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April 6th, 2005

06:32 pm - guard pass to triangle its been a while since the last technique.. this is an Eduardo Telles move.. its sneaky way to get a sub while trying to pass with the knee-in-side. if you dont catch it, at least you've passed the guard and kept your opponent defensive. here it is: so here justin is trying to get around my open guard justin quickly pushes my legs away and gets his right shin into my left hip. i defend by trying to keep my arms close and push away Justin knows I'm trying to create space so he grabs onto my left arm, posts with his right arm, and kicks his left leg over my head while spinning he completes the spin by pulling me into him by my left arm and by hooking his left leg around my head the same position but tighter justin now locks his legs together and works to finish the triangle and there you go, a finished triangle.. look at past entries to get details on the trangle

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February 8th, 2005

06:01 pm - PIctures from the gym! Lyza and Shawna =) Luis and Lyza.. damn i hope i'm spelling her name right Lyza and Shawna

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October 21st, 2004

02:16 am - Brabo choke ok.. i don't know if this is the brabo choke.. i think it is.. its the same choke Noguiera used to tap out herring.. this choke comes off of the sprawl and when you have an over under.. you can't REALLy work a guillotine from there so, this is a sneaky option that may catch people by surprise. the Brabo Choke Here, Luis and JB are squaring off. Next, JB shoots on Luis with his head down and is able to get a leg.. Luis tries to sprawl. Notice how Luis has an over under at this point: his right arm has an open shot at the neck but his left arm must go around justin's arm. Here, Luis completes his sprawl by putting his chest down against justins back and spreading his base. Luis now slides his right arm to justins' right side and uses his left arm to push justin's right arm across his own body. Luis completes the grip by making an L with his left arm and grabbing justin's back; Luis' right arm is locked at his left bicep. He holds this grip firmly while still applying even pressure on top of JB. When he has the grip tight, Luis rolls to the side of the arm he has trapped, in this case, his left side. As he completely rolls, Jb's head should end up directly on top of Luis' chest. this is an important part of the choke as it is the only adequate way to produce leverage. Luis completes the choke by walking towards JB's free arm and by squeezing his hand towards his chest. Boom, so there you go.. a new choke if you sprawl and can't get the guillotine.

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June 19th, 2004

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June 18th, 2004

12:10 am - the triangle so its been a while since I've posted. What can i say? I have a friggin torn ACL so yeah, there are things to do. I realize that I've never shown a triangle on yet so, here is one from the guard.. fairly basic. The staple of gracie jiujitsu and I mean, just a great way to setup so much shit. THe Triangle Step 1: The situation So, skinny zack is in Jb's guard. Zack has both his arms in and is based fairly far forward.. its ok.. cuz justin is gonna try and isolate an arm. Step 2: The isolation Justin begins to Isolate the arm by feeding his right knee through zack's shoulder and holding his right wrist back to prevent zack from pushing the knee back down.. there are other ways to create more effective leverage from here, i.e. pushing both legs on Zack's hips and then pulling a leg over his neck, but we wont' get into other gi stuffs right now. Step 3: Hip it up JB then throws his hips up, pulls zack's right arm towards JB, and gets his right knee behind zack's head.. ideally you want to get the knee as close to the back of zack's head as possible. Step 4: get the arm across Ok, this step just shows justin trying to push zack's arm across his body... important to note.. the reason this step is important is because the choke doesn't really work unless zack's arm is across his body.. his arm is what blocks the front of his neck and chokes...keep that in mind. Step 5: Get some head Ok, JB now locks the legs and pushes Zack's head down.this is pretty tight. Step 6: Apply triangle, make him see stars This is the final product, notice in the second picture the position of jb's legs, if he triangled the other side, the legs would be switched. in order to apply the choke, three motions have to be simultaneous: JB must push his hips up, pull down on zack's head, and squeeze his knees together.. this applies massive pressure to Zack's neck and will make him pass out or tap. a little hint: if you have trouble locking the legs behind his head, shift your hips out to create more leverage.. EG: if you triangle your opponent and have his right arm trapped (like the pictures) then you shift your hips out to your right. this allows you to get your left leg over your right leg much easier. So that's the triangle. pretty basic, but very effective. Practice and have fun.. Next time: flow drill -------> kimura--->armbar--->triangle--->armbar Current Mood: crazy

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April 19th, 2004

12:22 pm - Neck Crank or pass Passing guard.. sometimes it can be so difficult.. Even the breaking of a closed guard can be very hard. Especially with active guard players. Justin is gonna show a submission attempt or a pass that is actually quite effective. I do not think they have allowed this for jiu jitsu competition yet as you can't do neck cranks. Last time I checked at least. Neck Crank!!! JB is in my guard. He has tried to create irritation on me by digging his elbows into my thighs while holding posture. I relieve it by placing my hands on his elbows. I could pull the elbows out if I like but, at this point, there is no more irritation. Justin bases forward and places his hands around the back of my head. Be careful as this thing fucking hurts. He places his elbows into my chest, pulls his arms towards his chest and sits back. (ideally he wants to get my head as low into his chest as possible while still keeping his elbows deep in my chest.) This is pretty painful so I'm tapping. As you can see. This can be countered. and if so, then ( Click HERE TO FIND OUT HOW TO PASS FROM A NECK COUNTER ) So there you go. A fairly simple guard pass. OR sub if you are lucky.

