The blend of selling outlier vs using it as a tool and not hitting us with the sales pitch every 20 seconds was really solid in this video. Great content as always
In wrestling we always want to control the bottom leg and/or far leg, which is why we circle to the back on singles and switch to doubles off crack downs… the primary focus is on the far leg) to prevent the scramble and secure the hips. The defense is literally the same as shown here if you were to get taken down to your butt in wrestling. So I don’t see the differences between what is a “wrestling exchange” vs what isn’t. The limp leg off the single is also classic wrestling. Clearly you don’t play guard in wrestling but most of the strategies put forth here are the same as in wrestling. The rules for scoring and what’s considered positional dominance are different. Grappling is grappling. The best thing for Jiu Jitsu moving forward is to understand how wrestling and judo work as well so that the understanding of the concepts of how to control someone doesn’t get reinvented.
This is a great explanation of why people that are just straight up athletic are so hard to deal with. A good athlete will naturally do all of this hip switching stuff when you grab the heist leg, etc
Question, how should I be studying someone ? Or what should I be looking for when I want to learn someone style? Because when I watch jiujitsu I tend to not have a specific idea of what I should be studying.
Thanks for the video. I’ve been using your video on passing to north-south in class. Works real well. Now I need to fine tune some submissions from there.
Awesome I appreciate the feedback! Yeah I think a lot of times it leads to turtle/front headlock/back scenarios. Relatively hard to submit from north south
Good video, our Mestre from Brazil taught us, a year before, that we had to control one leg so that my opponent didn't get up and it didn't work all the time and I was wondering why. These videos are great for understanding the details and more.
I thought it was used very tactically for sure. Machado used it to take the back as well. There were a few stalling calls given to the top player from closed guard.
nothing new here but in my humble opinion this is a bad direction for the sport to follow. it takes the art much further from self defense because of how compromised the bottom person is when strikes are introduced
I think if we were to limit the sport to what's realistic from a self defense perspective, we would be grossly limiting the creative games and evolution we witness.
