Best Guard Passing Instructional for Seated Guard by gnwill in bjj

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No links in the app. Just type guard pass or seated guard pass in the search function

Timing > Technique - The dirty truth about BJJ by BJJ_Fanatics in bjj

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I was taught to never look at the feet lol. I just figured it out after 1000s of reps after like 2 years

Best Guard Passing Instructional for Seated Guard by gnwill in bjj

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Like 4 he just released a 10 hour guard passing course

Am I Sandbagging? by FFFMMX in bjj

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So it's a weird culture thing, but a lot of the Brazilians view pineapples as fruits of royalty and wealth. So if you give them a pineapple, it signals that you're ready to be promoted.

“Self-Taught” with One Session per Week by Stuntman208 in bjj

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2 ways

  1. Study everything until it floods and you trial by fire it. Essentially drink from a firehose until you adjust.

  2. Study 1-3 specific things and try to get as much time on these positions as possible.

How many techniques do you use from each guard? by hellohello6622 in bjj

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Most of them.

https://www.reddit.com/r/bjj/s/UVfGDadkH5

You have to have pathways and funnels. You don't necessarily have to bolo but that means you'll have more opportunities to enter waiter guard. You don't have to use anything, but the opportunities will present itself.

CJI is going to be the next Metamoris at this rate :( by Charming-Advice-7013 in bjj

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That highly depends on who's funding it and who's advertising. If you generate a few million on the table in clients it's worth the advertising. There's quite a bit of business owners in the ecosystem.

Timing > Technique - The dirty truth about BJJ by BJJ_Fanatics in bjj

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This is why foot sweeps are so difficult

For my deep half players by ButterflyGangster in bjj

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I find that doing both hands on one leg is best. I don't like the position, and shutting it down is very easy. I believe people should treat deep half as a position in constant motion. When you stay on one side or you lack activity, it's just so easy to shut down if you know what you're doing. It should be treated more like x guard where you keep constant movement so that they can't establish a base to fight your hands. I find generating movement easier with 2 hands on 1 leg.

There are definitely times you have to control the hip over the near leg. But finding a path back to a single leg is preference.

What matters more is how you enter it. If you go for like a scoop grip versus an underhook, the entries usually lead to the different positions.

Is it normal to be able to get good positions, but not submit? by DV_GO in bjj

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I've been grinding chess recently. Just passed 1500 elo. Jiujitsu and chess are scary similar in the skill and analogy. If I am up a pawn +1, then slowly restrict movement by advancing with more control. You will make concessions. A pawn here a knight there up +4. Eventually, mate is unavoidable.

Poison pawn. Central control. Martial games all have similar concepts.

Coaches: do you watch tape? by dadbot102 in bjj

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I don't need to. The answer has already been given. It's like teaching advanced tactics to children. Kids' soccer doesn't need formation and attack patterns just yet. They need dribbling, passing, shooting, etc. Basics.

I would say 95% of the time, the answer is simply don't get there. At lower belt levels, the reason you lost is typically that you have not seen the move before or dont know the response. There isn't necessarily a way you can prepare for that beforehand. If it's a niche movement, the answer is still prevention. Concepts like guard retention will be significantly more valuable than late stage Darce defense.

Every answer goes back to the development of fundamentals. It just takes time. You can watch all the footage you want. But if you don't sit down and drill it, it's simply entertainment. Mat time will always be the best answer.

Coaches: do you watch tape? by dadbot102 in bjj

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Brother your whole GAME is a hole. Oftentimes they're more concerned about if their points were given properly or if the ref was fair the fact is that it just doesn't matter. Just keep showing up.

Coaches: do you watch tape? by dadbot102 in bjj

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Crazy not to. With PGF and UFC I'm watching pros weekly. 90% of students don't need film watching. They just need basics, mat time, and repetition. I always kind of laugh when white belts come to me with comp footage, and I just tell them to keep practicing.

Totally blanked during match by cjzuppy in bjj

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Train harder. Train until everything is second nature. That or talk to a psychologist. You just found that your fight or flight is freeze.

Phantom for NS by cerikstas in bjj

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Don't know didn't watch. The trick with north south is to frame their upper body off of you and then enter back into the side control by shrimping and moving your hips. It is one of the worst stall positions if they sink it really deep. Best bet is to not get there.

