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Quick Tip on Guard Sweeps
I've noticed that my latest tutorials have been along the lines of tips, rather than sticking to the details of specific techniques. This wasn't on purpose, so it kind of got me thinking about why I had made this unconscious transition. What I realiz...
Tips on Passing the Guard
There really isn't anything new here. I just think it's appropriate to stick to the basics every now and then....
Escaping From the Mount & Back Mount
The past couple of weeks I've been focusing teaching and working on escapes from bad positions, such as mount, back mount and side control. The primary goal being to give the smaller, lighter opponent something more to work with. Many of these types ...
Takedown from the clinch to Anaconda Choke
It's been a little over two months since I posted my last Jiu-Jitsu tutorial. And yet it seems like it was just last week. What happened to the past two months? After Gina's post, "Where in the World is Conan Schafer?" I realized how crazy things had...
Kuzushi
In Monday night's class we went over the principal of kuzushi (off balancing), and how the same principals apply in ground fighting just as they do standing up, as in Judo.In Judo, one fighter off balances the other in order to obtain a throw. In Jiu...
Maintaining Side Control
Although there are numerous things you can and should be doing to prevent your opponent from escaping your side control, there is one thing in particular that I believe is one of the first steps to maintaining an effective side control position. Bloc...
Butterfly Guard Sweep Technique Video
I can't tell you how often I use this sweep, other than to say I use it all the time from various positions. This video shows just one setup for the sweep, but like many techniques, there are a lot of ways to enter into it. One of my favorite alterna...
Submissions From Bottom Side Side-control
I remember the first time my instructor showed me how to do a Kimura from under side, side-control. This was the first submission I learned from a bottom position where I didn't have dominate positioning. At the time it was somewhat difficult to wrap...
Side Control Escapes
I often here students talking about how they have a difficult time on the bottom. This is natural, especially if you're trapped under a more experienced grappler who has a solid top game. I also think it highlights something to think about. Most of u...
Drilling Half Guard Kimura Combinations
After Monday night's class, Jerad and I went through some different variation of the Kimura from half guard, some counters and some recounters. Although it's hard to tell everything that's going on with the techniques, such as the leg work, I thought...
Modified Crucifix Submission Technique
This is a fairly simple technique that really has a lot of applications. We showed it here being utilized from the guard as a submission, as well as being used to sweep your opponent and finishing it from the mount. Although we did film a short segme...
Leg & Ankle Lock Technique Video
After Monday night's class, I was talking with Ray about doing another technique video. He brought up that it seemed to him that one of the variations of the heel hook I teach, was maybe not as common as some of the others out there. Ray commented th...
Breaking Posture
Since I recently wrote about the importance of maintaining good posture in the Guard, I thought it was only appropriate to mention the importance of breaking your opponent's posture when you have someone in your Guard.First off, it will always be far...
Finishing the Armbar
During Monday's class, we covered some self defense moves. One of the main differences of these techniques is that they're entered into from a standing position, and then involve some type of takedown and then a finishing strike or submission. After ...
Framing is more than just for pictures
Framing is something we do when we position our arms or some part of our body so that we can create or maintain distance, or create pressure on our opponent. There are numerous positions and situations where framing is useful. So what is framing? One...
Technique Videos
Since I started posting technique videos, my goal has been to keep the concepts fairly basic and to only post techniques that I knew well enough to have used before. I've never thought that what we're doing was that much different from what others ar...
Extending Your Hips
This is a phrase you here all the time in BJJ, most often associated with a submission technique, but not always. And it is often a misunderstood concept, probably because of it's name. After all, doesn't "extend" mean just that? Interestingly enough...
Little secrets to getting the Kimura
I’ve called this little bit of instruction, "Little secrets to getting the Kimura," but the fact is they’re not really secrets at all. These principles are nothing more than understanding body mechanics.In the video, I didn't start at the beginni...
Passing the Butterfly Guard
This video has demonstrations of two separate ways to pass the Butterfly Guard. The second method has a couple of different variations....
Choke Technique
This is actually a good no gi choke as well. Ray was nice enough to let me apply the choke from several different positions even though he was obviously in some discomfort....
Developing Your Jiu-Jitsu Top Game
What separates a champion from the rest is the attention to detail.After Monday night's class, a few of us got together to go over some finer points of developing a top game. Specifically, I wanted to focus on the importance of controlling and lockin...
Guard Passes Technique Video
After Monday night's class, Jerad, Phil and I messed around a bit with some guard passes. This video is a little longer than most, but I thought I'd include some of the practical applications during live grappling. As always, Jerad did a great job fi...
Gi Collar Choke
Reversals from the Guard
This tutorial shows a couple of different methods for getting a reversal from the guard, as well as some submission applications....
