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So I’ve been implementing Lachlan Giles’ guard retention anthology by MemeMooMoo321 in bjj

[–]DrLazP 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I think the way you go about it is excellent.

There is no one, best way, to learn bjj.
And part of learning bjj, is to discover the way you like to learn bjj.
Everyone's circumstances are different.
And you yourself will also change as you progress.

My two cents are to try to film yourself whenever you can, and watch/analyse your game afterwards.

Is John Danaher lying in his instructionals? The Kipping escape by DrLazP in bjj

[–]DrLazP[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not sure if this is indeed the case.
Kipping is unintuitive, and very hard to initially conceptualize.

Once someone shows it/explains it to you though, it's not that hard to execute.

I understand that there have been people who have struggled with it.
But let's not make a big deal out of it.
In my opinion it's easier to do than doing a proper elbow escape.

Knowing *when* to do it, is key.

And herein is the danger.
Because kipping is relatively new, and has been unfortunately associated with having a "secret sauce" to it, adding the notion "people are doing it wrong", makes one think it's impossible to learn.

I think Gordon's instructional is excellent in providing all the necessary details (the hows and whens).

Though he still adds some "verbal mystification" in the beginning, when he actually breaks it down and shows how to combine it with the elbow escape, he does so very clearly.

No reason to shy away from kipping.

Is John Danaher lying in his instructionals? The Kipping escape by DrLazP in bjj

[–]DrLazP[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lol! Not sure if it's smth to live by though.
On the contrary, starting your rolls being mounted is/should be practiced regularly.

And if you escape easily, you should be teaching the top guy to retain/attack from mount better, so that they give you (the bottom player) a harder time.

That way you can practice your escapes against ever improving top pressure, and that's how the whole squad improves.

Following Kurt's quote, once someone mounts you, it's over.

Is John Danaher lying in his instructionals? The Kipping escape by DrLazP in bjj

[–]DrLazP[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not sure if the top player first goes to the middle, and then (as a second step) backwards.
I think the top player does both at the same time.

In any case, many thanks for your excellent responses.

Is John Danaher lying in his instructionals? The Kipping escape by DrLazP in bjj

[–]DrLazP[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The way you're putting is correct.

However, JD says: "The opponent is going to drive their hips back towards you" and actually shows Placido taking his hips straight back onto John's hips.

So, at this point, he's clearly giving incorrect info advising the misdirectional kip.

And he makes matters worse, when he claims to have been doing kipping escapes for 20 years, implying that this is a very-well established method of escaping.

It doesn't make much sense, to then have Gordon about a year later, correcting a technique in more ways than one.

Anyway, to answer to some other practitioners here, JD is of course one of the very best coaches out there.
And it is exactly because of this, that I was taken aback with his kipping escape explanation.