January 2024

triangle escapes

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We talked about this one but didn’t spend time on it because we’ve had enough neck issues in the morning class:

We tried to work on Keenan’s concept. Results weren’t great so far.

Here are some nogi ideas:

Here’s Dean Lister using Keenan to explain the defense he used on Keenan at ADCC:

Their match:

Here’s what Chewy says:

Galvao’s version:

Galvao said you need to step over first with the leg on the same side as the arm that’s stuck inside. Here’s a famous example of stepping with the wrong leg first:

Coach Brian:

Royler failing to step over Eddie Bravo to sit back:

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s-mount

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We’ve touched on s-mount a little bit before. See S-Mount Warm Up Drill and Mounted Armbar. We’ll start with the s-mount warmup shown in the first post, and work on some attacks.

Here’s some quick and simple advice for advancing your mount position. What if your opponent has tight, defensive arm position?

If you don’t have a collar to grab, can’t fit your hand in to grab a collar, can’t separate an arm for an armbar attack, and can’t get your knees up into the armpits, start by forcing their arm into an Americana position.

Here’s a longer explanation of protecting the mount from Roger Gracie:

I strongly prefer Roger’s insistence on keeping weight on his opponent, but as an entry to s-mount, this is a nice start. Note how Jean Jacques isn’t opening any space for his opponent to sneak out the back:

His arms are too low to force over his head and you can’t slide your knees up? Trap the arm down and step over:

This is probably the most like what I do from this position. I love starting with a cross choke grip and using that to turn to the side:

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shoulder attacks

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By request, we’ve spent some time recently working on movements in this video:

I like elements of it, and have issues with some others. I still don’t believe in the sweep at 4:45. I think it requires too much cooperation from the top player. If he sat back or posted with his right arm, it wouldn’t work. I didn’t like it in Lachlan’s video and I still don’t. I am open to the idea that I’m missing something important here, but my experience is that the Hughes arm bar of GSP is the more likely outcome.

I forgot how poor GSP’s grip was, but I still don’t like it. We played with variations based on the hip bump advice in the next video, but that still didn’t resolve it for me:

If you can explain to me how to turn the kimura grip into a reliable sweep from a position where the top player is passing the guard, I’m interested. I’m not knocking the half butterfly sweep though. I’ve hit this one a lot:

Back to the shoulder. Here’s a useful explanation of Tarikoplata vs the Baratoplata:

There will probably be another post following this to investigate more of the entries to ‘platas.

This looks pretty agreeable to me:

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