Leg Locks for Dummies - Part 1 

The leglock ban was reasonable at the time. In 1899 if you tore someones knee it meant crippling him for life Now it's a simple surgery and a brace for few months

This is a great explanation. So Here is an opinion and PERSONAL view. Does not mean i am right by any means. Coming from an "old school" mindset... I don't frown upon leg locks. Leg locks are great and very effective. Love those things. I see the current high level guys hit them from a bunch of different positions. Matter of fact take the current King as he calls himself Gordon. His coach is a Renzo Gracie black belt. Does not get more old school than that. This Man simply kept up with the times and ensured that BJJ evolved and that is what it is all about. Personally I believe in a strong Foundation. I think that the younger kids are seeing these videos and assume that because these guys are so great at leg locks that they are not good at the armbars,kimuras, ESCAPES and GUARD PASSING I believe guard passing is absolutely critical because you learn to pass into one of the many dominant positions like Mount, side control, knee on belly,etc. One of the encounters i had was a kid who was a purple belt i believe. and really into competing. he was complementing my transitions between guards and then told me that he would have attacked a leg lock here and a leg lock there. So we began the roll and i hit the Margarida pass immediately and went to north/ south. I remained in north/ south for a good 2-1/2 minutes without attacking. I moved to kesa gatame and reverse KOB and he was not able to get anything. He noticed he needed work on his defense because without getting out of those positions you cant land too much. When i roll with someone i like knowing i can smash their guard so i make sure to get the pass first before attacking anything. The gentleman i rolled with had about 5 years experience with bjj and did not know a lot of the basics. His coach is a leg lock heavy guy which isnt bad. And also he mentioned that he watched a lot of leg lock videos. His base was very off and his guard passing was not there when i had him roll with some of my purple belts. Hes a very talented kid and so kind. He hits me up for private lessons and he is improving tremendously. I believe all aspects of bjj should be learned. The younger guys should learn a good foundation and the older guys should keep up with the times as well and not be stuck in the old school mentality. Also the verbage should be learned cuz DAMN lmao these names are hard to memorize. Thank you for the video bro and for reading my essay. Again it is just a personal View

This is perfect timing, just went over leg entanglements in class today! Great breakdown, I'm definitely gonna be revisiting this!

Great explanation and drill. Will practice this a few times

This is awesome man thank you. Appreciate the insight on how experts recognize positions and patterns versus randomness

Looking forward for Part 2, awesome videos!

This is really, really great stuff. Thank you for posting!

Awesome breakdown bro. Looking forward to part 2.

This is my third time watching this since you released it. Such a good breakdown for me as someone just getting into leg locks.

Hell yeah! I waited for this 👌🏻

Great to see a breakdown that explains what is happening.

Smashing that pause button!

I love your scientific approach

Thanks for the video.

Great explanation! Even for a Japanese John Danaher’s naming of leg entanglements is confusing af

Brilliant video. Thank you

I’ve only gone down the leg lock rabbit hole recently, and am trying to get better at recognizing the various leg entanglements and chain them together. I’m good at getting to slx (ashi garami) and sweeping, but controlling it has been a bit difficult with higher belts (as it should be). Having both opponents legs in each of my hands has allowed me to throw a full leg over and then pass the leg to 5050, which is a lot easier for me to hold position from a fleeing opponent. I have a home gym that is where my promoting coach is, and we train heel hooks in no gi even with white belts in the room. The other two bjj gyms I drop in once a week for class they don’t really do any classes at leg locks. Whenever a new guard comes up that’s trouble my coach Paulo goes an hour down the road to Lucas Lepri and magically has 3 solutions for it that actually work! The 10 hours of driving twice a week is worth the knowledge, and while most coaches dismiss anything seen on RU-vid if I bring Paulo something he’s like “let’s figure it out!” Not closing your mind can go a long way not only for personal jiu jitsu growth but also the advancement of the sport. Love the videos!

Finally a video for me.

Thanks for this, do more

great work! greetings from europe

Love your Chanel

This is fantastic content! Oss!!

I think an important thing to add to your leg lock chart besides counters and bsck exposure a levels of control and ability to transition/recycle. The stench lf an outside ashi position is in the ability to recycle ad nauseum

Love your channel name

Good video!

Awesome work

@4:38 brown belt coach Brandon lim 🔥🔥🔥

I love this video and will be recommending it left and right, however, i do have some constructive criticism regarding the rankings. First of all, i don’t agree that Outside Ashi surrenders as much foot exposure as 50/50. When your opponent places you in Outside Ashi, you have to pummel your secondary leg in, before you start digging for the counter heel hook, whereas with 50/50 you can just go straight for the counter HH. I also don’t agree that Inside Sankaku gives up as much back exposure as Outside Ashi, seeing as how you can go for the back without even clearing your opponent’s knee line from OA. Not to mention the fact that you don’t have to do any fancy rolling stuff to take the back from OA. So maybe a 2.5 on foot exposure for Outside Ashi, and a 2.5 for back exposure for Inside Sankaku. 🤔🤔🤔

nice

I'M NEW TO THIS, BUT I THINK THERE IS AN ERROR AT 1:29: "Our first ashi garami is a version of a straight ashi garami, because our opponent's left leg is going across our right hip. This is called irimi ashi garami, or better known as single leg x. Our second ashi garami is a cross ashi garami, because our opponent's left leg is going across our RIGHT hip. So if their leg crosses our centerline, it's called a cross ashi garami." I THINK IT SHOULD BE: "Our first ashi garami is a version of a straight ashi garami, because our opponent's left leg is going across our right hip. This is called irimi ashi garami, or better known as single leg x. Our second ashi garami is a cross ashi garami, because our opponent's left leg is going across our LEFT hip. So if their leg crosses our centerline, it's called a cross ashi garami." CAN YOU CONFIRM?

Thank you kind sr... lol Jokes aside i love your content!

awesome vid!! Is leg lock DEFENSE on the menu!!??

Man these leg lockers need some moisturizer, they so ashi

Appreciate the shout out. As I was watching this I couldn't help but think it reminded me of that comment. Curious here, what made you keep outside sankaku out of the video? Don't the DDS guys love that position?

Nice

Im glad this is free this is like a homeless mans version of a paid DVD

Lmao part 2. Lmk so i can set my dvr

For a video intended for dummies, you lost me around 5:00 were you started introducing terms and movements you never explained. Just a constructive feedback. I'll come back when I am good enough to understand your videos.

In combat you need your legs for mobility. All people everywhere instinctively recognize this. And either we accept the responsibility to protect the credibility of jiu-jitsu or we don't. Sitting down, laying back, legs first jiu-jitsu when done by two people together is a subject of ridicule for anyone that sees it who doesn't do jiu jitsu, and also by half of the people who do jiu-jitsu. The reason is that is looks ridiculous. You only miss this if you're nerding out, oblivious to the world. Its only defenders are those who do it, and they only have clout inside bjj because of how effective it is in BJJ competition, and it is. It's irresponsible, though. It's a race to the bottom. The guard is wonderful at giving a chance to the weaker person. However, when two people build their entire games there, then fight, we see the absurdity of abandoning stand-up and top game, two necessities for the sport based on a martial art to retain it's martial foundation instead of floating away from it and becoming a strange, orphaned oddity. It's a hack discovered by selfish, ungrateful shortcutters who are the first generation off bjj practitioners who don't have a caretaking impulse regarding the growth and maintenance of jiu-jitsu, just a standard, selfish consumer mindset. Too bad.