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1a. Flamingo
1b. 1c. Connect hands below armpits 1d. 2a. Muscle/sleeve 2b. Pass 2c. Flip grip 2d. Pass 3a. Legs as primary 3b. BHK 3c. Hip Clamp inversion 3d. Float 4a. 50/50- dominant position 4b. 4c. Saddle- avoid DQ 4d. Dominant position 5a. Same side shoulder/leg 5b. 5c. Pinned ankle/ shoulder 5d. 6a. Smashed kani basami 6b. 6c. Back step 6d. 7a. Hangman 7b. 7c. Choose your adventure 7d. 8a. Dealers choice 8b. 8c. F2F 8d. Your coach should know the rules that you are competing under that is part of their job. If you want to compete at an elite level, you have to be able to play the game and take advantage of not just your abilities, but also strategy. In order to do that you must also know the rules. You will not always hear your corner and they do not have a remote control to make sure you don’t do something dumb. The more educated you make yourself on the ins and outs, the better off you will be. If you don’t want to take what you are doing seriously, you have that right, but that’s not your coaches fault. You only take in the information you want to and for most people the intricacies of competition Jiu Jitsu aren’t things they want to put time into. Here’s an alternate, if you are training for self defense, you should have a full submission arsenal and competition legality doesn’t factor. In either instance you need training partners on that same path and it’s not really fair or logical to exist in the middle. This is not a world where you can claim ignorance, whatever information you want is at your fingertips. If you don’t want to put the effort in, don’t make it about others.
Over the weekend we had two highly decorated BJJ athletes compete on the UFC Fight Night and they both lost. We can blame it on a lot of things, but the main one is that the BJJ guys entering the UFC don’t play the game well enough to be successful. They aren’t good enough in any of the other aspects of MMA to utilize their greatest advantage. They are coming in with a nearly one-dimensional skill set and expecting to be successful. I don’t think it’s a bad idea they give up hope for high level BJJ competitors in MMA. It’s a completely different game and to have the success you want in either, that attention can’t be split.
I know it’s old news, but I didn’t talk about my observations for ADCC west coast trials, so I might as well do that. Generally, it seemed lackluster. The overall quality of Jiu Jitsu seemed lower than even the east coast trials some months before. It seemed like people were making very simple mistakes that led to them getting submitted and either didn’t understand the rules or made terrible decisions with the rules in mind. Maybe my lens for how I look at competition has changed, maybe I’m becoming the unc reminiscing about the good old days, or maybe it just wasn’t that good? Whatever the case, I am interested in this year’s ADCC.
It’s not that you can’t cross your feet when you have someone’s back, it’s that the nuance of doing so is more complicated than just saying it’s a bad idea. It’s sort of like being able to use the saddle in ibjjf competition. You can use the saddle, but how you do it is very specific and unless you dedicate yourself to that position, you’re more likely to get disqualified. In order to cross your feet when on someone’s back, you must ensure that you’ve isolated their hips. If they cannot push their hips forward, they can’t ankle lock you. It sounds very simple, but it’s a dangerous game, play at your own risk.
1a. On hands or behind knees
1b. 1c. Single Leg- don’t get stuck 1d. 2a. Lavaselli- stop 2b. Pass 2c. Tainan- pass 2d. Stop 3a. Shin on shin- sweep or enter legs 3b. BHK 3c. Ankle game 3d. Free foot 4a. Hip clamp- push over or roll under 4b. C2B or Leg entanglement 4c. RDLR- leg entanglement or C2B 4d. Only one knee down 5a. Top side hook- full back or sub 5b. FCG, reverse, disengage 5c. Turtle- back or sub 5d. FCGRD 6a. Hangman 6b. 6c. 10 gorilla pass go 6d. 7a. Jason’s Rules 7b. 7c. Choose your adventure 7d. 8a. Dealers choice 8b. 8c. F2F 8d. When you’re a white belt, you don’t realize how nice it is to be ignorant. We all want to be blue belts, then purple belts, and maybe even brown or black belts. For me every progressive belt got heavier and heavier and when I found out I was getting them I wanted them less and less. I wanted my blue belt and at the time I thought I had earned it, I was wrong. I did not want my purple belt, I knew I hadn’t earned it, but I grew into it. My brown and black belts I just wasn’t sure if I could carry the weight. As you advance you become a representative of your gym and your coach. If you have no rank, it doesn’t matter because you’re not supposed to know anything or be able to demonstrate anything. The higher you go, the higher the expectations are all around you. If you go some other place, there’s a target on your back and it’s not just you that you represent. Maybe this is an old school mentality, but sometimes the quality of something matters more than what you gain by diluting it. This is a hobby, keep it fun for as long as you can.
Many of our submissions rely on taking the narrowest part of our limbs and using that to apply pressure eliciting a tap. The key to that sentence is the “narrowest”. I think it was Travis Newaza who brought up the 2x4 metaphor. If your arm is a 2x4, you want to place as much pressure into as little area as possible. Therefore, we use the 2 side rather than the 4 side. This applies to ankle locks, guillotines, rear naked chokes, arm crunches, and it even applies to gi chokes. Even when I’m choking with the gi, my goal is to make as little surface area as possible to create a blade rather than a club. These are small details, refine these things and the likelihood of submission will improve.
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