I've seen the situation you described with a purple belt in her thirties rolling with green belt that looked to be 13 (couldn't have been older than 15 because of the kiddie belt).
Edit: And the surreal thing is that BJJ is probably the one grappling art that depends less on sheer physical power. The performance difference must be even greater in sports like wrestling for example.
In most athletic respects, women are effectively 14 year old boys.
BJJ is a sport that allows for genius, and I know historically the occasional brilliant woman has made her mark against men, but like most sports of this nature, how big and strong you are matters most critically when you make a mistake. If you do make a mistake you either have to be fast enough to prevent an effective punish, or strong enough to eat the loss of position.
Little guys are fast, big guys are strong. Women have neither. And as such will be flattened at their first wrong move. In the lower belts, being nearly perfect is sometimes enough, but by brown belt, basically everyone will be nearly perfect. In a lot of cases by that point in their career, chronic injuries and the art of playing around them have begun to appear, which also counts against women because of their frankly shit durability.
I'm not very talented, but I still slow way down when I roll with them. It really is like being against a 13 year old kid. Only real consideration is that some girls have thin boney forearms that are more difficult to defend your neck against, but some skinny boys are like that too. And if your forearms are that thin, chances are you don't have great grip strength.
Back when I trained, women were not a common sight in most jiujitsu gyms here in Brazil. I started in 98, and stopped training at blue belt around 2002, and I never had female regular in my class. The purple belt I mentioned was the wife of a visiting black belt from são Paulo. Sure there were some women training, there were female divisions in tournaments, but it was still considered odd. I remember the first time I heard about a female figher was Leka Vieira wearing a bikini on the cover of Gracie Magazine (which was kinda disappointing cause she was shaped like SpongeBob). Different times in jiujitsu.
It's still easily 10:1 men to women, and even greater if you count those that take it seriously enough to achieve a coloured belt, but I've rolled with enough women who are built up from playing hockey to know that at white or blue belt, only most heavily conditioned women have a chance against me, a computer geek who's never taken Athletics seriously.
I've seen the situation you described with a purple belt in her thirties rolling with green belt that looked to be 13 (couldn't have been older than 15 because of the kiddie belt). Edit: And the surreal thing is that BJJ is probably the one grappling art that depends less on sheer physical power. The performance difference must be even greater in sports like wrestling for example.
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In most athletic respects, women are effectively 14 year old boys.
BJJ is a sport that allows for genius, and I know historically the occasional brilliant woman has made her mark against men, but like most sports of this nature, how big and strong you are matters most critically when you make a mistake. If you do make a mistake you either have to be fast enough to prevent an effective punish, or strong enough to eat the loss of position.
Little guys are fast, big guys are strong. Women have neither. And as such will be flattened at their first wrong move. In the lower belts, being nearly perfect is sometimes enough, but by brown belt, basically everyone will be nearly perfect. In a lot of cases by that point in their career, chronic injuries and the art of playing around them have begun to appear, which also counts against women because of their frankly shit durability.
I'm not very talented, but I still slow way down when I roll with them. It really is like being against a 13 year old kid. Only real consideration is that some girls have thin boney forearms that are more difficult to defend your neck against, but some skinny boys are like that too. And if your forearms are that thin, chances are you don't have great grip strength.
Back when I trained, women were not a common sight in most jiujitsu gyms here in Brazil. I started in 98, and stopped training at blue belt around 2002, and I never had female regular in my class. The purple belt I mentioned was the wife of a visiting black belt from são Paulo. Sure there were some women training, there were female divisions in tournaments, but it was still considered odd. I remember the first time I heard about a female figher was Leka Vieira wearing a bikini on the cover of Gracie Magazine (which was kinda disappointing cause she was shaped like SpongeBob). Different times in jiujitsu.
It's still easily 10:1 men to women, and even greater if you count those that take it seriously enough to achieve a coloured belt, but I've rolled with enough women who are built up from playing hockey to know that at white or blue belt, only most heavily conditioned women have a chance against me, a computer geek who's never taken Athletics seriously.