Power Ride: Rethinking Modern BJJ Control

[00:00:00] Craig Jones: I'd trained [00:00:10] Brazilian Jiu Jitsu for many years, and I believed that I could really control a man. But after my first stint in prison, I [00:00:20] realized I didn't even know how to hold a man down. Did your fat, out of shape, old professor tell you that these positions were good positions? [00:00:30] Side control is junk.

[00:00:33] Mount is junk. Back control, junk.[00:00:40] [00:00:50]

[00:00:51] I'm going to teach you the real way to control a bottom man. You're going to learn the skills of splitting the legs, [00:01:00] riding the legs, turking the legs,

[00:01:06] You're gonna learn the upper body controls, a [00:01:10] cross face, a claw, open elbows, dagger standing handcuff, half nelson, and rear naked [00:01:20] control. Remember, your coaches don't know how to control a man. Cause they don't know how to ride a man.[00:01:30]

[00:01:35] Alright guys, let's talk about the sort of origins of the point [00:01:40] scoring system. And we can use the IBJJF for example. And we need to start thinking about why do we get points for certain positions? Or why are we rewarded [00:01:50] for guard passes? You might not have even thought about it. So, I mean, I've been in the sport for a long time.

[00:01:54] It took me a long time to really try to think about why do we reward certain [00:02:00] positions with a certain amount of points versus other positions with less? Why do we not reward certain positions? And again, why do we reward people for [00:02:10] passing the guard? If I pass someone's guard to side control, obviously we're going to get passing points.

[00:02:15] Well those point scoring positions were developed because they thought they were [00:02:20] strong ground and pound positions. So obviously we took away ground and pound and we just have a non striking, essentially a non combat in a way, sport. [00:02:30] But the positions origins and the reason we score those positions for points were because they were good ground and pound positions.

[00:02:38] So I want you to remember that. Think [00:02:40] about that as the origins. This instruction is going to have nothing to do with ground and pound. This instruction will be about that. controlling the bottom player. But if we look [00:02:50] at it, all right, so we reward someone for a guard pass. We reward someone obviously for mount, we reward someone for back points, but we obviously reward someone for knee [00:03:00] right as well.

[00:03:00] How often do you see a modern day MMA fight finish from side control? How often do you see a modern [00:03:10] day MMA fighter get finished with ground and pound from knee right? Even mount is very, very difficult. I would say generally speaking in most MMA fights, unless someone was rocked on [00:03:20] the way down, uh, you very rarely see a guy just get straight up finished with ground and pound.

[00:03:25] And if we look at who are the best, most effective [00:03:30] grapplers at combining strikes on the grounds with control, it would be guys like Khabib. And Khabib really doesn't try to [00:03:40] pass people's guards. How often do you see Khabib in side control? Khabib will remain on top of the legs. He'll remain in a close guard or a half guard.

[00:03:49] If you talk [00:03:50] to guys like that, even Randy Couture would say back in the day that his preferred position to strike from was half guard. And you've got to ask yourself, if our point scoring system in the sport [00:04:00] was built around ground and pound positions, then why are those positions so terrible in modern day MMA for ground and pound?

[00:04:09] And it's got [00:04:10] to do with control. You'll see a classic example in recent memory would be Israel Adesanya versus Jan Blahovic. A lot of people [00:04:20] attacked Israel in this fight because when he was on bottom and he was in bottom half guard, he left his legs open and Jan wouldn't pass half guard. And all of the [00:04:30] jujitsu purists, all of these guys out there were looking at that.

[00:04:33] And obviously the first thing they did was criticize Izzy. They were like, this guy doesn't even know to keep his legs closed in half guard. [00:04:40] And no one stepped back to think, obviously the UFC champion does know how to play half guard bottom, right? And then you got to ask yourself as well, why was Jan Blachowicz so hesitant to [00:04:50] pass a half guard that was open?

[00:04:52] And when you step back, it's easy to, it's, it's dismissive and it's easy to say, Oh, MMA fighters, I don't know how to grapple, right? But when [00:05:00] we think about half guard being a strong control position, it is because we are at least on top of one of our opponent's legs. And that makes it difficult for them to get up.

[00:05:08] Uh, other [00:05:10] examples, Kelvin Gastelum, this guy is not even a grappler. That's not his strength. His strength is boxing. And what he quite often does is he lets people pass because [00:05:20] from side control, he has a great ability to turtle away and shake people off. He can move in multiple directions. If he's in half guard, he has to come up through his opponent.[00:05:30]

[00:05:30] If his opponent passes his guard to psych control, he can come through his opponent or he can turtle away. You've got guys like Derek Lewis, Derek Lewis philosophies, [00:05:40] just get up, just stand up. And that's actually surprisingly effective. And that is because in my opinion, psych control is not a great control [00:05:50] position.

[00:05:50] And for, for that matter, if you try to ground a pound from site control, you're likely to leave space. And you probably find the same thing in Jiu-Jitsu. Like we [00:06:00] instinctually want to pass guards to a side control because it's a point scoring position. We get points for passing the guard to that position.

[00:06:08] But [00:06:10] quite often what happens, and you'll see this in many high level matches, is someone will pass someone's guard to side control just long enough to score. And then the bottom guy will get his guard back [00:06:20] immediately. Obviously there's a couple of different ways that this could happen. Obviously the top guy might not actually be too good at holding the position.

[00:06:26] The guy gets his guard back. I think side [00:06:30] control while you're committed to the pin is an effective, uh, position for the top player, but the second they choose to do something else, look for [00:06:40] a, uh, a pass to knee, right? We'll come up to knee, right? Because I'm just going to score more points. Look for a submission.

[00:06:45] Usually space opens up and the bottom guy can start to get their guard back and [00:06:50] think about it the same way in MMA. You get a side control. Obviously we don't step over arms into some sort of crucifix style position. If you just try to strike from side control, you're likely to leave space [00:07:00] and your opponent is going to escape.

[00:07:02] And for that reason is why a lot of guys do not elect to take side control when it's there. We're looking at through two different [00:07:10] lenses. Jiu Jitsu is very forgiving. Obviously, if you're trying to pass someone's guard and you get flipped over, if you're trying to, or if you pass someone's guard, go for a submission.

[00:07:18] Or even if you go, if you [00:07:20] pass someone's guy and just get straight up reversed, IBGDF won't even score that points for the bottom guy because in their mind you've passed their legs. But really there should be no [00:07:30] situation where you're happy to reverse the position from topside control or even top mount with a bridging roll or something like that.

[00:07:36] That should score something because obviously you've gone from a dominant [00:07:40] position to a non dominant position. The reason we see less of that in MMA is because there's much greater risk. They're not just playing for points. They're not even, uh, they're trying to obviously [00:07:50] trying to damage each other. So obviously you're not going to take as many risks.

[00:07:54] So they have to have, in my opinion, superior control. And really you [00:08:00] see MMA fighters, they don't think about IBGF points. You know what I mean? If the IBGF points scoring system was the most superior, uh, methodology to [00:08:10] control the bottom player, we would see MMA fighters do more or less the same things we do.

[00:08:16] Because when the risk is higher, the game has to be sharper, [00:08:20] right? So if they were super concerned, uh, with getting reversals or anything like that, they would probably, and the IBGF point system was the best form of control, they would [00:08:30] use it. But when you watch MMA, that's not the case. And what I'm going to argue throughout this whole instructional is that we need to take a step back and try to [00:08:40] think about how we can control the bottom player to mitigate their ability to stand up or their ability to really be comfortable.

[00:08:48] And for our way to [00:08:50] control them, I want you to forget completely about IBGF points scoring systems. So I want you to stop rolling to the points. [00:09:00] We're going to show you a ton of positions in this product that are superior control positions to what score points in the IBGF. And if that [00:09:10] doesn't make you a bit alarmed about the way the sport's been built, then I'm not sure really what will, because really our goal is [00:09:20] control that leads to submission.

[00:09:21] We look at that statement and we assume control relates to IBGJF point scoring positions. We don't step back [00:09:30] and think, hey, maybe The points scoring structure is a bit, it leaves a bit of stuff out. You don't, I mean, I, my opinion is that when they set those rules back [00:09:40] in the nineties or potentially in the eighties, whenever they decided that was that structured how we do jujitsu right up until today, everyone builds [00:09:50] their game around scoring points.

[00:09:53] That's why I mean, even this, there's not even a ton of submissions in the IBJF because it's built around obviously point scoring. But if [00:10:00] we forget about the point scoring and just think about the statement control, there are better positions to control the bottom player in than just those IBJF point scoring positions.

[00:10:09] So even [00:10:10] as say, you just watch this part of the introduction and you go to the gym to train, try to step back and think to yourself, are there sort of gray areas? And it's only a gray [00:10:20] area because it doesn't score points. Are there gray areas? where you put your training partners in that control them better than the point scoring positions.

[00:10:29] [00:10:30] One example of that would be a stack pass. When we stack someone up there, we have excellent control. We've contorted the spine. They're [00:10:40] uncomfortable. They're in an unathletic position, but it's not rewarded. That's not rewarded with anything. Even though you have complete control over them, you have paths straight to the back [00:10:50] or you have paths straight to submission opportunities.

[00:10:52] Whereas, if you were to stack someone and pass them to side control, held them for three seconds, controlled them, then they got their guard [00:11:00] back, you would be rewarded with points, even though you potentially sacrificed a strong control position for a point scoring position. So again, we're going to try to [00:11:10] address some of the issues I have with the way we score points in the game.

[00:11:16] most tournaments around the world. Again, my biggest issue [00:11:20] throughout is going to be the idea that passing guard to side control is a really, really good thing to do. And again, I don't think that is, I think there's [00:11:30] much superior ways to control people. And again, case in point, MMA fighters have much more to, to lose their brain cells to lose.

[00:11:38] We just have our [00:11:40] egos and they very rarely elect to pass the guard. What they elect to do is ride the legs, control the legs, and ultimately look to flatten their [00:11:50] opponents out. I personally believe, and I have no evidence for this whatsoever, but the idea of two hooks back control being the most dominant point scoring position [00:12:00] was historically it was flattening your opponent out when they're belly down and you're on top because that's a great ground and pound position, great submission [00:12:10] position.

[00:12:10] It contorts them and it's unathletic. But because we defined it as two hooks was point scoring by these tournaments, we then started [00:12:20] choosing to take the back by placing ourselves underneath our opponents. So we're controlling obviously seatbelt style without back flat to the floor. When in my [00:12:30] opinion, a better position would be obviously hooks in boots in flattened out.

[00:12:35] So everything we do is going to involve around riding the legs and [00:12:40] pinning the legs. And that's the most superior form of control. And it's why in folk style wrestling, they don't count a takedown until you cover the hips. There are many [00:12:50] reasons why staying on the lower half of the body, controlling the lower half of the body is the strongest control position in just grappling broadly.[00:13:00]

[00:13:03] Let's talk about how the bottom player can create movement or create escapes, create [00:13:10] explosive athletic movements. And most of those movements are going to come from the legs, right? So if Tyler's on his back here, let's take a look at a couple of movements [00:13:20] here. Let's see which Tyler hit a bridge. He's using his legs to create the bridge.

[00:13:27] Let's look at him. You got a hip escape. [00:13:30] When a hip escapes, that movement fundamentally, uh, involves the legs, right? So if you, if, if we're trying to imagine this, [00:13:40] right? Let's put it in the framework of point scoring positions. Again, side control doesn't score points, but obviously, 99. 9 percent of the times you end up [00:13:50] in side control is you've passed the guard here.

[00:13:54] So when I pass the guard on Tyler right, and he wants to create [00:14:00] movement here, I'm basically trying to pin his upper body here. I can do things like use a cross face to apply pressure, control. To the best of my [00:14:10] ability, I can try to get a knee elbow connection here. But look at Tyler's legs. He can apply on his feet on the ground.

[00:14:16] And he can explode his hips up. He can start to bridge into [00:14:20] me. He can hip escape off of that bridge and he can start to get his legs involved. If we think about mount as well, obviously we're going to have [00:14:30] forms of mount where we can start grapevining the legs. But for the most part, we're going to have a mount where we're sitting just above the hips here.

[00:14:38] But Tyler can have [00:14:40] his legs together, he can swing them back and forth, he can find them on the ground, he can create movements with his legs, and he can make it difficult for us to control him here. So those are just [00:14:50] two examples. Obviously, yeah, we've got knee right as well. There's nothing about knee right.

[00:14:54] that controls Tyler's lower half. So if we're broadly speaking about control, [00:15:00] why are we using our upper body and our entire body weight to control our opponent's upper body and basically using our body weight to [00:15:10] pin their upper body when the root of all their movements to escape and to explode come from the legs.

[00:15:17] If the most dangerous part Of [00:15:20] Tyler's body is his legs. Why is that not the thing we focus on when we focus on control? That should be what we're [00:15:30] targeting here. And again, this stuff is going to be stuff, uh, that you'll see in things like folk style wrestling, where their goal is to get back up. Leg riding is what [00:15:40] keeps the bottom player down.

[00:15:42] Folk style wrestling, you're not going to see side control style positions as often as, leg riding positions. But again, this is [00:15:50] going to be hard for people to grasp at this point from a pure jujitsu background because of basically the standard operating procedure that all gyms and all coaches around the world [00:16:00] follow dictated by the IBJJF point scoring system, which we've already addressed is kind of outdated and old and doesn't [00:16:10] really grasp the full gravity of, uh, uh, jujitsu and its forms of control, right?

[00:16:17] So again, just broadly thinking [00:16:20] if Tyler's strongest, most dangerous part of his body is creating movement is the legs and it's his ability not only to use those legs but to get his feet to [00:16:30] the ground that allows him to lift his hips. Why are we trying to pin people and why are we rewarded for pinning people by bypassing the legs [00:16:40] controlling the upper body?

[00:16:41] Obviously, you're probably initially thinking, well, because if we're in front of the legs, we're in a submission danger, arm bars, triangles. [00:16:50] But there's a difference between being in front of the legs where we're in submission danger and being in point scoring positions. There's a gray area. There's an in between.[00:17:00]

[00:17:00] And again, this is what we're going to demonstrate is how we can kill those legs in a safe way. And by killing those legs, that's how we control movement. That's how we sort of [00:17:10] redefine what a pin is. Obviously in wrestling a pin's going to be two shoulders to the mat for three seconds, going to win you the match, right?

[00:17:17] But in the context of control that [00:17:20] leads to submission, I think a pin is when my opponent's chances of creating movement are basically zero to none. If I can control [00:17:30] Tyler in such a way that he cannot move without conceding something else, uh, That to me is what we should truly be aiming for when we talk about [00:17:40] pinning our opponents.

[00:17:41] We want our opponents to feel basically helpless and very rarely to do modern grapplers with good escapes [00:17:50] feel helpless in side control, mount, even the back. Guys have spent so much time with our traditional thought process of what back control [00:18:00] is because of EBI. Guys they're comfortable in all these positions.

[00:18:04] So if we can't make people uncomfortable in point scoring positions and those point scoring [00:18:10] positions aren't consistently leading to submissions, why are we doing it the way we're doing it? And why are we targeting the IBGF point scoring system and teaching [00:18:20] grappling like that all around the world?

[00:18:22] Again, the goal is control the Lisa submission. And I believe that control should use the definition. My definition [00:18:30] of what a pin is. And that is they cannot move without conceding something else.[00:18:40]

[00:18:40] Let's delve into that concept. Um, a bit more, let's get a bit more in depth with it. And we can talk about all point scoring positions as they're commonly seen [00:18:50] today in the sport. And really it all revolves around the principle of the bottom player's feet touching the floor. So again, one more time, [00:19:00] Tyler's on his back.

[00:19:02] He can bridge if his feet are on the floor. He can hip escape if his feet are on the floor. If he tries those movements without [00:19:10] his feet, he has no power at all. So I want you to think about that throughout when we talk about controlling the bottom [00:19:20] grappling, it's going to all involve preventing these feet being on the floor.

[00:19:26] We're going to have very. many different ways to [00:19:30] do that. And a lot of the ways that you're going to see today, you're not going to believe are as effective as they are until you start exploring them in Roller. [00:19:40] And I like to call, call, basically you're staying in a gray area. It's a gray area only because the RBGF doesn't score it.

[00:19:46] Well, most armors don't score it, but it'll be superior control. [00:19:50] So again, let's look at it from all positions, right? So we did cover how for a mount, which would score, Tyler's feet can still touch the floor. It can still [00:20:00] create explosive movement. Knee ride, He can create explosive movement, side control, he can create explosive style [00:20:10] movements.

[00:20:10] Even when we take the back, if I have two hooks on Tyler here, my feet can't touch the floor, even if I have a body triangle [00:20:20] here, but Tyler's feet can touch the floor and he can start bridging into us. He can basically, dictate movement from such a horrible position [00:20:30] here. So in my opinion, you don't effectively control someone unless you can mitigate their athletic [00:20:40] movements and you can only mitigate those athletic movements if we can keep their feet off the ground.

[00:20:47] This style of game will not [00:20:50] replace what you already know, but it'll be a great way to fatigue the guy on bottom so that by the time you get to those traditional style [00:21:00] positions, they're so tired that they don't have athletic ability anymore. The concept will be these positions will fatigue [00:21:10] your opponents worse than the traditional ones.

[00:21:13] We shouldn't rush past the guard to score when really what we want to do is control them, [00:21:20] fatigue them, submit them. And again, what I'm going to show. is that the traditional methodology of rushing the guard, getting as many points going positions as possible, [00:21:30] isn't really going to fatigue your opponents too much.

[00:21:32] And it's not just because they're comfortable and have a ton of escapes from those positions. It's because if they can put their feet on the floor, they can [00:21:40] explode. Say for example, me against a guy like Mickey Rod, basically impossible to hold in sight control. knee right mount, basically impossible [00:21:50] to even control him from the back in traditional sort of scope, unless of course he's tired for a person of my size to control a person at Nikki rod size.

[00:21:59] I'm going to [00:22:00] have to think outside the box and I'm going to have to think, what is the core movement explosiveness? And you saw with Tyler, he [00:22:10] can't really move his feet out on the ground. That's the same, no matter the size, no matter the explosiveness of your opponent. So to control bigger, stronger opponents, everyone moves the [00:22:20] same way.

[00:22:20] We need to keep the feet off the ground. And really, we don't want to start progressing and attacking submissions until they're already tired. Why fight fire with fire? If I [00:22:30] try to arm triangle a gorilla like Nicky Rod, he's gonna freak out. And really, no matter how good my technique is, it's gonna be tough to control.

[00:22:39] But if [00:22:40] I've controlled him prior to those points, And he's fatigued himself trying to find ways to explode when he can't because his feet are off the ground. By the time we do attack that arm triangle, [00:22:50] it's basically technique versus technique at that point.

[00:22:56] Before we get into sort of the way I approach [00:23:00] pinning someone, the way I approach controlling someone, and again, control at least the submission. I'm not just trying to hold them down. Um, let's just talk about, again, I can't hammer this home enough. [00:23:10] And that is the standard operating procedure of every gym around the world.

[00:23:14] And that holds true, whether it's a competition gym or it's not a competition gym. [00:23:20] Largely, those gyms are not as different as you might imagine. And that is because they follow the point scoring structure. Obviously a competition gym, [00:23:30] these guys are going to be counting points advantages in their head, but again, they're going to be looking for largely the same stuff.

[00:23:35] A guard pass is going to be something, uh, a coach would be proud of [00:23:40] his student doing when watching them roll, whether it's at Atos or whether it's at a Gracie self defense scope. The way they roll largely is going to follow the [00:23:50] same path. And again, whether it's comp focused or whether it's not comp focused, most of them follow the same path.

[00:23:55] Again, the Gracies use the same positional controls. And that's [00:24:00] really, again, where the IBGF history comes from, where those points positions come from. So what is the standard operating procedure? If I were to be in half guard [00:24:10] and I was following a traditionalist approach, I'd be looking for cross face under hook, and we'd be looking to clear and pass to [00:24:20] side control.

[00:24:21] We'd be largely, again, this is more comp focused, they'd count three seconds in the head. Whether it's not Com focused or not, they'd still follow a [00:24:30] similar idea, and that is let the position settle. And then what they would think is, oh, we want to go to Nero. 1, 2, 3, score more points. We want to [00:24:40] go to mount 1, 2, 3.

[00:24:42] We scored more points. Again, same approach. Different, uh, goals, competition, traditionalist gym. Same [00:24:50] thing from here. They'd be looking to start getting their elbows above their head, lifting this up, hoping that Tyler to defend the arm triangle starts to sit up. And [00:25:00] that gives us an opportunity for a gift wrap.

[00:25:03] And what would the goal be when they get the gift wrap? It would be a style of back take that pulls their opponent [00:25:10] on top of them because they want two hooks. Why do we want two hooks? We want two hooks because it scores points. And that's where everyone [00:25:20] teaches from. So they're gonna go gif wrap, they're gonna pull the bottom guy on top here.

[00:25:26] And what's even funny enough is, in 5D Jiu Jitsu, they don't [00:25:30] score body triangles. So these students won't even go for the body triangle first, they'll place their two hooks in, they'll count 1, 2, [00:25:40] 3, they'll place it back. If we're talking ADCC, they'll leave one hook in, they'll score their points, and that's it.

[00:25:47] They'll take it out, they'll count, [00:25:50] they'll put it back in, they'll score more points. So even if it's competition focused or not, they're both using all the same positions. They just sort of [00:26:00] play the approach a bit differently. Comp scores are going to gain the system to score more points. Traditional scores, they're going to still be thinking about control, but control in the narrow [00:26:10] confines of the positions they've been told.

[00:26:13] Neither of these gyms will largely. Focus on fewer control. And again, you're going to see more [00:26:20] evidence of the style of control in MMA. Khabib, Ben Askren, guys of that nature, they're controlling the bottom player. They're not [00:26:30] taking jujitsu positions. Again, watch how they fight. They take control of the bottom player in a way that makes [00:26:40] it difficult for them to be swept, reversed, submitted, uh, And that will play forms of control that you sort of look at and wonder how [00:26:50] they're able to effectively hold the person down without using what we largely use.

[00:26:55] And that is that sort of standard operating procedure. [00:27:00] So I've hammered that home enough. We're going to move on to the ideas I'm talking to you about. I've covered all the issues with the [00:27:10] standard point scoring structure, the standard operating procedure. And now we're going to talk about how we can approach the bottom position in a way to improve our control, our pins and ultimately [00:27:20] our submissions.

[00:27:20] I promise you, if you control people in the ways I'm about to show, your submission rate will go up. It will look like I'm just pinning, control the bottom [00:27:30] player. But again, the bottom guy, he can't find opportunities to escape. And he wants to win, he starts to take more risks. And risk, the bottom player taking [00:27:40] risk is where our opportunity for submission lies.

[00:27:44] [00:27:50] We're going to cover a few different key principles [00:28:00] on how we control the legs again in ways different to point scoring positions, different to the standard operating [00:28:10] procedure. We're going to look to control the legs. in such a way to abide by the overarching principle of this series. And that is if [00:28:20] our opponents on bottom cannot get feet to floor, they cannot explode.

[00:28:26] And those explosions come in the form of bridges and hip escapes. We [00:28:30] can mitigate explosions, we can maximize control.

[00:28:37] The first concept we're going to cover for [00:28:40] lower body control is the idea of splitting the legs. So again, if Tyler lays down here, when he's [00:28:50] doing his bridges, when he's doing his kipping movements, The legs, he has a form of control that keeps his legs together and they work in [00:29:00] unison. So again, if he hits a bridge here, the legs start together and open as he bridges.

[00:29:04] If he hits some kipping style movements, you'll see his knees. He's largely trying to keep his knees [00:29:10] together here. So if we're looking at these again, hip escape, legs together, knees together, we want to split these legs. to minimize [00:29:20] his ability to touch these feet to the floor, right? So if we have Tyler's legs extended here and I can split his legs [00:29:30] apart here, I won't demonstrate the position just yet.

[00:29:32] But now if we see Tyler trying to do explosive movements, we see him trying to put his feet to the floor. [00:29:40] Very, very difficult. And you're gonna see how when we control someone like this and they can't use their lower body to escape, they start to make mistakes with the upper body. [00:29:50] So you saw as Tyler was moving there, he started to turn belly down.

[00:29:53] Horrible, horrible idea. But again, we're backing him into a corner where that might be his only option. Another option [00:30:00] is he comes up to an elbow. He tries to build heart here. Again, you can see where this is gonna lead. This is gonna lead into things like, Khabib style Dagestani handcuff wrist rides, [00:30:10] right?

[00:30:10] That's how he creates those opportunities. If guys can't use the lower body to move, they have to take some risk with the upper body. Again, it's either that [00:30:20] or accept being on bottom and surviving for the rest. Obviously, we don't have the luxury to punish people with strikes, but we have Luxury of punishment then with position.

[00:30:29] Right. [00:30:30] So again, in examples where if I've approached Tyler's guard here, let's look at it from this way. If I can start to smash Tyler's legs to the floor, [00:30:40] what I'm basically using is my inside hip to spread Tyler's legs here, it's the same as if I were to hit a leg drag. Yeah. [00:30:50] When we're in a leg drag on someone, we're essentially splitting the legs.

