What’s the key to being able to train Jiu-Jitsu for a long, long time…
Not just for years – but for upcoming decades even?
Well, from Craig Jones’ perspective, the answer is quite simple.
It’s about choosing the right training partners.
Here’s what he had to say in a recent “More Plates, More Dates” podcast episode:
I would say, just training in such a way to avoid bad injuries
Some of the guys get so pumped up for training and they want to fight hard, to beat their training partners – so they get injured all the time or they injure their training partners…
So, just finding the right group of people to train with as hard as you safely can.
It’s, like, who sticks it out – who can last, because you’re putting your body under a lot of stress.
Jones explains that a lot of people make the decision to not tap out when a submission is applied, which leads to injuries.
Which, then, leads to other unfortunate events:
So obviously, that [not tapping] is an ego-based decision.
So when then they have to take time off the sport…If you take time off to recover from an injury, when you come back – the other guys have gotten better.
So, the prospect of returning to the sport, to lose to people you were better than… Already puts a wall up.
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