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What you can or could do in year one and what you can do in year ten are very different, for both good and bad. If you are insistent on not tapping to things out of pride, I promise you that will lead to your detriment. I think the greatest example of this that I have seen are the Miyao brothers. They are younger than me and walk like Frankenstein’s monster. Their bodies are crooked and mangled, and they look like they are in pain pretty much all the time. I can’t control whether that’s the destiny you choose, but I can give you cautionary tales as someone who has done this for twenty plus years. Every time you leave practice with tenderness from tapping late or not tapping at all accumulates, especially after thirty. Give yourself the opportunity to live a life and have fun doing Jiu Jitsu. Nobody cares after all.
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Part of submission grappling is choking people, with the goal being to shut down the supply of blood bringing oxygen to the brain. We do that by applying pressure to the carotid arteries on either side of the neck. In a perfect world no choke would place pressure on the trachea or cause neck pain, but this is not a perfect world. In our naked strangles, generally we use our forearm and bicep to interfere with the blood flow. For arm in strangles we use our arm or leg and their arm to complete the choke. In any strangulation situation the goal is to apply equal pressure to both sides of the neck. If one side is free, the opposition is theoretically safe. The success rate of your strangles will increase when you place more emphasis on your pressure across the arteries on both sides of the neck.
1a. Single leg pick up
1b. 1c. Scrimmage wrestling 1d. 2a. HQ- C2B 2b. 2c. Leg Drag- C2B 2d. 3a. 1/2- C2B 3b. 3c. UD-C2B 3d. 4a. Omoplata 4b. 4c. CG-Arm triangle 4d. 5a. KT- sub 5b. 5c. Rolling guillotine- sub 5d. 6a. Captain Morgan- sub 6b. 6c. Arm isolation- sub 6d. 7a. Straight jacket- sub 7b. 7c. Choose your adventure 7d. 8a. Dealers choice 8b. 8c. F2F 8d. In order to submit someone with a lock of hyper extension, the limb must be straight and there must be space to push the limb past its intended range of motion. Oftentimes it is the case, especially with crunch style submissions, that we hold the arm or leg too close to our torso nullifying our ability to apply breaking pressure. Three things to focus on for hyper extension. 1. Pressure above the elbow or knee joint 2. Control of the distal joint ( wrist or ankle) 3. Space to break (room to push the middle joint past its intended range of motion.
I saw John Danaher say that a piece of advice he would give an aspiring Jiu Jitsu athlete was to treat training like a research project, and that’s interesting to me. Almost from the beginning of my Jiu Jitsu journey I was trying to absorb whatever information I could find. I had magazine subscriptions, books, instructional videos, I was in Internet forums, whatever I could find that allowed me to gather information. I would ask questions, bring things to work on, be early, and watch almost anything martial arts related. I know I have said before that this is not a hobby if you want to get better. If you’re not obsessed, to make it to black belt is incredibly hard. If it’s fun for you that’s cool, but there’s a weight to putting a black piece of fabric around your waist in this sport that you only understand when you have it. Treat this like more than something you show up to do, because it’s only going to be frustrating otherwise.
My overall takeaway from Pans this weekend is that the United States Jiu Jitsu community has almost no idea what they’re doing as a whole. There are absolutely pockets of people that this does not apply to, but generally I saw more people lose on strategy than anything else. This is a game, especially at a high level and if you’re not playing it, why wouldn’t you lose? I found many interesting things throughout the matches I watched, but more than anything, the strategy was a determining factor in success or failure of many athletes. Here’s my controversial take for the day: don’t put the idea of competition into people’s heads if you’re not going to at least attempt to drive them towards success. If you don’t want to focus on competition Jiu Jitsu, don’t, but be upfront about what that means for people who do want to compete. It’s not the way it used to be, this is becoming an actual sport. If you don’t treat it that way, unfortunately the consequences are drastic.
On the mats I don’t know that anyone will claim I’m nice, and that’s okay. I want you to achieve your potential, and that doesn’t always keep your feelings intact. Complacency doesn’t breed better Jiu Jitsu or improvement in general. If saying something or doing something that isn’t the most polite or kind causes positive growth, then so be it. I understand it is not always fun or comfortable, but if that’s what you’re looking for, grappling is probably not for you anyway. I would rather care and get results than be nice and produce a sub par product.
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https://youtu.be/RlJUoebSpQc?si=9O10IR5uGBVsPR8i 1a. Single leg- dynamic start
1b. 1c. Scrimmage wrestling 1d. 2a. No hands retention 2b. 2c. Dirty feet 2d. 3a. Overhook closed guard 3b. Pass 3c. Double underhook closed guard 3d. Pass 4a. Triangle 4b. Exit danger 4c. Wrong side- hyper extension 4d. Exit danger 5a. Side control- connect head and arm 5b. Reverse or disengage 5c. H&A- go to submission 5d. 6a. Mount triangle- to submission 6b. 6c. Back triangle- to submission 6d. 7a. Do si do- hyper extensions only 7b. 7c. Choose your adventure 7d. 8a. Dealers choice 8b. 8c. F2F 8d. |
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