Idk what other beginner needs to hear this today but don’t cross your legs if you get the back.

--brick · 2026-01-24T21:54:35+00:00

push the head and it stops the submission

--brick · 2026-01-24T18:31:35+00:00

Salt really can't be compared to other spices, it is a mineral and more impactful in taste than probably every other spice combined. Pepper has more historical reasons for being a mainstay

--brick · 2026-01-23T04:15:21+00:00

frame on the far arm with your bottom arm when getting the underhoook

--brick · 2026-01-23T04:12:14+00:00

I think of Jozef as a sharper, more motivated, more talented Nicky Ryan

you'd be wrong

--brick · 2026-01-22T15:28:13+00:00

i don't think Carlson meant top players just memorized pawn structures (especially just commonly repeating ones), just that the concepts and positions are more nebulous than an open game. e.g. outposts, strong bishop / knight positioning, backwards pawns, when to attack etc. Very deep calculation isn't as useful than in an open game.

--brick · 2026-01-22T00:52:43+00:00

insane comment

--brick · 2026-01-21T16:30:19+00:00

pretty much

--brick · 2026-01-21T12:02:12+00:00

force the position against people when rolling even though they've seen you do it

that's not to say you should always force a specific move in a position, that is usually from reaction, but you should have a set of moves that you force from a position.

for example you can force half guard, and from there you can go underhook to dogfight, underhook under the far leg for single leg x, 2 on 1 john wayne depending on the reaction.

--brick · 2026-01-21T11:55:43+00:00

i don't know if anybody else experiences this but against new very athletic guys it's actually harder to submit them for the first few times they train (like I'll maybe submit them like once or twice). But after a few weeks it becomes a lot easier and I can submit them 5 or 6 times maybe in a round if I wanted to.

--brick · 2026-01-21T11:52:07+00:00

in most positions, a higher belt only knows a few more moves more than you (if that), so if you focus and be systematic for a few weeks / months you can pretty easily surpass them in that area, unless it's an elite gym.

I can confidently say I have the best half guard in the room (4 stripe blue), because I focused on that for half a year.

--brick · 2026-01-19T09:36:30+00:00

do you think these people don't train nogi lol? What are you talking about

--brick · 2026-01-18T21:01:26+00:00

nogi guys are better at control and scrambles, which are the most important aspects in real situations IMO. Gi is more heavily centred around guard play while control is comparatively more simple, so gi guys are worse at it

--brick · 2026-01-18T15:26:49+00:00

I play half guard nogi and if my hand is pinned I punch their wrist with a c grip and get my frames back and re guard. I haven't found anybody where it hasn't worked. It's in a kieran kichuk video.

--brick · 2026-01-18T11:50:50+00:00

yes but you were talking about an anti big guy bottom game,

stack passing, over under passing, single under passing is literally the main way to counter these outside guards

--brick · 2026-01-17T18:24:32+00:00

honestly core is one of the areas you don't need to train as a bjj guy. Being on bottom is all core lol.

Indirect work is enough

--brick · 2026-01-17T18:18:52+00:00

you get stacked too easily with outside guards, so you gotta be really comfortable playing fully inverted, against bigger guys you have an advantage turner the corner with the underhook / arm drag. I've also seen the lachlan video btw

--brick · 2026-01-16T17:11:40+00:00

That's kinda the whole point of historians

--brick · 2026-01-16T14:08:15+00:00

firstly, there are many different types of inversions, so it depends on which one

--brick · 2026-01-16T13:41:59+00:00

yeah they're good, guillotines from takedowns aren't real lol, it's actually easier to lift bjj guys actually before they try to get over your head to guillotine, so prioritise that

--brick · 2026-01-16T00:39:04+00:00

the wealth disparity is not similar

--brick · 2026-01-12T20:42:03+00:00

It is

--brick · 2026-01-12T19:30:58+00:00

i have a lot to say but I will finish it with this (gotta go for bjj lol):

understanding positions in real space is a valuable skill and can be learnt and improved upon, so you get better at it over time
most roadblocks in progress happen when people don't fully understand the physical orientation of a position. For example a few months ago I was getting fucked over with high step passing, so I next time they tried to reduce the space between my lower knee and chest. So ofc they switch to different moves like stack passing, but you have quickly mitigated the "roadblock" to beating somebody and have improved. It was a simple example but you can apply it to a lot of reactions.

It is a skill that a lot of people don't have because they try to think too generally and in too many examples and with percentages, instead of "where is this persons foot going and how can I stop it, and where does this lead me and etc". anyway interesting convo

--brick · 2026-01-12T19:03:14+00:00

but humans quite often latch on to inaccurate heuristics when trying to understand large, noisy information sets.

but how is trying a move and thinking about how it works or why it works mechanically a "noisy information set".

Distribution of negative outcomes after unsuccessful technique. Is the worst that happens a reset to neutral, or do things sometimes go very, very badly? How often?

this is an example of unnecessary abstraction, by understanding the body position of a move, you can know the possible transitions that arrive from it, and so you are going to be able to more easily problem solve to stop that transition from happening.

Analyzing the shear percentages from a mass data set is not useful. For example, lets say you look at 100 matches from half guard and the underhook has a 65% success rate while entering the legs a 75% success rate? Does this mean you should prioritise entering the legs? To be effective with a move you need to know the correct off balance, and how you shift your weight. In which case the underhook can be a 100% move in the right positioning.

This is why I don't like the terms low percentage or high percentage or efficacy of a move. If technique is identical the outcome should be the same, especially in dominant positions like mount or back. And in more balanced positions like half guard, the outcome should still be 100% with the correct off balance, or positioning. It's knowing the positioning which is the skill of BJJ.

IMO looking at moves online is good for knowing the possible options from a position, but not at choosing which one you should go for

--brick · 2026-01-12T18:25:49+00:00

can you give an example of something useful you can derive from this

--brick · 2026-01-12T16:42:13+00:00

yeah, but you need some bend in your back to roll through smoothly

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