alright i just recently started with my jujitsu/judo training within the last month. I'm fairly concerned because in around 2 years i'll be moving away for college to a larger town with a bjj school. So, how difficult is it for a guy with around 2 years of small class jjj/judo training to go over to straight large gym bjj training?

You'll get tooled for five months straight instead of seven.

How much of it is Judo?

I don't mean "oh, we do Judo throws with compliant partners", I mean how often do you actually spar and what are the rules?

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Depends on what your judo newaza skill is like and it depends on what the BJJ school is like. Don't worry about it and just go if you want.

BJJ is extremely good on the ground.

you have 2 years to worry about this. Don't worry so much and concentrate on what you're training now. Pick up some books and videos and study. Practice with your friends and classmates and ask your current instructor about ground grappling; he might be able to help you.

I've done 5 years of JJJ & just started (as in 3 sessions so far) BJJ.
The locking principles are the same but some ar alot harder 2 get on then you'd think. You will prob learn some things you can use (brake falls etc), we did short (around 1min rounds) bits of rolling @ the start of our JJJ sessions & it has helped some . Depending on how you train it means you have some advantages but I've found it very different, both have plusses though & they are easy to combine.


You'll get tooled for five months straight instead of seven.

Got 5 years & some other training here so with 2 years this is prob fair.

the jj class im in right now is actually heavily focused on grappling, and in both the jj and judo classes theres around a half hour randori at the end of every class. I go to a class of each once a week.

you will be fine

but dont expect to be "good" at bjj just because you have done some grappling in jjj, bjj is generally in a different league

six months of embarrasing defeat.

then you go back and own your old sensei

ps - once you learn about positional dominance you may actually be able to apply some of those funky wrist locks on someone rowdier than your grandmother.

30 mins of randori, what the hell do you do for the other time.

In Japan, the usual day has 1 hour or more of randori. That is at a local dojo with few competitive players.

BJJ has 1.5 hours of rolling, but its all from the ground and much slower paced.

Don't know about owning the old Sensei, but you'll def suprise some people in the randori when/if it goes to the ground.

BJJ has 1.5 hours of rolling, but its all from the ground and much slower paced.

umm ... no.

its an hour and a half of class, sometimes an hour of technique, half hour of ranfori, sometimes 45 minutes of technique, 45 of randori, and sometimes its a full class of randori (ive only seen this once)

umm ... no.


Where I go its heavy on the sparring/rolling.

I just have never heard of so much technique work with so little sparring.

Where I go its heavy on the sparring/rolling.

I just have never heard of so much technique work with so little sparring.

I'm not entirely clear what you're saying, but a typical 1.5-hour BJJ class would be half an hour of stretching, calisthenics & drills, half an hour of technique instruction, and half an hour of rolling--and the rolling is not at all "slow-paced," unless you're a total beginner. I don't think that mix tends to change much from school to school, though the class time does.