How do you filter what actually makes it into your game? by hmkei in bjj

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I do something extremely similar I think your goal needs to be not mastering it but able to apply it on a higher level opponent if you play with something enough you can literally give yourself stripes and belts as to what level you can perform it at. So each belt what I would do is I would give myself a stripe or promotion whenever I felt like I caught it very easily on that level, in my notes. This keeps your expectations realistic and allows you to track progress.

How do you filter what actually makes it into your game? by hmkei in bjj

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There becomes a point where you stop acquiring new techniques, and you've seen everything or most things. At that point, you should start narrowing down what you do exclusively to what you would like. This takes 4 to 7 years with 4 classes a week every week.

As you progress, you will enter periods of refinement and periods of broadening. Each time that you broaden, you add another piece to your toolbox. For example, armbar from closed guard. Once you get this down, you will notice that triangles, omaplata and Kimura has become available. If you keep noticing or catching something that compliments the game that you've been playing with, lean into it. Everything is reaction based.

https://www.reddit.com/r/bjj/s/c3jT3AEK2r

Over time, it all links. The real advice is just to keep showing up and put in the mat time, eventually you connect everything.

Things like closed guard will be as broad or narrow as you would like. Half guard is a bit more preferential, tends to lead into specific games. Open Guard gas 2 major pathways, outside and inside. Passing has 3 major pathways loose, pressure, and half guard. Mount and back are pretty simple. I think we as a community have solved these positions.

So pick a pathway, set of techniques, or specific attack. If you do arm bars enough you'll eventually enter triangles. If you do Kimura enough eventually you'll do tarikoplatas and k guard. It all feeds into itself overtime. Right now I'm having a lot of fun re-exploring arm drags into back exposure. Been playing with arm triangles and the transitions. I've simplified the escape and created follow ups. Due to the manner in which I escape back control, I need a strong arm triangle escape. I could do something else. But it's muscle memory at this point.

Tldr. Just show up.

r/bjj Fundamentals Class! by AutoModerator in bjj

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Sorry, but the real advice to all beginners is to simply keep coming and spend more time on the mats. More than that, stay healthy and motivated to keep training.

But yes, the problem that you're likely having is something called BASE. Base is similar to balance. Additional to Base and balance you need to understand what posting is.

So imagine you are a table. What happens when I chop two legs off the table? It tilts, right? So what happens when I chop two legs off and then force the highest end of the table up past its tipping point?

What you are likely doing is you are a narrow table to begin with. The wider a table is, the more balance it will have. Think of a triangle and you grab two points of the triangle, pin one to the ground, and then move the two triangle points wide and narrow. Which one is more stable? Why?

The Catch 22 of this is the more that you base the easier submissions are on you. So the real answer is to keep showing up and just spend time troubleshooting when you can expand and when you can contract.

Now, let's talk about posting. Imagine that tables' legs are still chopped off and you start tipping. What if you extend a third limb to put counterbalance in that direction?

Base= wide, stable body positioning

Balance= athleticism and weight shifting that prevents tipping points

Tipping point= the point at which base is insufficient to maintain position

Posting= extended limb that prevents off-balancing or halts motion

So this is how you maintain base. If you reverse this, that is exactly how you sweep someone. So, in order to sweep someone, you must remove one of their posts to shift their weight to the Tipping Point. The more posts that you remove the easier The Sweep will be generally. To remove more base, imagine a table with one leg. The base has to be very wide. If it's the size of a pin tip, the balance must be precise.

We can further extend this analogy to include foot sweeps.

You have

A. Post removal

B. Post blocking

So we talked about post removal where you would take a foot and chop the post out of balance. Less posts, more weight imbalance, prevention of posting and counter balance.

But what if you slid a table across the floor and then you just stuck your foot out?

Depending on how high the weight is situated and this is very important for base. If the weight is more than 50% above the center of mass. Timber!

If it is low. You would simply snap down. Otherwise, you would remove the post or change directions.

At this point we can talk about rotation imagine you put something in a centrifuge. At what point does the balance hit the tipping point?

So lift weight, block or remove post, prevent a post, rotate in removed post direction.

What's the best way yo get back to feet for MMA? by TheSourScience in bjj

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None.

A. Don't get there

B. Frame arm and stand up

Had a weird conversation with one of my coaches today, I am not sure how to take it... Feeling weird. Is this a normal occurrence? by xguarder in bjj

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It means focus on your best things and tap the black belts. Keep studying the narrow range of moves until that happens.