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12:00 pm - Flower sweep/ two versions. The flower sweep is one of those moves you use when your opponent gets lazy in a match and tries to pass by standing. Usually, they want to control your elbows and pop up. Late in a match though, or even early, sometimes people will get up leg by leg. This is what you do and its a pretty useful pass. Flower PAss (Knee) Zack is in my guard and has decided to put his right knee up. He plans on standing. I want to sweep him in the direction opposite of the leg that is up. So, I control his left hand (same side I want to sweep to so he can't base.) At this moment, I am also posing on my right leg and shifting my body parallel to his body. I underhook his right knee and force my left leg through his armpit (while still maintaining control of his arm.) at the same time, my right leg is coming in.. sort of like i'm rolling up and plan on kneeling on my right and having my left foot up. try to get your leg as high up in the armpit as possible as this produces great leverage. I could grab his ankle instead of the knee, this will work well as well. In my opinion I like the knee better. ( Click here for the ankle grab ) I continue to maintain control of his leg at the knee.. in competition its good to make this tight and bring it all the way to your opponent's body as this causes major irritation. I could just get mount here but we will show a toe hold I guess. I am going to slide my left knee in between Zacks legs here... hard to see from the pic but that is what I'm trying to do. Do it better than me, please. LoL. next i relinquish the grip on his shoulder and slide my right knee onto his chest into a knee on stomach posistion. This just acts as a gimmick for the next position. I rotate around the trapped leg and drop my right leg close to the outside of Zack's right leg and I sit. This creates tremendous pressure. If i can, I want to have my left knee down on the mat near Zack's crotch so that i have the hold tight. Also notice that I have gripped Zack's foot differently. I apply the toe hold. Just like that. Its actually kind of difficult if the guy has long legs and you can't get leverage on it.. just roll onto it if you can't and just commit to the toehold. Better grapplers may tell you not to roll onto it, I don't know. But if you have your feet near his body, I doubt they will have enough time to attempt a heel hook or any foot lock on you.. you should be able to tap em with a toe hold. SO THAT IS A SCISSORS SWEEP FROM GUARD. SOME OF IT MAY LOOK WEIRD, IF YOU THINK I'VE MISSED A STEP OR SOMETHING, LET ME KNOW SO I CAN CORRECT MY PICTURE/EXPLANATION. Thanks.

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11:27 am - Scissors Sweeps. Yeah, so we haven't had a sweep ever since I started this journal.. SO.. here's a scissors sweep. Sweeps are an integral part of jiu jitsu for a couple of reasons.. One: They put you in a dominant position. Two: They force your opponent to defend against them (for fear of losing dominant position) leaving you able to transition to a submission attempt and vice versa.. There are a lot of pics to go up so, lets just cut the bullshit and get to the sweep. Scissors Sweep The scissors is commonly used to drive an opponent off his base and force him forward or he gets sweeped. It is attempted when you are playing guard. In this picture, Skinny Zack is inside JBizzle's closed guard and Zack is not in a set posture. Justin shrimps in, placing his right leg parrallel across Zack's abdomen, at the same time, he controls Zack's head with his right arm and traps Zacks right arm with his left. (If this was gi, justin would control a lapel and not the head for better leverage and grip.) Justin is going to sweep to the same side of the arm he has trapped. To sweep, justin pushes his right leg across zack's body and uses momentum to swing his left leg through zack's body. Try to picture a pair of scissors opening and closing. HENCE, the NAMe. (jiujitsu is very appropriate isn't it?) the hardest part of the sweep is most likely controlling the distance between your opponent's hips and yours. You do not want to be too tight as you will not have enough strength to push him over and you dont' want to be too loose because you will lack the leverage to even attempt the sweep. I guess, just try to feel it out and learn your distance.. it is fairly lenient in terms of distance so yeah. It doesn't take much adjusting to get it to work. At this point, the guy on top can do many things. He could try a sweep counter but sometimes they aren't quick enough. Instead they try to drop base low so that they are hard to be swept. ( CLick here to learn how to complete the sweep if the opponent drops base. ) Here is Justin mid-sweep. AS you can see he maintains control of the arm, this will allow him an option for submission once he maintains a dominant position. Zack on his back and JB working on a mount. its good to actually finish in a controlled situation. This isn't. Try to base out and maintain a mount first. So yeah, this pic is just to show that he has completed the sweep to a mount. Usually, you get a side mount control, in this situation, he has rolled over completely into the mount. The main thing is, keep control of the arm and drop base so that your opponent doesn't get a quick escape.. all that work to just have your opponent escape would really suck. So that's the scissors sweep with a lot of minute details left out.. its really hard to get each part of a sweep on picture as it is dynamic and fast. A good way would be to post a video clip. If you know how to post vid clips on livejournal, let me know and I will have some of those up.

