Hi, I am Geek Climber.
I have always wondered how well athletic abilities translate between different sports.
I am going to visit Andy, who is an expert on Brazilian Jiu-jitsu, to challenge each
other with three drills specifically for our own sport, so I will be challenging Andy with
three rock climbing drills that we climbers usually do.
Likewise, Andy will challenge me with three Jiu-jitsu drills and see how well I will perform.
The winner of this challenge will win a Brazyn Morph.
It is a portable light weighted foam roller with a nifty design.
I can't wait to start the challenge.
Let's go.
Good to meet you; how's it going?
Brazilian Jiu-jitsu is a martial art that focuses primarily on grappling and ground
work emphasizing chokes and joint locks.
For the first drill, we are going to be doing the shrimping drill.
It's a commonly used as a form of escape, so if someone is on top of you, what you want
to do is get your pressure on your hands and your shoulders and your feet, and then you're
going to lift up your hips and take the weight of your hips and scoop them back.
Take the weight of your hips and scoop them back.
Um, you want to plant it and then push on it and then extend your hips back.
Yeah, you are not pushing that much with that hand. It's mostly the feet. There is like
a little bit of that, but it's really like the top leg that pushes back.
Do you consider that a pass?
Yeah, that will be a pass.
The second drill is a guard passing drill.
What happens is one person is on their back.
Their goal is to sweep or submit.
The other person on top, their goal is to pass the guard, which is the legs of the person.
Now I see the importance of shrimping, because I was like... if I shrimp better.
The guard passing drill is super ultra fun, but I didn't get to take you down, and I get
taken down by you almost like instantly, so do you think this is still a
pass?
I will say it's a pass.
The last challenge is the triangle flow.
Again, it's a two-person one.
It's kind of a series of submissions and counters.
It goes to an triangle.
Then omoplata.
Then armbar and then back to the triangle and just cycle through that.
BJJ is definitely hard.
I appreciate you showing me what Jiu-jitsu is like.
Yeah, it was fun.
I look forward to do some rock climbing.
Yea!
Andy, welcome to a rock climbing gym.
The first challenge I prepare for you is to climb up a V0, so V0 is a bouldering grade.
Bouldering is a subset of climbing where you don't use a rope to climb, but you climb, say
for about 18~20 feet, and V0 is one of the entry level grade that you will climb when
you first started.
The key here is when you are rock climbing, it's like climbing up a ladder instead of
doing a pull-up, so you should have good technique, so you will use your legs to push yourself
up.
Let's do it!
So when you climb, you want to be well controlled, and you also want to keep your arms straight,
in order to minimize the usage of your arm muscles, and you also want to frequently turn
your body, and shift your body weight around, so you can optimize and put your weight on
your feet.
Alright!
Nice.
Oh-oh.
Good recovery.
Nice.
Smoke the first challenge without a problem.
That is good.
The second challenge I prepare for you, Andy, is a hangboard training.
Once you master all the techniques, the next important thing is actually your grip strength.
We usually train on hangboards to increase our maximum grip strength.
The challenge I have for you is hang on the hangboard, for say 5 seconds.
So first you have four fingers over here, and then you relax, engage your shoulder, hang for
five seconds.
One.. two... three... four... five.
Like that.
Alright, one, two, three, oh!
Let's do this one, and then hang for ten seconds.
One.. two... three... four... five... six... seven... eight... nine... ten.
Good job.
Good job, Andy.
So the last challenge I have for you, Andy, is called the campus board.
The campus board was invented by Wolfgang Gullich back in 1988, so this is meant to
train your contact strength. Because you are going dynamically, you have to be able to
hit it and then stick it.
Alright, I will demonstrate how to do the campus board.
The key is engage your shoulder and utilize momentum, and when your body swings to the
side of where your upper arm is, push down with your lower arm the moment your center
of mass is right underneath your upper arm.
If you can go up to the fifth one, I think that would be pretty amazing.
Oh, hoho, that's too hard.
OK, how about you have your feet on here, and go like here, here, move up, and here.
Nice, Nice!
Good job, Andy!
How do you feel?
That was hard. My fingers are hurting.
Yeah, initially of course you want to have good technique, um, so you can figure out the
body movement and use your legs, but that can only get you so far.
Eventually you will have to have very strong fingers in order to get it to the next level,
so the hangboard, the campus board, are two classic ways to train your finger strength.
Alright, so that's a wrap, and then the winner today is Andy!
Thanks for watching.
It was incredibly fun today.
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