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Showing posts with label levers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label levers. Show all posts

BJJ / Grappling tips: Jiu-jitsu works, always!

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Positional sparring is a fantastic way to sharpen your execution of a technique. Way more important than Free Rolling and that's n...

BJJ tips: Pressure, gravity and dominating from the top

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Gravity should always be your friend in BJJ / Grappling whether you are on the top or the bottom, even in the standing phase, as I said in ...

BJJ tips: Pressure, gravity and winning from the bottom

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One of the best BJJ concepts I took from reviewing Roy Dean's excellent production: Brown Belt Requirements  last year, was that a brow...
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BJJ / Grappling Tips: Grip & Create Levers

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In Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, technique can overcome size and other attributes. One of the keys to that is leverage. To use leverage, you have to...
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BJJ / Grappling Tips: Leverage Secrets of the Americana

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Yesterday I asked on Facebook: Americana from mount: one elbow next to their neck, where should ur other elbow be & why ?   The answer...
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BJJ Video Tips: Finishing Straight Armbars from Spider Web / Mount

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I have decided to make and post more videos. They really help me get my point across but more importantly, they help start a discussion from...
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Dealing with Frustration in BJJ / Grappling

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We've recently introduced a rotating curriculum for the fundamentals sessions at the Labs-BJJ . Last- and this week's themes are ma...
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Finishing Armbars from Guard in BJJ / Grappling

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One thought I always keep in the background when I'm rolling / drilling is: is this the most efficient way to do what I'm doing? Whi...

BJJ Tips: Using Your Belt to Pass the Half Guard

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I wrote a quick post a couple of days ago about unorthodox use of the BJJ belt . It was just a silly joke but I thought I may as well make i...

Invisible BJJ Details: Tips on the Palm Up Palm Down Cross Collar Choke

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I covered for Martyn last night, coaching both the Fundamentals and Advanced BJJ sessions. I had planned the first to evolve around the art...
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Tips For Smaller Female Grapplers

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That's the title of Stephan Kesting's last Newsletter email (which in it's own right is awesome and should be made compulsory re...
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BJJ Concepts: Why the Cross Face?

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We covered half guard principles in yesterday's BJJ fundamentals session. Martyn focused on the bare essentials of success for both top...
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BJJ Concepts: Fundamentals = The Least You Can Do

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You'll see a lot of people going on about " concept " vs " technique " and nowadays you can get fantastic sets of D...
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Answers to Saulo - Guard DVD Questions

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If you read my last post " Thank God for Saulo ", you saw that I posed three questions inspired by the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Revolu...
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BJJ Legends: Thank God for Saulo

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I was watching Saulo 's Guard dvd from his Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Revolution Series One last night. The level of detail is outstanding a...
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BJJ Tips: Gi v No-gi Grappling. Is the Gi Necessary?

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This issue has been debated and hammered but I still find that a lot of the arguments for and against are too loaded with emotions and atta...
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BJJ Mechanics 101: Levers

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Helio Gracie did not invent leverage. He did, however, implement them and ingenious ways in jiujitsu. There are three important points...