You know you're a grappler when...

[JordanTeachesJiujitsu]

"I want to let you know I’m deeply appreciating the theory course so far. The quiz format is incredibly helpful, and the information is filling out a lot of additional details from your YouTube videos. For some reason I’d never thought of shoulder control along with hips, as well as short vs long frames.

The biggest help is, as I go through these explanations, I can picture the inverse concepts - ie torso rotation being the inverse of pinning - way more clearly than a usual video or class for some reason."

[Tylerj]

Our midwife asked me if my daughter was going to inherit my ears, I told her she had to earn her own

[cowboyzfan]

You know you are a grappler when you feel uncomfortable giving up inside position when people try to hug you.

[nemesis]

You know you're a grappler when you grapple..

[guav]

guard pull is not fully a grapplers fight stance. one leg behind, knees bent, elbows tucked in is a grapplers fight stance

[Yoandrys]

You can find the best grapplers in the red district 😂😂😂

[johnsnider]

11 year judoka and purple belt here, I literally said the exact same thing about my knees lol.

[Venom]

The knee thing is real. I encourage people to do lunges. Like all the time. You'll learn how weak your legs are after a few steps

[TyHatfield]

One thing you gotta know is if you’re a better grappler than most grapplers and you don’t have cauliflower ear, you must be pretty damn good and yeah that’s true

[TyHatfield]

I also know that I’m grappler when I don’t fall into guard, I actually throw them and I’m gonna Crossbody or I get guard and I’m out of guard all the time

[dimitrioskontsiotis]

I thought for the fighting stance he would go into a low wrestler stance. What he did is for Jiu-jitsu, but a wrestler would probably think of their low wrestling stance.

[jamestk]

This is how I realized I'm in a cult when I thought those were all reasonable things and other people just don't understand 😂 In all seriousness though, I think I'm switching off to Judo for a while just to rotate my injuries around to different parts...

[americandissident]

I’ve been doing submission grappling for five years and I’ve managed to save my ears and mostly my knees. And I don’t pull guard unless we are drilling something specific.

[WhoDarez]

When you swap out your gold wedding band for a generic rubber one because nothing fits on your fingers anymore 😒😎🤙

[Toxicity-oqkw]

I’ve been trying for about 3 years and I torn my acl and meniscus but i don’t have any signs of cauliflower ear

[swbf]

Nah. Grapplers, not BJJ grapplers, don't just roll to their backs, they take you to yours. But i get it.

[seer]

What i learned is that grapplers are physically impaired homosexuals.

[rmt]

I refer to my knee as the “ repaired “ one 🫤