Kurt Osiander on Why Women Need to Train with Men
Kurt Osiander recently made a guest appearance on episode 650 of the BJJ Fanatics Podcast. One of the topics they covered was the importance of women training with men.
In Kurt’s opinion, he feels that it’s beneficial for women to train BJJ with men. He feels that going against men, who have a size and strength advantage will make them better.
“Unfortunately, there’s usually not that many girls in schools.Some have a lot and some don’t have very many.
Just training with your male counterparts, that are like your size or a little bit bigger, will be just as good because they’re going to be stronger and usually heavier than you.”
Kurt continued in his belief that women who predominantly train with men develop sharper technique and do better in competition.
“If you can move them around, you’re going to be able to move the girls who are in your weight class around easily.”
Women’s jiu-jitsu is just some of the most pure jiu-jitsu there is because it’s just razor sharp technique.
It’s usually because there’s not as many female training partners for these ladies to train with, so they have to adapt their skills against people that are usually heavier or larger because it’s mostly guys they’re training with.”- Kurt Osiander.
This is a great take from Kurt that is hard not to agree with.
If you’re a woman afraid to start training in this male-dominated martial art, don’t be. Find yourself a good academy that knows how to cater to female grapplers and is filled with good training partners.
Bobby is martial artist for almost 20 years with a BJJ black belt under Professor Sergio Miranda. He is also a karate black and former combat sports athlete, who loves all things grappling.