![]() ![]() It was different than a lot of what you see in Jiu-Jitsu today. He wasn't saying, "Do this guard and this guard and this guard." He said, "When you get mounted, when you get in a headlock, when you get mounted on top of the guy…" It was the basics. Rorion wanted people to understand what it would be like in the street. ![]() "When I was coming up, the emphasis was always on the reality of the situation. ![]() ![]() As long as you have a good start to Jiu-Jitsu, everything else is going to be much easier. The people who come to me are going to get solid fundamentals that are going to serve them in whatever focus they pursue. I don't pretend that I'm going to be everything for everyone. I have students who start with me and then they fall in love with the sport of Jiu-Jitsu, or they want to pursue MMA, and they go find someplace to train where they can focus on that. It's always been my specialty as a teacher. "My focus has always been on the self-defense aspect of Jiu-Jitsu, on the fundamentals. They will resist too long after being caught in a submission. The unfortunate result is usually a sprained / twisted shoulder or popped elbow and a painful lesson.Ĭorrect: Tap early and often.The following is excerpted and compiled from Richard Bresler's memoir Worth Defending: How Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Saved My Life, now out in its second edition. Secondly, many students measure their progress by whether they tap or not in a 5 minute roll. How far can a shoulder be twisted in kimura before something has to give? Part of this is that the beginner student doesn’t understand the limitations of their own body. To someone like a dentist, this injury would be disastrous!Ĭorrect: The correct defence is to grab the hand or control the sleeve of the attackerĦ) Mistake: Not tapping when caught in submission It might be understandable that when you feel your opponent snaking his arm around your neck for a choke, to grab whatever you can to prevent being choked. But grabbing the fingers and twisting is against bjj rules (small joint manipulation) and is very likely to cause a sprained or even broken finger.Ī painfully broken digit could cause you to miss work and not able to make your living. This happens typically after the beginning student has seen a “Helio Gracie” cross collar choke from the guard. Not correctly understanding the position difference between mount and guard, they try to cross choke and mounted opponent. Ironically, this attack results in them getting arm locked!Ĭorrect: Understand that you attack from guard or mount: NOT inside the guard or from bottom of mountĥ) Mistake: Grabbing fingers to avoid choke Secondly, it requires a lot of muscle power to push someone’s bodyweight off of you and you quickly get fatigued.Ĭorrect: Correct defensive posture and framing with arms bridge escape or elbow to knee escapeĤ) Mistake: Trying to collar choke from the bottom of mount When mounted by your opponent it is instinctive to push them off (bench press!) to get the weight off of you. However, you are literally giving them the straight arm bar by extending your arms. If you are the guard player, this is exactly what you want your opponent to do!Ĭorrect: Instead of trying to submit, look to pass your opponent before any submission attemptsģ) Mistake: Straight arming / pushing to escape mount When any attempts to pass your opponent guard are stopped, it becomes tempting to try to cross choke or otherwise choke the opponent from inside their closed guard. This gives your straight arms to the guard player and more often than not results in tapping to straight arm lock from the bottom. Correct: Bridge escape or elbow to knee escape.Ģ) Mistake: Trying to submit within the opponents closed guard The rear mount is the most dominant position in bjj and the rear naked choke is the most successful submission in the UFC. Giving your back is a HUGE No No!Īll of your weapons are turned away from your opponent and all of his weapons are turned towards you! It can be very difficult to escape once your opponent has secured rear mount with hooks. This is where the new student is feeling like the proverbial nail. Without the technical experience and more accurately – the correct understanding of strategy, the new whitebelt is prone to making some tactical errors in trying to “survive” the roll and avoid being submitted.ġ) Mistake: Give the back to escape mount / bottom Read also: 3 Pieces of Advice for White Belts Everyone has more experience than you and when you begin live rolling, the match is happening so fast and usually with the new person on the bottom. No where is that more true than when you are first starting out in bjj. Renzo Gracie, one of the most successful and respected black belts famously said “Sometimes you are the hammer, and sometimes you are the nail!” ![]()
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