BJJ isn't as effective in MMA as it used to be?! 

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Gosh, we're so used to seeing you doing a striking masterclass, but your understanding of grappling and wrestling here is ✨️

Let's go! Cage takedown and takedown defense! Always love your stuff Jeff!

The fact that every section got live examples is gold ! Especially for K guard, I would have not believed that it can work so well with striking involved !

I don't know what's better, Jeff's takedown defense or his hype man. Is anybody else loving that guy?

I'm so glad that you covered this, Jeff. I was literally just telling a fellow student last week who is very frustrated with her inexperience with grappling that, strangely enough, grappling in all its forms is a cooperative way of fighting in that essentially both opponents have essentially agreed to do it when engaging in it... and therefore you always have the option to either disengage or not engage at all. (Please keep in mind I am talking from a grappling standpoint only, no takedowns or strikes involved). The difference IMHO is when your opponent engages you in a clinch and/or takes you down or throws you. Now your only say is to escape, which of course is easier said than done which is why this video is so helpful. Thanks for posting it. With this said, I have found in my own experience that the instinct to get back to standing is so naturally ingrained that many people, regardless of their experience, end up naturally doing many of the the techniques you showed here. I just think many people have the feeling that "Oh, I got taken down and I'm not good at grappling so I'm kinda screwed now." There's always an option as you have just shown. You may have to train it specifically and put some work into it, but it's certainly there. P.S. I'm loving your recent spate of "Do This, Not That" RU-vid technique shorts. Just gold. Thanks as well for those and please keep posting them. The one on proper punching technique where you stress taking your head offline made me go white as I realized when watching it that I had NOT been doing that at all in my recent sparring sessions and couldn't figure out why I was always getting counter hooked on my jab. That was why. Thanks for the reminder.

I am so impressed with this! And as always, amazed at the spectacular footage collection you have accumulated. Also, love the way you lightly but very effectively control the opponents head. So often people use too much force and it is awful. Need to discuss old school breathing haha. Excellent Jeff! Excellent!

Awesome. Would love to see one on wall takedowns and defense

People underestimate how much skill is involved in implementing BJJ to MMA specific situations, even as a black belt! Great video!

just got my gi for bjj. cant wait. also yo jeff u are amazing fighter.

Amazing content as always

Great video as always, Jeff. Would love to see an updated video on your favourite sweeps/ other tactics when you find yourself on your back

DLewis jokes a lot about BJJ but standing up itself is a big part of jits

The back take from K-guard is a thing of beauty.

the best one on this topic ever made!!!! Thank you!!!!!

awesome work, love the practical examples !

Man every time I'm amazed at the quality of your videos and your tips

one of your best videos thank you

Big fan here. Amazing content, very insightful. I always feel like I leveled up after watching. Now just to put it in practice.

Excellent as always

Absolute unit of a video. Great breakdowns.

🎉🎉🎉 Most Appreciated thanks for the Vid!

Great content!

Excellent video! A video on cage wrestling would be really helpful

You the man bro.

I would love to see videos on the cage takedowns and defense.

Awesome video man, the cameraman or coach that is speaking in the background is a certified hype machine haha

Thanks brother 😊💪👍👊 And yes I am interested in every thing you want to post about bjj and wrestling. I like your style and way of teaching. And as a martial artist I can say is pure quality 💯%

Great video thanks for sharing 💪🏽

Great stuff.

I would love any video on defense, you’re a tome of knowledge.

Definitely would love to get a video on cage defense & offense

Excellent video! Thank you!

Sick video 😃♥

awesome videos

This is gold content.

Good stuff!

fire man!

Why yes I am interested in cage takedowns and defense. I did put some on a list to watch. But, I am definitely interested in learning about it as I don't have any game for that at the moment.

Great techniques!

Great Work. Cage Work and Cage Takedowns would be great!

Hey Jeff, I was at Triumph when you came to indy I wanted to ask you at around 8:11 or so, Would a butterfly sweep have been a good alternative since he is holding so tight you have his base under your legs an easy lift and turn would work? or am i crazy? Edit: i seen when playing back you entered that scene trying the sweep thats my bad i didnt see.

Nice they are many bjj channels but not many mma grappling channels

Nice!💪🥇

Gonna need that cage wrestling video

This is awesome! Love the just stand up slogan! Can you also make a video on techniques for how to keep people down after taken down with Khabib’s wrist riding or other folk style techniques like what Ben Askren used to do to keep his opponents down.

thanks you

Muay Thai doesn't work. Just sit down.

Do you have any videos scaping like this from Gordon Ryan or Andre Galvão?

A possible evolution for recent MMA Grappling ( not only BJJ ) is trapping your opponent limbs while defending striking techniques and initiating submissions from standing position ( as much as I know, five most common UFC submission techniques can be used while standing )

the channel for world peace, gj great work

Great video! In MMA are u allowed to Elbow the back along the spine? A lot of these take-downs look ripe for heavy elbows or elbow pressure along the spine.

gotta love the energy of the cameraman tho

Hey Jeff, when you post to defend the takedown, are you not concerned with hyperextension or breaking the posting arm as you fall?

This is beautiful. You always give us gold Jeff for people who train and want to get better. Id love cage wrestling content. Just curious but how are you entering k guard in your mma training? Because I noticed you didnt mention closed guard.

Could you do a full guide for striking defense. Youre always so nuanced thank you

Come back with tatics from the fighters, Do you have from the Zabit Magomedsharispov?

Great simple and relevant concept, great sparrings, great level, great videos. 🙌 🫸🤛

Haven't fully watched the video yet, but wanted to comment on the "just stand up" part. I will say that sometimes that is possible and a decent strategy if you can do it and are better on your feet. That being said, being able to standup in and of itself is a skill. A decent wrestler could stand up.

