Announcement: No Open Mats/Class on 4th June 2011 (Sat)

We are closed this Saturday for the Agung's birthday. Training will resume on the 6th June (Monday).

What's been happening?

(From L-R): Rizan, Bram, Sam, Tjun, Jeff, Chen) In case you are wondering what are we up to. Well, it's training as usual. Sam has incorporated a few take downs with punches drill. It's part of our warmups now. After a few classes, I feel more confident with the move already.

We had a couple of visitors during the past few months. Which is always a good thing. We welcome anyone interested in training BJJ with us regardless from which affiliation or academy you are from. So, if you happen to be in Kuala Lumpur, do visit us.

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Tap or I Snap!!!!

Tapping is an important part of learning BJJ. Even the best black belts have tapped a thousand times on their journey to become the best. Tapping keeps you from getting injured, and keeps you honest, knowing that you have been cought.

In a BJJ class scenerio, it is never the objective to intentionally injure your training partners. However, there are some people who will never tap, and will hold out hoping that you will let go. What do you do? Let go? Or snap/put them to sleep?

In my early days of teaching, I more or less kept quiet on the subject, and it seemed that my students started letting their opponents go even when the submission is tight, they never applied it.

However, the last few years I have let it be known clearly that I believe the other opinion is correct. If your opponent does not tap, you put them to sleep/snap

This is not to say that you intentionally go out to hurt your opponent. But when you get your submission, apply it slowly, but with clear intention that you will continue to sink your submission in deeper and deeper until something snaps, or your opponent goes to sleep.

Learning to tap has to be learnt at your own home gym. Its no use being known as the tough guy in your gym because you don't tap, and end up seriously injured when visiting other gyms. Going to sleep, or a tweaked elbow for a week or two is not a big price to pay for such an essential lesson to be learnt.

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This article was written in 2009. Since I am moving my blog to this one, I thought it best to move some articles that I still agree with as I continue evolving.