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Learning jiu-jitsu is a bit like climbing up a mountain.
You start at a trailhead and start working your way up the slope.
As you first slog away you’re heading through the forest. It’s a lot of effort but relatively little reward; all you can see is trees, trees, and more trees.
Huffing and sweating, you keep o...
I recently posted a video about the high-elbow vs. high-wrist guillotine chokes.
Someone commented that they’d learned the guillotine but could almost never land it in sparring.
It’s always difficult to diagnose things remotely when you can’t see or feel what a person is actually doing, but I have a pretty good idea of what they were doing wrong.
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There’s a concept I’ve been using in my own training for a long time; I call it “What limbs do I have left?”
In jiu-jitsu, you have 5 limbs (your arms, your legs, and your head) at your disposal.
Anytime you reach an impasse in your rolling – whether you just can’t finish an offensive technique or can’t escape a bad position – ask yourself whether all your limbs...
Catch wrestling was a brutal method for settling disputes on the American Frontier as well as one of the largest, most respected spectator sports prior to the modern era.
Val Childs has been training in catchwrestling since he was 5, and in this episode takes us on a tour through the historical roots of catch, the modern catch competition circuit, and the training meth...
AOJ black belt Tom Wortman is a fierce competitor; he won IBJJ Pans, Euros, North Americans and Master Worlds in a single year as a brown belt. He’s also a jiu-jitsu gypsy, typically training at a club for 3 to 6 months, then moving thousands of miles to see a new part of the country and training at a new club.
Find out how he manages this nomadic lifestyle, what the r...
