Nsima Inyang

But if you're someone who's trying to develop hand strength, there are many things you can do, but with a tennis ball, if you're trying, if you have the intent of ripping it apart, you might be putting pressure into that ball with your thumbs.

You might be putting pressure into it with your fingers.

You'll probably grab and then use your other arm and put pressure into it multiple ways to try to rip it apart.

Now think of all the ways your hands and your fingers are now interacting with this implement that is, frankly, will seem impossible to rip apart.

Yet he's done it, right?

So that's the thing.

How strong will your hands get when you're able to rip a tennis ball apart?

Don't get me wrong.

There are many ways to strengthen your hands.

Traditional lifting can strengthen your hands.

You're grabbing a barbell and you're lifting, you're grabbing dumbbells and you're lifting weight, but your hands don't have to interact with those implements in the way that they would interact when you're doing jujitsu with the gi.

I mean, think about it.

You've seen a lot of grapplers over time, their hands get,

Right?

Gnarly.

Gnarly.

But all they're doing usually is just jujitsu.

If you have other things outside of your practice, like the rice bucket, like maybe trying to rip the tennis ball apart, like using different types of grippers within your personal practice of training, you can strengthen your hands to a point that jujitsu no longer damages it.

I'm 10 years in, and outside of this one finger,

right my hands feel great and i know like i was very scared about that i'm like over time are my hands gonna get messed up from jiu jitsu right but now i'm confident that my hands aren't because my hands feel better than they did five years ago right they feel stronger than really yes because of the practices i've been able to add into what i do and that's the thing having a tennis ball around and working on that or having a gripper around or having a rice bucket