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There is nothing more frustrating in BJJ than to do all the hard work of getting to a dominant position only to have your partner escape immediately.
In this short video, BJJ black belt and Escapology BJJ head instructor, Tom Barlow shares a simple way to counter one of the most common escapes from mount; the hip escape.
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Starting on Wednesday 5th October, Escapology BJJ in Cambridge are opening beginners No Gi classes.
The goal of these classes is to take people with little or no experience of No Gi grappling and teach them the fundamental techniques and concepts they’ll need to join the regular No Gi sessions.
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Despite leg locks being around as long as Jiu Jitsu, a lot of BJJ players find them scary. That’s understandable as being on the wrong end of a nasty leg lock can lead to very serious injury.
However, leg locks don’t have to be scary. In fact, like any submission, defending leg locks comes down to understanding the mechanics and what your partner is trying to achieve.
To help you get a better understanding of how to defend heel hooks, here is a great primer from Dennis Schindler.
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One of the most common things you’ll see in competition (particularly in the lower belts), is a BJJ player sweeping their opponent only to get immediately reversed or submitted.
However, this situation is easily avoidable providing you use the correct movement when completing your sweep. In this short video, Tom shares two ways to come up from a sweep and when you might want to use them.
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One of the first instructionals I got was Erik Paulson’s Game Development. This short instructional covers 8 ways of training to develop your grappling.
One of those ‘games’ was attacking by transitioning from submission to submission. The idea being if you master this you’ll create an inescapable web of destruction for your opponent.
Throughout my Jiu Jitsu career, I’ve regularly practiced this game (and the other 7) when sparring, and it’s greatly helped my understanding of submission and how to connect them.
Along with improving my understanding of submissions, there is another benefit to developing this skill.
If your opponent refuses to tap you can transition to another submission without causing injury.
This is incredibly important in training, as you get to develop your technique safely even if your opponent is being an idiot or doesn’t realise the danger. To give you an example of how this looks, check out this short video.
In the video, you’ll see I catch my opponent in a triangle, he defends and I transition to an arm bar.
That arm bar is on, but as my opponent doesn’t tap, which leaves me with two options: push harder and risk injury or transition to a tighter submission.
I chose option two and switch to a K-Arm Bar. At that moment my opponent knows there is no escape and taps.
This is a great example of training smart and training safely. Give this training method a try next time your sparring and let me know how you get on.
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