No Gi Worlds 2023 Strength & Conditioning Camp at DiSalvo Performance
The big news from the DiSalvo Performance Training world today is that we’re hosting a strength and conditioning camp for No Gi Worlds 2023. We created this 6-week event to help anyone in the NYC area maximize their preparation for one of the biggest jiu jitsu tournaments of the year. If you’re planning on making the trip to Vegas to compete this December, you won’t want to miss this.
All attendees will go through our full physical assessment, receive two sessions at DiSalvo Performance each week with me and our coaching staff, and will get a program to complete outside the gym. You can see the flyer below for more details or click here to get more info. If you want to skip all that and you’re already sold, you can register here.
A few thoughts on No Gi Jiu Jitsu while we’re at it…
There’s an undoubted shift in popularity toward no gi jiu jitsu in the last 2-3 years, especially among the beginners and newcomers to the sport.
It’s also rising in popularity among more experienced participants, and I don’t think it’s just because of the smaller laundry loads.
The beginners are easy to explain: the gravitational pull and stars of the sport are all primarily No Gi competitors. The big money and broadcast events are all No Gi.
The intermediate and long time practitioners are harder to explain. I’ll admit, I’m showing a bit of a selection bias, as gi jiu jitsu among experienced practitioners in many areas of the world is alive and well.
To those that have shifted, I can share a few things I’ve noticed from clients in my gym and their comments:
They have less issues with their elbows, wrist and grip/hands: A number of working professionals have said to me that they gave up the gi because the risk of damaging their hands was too great and not worth it in relation to their career. A surgeon who can’t use his/her hands is in trouble, for instance. To those unconcerned with hurting their hands for monetary reasons, many (including myself) have noticed the more they train No Gi, the less arthritic they feel in their fingers, hands and wrists.
Where the hands, wrists and elbows are spared, the neck isn’t always when it comes to no gi. Because of the increasingly heavy influence of wrestling on No Gi, the demand for a strong neck is high.
Some of my own clients who have been jiu jitsu hobbyists for years, and who previously feared no gi, have found that their increased strength and upper body stoutness gained through years of lifting and solid training, has given them far more of an advantage when it comes to pummeling, posting, and passes that require some distance, like a torreando.
The rapid innovation of style and technique in jiu jitsu has largely occurred in no gi in the last 5 years. If you have been training jiu jitsu for at least that amount of time, there’s a desire and attraction to novelty. You go where the innovation is, in other words.
I could go on, but I think this is the most compelling reason for the shift among veterans of jiu jitsu.
I’ll end by reminding everyone once more that the No Gi Worlds 2023 Strength & Conditioning Camp begins October 24 @ 6:15PM here at the gym. We’d love to see you there! Please reach out with any questions and we hope to see you there.
Until next week,
Mark DiSalvo