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 was 11.
(I wish I had started that early.)
Anyhow.
He used to do one thing that frustrated me. It was so bad that I spent countless amounts of time just thinking about how to counter it. But no answer came at first.
So I did what I usually do in such cases.
I committed robbery in broad daylight.
What? You got a problem with that?
It’s part of my philosophy.
If it works on me, it must be stolen. And there’s no ifs, ands, or buts about it. Now I’ll share it with you, but be warned, your ability to implement from words alone may be limited.
If you’re confident though, here’s what he did:
He was ridiculously good at stapling one leg with two hands. It completely shut down the hips. And once that happened, it was hard to stop the pass.
Now if you take both your hands and touch both of the thumbs together, you would be able to see the alignment of his grips. The bottom hand grabbed the pants close to the ankle and the other was right below the knee.
Then the weight would come down. Gravity at its most fierce. And the pass afterward was effortless (way too many times for comfort).
I had a burning desire to figure out a counter.
And I now have a ridiculously simple one in my arsenal.
Expect to learn it here soon:
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