The city is surrounded. Barbarians are at the gate, and they’re making a loud clamor. You can hear swords banging shields, shouts and jeers, and sound of countless feet stomping the ground combine in cacophony of noise. It’s grinding on your nerves. And it’s already been a few weeks. Supplies are running short, and soon …
Category: Concepts
This section is all about concepts that can be applied to Brazilian Jiu-jitsu. If you understand the concept, you can create the methods.
How to make people fear your submissions more
As you progress in rank, you start running into what I like to call ego hunters. They’re like those young kids in the wild wild west, who were always on the hunt for opportunities to make a name for themselves. At night, they would go to bed with dreams of taking out a big name …
Holy frames, Batman!
You know… When you step away from the whole rat race of trying to learn as many techniques as possible, you start to realize that there are a few principles that have broad applications in a wide variety of situations. Case in point: In almost every situation, the first step to effortlessly escaping a bad …
Hold up, son, my head ain’t that easy to control
An old training partner of mine stopped by the other day, and we rolled for a long time. On two separate instances (that I recall) I found myself in the back step half, and I was on the bottom. Yeah… So he was playing the position well. He had the deep lat grip. His hips …
A conceptual framework for understanding how to pass
Lately, I’ve been giving much thought to passing. And some improvement to my overall understanding of how passes work has occurred as a result. For example: I now categorize guards into two primary types. In one, control centers around entanglement of the limbs and/or body. Examples at the basic level would be closed and half …