Oliver Staark - Zen Jiu Jitsu - Kindle Publishing Package: 30 Day Protocol + White to Blue + BJJ Over 40

Zen Jiu Jitsu - 30 Day Protocol

Zen Jiu Jitsu - White to Blue

Zen Jiu Jitsu - Over 40

Zen Jiu Jitsu - Kindle Bundle Version

Oliver Staark

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Contents for 30 Day Protocol

Acknowledgements

I would like to thank Carlos and Helio Gracie for their development of a martial art that has brought so much joy (and frustration) into my life. My family, especially my wife, for understanding my obsession during the writing of this book.

T he BJJ community as a whole for being such a cool family to be part of. Ive never come across so many friendly people willing share ideas and make this sport better for the greater good.

Dan Anderson for his ideas on Monitoring, Bruce Lee and Joe Lewis for their ideas on Modern Martial Arts and what that should mean. My teammates and training partners over the years. Fred Jose my first martial arts instructor for starting this whole thing.

Cover photo courtesy of iStockphoto.com

The image of Batman and Robin is DC Comics and Warner and credited to www.tapordiecompany.com

Zen Jiu Jitsu - 30 Day Protocol

Introduction

Struggle. That s the first word that comes to mind when I think about the transition from Blue Belt to Purple Belt. For reasons that I can't quite work out, when I came to the later stages of being a Blue belt I felt confused and lost in my game. Trying to put all the pieces together seemed like a task too far and quitting looked like an option, after all, most guys my age are hitting the golf course or surfing not rolling on the floor with sweat soaked people. This quitting idea seemed an option at least.

In an effort to review what I was doing and pushing through this plateau I developed a few habits that not only brought about a huge change in my game but by applying them on a consistent basis turned me into a respected player in my academy. From obscurity to recognition even from much higher ranked and established fighters.

So what happened?

Several things, which I will outline in the following pages. The most important being that I gave myself a deadline to get my game together or call it a day. That was significant in that I tried really hard in the period of time I gave myself, and then an injury kept me out for a short time to review. During this time a realization struck me that 30 days was an optimal time to develop this idea.

Since then I have experimented with longer and shorter periods but to make consistent gains while avoiding unnecessary injury it turns out that 30 days is ideal. If you are younger than forty then you might want to experiment with longer, more consistent, periods but for my age-range this worked very well.

Then I made a realization, more a remembrance. When I was younger I trained and competed in the National Freestyle Karate Championships each year. In 1987 I had my best tournament ever, I was in shape and ready to rock. I recalled the training I went through to get to that stage, dragged out all my old notebooks and then followed the steps with BJJ instead of Karate, overlaying the protocol used onto this new framework of grappling.

The system was s imple and straightforward. It's actually stupid-simple. No need for fancy techniques or spinning flying anything. Just a modicum of dedication, correct attitude and your BJJ game will flourish. Simple right?

Follow the steps enclosed and you'll make progress. I guarantee it.

What's involved?

This is the book I wish I had when I first started Brazilian Jiu Jitsu quite a few years back. Just like all newbies I was obsessed with finding the next 'cool' technique on YouTube - a site where a few minutes can be lost into days.

As I recall, when I started my coaches taught me the closed guard, the half guard, open guard and various other guards but it was only much later in my development that I actually understood that the guard should be used to control distance and that's pretty much it, control the distance between you and your partner to set up a position. Position leads to transition which leads to submission.

This should have been so fundamental that my progress would have accelerated by months if not years had I made (or my coaches pointed out) this simple distinction. But the nature of BJJ is very visual. We have the techniques demonstrated, the details covered, we drill and then we roll. And mainly because rolling is such great fun we roll around in some kind of aimless human stew until we either improve or get injured and wash out the system.

This is what brought me to put these notes together that soon became a manual. In the last few of years I have developed a way of training that moved me from a mediocre blue belt to a well rounded and accomplished purple belt with most of the improvements coming in the last year. Even as a brown belt I have used these concepts to great effect with some refinements that don't need to be discussed at this stage.

I would even go as far as to say that my current progress is getting even better. What's the big idea? What's the breakthrough? Three things:

Philosophy

Psychology

Attitude

Notice that there's no mention of submissions and this is most certainly not a tap or snap instructional. There are some great books already available that cover that. In fact, there are no photos (or very few), it's all text ... and it's all the stuff that instructors, coaches and professors would love to impart to their students but don't have the time in a traditional 90 minute BJJ lesson.

Let's face it, if you showed up at the academy, kimono in hand and then realized that your professor had a few desks set up on the mat as he began telling you that 'today we are going to cover a few changes to your mind set that will improve your Jiu Jitsu game beyond measure' (see the Chapter on Psychology). You would probably be a selection of:

1. Astounded by his progressive thinking and ready to learn, sharpie in hand.
2. Disappointed , as you wanted a good sweaty workout.