The SF Martial Arts Thread

[LA Guy]

@Donut Re. white belt getting better, I would focus on three things:
1) having your legs and arms joined, elbows to knees touching, and bent.. This is equally important from both top position and bottom position. Top frames help your base, and that position will automatically make your base better, and allow attacks and strengthen defenses, with invariably involved taking away your balance and stripping one or more parts of your body away from the rest of it. From the bottom, these frames will form the basis of your defense and the starting point of your attack.
2) Grips an d frames together is how you control your partner, break down their base, separate a limb for passing or submisstions or sweeps, etc...
3) Situational sparring - this takes you out of your A game and makes you work on all the aspects of your game,

 

[ter1413]

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[ter1413]

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Martial Arts Legend Passes Away at 84; Daughter Gives Reason for Death

Yoshimitsu Yamada, martial arts legend and considered the pioneer of Aikido in US, recently passed away on January 15th in Manhattan.

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[razorfrazer]

Bat signal out to @razorfrazer - I been using the Octopus guard a lot recently it's good against the half guard smash, which is once more in style after years of explosive guard passing - thank you Gordon Ryan and John Danaher.

The reach around grip, especially in gi, with a nice grip on the far lapel end makes that little hip bump sweep that Craig Jones likes particularly effective, asnd there is also that back chase. That said, when going with other brown belts and black belts, especially, I sometimes get into a shootout battle - Octopus guard vs wedging backtake or truck.

The positions are basically symmetrical if you have the same side leg, just with a top and bottom, but some guys seem able to bolo me or at least force me to slam my back to the ground to avoid the backtake even with the far side leg (traditional Octopus guard), and I find that if I lock down the leg and drive it parallel with my upper body, the counters are most shut down since they can't point the knee correctly toward my head to get my hips oriented properly.

I've tried to find some resources on these positions, but I've not really seen these counters really addressed anywhere, though they seem natural enough against each other. Have you ever encountered this yourself or seen it?

I’m pretty acustomed to wedging backtakes, the crossbody ride (truck), etc from that position. I try and avoid a backtake shootout from the crossbody ride ill work the wedge to death before i switch hooks to half back or boots in.

How are they boloing you? Keeping back flat is okay to stop it but it doesnt stop them from coming up on top in relatively good passing positions. I’ll usually look to just create distance with thumb posts and build my base up to avoid bolo (if you can build base during these exchanges the chances of you taking their back is much higher) or i’ll try and take a deep ankle grip and suck them into a deep ashi garami of some sort.

The bolo players who throw their knee lines past yours are giving up position for leg locks. Crab ride type bolo players are way harder to counter / deal with.

What are you gripping in the Gi with the reacharound grip?

 

[LA Guy]

And BTW this thread wasn’t started as specifically BJJ, whatever the belt color 🤭! I thought there were a MMA (and all that sort of things) thread somewhere ?…
It’s beginning to be too specific here, shouldn’t you start a new thread ?

You are right. I'll go back when I have some time and lift the BJJ specific posts into a BJJ specific thread.

 

[Clouseau]

BJJ, MMA moved here :

The SF Brazillian Jiujitsu Thread - fans, competitors, filthy casuals, all are welcome

@razorfrazer - thought that I might post this here, but direct it at you. How many of you practitionoers. particularl mid to high level, have styles that differ significantly from that of your coaches? For example, in kickboxing, which was my base as an MMA fighter, I was fairly powerful, but...

www.styleforum.net

 

[LA Guy]

BJJ, MMA moved here :

The SF Brazillian Jiujitsu Thread - fans, competitors, filthy casuals, all are welcome

@razorfrazer - thought that I might post this here, but direct it at you. How many of you practitionoers. particularl mid to high level, have styles that differ significantly from that of your coaches? For example, in kickboxing, which was my base as an MMA fighter, I was fairly powerful, but...

www.styleforum.net

Thanks for linking people. I thought that I'd just put BJJ there. MMA is a different animal, and frankly, probably deserves its own thread if and when there is enough interest, but I that for now, it belongs in the omnibus Martial Arts thread.