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Then I would avoid those neighborhoods to begin with

As jaypo mentioned, in my circles its usually (but not always) the cauliflower ear! Past that, it's the seemingly never ending trail of gym, style, and competition shirts and hoodies that seem to be a bulk of my wardrobe despite the fact I really don't remember where I got them from.

09/24 More dynamic guard structure. Moved into transition to takedown. Finished with maneuver to take back. 35 min free roll.

No worries on that. And I bet you're pretty knowledgeable yourself. I hear you about the grab. Those guys are out there! I actually have a couple of different answers for this and they are situational dependent. If it's a roll with no artificial time limit, or I'm working on the self defense aspect of my game, I maintain the underhook, drop the hip, and drive pressure. It costs me no energy and will start to wind the other guy. Eventually, they will give space trying to relieve pressure or beat the underhook. I keep them flat for this, control my breathing and energy expenditure and simply make them carry the weight. I'm on top in the situation and therefore "winning". It's up to the other guy to deal with advancing the game. I've clearly done the right things. Please note, I don't advocate doing every roll like this or you'll never look at expanding your game. But it is important to do occasionally so you develop the mechanism of control. That said, there are times you must force the issue. Time constraints of sport for instance. Particularly if I"m down on points. Then I have a couple of different options. The first is to actually start levering the laces in foot to help create space as you lift the stuck leg. This can give you the space to slip thru. Conversely, if they just have the foot I'll switch tactics and elevate my posture and drive the knee over the other hip and take a modified mount (with the foot trapped) this will usually allow enough space to clear the foot as the half guard position changes. There's some other options, but they get a little involved for the written word. Hope that is clear. Let me know if it's not.

9/22 Drilled seated guard dynamically moving into full or half guard. 30 min free roll.

Yes. It's your choice. I'd personally rank in both BUT that's what I'd do. What you want to do is entirely cool based on what you want out of things. As long as the instructors are good, have at it.

Thanks for the kind words! It's appreciated. Glad you like them, and more importantly, find them useful. Also, can't wait to see you get more stuff up! I have your views on karate video on stand by to check out at first chance. Coming out of a kempo based system (after quite a while) and moving into jits I'm always interested in other peoples views on the transition as well.

Hey all, here's my club's weekly recap on technique. We spent all week in half guard drilling bottom and top: We review the knee slide pass out of half. I like this variant because it applies across so many guards and getting proficient at it really opens doors across all open guards. That said, it is my first choice for a pass in most half situations. Fundamental, pressure driven, not fancy, it's right in the frame of jiu jitsu where I like to be.

I hear ya' on this one sensei8, the kempo system I come out of is small. Like real small. And with the break up of the overseeing organization, it isn't looking to expand. This has left a bit of pressure on the black belts to step up. However, I spend most (like nearly all) of my time these days in BJJ. And while I'm instructing a lot, it's almost all in BJJ. So, as one of the few active black belts (GS and MP aside) what am I doing to make sure there's a future for Bujin? Unfortunately, the answer is not much. I'm slowly indoctrinating my kids. I'm using the principles to train a lot of cops. But organizationally and art wise I'm not exactly expanding it beyond this generation yet. We'll see. For now, my time is mostly spent making my jits game better, passing it on, and striving to improve my PTK. Now, add on the stress of taking over the BJJ program at the school I'm at and factor in that "keep me up" factor and you've got more than a few sleepless nights. It does keep me up a bit.

Thanks! I'll get subscribed!

9/19 Drilled more half guard work. Moved into knee slide escape from top. Elevator sweep from bottom. 30 min free roll. PTK group for 1.5 hours. Bridging Left and Right. Moved into flow with it. 9/20 Competition prep class. Takedowns and positional escapes for rounds.

Thanks! Means a lot. We're going to try to keep putting good, technical material out.

Shori, do you guys have a YouTube Channel or such with that? I'd be interested in checking it out.

That's a great article ps1! I've just come into a position of running the jits program at our academy and as such have a much bigger role in its day to day operations. With that, comes a bunch of learning on all kinds of stuff that you touched on. Thanks for a great starter on the subject!

I haven't started working a ton with editing to be honest. I'm more of a one take and out guy. Warts and all. It's more indicitive of my teaching style. That said, what I have done, particularly when cutting specific sections of longer videos out for teaching points on the channel, is use Windows Movie Maker. As far as I know, it comes with the basic Office suite and it's done everything I need it to. You can add and subtract audio. Cut, add, add animations, ect. It's been pretty good so far. Not truly professional to be honest, but good enough for my purposes. We're doing stuff primarily for our members and extended family, not truly for marketing externally (although we have gotten a few hits from it that way) so high end isn't required.

I had the chance while teaching and training at a multi-style seminar last weekend to do a quick interview with my PTK instructor, Paul Ingram of the PTK Global Organization. We talked about what PTK is, the progression of the system, and how it compares and contrasts to BJJ. Paul's a great guy and great instructor. It's awesome to teach beside him in events like this AND train under him as a student. Here's the interview: Enjoy!

Wrestlers are tough. No doubt. I'd guess since he's throwing arm bars and triangles he's trained in jits as well. Now you have an even bigger problem on your hands Usually, you get into this trouble by letting an arm get isolated by poor posture. Work on your posture. Then, focus on "T Rex" arms and grips on the legs. Prevention will go a long way to dealing with these sorts of things. If you can, get some video and share. That's usually way easier to evaluate.

Thanks, sensei8. I use a Flip. I'm looking at a Go Pro but haven't taken the bite yet.

9/17 Drilled half guard position. Taking back from bottom. Recovery to full guard. 30 min free roll. 1 hour PTK right bridging. Viusual senstitivity work to the left.

Hey all, while I'm sharing stuff we're doing, I thought this might be of interest to the grapplers on the site. We've recently spend quite a bit of time training the guard pass. Core to that, to my mind, is the double under and over/ under passes. They've gotten overlooked in recent years with the advent of the standing guard pass, but they are still critical (in my mind) to not only tactics but to the evolution of one's game. Of particular interest to me is the over under. This is a pass I see get tossed aside with far too much frequency at blue belt level. It's a high percentage pass, but the details have to be right. Here's a review I did after last week for our guys to touch on those details: Hope it's of interest.

9/16 PTK knife forms. Thrusting and Slasing.

Yup. Knee on belly isn't really knee on belly. It's knee on sternum. I remember when Mario Sperry did it to me. I thought he was going to crush my chest. Worst feeling ever. pitbull, thanks for the kind words and stepping out on a limb and giving it a go. Glad it worked out well for you. ps1, that's exacly how I think of it. knee on sternum.

9/15 Drilled half guard position. Two sweep options, followed by a single knee slide pass. 30 min free roll, focus on half guard play.

9/13 Day 1 of our second Warrior's Weekend seminar. Trained with one of the Dog Brothers MA guys, Wing Chun, and finally taught my brand of jiu jitsu. 9/14 Day 2 of the seminar. Worked extensively with my PTK coach during his block of instruction and finished with another friends JKD block. Excellent weekend! THe BJJ was well received and I completely enjoyed the other work that I got to take part in.

9/10 Drilled standing guard break. Pass under leg. Torreando pass. 30 min free roll. 9/12 Drilled 60 min positional rolls. PTK work: Footwork, cuts, and flow. Moved into knife with jab work. Moved to 4 wall drill.