Great Skill!!! As a less experienced grappler i somewhat would try to end it in a guiotine choke. But your task here was to free and better position yourself. Damn fast!

Great Material as usual! Though i have to wonder... after you did the self defense championship...dont you sometimes look at some of your techniques and think to yourself: i would never do this in a self defense scenario? Some moves seem very risky.

4:46 David fighting Goliath casually in the background

Jeff has some skills.👏

Would love to see some gnp defences

do you often train with the boxing gloves on instead of mma gloves? Also what elbow pads and and shin pads do you recommend for striking and grappling?

Pretty cool

Awesome video!

pls more of this cage or gnp

Big fan mate. I have been doing MMA training and jiujitsu for a year and a half. But there is still one very basic thing that I cant understand. How do I protect my nuts? Please give strong advice. Thanks.

When I got my blue belt a few years ago I went to the fight team at my gym since I had done some striking and a lot of my Jiu-Jitsu was not very effective and I was not very good at wrestling up or getting back to my feet and I got punched but in learning that it actually helped my Jiu-Jitsu because it changed my perspective. Also Jiu-Jitsu is much harder when someone's trying to punch you in the face

I want to be a more well rounding fight now after watching you, I’ve done boxing for a while but am starting judo

awesome techniques videos. can you make a video of how to escape monoplata from mount?

In all honesty there is lots of demand for a video series on getting up from ground in MMA as well as cagework for avoiding tkdowns/getting to your feet. I know you would sell a lot of videos.. and I'd be first in line. In another question.. how much of this material would you dwell on in your Vietnam retreat?

12:17 How do you go about sparring with striking vs someone going for takedowns? There were a few moments when you clearly held your kick back and slowed it down to not hurt them, and they took the kick (to the ribs) and rushed in for the takedown. It's kind of annoying because if you went all out on that kick, they would likely think twice before trying to eat a rib kick just to grab your leg. I always wanted to practice more of my strike defense, but it's hard when my opponent doesn't really respect any of my kicks because im trying to not hurt them lol

yeah I could definitely use ur expert skills against the cage!

Important note: He says post with a bent arm for a reason. If you post with a straightened arm, you’re asking for your elbow to get blown out.

Just curious but during MMA sparring, are you ever looking for sweeps from butterfly? Or is your first option to stand?

Can you make another for Judo please Jeff ❤

Finally a bjj video thanks❤️👍

@jeff chan where are you living and training these days bro? Are you still based in NY? If you are, what happened with the Win Chun Academy that originally moved you to NY to coach there full time? Haven't seen you there for a while now and keen to hear the story of what happened and where you've ended up?

Could you make the previous two videos you made on these topics not private? Would love to see those videos again

Jeff, why haven't you participated in the fight for a while, your performance is amazing

How do you deal with very skilled opponents that like to switch to singles as youre getting up to work from there. I dont know if this is right but i kick right through and try to clinch but i feel exposed to foot sweeps and throws right after

Cage /wall stuff yes even in bjj class we use the wall/cage a bunch

that's nature...works way better when you're the only one who understands it...also, i'd love to hear your thoughts on a trend i've seen over the years...a lot of the mma community came in disregarding tradional ma as useless and outdated...i've always said the traditional stuff is extremely effective IF you train to fight with it, and that's the issue with most tma schools...however, i feel the more mma advances and evolves the more it starts to resemble tma techniques...oblique kicks, spinning kicks, spinning elbows, hook kicks, trapping, karate-style punching, arial kicks, etc., all techniques that used to be scoffed at but now everyone accepts them as legit (tho trapping i feel is still in the early stages of acceptance in the mma community)...i feel like we're going to come full circle and see that the old ways were 100% legit, we just lost the practical applications training and had to rediscover it...

Hey Jeff, how many martial arts do you know, and what are they?

My teacher of MMA said the same thing : the Juijitsu is not adapted for MMA ground fighting because the striking in ground and opportunity to receive a bad punch in bad moment...

Do a cage bodylock takedown defense 👍

Absolutely fantastic, logical, and thorough explanations here!

The people that write those comments is people that have never used Jiu Jitsu. Also they claim if you fight no ruled with bites & eye poking Jiu Jitsu loses not realizing that with less rules Grapplers got even more advantage.

In Finland all this falls under term "submission wrestling" And its simply vital part of mma.

Nice

Cage defense video please 🙏🏻

Amazing how easily the cameraman can switch from Ooweee to Opaaa!

Fye

Good job, Jeff ! 😊 Yes, BJJ is now so very popular, everybody knows what it's all about, so it's not so unorthodox and surprising as it use to be 20 or 30 years ago... Also nowadays striking is on whole 'nother level... 😊

really awesome and eye opening

amazin

The coach reminds me of Carlos Matos

Most styles can work, aside feom the ovvious bullshido/self defense stuff that never gets stress tested through routine sparring and competition. Depends on how proficient the practitioner is, how good their teammates amd coaches are, and what their favored system is built around. Sambo, judo, wrestling (both catch and reg), bjj, boxing, muay thai, karate, TKD before it turned into gymnastics and point sparring, kickboxing, all can work really well and used to complete other each other. Non-combat sport/martial art related activities or background can help too. Look at Lomachenko. Utilized dancing and gymanatics. I caught a high round house from somebody who I was hand fighting with and they extended to long guard from the clinch. Never had to consider that until the athlete said they used to do ballet before doing muay thai. My lead arm was glued to the back of my head and air tight (ear hole covered and literally face in arm pit with rear hand ready for body and turned into the kick) but it still cleared my guard and the base of the shin hit the top/side of my head. I didn't think it was possible to generate that kind of force from essentially a standing split position on the very tip of the toes. Also, if you've ever grappled with a professional breadmaker or rock climber. Them paws are vice grips.