Anatomy

Understanding anatomy is a big part of grappling. A concept that I’ve been running into a lot, is submission efficiency. I saw Gordon Ryan say that he makes a concerted effort to focus on breaking mechanisms in joint locks. So when he goes to submit someone he has not only worked on getting to that position, but also making it so that his technique walks the path of least resistance to its original intended purpose. The most interesting part of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is that you can analyze all parts of your technique against resistance with real time feedback. Use this to your advantage, work so that you can execute a technique slowly with the correct anatomical control points and breaking mechanics, then should you need to speed the process up outside of training, all the pieces are in place.