Adonis

sparring should be about learning and getting better not ego and hurting your training partner. So those cheap shots are very uncalled for.

good advice subgrappler. Or if you can't get the arm of the opponent acroos your body to help with the triangle because they are holding it behind yoru back you cna also work for Kimura from the triangle lock.

simular structure of the villari system.

They come from Nick cerio who I believe came through the Kajunkenbo system

yep

yeah but then it wouldn't be a good idea to throw darts at your computer screen now would it?

yeah that would do it

tae-bo

get the abu dabi dvd's first they are better. I baught the first gracie in action. I thought the fights were boring. Modern MMA fights looked better. Only thing I Liked which wasn't that good any way was special or bonus features showing one of Rorians sons fighting by there house some kick boxer guy. His son was 14 I think and the other guy was 16 years old. Just my opinion. I didn't like the Gracie in action dad's.

rip out the yellow pages martial arts section tack it on to a dart board. Get a dart close your eyes and throw. If you miss the board completely try again. Good luck!

Flip a coin or go "inca bink of bottle of ink" (while pointing in the yellow pages of diffrent schools.

I used Yes/No Sir/Mamm alot more.

Imagination!

sweet! I tapped out bigger guys before but they didn't know any thing. Other bigger guys new a little bit but I still felt Ihad more technique then they did. But because of the weight and size it was hard to do moves. Of course I was on the bottom and it was diffcult to do some moves.

and I am not talking about enough to defeat the attackers but enough to survive and hopefully run away.

moving around a group of 2 or 3 people keep one guy between you and the other does work enough to deal with one while getting out of there. So ther are theoris out there and strategys that do work but then there is a point depends on how well they work together to attack you.

Its a demo how good would it look if the other guy countered probaby go into a grappling match which doesn't look as impresive to the layman.

Get up and leave and start over.

any one ever seen pedro sauers site. He has a SICK flying arm bar. Where the guy is stancing up and pedro has his arm straight up in the ear almost sitting on his shoulders crankcing on the arm. THat is by far the coolest arm bar I have seen.

Just be smart about your trianing. Create a game plan. Bring a note book each time to your training. After the training sessions or breaks if you guys take them. Write down moves you learned. As well as important details that you learned to make them work. Also write down what you think are your weak points and strong points. Good be certain submissions you do. Or diffrent postions you have a hard time with. Then on open mat time take time to pick one of those things you need to work on and drill it over nad over agian. Maybe you have weak game at escaping when some one gains your back going for the rear naked. So if you want you can take each sparring and purposely give up your back and work on escaping. Yeah it gets frusterating becaue people sub you. But keep working at it. IF you ever watch PrideFC sakaraba purposely gives up his back to some of his opponents in the early prides. He can do this becaues he worked that postion so much that he felt he can get out of any one's sub attempts or back control tecnqiues. He only got that way by practice. So just create a game plan for your self when you train and work it. As apposed to others who just show up go through what ever there instructors tell them and leave. THats okay but remember your unless your getting private lessons. Those group classes aren't tailored for your indvidual success they are tailored for the group. So what does that mean? It means you get enough stuff to survive. What ever you do outside or beyond your classes is for your sucess. Note book is one. Checking out the book and broading your jiu-Jitsu knowledge is also good. Looking at Jiu-JIsu tournament tapes or instructionals. (I picked up moves that I use before in intrustionals but I had to drill them with resistance to make them finally work for me consitantly) Also extra practice. After each class if you can do this get a partner and drill for 15 minutes after class. After a few weeks or a couple months doing that you would see significant gains in your game. Remember to have a game plan for your self on what you want to improve how you want to do it. THis way you can learn were your weak and were your strong and learn to work them. Good luck in your trianing.

not necasiarrly. IF the person has better technique, really good technique its hard to do that. once they sink in the lock its hard to get out. So recognizing it earlier on and doing preventive messures to not get caught in it is whats needed.

yep. Timing has to be were you counter before the arm is across and they have it sunk in.

yep!

okay thanks

I second what bunyip said.