Kit Dale is known, among other things, for his “concepts over technique” Jiu-Jitsu philosophy and his fantastic sense of humor.
But what a lot of up-and-coming BJJ practitioners don’t know is that Dale is also one of the most cerebral BJJ athletes in the world.
Lachlan Giles reminded people of this in a recent conversation with Craig Jones:
Kit Dale… A lot of people, I think, that don’t know him – they think that he’s not good. And he’s actually really good.
Craig Jones agreed:
He used to beat the sh*t out of us. (Laughs)
And indeed, Lachlan reminisced his training days with Kit… And how much they’ve been beneficial for his career:
Yeah, he’s really good. He just never really, like, I just don’t think he really wanted it [to become successful in BJJ].
I mean, he trained, but he was never soulful on it.Kit was so good, like… You’d bring something new [a new technique/move/detail] and then, the next day, he’d kind of figure out what’s going on and he’d have a solution [to it].
Kit Dale helped out Lachlan Giles a lot:
He helped me out so much. I started training with him as a brown belt and he was a purple belt.
I was trying to learn the Berimbolos, studying the Mendez brothers, so every day I’d try to get him.
And maybe one day I’d start getting a bit of an angle – and then, the next day, he’d shut it down. And then I’d maybe go and watch more footage of the Mendez brothers and see how they deal with that reaction.I felt like he was always ahead of me and I was, like, [catching up with him]. So it brought my level up a lot.
Craig pointed out the fact that Kit has been able to improve much faster than others:
I felt it would be frustrating, because he’d improve – but not put in the same amount of effort [into training].
Lachlan agreed, with a small caveat:
Yeah… People’s ability to learn isn’t uniform. Not everyone in the room is going to learn at the same rate.
And I think for Kit, the rate of learning for him is so high.
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