[00:30:53] This leg is splitting them. Obviously, there's varying degrees we could split. The greater the top leg [00:31:00] comes to the chest and the lower body comes away from the chest, the greater the split, the greater the control, right? But what quite often happens is we'll hit a leg drag, [00:31:10] And what do we want to do? We think, Hey, we're not scoring points for this position.

[00:31:14] We want to score points. Tyler's options actually very limited in a leg track. He, it's [00:31:20] very tough here. If Tyler can get his inside knee back inside here, he could start to recover guard. But, if we commit our weight towards the legs here, [00:31:30] Tyler's trying to move in this manner. Very difficult, right? So the leg drag in and of itself is excellent control, but what do we [00:31:40] do?

[00:31:40] We forego control for points, because we know that if we're able to get in flat here, we're And I look for a side control style [00:31:50] pin, he, we are going to be rewarded. But if I would ask Tyler, where is he more comfortable in a leg drag or inside control from a [00:32:00] submission perspective, he might say the leg drag only because he hasn't been past yet.

[00:32:07] But in terms of [00:32:10] where does he feel like he can move more? chances are side control because he can explode and you can start using those, uh, technical tight escapes. Again, [00:32:20] just to emphasize, I'm not saying side control with elbow to knee and hand here isn't a good pin. I'm saying when we decide to move from this position [00:32:30] to start looking for submission opportunities, he can use explosions and create submission opportunities.

[00:32:36] If I'm in a leg drag, I've got Tyler here. Tyler's trying to explode. [00:32:40] Why can't he explode? He can't explode because the legs are split and he can't put feet to ground in any [00:32:50] meaningful manner. So obviously, if the concept is to split the legs for meaningful control, wouldn't it make sense to maximize the [00:33:00] leg split rather than maximize points?

[00:33:03] So how would I do that? We can start to split the legs even greater by using our inside [00:33:10] foot. So if I have someone on the leg track here, I'm not even thinking points. I'm thinking pinning them. And again, what's my definition of pin? [00:33:20] Where he cannot move without giving us something worse. So if I want to split the legs more, I use an inside hook to maximize [00:33:30] leg split.

[00:33:31] Now Tyler tries to move. He can't move. He tries to put his left foot on the ground. He can't do it. The more he can bend [00:33:40] his leg, the more meaningfully he can put his toes on the ground. So a minor leg strike position, he can start to put those toes on the ground and generate movement. [00:33:50] If we split the legs, Tyler's trying to put those toes on the ground, he really can't do it in any effective manner at all.

[00:33:58] And we don't have to stay [00:34:00] in the leg bracket. So I can start to split the legs and then I can take a crab hook to split the top leg. Tyler tries to [00:34:10] move here. You see what he wants to do. He wants to make poor decisions. And again, it's not necessarily he wants to make poor decisions. It's the [00:34:20] only option he has.

[00:34:21] If we want to maximize splitting the legs, we can use that legs independently of each other. We can stretch the top and we can extend the [00:34:30] bottom. And again, great pinning positions here. The overarching concept for this section will be split the legs to [00:34:40] maximize control. So this will be, this will count broadly in many positions.

[00:34:46] BJ Penn used to pass people's guards in MMA [00:34:50] with something called the dope mount. And how he would make that happen would be because this is prior. So the days of inverting, uh, from [00:35:00] butterfly guard and capturing legs, the MMA guy would be basically trying to sweep or stand up. So he would surf the hooks and he would split [00:35:10] the legs by dropping his hips in between here.

[00:35:12] Again, these days, I wouldn't necessarily recommend this because as I'm basically giving Tyler cross arching and she, as he pulls his head [00:35:20] underneath, he can start to invert and attack the legs. But we can still use this position, we just need to change the angle. So this again would be another concept of [00:35:30] splitting the legs.

[00:35:31] As I sit through, I'm not sitting square with his hips. I'm turning to face the teacher. So now it's time to try to convert. [00:35:40] He can't move because we split the legs. My right knee is extending his lower leg. And basically [00:35:50] my right hamstring and calf muscle here are pinning his top leg away from his bottom.

[00:35:56] If we needed to increase our leg split [00:36:00] control, I could even use my hand to extend this leg. Anything we can do to prevent this knee coming close. When this [00:36:10] knee comes close and the toes plant, he can meaningfully find explosive movements. So even something as simple as splitting the legs from here, we've just [00:36:20] safely landed in what I'd call a variation of dope bounce.

[00:36:25] And we think to ourselves, do we want to control him or do we want to score? If we want to [00:36:30] control it, how could we further increase control? We can take another hook and start riding the legs like we just work. We still keep weight on the [00:36:40] hips. Obviously the tire tries to move here. We've got complete control of the position.

[00:36:46] So anytime you can split [00:36:50] your opponent's legs, I want you to look to split those legs. Once you've split those legs, ask yourself, can we [00:37:00] further split the legs? Because again, it's going to change. If I have a minor split, we've reduced his explosive ability, but we haven't shut it down [00:37:10] entirely. So we want to create minor splits and then look for ways to increase the split.

[00:37:15] If we completely control the lower half, [00:37:20] all your opponents will have is their upper body to fight out of the position. And really, if we have pinned the lower half and they have to take risks with the upper body, [00:37:30] the odds are stacked against them here. If they're using their upper body to try to posture up, we're going to cover this in detail.

[00:37:36] We've got wrist rights, but again, If I split the lower [00:37:40] body and I reduce our explosive capability with the lower body, and they have to use the upper body to find opportunities to explode, they're going to get absolutely exhausted [00:37:50] trying to fight ways out of this position. When I train in such a manner, I find my training partners want to give me traditional point scoring positions because they're [00:38:00] so uncomfortable and they're so unsure of where to go next.

[00:38:04] They want me to take side control. They want me to take a traditional manner. Because first of all, [00:38:10] they have escaped from those positions. But second of all, you're actually more comfortable there because again, it builds. If I'm sitting in mount on a guy, he can keep his elbows tight and keep his legs together, [00:38:20] his feet on the floor.

[00:38:21] He is comfortable there. He's not contorted. He has multiple escape opportunities. He has kips, he has bridge and [00:38:30] rolls. He has knee elbow escapes. Look at the opportunities he has from there. If we go to leg split style positions. Put yourself in this position, put your training [00:38:40] partners in this position and ask yourself, how many opportunities for escape do you have?

[00:38:45] If I'm in side control on Tyler, there's tons of escapes, there's [00:38:50] great reversals from side control. Obviously they're low percentage, but they are there. Guys again, guys like Kelvin Gasson, Derek Lewis is so good from turtle, they just [00:39:00] four point and shake guys off the top. Other guys are so good from side control bottom.

[00:39:05] They know how to use bridges to retake an underhook and re come up. [00:39:10] There are better control positions with that leaves our opponents with less escape opportunities. Again, then those traditional point scoring positions [00:39:20] concept one split the legs, split the legs. And if you can increase the split to increase control[00:39:30]

[00:39:30] riding the legs. So this will not be a split. Yeah. Obviously we haven't covered it yet, it will not be a shelf, it will not be a turk, it will be simply [00:39:40] riding the legs. So another effective way to control the guy on bottom is to ride his legs. And this can come up in tons of different ways. But basically the [00:39:50] core concept is, if we maximize our weight distribution on top of the knees, just above the knees, that wedges their legs together, It [00:40:00] mitigates explosive movement.

[00:40:01] Again, following the key concept, because it's difficult for them to put their feet to the floor. But this one really controls them in a way that they're, they're stuck on their [00:40:10] side as well, right? So I'll quite often use this if I'm in a typical mount and say someone starts doing a knee elbow escape here.

[00:40:18] The second they do, [00:40:20] I sit back on the legs here. And again, you don't need to be too strict. Again, this is a conceptual section. But I'm applying weight to Tyler. Tyler's face is the other [00:40:30] way. I'm applying weight like this. We have the split. This isn't a split. We didn't have that luxury, but we're on top of both legs [00:40:40] here.

[00:40:40] So you'll see it's still about the Tyler to move here, right? So if I'm surfing his legs here and he's trying to move, he can't explode. And you can see, what [00:40:50] did he try to do? He tried to wiggle around and then he tried to bring his upper body away from us. My upper body turns away, the belly down becomes apparent, and again, we're going to cover this later, but we [00:41:00] got wrist rides.

[00:41:00] So if we can't, say we're in a smash boss, we can't split these legs too basically, at least use a windshield wiper [00:41:10] to try to surf and ride these legs so they can't move. So again, you can practice this conceptually with your training partners as well. Two legs on, it's always going to be better than one.

[00:41:19] So Tyler's trying to [00:41:20] move here. Very, very effective control, superior control to any sort of control the IBGF is going to reward [00:41:30] you with. The legs are together and there's weight on them. Sometimes you'll even be down here and we'll be surfing the legs. As Tyler moves, we can generate [00:41:40] a better serve. So as he starts to turn onto the hip, we just stay at the knees.

[00:41:44] It's much better to control someone here than here. [00:41:50] Here you're going to have submission opportunities, but their defense of this will too create submission opportunities. But again, we're here. What does this do? [00:42:00] It straightens these legs. We know that straight legs, it's harder to put toes on the ground, feet on the ground to generate movement.

[00:42:06] What else do we know? If they can't bring their knees to their [00:42:10] chest, very difficult for them to find sort of comfortable positions to explode. So we're extending the legs. We're pinning the legs again, [00:42:20] reducing their ability to use the most explosive part of their body body to destabilize us potentially escape.

[00:42:27] But again, it immobilizes them in [00:42:30] a way that they still have a little bit of hope and their explosions in positions. that they can't move is going to lead to fatigue. And we know anyone that [00:42:40] explodes in bad positions, they obviously, that's a poor decision, but it's going to ultimately lead to fatigue and submission opportunities.

[00:42:47] So surf the legs. And again, [00:42:50] just to demonstrate, Tyler hits a knee elbow escape to his right side, and he starts to capture that foot. We can just surf on top of these legs here. [00:43:00] So it doesn't need to be well strictly defined as me being on top of both legs. I can have a foot in between, but look, if Tyler tries to move, it [00:43:10] generates the same concept here.

[00:43:12] Superior control. So what the IBJF has been telling you all these years.[00:43:20]

[00:43:22] Let's talk about the concept of a Turk. So again, another move I've stolen from another sport, uh, [00:43:30] wrestling, folk style wrestling as well. But a Turk is very, very useful when our opponent wants to stand up. So when we're dealing with the modern [00:43:40] grappler, we're not just thinking about The IBJJF style grappler, ADCC style grapplers use a lot of standing escapes.

[00:43:48] I will still [00:43:50] say it's early days for standing escapes being used in the sport of Jiu Jitsu, but it's very common in MMA because again, obviously with the context of rounds, [00:44:00] if you're gonna stay on bottom, shell up and defend, you've lost the round. So they are more common in MMA. But again in Jiu Jitsu, when we deal with [00:44:10] grapplers that are very good at standing escapes, The key concept is just, they're hard to control.

[00:44:15] A guy that's good at standing escapes is hard to pin, and not just pin in the wrestling context, pin in the [00:44:20] context I talk about, is that is, meaningfully control them so they only give us, uh, better opportunities in their pursuit of escape. What a Turk will [00:44:30] do, is we're gonna basically isolate one leg, and to a certain extent, straighten it, so they can't put that foot on the floor, and they can't really retract that leg either.

[00:44:39] Turk can [00:44:40] come up in many different ways, but my process of turking is to hook the Achilles and extend my hips in, [00:44:50] creating a form of open wedge around their leg that makes both retraction and planting difficult. The most obvious style of [00:45:00] Turk would come from half guard. So, if I have Tyler in half guard here, a standard half guard position is what Tyler has here, [00:45:10] which you can see is a problem for our concept of control because he can bend his legs freely and he can place his feet on the ground at will [00:45:20] basically, especially that left foot.

[00:45:22] When we're talking about a Turk, I want to be covering the Achilles with my Achilles here. I want to be hitting him. [00:45:30] So now Tyler has to place his right foot on the ground. But Tyler tries to retract his right leg. Very, very difficult here. [00:45:40] So I'm not relaxed. I'm tense here. I'm not so tense that my knee turns in.

[00:45:48] Because now, obviously, knee [00:45:50] level is very, very easy here. Generally speaking, that can be the enemy of the turn. So we want to balance. Retraction [00:46:00] with flaring. When we're flaring, facing the direction they want to hit a knee lever or a John Wayne, when he tries it now, very, very difficult here. And now look, [00:46:10] Tyler starts freaking out using explosive movements.

[00:46:15] He can't create those movements in any meaningful way. We [00:46:20] also have these turks come up. We have a reverse turk too. So, if you pay attention to the control here, exact [00:46:30] same, Achilles and hip pressure here. Tyler tries to move. We've got superior control to any [00:46:40] IBGF 20 scoring position. Tyler's opportunities for escape limited.

[00:46:44] His opportunities, to submit a reverse, basically gone. And again, it's [00:46:50] that retraction, flaring, and hip pressure. Even without hands, Tyler tries to get up. His only escape [00:47:00] opportunities are presenting me with those better options, which would be wrist rides and also, uh, re naked stuff. The turtle can also come up.

[00:47:09] [00:47:10] I won't go into too much detail. I just want you to understand the concept from turtle here. Generally speaking, if I have a front head on someone, what my goal is, when I [00:47:20] hit this chest to back weight transfer, is to hook this leg. If I can hook this leg, and pull it to me, I'm doing the same [00:47:30] thing.

[00:47:30] Retraction and flaring, hip pressure, mentality, trying to get up.

[00:47:36] Very, very difficult here. [00:47:40] And again, leads us to our wrist rides and rear naked pressure. You can see how fatiguing it is for this 47 year old man, [00:47:50] Tyler. But again, a turk is a way to control while mitigating their explosive ability and the retraction of their leg. But [00:48:00] the core concept of all these is that it's difficult for them to put the foot they need to on the floor.

[00:48:06] And if they can't do that, they can't really explode and our [00:48:10] control rate goes up hook flare and apply hip pressure.

[00:48:18] Let's talk about shelving the legs. [00:48:20] This concept can be largely seen in a Khabib's game or really those Dagestani style grapplers. And it's built upon that folk [00:48:30] style idea that you need to cover the legs, cover the hips to score takedown points, right? And again, we demonstrated that at the start, but it's basically if I hit a [00:48:40] double and Tyler's on his side here, when he's on his side, he's got opportunities, he's got opportunities for switches, crotch locks, he's got opportunities to get back up.

[00:48:48] Just putting someone to a hip or [00:48:50] to the butt isn't a great control mechanism, which is what frustrates me most about some of the rule sets that score a takedown when you put someone to the butt. [00:49:00] That to me is where the battle for the pin begins. When we step over the legs after a takedown, if we remain over the [00:49:10] legs and shelf those legs, like I'm going to show now, we have superior control.

[00:49:16] So let's imagine I've taken Tyler down here, right? [00:49:20] I don't believe this should score yet because if Tyler comes up to an elbow here, this can easily be reversed, right? So when I say step over the [00:49:30] legs, what I mean is I step over the Achilles. And I cross my feet here. So Tyler brings his head out this way.

[00:49:38] This to me [00:49:40] is great control. I've shelved the legs with my left leg. Tyler tries to put his feet on the ground. And what do we think? If you can't [00:49:50] put your feet on the ground, you can't hip escape or bridge. If Tyler tries either of those movements, super weak and you're gonna probably embarrass yourself along the process, right?

[00:49:59] [00:50:00] Why I believe this is superior to mount two. If Tyler, if he doesn't sit up and he just tries to reach my knees, he can't push him. He [00:50:10] cannot push them. He has to sit up. And again, what does that lead us to? Wrist rides, back taking opportunities. This is why I think [00:50:20] combining the Fox style step over for scoring with shelving the legs like Khabib is just, is just much better.

[00:50:27] It's crazy to think that a guy like Khabib, I [00:50:30] think in the true all encompassing definition of grappling is a superior grappler and could easily be, uh, pure jiu jitsu guys [00:50:40] in certain rule sets, because I believe this is superior to mount. If I said to Tyler here, how would you escape this position? It probably [00:50:50] has no clear path, no clear safe path.

[00:50:53] If I come here and I said, hit a few mount escapes from here, Tyler would have a handful [00:51:00] bridging row again. Knee elbow escape. And again, most importantly, not only can his hands reach my leg, his elbows can reach my leg. Not only can he [00:51:10] place his feet on the ground, but he has numerous ways. He can even trap my own foot from here and start to use those 10th planet style half guard recoveries [00:51:20] from here.

[00:51:20] So shelving the legs is any position where His legs are off of the ground, but it's a double leg [00:51:30] control. Again, the Turk was mainly the emphasis of one, not as good, but it's still a very important concept and still a bridging concept to secure [00:51:40] weaker forms of control that down the line lead to stronger forms of control, right?

[00:51:45] When we use the Khabib style step over here, and if I have tireless legs like [00:51:50] this, he can't separate them, don't place the feet on the ground. So if there is an opportunity and they come up and take down, they come up and we're in side control here. [00:52:00] Why step here to a traditional mount where Tyler can now immediately go into escapes when I [00:52:10] could step to a lower mount and now tell I say Tyler tried to escape.

[00:52:18] There's no clear path to [00:52:20] escape. So when we show off the legs, that's one of the most important concepts and one of the strongest positions we have conceptually in our approach to reducing [00:52:30] the explosiveness, the athleticness, but even just reducing hip movement. What's the first thing you learn in Jiu Jitsu?

[00:52:36] A hip escape. So why do our forms of control not [00:52:40] reduce their ability to escape? to use the day one technique of a hip escape.

[00:52:48] Let's talk about [00:52:50] the ultimate form of control of the lower half. It's a concept, it's a position. It should be the ultimate goal in all of combat [00:53:00] sports, not just jiu jitsu, it should be an MMA, even in a street fight, this would be your best position. And I really struggle to figure [00:53:10] out why we don't see it more often in jiu jitsu gyms.

[00:53:12] And I think it's probably because we're all a bit too nice to each other sometimes. We try to find the most delicate way to [00:53:20] beat someone. But obviously, if I were to take a true re amount and flatten out my training partners and do it as brutally as possible. It's going to be quite painful for him. But again, like all things, we [00:53:30] don't need to do everything to the extreme.

[00:53:32] We can fit this into the toolbox without actually injuring our training partners and making it. So [00:53:40] even just making them so uncomfortable, they don't want to train with us again. There are ways we can use this and still keep our friends on the mat. Right? So because [00:53:50] the definition of back control is two hooks, We will see jujitsu guys elect to chair sit.

[00:53:58] So what would a chair sit be [00:54:00] if say, for example, I had Tyler and something like a gift wrap here, because the purpose is to get the two [00:54:10] hooks. They're gonna sit back and they're gonna obviously body triangle or throw the two hooks in because our goal from that style [00:54:20] of, um. because our goals and that sort of standard operating style of jiu jitsu is just to maximize the point scoring positions and five [00:54:30] submissions from that.

[00:54:31] Quite often, the chair sit back take will present itself prior to the opportunity to flatten out a training [00:54:40] partner. And because we're so eager to score points, points over control, we elect to take the chair, sit and fight. to finish them from the [00:54:50] back and get back still a good position. It's just, there are better positions and that would be to flatten Tyler out.

[00:54:55] If I were to maintain top position and keep working through some of the [00:55:00] controls we're going to cover coming up the best position I could have Tyler and actually waited till we, till we ate lunch to film this section. So if I have two hooks on [00:55:10] Tyler and we've got him belly down here, Tyler comes up and I flatten him.

[00:55:15] Tyler out there, this is the best position in [00:55:20] all of jiu jitsu, right? This should be the ultimate goal. It's basically a shelf of the legs, right? Tyler cannot rotate his hips. [00:55:30] He cannot find his toes on the ground and use them in any meaningful way. He cannot really bend his legs in a way that's going to help him.

[00:55:37] He's on his elbows here. [00:55:40] Obviously, if we can flatten him out further, it's going to be worse. Tyler has no ability to explode here. Tyler tries to move.[00:55:50]

[00:55:51] So you can see here, I can control Tyler without applying pressure. So if Tyler speaks here, yeah, 10, 9, he [00:56:00] doesn't sound too bad. Right? So again, we can use this position in jujitsu with, again, without hurting or alienating our training partners. Or we can apply hip pressure. Tyler starts to talk [00:56:10] here. Hey guys, what's up?

[00:56:12] So again, this should be the ultimate goal and sometimes foregoing a chair sit style back take to [00:56:20] ultimately secure this position is going to be better for us. So again, if it's easy to see that that's the best position [00:56:30] we could possibly be, it leaves him with the least amount of opportunities to defend reverse.

[00:56:37] or even be comfortable, then why would we [00:56:40] elect to take a chair, sit back, take to place hooks and put our training partners, our opponents in positions that aren't too uncomfortable when we could ultimately [00:56:50] work to this position. Part of me thinks that a lot of people think that it's up to the defender to take certain risks that lead us to flattening them out.

[00:56:59] [00:57:00] My argument would be is that we can approach top position in such a way that backs them into a corner, forcing them into these positions. We can dictate [00:57:10] placing them here. We don't just have to be reactive in this sense. And again, a lot of people might not choose to flatten out their training partners because trying to maintain healthy friendships.

[00:57:19] I [00:57:20] think that this should be the top priority in all of top position. We pin our opponents, we control them in such a way that we maintain on top, [00:57:30] we maintain safe, we pin their legs, and we ultimately use some upper body tools that we'll cover next to force our training partners into these [00:57:40] positions. And again, it can be as uncomfortable on them as you want it to be.

[00:57:44] If I was rolling with Ethan Kralenstein, I would literally try to [00:57:50] break his spine from this position. But if I was rolling with other people, I would probably be pretty delicate in a position like this. But again, ask yourself this question. [00:58:00] If we objectively know this is the best position in Jitsu, then why are we not seeking a better position?

[00:58:08] to place our opponents or our training [00:58:10] partners in this position more while we're not trying to develop systems to put them here. And again, the answer is obvious. It's because we're choosing point scoring positions [00:58:20] over control positions. And again, I think this is imperative that we see this position in more of jiu jitsu as a sport and more in the gym training these [00:58:30] positions.

[00:58:31] Craig Jones: [00:58:40] So we've explained some key concepts, principles, whatever fancy word you want to use, [00:58:50] um, to control, to explain how we control the lower body. We've got our shelves, our Turks, um, our leg riding, leg [00:59:00] surfing. We've got all of those, right? So we're using ways to control the lower body to restrict movement.

[00:59:06] But the obvious question would be what's next, right? How do we then [00:59:10] progress? Because we have our, again, standard operating procedure techniques leading to submissions from side control to a less extent from knee right now, [00:59:20] and even from back, right? So if we're going to disregard a lot of that to learn these new skills and see how they can fit into our preexisting game.

[00:59:29] Now [00:59:30] we need to talk about what sort of things we can do to the upper body. Um, to further progress from here. So we're going to be covering a ton. The best way to describe them is [00:59:40] tools, right? Because our opponent is going to do things that's going to lead to opportunities to upgrade our grips with the upper body.

[00:59:47] And we're also going to be able to use those [00:59:50] grips, grip sequences to force movements in our training partner. So combining our lower leg pins without upper [01:00:00] body controls is what's going to complete the entire package. of control that leads to submission. So again, we're controlling, we're pinning them with the [01:00:10] legs.

[01:00:10] That upper body is a control. It's a different style of thing we're going to do, but together is what's going to lead to ultimately that [01:00:20] flattened out position, or if they elect to provide us a submission opportunity prior to that point. All [01:00:30] right. Option one, our first tool. Uh, the most traditional grip sequence we're sort of going to do, and it's just going to be a standard [01:00:40] cross face, right?

[01:00:40] So a lot of people obviously use the cross face in conjunction with an underhook to pin people from a half guard to set up passes. Obviously they'll use it [01:00:50] from side control, they'll use it to get to knee ride and ultimately mount. They can use it from mount to set up arm triangles, set up a high mount, but we can also use it [01:01:00] from our leg riding positions, right?

[01:01:02] So let's say I've got Tyler down and we've pinned him. Let's say we've separated the legs like this. I'm on top of [01:01:10] Tyler here. Obviously there's things Tyler can do to be active from this position, seeking to escape the position. But of course there's going to come times when Tyler [01:01:20] just shells everything up, right?

[01:01:22] So we're going to use the cross face conceptually in a position like this, right? If we can turn [01:01:30] Tyler's upper body away from his lower body, it's going to cause discomfort. And again, we don't need to just go like crazy and try to snap their spine here, right? [01:01:40] We can use it to gently build pressure, leading to discomfort.

[01:01:44] They're going to seek to relieve discomfort, right? And again, [01:01:50] this splitting contorting the spine here is a horrible, horrible position. And again, I've got to recommend. Uh, being careful with this because you see Tyler's [01:02:00] a 56 year old yoga master from back in the day. So his spine is pretty flexible, but again, you're going to deal with some training partners who literally [01:02:10] can't move an inch from these positions, right?

[01:02:12] So obviously twisting the spine might encourage a bit of flexibility, but it might also encourage an injury. And I'm not [01:02:20] talking. Catch wrestling crazy shit here where we're like sticking elbows into people trying to hurt them and belittle them like some Josh Barnett shit where we're [01:02:30] putting our knee and ripping the feet in the air.

