will do man, my girlfriends brother is starting with me so we'll get to practice together a lot since we live about a quarter mile apart. he has a little experience and hes done 12 years of kenpo so i'm lookin' foward to havin' some fun.
You are probably going to be better off than he. He has some preconceived notions about fighting based upon his experiences. Most of the Kenpo he has learned is not applicable to BJJ. He will have to relearn a totally different paradigm. If he is smart, and humble, he will increase his game, and won't feel threatened that his original art didn't have the answers. I was a Wing Chun instructor who had three portugese men come to our school to demonstrate their art. Rorion, Relson, and Royce Gracie took all of us down, submitted all of us within 2 minutes. 32 people that night signed up for classes at UH to learn from Relson Gracie. Some of the old timers were trying to come up with solutions within the Wing Chun system. They remained stuck to their old paradigm. Years later, I got my bell rung from a friend of mine who wrestled at OSU. No BJJ experience, just DIV I collegiate wrestler. It was like being put into a tire and rolled down a hill. His controlled tie ups neutralised my shots, his clinch game allowed him to dirty box me with impunity. I had to change to meet the demand. Well, guess what, I started training greco roman. So be open, humble ,and willing to learn. You will get scratched up, get mat burn, get aching joints, but it is fun, and a neverending journey of self discovery.
