Accelerate your Brazilian Jiu Jitsu game with instructional videos from BJJ Black Belt, Rob Biernacki. Featuring Jiu Jitsu training videos, tips, drills, submissions, escapes, sweeps, fundamental concepts, instructor training, and more.
Great stuff! A lot of Black belts like to get in the fetal position and then wait for you to come in and then they do nothing until you are off balance and then jump into action. I think it hurts all involved as the person on top can't practice passing guard, legitimate submission opportunities and has to take all of the risks in order to go after a submission. The bottom person waits for you to be off balance, which will inevitably happen, and then jump into a sweep. It gives them a false sense of security that it is a great tactic, but it can't be used in any situation other than the home gym. - (As a Brown belt) I've found that I can usually stay on top of a person and maintain it for a round and also do nothing, but when I legitimately try to go for subs, it will eventually put me at a disadvantage and I will get swept because I am playing the bottom person's game (just because I don't want to stall as the bottom person is doing).
The Mikey Lock is from the saddle side. That was a reverse heel holding position from double outside ashi which can easily be turned out of similar to a toehold... but is and excellent way to set up backside 50/50. Great detailed Seminar on the knee bar. Thanks for the content!
Loving your approach to teaching in this seminar, not being too prescriptive with exact "techniques" but allowing people to play with the ideas against variances in resistance.
Brilliant teaching. I checked you out by recommendation of Josef Chen from B team. Your way of thinking and explaining jiu jitsu is very technical yet also simple. Cheers
Love the contextual explanation on crushed frames, and then moving to the hands covering the face and creating a triangle and then the elbow to the armpit are key points I learned. Thank you
Personal experience: Half guard is one of the best possible options for shorter legged people, right alongside butterfly. Is there a threat of a darce? Sure, but only if you don’t close distance well enough and fast enough. If you play a half guard where you are always looking to get in close and get underneath them, and use their efforts to close distance to go in even further and faster than they intended, then half guard is ideal for a more compact player. Especially so if they are older and less athletic. The top 3 half guard series for short legs in my opinion are: 1. Deep half 2. Coyote guard 3. Lockdown/electric chair series Add to that octopus half, butterfly half and if they stand up and away, sit up guard, DLR and RDLR, and you’re going to have a pretty well rounded game. Playing a butterfly/leg entanglement style game with single leg x, x guard and DLR and RDLR is great for shorter legs too, but requires a bit more speed, dexterity and athleticism. What works less well for shorter legs in my experience are closed guard, spider guard, maybe lassos, and collar sleeve with legs on hips. De La Riva can be tricky if you try playing a tall man’s game, but magic of you play a short man’s game. A short man’s DLR includes chasing the back, stuffing the near sleeve for roll under sweeps, switching into x guard or waiter sweeps, and baiting them to step in and close the distance out of sit up guard, in which case you close the distance faster and further than they intended, immediately sweeping them with coyote or deep half, depending on which way their knee turns. DLR can work well for short legs too. You just need to know coyote, deep half, x guard, crab ride and waiter sweeps, and all the things that top players do to shut down the short guy’s DLR become liabilities instead of assets. (Bonus points if you can learn to berimbolo eventually, but I don’t think that’s necessary or even ideal. It sure is pretty though!)
Just started 2 months ago. 3 yrs of HS wrestling background. This has been one of the best experiences for physical and mental toughness. Thanks for putting this together. Were going over the Kimura this week and one of our Purple Belts put me onto you- really appreciate you guys giving back to the community and helping me specifically “meditate” on these movements. Just watching really helps build the recognition for what may becoming.
From a technical sparring standpoint where you start on your back in that position, what ways do you use to reestablish your base posture and alignment?
