5 Technical BJJ Lessons From My Weekend of Training in Austin

My ego is under attack.

A few hours late on this post — sorry! I meant to release it early today but I forgot to push “publish” 😂

Anyway, after a tweet that I wrote this week picked up a lot of steam and sparked some debate from grapplers of all levels, I decided to turn the 5 lessons I learned from training in Austin last weekend into a complete article.

Here’s the tweet, just so you know what we’re about to get into:

chris wojcik @chrismwojcik

5 lessons on Jiu-Jitsu from my weekend of training in Austin: - guard is dead (unless you’re good at wrestling up) - if you can’t wrestle you have no vote in where the fight happens - passing meta is ahead of the guard - wrestle-judo-jitsu 😵‍💫 - everyone good is good at leg locks

These are the 5 BJJJ lessons I learned from training last weekend.

The article that follows is the thoughts leading to how I came to those conclusions and key personal takeaways from my training down there.

Before we dive in, here are some key points to remember:

• these 5 points are reflective of the current meta in the professional no-gi Jiu-Jitsu game

• these 5 points are by no means all-inclusive assumptions about Jiu-Jitsu

• there are exceptions to these 5 points — but not many — and I will mention those I see that they are relevant

With that, let’s dive in: