- Hello everybody.
Today we're trying jiu jitsu?
(chuckles) For any of you who don't know me,
hi, my name's Alayna Joy.
On this channel I mostly make videos
about the queer community, sex, dating, relationships.
But sometimes I do a lot of rock climbing also.
Not just sometimes, like most of the time,
I do a lot of rock climbing.
So it's kind of fun to see if those skills transfer.
Are rock climbers good at pole dancing?
Yes.
(chuckles) Yeah, they are.
Or CrossFit.
Things you have to use your body for.
And today we're seeing if rock climbers
are any good at jiu jitsu.
Once again, I know pretty much nothing about jiu jitsu,
about this sport,
other than the fact that I'm gonna be wearing a gi.
Hell yeah, fashion icon. (chuckles)
We're running behind, so let's go.
What even is jiu jitsu?
Like, is it like fighting?
Am I gonna be fighting?
Defense? - Defensive fighting?
- Defensive fight. Okay. Self-defense.
Otherwise known as self-defense.
- [Friend] Oh, that's the word.
(both laughing)
Defensive fighting.
No, but really what is jiu jitsu? (laughing)
And I do this on purpose.
I go into these blind on purpose
because I think it's a lot more fun
to like learn from the expert versus like reading online.
But all I know about jiu jitsu is Jenna Marbles.
Like Julian teaching Jenna.
- [Friend] What did she learn?
That you can grab people by the gi.
- [Friend] Oh great. So we'll do that today.
- Yeah. So that's our goal.
Okay. We're almost there. We'll see you inside.
(rock music)
Thank you for having us here at Lapel. Lapel?
- Lapel.
Lapel Arts. - Lapel arts.
Pauline's gonna be taking us through our class today,
teaching me all about jiu jitsu.
Black belt?
- Yeah. (chuckles)
- Okay, (chuckles) we've got a black belt
with us in the room.
Should I be afraid of you?
- No, no. It's gonna be fun.
Don't worry. - Okay.
Okay. Tell us a little bit about jiu jitsu.
- Jiu jitsu is a grappling form of martial arts and sport,
meaning there's no striking, right?
So it's all about finding leverage positionally
against your partner to control
and eventually put them in submissions.
Like submissions being like limbs breaking
or ultimately a strangulation.
- Whoa, sorry. Okay, hold on. (laughing)
- I mean I have those skills, but... (laughing)
You don't need to be afraid.
- Yeah, you had me with like, control, submission, fun.
Bones breaking, strangulation. (laughing)
- Well you have to think that you're gonna learn
to be on that end.
- Okay. (both laughing)
Oh my god. Can anybody do jiu jitsu?
- Yeah, for sure. It's for anyone.
It's like a tool of self-improvement.
People come in for like multi reasons,
like self defense is one of them.
Fitness, community.
Anyone who's looking for those things is welcome.
We have like beginners and advanced kids and adults.
- So yeah. - Okay.
- Pretty much anyone can try.
- And as someone who primarily rock climbs
and basically does zero other forms of exercise,
how do you think I'll do?
- I think you'll do good.
I hear rock climbing is very similar to jiu jitsu
in terms of grip strength.
- Okay. - Yeah.
Yeah, so let's get you in the gi.
- Okay. A gi. - Yeah.
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- The gi is like almost like wearing an extra weapon.
'cause then we are gonna use the gi, right?
We're gonna like grab on the gi.
It's like a tool, you know?
- Yeah. Can you grab like anything?
- Don't put the fingers in for safety.
We can't grab single fingers either.
- Oh. - That can be a dangerous too.
- Yeah. - So only over the knuckles.
- Okay. But you can grab arm leg.
- Yeah, you can grab arm, ankles.
- Hair? - No hair.
- No hair. Okay. That was a question we had.
We weren't sure.
Okay.
- Awesome. Ready?
Let's get right into it.
You got taken down. - Yeah.
- First is using your guard
to defend them from passing your legs, right?
- Is that how you win? How do you win?
- You win with the submission.
- Okay.
So that's how I'll know when I've won.
(both chuckles)
- Yeah. And then if you're coming into me,
all I'm gonna do is keep my feet touching you
and then keep my knees close to my chest.
- Okay. - So if you
try to move around me to get to my...
Close to my head here.
- Okay. - I defend with my feet up.
- Yeah. - And then framing
with my arms. - Okay.
- I come close. Take you down.
- So then I go like this?
- Yeah, yeah, exactly. If I try to move around you.
(Alayna laughing)
- Oh my God. Okay.
- Try to come with the outside foot in to touch
and then recenter with me.
Nice. Yeah. Recenter. - Like this?
- Exactly. Yeah, exactly. (Alayna chuckles)
- Can I do that? (chuckles)
- You can also close your hands on me.
Like grab my ankles too even.
And then gives me a bit more-
- So, but is this like spinning normal,
me spinning on my back like that?
- Yeah. Yeah. - Okay.
- So let's do it again from stand.
I take you down, break fall. Nice. And then defend.
- And I'm trying to...
(Alayna chuckles) - That's it.
I get to the side, recenter.
Nice, nice.
Very defensive here. - Yeah.
- Troublesome for me to get to finally a position like this,
where I would score a guard pass.
(both laughing)
- Okay. Right. Got it.
- Then you can enter multiple types of guards.
So if I'm here not allowed to kick,
I can always place my feet and push you away.
- Yeah. - Right, so when I push,
I can start sitting up, I'm gonna look to scoop
your knee like so, push myself, go up to my knee,
start coming up to your back here.
- Okay. - Then do towards your back.
- I never know where you're gonna go. (laughing)
- So now just be ready to kind of fall like on your elbow,
like so.
Okay?
- Okay. - From here I engage my hip.
So my hip come forward here so I can lift you up.
Swing you with my shoulders. (Alayna chuckles)
- Okay. Wow. - Okay. To lift.
And then it's like a swing with my shoulders.
Let's try.
- Oh my god. With an actual person. Okay.
Engage with the hips and then...
- Nice. - It's full contact.
- That's what could be intimidating for a lot of people
to start. - Yeah.
- That's also an advantage of practicing jiu jitsu
is losing that fear.
And that is the self-defense too.
It's like you being kind of used to
and not panicking with someone so close to you.
- Yeah, that's a good point.
Even in these two things you've showed me,
I'm like, I don't wanna hurt you,
but like I obviously don't have to be afraid of like,
but in my head I'm like, oh, be gentle, don't disrupt her.
- Okay, so let's do the sequence until this point,
starting from I take you down. So...
(dramatic music)
- Okay.
- Let's pick up from there again.
Okay, so I took you down.
- Yep.
- I'm here for three seconds.
Now I'm gonna look to actually score the back control,
get one of my hooks right in front of your leg like so.
One of my hands over your shoulder.
to drop you on the side with me.
So I'm gonna drop you on the side, you wanna lean with me
and then get the second hook.
So this is the back control.
Feels bad, eh?
You can't really escape it.
(both laughing)
Hold on tight so that when you roll you don't go alone
and they stay, bring them with you.
- Okay. - And get the second hook.
- Okay. So like this? - Yeah.
- And then I'm throwing you that way I come down with you.
- That's good. - Okay.
- And now you're gonna drop me to the side with you
and then get your other hook in also.
- Well this feels very, yeah, this feels secure.
- It's good, right? - Yeah.
- If I try to like just scramble out.
- Oh yeah, I'm locked in.
So right now, if we were in a real jiu jitsu match,
what would you actually do in a real match?
- I mean there are escapes.
- Like what?
I'm gonna actually try, okay.
- So I can try to get my back on the mat.
- Just immediately. (laughing)
- Now I can start escaping. I can just push away.
- Right. - Put my legs back
in front of you. - Yeah.
- Or even roll up on the top.
I was thinking, okay, if I just like squeeze really hard,
you're not gonna be able to like unlock my arms.
But then boop, you went out that way. (chuckles)
- But you also developed the holding technique too.
- Yeah. Right. - So as you practice, practice
then your hold's gonna get a lot better.
- Okay. - Okay.
Let's do it one more time.
And then finally we're gonna get a submission from the back.
Four points for the back as well.
So it's for take down and four points for back control.
You're winning in that scenario.
From there, we wanna get the submission to end the match.
- Okay. So we're here. Put it down here. Seatbelt.
- Nice. - Okay.
- Awesome.
- Yeah. - Do the submissions.
- Yeah. - We'll do one choke
or strangulation and we can also see the arm guard.
We have this situation.
So the hand that's right on the neck, right?
The one over the shoulder. - Yeah.
- That's the main choking hand. Close to the neck, right?
Not too low. - Yeah.
- And then grab the other one as well.
And then from here all I'm gonna do is try to
extend my bottom arm.
(Alayna laughing)
- When you start feeling too much pressure,
you can tap on me like this.
- Okay.
- I extend the bottom arm and then I get the-
- Oh, okay. Yeah.
- So you're like this. - Yes.
- And you're extending the bottom arm like that?
- Exactly. - Ah.
So then I'm grabbing here.
- A bit closer to my neck.
Yeah, there you go. And then grab the other one as well.
- Okay. Yeah. - And now you're gonna try
to expand this arm.
Bring it back. (Alayna gasps)
- Okay. (chuckles)
(indistinct)
Oh my god. (laughing) - Nice.
