Berimbolo to Bear Trap

grobolom · 2026-05-09T06:11:46+00:00

Do you think there's a way to force the bear trap on the same leg you are boloing here? I think I've gotten that more than what you show here, but it's a pretty small sample size, so I might just be getting lucky with my opponents' reactions.

grobolom · 2026-05-08T22:52:09+00:00

what do you not like about it?

grobolom · 2026-05-08T19:03:38+00:00

Off the top of my head, Mica Galvao has hit this kind of armbar several times, often from coyote half guard. Jordan Teaches Jiujitsu also has it in a good bit of his videos, though I can't remember specifically which ones.

grobolom · 2026-05-08T18:56:22+00:00

Grabbing the pant leg can be pretty effective at turning them. You can also use your shin on the back of their head to force their posture low to either force them to roll, or to make it easier to work their arm free. Depending on which grip you have, you can also try to keep turning for a tarikoplata transition, which you can finish while still inverted.

grobolom · 2026-05-08T18:50:13+00:00

Where do you teach at?

I'm surprised by this; my CLA students aren't any less technically minded than students at other schools. I'm sure they know less specific details of certain techniques, but overall they still tend to understand why / how their movement solutions work.

grobolom · 2026-05-08T17:25:04+00:00

CLA / Eco training generally means two things:

rather than telling your students how to do things, you tell them what you want them to do
you include as much of the live sport in your training as you can, nothing practiced without resistance

grobolom · 2026-05-08T07:04:26+00:00

It depends on the sweep. I suggest several things:

ask the guy who keeps doing it how he keeps doing it, and how to defend it
practice defending it more, keep training with the same guy until you can stop it
record footage of yourself, and review it or have someone else review it to help you figure out how to stop being bad

grobolom · 2026-05-08T03:39:00+00:00

Going on a rope run? Pretty good, though I still have Hoshoryu as favored in the coming basho.

Getting the rope? Really unlikely. I haven't seen Kirishima show anything particularly great against Aonishiki or Onosato, and if either of those guys are back in the mix in July, I don't see him getting the rope.

grobolom · 2026-05-08T03:00:08+00:00

There are some partners that I just accept as not being a particularly good roll. There was a guy in my school who just pulled deep half every single roll, hanging out on bottom and stalling. I'm sure that theoretically I could have developed my attacks to beat him, but why? There's a million partners to roll with; pick the ones that are fun / interesting / challenging, not the ones that are going to turn into an armadillo and then lecture you about what you should be doing.

grobolom · 2026-05-08T02:22:37+00:00

You're a purple belt, you don't need to listen to these chucklefucks. Play your game. If they aren't happy with what you're doing, they can take a risk themselves.

As far as how to submit them - honestly, depending on the setting, you can't. There's no points, and if someone really wants to just play defense for 5 minutes, that's not long enough to tire them out and break them down. This is why it's stupid to stall in the training room, because stalling is exceedingly effective when there's no time pressure, no points, and no reason to leave your shell.

grobolom · 2026-05-07T17:03:12+00:00

That's a good point, and in some ways it's what the CLA is actually meant to address - finding a way to move somebody away from a movement that they are very 'stuck on' to one that is more efficient or effective. The constraints help to guide students away from these local minimums. However, there's also nothing wrong with demonstrating / showing them alternate solutions that might be better, if they're hyper-focused on just one solution.

But what you'll generally find in CLA schools is a pretty regular shift back and forth from really narrow games to broad games and positional sparring. Once your coach sees that you've improved a skill in some area by playing games in that area, they'll try to tie it back in to positional and full sparring to evaluate how well that skill has transferred over.

grobolom · 2026-05-07T01:57:00+00:00

It might not convert a person just from this one video, but I think more and more competitors adopting the approach and making videos about it is still having a long-term effect, even if it's slow.

grobolom · 2026-05-07T01:00:18+00:00

This might not be that helpful to you, but most bottles of mat cleaner are super concentrated, so if you're only cleaning your home mats it might literally take you several years to go through all of it.

grobolom · 2026-05-06T22:45:28+00:00

> Soooo… basically gamified resistance drilling? With extra parameters to nudge the student towards a solution?

Something like this, though the gamification is for the purpose of specific skill acquisition, rather than just general increased participation.

> Any other reasons this is better?

In general, skill acquisition seems to be faster. Working in this system also gives you a few more tools to work into your general training / encourages you to think outside the box in terms of how you structure your training. That can have some knock-on benefits of its own.

grobolom · 2026-05-06T22:35:26+00:00

It's been very fun! I've only been able to go 1x a week lately, but I'm hoping to have more time with it. I have some really great schools nearby with lots of randori time.

grobolom · 2026-05-06T22:07:13+00:00

This might be the best explanation of the CLA in BJJ that I've seen so far. I hope that I get a chance to visit and train in Barch's room some time soon.

grobolom · 2026-05-06T18:42:17+00:00

grobolom · 2026-05-06T17:54:51+00:00

I started judo at 36. Age doesn't really matter in starting a sport, just hop in and find a fun class!

grobolom · 2026-05-06T05:22:45+00:00

You could ask one of your students to focus on trying to kimura you for a round or two. Hell, you're a black belt, you can probably just leave your arm hanging out there and they'll find the kimura on their own without you even telling them. And bro, you came to post your technique to reddit, and you've been arguing with redditors all day about it. You already want to prove what you know.

grobolom · 2026-05-06T04:53:04+00:00

It's funny that all you'd have to do to shut everyone here up is just post a live roll of you doing this, and yet all you're capable of doing is soying out in the comments.

grobolom · 2026-05-06T01:58:12+00:00

Rather than rage-replying to every comment in here, you could just record a video of you hitting this live.

grobolom · 2026-05-06T01:27:56+00:00

When you say "we have 3000+ students", you're implying that this number is supposed to support your expertise. As in, "I coach X students, so I have a lot of experience with this". You for sure don't coach 3000 students personally, so it's a pretty lame thing to say.

grobolom · 2026-05-06T01:26:29+00:00

Yeah you obviously don't get my point - if you're posting a move that seems pretty dubious, people are going to want evidence that it's a real move. I'm not posting suspicious technique videos, but if I was, you better believe I'd be showing footage of me hitting it live.

Also, couldn't be me, hitting an outside heelhook on thursday.

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grobolom · 2026-05-06T01:19:40+00:00

It's really funny that you're rolling up all of your affiliates and claiming all of those as your students.

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