Your BJJ Sucks Because You Don't Know How To Breathe

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VIDEO DESCRIPTION

Miles Lukas (The American Wim Hoff and Jiu Jitsu Blackbelt under David Camarillo) and Rick Ellis discuss the importance of breathing properly in Jiu Jitsu. According to Miles, you can drastically improve your BJJ performance just by applying specific breathing techniques. Stay tuned for the new course: Breath Mastery For Jiu Jitsu.

[jeromeoconnell]

Rick - this was a really great chat - I would love to watch and learn from you all doing and teaching the breath work. I’d be very interested in learning more about the mechanics of breathing a bit more. On that note, it would be great to see in a roll how to practically implement the conscious breathing. This was great. Thanks. And breathing kinda is a reason why my BJJ sucks!

[rich]

Where is the course going to be? On this channel for free?

[RadicalTrivia]

This is why I'm usually one of the last ones on the mats.

[Awardance]

I have been doing DDPY since 2012 and my cardio is on point and i feel decently strong. 😅 So in my case yoga works for cardio.

[clapdrix]

No, it sucks because I'm not good at jiu jitsu.

[Slamminbassplayer]

I was hoping for some practical knowledge instead of just a sales pitch! I’m fairly old and actually feel that I do this well. I’m not what you would call explosive by any stretch, but I can stay on the mats all day as long as I can hydrate.

[jerryh]

As a 54 yo, I'm very interested!

[bryanjohnson]

I have s*** cardio like when it comes to running or athletics like I have to work on my cardio but I wouldn't say that I've ever had problems breathing or it making me sick so that didn't make any sense to me