[01:02:32] I'm talking just applying pressure. A crossface in and of itself should be kind of uncomfortable. So if we're seeking to use a crossface against a [01:02:40] shelled up training partner here, what I'm looking to do is reach middle finger to armpit and I'm going to start to twist his spine and that doesn't mean just using.[01:02:50]

[01:02:50] My shoulder here. I'm actually going to want to pull his upper body a little to me to allow me to have a better ability to make some strange, [01:03:00] strange noises here. So, If he wants to relieve this pressure, there's a good chance he's going to try to bring this arm to the other side. When he [01:03:10] bridges this arm through, it makes my cross face a little less effective and it allows this upper shoulder to turn somewhat in line with your [01:03:20] spine.

[01:03:20] I know what you're saying. You're saying, why would he go from a defensive shell to giving me what looks like a perfect arm triangle setup? It's because he wants to relieve [01:03:30] discomfort. And again, I don't want you to. to read into this like I'm some sort of sadistic training partner. I want you, I want you to think about it, [01:03:40] gently applying that pressure, safely applying that pressure to encourage movement.

[01:03:44] But again, we're using the crossface to create a [01:03:50] situation where Tyler wants to relieve that pressure. We're going to get into these other grips later, but again, you can see how we've used the crossface. to secure something like a claw here. [01:04:00] So cross face for me is still an effective tool from these positions because it can dictate which direction Tyler can sort of look into here.

[01:04:09] A [01:04:10] perfect cross face here would involve me taking weight off of Tyler's legs. We want to keep weight on the legs so it's going to limit the [01:04:20] effectiveness of the cross face in this position. But it's going to be effective enough to create, um, discomfort in Tyler that makes him want to bring this shoulder back towards us.

[01:04:29] So I [01:04:30] would say in terms of what we're looking to do here, a cross face is a great way to create discomfort without taking pinning weight off [01:04:40] his legs. See if Tyler's trying to move his legs here, still ineffective. If I were to commit heavy cross face pressure, I have [01:04:50] to take. Weight off the legs heavy cross face pressure like this He's not gonna be able to easily bridge this arm through but he's gonna be able to bring his legs back to the equation [01:05:00] So again, we've split the legs here We've done a good job of pinning his lower half, but he's shelled up.

[01:05:08] This is where the crossface is so [01:05:10] effective. We pull him towards us. I started applying pressure in. Tyler goes, I don't want to feel this anymore. So he turns back into me, basically like he's sort of [01:05:20] bridging with just his upper body here. What this has done is relieved the rotation on his spine, but it has now given us another form of control.[01:05:30]

[01:05:30] So our first option is basically that cross face and that cross face can allow us to force discomfort leading [01:05:40] to new positional opportunities.

[01:05:47] Let's talk about what that grip led into. And that [01:05:50] was basically the claw. So the claw is a great grip in traditional back taking scrambles. When we dive for the back, we have rolling situations for the [01:06:00] back because it reduces their likelihood basically diminishes it to none if the claws are good grip is that when we have a claw grip [01:06:10] when I have a grip like this Tyler cannot bring this arm back over my head so compared to a traditional seat belt which is a reduced control [01:06:20] when we have scrambles here I can control his linear movement so I can trap his arm to his head and I can keep that pulled so we can when we have these rolling back take [01:06:30] situations Tyler can't start overarching this arm around, but the claw in the context of what we're just doing, what it does, it follows a [01:06:40] principle of, the lower half principle was that we're reducing either two legs or one leg from coming to his chest here.

[01:06:49] If he brings his knees [01:06:50] to his chest, He's in a pretty good defensive position here, and it's a pretty comfortable position. So what we've done is we've split the legs in this way, but he's still got his elbows [01:07:00] tight. So what the claw grip can do for us in situations like this, remember we just did a crossface, Tyler wanted to relieve that pressure, so he breached into us.

[01:07:09] What [01:07:10] the claw grip can do is allow us this open elbow pressure. So if Tyler wants to bring his elbows to his chest, Very, very [01:07:20] difficult here. It also makes it very difficult, uh, in the way Tyler moves. So if he wants to go belly down to relieve pressure here, it's [01:07:30] going to keep his elbows open. So again, Tyler's very comfortable here.

[01:07:36] This Jitsu. If Tyler's carrying my [01:07:40] weight and his elbows are tight, he can talk fine, right? Yep. All right. If his arms are away, you can hear it, right? So it'd be the [01:07:50] same thing if he went belly down. We're going to cover some more detail next. If he's on his elbows here, that's the building blocks of building heart.

[01:07:56] He's on his forearms, and you can start to come up, right? [01:08:00] So what the claw does is it keeps that one side elbow away from his body here. So we're further [01:08:10] controlling him from here. You can see I'm still pinning my weight to his legs here. Tyler tries to move his legs. We haven't sacrificed our lower body pin [01:08:20] to secure this grip.

[01:08:21] So when Tyler does bridge into me here, I don't keep this grip deep like an arm triangle here. When my arm is deep, it's harder for me [01:08:30] to flare the elbow here. You see how he can bring his elbows in nice and tight? What I actually want is a shallow grip on the neck and I put my shoulder on his [01:08:40] head. Now Tyler tries to bring his elbows in, I can flare my elbow.

[01:08:44] Deep is good for setting up arm triangle submissions. But he can bring his elbows down [01:08:50] and you can see he's quite comfortable here, right? We want a shallow grip and we want to trap our shoulder. We want to trap this pressure in here, so we want to trap [01:09:00] the arm. So now Tyler's trying to move here. Now we're starting to create upper and lower body pins here.

[01:09:07] We've still got the legs split. We didn't sacrifice the [01:09:10] lower body pin to generate upper body control. And you can see Tyler tries to turn back into me. If he tries to turn to his right, [01:09:20] the arms blocking me, he tries to turn belly down, even worse. So again, a great form of control to keep them in this position.

[01:09:29] And what you can see [01:09:30] is when Tyler does go belly down, that open elbow pressure really means that he can't build any height from this position. And even without [01:09:40] hooks, it's very difficult for Tyler to start moving. So we're going to get into these details next. The claw makes it difficult for Tyler to [01:09:50] keep that elbow close to his body.

[01:09:52] Even if you're doing this at home and you lift your elbow, up above your head in any way, it's going to be much more [01:10:00] uncomfortable than a good defensive frame. Crossface created bridging pressure. Bridging pressure created the claw. Claw, superior form of control in the [01:10:10] context of a leg pin, a leg split pin to a traditional crossface.[01:10:20]

[01:10:20] Now we're going to cover open elbows, right? So you saw how the claw grip even just here was very effective at reducing Tyler's ability to bring his [01:10:30] elbow back to his chest here, right? And again, what we're building upon here is Tyler's best defensive position is always going to be that knee elbow connection, reducing space under the [01:10:40] armpit and the hip pocket.

[01:10:41] Uh, to increase his structural integrity in a way that, uh, he can carry weight comfortably and he can explode and he can move, right? [01:10:50] So if Tyler's on his belly here, flattened out, obviously the way we had stapled the legs, Tyler turning belly down meant that with [01:11:00] weight here, it's very difficult for Tyler to feel tight with his knees.

[01:11:05] So we change the angle for this.[01:11:10]

[01:11:10] The weight here makes it hard for him to build height with his hips, right? So we're still pinning the hips just like we were if he were to turn back to his left hip here. If [01:11:20] you turn back this way, you see we're in the same position. He turns belly down, so we haven't moved in this sense at all. So we come back a step again.

[01:11:28] We had our claw [01:11:30] grip, right? And Tyler turns badly, yeah, because the core grip, uh, it makes it difficult for him to turn into me, but I really cannot prevent him [01:11:40] turning away, but I can keep his elbow wide so when he turns out, he stays flat. Why this is important is if Tyler lays flat here, elbows out, [01:11:50] he cannot build height from here.

[01:11:53] His hips are pinned, his legs are pinned, his hands and elbows are extended. For him to start to build heart with the upper body, he would drag his [01:12:00] elbows tight. Now his elbows are tight. He can lift his upper body and now he could potentially come up to his hands to lift his hands. But if we come back, [01:12:10] if Tyler tries to lift his body from here, he needs something, right?

[01:12:16] He can either bring his knees in. [01:12:20] Even if he brings both in, yeah, now he's building height. If he keeps his knees in, he can build up to his feet.

[01:12:27] So, for him to build height, [01:12:30] he needs either his knees in or his elbows in. So if we've pinned his knees here, what we want to seek to do is pin his [01:12:40] elbows out here. And as we saw, we have the claw on this side. So if he's trying to bring his right elbow in, [01:12:50] he can't do it. My elbow's in the way. My flat elbow's in the way.

[01:12:53] And again, let's pretend we're on the other side here. So now I've got the claw on Tyler's left side. If I don't do anything [01:13:00] about this, he can start to lift this elbow. And he can get a little bit of height off one elbow. Obviously, it's going to be difficult. But, if he puts his hands on the ground, or the soles of his feet on the ground, he has some explosive [01:13:10] ability.

[01:13:11] So, if we flatten him out here, and I come under this elbow, and I just lift my elbow. Now Tyler tries to create height.[01:13:20]

[01:13:21] We could even relinquish the core just for the sake of demonstration to lift both elbows. Tyler tries to create height. So we've [01:13:30] got what I would say is complete control. And what is he doing from this position when he's uncomfortable? [01:13:40] If his legs are pinned and his elbows are pinned and he wants to create height, what's the only free thing he has to start creating height?

[01:13:48] his head. [01:13:50] He starts trying to build height here and he lifts his head off the ground. He's given us easy strangles here. So we're eliminating different parts [01:14:00] of his body that he needs to create movement, leaving only vulnerable parts of his body to create movement. So again, we're flaring our elbows here.

[01:14:08] Tyler's trying to move. [01:14:10] Very, very difficult here. If he lifts his head at all, we can come under. And obviously that's how we can start [01:14:20] leading to submissions. And then the beauty here is, if I'm on Tyler threatening submissions, and he tries to hand fight, it's so [01:14:30] hard to hand fight. Let's contrast that

[01:14:37] with here. His [01:14:40] hands are free, his elbows are tight. Even if I get a deep strangle hand, he has opportunity to find the hands. That's because his elbows are tight. If his elbows are flared, [01:14:50] carrying weight and I'm here, imagine how hard it would be to flatten those hands. So when we're seeking to flatten someone out, we need to [01:15:00] control the lower body pins and the upper body pins.

[01:15:03] Obviously hip pressure as well, but you can see how the claw reduces that elbow to [01:15:10] body connection. And then when they really commit to flattening out to create movement, if we keep both elbows high, they're completely jammed in that position.[01:15:20]

[01:15:23] Let's talk about the best script I think we could possibly get. And that would be the, uh, wrist ride dagger, [01:15:30] standing handcuff. That could be special, right? And the reason it comes up is because of the upper body. spine twisting pressures we can generate, right? So if Tyler's down here, [01:15:40] obviously if he's shelled up and keeping his hands tight and we're consistently making him make strange noises like that, another [01:15:50] option you might think is as I'm reaching, he starts to come up onto this elbow.

[01:15:54] I mean, he has created movement here. This is a big movement he's [01:16:00] created. It's just a vulnerable movement. He needs to be on his elbow because it's carrying So don't relinquish weight completely. So if we come back. Make him carry weight [01:16:10] as he gets up. You know what I mean? Give him nothing easy. And usually I find that the wrist is closer to us when we do it.

[01:16:16] If we come back, if I don't have any weight on him and he comes up, [01:16:20] that wrist is further away to reach. When they carry weight, their elbow needs to be basically in a structurally stronger position. [01:16:30] And generally speaking, it means it's going to be this side, his leg side, So just to demonstrate again, if I'm back here, you can really create heart with [01:16:40] that arm far away and now it's hard to reach.

[01:16:43] If he tries to create heart like that now, he's never going to get up. So if he wants to create [01:16:50] heart while bearing away, he has to be structurally sound and that means more likely. To get it here, right? And just some details to point out. The [01:17:00] wrist ride is super effective, but we need to keep two hands on it to have complete control.

[01:17:05] So if Tyler starts to come up, and I grab that [01:17:10] wrist, and I hold it with one hand, And I start to create weight on him. He can bring this in a full circle behind his back, the, uh, the other direction and he loops it like he's [01:17:20] swimming here to clear the grip. Why he can do that is because it is a pulling grip for me to collapse Tyler here.

[01:17:28] hand to me [01:17:30] and apply body weight on him so we can find opportunities to swing out. So what we want to do is control with two hands. So I pull his hand and elbow to me [01:17:40] and extend upper body pressure. So now when Tyler tries to move, we've got complete control and When he's collapsed and it's wedged under his body.[01:17:50]

[01:17:50] Now we have a stronger grip, right? His best opportunity to clear it is as he comes up. If I grab one hand on it and pull it, even [01:18:00] if his weight starts to collapse, now we can do that full semi circle because we're pulling the grip down. He can swim it out. So we're making him [01:18:10] carry weight. He starts to come up.

[01:18:12] Immediately grab that wrist. We've controlled it with one hand. We swim through and grab it with the other. I pull and push. So I pull his [01:18:20] arm to me and I push body weight onto him here. Then I can really work to secure this grip and I want to collapse him with [01:18:30] shoulder pressure. So I'm not too square here.

[01:18:33] I want to encourage him to go belly down. So my weight distribution comes forward. [01:18:40] And like a Tyler does clean the mats here. So obviously, given what we're doing today, I've never seen them this clean in my entire life. So [01:18:50] we want to create that rolling pressure because again, the king of positions is them being bellied out here in the Dakistani handcuffs.[01:19:00]

[01:19:00] Is what guarantees that. So you see here, Tala even wants to, he knows this is bad technique because it's opening up the neck, but to relinquish [01:19:10] pressure, he doesn't want to stay here because look what's happening to his head. So we can create forced errors by our body weight here. And [01:19:20] obviously it opens up to strangles, right?

[01:19:23] He's not getting paid enough for this one. So again, just to re [01:19:30] emphasize, we want to keep weight on him and he wants the elbow post because he doesn't want us to be here. Cross facing him here. So he starts coming up, wrist control, [01:19:40] forearm control, collapse him, keep body weight on the legs. Tyler's trying to wiggle the legs.

[01:19:46] Very tough here. We commit to one hand. [01:19:50] We're rolling him. I roll my weight. So now Tyler's trying to move here. He can't move away. He can't move in.[01:20:00]

[01:20:01] And obviously, it opens up opportunities. I want to keep repeating this technique just because of those noises. But, um, that is one of the [01:20:10] most important grips, I believe, is the dagger standing handcuff. Again, you don't see it a ton in Jiu Jitsu because a lot of guys don't use standing escapes. They don't think to [01:20:20] get up to get out.

[01:20:21] They practice the preconceived notion, I'm on bottom, you're on top. Oh, I hit a sweep. I see a lot of the time guys will concede [01:20:30] sweeps in the gym pretty early and stuff. They don't try to fight those pins. I don't try to fight back to the feet. So I would say we can force those movements by creating [01:20:40] gentle spinal pressure, hip thrusting pressure.

[01:20:42] We create a pressure. Why do MMA fighters want to get up? They have that attitude. Get off of me. They want you to get off of them. We [01:20:50] can generate that pressure and create that same instinct. In the bottom player here, just by pins and rotations. They want to get up, they want to build height, someone wants to get [01:21:00] up, they build high.

[01:21:01] If they wanna build height, they expose the wrist to create that wrist ride. Dagger standing, handcuff style pressure. And you can see it's just a [01:21:10] completely debilitating pin. And again, nothing about the position I had Tyler in or I forced Tyler into was a point scoring position, but it was [01:21:20] probably more uncomfortable, more controlling.

[01:21:22] than any of the points scoring positions that currently exist in the sort of meta of the sport today.[01:21:30]

[01:21:32] Let's talk about half Nelsons and what they are and how we can use them. And again, I'm, I mean, I'm not up to date with the [01:21:40] IBGF rules, but I know a lot of people consider it a neck crank, stuff like that. I know a full Nelson's illegal for ABCC, but a half Nelson, again, it's just a tool, a half Nelson. If your opponent [01:21:50] chooses to move with the pressure, they relieve the pressure.

[01:21:52] So it's not. a neck crank in any way. Um, but they're tools. There's basically, broadly speaking, two [01:22:00] forms of half Nelson. If an opponent is belly down, a half Nelson could generate pressure to turn them belly up. And if that opponent's belly up, a half Nelson could generate pressure to turn them [01:22:10] belly down.

[01:22:10] Let's take a look at the first one. So now we just do a standards and we'll talk about how they fit in. Right. If I place a hand and a fist [01:22:20] under Tyler's neck, look what it's doing. It's turning him here as I straighten my arm. If he fights it aggressively, yeah, sure. There's [01:22:30] pressure on the neck, but I'm simply turning him over and he relieves pressure by going with it.

[01:22:38] So if we're here and [01:22:40] say for the, this would be more in a wrestling context. We want to generate a pin pressure. Now we just come behind the head and we can start to turn it. So again, just [01:22:50] tools to create rotation under the armpit, behind the head. Tyler tries to fight it. Very difficult, generates neck pressure.

[01:22:59] From now, [01:23:00] we want to turn him under the head, behind the armpit. Tyler can't really fight this in any effective way. The straighter my arm gets, the more [01:23:10] he has to turn to relieve the pressure. And again, we want to turn him back, under the armpit, behind the head. While the full Nelson [01:23:20] style is illegal, is because there's no direction Tyler can really move to relieve this pressure here.

[01:23:27] Whereas obviously a half [01:23:30] Nelson, easy to generate pressure. So Tyler brings his head this way. Now we can talk about how they might come up from our pin positions [01:23:40] here. So I'm lower on Tyler's body. So if he wants to start pushing my legs, he can reach down with his hands. But [01:23:50] look at this exposure we have here.

[01:23:52] It's hard for him to stay disciplined. If we're in now, he can use his elbows, no space at all. So when we're back down [01:24:00] here and he wants to push his elbows, aren't connecting here, right? My, he's my legs too far away for his elbows to [01:24:10] an effective toll. So he's going to push with his hands. That gives us opportunity to grab it.

[01:24:15] Place it on the ground. I'm shifting a little bit of body weight onto the hands. [01:24:20] So now it's harder for Tyler to pull it out. From there we can come behind the head under the armpit here and you can see I'm trying to [01:24:30] drag my fist along the ground. The higher Tyler's arm is, this direction, the more I'm going to force him to belly out from here.

[01:24:39] You [01:24:40] can see he wants to relieve that pressure. He turns belly down. Then we can start shifting pressure to the upper body here. And as long, what do we think he's going to do? He [01:24:50] can't move his legs easy, so he's going to start bringing his elbows back. So we need to create high elbow pressure. We can start finding strangles [01:25:00] here.

[01:25:02] So Tyler goes, Oh, this time I'm going to push his legs. We've got another option. We take that grip. We strip it out and I place [01:25:10] weight on it here. My weights back here, Tyler can wriggle that arm around better, or again, use the other hand to clear it. If I apply a bit of body weight here, place some weight on his upper body, [01:25:20] come behind the head, we can start to create half Nelson pressure.

[01:25:24] If one fist isn't enough, reinforce it with your other hand. And you'll see my body weight [01:25:30] shifts up. Tyler's trying to move here. He wants to go back to now. He's like, Oh, I fucked up. He can't move. So it can generate complete control [01:25:40] with the half nelson. Again, a lot of jiu jitsu purists don't really understand what the half nelsons are.

[01:25:47] It's just a method to turn someone in a different [01:25:50] direction. Someone's belly down, use a half nelson to turn a belly out. Someone's belly up, we can use a half nelson to turn them belly down.[01:26:00]

[01:26:02] All right, let's talk about another version of a cross face. Um, this everyone's been putting this Everyone's instinctually [01:26:10] tried to do this to others. I know like it's like, it's kind of a bully move. You can actually submit people from here. Um, it's an arm in cross face, basically like a reinforced [01:26:20] cross face.

[01:26:20] So let's say we're back in the leg row. We're back. We're riding the legs, spitting the legs, surfing the legs. Like I was saying, if this hand really commits to push on the [01:26:30] knee, we've got our half Nelson sort of action here. All right. But when this hand goes to push. We can actually trap this arm in [01:26:40] to take a crossface.

[01:26:41] So if you pay attention to where his right arm is, it's trapped in. If he tries to bring it back to the other side, it's going to be pretty difficult. It's not [01:26:50] a standard crossface where my chest is over the arm. It's, my chest is in here. Basically, my pecs are controlling it here. [01:27:00] And it does everything a regular crossface does, just better.

[01:27:04] I can twist his spine pretty good. Um, if he tries to move explosively in either direction and [01:27:10] even though you see his belly's out here, he's bellowing out straight into a re naked here, right? So reinforced crossface. And [01:27:20] again, it is when obviously This hand extending, half nelson's. Interior hand extending.

[01:27:28] I'm still keeping my weight on. I [01:27:30] might try to use my pecs to bump him across and come around the head. And I don't want to stay too low here because Tyler will bring his arm back through and it won't be trapped. So when we wrap [01:27:40] it up, roll your weight up a bit. You can see I've still got sufficient weight on the legs.

[01:27:45] If we ever have to take weight off the legs, [01:27:50] So when I'm sitting on him, Tyler can't move. But if I take weight off and I extend, Tyler tries to move, he can't move. So if we need to jeopardize [01:28:00] lower body weight, we want to slip the legs in. So you can see, Tyler cannot turn to his right. He cannot turn into me here.

[01:28:09] If he wants to turn [01:28:10] away, I'll open up a bit of space because I want him to. And we can stop. Bailing him out here, but again reinforced crossface. [01:28:20] Obviously, it's not going to come up over time But if it's there you can snatch it and again You can actually submit people from there. You can squeeze them.

[01:28:27] Usually something big old [01:28:30] fat coaches do to white belts or blue belts, you know what I mean? It's a bit of a degrading high belt submission. But it's something we can all get behind as we get older.[01:28:40]

[01:28:43] Guys, this is the most brutal part of the whole series. I'm the most excited about showing it. [01:28:50] Actually, no, probably it's going to get much worse. But a form of upper body control is the neck. So if you quite often, if you watch a Khabib fight [01:29:00] and you see him arm around the neck and it almost looks It almost looks like some primitive, white belt level stuff, [01:29:10] where he's like, lifting the neck.

[01:29:11] It almost looks like someone that doesn't know how to do a rear naked, but basically trying to find the right pressure. But it's actually because it's a great form [01:29:20] of control, especially from flattened out positions. If I have no other upper body grips, but pressure on the neck, we can actually still pin them here.

[01:29:29] [01:29:30] So here's a, here's a classic example where I'm flattened out. I've flattened Tyler out. I don't have deep hooks in. I'm just riding the legs here, right? If I put [01:29:40] all my body weight into Tyler here, so we're fully flattening him out and I got full body weight, but I use no upper body control and Tyler starts to build height.[01:29:50]

[01:29:50] It's hard. But he can start to get unwrapped. If all we add in is an arm around the neck, we apply, it's not so [01:30:00] much rotation and lift, it is a counter force for chest pressure. If my chest pressure is stationary like this, as we saw, it can come up. When I pull up on the [01:30:10] head, I can actually apply a bit more.

[01:30:12] Chest pressure here. So Tyler's really trying to get up here. Very difficult. And again, I'm [01:30:20] just going above the face here so you can clearly see it's not a strangle, but even without choking him here, I can do the same thing. He can't get up here. [01:30:30] So this is its own form of control and we can use it to pass off to strangles, right?

[01:30:36] So as Tilers trying to get up. [01:30:40] So it looks like some meathead, sort of just like pulling a guy's head off, but it really is just a control. Because again, if I [01:30:50] don't have it He can start to get up and it comes up out of, if he's on his side here. So say for example, like what we [01:31:00] saw earlier, if we had a reinforced cross face here, I'm applying chest press with Tyler turns because he wants to belly, get belly down and get up.

[01:31:07] Now Tyler tries to get up.[01:31:10]

[01:31:15] We can use that rear naked grip to [01:31:20] prevent more athletic explosive movements. So Retraction. head back a little, but mostly I'm bringing my chest forward. [01:31:30] So if Tyler's on his side here, just seated, you just sit on your butt, face this way. I'm lifting the head and applying [01:31:40] chest, chest pressure here. And that could be from here, could even be up here, but it's a counterforce so that he can't build height very easy.

[01:31:49] He can't really [01:31:50] create explosive athletic pressure to climb up. We over rotate the head and it pins into the ground. So what might look like some [01:32:00] primitive meathead prison shower scene type of position, it's really just a great way to keep them flattened out. Cause again, it is hard [01:32:10] work to flatten someone out and ultimately it's the best position in Jiu Jitsu.

[01:32:14] But when we flatten them out, we want to keep them there. So we need to use everything we can to keep them there. It's [01:32:20] just one tool in the toolbox is to just extend the neck and pressure your chest forward.

[01:32:29] I thought the [01:32:30] last scene would be my favorite, but actually this one's probably going to be my favorite. And that is It's the various forms in which we could flatten someone out effectively and also [01:32:40] the hierarchy in which we could flatten someone out. So we had flattening people out with basically crab hooks.

[01:32:46] We had the perfect rear mount, two feet inside, [01:32:50] knees flared. And obviously there's going to be intermediary spots where we have a crab hook on one side, a regular hook on the other, or I'll show you my [01:33:00] personal favorite, which is basically creating a single leg shelf and hipping in. So let's do it here.

