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1a. Shoulder pinch
1b. Disengage 1c. Arm crunch 1d. Disengage 2a. Shoulder pinch- sweep 2b. Exit danger 2c. Arm crunch- sweep or sub 2d. Exit danger 3a. Bader- sweep or sub 3b. Exit danger 3c. 100%- sweep or sub 3d. Exit danger 4a. Butterfly DU- sweep or sub 4b. Pass 4c. Butterfly OU- sweep or sub 4d. Pass 5a. Turtle- score or sub 5b. Reverse or 1/2 5c. FHL- score or sub 5d. Reverse or 1/2 6a. Turtle- C2B no locked hands 6b. Reverse or disengage 6c. FHL- no locked hands 6d. Reverse or disengage 7a. C2B sub 7b. 7c. Neck Attacks 7d. 8a. F2F 8b. Hangman 8c. Dealers choice 8d. Choose your own adventure I have stated this before, but I don’t believe in self-defense classes. Without full contact live training of some kind, martial arts become dance. You cannot replicate a fight without fighting. Hitting pads, bags, doing drills, katas, and forms, does not prepare you for fighting. If you want to defend yourself, train in contact martial arts regularly (where you fight people). If that’s not what you want to do, you might as well not go, because you’ll get the same value.
As you may know I went back to the Bronx to get beat up recently. What I realized is that the diversity of my skillset allowed me to have better success than I expected. I would not say that I played my A game at all, but what I played was a game that utilized gaps in where their training was focused. I still got smoked no doubt by the high-level players, but I also was able to mount attacks and effectively defend myself. The more we pigeonhole what we do the more we limit our ability to capitalize on the opportunities we are presented.
You pay money to do this, maybe just showing up isn’t enough? If you’re happy with the results you’re getting, maybe it is? I am fully aware that I care more about grappling than I should, but I also don’t want to stagnate. I want a diversified skill set, I want to get better, I want to get beat up so I can get better. Why not put your effort into something? Stop doing the same things repeatedly, expand your horizons.
At the end of the day, you must want to get better at jiu jitsu. This isn’t something where you’ll be babysat until you get applicable skill. Most of the information in front of you all you need to do is make the effort. It shouldn’t require weeks or months to figure out what submission means. There is not a context in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu where I will surprise striking on you. I will continue to say that I am a very small part of your journey. All I do is make things easier or better, but you must work and listen.
1a. Standing switch
1b. 1c. FHL, SL,RBL 1d. 2a. Cones 2b. Float 2c. Long leg DLR 2d. No score 3a. Crab ride 3b. No score 3c. Hands down x 3d. No score 4a. Bear trap 4b. No score 4c. Worm 4d. No score 5a. Leg drag 5b. No score 5c. HQ 5d. No score 6a. Double unders 6b. No score 6c. Camp 6d. No score 7a. 50/50 7b. 7c. DGP 7d. 8a. F2F 8b. Hangman 8c. Dealers choice 8d. Choose your own adventure I like distilling things into more manageable pieces, one of the things that I believe helps me is learning what I’m not allowed to do. It’s easily available on the internet. I can look at the chart of what’s allowed for my age and belt rank to say this is what I should focus on, and this is what I can delay putting my energy into. After the age of thirty, putting much emphasis on heel hooks only really allows you to use it in the room. It’s not the best self-defense strategy and it’s not legal unless you compete in very specific scenarios. If you are at an advanced level, then broadening those horizons makes sense, if you’re a white belt it does not. Learn what not to do, it’s a small but highly beneficial list.
No coach says things just to hear themselves talk. If I give you actionable advice, put it into practice. I promise you it is never my goal to make your jiu jitsu worse. Usually, the advice I give is something you can easily fix, but the disconnect is in the action. I have very little to do with your progress in grappling, but the little bit I do comes from executing the things I say.
The skinniest, sharpest part of your limb is a very important tool in grappling. Whether it is a guillotine, straight ankle lock, or Achilles triangle, it truly makes a difference in your finishing rate when you concentrate on logical finishing mechanics. You can still do a shotgun ankle lock with the blade of your forearm, and the tap rate will be much higher.
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