- No. I can feel your neck.
Yeah. I will admit I've never choked someone before.
- That was good. You did Well.
- Would you say I am a natural?
- Yeah, that was very good.
- (chuckles) Oh no.
- Obviously it's more difficult than a choke.
- Okay. - There's more steps.
- Okay. So I've got you in this.
- Yeah, we can grab the wrist with this one here
and this one, just double down on the wrist.
Step on my hip here.
This, and now like go around my head.
Start isolating the arm. Bring this like a big higher up.
- Yep. - And this one's gonna go
all the way in front of my face here.
- Like this? - Yeah. Nice.
- Okay. - Now use it to put me down.
Extend it here. - Yeah.
- And now you can bring my wrist towards your chest.
- Okay. - And then just keep
pushing my wrist down to your chest here.
- Okay. - And if it's still like
I'm not feeling it still, you can elevate your hips
a little bit like that.
- Oh god. Okay.
(Alayna chuckles)
It is just so counterintuitive
to like stretch somebody's arm
the way that it's not supposed to go.
- Exactly. That's exactly what we're doing.
I'm in school to be a counselor.
Inflicting pain is not exactly the norm.
I kind of want to actually see if like...
Like throw you to the ground
because I've never thrown a person to the ground in my life.
Okay. Ready? - Yeah.
- Okay.
(Alayna chuckles)
Okay. And then I push you away. I forget.
And then I'm trying to sit up, but how? Like this?
(indistinct)
(Alayna chuckles)
She's actually trying to stop me.
Oh, and then like...
Like this. And then...
(chuckles) I'm panicking.
And then I'm pulling.
Okay. Like that.
I don't like pulling.
(chuckles)
Okay.
Okay. - Awesome.
We should do that again.
And I'll try to panic less.
(chuckles) Tom's like, yeah,
it was kind of embarrassing for you.
So you take me down then I'm trying to sit up.
I'm trying to get around you. Throw you down.
Seatbelt. Collar. Okay. Okay. Okay.
- You can defend, yeah.
Wait. Don't give it to me easily.
- Okay. Okay. - I'll have to work
on my feet down here.
(Alayna chuckles)
- What?
(mics scuffling)
(censored) My leg!
I grabbed the collar.
- Pull back on the neck.
(Alayna chuckles)
- I don't like the choking part.
The only move I know.
- Yep. Back in way.
(both chuckle)
- How do you think that was
on my end? - I think it was good,
actually, yeah, you picked up pretty well
and being tight, quick too.
So awesome for first experience.
(both laughing)
So you wanna try to do like another round?
- Yeah. - Where we put it all together
Okay. Ready?
- Yeah. - Let's go.
Okay.
(both laughing) - I forget.
Okay.
(mics scuffling)
- Oh, we're backwards.
- Right - Impressive.
Now you have my arm here.
- Yeah. - All the way over.
- Oh yeah. And then the tapping thing, right?
And then I would pull, but I don't really want to do it.
Okay. - See, you worked through
a bit of resistance.
- Yeah. This would last 0.2 seconds.
But I'm tempted to tell you to just like go for it.
- Oh no, we can go for it.
(Alayna laughing)
- She's like, I've been waiting for you to say that.
So you need to tap it. You tap.
- Yeah. - And then that's...
I'll release everything.
- Okay. Okay. I'm ready.
(dramatic music)
(tape rewinding)
(bright whimsical music)
(both laughing)
I was just like, okay, where can throw my legs?
- Yeah, but you protected my mount attacks in the elbow
exactly like I said, move, move, move.
- Yeah.
Well thank you so much for this.
(both laughing)
- I think I should be thanking you.
(Pauline laughing) I'm not sure.
Tell us a little bit about where we can find you
where we can find your studio.
- We are on Instagram @lapelarts.
Our website is lapelarts.ca. Pretty straightforward.
- It'll all be linked in the description.
- Yeah, people wanna contact us to come try jiu jitsu,
they can just go through the website.
- Okay. - We offer a free trial class
for everyone who wants to try.
- Oh cool. - Yeah.
- So why not?
- Exactly. - Yeah.
I can see how this would be addictive.
- Yeah, if people are already a bit competitive,
they get addicted real fast.
(both laughing)
- Me? No, never. Never heard of it.
Thanks very much. Thank you so much!
That was genuinely more fun than I thought it was gonna be.
So if anybody has ever been interested in jiu jitsu,
I would recommend trying it out. It's a blast.
But that is it for this video.
Thank you so much for watching.
Big thank you to Lapel Arts for having us.
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Bye.
(both laughing)
- Until you start the like choking part.
This actually feels kind of lovely.
(both laughing)
- It's like hugging. (chuckles)
- Like a full body hug.