[01:33:08] So for the [01:33:10] sake of this, let's place this way. So when we're flattening someone out with a leg ride, I'm heavy just below the butt [01:33:20] cheeks and we're flaring our legs here. So I have to flare my knees and hip in here. So this is how we can flatten someone out out of a leg ride. And you [01:33:30] saw how that came about.

[01:33:31] Because basically, uh, yeah, so we're going to demonstrate. So we're riding the legs here, tally, tallies out, immediately chest forward, [01:33:40] flaring the legs. So I would say your success rate of flattening people out is probably going to correlate to a certain degree. with your ability to, uh, have a [01:33:50] flexible groin.

[01:33:50] Obviously, if my knees can only flare this much, it's not gonna be as effective as here, right? So, then we have our traditional Tyler lifts [01:34:00] up. We have two hooks in. But again, the better ability to flatten someone out is by flaring the legs, because [01:34:10] it allows us to put more chest pressure forward. Here, it's not as bad for Tyler, Here is much worse.

[01:34:18] And then we have various [01:34:20] configurations, right? So single hook, but sometimes we have a single hook and a crab hook. If we have a single crab hook and a single regular hook, the crab hook [01:34:30] wants to turn into Tyler's hip. So we want to create that tension here. So now Tyler tries to get up. You see how a crab hook [01:34:40] is preventing movement on his left side.

[01:34:42] And then obviously chest pressure with the right, very difficult for Tyler to build for hype from him. [01:34:50] So the hierarchy would be number one is what I'm about to show. And that is single reinforced [01:35:00] hooks that don't just lift the knees off the ground. It's basically going to lift this whole front quad here.

[01:35:07] So I'll demonstrate on this side. So it's close to the camera. So if [01:35:10] Tyler lifts this leg up, so I'm going to lift that leg and have diagonal pressure. [01:35:20] Why this is so strong is you can see how much we're picking that leg off the ground. So if Tyler's trying to move, you can add in [01:35:30] other forms of control.

[01:35:31] You can see we really get great back and shin shoulders. So we'll do it on both sides, just to even up the back pressure. [01:35:40] So again, we're under one hook here. I'm fully weighted diagonally across. Include the dagger standing handcuffs, and Tyler tries to move. [01:35:50] One of the easiest finishes, and Tyler moves. So that would be number one.

[01:35:55] Number two would be two hooks.[01:36:00]

[01:36:00] Number two would be here. Tyler's trying to move here. Super difficult. Super easy to strangle him here. So get even fish [01:36:10] hook in. I would say number three is probably this flat position here because I can get so much chest pressure [01:36:20] forward here. And then the third one would be, sorry, the fourth would be a combination.

[01:36:25] So single hook, single butterfly hook. So we're doing the best we can [01:36:30] with what we've got. Let's say this is the weaker of the bunch, but it's easy to transfer out to number one. So it's good as an intermediary, [01:36:40] right? So we've got the reinforced single hook. We've got your standard rear mount. We've got, um, the ride on top [01:36:50] and we've got the combination crab and single hook.

[01:36:54] So that would be basically our hierarchy of the rear mount, but you can see the overarching concept [01:37:00] is chest forward pressure. We're collapsing their hips, trying to keep their legs higher in mobile, and we're trying to create, um, [01:37:10] elbow high pressure, dagger standing handcuff to generate reenacting short pressure.

[01:37:14] Basically, they're, if we control that effectively, they're going to feel like they have to [01:37:20] concede this strangle. It doesn't need to be terribly uncomfortable, but again, that's really up to us and how much pressure we want to apply safely in the gym versus in [01:37:30] competition.

[01:37:31] [01:37:40] So we've covered our concepts of sort of leg control. We've covered some tools in the toolbox, [01:37:50] uh, in terms of upper body, uh, grips and grip exchanges. We've also covered when we have flattened someone out the hierarchy of where our legs want to [01:38:00] be. But obviously sometimes someone can find a way to turtle and we don't flatten them out in the process of them turtling.

[01:38:08] And that's what we'd be looking at, say, like if I [01:38:10] tie it here, where he's actually pretty structurally strong, right? So he's got his elbows in tight, he's on his knees, but the most important point is this is the basic building block [01:38:20] position for him to start generating height here. And height's going to be his friend in this situation.

[01:38:25] If he can start to build height, increases the, uh, increases his chances of escape. [01:38:30] He reduces our chances of a position that will immediately lead to a submission. So we need to talk about how we can control this position. with the fundamental [01:38:40] idea being creating pins. So again, we're not approaching turtle from the standpoint of how do I get two hooks?

[01:38:48] How do I score [01:38:50] from here? We're approaching this from a idea that how do we maintain pinning control? And most importantly, how do we prevent them from generating height? Because [01:39:00] some of the most difficult guys to control are the guys that are very strong offensively from this position where they can generate high and we cannot keep them down.

[01:39:09] Uh, [01:39:10] contrary to what your average jiu jitsu response would be, which is they would not want to be in turtle. They'd be looking for a way to roll back down because this is a position that's scared of, uh, you [01:39:20] getting two hooks in. But again, none of our back taking opportunities from here will involve really any of that chair sitting style, falling and pulling them on top of us.

[01:39:29] We're going [01:39:30] to try to stay on top. no matter what. And even if that means we don't take a back take, it's better for us to stay in, uh, pinning control positions as they [01:39:40] can see backwards than it is to jeopardize our control by chair sitting. So we'll get started now. We'll start talking about some of the concepts of how we approach this position [01:39:50] differently.

[01:39:50] Let's talk about using a cosoto hook. So in this situation, we have our opponent, [01:40:00] train partner turtle. And we don't have an inside hook. Obviously, we could take a single hook from here. That would be our preferred, uh, control position here. It's just a bit of a tighter [01:40:10] control on the bottom player. But really, we're prioritizing control.

[01:40:14] And control means he cannot stand up, or he cannot stand up easily. So, [01:40:20] when we're talking about prioritizing control, and not just diving for two hooks because they score points, we can use a Kosoto hook. to control them from these positions. So one of [01:40:30] the best ways I find to enter Kosoto hook is usually on my way to the back out of a situation like a front head.

[01:40:37] A lot of times the guy will have one [01:40:40] of these legs up and he'll be on his foot in this position here, right? This is very, very common. So what I'm doing is this basic, uh, I transfer my weight from [01:40:50] shoulder to shoulder, to chest to chest, and I'm moving. to set my heel over Tyler's foot and I'm pulling my knee to [01:41:00] me as I start creating this angle into Tyler here.

[01:41:03] So you can see what it's doing, just following all the principles of control we've talked about. Obviously [01:41:10] I can't prevent both of Tyler's feet or toes from touching the mat, but I'm easily preventing this one. And I want you to really see how I'm using my weight here. [01:41:20] I'm up on my outside leg, my knees are on the ground here.

[01:41:23] My knees on the ground, my knees taking a ton of the weight, and Tyler can see how easily he can move from these positions. [01:41:30] So we want our outside leg up. And I'm generating hip to hip pressure here, right? So I'm really pulling my weight into [01:41:40] Tyler, and I'm on a diagonal here. So you see my weight is draped across Tyler's body here.

[01:41:49] Okay, [01:41:50] so I've got the hook. We've got the hip to hip pressure here, and I'm trying to actively, the knee I'm hooking, pulling it out here. You can see how hard it is [01:42:00] for Tyler to start thinking about escaping this position, generating height. And obviously if he really felt worried here and he would start to concede to this hip, we're [01:42:10] straight back into leg rides here.

[01:42:12] So,

[01:42:16] I'm still applying similar pressure if he's collapsed here. And you can [01:42:20] see my weight is still on the diagonal and I'm very close to be able to take our wrist rides, our Dagestani handcuffs here. And now it's going to be much harder for Tyler to [01:42:30] start to get back up. So it's a cosoto hook, his legs are pinned together, he can't put his right foot on the ground, even his left foot here, [01:42:40] he can't really meaningfully put it on the ground because the top leg is squashing it here.

[01:42:43] And you see him trying to move here is somewhat leading him. to worst positions. All he has from [01:42:50] these positions is height generated by his hands here, but of course we can start to break him down and now we've landed in a very [01:43:00] dominant position. We've got our wrist right and our co solo hook. So now if Tyler's trying to move here,

[01:43:07] but I'm generating hip to hip pressure. [01:43:10] back healing and trying to face my hips in line with Tyler's hips. If my hips are facing down the shoulder line, it's sort of difficult [01:43:20] for me to generate a lot of pressure. So I want to generate hip to hip pressure. I want to face the direction he faces, but I want to emphasize heavy weight on this far [01:43:30] shoulder here.

[01:43:31] He's got me in a sort of a great way to knock people over from these positions. So I'll follow this here. We're taking our co soto, we're [01:43:40] trapping the two of us. I'm trying to place my hips in line with Tyler's hips. I'm draping my weight across Tyler in a diagonal [01:43:50] fashion here. And again, it's very difficult for Tyler to start moving here.

[01:43:53] So this would be how I'd use a co soto to control from the turtle position. Obviously there are things we need to [01:44:00] worry about here. Again, if we're dealing with people that are good at leg locks, Anytime. I start stepping in between Tyler's legs so he has an opportunity to start inverting to the [01:44:10] right.

[01:44:11] But if he really heavily emphasized control, it's going to be tougher for Tyler to create an inversion opportunity to sit. [01:44:20] He's got too much weight committed to his upper body and his hands. So you can see this is basically the same mechanism of action we'd use in a [01:44:30] cradle. And a cradle is what we're going to talk about next.

[01:44:36] So we'll talk about cradles now. Again, I'm using another entry out of the [01:44:40] front head, but we're just talking controls and just giving you, uh, examples of how we might easily end up here. And if you're already familiar with the cradle, but you're not familiar with the [01:44:50] first control hook we did, we're essentially doing the same thing with our leg hook here.

[01:44:56] So just to give you an example, so I was in this exact same [01:45:00] position again, this legs We've transferred chest and back, we've stepped over. As I start to hook this leg, I connect [01:45:10] my hands underneath. So we're connecting our hands just underneath here. And instead of this time, instead of like the previous time, [01:45:20] where my hip is generating pressure into Tyler's hip to sort of, uh, misalign his spine.

[01:45:27] He obviously is much more comfortable when his leg [01:45:30] and spine is in alignment. So instead of our hip doing that, this time it's going to be our shoulder. Obviously a little bit out of grips connected here, but it's my shoulder [01:45:40] that's pushing Tyler. I'm trying to keep weight on his left knee here. The closer Tyler's right hip comes to me, The stronger he will be here and he might [01:45:50] even potentially break my grip.

[01:45:52] So I'm driving my shoulder into Tyler's hip. So now if Tyler starts thinking about trying to stand up, [01:46:00] he can start to even collapse his back here. So I'm really contorting his spine and his right leg. Tyler keeps looking for explosive movements. [01:46:10] Very, very difficult here. And again, this leg shelf I have here means he cannot place his [01:46:20] right leg, his right foot on the ground, reducing his explosive ability.

[01:46:25] And again, we're going to cover this later, but you can see if we have a cradle, and Tyler's [01:46:30] collapsed in his hip, and we've got our hands connected here, he basically cannot get back up again. So out of alignment there to be an [01:46:40] ultimate form of control. We've both sheed the leg and sl the legs. So again, when we're using the cradle control, we're trying to misalign [01:46:50] the spine with our shoulder here.

[01:46:52] So transfer chest the back. I would retract this leg as much as possible. Um, going [01:47:00] around his leg with my arm. With my left arm, my right arm is going from chin strap around and connecting to the left and we're driving weight into the hip. [01:47:10] Tyler's trying to move. There's a good chance he's going to burn a lot of energy or end up collapsing to the opposite [01:47:20] hip.

[01:47:20] And again, once he's on this opposite hip, very easy for me to, uh, take weight above and across his body. Alright, so now with Tyler trying to get up. Good work. [01:47:30] complete control focus position. So again, a cradle should be a useful tool in the toolbox to [01:47:40] prevent guys from both standing up or trying to concede to a more typical neutral jujitsu position.[01:47:50]

[01:47:52] Let's talk about the diagonal ride. So again, if we look at a turtle situation and we try to [01:48:00] remove from our mind the concept of scoring points, looking for the second hook and doing everything we can do to get the second hook. [01:48:10] And on top of that, even if you're not competition focused, because every instructor teaches from the framework of these standard positions, Typically [01:48:20] speaking, you're still going to see out of the non competition gym situations where guys are looking to pull their opponents on top of them to secure hooks.

[01:48:28] So what do I mean by that? If I [01:48:30] have Tyler here with a single hook in, because I'm so eager to get my left hook in, we'll see situations where pulling people on top of us [01:48:40] basically to try to secure the second hook. So what I want you to remember is that So, this is a great [01:48:50] position. We are on top of our opponents here and we are making them carry our weight.

[01:48:54] If I pull Tyler on top of me, now he's, he's not carrying my weight at all. If anything, [01:49:00] I can be carrying his weight in that situation. Especially, um, like we explained earlier. Tyler can put his feet on the ground. He could sort of dictate to a certain [01:49:10] degree where we find ourselves positioned there because his feet touch the floor.

[01:49:14] Mine do not as a part of that back control. So he could generate pressure to put [01:49:20] his weight directly on top of me here. And again, if he can find a strong grip fighting sequences from there, he can survive quite a bit and he can even fatigue us. His [01:49:30] lateral hip movement with his feet on the ground can fatigue the legs and he's in a strong.

[01:49:34] defensive position to hand fight. So my point is why do we [01:49:40] remove ourselves from a position on top of our opponent where we can make them carry our weight in pursuit of the submission? Why are we [01:49:50] removing ourselves from this position? Right? And again, if we go to pull our opponents on top of us in situations like this, what can happen as well as we can fall off of the back.

[01:49:59] So if [01:50:00] I'm on Tyler's back, even single hook, and he's able to generate four point quad quad pod style pressure, I can shake off the top. And I would [01:50:10] even argue that, uh, another limitation of the competition setting would be a situation where Tyler's in a quad pod here at four point. And because [01:50:20] I want to score points, I start thinking about diving hooks in here.

[01:50:24] And sometimes I'll get my hooks one, two, three, we score our points, we fall off, [01:50:30] we end up on bottom and we've secured the points that could win the match, but we've been shaken off the top. I would argue that there's much better things you could do in that situation. [01:50:40] Then try to pursue hooks to secure points or hooks, because that's the framework from which you understand the pursuit of submission, right?

[01:50:49] So [01:50:50] let's have a look at what we could do if we had a single hoop. So what I want to argue for is that Tyler's quite strong where his elbows and knees are close [01:51:00] together. He can have his hands on the floor there. If his hands are on the floor, he can generate height. Obviously, if he can't put his hands on the floor and he's stuck on his forearms, [01:51:10] he cannot generate upper body height.

[01:51:12] With his knees here, close to his elbows here, they are in a structurally strong position to now, uh, use his feet to [01:51:20] generate high air. But I want to show that if we do something called a diagonal, uh, diagonal right style of pressure, where we can lift one arm [01:51:30] and one leg. Now, it's going to be very difficult for him to generate height in any structurally sound way.

[01:51:39] So if we [01:51:40] have a single hook in here, I'm looking across my feet so that I can apply hip pressure here. This single hook pressure is tough for [01:51:50] Tyler to shake off in the direction I'm applying pressure. Sure, if I was off to the side here and start bumping, we can start falling off. But, [01:52:00] we're applying diagonal pressure here.

[01:52:03] Even if Tyler's really low here, we start applying this pressure here. You can already hear it in [01:52:10] his breathing. As I apply pressure into his upper body, it's his hand, head that starts to absorb weight to the ground. So what would he want to do? He'd probably want to generate [01:52:20] height with his hands here.

[01:52:22] And as he goes to do that, we look to lift that diagonal pressure off of the ground here. So look, I got complete [01:52:30] control. Tyler's trying to move. We've got control here without looking for points or positions. [01:52:40] So we're looking at a couple angles until we break them in. So let's even look at it from this situation.

[01:52:47] He's on his hands, he's on his knees here. And we've got [01:52:50] a single hook and we're on top. We're not looking to jump over here. We're looking to keep our feet crossed. and our knees pinched together. [01:53:00] This is quite strong and I can actually apply heaping in pressure here, but he's pretty structurally sound with his hand on the ground.

[01:53:08] So to create that [01:53:10] true diagonal pressure, I want to attack the weakest part of the elbow and that'll be the interior. You can see Tyler's already collapsing here. [01:53:20] Wherever he wants to go from here. We've got complete control. We can even encourage him to fall onto his left hip by flaring our [01:53:30] right knee.

[01:53:32] And now, face the camera. We've landed in an excellent position here. [01:53:40] We've collapsed him, we've twisted up his spine, and by the nature of the way he fell, We've got our wrist right here. We can even come around and [01:53:50] use the head control as well. So I'm still applying hip pressure in here. So if Tyler's trying to move,

[01:53:58] I would argue [01:54:00] this control. is better than any IBGJF point scoring control position. And you can see Tyler has to use an incredible amount of energy to escape. [01:54:10] There are no real technical escapes he can do from here. If Tyler stays exactly where he is, we've split the legs. We've got weight [01:54:20] on the hips.

[01:54:21] We've got a wrist drive. We even have our secondary hand free. So it looks like we're just going for a strangle, but we're, yeah, we're elevating [01:54:30] and applying chest pressure. So he has no explosive capability from here. And again, I would argue I'd much rather have someone here in [01:54:40] any rule set of combat sports, then any sort of back tech that involved me pulling a Tyler's been hanging out here all day.

[01:54:49] [01:54:50] I can't fatigue him from his position. I can't even make him uncomfortable. So one more time. One more time. This is for me, not for you guys. This is to [01:55:00] enjoy, uh, crushing Tyler here. But again, we got our single hook. I'm staying square on the hips here. So I can use my [01:55:10] secondary leg to square myself back up.

[01:55:13] So I use my knee. to square my hips up. We cross our feet here. I'm back [01:55:20] healing and hip again. So compare the difference here. If I just control single hook in a seatbelt and Tyler can four point easy. [01:55:30] And now we're carrying a ton of weight. Do not fall off. He can even start shaking us up. Compare the difference.

[01:55:37] So we cross our feet and start hipping in. So [01:55:40] Tyler tries to get out. I didn't even use my hands.

[01:55:48] Really, really hard for [01:55:50] you to do that. That's not even with me using my hands here. I'll be simply stick to the diagonal control as he starts building height here.[01:56:00]

[01:56:02] And we generate that pressure. to control them from this position. So again, I would argue [01:56:10] another example when we're approaching turtles, that there are much better options than kind of what you've been led to believe based on the point scoring [01:56:20] structure of this sport. If we want control, we want control the least of submission.

[01:56:24] This is going to be a much more high percentage path than the traditional point [01:56:30] scoring framework of merely looking for hogs. any opportunity we get.

[01:56:38] All right, so we had our [01:56:40] cosoto hook and our cradle style hook to control someone from turtle. Uh, then we had the actual single hook control using the diagonal ride pressure from turtle, but [01:56:50] another useful trick is if Tyler faces away from the camera here is We can use crab style hooks to create [01:57:00] flaring pressure in Tyler's legs to make it harder for Tyler to sit up right to get height with his hips.

[01:57:06] If his feet are together, he can lift his hips quite easily. [01:57:10] If we spread his legs, Much harder for him to generate height with his hips. So that's when things like these crab hooks start to come [01:57:20] in handy. We can use them one at a time with a hook if we didn't want to reinforce our hooks. So we can flare, or even if we can use two at a time.

[01:57:29] If [01:57:30] Tyler is trying to stand up here. It's difficult. Obviously, I'm not going to keep Tyler here forever, but it's a good little [01:57:40] momentary catch to prevent them sitting out. But it also abides by the principles we've spoken about throughout, and that is he needs to get his feet onto the floor [01:57:50] to really start generating explosive, uh, pressure.

[01:57:53] And again, the more flared out his leg is, the harder that's going to be to put heel through the floor. As [01:58:00] opposed to a sort of that square linear angle here. So crab hooks. And again, they look quite similar. They come up a lot, right? We were talking about the concept of splitting the [01:58:10] legs. These are basically crab hooks here.

[01:58:13] So if Tyler bellies out, we've still got our crab hook control. And sometimes if you deal with someone super powerful and they start to lift their [01:58:20] hips from here, we're straight back in to the same sort of region here. And sometimes guys will be so fatigued, we can hit them too. [01:58:30] basically return them to that belly out position there.

[01:58:33] So again, super useful tool kind of has to be an instinctual way to capture your balance and provide a [01:58:40] little resistance to them standing up.

[01:58:46] So let's talk about how we could use the claw combined with [01:58:50] a spiral ride from this position, just for sort of, again, superior control. If Tyler's here, obviously this traditional jiu jitsu response of being [01:59:00] like, Grab a seatbelt and try to dive both hooks in or grab a seatbelt and try to pull them on top of you here.

[01:59:07] These have their challenges because again, [01:59:10] as soon as I take a seatbelt in this position, Tyler's gonna come lift his hips off the ground, start to circle into me, and potentially reverse the position. [01:59:20] So I'm not a big fan of that. I really, even still, I would always recommend staying behind the arms because we block under hooks here.

[01:59:29] Second [01:59:30] we're over the top, this underhook can always come in and whether he wants to wrestle or just pull back to a half guard from here. A lot of guys want to safely return [01:59:40] if they prefer to be on bottom. But the problem with locking hands from these positions is Tyler has great gramby opportunities from here.[01:59:50]

[01:59:50] And if we have locked hands, we can get stuck and our arms trapped together, right? So I prefer to have open hands here. And I prefer to use a [02:00:00] claw in combination with a spiral right here. So again, we're sort of, we sort of are still following those principles of contorting the spine. Cause I'm [02:00:10] trying to pry this hip towards the sky here as I'm pulling his head in this direction here.

[02:00:17] It's going to be much tougher for Tyler to Gramby [02:00:20] from here and it's going to be much tougher for him to take any underhooks cause my elbow, is blocking the underhooks. So this would be a key grip sequence. Again, no matter [02:00:30] which side you are on, if we lock these up, even if Tyler starts to get up here, I can use this pressure to [02:00:40] make it difficult for this elbow to be in a structurally sound position, which would be close to the body.

[02:00:45] I'm using the floor to try to rotate this out. You can already [02:00:50] see. Much structurally weaker and if we flip him around, what I'm doing with the spiral rod [02:01:00] is we're turning palm in and it begins to lift his leg off the ground slightly. And obviously if we can lift the leg, he's going to be less structurally sound.

[02:01:09] Like a table, [02:01:10] he's got four posts here. If we can eliminate two of them like we did with the diagonal ride, we're going to be in a much better position to control their explosive movements and their athleticism. So we've got the claw [02:01:20] and the spiral ride. See Tyler trying to get off? And we can start getting in to a hip, which ultimately where we [02:01:30] want to be, because we've got the, we've got the Dagestani handcuffs style here.

[02:01:35] We can start stepping over the If I step out of the legs here, Tyler's having trouble [02:01:40] getting up. Doesn't mean it's impossible, but it means he's gonna burn a ton of energy getting up. So ideally, we do want to bring him to a hip from [02:01:50] turtle, but if we're talking control, we want to bring him to a hip in such a manner that we can be on top of the hip that's pinned to the ground.[02:02:00]

[02:02:01] All right. So we had to remove Tyler. This scene was too dangerous to his Mohawk and that means a lot to the man. So we brought in my older brother, [02:02:10] Adam Jones from Australia, and uh, he's actually really useful for this position because he's quite, he makes a lot of noises. So you'll be able to really hear the pressure we're [02:02:20] able to apply to someone from these positions.

[02:02:22] So if Adam's in turtle facing the camera, he comes up to his hands, So we're in this position here, right? [02:02:30] And we were talking about the spiral ride and the claw from these angles here. If I'm in this position, I'm having trouble generating movement here. [02:02:40] I'll look to reach through to this far tricep here and I won't just touch it.

[02:02:45] I'm going to reach and try to slap it and bend it. And it might not even be so [02:02:50] exaggerated, but as long as we get a little bit of a bend, even if the hand's a little bit on the ground here, And we can start applying that same pressure into them to start, [02:03:00] uh, thinking about trying to return them to the mat here.

[02:03:02] So not all your opponents will give up as easily as this one here, but they will, it will be a [02:03:10] superior control to the core. Quite often the core is enough, right? Because it allows us to lift this elbow off the ground and it [02:03:20] prevents this elbow retracting into the protective space. But if we're having trouble here, I'd reach all the way through.

[02:03:27] I wouldn't reach over the top [02:03:30] and through unless I was square here, because any time we're on the side of our opponent here and we reach across the face, which would be like a seatbelt, they are this hand free for an underhook. [02:03:40] And that's when we could start losing these positions, right? So I would only transfer to this from the claw.

[02:03:48] And really, if we feel like we [02:03:50] needed extra resistance, I would remove the spiral rod, the thigh pry style grip, and I would attach that elbow to that [02:04:00] chest here. And then if I wanted to run them, I would run forward to

[02:04:08] collapse them to the ground. And obviously [02:04:10] everything we've done here today. Involving motions like this. We want to be able to collapse them to the ground where they're carrying our weight in [02:04:20] this trajectory. We also want to be able to twist up the spine in any way we can, which is obviously a lot of the stuff.

