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1a. H2H
1b. 1c. C2B 1d. 2a. Closed guard- KOB, mount, back 2b. 2c. U/D- KMB 2d. 3a. Closed- no hands retention 3b. Loose passing 3c. U/D- no hands retention 3d. Loose passing 4a. FF danger zone- C2C or sub 4b. Freedom 4c. RF danger zone- C2C or sub 4d. Freedom 5a. Mount rodeo 5b. Reverse or full closed 5c. Gift wrap 5d. Reverse or full closed 6a. Back rodeo 6b. Reverse or full closed 6c. FHL 6d. Reverse or full closed 7a. Arm saddle 7b. Sub 7c. Leg saddle 7d. Sub 8a. Dealers choice 8b. 8c. F2F 8d. It doesn’t have to be right to be effective. Instead of thinking of a specific move take the broader concepts you know and apply them to whatever situation you find yourself in. The goal of all chokes is to cut off the arteries on either side of the neck. We have three effective ways broadly to do this. We can use only our arms or legs, their arm with our arms or legs, and the gi. We can attack arms five ways: straight, bent with the hand up, bent with the hand down, at the wrist, and by compression. The leg functions very similarly: straight foot locks, twisting foot locks, hyperextension, compression, and attacks of the hip/groin. To worry about perfect action is debilitating, that’s analysis paralysis. I know that you have options, but you have to realize that for yourself.
This comes from an interview with Tom Hanks. A director said that his job was to show up on time, know the text, and have an idea. I like this because it’s all things that you can control. We can all show up on time, no matter what, because you can be early. There is no excuse for being late to a 5:30am class, you were simply unprepared. The evening class is a little different because of work, but tardiness is not something you can pass off on much else.
Know the text, I post my class plan for the following week every Thursday, there’s no reason you can’t know what you’re getting into. If you know the text, you can then have an idea. In our context that means looking at the plan for class and deciding what in your repertoire applies to the situation. Even if you have the standard 20 minutes to roll at the end, you can still create a plan for what you will do each day. Show up on time, know what’s going on, and have an idea about what you will do. This can be applied in grappling and in life and you’ll probably be surprised by how much easier things are. Being good at grappling is very useful. It’s certainly one of the more practical sports you can be good at, but it’s not easy and it’s not intuitive. One of the hardest things for me is people quit before they get started. A blue belt knows next to nothing about Jiu Jitsu, but they also know more than a majority of the world. If you get the blue belt blues and give up, you haven’t even scratched the surface of grappling knowledge. This takes a long time and you will probably be bad at it in some way forever. The nice thing is nobody cares. Don’t place your value in this activity, you’re probably good at something else, and it might even be something that people have far more interest in. Being good at martial arts only matters to other people who do martial arts. I promise that my black belt means zero to basically everyone that I talk to in the real world. Don’t make this harder than it already is by expecting it to be easy and don’t make it more important than it is, because it’s only valuable to you.
I’m not saying this is not difficult, but you only need to worry about what you need to do and not what they want to do to you. I can’t control anyone but myself, so if I focus on what I have to do in a given situation, that is a more effective use of my energy. There’s no situation in Jiu Jitsu you can’t get yourself out of even if that means tapping. There’s always a way out. One of the best ways you can figure out what you need to do is to fail. Failure is information and you can use that information to do better next time. There are core things that you need to do and even if you mess them up, you get to start over. Especially in the beginning, processing the things you mess up is incredibly beneficial. Don’t worry about whether you lose, worry about what you can take away from losing to improve.
https://youtu.be/WPrEhxSwJMU?si=QCL8kRYJCc2iSDI5
https://youtu.be/w5_w3nUpRgs?si=ZKYLIGpD_QP75xkU 1a. Dynamic start- wrestle
1b. 1c. Dynamic start- guard pull 1d. 2a. Closed guard- KOB, mount, back 2b. 2c. U/D- KMB 2d. 3a. Closed guard- attack with all extremities across center line 3b. Pass 3c. UD- all extremities across center line 3d. Pass 4a. Closed- isolate head and arm to sub 4b. Pass 4c. UD- h&a to sub 4d. Pass 5a. Leg drag- back to mat pin or sub 5b. Disengage or full closed 5c. HQ- b2m or sub 5d. Disengage or full closed 6a. SC- hyperextension, h&a, no arm strangle 6b. Freedom 6c. Mount- hyperextension, h&a, no arm strangle 6d. Freedom 7a. Back- hyperextension, h&a, no arm strangle 7b. Freedom 7c. Forward facing danger zone- C2C 7d. Avoid C2C 8a. Rear facing danger zone- C2C 8b. Avoid C2C 8c. F2F 8d. I saw some rage bait the other day that said instructional videos are better than going to class and most gyms should go out of business. I can attest to that being categorically untrue, at least the part where you can be just as good watching videos as you will be actually going to class.
I’ll start with a story that is unrelated to Jiu Jitsu. My mental health was really bad growing up which culminated in me being placed in an isolation classroom. Somehow, at the age of 13 I had surpassed the capabilities of my teacher in math, so I had to teach myself. Yes, I spent roughly a year and a half of middle school as my own math teacher. Miraculously I was able to maintain grade level when I got to high school, but I certainly would have done better if I’d had actual instruction. Story number two, when I was a later blue belt, there was a split in the gym I’d trained at. I stuck around for a while, but that ended with me not only teaching myself, but also teaching others. I can teach myself many things and I can teach others, but I also know that Richard, Sal, Dusty, Brian, Vinny, and Professor Doug can see from the outside what I may not. The value of the gym is the collective knowledge towards a common goal. I can promise you from lived experience that even if you don’t like it, teaching yourself all the time leads to stagnation. None of us are capable of challenging ourselves to the level necessary to reach our highest potential without help. The biggest help your gym gives you is cleaning up the mess you make when you try a poor approximation of YouTube Jiu Jitsu. No matter what coaching philosophy your gym adheres to, one of your core responsibilities is to follow instructions. If you go rogue, it is possible that you endanger not only yourself, but also the people you train with. Trust is a big part of submission grappling, everyday I’m putting my faith in you not to do something outside of our established parameters. Make sure that you are clear on what you’re supposed to do and do that. There’s probably a reason those are the instructions anyway.
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