then defending the arm bar. When he couldn’t get
the arm bar he switched sides and repeated the same process. For seven minutes
I just laid there on my back. Complete waste of time.
The first time I rolled with people
my own size it was like discovering a completely different sport. Jiu Jitsu is
completely different when you don’t just lay on your back apparently. The
techniques that they show you in the beginning of class aren’t just to tease
you with stuff you will never get to do because you’re well… laying on your
back. When you roll with people your own size they actually have to use Jiu Jitsu
against you. They can’t just pick you up and well… lay you down on your back.
They can’t just do a sit up when you’re in cem kilos and… you guessed it, lay
you down on your back. Those techniques that they show you in the beginning of
class, you can actually try them and see if you they work or not. Amazing.
To make a long story short: size matters.
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