[02:04:26] We've covered. So look at this from one more angle. We've [02:04:30] got our claw and now basically a spiral right grip here. Our opponent's on his hands here and we're having a little trouble controlling him. So we reach those [02:04:40] and we pull that. So you see now if I'm trying to correct his balancing, this is a very tough grip to fight from these positions.

[02:04:46] But if we do feel like we're losing this, reinforce with two [02:04:50] and start driving into the ground here. Wherever he goes, he tries to fight it. Very tough, very easy to start [02:05:00] flattening out, thinking about leg riding. And then again, what does he want to do from here? He wants to come up to an elbow. Now we can start cycling back through [02:05:10] our positions here.

[02:05:17] All right, so we've covered all the skills [02:05:20] necessary to start changing your approach to controlling the bottom player. We've taught them all in isolation. We've taught the principles of controlling the [02:05:30] legs. We've taught the upper body tools. We've taught the hierarchy of flattening people out. We've taught how to really, uh, control and pin people from turtle that are [02:05:40] trying to get up or trying to concede.

[02:05:42] And obviously in ways that involve us firmly remaining on top. So the overarching concept for this entire product, we're controlling [02:05:50] the legs in a way that their feet can't touch the floor, controlling their upper body in such a way that their hands can't post on the floor. We want to remove their ability to generate height.

[02:05:59] [02:06:00] So now we're going to talk about how these things all fit together and how we can sort of change our approach. to jujitsu. Um, and again, you don't need to [02:06:10] change everything. You don't need to throw out everything you've learned. Obviously that'd be crazy. You just need to add this new dimension in and that involves controlling the legs, leg [02:06:20] riding, any chance we get.

[02:06:21] So I'm going to sort of go over some base positions, but again, It is going to be, there will be step by step processes in some of these [02:06:30] positions, but for the most part, you need to be able to improvise and really adapt your opponent's reactions in such a way that you can land in control positions. [02:06:40] So I feel like for the most part, an average Jiu Jitsu guy is either all the way in or all the way out.

[02:06:46] And when they're all the way in and their opponent starts escaping, quite often they end up [02:06:50] all the way back out. And they have this, uh, I guess it would be like a binary type of approach because of the point scoring structure. You know what I mean? They think [02:07:00] like to a certain extent being in close is in the danger zone.

[02:07:03] You know what I mean? So if they got a pin position, their opponent starts to escape, they back out because they think I've already scored, I'm [02:07:10] already up, I'm winning. So they back out and then they reapproach the guard in a safe way. Whereas I want to argue that if we do end up past the guard and they start to escape, remaining on [02:07:20] the leg right can quite often, if you wanted to pursue points in a tournament, lead you to repassing the guard.

[02:07:25] Which again, is a problem I have with the point scoring system. If I were to pass Tyler's [02:07:30] guard, And then I allow him to get his guard back and I pass it again. Why do I really get rewarded two separate times when it's really my error in the first [02:07:40] place for having lost the guard? So just look at it like that.

[02:07:43] If I pass Tyler's guard and he never recovers his guard, I get one set of passing points. If I pass his guard, [02:07:50] allow him to recover, pass it again, I've received two lots of passing points. So it's like, in my opinion, the first is the best alternative. That's, that's more control, [02:08:00] superior control. So let's talk about it right now, right?

[02:08:03] Let's look at some of these base positions here, right? So one of my favorite ones that comes up a ton [02:08:10] and it surprises people because they get frustrated that you're not taking the pass is we're just stapling this inside leg here and I'm hunkered [02:08:20] down over the knee shield leg. The knee shield leg's a problem because it can push me back.

[02:08:24] It gets this knee in and it can take our weight. Off of the legs. And again, we're trying to [02:08:30] staple the legs as much as possible here. So when we staple here, again, this is a good position for us. Cause Tyler can't hip escape. He, it requires his inside [02:08:40] foot to really generate hip escape pressure, but we're stapling it here.

[02:08:44] He can't use this inside knee to retain guard. We're covering the knee shield here. We've got [02:08:50] control over his legs. We've immobilized the lower half. He's only options involved. Trying to push us, trying to come up to a post. Things that, again, lead us [02:09:00] to good positions. There we've got our claws. We can even set up arm triangles again.

[02:09:04] Something I'll cover later is, I believe arm triangles are set up back here. [02:09:10] The strongest arm triangle is back here. It's not up here. We set it up through the pass. So in situations like this, we can now start even changing. Say if he does start to bring [02:09:20] this knee shield leg back in, I can think about.

[02:09:24] stepping over and stapling these legs. So we look at it from both directions. I'm [02:09:30] controlling it here. That knee should come here, I step over the leg. And now Tyler's trying to move his lower half. We've got strong rides here, [02:09:40] right? So we're in really good control positions. Tyler starts to push me away, starts to create space here.

[02:09:48] I'm trying to keep my weight on [02:09:50] the legs as possible, whether that means. Coming back to our half guard staple, stepping over the top, splitting the legs here, but my [02:10:00] control is on this plane at all times. Even if we start switching to this reverse side control position here, a lot of guys, especially 10th [02:10:10] planet guys think, oh, this is, this is a truck entry, but I look at it and I think, oh, A truck injury would involve me taking my weight off of Tyler.

[02:10:18] Why not step over [02:10:20] both to go to the Khabib style, right? And now I've maintained control of his legs here. So now Tyler's trying to move. We've got good control here. If he does start to [02:10:30] recover, safe starts to push this knee out. As long as I stay on the legs here, I want to serve this as much as possible.[02:10:40]

[02:10:40] So again, it can come out of a number of positions. Say, I found myself inside control here. He starts to bring his inside knee in. Instead of going to knee right, [02:10:50] we just go back to a single leg staple here. Because again, this is superior control over Tyler because it eliminates the use of this leg. If he's trying to put the foot [02:11:00] on the ground, it's dead.

[02:11:03] If I'm in side control here, no matter how good I am here, those feet are free to move. He can start [02:11:10] breaking. He can lift the hips off the ground. So we want to be riding these legs. If I'm in a leg drag here, [02:11:20] I don't want to score points and pass. I want to maintain control. Control is at the legs. So we can start splitting the legs and stapling over the [02:11:30] top.

[02:11:30] Don't be afraid if they start pushing your legs and squaring pushing, pushing. Stay on the legs at all [02:11:40] times. We can reinforce it. Even one's good enough. I find this superior to regular side control. Tyler's trying to move. Cause my weight's oriented against his [02:11:50] strongest positions here. So we've got our leg right.

[02:11:53] We even from now, like I was saying, it starts in the elbow escape. We're like, if I hang on too long, [02:12:00] Tyler puts me back to half guard and half guard, potentially an offensive half guard. We come back. If I just can see a little bit [02:12:10] now, Tyler tries to put me in half guard. He tries to get up. He gives up.

[02:12:17] Something better here. Now Tyler tries to move.[02:12:20]

[02:12:29] All our [02:12:30] upper body grips come into place as well. So you want to be thinking about this. Even in the context of a wrestling situation. So if I say I hit a double on Tyler. [02:12:40] And we put him down to where he can't, rather than trying to battle it, to get out. I'm going to take that and point it here. [02:12:50] I'll step over the legs, and shelf his legs here.

[02:12:55] Tyler's trying to move. Now look, he's giving us [02:13:00] a pull grip so we can stop him in that tank there. Say we fuck up, here, Tyler starts to move and escape. Okay.[02:13:10]

[02:13:16] We're looking to stay on these legs and see if she's trying to [02:13:20] move here. We're circling back. My control is here. [02:13:30] I'm using no energy. He's exhausted. He keeps moving, keeps trying to escape. Exactly. One of the best alternatives is to turn belly down because it relieves some pressure [02:13:40] off the legs, but he's in a worse spot here.

[02:13:42] Tyler's trying to move

[02:13:46] and you can see how our leg riding [02:13:50] pressure leads to that belly down opportunity here. So again, just start rolling with these things in mind. You can play your regular game. But rather than [02:14:00] being all the way in, all the way out, start thinking about opportunities to shelf the legs, to surf, to ride on the legs, to split the legs, to [02:14:10] ensure that feet don't go to the ground and they can't explode up.

[02:14:15] And then we have again, of course, our upper body tools and really. It's up to your [02:14:20] opponents, which of those they want to give you. But again, we're just going to keep looping. We surf the legs until a strong upper body opportunity presents itself. If we start to lose the leg [02:14:30] surf, improvise, start to move, ensure that at all times legs are pinned, knees are turned away from you, our weight's firmly distributed here.[02:14:40]

[02:14:40] That's going to immobilize them. It's going to make them. They can't use their hands to escape. It's going to make them want to sit up and that leads us to back taking opportunities. If we do [02:14:50] start to control the back and flatten it down, they want to concede, uh, back to their guard and we lose our Dagestani handcuff.

[02:14:57] Just make sure that if they go to explode, [02:15:00] don't hold on so long. They clear and make a ton of distance. Sometimes taking one step back to a leg ride position is going to be your best bet in these scenarios. [02:15:10] But again, okay. First drill, I want you to just try to conceptually piece it into your game and start looking for leg riding situations to control the bottom guy.

[02:15:19] [02:15:20] Obviously start with guys you're already pretty confident in, confident you can beat, then start to work up to more explosive athletic guys. The ultimate example [02:15:30] isn't to hit the highest level guy in the room, but it's to hit a most explosive athletic guy because that's the guy that we really need to kill the, uh, athletic edge they have.

[02:15:39] [02:15:40] And I think you're going to find that leg right. It's going to be a much more effective control than your standard point scoring positions. Remain on top, [02:15:50] ride the legs, flatten them out.

[02:15:56] Before we get into the details about how we can find these [02:16:00] positions out of ordinary jiu jitsu positions. Uh, I want to just explain the concept of So creating a loop around pinning the legs for me, the most difficult [02:16:10] part about this style of control. And again, it's not a passing style, it's not even necessarily a pinning style because we are focused ultimately on the submission.[02:16:20]

[02:16:20] But the hardest part is the initial catch with the legs. Once we catch the legs, we can apply weight to the legs. We want to keep our control there throughout. We want [02:16:30] to stay on the legs as long as possible, right? So like if I was approaching Tyler's bottom position, however, Tyler's going to try to be putting me in Standard [02:16:40] positions, right?

[02:16:40] Clothes guard, he's going to be trying to put me in butterfly guard. Even if I were to get past one leg, now we're dealing with, uh, knee shield, and now we're dealing with half guard, right? [02:16:50] So the hardest part is to create that initial loop, right? So let's look at it, for example, out of something where I've initially created a smash [02:17:00] here.

[02:17:00] So a smash, we're abiding by the principles of what we've been working on so far, and that is I have been able to collapse the legs. I haven't been able to split the legs [02:17:10] and you can see here, I'm not really blocking Tyler's inside knee from being able to come up. If this knee can come up, those toes can go on the ground and look, you can actually start [02:17:20] applying pressure to me here.

[02:17:22] So we've begun this loop here. We've started it. We've created the initial sequence when we obviously haven't developed a [02:17:30] pin out of here. Some of the first things I'd be looking to do. is step over the knees here. Now, if Tyler tries to create the same movement, there's weight on the exact part of the [02:17:40] body.

[02:17:40] He needs to move to create, uh, any sort of athletic, uh, movement, recovery movement, anything offensive, anything that could [02:17:50] destabilize us. If it's early in our role and Tyler's fresh because I don't have something too strong established yet. We're getting there though, right? So [02:18:00] we have the smash. We've covered the legs.

[02:18:02] Let's say Tyler aggressively starts turning back into us here. I'm looking to stay on the legs here. [02:18:10] So look a couple of different angles there. We had the smash, we climbed up and covered the legs. Tyler, because he's still [02:18:20] powerful at this point, he hasn't had to burn a lot of energy. As he starts to recover from here, I don't go and pass straight away because he could hit an explosive movement.[02:18:30]

[02:18:30] What we want to do is immediately find another frame of cycle. So if Tyler starts to react, my knee [02:18:40] is remaining, stapling the bottom leg here. And you can see when we have weight on that leg, even if it's just one, if Tyler tries to use that bottom foot on the ground, [02:18:50] we are killing it. We're making it difficult for him here.

[02:18:53] And then of course, we could reinforce the staple with our other leg. So with one staple, Tyler moves the leg. You can see he's [02:19:00] got some movement here. When we reinforce them. harder again for him here. And now what could we do to make this better? We could start covering [02:19:10] the top leg as well. Now we've got basically a double staple, right?

[02:19:15] So if Tyler's trying to move here, you can see we've got [02:19:20] superior control, but if at any point he could start to off balance me and push me around, I'm trying my best to remain [02:19:30] surfing. These legs here, splitting the legs if I have to, applying pressure to the legs in any way that makes it difficult for him to generate recovery.

[02:19:38] Even when he turns to face [02:19:40] me, again we're riding these legs here trying to pin him. So what I would recommend, just sort of basic skills, is once you [02:19:50] find that initial catch, that's going to be difficult. If you rush out of that catch trying to progress. to a traditional position too quickly, you might actually [02:20:00] lose the strong control position we already have.

[02:20:03] So what I'd recommend, you're basically surfing the legs. I'm going to show you how we can move between these positions clearly, how we can enter these [02:20:10] positions next.

[02:20:12] [02:20:20] All right, we'll talk about how we can find some of these leg rides, these leg pins [02:20:30] from traditional positions. And uh, the first one we'll do is side control, right? Side control. I, I believe it's a, it's a very overrated position. [02:20:40] I believe everyone, again, I've emphasized this throughout, everyone's over eager to get to side control just by the nature of the point scoring.

[02:20:47] Um, framework we operate [02:20:50] in, and that is that passing the guards hard. So we want to pass that and we find ourselves in sight control, but let's assume we're in sight control and our training partner started to recover. [02:21:00] And rather than allow them to recover to somewhat an offensive position, like a half guard or a butterfly guard, or even a close guard, or even sometimes [02:21:10] guys will recover with a knee elbow escape where they have a submission threats, things like, uh, on the platter.

[02:21:15] Some guys even start to get a knee inside and attack, uh, ombuds from here. So my [02:21:20] philosophy from here is when a side controller starts to recover, let's use their recovery as an opportunity to re pin the legs, right? So I have Tyler here, let's look at it.[02:21:30]

[02:21:33] So if Tyler starts to get his inside knee inside here, he starts to hip escape, [02:21:40] he brings that knee in. This is where I'm talking about where we can be a danger here, right? Tyler's on the top. And really interfering with our position CF. [02:21:50] So what I want to actually do is, rather than bring my knee across to knee, right, we're gonna bring it [02:22:00] across.

[02:22:00] And as it starts to hippo scale, I flare my knee and create a staple over the legs. So you can see here now, Tyler estate internally [02:22:10] is dead and it's dead because we've put a limit. On the amount of his right knee that can come inside. If my knee is here, then he can create an [02:22:20] effective frame inside. And he can use that to begin escaping, or really going straight into submission.

[02:22:27] So when we're here and setting up the knee rush, [02:22:30] I'm trying to staple this leg here. I'll get a few of these in front, and then we can reinforce it. And now again, test it out with your training partner. Tell them to test the move.[02:22:40]

[02:22:42] This is the extent of his explosive ability here. So, we're gonna have side control. We're starting to [02:22:50] make it all about him. And we cover it here. And then we really enforce it straight away. And I remain Over the hip because [02:23:00] again, if this knee shield comes in, if you get off balance, you lose that control position set.

[02:23:06] Another version of this very similar wrap [02:23:10] is if he does bring that inside knee inside. Let's not fight the inside knee. Right? So this is why I think people get some of the recovery positions wrong. [02:23:20] Sure. It's the inside knee. That's our problem here, right? Obviously if it's not inside, uh, side control, if it's inside, he's [02:23:30] recovering.

[02:23:30] And a lot of people will become, uh, their mind will be stuck on being like, how do we address this one? But really, if you look at Tyler's position here, he's grabbed [02:23:40] his vulnerability. will be to pin the top leg. So let's not even address this if it comes inside. So if I'm here and the knee comes in, I'll look [02:23:50] to cover the top leg and step over the top, always putting as much weight on the legs as possible.

[02:23:58] Even if I start down here, [02:24:00] I'm quite low on Tyler's body. I keep weight on it to pin it for a step to start climbing back up. And now Tyler's. I would argue he's in a [02:24:10] worse position than the side control position he was in because now I'm generating effective pinning pressure. We can do a number of things here.

[02:24:17] I'm stapling the legs. I can use my [02:24:20] other foot to prevent his knee from bending even further. So Tyler's trying to move here. Very, very difficult. You see, he actually [02:24:30] wiggled himself into a perfect sort of, uh, staple separated leg right here. So again, sometimes it's not Within our interest to [02:24:40] aggressively pursue controlling the inside knee, which again typically is seen as our problem because once this is in The legs are back in play.

[02:24:47] Obviously, I have beaten the legs from a guard [02:24:50] pass. We're fighting the upper body Leg comes back in. Now we're back in the danger zone, but I would argue that if this knee comes in, our path to repinning [02:25:00] them is to control the top leg. So let's look at that. So again, I'm trying to hold Tyler down and inside knee comes in.

[02:25:09] I immediately [02:25:10] cover that top leg and step back so we can step over. And I've stepped over in such a way that my toes are curling around his top leg [02:25:20] limiting. His exposure of his feet to the ground. So again, we're not going to stay here forever, but I am heavy on Tyler. I'm heavy here. And then we [02:25:30] start windshield wiping and climbing out of the Lego.

[02:25:33] I could say two legs on top here. You'll see Tyler's got a pretty good ability to move here versus if he [02:25:40] starts really wiggling around his lower body. And we come back to step, versus if I use the base of my foot to extend. Now he can't curl his feet to his [02:25:50] butt at all. So we're both straightening the leg and riding the leg still.

[02:25:54] So it's another great option from side control to generate, uh, another [02:26:00] form of pin. Another one would be, obviously, Khabib style, but this would be more of a reverse Keza Ghatami. If we're pinning a guy, uh, and he's on his side here, [02:26:10] We're pretty stable. This knee's in the way too. What we want to do is pull him onto his side here.

[02:26:17] And again, this is a situation where you'll see guys [02:26:20] going for truck rolls and rolling back takes, but in my opinion, if we're on top, we want to try to remain on top of the best of our ability. Perfect world. [02:26:30] We're on top. We submit them from top. We don't have to jeopardize top position in any way. So I would actually recommend picking up both legs.

[02:26:39] [02:26:40] stepping over both legs and I won't go straight to the Khabib right. So if you pay attention to my bottom knee, my left knee here, [02:26:50] I won't step straight up and cross my feet. Oh, actually. So we've stepped over our shelf. His hip here. So we're taking his hip off the ground as [02:27:00] well. It creates a bit more spinal rotation here, right?

[02:27:04] If his right hip's on the floor here, his spine is actually straighter [02:27:10] than if I shelf this leg and cross my feet. When his spine is manipulated, when it's rotated, it's harder for him to explode out of this [02:27:20] position. If Tyler wiggles around here, he's quite pinned. As opposed to, he is still quite a good pin, but you'll see he has the ability to start wiggling and [02:27:30] extending a bit more.

[02:27:31] So when we're setting up this Khabib ride style, I want you to step over and shelf that hip. before you [02:27:40] come across here. And when we're on top squeezing our legs as tight as possible, trying to drape our chest across their body because obviously, right? [02:27:50] Um, the principle contorting the spine, if his legs are here for him to generate some comfort, he kind of wants to turn into us here.

[02:27:59] So if we want to [02:28:00] generate more discomfort, I can use my chest on him here. And again, that leads us back to those opportunities where if Tyler really wants to emphasize turning into me, he [02:28:10] might have to come up to an elbow. And that's what starts leading us to further grip exchanges. So we look at it from this side as well.[02:28:20]

[02:28:20] So we're now basically our reverse kezakitame where ultimately under these elbows here, the higher up the elbows, the better pin [02:28:30] position. So instead of doing, well I say traditional, but I guess it's still some form of body grappling, would be trap one leg and ultimately look for rolls. [02:28:40] I'm looking to actually trap two legs.

[02:28:43] Look here, lift that hip there and shelf it. Pinching our knees together, back killing your feet. So again, [02:28:50] Tyler's trying to wiggle around here. You can see it's actually a great control position here. And then we can come up, pinching our knees together, apply body weight [02:29:00] forward. And we're in a much better position here than if we were in a traditional round.

[02:29:04] Todd, I want you to release that pressure. Stop looking at sit up. You're looking at plus de novo. [02:29:10] And we can stop. Generating that wrist ride and uh, wherever it is. So guys, there's some three [02:29:20] options to create leg rides out of side control. Two of those were sort of defensive reactive. One of those we found ourselves in a reverse [02:29:30] kezakitame looking to set up a khabib style ride.

[02:29:37] We covered side control, let's cover mount. [02:29:40] Mount obviously, uh, can be. One of the strongest positions in all of jiu jitsu, especially if you start getting those elbows high. But, um, it is, it can be difficult to [02:29:50] control fresh guys. And now if I'm dealing with explosive athletic guy and I pass his guard immediately and I landed mount [02:30:00] and he has that uncontrollable fresh energy, it is very difficult to control.

[02:30:04] You'll see good guys. Sometimes, uh, have to hold a guy mount for a very, very long time before [02:30:10] they're able to. Win the hand fight and progress up the body. So when we are in mount, we can almost take a step back and to find a superior [02:30:20] control, uh, position where they can be less athletic. So, uh, we've already spoken about this earlier, but we'll just touch on it again.

[02:30:27] Right? So if we're in mouth here [02:30:30] and Tyler hits in the elbow on his left side and he starts to hook this leg, the way I see is any time someone turns onto a side, They're [02:30:40] taking a risk that we could potentially keep him that if Tyler's on his side, it's harder for him to use his feet. It's harder for him to be explosive.

[02:30:46] So if we come back and set just the refresher again, his feet are on the [02:30:50] ground here. He could bar, he could bridge, he could, it can be hard for me to control, especially like, again, I use example, Nikki Rose, probably the most athletic guy in the sport. And it's probably where I [02:31:00] learned some of this stuff is that like, it's sometimes easy to control a guy like that.

[02:31:04] Not in these traditional positions. He's got a crazy wild kid, Brad. But if, uh, [02:31:10] uh, Tyler starts hitting the elbow escape, starts to get that foot back in, he's taking a risk being on his side. Let's step back and keep him there. [02:31:20] Now if he's trying to do an athletic explosive movement here, much, much tougher for him.

[02:31:28] And we've ended up with a foot [02:31:30] inside, sampling the lower leg, and a foot on top, and weight on top of the upper leg. So again We've created a situation where it's, [02:31:40] uh, unfamiliar, it's hard for them to explode, and they really have to take unusual risks to find a way out of here. But again, we always talk about connecting it [02:31:50] up.

[02:31:50] So if Tyler say he can effectively push this leg and he starts clearing that bottom leg, we can keep riding these legs here, looking to staple in any way we can. [02:32:00] Again, if he starts turning back into me here, if he turns back into me, we landed a half guard staple again. So we've got [02:32:10] situations where We just need to take a step back.

[02:32:15] He hits on the elbow. Let's trap those legs together. Let's trap his [02:32:20] knees together. Let's sit on his legs here. Let's see if they have the same explosive ability from these positions. Chest heavy pressure, or if he starts finding effective [02:32:30] escapes, stay on the legs as much as you can here. Very difficult for Tyra to be explosive here.

[02:32:38] Freeze one leg. [02:32:40] I stay. on the lace here to start to uh, start to fatigue him. So obviously we also have kipping escapes we have to deal with. That's probably [02:32:50] one of the reasons it's so difficult to control mount without some form of underhook. So let's see Tyler, you can do a kipping escape from here. [02:33:00] If I try to hang on too long, he gets that guard back.

[02:33:03] And the beauty of the kipping escape as opposed to other escapes is he can go from weak position to submission [02:33:10] threat very, very quickly, right? So if I start feeling he's getting that tipping pressure, I will try to try to keep his legs to the [02:33:20] ground here. And I can be sort of unorthodox in my approach.

[02:33:24] So if Tyler's tipping here, he's creating elevation, I'm trying to surf the legs [02:33:30] any way I can here. We always have an initial circle and then we try to reinforce it. And that way, if either foot gets pushed out by hands, we're [02:33:40] always riding with a second leg. So again, we have many opportunities from the kit as they start to kick.

[02:33:48] Try to pinch your knees together [02:33:50] and lead them onto one side here. And we can start stapling. and riding the legs here. Sometimes when we take mount, [02:34:00] we don't even commit fully to the mount. Sometimes we'll have unorthodox positions where we're sort of in a mount, but [02:34:10] we're not in a mount. Sometimes you feel like you have superior control here and you feel like you control your opponent and you have the waiting game where they're trying to time you, uh, bringing your feet to the ground to [02:34:20] go immediately to the halfback.

[02:34:22] And it's a question of, if we feel like we're in control here, why progress to the back? Why we're in control here is because [02:34:30] my weight's positioned on Tyler's legs in such a way that it's hard for him to breathe because he can't put his feet on the ground. I'm spreading his legs here so it's hard for him to pivot [02:34:40] to one side.

