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1a. Single leg Tackett
1b. 1c. FHL,SL,RBL 1d. 2a. Armbar 2b. Exit danger 2c. Omoplata 2d. Exit danger 3a. Triangle 3b. Exit danger 3c. Straight arm attacks only 3d. BHK 4a. Same side finish 4b. BHK 4c. H&A to finish 4d. BHK 5a. Headlock Kesa- maintain side control 5b. RDS 5c. Double arm Kesa- maintain side control 5d. RDS 6a. Arm triangle- hold 6b. Exit danger 6c. Darce- hold 6d. Exit danger 7a. Side Control- sub head and arm 7b. Sub H&A 7c. Turtle- H&A 7d. H&A 8a. F2F 8b. Hangman 8c. Dealers choice 8d. Choose your own adventure None of us want to lose, that’s normal. On the other side of that is you get one body to live your whole life, and aftermarket parts almost never match the thing they replace. You should tap, especially in the beginning. If your limbs aren’t in a place where you can get them back and they’re going a direction they aren’t supposed to, just tap and start again. If you already know your limits and have been around a while, maybe you fight a little more. Like I said you’ve only got one body for the rest of your life, if professional grappling isn’t in the cards for you, just tap and try again.
There are two ways to put pressure on someone. There is smashing pressure, the kind most of us understand, and there is movement pressure. Movement pressure occurs most often in lower weight classes, but can be seen across the board, especially in modern heavyweights. Ideally you can do both. If you are a smaller grappler movement pressure is usually a path to early success, whereas a larger grappler tends to start with the smash. It is my feeling that when I play movement pressure people get more irritated because it feels insulting, but that could be my perception. Anyway, think about what pressure best suits your body and game. Most likely it’s some mix of the two.
This will be another uphill both ways in the snow type story, so you’ve been warned. When I started doing Jiu Jitsu there were two or three black belts in the state of Arizona and they were all in Phoenix. I trained under purple belts, and if you wanted to level up there was a yearly conference in Utah where you might get a new belt. All tournaments were at least an hour away and the one you wanted to go to happened quarterly. At least for me, having a coach was more of a luxury than an expectation and the rules were somewhat undefined. I know it’s hard to appreciate what you have when you don’t know how good you have it, but sometimes it’s hard to understand frustration when there’s been so much improvement.
To a certain extent there are expected patterns in Jiu Jitsu and also in grappling overall. I think you can attribute a lot of Ben Askren’s success in wrestling to not following predictable patterns. The same can be said with leg locks, wrestling up, and just standing up in Jiu Jitsu. If you find that the same things are always happening, that pattern probably needs to be disrupted. The question for you is how? What can you modify that changes what your opposition does while achieving what you’re after?
1a. Ouchi, kouchi, foot sweep
1b. 1c. Whizzer 1d. 2a. No hands closed- tip or close legs under pits 2b. Outside, split, under 2c. No hands UD- tip or close legs under pits 2d. Outside, split, under 3a. Closed- stop 3b. OSU 3c. UD- stop 3d. OSU 4a. Split Connection- maintain 4b. Outside 3 4c. Split Connection- Stop 4d. Outside 3 5a. Side Control- Sub 5b. 1/2, RDS 5c. Mount 5d. 1/2, RDS 6a. Turtle 6b. 1/2, RDS 6c. Back 6d. 1/2, RDS 7a. Gift wrap 7b. RDS 7c. S-Mount 7d. RDS 8a. F2F 8b. Hangman 8c. Dealers choice 8d. Choose your own adventure If you put yourself out there, you will fail, you will be rejected, you will lose, and that’s okay. What matters is the effort you put in to preparing yourself to get there. If you do everything you can to bring the best version of yourself to an endeavor and still come up short, you aren’t disappointing anyone. If someone says otherwise, tell them to go fall in a hole. Risk is how we advance and how we improve, failure is how we learn. If you’ve undertaken something recently that didn’t go your way, grappling or otherwise, it’s progress. You are “the person in the arena” don’t let the audience keep you from becoming the optimal version of yourself.
We are all trying to win, but that doesn’t mean we are trying to kill each other. Getting caught by legitimate techniques isn’t what gets you roughed up by higher belts, being reckless does, and it’s not fun for anybody. We’re just here to enjoy some mellow rounds of grappling, we want to play the game. We want to be nice to you, but not at our expense. If we have to pick between ourselves and you, you lose every time. Focus on learning, not just on winning, pay attention, try things, but don’t be stupid. Playing the game is the fun part and we play the game the whole time, but if I can train 6x in a week and be fine while you train 2x and die, you’re missing the point.
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