tallgeese

This week our group spent it's time on an "Arm Bar Clinic." We spent all week looking at this core attack from multiple positions. From my perspective, all arm bars work based on about 5 principles. If you do these, you greatly increase you're chances of completing one successfully. We talk about them a bit as we recap the near side arm bar from knee in: Enjoy!

pitbull, I've seen that option as well and it is a great answer to bushidoman's questions. Depending on the anatomy of the individual, the other thing I've utilized quite a bit is moving to a high mount. This gets you're hips up around the clavicle girdle where individuals might not have as much girth. But again, it can be anatomically dependent. Of course, if you're not able to do either then a positional transition is in order to fit the situation. A modified mount with one foot on the ground or even a movement to side or knee in might be better suited.

10/15 Drilled arm bar from guard. Both technical and fluid. 35 min free roll. 10/17 PTK Flow Night at my coach's school. Vertical and horizontal strikes were the focus but I also really cleaned up some bridging and wave i/ wave out methods. Great night.

10/13 Drilled arm bars from mount. 35 min free roll. 10/14 PTK forms work.

That's a great vid! I really like how you incorporate the footage of the technique at work. A couple of people have mentioned that and it's something I need to start doing. It really does make for a more dynamic video. You hit some great details. I like the anchoring of the underhooking arm. That's something that gets overlooked. Also, for me, the emphasis you place on position to prevent the sweep is critical. Particularly for a pass like this. It's easy to get caught up in the movement and forget the structure. You're not doing that at all and it's great. That's, to me, what makes quality jiu jitsu! Nice job! I look forward to seeing more.

Thanks!

Thanks guys!

10/10 Drilled mount to high mount. Then finished with choke then to arm bar. 20 min free roll. PTK: Drilled footwork and strike integration. Bridging with broken, multiple strikes. Then a review of the fluid 5 form and multiple strike form. Finished drilling application of multiple strikes and then into distance sparring with both forms. 10/11 Competition prep class in BJJ. Rounds of takedown, positional rolling, and shark tank work. 30 min free roll.

Some alternate tactics to maintain mount using tight pressure. This is one set of tactics that I don't see used a lot, we teach quite a bit with great success and I wanted to share it with you all: Enjoy!

10/8 Drilled maintaining a pressure oriented mount. Finished with arm bar from modified mount. 30 min free roll.

That's a great call, Patrick. This is one of those things we all rail against (full fledged kid black belts, not "junior"designees) but I'm willing to bet doesn't happen all that often. In fact, I'd bet that at least half of all the academys that we all complain about due to the high number of kids and black belts probably consider them some sort of "junior" as well but we just don't take the time to ask. I think the "junior" black belt debate is valid at some level, but so common that it's industry standard these days. I'm willing to bet if we stopped to ask instead of assuming there's much less of this "kids with full black belts" than we think.

10/6 Drilled maintaining mount. Finished with transitionto back mount. Sub of choice from last week from there. 30 min free roll.

10/4 60 min free roll.

Welcome to KF!

You are correct. And that is fine. For you and her. Kids aren't in this to be fighters, defend themselves, cultural interest or any of the other reasons that we normally think of. That said, if they've been with it for years and have worked hard and reached a standardized level of competence why not recognize them? As long as there is an understanding of what the "junior" in the black belt title means (to the kids, parents, and adults) then no harm no foul.

Thanks, sensei8! We're planning to. One of the first things I did after taking over the jiu jitsu program a few weeks ago was kick off this little project as an internal marketing thing. It's actually generated some pretty good response outside our group as well. Some JKD associates of mine have been really complimentary towards it as a supplement to their grappling training.

Building on to some to the material that we did in class last week, this week we delved into taking, maintaining, and attacking from the back mount. Here's some of the work we put in:

10/3 Drilled more taking back from either bottom half or seated dynamic guard. Finished with two variants of calf slicers. 20 min free roll.

Welcome to KF!

Welcome back! Look forward to hearing from you.

Congrats!

10/1 Drilled taking back from bottom half guard. Moved into holding position with lasso grip and hooks. Finished with bow and arrow choke. 20 min free roll.

9/29 Drilled taking back from dynamic guard. Focused on the specifics of maintaining the position and them moving into the RNC series. 30 min free roll.

This week at our club, we spent the time focusing on a seated guard position that we call the dynamic guard. It's a great posture for transitioning to other open guard platforms, great for defense, and offers plenty of attack options. In our recap video we focus on the fundamentals of the position itself: Enjoy and I hope some of the grapplers here will benefit.

9/26 Drilled final night of dynamic guard. Moved into submission from this position. Loop choke, rolling loop choke, RNC from taking back. Finished with transition to triangle. 30 min free roll. Moved into PTK. Drilled forms, bridging and flow. Moved into knife work. Drilled bridging with the jab and then went into flow followed by some technical sparring with the short blades.