[02:34:41] So it's actually a great control position in and of itself. But let's say he starts to push one knee down, we can just keep pummeling [02:34:50] to remain on the legs. So there's no issue here. So it's one of those situations where Tyler's trying to commit a lot of energy to get very little [02:35:00] and we can start pummeling and reinforcing our legs here with staples.

[02:35:05] If he over commits we can start spreading the legs [02:35:10] even more. So we have some situations there from now where we can use a knee elbow escape to control both legs. We can counter a [02:35:20] kipping escape. By trying to bring them onto one side and again, staple pin those legs to the ground. We have a situation where we're about to pass them out and we feel [02:35:30] controlled, but basically we're pressured into going to mount because that's the standard operating procedure, even though we feel in total control prior to that point.

[02:35:39] And if we [02:35:40] stay in that gray area on the legs, even if they do escape, we can continue to surf the legs, continue to fatigue him, put him in unorthodox situations. Thank you very much. [02:35:50] All right, we've covered side control. Now let's talk about knee ride, knee rides on a position. Uh, you see a lot of [02:36:00] people overly use Inogi because of the, uh, chances that if the bottom player can invert, they can go straight to leg entries, but it doesn't mean we can't at least [02:36:10] use this position to bridge into other leg riding styles, right?

[02:36:15] And there'll be two sorts of styles we can do. We can force them to commit one direction. Or [02:36:20] we can be reactive to a knee elbow escape from this position to create a leg riding pin on one side. [02:36:30] So if I landed on knee ride on Tyler for a second, what I was saying about heel hook entries is if I don't keep my weight position correctly, Tyler can invert straight [02:36:40] to the legs.

[02:36:40] But what you saw when he did that, his knees have to come and then his hips come. So he has to use his knees. to create inversion pressure. So [02:36:50] obviously if I distributed some weight back into this direction, gone is the inversion ability. So let's try this. So if [02:37:00] I hit Leroy on Tyler here and I take my foot down to his knee here, we can start to [02:37:10] hop and turn him to one side.

[02:37:11] Remember we always staple with one leg, get our balance, reinforce it with the other. And again, we can go [02:37:20] foot over foot or feet separate here. Whatever feels like it gives you the most stability in that moment. Obviously feet apart [02:37:30] increases our likelihood of separating the legs, but feet together is going to be a more concentrated weight distribution, making the pin [02:37:40] probably more successful, but less room For your opponent to move and make bad decisions for himself, right?

[02:37:47] So again, let's say you land it in here, right? [02:37:50] Immediately use my foot to hook as close to the knee as possible. I won't turn him from down here, but I will turn him [02:38:00] from that highest point. And then we can bunker down and keep our weight. back on the leg rack. Another option as well is if I'm hitting [02:38:10] so he can't invert but he starts to knee elbow escape we can bring our leg back across here.

[02:38:17] So as that knee elbow escape comes [02:38:20] I'm separating and reinforcing him straight away. Again, Tyler's trying to move here. We've created a very strong [02:38:30] style of pin here. When knee riding starts to lose its shape, I turn my knee to the legs to create an initial staple. [02:38:40] We reinforce it and then we can start adjusting to separating or pinning style pressure.

[02:38:48] So again, we [02:38:50] have an active and reactive, uh, entry into leg rides from knee ride again. being cautious of your opponent's ability to invert [02:39:00] because they can go straight into leg entries.

[02:39:06] Let's look at a situation where we [02:39:10] have back control and say we've done something like a chair sit and it's a back control where our opponent is on top of us and they start to do [02:39:20] a traditional style escape where let's say for example We fall into one hip, they start to beat the bottom hook to escape control [02:39:30] and basically if we follow that, again, a standard operating procedure, we think, Hey, we had the back, let's keep the back at all costs.

[02:39:38] But really the [02:39:40] framework should be, how can we ensure that if this person starts to escape the back, we remain in a dominant position. And again, dominant doesn't [02:39:50] necessarily mean. point scoring positions, right? So let's look at how we could turn their back escape into somewhat of a, uh, [02:40:00] uncomfortable, uh, riding style position that we can still sort of stay completely in control of.

[02:40:06] Say, for example, think of it as a loop where we take someone's [02:40:10] back, but we try to remain on top. In this situation, being on top would be more important than just keeping the back for the sake [02:40:20] of keeping the back. So let's take a look at what that would look like. So let's say I have Tyler [02:40:30] in a seat belt, he falls to the strangle side here.

[02:40:34] This is a super common escape. You see Tyler's trying to work this inside [02:40:40] shoulder to the ground and then as we're trying to keep back control here any way we can, it can prove difficult and sometimes we might have an [02:40:50] escape. where he ends up on top. Well there might be a skate where we have a scramble or maybe I end up on top but he's able to secure legs back in and we've gone [02:41:00] from dominant position into a position where they have some sort of uh offensive chance or really they don't [02:41:10] they no longer feel the pressure.

[02:41:12] So let's talk about the key battles here right. Tyler's key battles are beating this bottom hook. If this hook's [02:41:20] tight, it's very difficult for him to complete the SCA. And the inside shoulder. So what we actually want to do, is as he starts to beat the inside shoulder, we [02:41:30] want to take a claw grip. And as he starts to beat the bottom hook, I want to start placing my foot on top to bridge [02:41:40] on top of Tyler here.

[02:41:42] Meaning that as he thinks he's recovering back to mount, he's actually recovering to a pin position here. We can reinforce [02:41:50] our pin with our legs here. And again, that core grip means he can't retract his right elbow. If he could retract his right elbow, he could start to be safe or he could [02:42:00] start to feel hot.

[02:42:01] You can start to use this elbow to deal with the higher part, and we might potentially fall off the top. So what we're doing is using the [02:42:10] floor to prevent this elbow coming in. And we're using our right foot, and in this situation I've reinforced it with my left, to prevent his left knee from [02:42:20] coming to his chest.

[02:42:20] Which is of course, what he would need. to start building height. If I didn't have it and he brings those knees in, he turns his belly down and starts to [02:42:30] come up, he can build height and knock us off. So as he's escaping the back control, what we're seeking to do is use the claw [02:42:40] to keep this elbow high and use our top hook to extend this.

[02:42:45] So when he's trying to tip out over the top this way, [02:42:50] we're catching this knee And we're putting him in a tauted position to make him continue uncomfortable. Essentially, a lot of times guys will actually want to, [02:43:00] uh, would prefer you to retake the back. So again, we're in our position here where we're starting to lose the battle.

[02:43:05] It's hard to recover from this. It's not impossible. So what we want to do is want to take the claw [02:43:10] and I'm using my right foot and bridging pressure here. So now Tyler, even if you to go back to where we were, we've got good [02:43:20] control over here. And again, if you look at my left foot, we can reinforce it here.

[02:43:26] So again, great, great control. You can even potentially [02:43:30] belly, get him belly down here. So I can start manipulating and hipping in, right? But of course, maybe we lose the core. He brings the elbow in and he starts to escape. [02:43:40] He turns back into us and starts to escape here. I'm thinking about returning to leg rides and I don't want you to think [02:43:50] I had the back, we lost the back, uh, and that's bad.

[02:43:53] I want you to think we had a position where submissions were available to us. They started to [02:44:00] initiate an escape and we remained in control. We remained in a position where they have to use more energy and they have to take more [02:44:10] risks than us. to get back to a neutral position. And for me, I'd rather have my opponent in a vulnerable, fatiguing [02:44:20] position where I don't continue to score points.

[02:44:23] Then I'd rather, uh, then to have them have their back and have a hand fighting situation where we're looking for a submission, but they're not [02:44:30] uncomfortable. They're not stressed. So again, Instead of holding onto the back for the sake of holding onto the back, we keep two hooks and we pull them on top of us.

[02:44:39] We think, Hey, this is [02:44:40] the best position in Jiu Jitsu. I'm winning. I want you to think that as they start to escape that position, let's stay on top at all costs. Let's stay on top and [02:44:50] not just stay on top. And not just stay on top in the sense of IBJ points scoring position. So let's not go from back necessarily has to be the mount.

[02:44:57] I want you to think let's stay on top in such a [02:45:00] way that there is tools to escape. which would be tight elbows and that lower knee coming to their chest can't be utilized. So [02:45:10] for a second, they'll think they're winning. They're like, Hey, I've escaped the back. He's gone back to top position. But then they go, Oh, suddenly I feel like I'm in a more vulnerable, more uncomfortable position [02:45:20] than what I was previously just escaped.

[02:45:27] All right. So let's talk about some possible entries. And we're [02:45:30] going to begin with the leg track entry. So obviously If I told you all the passes in and of themselves, all the traditional passes where we could find these [02:45:40] positions from, we'd be here for years, right? And again, I want this instructional to supplement the game you already have.

[02:45:49] I don't want to teach [02:45:50] you an entire new system of passing so that you have to learn those passes to then therefore, um, implement this game. Everyone knows how to pass guard. [02:46:00] Most people. But we'll start with something like the leg drag. So obviously there's a number of ways you could enter in a leg drag.

[02:46:09] Uh, even in [02:46:10] scrambling position, sometimes we re enter leg drags, right? So if I had Tyler in the initial stages of a leg drag, we're [02:46:20] basically in a scenario that is similar to what we've been working on, right? I would say this is a form of the pin control system we've been doing today because [02:46:30] We split the legs.

[02:46:31] We're not splitting them aggressively yet and we're applying weight over the top of them. We're trapping him in one direction. I've got weight on the lower [02:46:40] leg, makes it hard for the foot to enter the ground. But again, and we briefly touched on this earlier. If I have Tyler here and this is a great control position.

[02:46:47] This is a position Tyler's options are [02:46:50] limited and generally speaking, he has to panic and freak out to try to escape this position. But because of the narrow framework we work in. Uh, Tyler knows from here, I [02:47:00] basically can take the back if I can lift his hips high enough or I'm looking for a pass to side control here.

[02:47:08] So in that sense, [02:47:10] his defensive options, uh, preventing either of those two things. And really I would say the most common one would be a situation where Tyler can begin to face me here [02:47:20] because as I take weight off of the bottom leg, I can't keep this weight heavy. to pass. So as weight comes off the bottom leg, this knee comes across the guard, comes back [02:47:30] into play.

[02:47:31] But really, if we've got such a good control position, why not force a more aggressive angle here, right? [02:47:40] So why not start entering our positions here, right? So I've separated the legs, but Arguably, we want to separate this even further and [02:47:50] one of the best ways to do that would be to allow it to fall to the ground and enter a leg split position.

[02:47:56] Like, so the first position we basically covered in this series [02:48:00] here. So again, this is worse than a leg drag for title. This is worse than side control for title. There's even less defensive options [02:48:10] available to him here than a typical mount position. If you put any of your training partners in this position and said, How do you escape this?

[02:48:18] No one will have a clear answer to that. We're going to feel [02:48:20] it out, experiment. Put anyone in mount, and they're going to tell you three different ways to escape mount. So we're taking that leg drive position, [02:48:30] and we're increasing the split by stretching that lower leg. If I lift my knee, Tyler's leg will fall below.

[02:48:39] And [02:48:40] now So I was trying to move. We're in a complete control position here. I'm not even using my hands [02:48:50] at this point. So however you found yourself in a leg drag, sometimes some of the easiest ways to enter a leg drag, are when they overcommit [02:49:00] from north south and we've stacked them here. So we can work for Leg splits here.[02:49:10]

[02:49:10] We're going to start setting up submissions. We can start threatening to flatten guys out, but above all, we've got a strong control position out of [02:49:20] an ordinary, uh, traditional spot. Leg drag, the leg drag is uncomfortable. Why not keep narrowing it longer and really take advantage of the [02:49:30] strengths of the position initially before just passing for the sake of passing.

[02:49:39] All right, [02:49:40] pass number two will be basically the smash pass, super commons, uh, pass. And I think even that pass in and of itself fits into what we're doing here today. And that is collapsing the [02:49:50] legs, uh, forcing your opponents to commit their weight in one direction and trapping them there. Right? So the smash bus again is another position that I think people, [02:50:00] uh, gloss over.

[02:50:01] They try to pass straight away. They smash the legs, they get a strong control position and because they want to score points, they can sometimes rush this position. [02:50:10] So I would argue that why not spend a little more time there and create a more effective pin as our opponents try to recover. So for a smash pass purposes, [02:50:20] so that explanation we have today is basically I've sprawled on Tyler in a way that concentrates his weight onto one side.

[02:50:29] [02:50:30] And really it's not necessarily the squarest angle here. I'm not facing squarely to the ground. the inside hip is [02:50:40] going to slightly flare here to really commit Tyler's weight to this side here. So really a lot of guys will start thinking leg inside and [02:50:50] pass immediately to side control. Sometimes obviously they start entering into uh, dope mount territory to [02:51:00] force mount passes, but really this in and of itself is a pretty good control mechanism.

[02:51:06] Obviously It's limited in that you can already [02:51:10] see Tyler's going to be able to start placing feet on the floor. And if Tyler reverses his position here,

[02:51:18] this foot, my [02:51:20] weight's here. So there's really nothing that prevents him bending and placing these toes on the ground to create, uh, movement here, right? So if you come back, [02:51:30] so we're in our smash path here. And this is a loose form of the control, [02:51:40] why not start reinforcing it, right? So I brought my outside foot in, now we bring our inside foot in.

[02:51:47] If we know the key to Tyler's movement [02:51:50] is his left foot, his bottom foot, and it's free to place the toes on the ground and bend, why not apply some weight to it in a way that makes it difficult for him to move [02:52:00] that leg more. Now we've increased control, but we haven't scored. And this is the ultimate goal we're trying to get after here.

[02:52:09] Again, [02:52:10] we've landed in our sort of split position here with our crab hooks here. Really not leaving them many options. So again, if we're setting off [02:52:20] a smash, again, a common way would be headquarters position. But his lunch is coming back. But we've sprawled here, we've got a good control [02:52:30] mechanism. I can't keep Tyler here as long as I want.

[02:52:33] I would say, basically you can assess the strength of your pin by how long you can [02:52:40] keep him here without adjusting position. So if I just keep weight on Tyler and Tyler starts to move, you'll see I made it difficult for him. But he's able to find a way [02:52:50] out. If I start out braving and now come up here for the move So you [02:53:00] can see we have a better control position but basically the same mechanism as a smash is.

[02:53:07] So if the smash is uncomfortable for your [02:53:10] opponent, why don't we find a way to really pin them from that position. And again, smash would be one of the cornerstones of what we're doing in this product, this series [02:53:20] here. And that is if we can contort the spine and pin it, why not maximize our ability to keep them there?[02:53:30]

[02:53:30] Dove mount. Uh, it was a position BJ Penn used extensively in his MMA career. Obviously, um, MMA, the bottom guy's sole [02:53:40] goal is to stand back up. So when the bottom guy would use butterfly hooks to try to create elevation, create space, BJ Penn would hip switch in the air to [02:53:50] try to split the legs. And again, this is a form of what we're doing today, but it's just not as reinforced as we would hope.

[02:53:57] But using the dope mount to get to [02:54:00] where we want to get is a very, very strong starting position. Anything where the legs are split or the hips are committed. to one side in one direction is the [02:54:10] basic building blocks of what we're trying to do. Again, I have to mention Dog Mound, Dog Mound was used extensively.

[02:54:16] There wasn't such a great threat of leg lock entries. So we need to [02:54:20] change it slightly. We need to adapt it to the modern game. But again, obviously it was used in the MMA context. Leg locks are very rarely used in MMA. So it's [02:54:30] a, it was a factor. That guy's like BJ Penn didn't have to worry about back then.

[02:54:35] So BJ would be basically floating on [02:54:40] the hips here. He would use this because it's obviously tough for Tyler to start standing up when I'm abiding by these sort of head over head principles and he would [02:54:50] hip switch in the air. So you can see I can basically start To guide Tyler's legs, or even if Tyler were to start extending his [02:55:00] legs, we can start switching our hips inside.

[02:55:06] We created a form of leg split. [02:55:10] Again, I don't want to stay here facing on this platform. While I'm on my inside hip, I'm not at too much of a leg lock risk. But if I start [02:55:20] to come up here, Too sloppily, Tyler can invert and he can start getting to the leglocking kick. So when we want to [02:55:30] come up, my inside knee is going to face his legs.

[02:55:35] Basically, my entire body wants to face back this way. The more I'm in line [02:55:40] with his spine, the more leglock risk I have. So as we've switched, and my knee turns back in, now if Tyler tries to [02:55:50] invert, He cannot revert because this leg here is causing, um, he cannot retract it quite well enough [02:56:00] because my knee is blocking him here.

[02:56:02] If I wasn't blocking him, that knee can come in and create inversions. So by us pointing our knee this direction, [02:56:10] it's eliminating the use of this leg. And the way I'm back heeling, I've shelved this leg. Tyler's top leg is basically useless. At this point, [02:56:20] so you can see we've created a mild form of pin here and then we can start Windshield wiping and start covering [02:56:30] hips here So i'll be lifting it again I'm on the legs here Again we are in [02:56:40] a good pin initially tyler's trying to move here We've got him stuck, but I need to switch my hips at a point to get some action going You But I want to switch, I want to come up, [02:56:50] face the lower half of his body.

[02:56:52] Tai is trying to invert. If he is actually finding inversion success, I'll use my hand to try to [02:57:00] overextend his bottom leg. The further this leg is in line with his spine, the harder it is for him to invert. All of his dangerous explosive [02:57:10] movements come from this knee being tight. So even here, with a milder cross face.

[02:57:16] It's a good way to prevent inversions, right? And then we can [02:57:20] start windshield wiping our legs to get to our base position here, which is our base leg riding position. So guys, I would play around with [02:57:30] that. Grab someone that's good at butterfly sweeps. That's not a leg rocker and start practicing switching hips and landing in pins.

[02:57:39] And [02:57:40] then once you've developed the confidence in that ability, it's Start finding someone that is actually good at inverting to the legs and see if you can time it in such a way that you can shut [02:57:50] down the leg entries, basically punishing them for going for those leg entries. But if you want to look back, BJ Penn's earlier fights, he had a fight against [02:58:00] Takenori Gomi and he does demonstrate.

[02:58:01] Some cool sort of dog mount control from there. I think PJ Pan super innovative back then still worth watching even to this [02:58:10] day.

[02:58:14] All right, so let's cover, uh, some details, uh, with the body lock, right? Obviously [02:58:20] Power top. I covered some body lock details, nothing in a great, it wasn't in great detail, but it just fitted as part of a larger system. And also [02:58:30] conceptually we can use the body lock to start covering legs here. So the end game.

[02:58:36] With everything we're doing is to cover the [02:58:40] legs and develop weight around the knees, right? A common response to body lock is the leg extension and our opponents trying to sit up. So [02:58:50] we have Tyler in the body lock here, face this angle here. I mean, even if my hands aren't connected here, but I'm sort of like, I'm sitting [02:59:00] on Tyler's hooks and he wants to sit up.

[02:59:02] He starts to break the pool. And he starts to sit up here right now. He's in a much better offensive position to play [02:59:10] butterfly guard. It's harder for us to pass when they're sitting up, but we can start thinking about things like I can start to leave space for him to come up. [02:59:20] And as he comes up, I can turn my legs out and we can start covering the legs here.

[02:59:28] So you can see what we do, what we're [02:59:30] always doing. He's trying to create this, and our opponents on bottom always have to in some regard give us something like this. So as I've landed and [02:59:40] covered him, now we're in territory to start stepping over, stapling, whatever we like to do. But I'm trying to steer Tyler's knees away, so I'm [02:59:50] leaving him at his face, and I'm leaving my knees to turn him away here.

[02:59:55] And we don't have to go too far. Over the knees here. We [03:00:00] never want to rush once we've started to cover things. Tyler wants these movements to clear these positions. If I try to step over, he creates space. So we [03:00:10] always want small movements, small stapling style movements here. I just want to keep him where he is.

[03:00:18] I want to keep the legs [03:00:20] collapsed and split so we can use our floating body block style pressure. to create these movements. Even if we look at it from this angle too.[03:00:30]

[03:00:32] So as Tyler starts to extend, I turn my knees in and start to hollow my hips. [03:00:40] I'm keeping heavy on him here and we take minor movements.

[03:00:46] If I go to step over both legs, Tyler has better [03:00:50] ability to off balance me. So we take these baby steps here. So you saw he tried to off balance me there. But I was able to kill it with this style of pressure. [03:01:00] So again, seeing how these things fit in and even other examples here. So say we have basically it all revolves around body lock style system, whether your [03:01:10] arms are open or closed.

[03:01:11] It's the same mechanisms here. So if we want to start stepping over legs, we can use our armpit here. So I don't just have to [03:01:20] run in a circle. Like it's traditionally taught. I use my body weight and armpit pressure to start covering the legs. And if his legs straight here. That's great. The [03:01:30] straight leg is the one that's difficult to utilize because we're killing the bottom hook.

[03:01:34] And then we can start stapling inside these legs here. So even here, I'm in a [03:01:40] very strong position to prevent Tyler or Daphne exploding here. We can even use the open part of our secondary [03:01:50] foot to prevent Tyler bending it completely. So we have these positions here where we can start to destabilize.

[03:01:57] Instead of kicking off to side [03:02:00] control, we can kick off the butterfly hook and reinforce that staple here. We don't really, we're talking control [03:02:10] again. We don't necessarily want to rush upper body. This is our control zone here. So when I'm talking about step over, I want to [03:02:20] straighten this leg.

[03:02:28] To actually stop [03:02:30] posse because now he can put his feet on the ground. You'd start doing explosive shit. But if I'm surfing these lights here, even if he's got a butterfly. [03:02:40] Try to distract the move here. There's no, and you see that he starts when he bridges up, he starts giving us the claw. Stop [03:02:50] stepping over, surfing these legs here, staying behind the legs.

[03:02:55] So again, we even have turkey style options too. [03:03:00] So we're in our bunny loop series here. I can use my interior foot to sit on Tyler's leg. Now we've created the [03:03:10] same pressure with our leg shaft here. We can start to turn these legs and Tyler can start to turn or leave this pressure [03:03:20] and we can do pass ups here.

[03:03:22] You can see here Tyler trying to move.

[03:03:27] Very, very difficult here and you [03:03:30] can see quite that a lot of these things lead to, uh, Tyler wanting to turn belly down. So again, this situation here. I'm using [03:03:40] my inside leg to catch Tyler's Achilles and I sit on it. Now he can't lift his knee high. I can step my leg over and I'm going to be [03:03:50] bringing my outside knee inside his knees.

[03:03:54] It basically creates knee bar style pressure that Tyler wants to [03:04:00] relieve by turning away from me. And when he turns away is when we do a pass up. And now we've created a situation. where the legs are split [03:04:10] and he's trapped on this side. So we've got that reverse turf style pressure. And again, that's where we can start reinforcing [03:04:20] our leg splits, always leading back to this sort of ultimate control position here.

[03:04:27] So again, we're not going into crazy detail about these [03:04:30] techniques. The body works have been well established for a long time now. So you're already going to have your, uh, basic methodology for [03:04:40] creating those passes. But what I want you to try to fit in is the leg pins and staples into your preexisting body lock passes.

[03:04:47] Go and grab the body lock, pass the guard [03:04:50] straight away, grab the body lock to further your control and sometimes furthering your control means not committing all the way to the pass. It means staying [03:05:00] on those legs, making them uncomfortable in those positions. Okay.

[03:05:04] [03:05:10] Now, let's get to the most important part, and that is [03:05:20] the section where we cover about how these pins ultimately lead to submissions, right? Obviously, a lot of people watch this series now think, uh, [03:05:30] prior to this point, I'd be like, Oh, that's great. You're controlling your training partners, your pinning them.

[03:05:34] But how do we create submission opportunities from these positions? And these [03:05:40] positions are unorthodox to. Most people. So we need to start covering details about how we can get submissions from here. And really some of the most powerful ones [03:05:50] we're going to have on triangle, but number one in the hierarchy will be a re naked while we've flattened our training partners out.

[03:05:59] So again, [03:06:00] let me teach this. It's going to look brutal behind the cameras, but you only need to apply as much pressure as necessary. Flattening people out immediately turns people off because they [03:06:10] think, Oh, you're breaking this guy's spine. And obviously you could do that. But you could do that in any position.

[03:06:15] You take a body trunk. You don't need to squeeze the body triangle as hard as you can. [03:06:20] Um, anything you take a DOS, someone that's terrible at a task, literally just squeezes the guy's neck. Typically speaking, the guy taps the neck pressure as well as a strangle, right? [03:06:30] So the key here is to use the correct pressure necessary.

[03:06:33] So we'll be doing submissions such as arm triangle. Flattening out to create a re naked [03:06:40] pressure. We're going to be covering some possible entries to a Kimura. There's a submission called the Cow Catcher that acts both as a pin and a submission in and of [03:06:50] itself. Another one that will look brutal. It's going to look like a lot of neck pressure, but for the most part, it'll be some form of compression submission.

[03:06:59] We will have [03:07:00] paths to DAS and front head style attacks too. I'm not going to go into great detail about how to finish every submission or possible follow ups [03:07:10] to each submission. We're going to keep it short and simple because the most important part about this product is you using unorthodox controls to [03:07:20] pin your opponents and put them in uncomfortable positions.