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March 29th, 2004

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March 26th, 2004

10:05 am - Omoplata to TOE HOLD Now, jiujitsu is all about setting up a move with other moves. ( Possible omoplata combinations ) Another alternative would be the omoplata to toe-hold. Leg/foot submissions are generally not studied for beginners and like all submissions, be very careful when applying these. The omoplata to toe hold offers you a submission while controlling the trapped arm. And this submission hurts. This is the same move Frank Mir used to beat Tank Abbot in the UFC, and the same submission that Minotauro attempted on Enson in Pride. Step 1: Get a knee in First of all, you can't get an omoplata if you don't have one knee within your opponents hands. Notice how Justin's right knee is in between my hands.. This means he will trap my right arm. He controls my right wrist with his hand by either grabbing the wrist or behind my tricep. Step 2:Switch the Hips As soon as Justin has a knee in and the arm controlled, he shifts his hips out to the left, pulls on my right arm, and kick his left leg up and over my right shoulder. This produces the needed leverage to force me forward and for him to get himself back in a sitting position. To produce momentum, Justin has posted on his right leg while he turns. Notice how he still maintains control of the trapped arm. It is very important to make sure that you grab your opponent's belt/torso as you complete this portion to prevent them from rolling over. Step 3: Complete the Omoplata Justin triangles his legs around the trapped arm, bases upward, and secures control of my torso. At this point (the omoplata) justin can go to many submissions (i.e. he could swing back in for a triangle, he could push his hips forward for a shoulder lock, he could try a kimura etc.. this is a highly dominant position. Justin however, will go for his favorite move. The toe hold. Step 4:Get yourself a foot. You have to attack the same toe on the same side. That is, if you trap the right arm, you get his right foot. As justin leans back and turns in to my body, he extends his hips outward so that he can flatten my posture. Since I am now on my stomach, it will be much more difficult for me to roll out. Justin grabs my foot with his left arm and wraps his right arm around the leg.. much like you were going for a kimura. Step 5: The grip IDEALLY, you want the left hand gripping the foot on the outside, where the pinky toe is...Justin's grips is a little off. You want the cup of the hand to be on the blade of the foot... Its pretty solid from here though. To add more strength and leverage, it would be much more effective to get your right hand higher up on your left forearm. The higher up, the more leverage, thus, the easier it is for you to apply. At this point Justin's right arm is gripping my forearm in a four-finger grip but it is way too low and has little control over my foot. Step 6: Apply the toe-hold Justin readjusts the grip by moving his right arm higher up my left foream. At the point he has the hold, he turns away from me while turning the hold towards him and upwards.. it's good to keep the trapped foot as close to your body as possible to make it very tight. (you can do this by pulling in with your right arm while your left hand pushes the foot up and away.) DURING THE ENTIRE PROCEDURE, MY RIGHT ARM IS STILL TRAPPED IN THE OMOPLATA, PREVENTING ME FROM ROLLING AWAY OR ROLLING WITH THE TOE HOLD. So that's basically what the combo is. try it out, it adds nice variation and is fairly simple. There are small details that need to be said so practice till you undestand it fully. Fun move.

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March 25th, 2004

07:45 pm - Reverse Armbar Ok, so here is the reverse armbar from the guard. Its a crafty submission, and pretty quick to get. In all honesty though, I don't like this. This just isn't one for my repertoire. But hey, maybe you might like this one. So, basically, this move is set up by swimming for an arm. Its important to be active on bottom, especially if someone tries to guard pass this could catch them off guard or at least force them back into posture. Step 1 : swim I am in Zack's guard, basing forward a little, I just want to pass at this point. Step 2: Taking arm Zack bases up and "swims" his right arm under my left arm and gets tight under my armpit. The picture is exagerrated but this is where he wants to go. At the same time he is shifting his hips out to my right(same side as the arm he plans to trap.) Step 3: Apply the grip Zack clutches his left hand with his right in the pictured grip high above my elbow and on the tricep. he inches his right leg up my back while he "digs" his grip towards my elbow and down.. like... a decline motion. It is integral to keep the arm trapped by squeezing it in between your head and shoulder. Step 4: Secure the body ZAck twists his hips and gets his right leg on top of my body while sliding his grip down the trapped arm. Step 5: Finish He finishes the grip by squeezing his knees together and applying the pressure. The arm stays trapped between the shoulder and head. That's it basically.. there are other moves which are probably more efficient. But if you are quick, this one is a deceptive move to get. You could swim OVER the arm and get a bent arm lock... maybe i'll post that one later.

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March 12th, 2004

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March 11th, 2004

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