About two years ago, I had the opportunity to train for several weeks with Fabricio Bicudo. He’s one of those old skool jiu-jitsu players. In fact, when I met him, he had already spent more than three decades on the mat. Shocking, I know. And he’s not even that old. He just started when he …
Category: Reflection
My personal thoughts about various subjects related to Brazilian Jiu-jitsu.
How the bear of the west plays good ol’ half
One of my absolute favorite half guard instructionals isn’t on anyone’s radar anymore. It came out way back when I was just a not-so wee little blue belt. And at the time, it was revolutionary because its core premise was that one of the sacred commandments of playing half guard wasn’t absolutely true. Yup, it …
A taste of my own medicine
More than once in the past, I’ve yapped about how important the cross collar grip is for maintaining control in the omoplata. (No other grip effortlessly kills almost all escape attempts like it can. It’s straight up ridiculous.) You know what happened yesterday though? Yours truly struggle to escape against that same exact cross collar …
A straight up ridiculous grip
Almost two years ago, I attended one of Renato Tavares’ seminars. And on that day, he brought a special guest. It was a guy whose name you probably won’t know. His name isn’t often written on the web, and he’s no darling of social media. (If you want to look him up though, his name …
An one handed loop of doom
At a certain point, one of my teammates made a significant change in her game. She stopped going for armbars in closed guard. Why? It’s because she kept running into hyper flexible women in tournaments. She would get the arm across, establish good angle and then shoot the hips up, but yet still it would …