[03:07:22] That's the greatest strength we can draw out From this. That's dominating your opponent. And then as you dominate your opponent, the submission opportunities [03:07:30] will present themselves. And these submission opportunities will all include one thing, and that is that we remain on top to finish them will treat the bottom player as [03:07:40] if they're a very high risk, very hard to control person.

[03:07:43] And we want to stay on top at all costs. So we're very conservative in that sense. But you'll find the submission opportunities [03:07:50] that are open to you are very high percentage. And some of the positions feel so uncomfortable, not the right word, but they feel like you don't have any opportunity to [03:08:00] escape.

[03:08:00] So you're basically, uh, you basically want to be submitted in some of these positions. Tyler is going to feel every ounce of pressure I can apply. I'm showing you this out of the [03:08:10] goodness of my own heart so we can make Tyler suffer. You can see what's possible so that you don't have to do that to your training partners.

[03:08:16] All [03:08:20] right, so let's talk about our control positions that lead to submission. I've got two elderly men with me because some of these will be uncomfortable and, [03:08:30] uh, two spines broken is better than one in my opinion, right? So when we talk about arm triangles, Tyler's on his back here. The traditional arm triangle is obviously going to [03:08:40] be set up from a position like now, where we start to get the elbow high, and we're starting to bring the arm across.

[03:08:47] And you see where his arms end up, is [03:08:50] basically on this trajectory here. And the ideal arm triangle is obviously if we can bring his arm in such a way that it's gonna block off the carotid arteries on [03:09:00] this side, right? But that's very difficult to do. So the second idea here Tyler wants to kick his arm back at all costs, right?

[03:09:08] So that's why, in my [03:09:10] opinion, some of the best arm tracking setups are set up off of a failing bridge. So if Tyler goes to bridge into it, and I use that opportunity [03:09:20] to track his arm in the perfect position prior to, uh, starting to hop off to the side and finish the submission, [03:09:30] So when they try to reach this arm across to create a bridge, It allows us to capture the perfect position here.

[03:09:37] That's because this shoulder is off the ground. [03:09:40] If we set it up out of a mounted position, generally speaking, their arm will be trapped here and then we have the battle to get it here and [03:09:50] often sometimes They'll answer the phone like so, so obviously the way we're pinning people here isn't basically artificially [03:10:00] creating that bridging pressure here.

[03:10:02] If I am pinning Tyler's knee on this side, it's not in his spine's best interest to [03:10:10] keep this shoulder on the ground on this side, right? So it allows us to generate. that trajectory of the [03:10:20] bicep against the throat to make it perfect. So if we have Tyler's head facing the camera here, let's just look at it out of one example of our basic leg [03:10:30] staple here.

[03:10:31] So you can see here, it's so easy for me to take perfect grips here. Very difficult for Tyler [03:10:40] to be doing this sort of motion because if he keeps his arm here, I can't do it. There's a, there's a baby seal in here. [03:10:50] So you can see that it's actually in his interest to keep his arm crossbody down here. I'm going to have to put him out to get him to stop laughing.[03:11:00]

[03:11:01] So obviously we want to set up an arm triangle. We're creating that artificial bridge mechanism here, right? But what [03:11:10] we also don't want to do is rush this position, right? So obviously we're trying to feed this arm as deep as possible here. But the second I get it, I don't want to jump off. Cause [03:11:20] Tyler might hit a backwards row and he might start to stretch our arms out and we lose the depth.

[03:11:26] Even a failed backwards roll can cause [03:11:30] my arm to shorten here, and that can be a problem for us finishing a clean arm triangle show. So if Tyler's here, we want to [03:11:40] keep his legs in this configuration for as long as possible, and we also want to keep weight on Tyler for as long as possible. I'm going to have to really put [03:11:50] him to sleep.

[03:11:50] So if we set up our arm triangle We want to keep him on this trajectory, right? So we secure our grips nice and tight. The arm around the [03:12:00] head is going to go palm down. The reason we do that is because we have this gap in the bicep, bicep when our palm's up. When it goes palm down, this [03:12:10] gap is taken away.

[03:12:13] So we've got our arm triangle set up. The hand around the head is going to go palm down to secure our grips [03:12:20] and you'll see I'm keeping weight on Tyler as long as I can. My head's looking to wrap and [03:12:30] me to place my chin onto his nose here. So if Tyler's trying to flare his arm out and my head's next to him here.

[03:12:38] He can bring this arm [03:12:40] up. If I guide my chin towards his nose, it drags his arm into the correct position here. And then for us [03:12:50] to finish, I'm keeping my right elbow on the ground and I circle. And with each circle, I apply pressure in such a way [03:13:00] that it completes the movement. The arm triangle here. So again, we're setting it up from our position here, which is helping us create the artificial bridge.

[03:13:09] So we [03:13:10] can even have a pit stop with the claw to pull his head closer, to frame on the back, to start getting this arm deep. We get everything in position, the arm around the [03:13:20] head, palm down, gable grip. I start applying pressure to Tyler here. You can see we can even sometimes finish where we don't even take weight off.[03:13:30]

[03:13:30] But if you pay attention to my right leg, I'm keeping it on him as long as possible. So if Tyler's trying to hit a backwards roll, we're still on him here. We feel that [03:13:40] first explosion and then we get the finish. So we'll try it on a bigger body here. We'll replace the seal.[03:13:50]

[03:13:54] So when he's trapped on this side and my brother has the spinal [03:14:00] flexibility of a 77 year old man, you will see a much stronger and how much easier it is for me to secure this arm deep. So we secure a deep [03:14:10] grip. And again, we can even use that core to pull his head closer to us to start feeding this in.

[03:14:16] We've got our grips taught and I'm gliding [03:14:20] my head. over his head, trying to wrap and keep weight on him as long as possible here. And we start to generate [03:14:30] that pressure to create the tap. But we're not jumping off because he could hit a backwards roll here. And even if he doesn't get it, he comes back.

[03:14:39] He's [03:14:40] created a bit more space in my arms where he can start to bring this arm up. And that makes it harder for us to finish. So we're keeping the [03:14:50] legs split. I'm bringing everything in nice and tight. He's still trapped on that outside and we're starting [03:15:00] to set this up and you can see we got the submission before coming off but obviously here if he tries to backwards roll my knee is still on top [03:15:10] and we can start to get that submission pressure.

[03:15:14] Calm down, minimize the space. I'm trying to bring my chin on top as [03:15:20] this shoulder collapses to the ground. And depending on the size of your bicep, we need to keep that active at all times. So again, space, [03:15:30] no space. That's how we're going to complete the arm triangle. So we've got my brother and the Canadian seal.[03:15:40]

[03:15:42] All right, so we've covered the arm triangle. Sometimes, when we're trying to strangle a baby I can't do it, [03:15:50] I can't do it. This fucking guy said one thing, man. Don't let your baby see it. He fucking let his baby see it. [03:16:00] This fucking guy, man. Oh, man. Bro, I asked one fucking thing, man. [03:16:10] Oh my god, I'm dying.

[03:16:18] We had to send Tyler back to his [03:16:20] seal colony. So we've, we've gathered.

[03:16:28] Oh yeah. [03:16:30] [03:16:40] [03:16:50] All right, so I'm going to talk about failed arm triangles, no matter how well we set it [03:17:00] up. You can see in the previous scene. Um, I was ensuring to turn his body away from the arm triangle as long as possible and then I was trying to keep my weight on top of them as long as [03:17:10] possible so they can't generate momentum with a backwards roll or do some crazy shit like grab their own legs.

[03:17:15] Because if we're using an arm triangle, [03:17:20] I really need this shoulder to the floor here. So if his arms are crossed, we're applying this pressure to get the strangle. If they start to lift the shoulder off [03:17:30] the ground here. There's really no clean way to get the arm triangle here. I mean, you might be squeezing their necks, but the arm triangle pressure is [03:17:40] generated down here, and that's what this shoulder, um, collapsed to the ground.

[03:17:45] If they hit a hard bridge away from us here, we're gonna, uh, [03:17:50] we're gonna shallow out our arm, right? Arm triangle, I'm taking my hand as deep as possible. If we lose it and they bridge away, I shallow it [03:18:00] out. So if you stay still here, my hand and shoulder are now in line with his shoulders here, right? So again, arm triangle [03:18:10] is as deep as we can go.

[03:18:12] When they turn onto their side, we're looking to take this position here, right? So if I'm setting up an arm triangle, And [03:18:20] they bridge away. I'm going to start using an arm in Ezekiel Chokira. So we're going to grab our bicep and our secondary arm [03:18:30] is going to act in line with the spine. So it's in line with the spine.

[03:18:36] There is none of this slicing into the neck [03:18:40] pressure. All my secondary arm is doing is staying in line with the spine. It helps us collapse the head here, right? Obviously, if my arm is too [03:18:50] deep here, all I can do is try to push into that spine. But as they turn away, as they turn away and we shallow it out, [03:19:00] we can grab our bicep and my forearm is in line with the spine.

[03:19:05] My left hand, that secondary hand pushes and my strangle arm [03:19:10] starts to retract. And we get the tap here so we can finish on top quite easily here. So I'm pushing his head into the choke while [03:19:20] that forearms in line with his shoulders. My right arm retracts. So it's not a squeeze. I'm not squeezing everywhere as hard as I can.

[03:19:27] It's going to hurt his neck. I push and [03:19:30] retract. And if we really want to make it tight, we can start to do that chair sit motion. I don't mind setting up the chair sit too much from here because as you can see, [03:19:40] this submission is kind of dead to rights here. So I fall to my thigh here and we get that submission.

[03:19:47] So again, how this might look [03:19:50] in the complete context is we're here, I've started to flatten them out and that shoulder [03:20:00] powers back off the ground. So I shallow my arm out almost as if I'm in the claw range. I grab my own bicep here. I place [03:20:10] that arm and forearm blade behind their head. I start pushing their head and retracting Now strangle in, push, retract.[03:20:20]

[03:20:20] Not this. We are pushing and retracting, don't just squeeze the neck. So we're trying to create that sort of frame behind the [03:20:30] head that bends the head and we can take this chest in motion to CR to have a little extra force. 'cause when I'm pulling him onto my right hip, [03:20:40] it allows me to push the back of the head a lot better.

[03:20:44] So then again, don't squeeze as hard as you can off the get go. Start to look like consistent pressure over time. [03:20:50] That's going to ultimately lead to that strangle pressure that you can maintain for a long time. Common mistakes people make trying at [03:21:00] really any submission, any strangle, but specifically arm in strangles is that they just squeeze as hard as they can from the get go, burn their arms out.

[03:21:08] We need to apply a pressure that [03:21:10] we can hold at least 20 seconds and that's going to be a slow building pressure. So once you created the wedge, once everything's tight and locked. apply consistently growing pressure over [03:21:20] time that we can maintain. And that's how we can use a failed arm triangle to set up an arm in Ezekiel.[03:21:30]

[03:21:30] All right, so let's talk about, uh, the strongest thing we can do out of these positions, which would be belly down rear nakeds. We're going to cover how we could do it from our leg [03:21:40] rides using the, uh, Khabib grip, the Dagestani handcuff, and also how we can set it up when our training partner opponents in total position, and we want to sort of encourage them.

[03:21:49] to fall [03:21:50] back onto a hip while we're using that, uh, diagonal ride style position. So how it comes up again, if I have [03:22:00] effective pins here, right? So I've got Tyler's leg split and I'm applying this chest pressure, uh, into Tyler. I can even start to use my [03:22:10] cross facing arm to pull his head in line with his hips and his lower leg.

[03:22:15] And you can see that's already starting to encourage belly down movement. Quite [03:22:20] often when people are stuck in this position here and they want to create movement, one of the ways we create movement is to just build height in any way we can. So obviously if I'm on [03:22:30] top of Tyler here, I'm pressuring into him and he wants to start creating some sort of movement he feels in control of, he starts building up to that arm.

[03:22:37] And that's where I'm initially going to take a [03:22:40] same side control and then I'm going to reinforce her with the secondary control. Again, we keep these grips tight. I don't commit one arm to it because he can re [03:22:50] pummel behind his back there. So I want to trap it under his body first. And I trap it under his body by pulling and using chest forward pressure.[03:23:00]

[03:23:00] So we've got it controlled under his body. Now it's going to be tough for him to clear this grip. And now we start thinking about creating a rear naked style control here. I want to come [03:23:10] under the neck. No, I don't want to use the core grip here. Because the claw grip is a great control, but it's going to be a little tougher for me to force him belly down from here, [03:23:20] because he can retract his elbow and I have to fight against it.

[03:23:23] So I want to come under the chin here. Obviously under the chin, if he's keeping it tucked, from these positions, [03:23:30] very easy to lift the chin. So I can start to lift her. and come under. You can see Tyler tries to hand fight or anything here. There's really not a lot he can do. So I'm [03:23:40] starting to lift and bridge my hips forward and I'm trying to replace my inside cramp hook to a single hook and that allows me to really [03:23:50] force him belly down here.

[03:23:51] And the beauty of these setups is his hand fights limited because his hands preoccupied by the ground that gives him some sort of comfort and [03:24:00] control here. He went for a hand fight here. Now his chest is taking his body weight. If we place the hand on the ground, he's not feeling as much pressure in the chest.

[03:24:09] So just [03:24:10] to test, if he puts his hand on the ground and he starts to talk. Uh, hello? Still pretty bad, but the hands off the ground. You can see now his chest is carrying all the weight. So [03:24:20] we're really emphasizing lifting. We can finish. with one hand, which would be like that, uh, Garrott style choke. So I'm attracting the elbow.[03:24:30]

[03:24:30] If I'm confident he's belly down and he can't turn back into me, then we can start committing to the rear naked here. But really we don't want to preemptively [03:24:40] go for the rear naked because if Tyler starts turning back into me, yeah, you can see it's hard for me to finish the strangle. One way we can sort of mitigate that [03:24:50] risk.

[03:24:50] is by lifting his head. So Tyler tries to turn back in. Don't make it difficult. Obviously, it looks very uncomfortable. But Tyler, if he [03:25:00] brings his body this way, his upper body this way, you see now it's easier for him to start turning belly down. So one of the keys here is to keep pulling [03:25:10] away. So we're pulling it, uh, towards the rear naked, uh, secondary grip, not allowing here.

[03:25:17] If I look up a strangle here, Tyler will turn [03:25:20] his right shoulder back to the ground and we'll lose it. Right. So if we have Tyler here, and we want him to stay belly down. Now he tries to turn his right [03:25:30] shoulder. You see my chest is blocking his left shoulder. Here, his left shoulder can come back through.

[03:25:37] It's hard for me to compress that. So we pull [03:25:40] his body this way, to start locking up rear naked. I want him to apply it. Tyler tries to move to relieve pressure. I've got hip pressure, chest pressure, you can see the legs are [03:25:50] split. And again, if you combine that with the Dagestani style grip, I can use both hands to pull him down.

[03:25:59] Now [03:26:00] Tyler's trying to fight from here. You see, he doesn't even want to take his right hand off the ground. And we can start locking our brain [03:26:10] anchors. So again, and yeah, obviously we can do this from All of our positions here. So if we have this leg right here, leg shelf, and Tyler starts trying to come up to an [03:26:20] elbow here, we control the wrist, we collapse their weight down, we flare our elbow to create belly down pressure here.

[03:26:29] I [03:26:30] can open my legs here because we've got complete control ensuring that my right hook comes in if this leg comes across. So Tyler's trying to fight this here.[03:26:40]

[03:26:43] Very, very difficult for him to fight this style of pressure. [03:26:50] Now we can start to stretch him out again. Same principles here. If I want to commit to the rear naked, pull his head away from [03:27:00] the rear naked grip. If he's allowed to pull his head towards it, Bad time to die. Really bring his head away [03:27:10] and start locking up these really naked grips.

[03:27:14] So just play around with it. Remember the head is a tool. If he wants to belly, if he wants to [03:27:20] return to his, uh, the flat of his back, he wants to crunch into a ball. So obviously to counter that, if we use his head to extend it away from his spine. [03:27:30] And again, this obviously sounds uncomfortable, but Tyler can tap at any point.

[03:27:34] He can concede the submission at any point. And it is still technical. We [03:27:40] technically rode the legs. We technically secured the second hand. We secured our grips. We forced him belly down. Another situation would be, he's in turtle here and [03:27:50] we have our diagonal right. So with our inside hook, we've crossed our feet.

[03:27:58] I've pinched my knees together [03:28:00] and I've started securing. our grips here. So obviously he's up on a hand here. We can start to lift it and then secure it. And if I want to bring him back [03:28:10] to his left hip, I hip in and I flare my right knee. And now we've collapsed him to his left hip. So now [03:28:20] Tyler, he, he really cannot actually effectively come back up the turtle at this point.

[03:28:25] He's carrying so much weight in his hip. So we come back a step. [03:28:30] So we've got our diagonal control here. I'm lifting the elbow if he's on his hand, and we secure it, and then we flare our right knee, and we [03:28:40] create that hipping in pressure. And this is the ultimate scenario here. We've created this diagonal ride pressure, where this wrist ride [03:28:50] Prevents him turning back into me and the pressure I have on his hips here prevents him returning.

[03:28:56] His legs are split. We've contorted the spine. His [03:29:00] secondary hand is preoccupied with keeping weight off of him and off of the ground. And we can come and punch through. And again, you'll find it much easier. A lot of people talk about [03:29:10] using the knuckles to turn the head to expose the chin, but like from the back, that's much more difficult than from here.

[03:29:15] He keeps his chin tucked. Look how much easier it is from these positions. [03:29:20] We could just do this all day, right? Um, but again, very easy from here. I'm starting to bring his head in line with [03:29:30] his lower hip and that's going to make him want to belly out here. But again, we have our garage style strangles or we can commit to a renegade in here.

[03:29:39] [03:29:40] Tyler tries to turn back in very difficult because of the way I position my legs. Over the hip here. Come back. Let's [03:29:50] do this way as well. So pay close attention to how I flare my right knee.

[03:29:59] So Tyler's trying to keep [03:30:00] his balance and I flare everything. And we collapse him down to here. And this is one of the best positions uh, for control here. Legs are split. [03:30:10] Weight on the legs. Hands preoccupied. We got the wrist right. And again, here, no matter what he tries to do to hide the shrinkle, it's going to be [03:30:20] very, very easy.

[03:30:20] Even one hand here, to get a tap. We want him to go belly down, pull his head away, and we can start setting up the shrinkle. [03:30:30] But I'm applying, heaping in pressure. My hips are coming in, and the leg that we're hooking, that outside [03:30:40] knee, is flaring and what that does is if Tyler was in turtle here we've eliminated this base I'm pulling this hand in so he's already tipping [03:30:50] towards his shoulder and then with the diagonal right pressure I'm lifting this knee off the ground so his only choice is but to collapse into this [03:31:00] position.

[03:31:01] Arms stuck, hands posted on the floor. All our weight is here. So one more time.

[03:31:09] [03:31:10] So pay close attention, right? So we kill his diagonal hand here. He's now, weight is distributed towards his left shoulder. [03:31:20] I cross my feet. He's trying to keep his right knee on the ground for stability.

[03:31:26] to collapse it. We can start setting off [03:31:30] our strangles here. So again, so, uh, two clear different ways to approach it here. If he [03:31:40] turtles, I think we, we have to emphasize flattening them out from here, especially against opponents that try to stand. We need some way to punish the guy from turtle [03:31:50] that wants to use a four point to escape or return to his feet.

[03:31:53] Best way to do that is to start applying flattening out pressure, a pressure that encourages them to return to [03:32:00] guard. But of course they're not being returned to guard in a safe way. They're being returned to guard in such a way that we really truly do flatten them out, can finish the strangle. So we can set it up with wrist [03:32:10] rides from top turtle and from top leg rides.

[03:32:18] Let's cover [03:32:20] two DOS setups that, um, very high percentage, very low risk. There'll be a couple of things I add to the DAS setup. Typically the standard way [03:32:30] people approach DASs is they look to establish control of the DAS itself and then they try to control the legs. So that would be the standard order.

[03:32:39] We [03:32:40] get the front head submission, then we trap the leg to secure a strong finish that they can't move around out of. Another concept I'll use for DASs is [03:32:50] the idea of fatiguing the front head the neck. And this is one reason I think even the Rotolo brothers are so effective with Darcy's. If you watch the Rotolo brothers wrestle [03:33:00] heavy on the collar ties and what a collar ties do when you resist them, it's going to start to fatigue the neck.

[03:33:06] And some of the people that are most resistant to the strokes [03:33:10] have an insanely strong ability to flex their neck out of situations to find space to breathe. So when they're told us hit heavy color ties all [03:33:20] the time and start to fatigue their opponent's neck, by the time they secure the darts, they're dealing with a fatigued neck.

[03:33:26] That one part of the body is already fatigued. Obviously they have excellent technique, [03:33:30] but I think that is also a contributing factor to the fatigue. the success rate they have with the Darces. So we can do similar things, right? So if I have Tyler in a side smash [03:33:40] here, right? So we split the legs here and Tyler's shelled up.

[03:33:44] What I'll often do is start to reach over the head and I'll start to use my [03:33:50] elbow to collapse Tyler's head. And what does Tyler want to do? He wants to start resisting that, right? It's an instinctual response. I'm limiting his movement. capabilities here. [03:34:00] We're curling them up into a little bowl and Tyler will resist and sometimes he'll even be so frustrated this top hand might just gently try [03:34:10] to reach my elbow here to start pushing out and you can see what is that going to open up.

[03:34:16] It's going to open up space to slide the darts here. So [03:34:20] when I say we establish control over the top leg I have control over the top leg. Your standard DAS setup will be, we secure the grips, [03:34:30] then we step over, then we trap that leg around. So we secure the DAS, and then, we start to secure the top [03:34:40] leg. If you can come back and visualize where we just were, we've stapled the legs, we've controlled the top leg, and I'm starting to bend Tyler's [03:34:50] head.

[03:34:50] We're good. He's starting to want to resist this pressure and really you'd be surprised how easy it is to fatigue if you see guys wrestling See jujitsu guys get hit with five [03:35:00] six color ties already started So you'd be surprised at how little effort I have to put into this. And then when Tyler is getting sick of it, he wants to start using his [03:35:10] secondary hand.

[03:35:11] That leaves us space to start throwing our arm in. So you can see, the head's collapsed. We don't have [03:35:20] to break. I'm not reaching through to secure it, trying to throw this over. My elbow secured it and we just do a pass off to start applying this pressure here. [03:35:30] And I've locked up this hand. The strangle hand is as deep as it can go.

[03:35:35] Then the secondary hand comes as deep as it can go, but the secondary [03:35:40] arm doesn't come so deep. It jeopardizes pressure. This is the Thai Wedge. This hand is of secondary importance. I don't want this one to [03:35:50] climb so high that my hand shallows out We want to keep this pressure here for a good lock when we start to get down to our fingers here That's in situations where we slip [03:36:00] or they can apply pressure the elbow and we lose it.

[03:36:02] So I'm collapsing Tyler's head He starts wanting to reach with that hand Gives me space to feed this through and I retract [03:36:10] With my elbow here. We do that pass off. We reach as deep as we can And we secure that top arm. Now I start to apply a bit of weight into him to [03:36:20] lift This knee off the ground because we want to secure this So now we'll face This way here So we split the legs here [03:36:30] We've locked up our guard Everything's nice and quiet here I put a bit of weight into it to allow me to place my feet [03:36:40] underneath it.

[03:36:41] And we've got our die set up. And what we want to start to do is think about bending the net to create pressure here. I'm not trying to squeeze from [03:36:50] all angles as much as possible here. I'm using my chest to bend him. So we're locked up and our chest is coming in with a slight rotation. [03:37:00] And this leg being shelved here really mitigates a lot of his explosive escaping capabilities.

[03:37:07] Most of the time, if we secure it, if [03:37:10] we don't have this leg, they can start using obviously their feet on the ground, generating pressure to weaken our grips here. So again, [03:37:20] we're going to have a slight split. I'm fatiguing his neck until he starts to make a mistake. I'm going to open it here to get out handy.

[03:37:29] When you [03:37:30] are passed off, everything starts to slide. I lean into him to secure the leg. I cross my feet. Todd is trying to pull that leg out. Very, [03:37:40] very difficult here. And then we can start to lock up our darts. And again I'm trying to rotate so his head gets [03:37:50] strangled in the darts. I'm going to get that nice gentle strangle here.

[03:37:54] So we're collapsing the head and we're feeding this hand through to create a [03:38:00] pass off. I hook the feet and I create rotational pressure to secure the finish. So two things I think I do different. [03:38:10] Fatigue the neck before we secure the submission. Trap the leg before we secure the strangle. The leg is trapped.

[03:38:17] We've already shelved the leg. And that's the key [03:38:20] to the escape pods. Key to escaping the DOS generating movement and to being able to open up the shoulders and neck. And usually that can be done through big bridging pressure. So obviously [03:38:30] a great DOS is to control the top leg. So one more time, we'll get up from this angle.

[03:38:37] So yeah, we're now side smash here. Tyler [03:38:40] showed up. Elbow over the head. I'm pulling his head. He pulls back. He pulls back. And again, don't hold it so tight. Tyler can't move. Give him a bit of [03:38:50] hope. So when he pulls the head, cause that way he's going to believe he can do it. And eventually he opens up. I scissor my arms here so you can see my elbows tight.[03:39:00]

[03:39:00] We secure a hand to the bicep as deep as we can. And then we lift the hand that grabbed the bicep. We lift that arm's elbow. So we [03:39:10] lock it, elbow comes up as we secure the other hand. I drive a bit of weight in so I could hook that leg. And now we're in a great [03:39:20] position to start applying this emission pressure.

[03:39:23] So that would be the first start setup, right? Again, uh, Fatigue the neck, trap the leg before you [03:39:30] commit to the strangle. DARS number two is from the cradle position, right? So we talked about how we could possibly set up the cradle, and that was out of a front head, right? [03:39:40] So we had our front head position here.

[03:39:43] We set over the leg and I pull and push my hip in. So now we've [03:39:50] already trapped Tyler on the side.

[03:39:55] So you can see I've trapped this top leg already. Again, [03:40:00] we're trapping the leg before we commit to the strangle. We're not committing to the strangle without the leg traps because if we don't trap the leg prior and he escapes the darts, [03:40:10] now we could end up on bottom. We're in a scramble position. If we can't get the darts with the leg trap, we're still great.

[03:40:15] This is still a great beginning position here and we can start [03:40:20] setting it up the exact same way. Pull the elbow, grab the bicep. Once you grab the bicep with your interior hand, as the outside hand pummels up, [03:40:30] pull your elbow higher. Tyler's trying to scramble out from here, but that leg shelf is what's securing us.[03:40:40]

[03:40:40] Such a tight, tight Darcy, right? So the details of the grip exchange retract the elbow left hand deep. When you grab this [03:40:50] bicep, as your right hand comes up, lift your elbow. Don't go here, here and then try to lift. We grab our bicep and these things [03:41:00] happen at the same time. We're trying to do this style of movement.

[03:41:04] And again, you can get cradles out of unique positions too, right? [03:41:10] Even if he has a form of guard, knee shield here and I'm applying weave pressure and Tyler starts to come up. [03:41:20] We have that leg shelf available to us. So look at it from the other angle as well. So I'm in a knee shield position. [03:41:30] I punch my weave hand through, I cover the head, and Tata starts feeding into him.

[03:41:36] We immediately shelf this [03:41:40] leg, and we keep pressure on Tata to see if Tata is trying to get up. He's having trouble, he's making openings for us. So here, as he [03:41:50] tries to get up, that's what allows us to stop feeding. And remember, look at the difference between the time to tap here. If I grab the bicep Lift my right hand [03:42:00] high and then try to lift the elbow.

[03:42:01] When we commit to it,

[03:42:06] we get the tap, right? If we retract the elbow [03:42:10] and as we do this single grip exchange, when we grab the bicep and this hand climbs to the elbow climbs at the same time, we've already got the tap. So [03:42:20] again, retract place the hand on the bicep as your right hand feeds high, your left elbow feeds high. And then we can start [03:42:30] applying weight.

[03:42:31] But again, the key here, it's just a shelved leg control principle. If this leg shelved, the legs are split. I got weight on Tyler. He tries to get [03:42:40] up. Very, very difficult here. And that's when task opportunities start to come up. So again, as this hand, the outside hand [03:42:50] comes up, so does the inside elbow. And we start generating that submission pressure.

[03:42:56] So again, a fatigued neck is a weak and vulnerable neck. [03:43:00] The leg trap prior to DARS commitment is a DARS that has a fail safe that we maintain top control even if we lose the submission.[03:43:10]

[03:43:13] All right, let's talk about one of lately, probably my personal favorite submissions and it is called the cow catcher. [03:43:20] I believe the cow catcher is a way to pin people in wrestling. But we can do a variation of it where we don't have a chin strap, but we have a high elbow position. Uh, sorry high wrist [03:43:30] position.

[03:43:30] So i'll show you from Stand like it works really good if tyler's taking a shot And i've caught an underhook on this side, right? [03:43:40] And we switch sides now And instead of a chin strap we'll go on high wrist so if you can see my fingers here Why this is [03:43:50] good is because I can punch my left arm to the far shoulder.

[03:43:55] And you see what it's doing to Tyler's upper body. It's forcing him to [03:44:00] turn. And when we're using, uh, the higher wrist position, we're basically doing a power half here. It's going to be a power half mechanism [03:44:10] to turn them onto their back here. So it's a really great way to pin and hit a man return. So we've got an under hook and side hook.

[03:44:18] We're looking for high [03:44:20] wrist position. So even if Tyler's trying to keep his balance here, we just lift that shoulder and we can knock him to the ground here. So I'm trying to keep my weight [03:44:30] off. I don't have sore hips. I'm bringing, here Tyler feels pretty comfortable. As our slouch hits to face, [03:44:40] Tyler tries to move.

[03:44:43] So you can see we've created an effective pin and we also started to both strangle him [03:44:50] and compress the chest, right? Because if we're applying chest pressure here and his hands are away from his body, he feels that pressure. But if you combine it with head up pressure, [03:45:00] it really emphasizes that chest compression.

[03:45:02] So again, if you want to learn how to do it off the standing position, as they shoot under hook, [03:45:10] guillotine position, and we create a power half motion by turning. And you can see I've switched my hips here. He survives [03:45:20] again, as we start to switch hips. And again, we can be as nice as we want to be, right?

[03:45:26] So I don't just fully committed to it. Tyler's uncomfortable here, but he's not [03:45:30] getting hurt. If I pull on his head too hard, he's gonna get hurt. So I'm thinking more of a chest compression pin. So Tyler's not in pain here, but he's running out of oxygen.[03:45:40]

[03:45:42] And then we get this submission, right? So we can also do this from out of our leg rights. Obviously, [03:45:50] which is why I bring it up, right? So if they're ever not protecting the underhook space, we can commit shoulder to shoulder pressure here. Now we've [03:46:00] taken advantage of this space, right? If you wanted to take the underhook back, it's kind of hard with the way we're committing pressure to my legs here because I'm driving shoulder pressure [03:46:10] into this arm here.

[03:46:10] I'm getting to use that head to somewhat block it here. And then what we're going to do is we're going to dive our arm over. And obviously it's a tough [03:46:20] angle to create a high risk position. But even if we just place our hands on our own chest. It basically meets their chest in the same [03:46:30] position. So I go over the head and I lift my hips.

[03:46:32] I'm still pinning this outside leg momentarily here. I step off [03:46:40] of his legs and then we start to switch hips. So you can see there's a great deal of chest pressure on Tyler here and we eventually get the submission. [03:46:50] So why I think these positions are so important cause more injuries and submissions in the average gym is because it's not an immediate submission.

[03:46:58] Catch a rear naked [03:47:00] two, three seconds. That guy's tapping, right? He's going to go unconscious. Chest compressions take longer. So guys think it's not working when they lack technique and [03:47:10] understanding. They think just do it harder. So obviously if Tyler's neck just needs to be bent a little bit to create effective chest compression submission, but it might [03:47:20] take four seconds to get the submission.

[03:47:22] I just need to hold him at this safe range. The answer isn't keep pulling until he taps. That's going to injure [03:47:30] your training partner's neck. And it's probably why moves like this have such a bad name. So again, we've taken advantage of this pocket of space here and [03:47:40] I've secured an underhook. I dive over the head.

[03:47:45] While still pinning his top leg, I reach as deep as I can reach [03:47:50] and I open my chest. So as I hop off the legs, Tyler's trying to move here. So I've created enough pressure here [03:48:00] to start generating, uh, submission pressure. So he's being strangled here, but let's count it out and we've got it. All right. So let's count it, right?

[03:48:08] Let's give him a couple of breaths first. [03:48:10] He's going to start making seal noises again. Alright, so let's count it down. 1, 2, 3, [03:48:20] 4, 5, 6, and we get the tap, right? He's not going to submit quicker to a compression by ripping his neck [03:48:30] up. He might tap quicker because it hurts his neck, but hopefully Todd doesn't prove me wrong here, but there's no amount of pressure we're applying to his neck here that's going to injure his [03:48:40] neck.

[03:48:40] But we need a bender to complete the compression. or the strangle side of things. So again, cowcatcher very safe. Obviously everything's dangerous if put in [03:48:50] the wrong hands, but it is safe. You just need to not rip your opponent's neck off in hitting it. But again, I think it's very important in the context of ADCC defending [03:49:00] takedowns to score points and pinning position.

[03:49:02] So I really think It should be a crucial part of the game and it's not just a neck crack.[03:49:10]

[03:49:11] Let's talk about wrist control. There's going to be wrist locks involved in this situation. So again, I don't think wrist locks are a [03:49:20] great submission overall because it's kind of, um, it's a dangerous one to play with in training because sometimes you have to apply it so viciously they don't have [03:49:30] time to tap.

[03:49:31] If you apply it too gently, sometimes they can slip out and it's one of those ones you want to be careful who you teach it to because some of your training partners are [03:49:40] just complete idiots and they barely even have the safety to do, uh, more regular, more controlled submissions. But we can use wrist lock pressure to [03:49:50] create straight arm bar pressure, Kimura pressure.

[03:49:53] And I want to talk about how we can do it, right? So we've got Tyler in our pin position again, right? [03:50:00] So I call this, I don't even know like a Spider Man grip because it's kind of like I'm shooting web. I mean, we'd have to ask the comic book expert here, but [03:50:10] we control the wrist and I apply palm in pressure here and it's opening Tyler's elbow away from his body.

[03:50:18] And now it's my body [03:50:20] weight versus Tyler's arm here. So we're coming in, Tyler's trying to resist. Very difficult to resist this pressure, right? [03:50:30] And again, obviously we could create wrist lock style pressure here, but that's not going to be still going to be very high percentage. I just want to demonstrate that even if we use two [03:50:40] hands, I'm still going to emphasize getting our palms behind it.

[03:50:43] Tyler's trying to resist, very weak. So it'd be like doing a pushup with this pressure here. But the idea is if [03:50:50] I can get a wrist control, again, we'd probably be seeing this situation where they're trying to frame inside this bicep here. Exactly. And we can start. So I'm not sitting back [03:51:00] here being like doing some Steven Seagal pressure like this, right?

[03:51:04] So we are still on top of them here. Maybe they're looking for inside bicep control and we find our wrist [03:51:10] control here. Generally speaking, I just do it to create an opening, which was good switch to an underhook. But if we wanted to go straight to the [03:51:20] submission, Tyler cannot easily resist this and he cannot face it.

[03:51:23] He cannot face it because of this. If I wasn't on this leg and he could turn the other way, or if he could [03:51:30] turn this way into it here, we start to lose this space here. So we're pinning him in one direction, we're applying wrist lock pressure in the other. So again, underhooks [03:51:40] there if you want it, or we start to dive over the top and lock up Kumura pressure.

[03:51:47] Because I'm weighted towards Tyler's left. If [03:51:50] he's trying to move, resist. We can start using this. If he keeps his arm straight, I can apply straight arm bar pressure so I can [03:52:00] rotate his thumb to the sky here and we're creating that bridging pressure underneath our elbow here. So if Tyler's [03:52:10] resisting, you can see it's very difficult here.

[03:52:12] We've got quite a solid pin and I'm rolling his elbow. over. So again, it's all in [03:52:20] the wrist here. Or if he bends his elbow here, we've got our Kimura game here where we could start to, sorry, we could start to step over the head [03:52:30] and apply that pressure here. And really trying to get his hand behind his shoulder here.

[03:52:36] If I wanted to get the break, I flare my elbow. [03:52:40] So again, don't just pull his, it's not about pulling the hand as far as we can this way. It's about getting it to a tension point and [03:52:50] then flaring our elbow to create the break ear. So again, we've got those two options here, right? We've got that cutting armbar style, or we've got that Camarilla style [03:53:00] pressure ear.

[03:53:01] Maintaining control over the leg pin as long as possible. So they're fighting inside here, we control the [03:53:10] wrist. I commit white man. over the top of his shoulder, that's when we take advantage of that rolling pressure. But if he's bending it, [03:53:20] we can take advantage of Kamura pressure. Another even option here is to switch to basically a one handed style Kamura here.

[03:53:28] So if his arm's hiding [03:53:30] here, I can pass off and control his wrist here. So we've got the two on one Kamura or If we could pass the hand off to Juan, [03:53:40] I start to square up with him here, and I start to pull his arm back. So you see we've still got a good pin here. I've got chest to chest pressure. [03:53:50] My free hand is blocking the hips.

[03:53:52] Tyler's trying to move. As he moves, we start to pull his hand underneath his shoulder here. [03:54:00] So finally, we got a few different submissions. Sometimes guys will just tap straight to the wrist lock, but again, we're using it to create under hooks. We're [03:54:10] using it to look up straight arm bar. If they bend it, a standard Kimura here, he's got a bad shoulder.

[03:54:17] I'm being careful. We can create that pressure [03:54:20] or we can pass it off to a one handed Kimura, emphasizing pinning pressure here, starting to pull back. So again, [03:54:30] just some fun tricks you can throw in there as well to scare people about where their hand position is when we have the lower body pinned. But just a great principle to [03:54:40] control the wrist is to use your palm to rotate their elbow out.

[03:54:45] Um, and then they're having to basically fight into you with wrist locking [03:54:50] pressure just to get back to the neutral position that we're in.

[03:54:57] So we can also use our pin [03:55:00] positions and the threat of submission to lead us to arguably more dominant positions, right? So my argument isn't that. The pins are the absolute best positions for [03:55:10] submissions, but they're the best control positions that safely lead to submission. So a position such as the gift wrap where our opponents on the shoulder, that would be a great both control [03:55:20] and submission position, right?

[03:55:21] We have submission opportunities where we could fall back, but we have those safe submission opportunities that we talk about today that involve staying firmly on top, remaining in [03:55:30] control, respecting the fact that our opponent might be too dangerous for us to risk conceding such a good position. So if I have Adam here in [03:55:40] the leg split here, so if we want to think about setting up an arm triangle, Adam knows that the [03:55:50] shoulder to the floor is death here, right?

[03:55:53] It means he's going to feel the submission pressure. He's going to get submitted. He might even start making strange [03:56:00] noises like the last UK, but knowing full well to keep his shoulder up, to reduce the chance of the arm triangle, basically reduce it to none also [03:56:10] leads us to great opportunities to upgrade submission.

[03:56:12] So if I'm reaching deep, trying to set up arm triangle, and I'm just like, I cannot get it. We switch off to a claw and I can hop my [03:56:20] knee higher and step straight into a gift wrap position. So we bypassed the entire mount battle of [03:56:30] trying to get arms high, elbows high, climb up the mount, switch to a position like this, switch to an S mount prior to this.

[03:56:37] We've forgone all those battles [03:56:40] just by setting up a high mount from down here. And then obviously you can easily switch. to a gift wrap style position. So again, we're down here [03:56:50] in our side split, we're set up an arm triangle and they're reaching into us because they know that's the proper defense. But of course that gives us the opportunity [03:57:00] to get knee high and basically line ourselves up into this gift wrap position here.

[03:57:06] Um, And again, we know we're safe to do this because they're [03:57:10] defending at arm triangles. Obviously, if I were to try to step to a gift wrap as the shoulder goes back to the floor, we're still in a good spot, but not as dominant a spot, right? So we can [03:57:20] bait this, uh, up on the side mounted gift wrap position by setting it up down here.

[03:57:26] So I'm going for arm triangle. There is this thing, [03:57:30] switch to a shallow claw grip. I keep waiting him here. So now, even if he wanted to go back, It's very, very difficult. Knee goes high, foot goes high, [03:57:40] immediately switch to the give wrap. And straight away we have great submission opportunities here. I can step my leg over, catch [03:57:50] my ankle here.

[03:57:51] I can start to lean forward and you see how I'm pulling his head into the strangle here, so that when I lock up my feet, [03:58:00] we're already in a very strong position. Obviously we want to create some rotational pressure so I could start reaching for the legs here. Adam's trying to move and wiggle [03:58:10] out. Very soft.

[03:58:13] And we get that submission. So we're in our gift wrap here. Obviously again, I could chair sit [03:58:20] to take the back. I could take an armbar and fall backwards, but everything we're trying to do here today is we dominate top position. We stay on top. We submit from top. [03:58:30] So I stepped through and grab. My ankle straight away.

[03:58:34] I roll my elbow into his head here already applying [03:58:40] strangling pressure. Arguably we could get the submission here, but we want to reinforce and close everything up. So I roll weight on top of him, lock it [03:58:50] up deep, activate the ankles here. We start to lean forwards to finish. I'm trying to bend his arm trap [03:59:00] and his head into the strangle.

[03:59:02] And if I want extra control, I reach for the leg here. So look, if he's trying to explode out,[03:59:10]

[03:59:11] we got a good noise out of him. But again, when we're holding this leg from the triangle acting as a leg shelf all the [03:59:20] same, but again, don't be caught up in only remaining in the leg right. The leg rides are great intermediary position, but if we can bypass [03:59:30] standard positions into high amounts for sure, going to be a great option, going to be a great control position.

[03:59:35] You can see we have a high percentage triangle we can attack out of the gift wrap.[03:59:40]

[03:59:42] Let's talk about using the half Nelson to create, um, it's back exposure, but it's belly down back exposure. So again, we talked [03:59:50] about in sort of upper body tools. how the half nelson can be used to turn people. So obviously in the, in the context of wrestling, half nelson can be used to attempt to [04:00:00] pin an opponent by forcing them to roll onto their back and obviously pinning positions for the sake of jiu jitsu.

[04:00:05] We can use it from positions like mount or any of the positions we've covered today. Any of these [04:00:10] are pinning style positions. We can use it to force them to turn onto their belly. It's obviously start setting up strangles. So again, you'd have to check the rules of the tournament. In terms of [04:00:20] IPGF, they might start calling this a thing like a, uh, a neck crank.

[04:00:23] So it might be illegal. Um, obviously if you're competing in the kids division, it's probably, probably illegal. Um, and again, [04:00:30] ADCC, half Nelson's fine because if they move with the movement, they're relieving pressure. So I don't consider it an illegal technique, but a full Nelson just for the sake of [04:00:40] demonstration purposes here.

[04:00:41] Uh, a move that I, I love to do to Placido actually, which is a legal technique, but he just, he inspires me with it. So we'll have Tyler down here. [04:00:50] So guys, most of these moves are interchangeable, right? Like I've been telling you, I've been teaching most of our parts of submission from here. But for the most part, they're all gonna move, [04:01:00] uh, work the same from a ton of our pin position.

[04:01:02] So again, for the sake of, uh, bearing it up, we'll talk about using it from the leg shelf style [04:01:10] Khabib right here. So again, typically speaking, the time that this half Nelson comes up is they're reaching for our legs here. So we can start to strip that grip, [04:01:20] right? It doesn't even need to be that far, just enough that as we drape our weight across, we can place that fist.

[04:01:27] in the armpit here. We can even start to [04:01:30] force it. So you can see how that's encouraging Tyler to want to turn belly down because we're generating pressure in his neck. If Tyler tries to turn belly up, obviously it's going to be very [04:01:40] difficult, but it's also going to hurt his neck. So when we use this half Nelson to create belly down pressure, I can start to flatten Tyler out here and start reaching [04:01:50] to apply re naked.

[04:01:51] Obviously, if we get here and Tyler starts looking to generate height, we're looking to open those elbows. So to be [04:02:00] patient is key here, and we can start looking for re naked pressure. Again, sometimes it might take a couple, so we lift the chin, come back under, [04:02:10] and finish exactly how we would. Uh, in any, any regular rear naked circumstance.

[04:02:17] So just to show you as well, from the position we've done [04:02:20] most of our work from, Tyler's pushing on our leg here. We can clear that arm out. If I put weight on it, it's going to be hard for Tyler to fight this. So we just need to hold it long [04:02:30] enough to bring weight over their upper body. We place the hand under the armpit and start to straighten our hand.

[04:02:36] Sometimes you'll find one arm is enough, But [04:02:40] again, if they're, if they're providing pretty good resistance here, I would just try to reinforce them in a second. You can see I'm going to use my chest to complete this movement here. So I'm [04:02:50] rolling Tyler over here, if he starts to build height, we're trying to keep those elbows open.

[04:02:57] Let's see if he gives us a wrist ride. [04:03:00] That's good again. So you see here, chest pressure, hip pressure in. Tyler's trying to move. But he's going to expose the neck here. Most of the time, [04:03:10] he'd be able to finish this one hand, Garut style. And again, we can dive through to complete the rear naked. And as long as we keep that weight on top, [04:03:20] um, we'll be able to finish the rear naked without hooks because we have hooks from our back with our opponent on top.

[04:03:28] to apply rear naked [04:03:30] pressure to limit their lateral movement. Because if we have a rear naked on someone without hooks, obviously it works from time to time, but seasoned guys can start to change the [04:03:40] angles of the shoulders to weaken the grip. So for the most part, you would want hooks to finish a rear naked.

[04:03:44] But obviously if we're finishing a rear naked from top without hooks, my body weight limits the [04:03:50] bottom guy's ability to move. He's basically in a pin. So we don't need that extra layer of hooks. Even though they would improve the position, [04:04:00] but I wouldn't say don't go for a rear naked without hooks. So again, we covered this previous in the tool section, how to create a back exposure with them belly down with [04:04:10] a half Nelson.

[04:04:11] But here's just to see in context, how it would come up in sort of a submission. pathway.[04:04:20]

[04:04:20] All right. So some final thoughts, um, on basically what we've, we've covered in this product. Uh, I think it could be a healthy direction the sport could head [04:04:30] because I think we are somewhat limited by the framework of the point structure we've been taught since day one. And again, I emphasize this [04:04:40] all the time.

[04:04:40] It's not Just competition gyms that are limited in this framework, but it's typical your average gym as well because most instructors [04:04:50] Think about it in the framework think about control in the framework of the positions that are standard to the sport Again, most of your [04:05:00] instructors are going to be buying Instructions from BJJ Fanatics and a lot of those instructions are going to be structured in such a way that reflect the known [04:05:10] positions of the sport, right?

[04:05:11] So they're going to be looking for side control attack series, mount attack series, back submission series, things of that [04:05:20] nature, right? But if we step back and think about what we're trying to do in grappling, and I think what we're trying to do is control the bottom guy. We want to back people [04:05:30] into a corner to minimize the amount of good options they have.

[04:05:33] And when I say good options, I don't just mean offensive options. I mean, defensive escape routes, right? [04:05:40] So if we do only focus on passing the guard, scoring those points or taking those positions where we comfortably know, uh, submission pathways from, I [04:05:50] feel like we, to a certain degree, hold ourselves back.

[04:05:53] I think if we think outside the box and think about this new type of system of leg riding and [04:06:00] controlling the legs, pinning the legs because they're the most powerful part of the body, we can both improve our ability to hold the bottom guy down, and as a result, [04:06:10] increase our submission rate. So again, it's about basically even in a competition setting, some of the guys that leave lasting legacies on the sport are the guys that change the [04:06:20] sport.

[04:06:20] They bring something new to the equation. Obviously everyone remembers how devastating heel hooks were to traditional black belts, traditional grapplers. I think in [04:06:30] this sense of pinning control, I think when you guys start to get good at this, develop this in your game, your training partners are probably going to comment on how much harder it is for them [04:06:40] to.

[04:06:40] Uh, fight effectively off of their back or even survive from their back. And again, this isn't me showing you this super uncomfortable way to make your [04:06:50] training partners uncomfortable. You can use, uh, uh, whatever amount of pressure is necessary to control the bottom guy. I just think we need to emphasize, uh, this type of control [04:07:00] at all costs.

[04:07:00] We should focus on pinning the bottom guy and using pathways to submission. rather than just trying to score as many points as possible. So depending on when this [04:07:10] comes out, I'm trying to develop a rule set myself that tries to reward controlling the bottom guy and also tries to reward the bottom guy escaping back [04:07:20] to the feet as much as possible.

[04:07:21] I think those two things have largely been forgotten. I think the rules we developed for the sport and competition jujitsu, [04:07:30] um, moved us in a different direction to what I would argue is superior forms of control. So keep your eyes peeled. And I think, uh, we can change [04:07:40] some of the rules of the sport to both make it more exciting and to also set it down a path.

[04:07:45] And I don't want to be that guy that says it's more realistic to work in a fire, but it's set it [04:07:50] down a path that just looks really like what I think two guys wrestling for control should look like. If you asked any person off the street to [04:08:00] what two grapplers will be trying to do, they probably say the top guys trying to hold the bottom guy down, the bottom guys trying to get up and obviously the submissions involved as well.

[04:08:07] But I think from that [04:08:10] framework of control, we can really start to look at new ways to develop the sport. I don't want to be that guy that loses all the time. He changes the rules of the sport so that he can find a rule [04:08:20] set he can win in. I'll probably lose in this world set too. Uh, I exploited the current matter of the sport to the extreme.

[04:08:28] I just pulled guard every [04:08:30] match, went for leg locks all the time. And that's how I created my career, my legacy in the sport. But even me with that sub, uh, sub matter [04:08:40] of the game that I was very, very effective in. I still think there's better ways we can grapple to become more well rounded grapplers and sort of set the sport in a direction that's both more [04:08:50] entertaining and more realistic in the sense I've described here today.

[04:08:54] But again, give this series of techniques a shot and ask yourself if you're finding your ability to [04:09:00] control the bottom guy has gone up or down since you've stopped thinking about your typical point scoring positions.