Totalbjj.com/blog

June 27th, 2011 by jgatienza

45 minutes of Self defense
Scenario: somebody comes from behind and puts their arm around your neck:
1. first thing first protect your neck, place your hands on their arm and bend your knees and lean forward and feet shoulder width apart. You should be able to lift him off his feet.
2. The attacker does the same thing (see above) except he pulls you backwards, protect your neck (see above), place your right foot behind his right foot, take small steps with your left while going around your opponent, this should cause your attacker to loos balance and should be able to take him down easily.
3. An attacker comes from behind and grabs you around your waist with both arms, immediately bend over, feet shoulder width apart, hands to the ground, your weight is leaning forward, with your right hand reach between your legs and grab the back of his heel, start walking backwards while holding his foot this will make him fall to his back.

Scenario: attacker comes from behind and grabs your neck with both hands, immediately protect your neck, establish a good base, place both hands on top of his hands, hold on to the meat of his thumb with your right hand and take a step back with your right foot and swing under his arms, with your left hand place it on the pinky side (fingers over his palm) and twist his hand over and away.

Use this same technique if he uses only 1 hand on your neck.

Sport jiu-jitsu
Breaking Guard
You are in your opponents closed guard. Grab both sides of his collar with your right hand and place your left hand on his belt. Lean to one side (it doesn’t matter which side first), post up on your right foot, lean the other way and post up with the left foot, keep your head up and stand up like you are doing a squat, as you are raising up you suck him under you.

Adding another step.
Right hand in collar, grab his pant leg with your left hand, step back, swing his leg between your legs, keep your right elbow tight to prevent him sneeking a leg or knee in, dorsi flex on his right leg and pass to side control.

If he opens his guard and drops his knees to your waist and grabs your heels, grab his collar and pull him and lean into him. Note* if he tenses up you tense up, when he relaxes you relax. From this position use take your right hand and let go of his collar and grab the opposite side above your left hand. Take your left hand and swing it behind you and hook his right foot and bring it to the front and proceed to side control.

A few other ways to pass if he grabs only one foot (right foot) is to take his right leg and swing it over to your right side, another way is to swing his right leg over on top of hhis left leg and push it down, with your left foot step on his left hand holding your right foot and pull your right foot away, another way is to take small steps over him so that he rolls backwards, he will roll over his shoulder, you can take a leg and go for an ankle lock.

Ankle lock, you can go for an ankle lock once he opens his guard, place your left knee in the middle of his butt, fall backwards, squeeze your knees together.

If your opponent is on his back and is controlling your sleeves and his feet are on your hips, grab his pant legs and walk backwards placing his feet on the mat.

If your opponent is on his back and is controlling your sleeves and one foot is on your bicep and the other on your hip. Take your hand that doesn’t have his foot on your bicep and grab his pant leg and swing it to the opposite. Or you can walk backwards and sway side to side until his foot is off and then proceed to side control.

Questions & Answers:
knee lock
your opponent has both feet between your legs in the butterfly guard. squeeze both his legs together, place your right leg behind his feet, you can use your left hand to help do this, apply a figure 4 lock on his legs and straighten him out for the submission.

Practice on your good side until you have mastered the technique and then work on your weaker side.
Try new techniques on smaller, less experienced partners and when you get better try them on bigger partners.

breaking guard, guard passing

July 9th, 2010 by jgatienza

2 techniques were taught to us today.

1st technique

Starting from your opponents guard:

• right hand on his armpit or bicep, keep your elbow tight to his hip, your head glued to his stomach, facing to the left
• left hand also on his armpit/bicep area
• get up on your feet and create pressure buy downward on his hips
• walk clockwise
• switch your hips and collapse on his right leg
• keep your right hand on his armpit/bicep, with your left hand push his open
• step over his right leg with your left
• with your right foot dorsi-flexed to his right shin….. then bring your right knee over to finish in side control

2nd technique

Starting from your opponents guard:

• right hand on his armpit or bicep, keep your elbow tight to his hip, your head glued to his stomach, facing to the left
• left hand also on his armpit/bicep area
• walk clockwise
• you will begin stacking your opponent
• place your left elbow on the left side of his face
• place your left knee right next to your elbow
• thrust your hip out to finish in side control or possibly even north south position

breaking guard, guard passing

August 18th, 2008 by jgatienza

Open mat

Rolling review: my intentions were to go easy, but it went pretty hard pretty fast. I fell into opponents guard, I tried to tie up his arm with his gi to be able to pass, didn’t work, so I worked my hands and got underhooks  and grabbed his belt and flipped him over… sweet. From there I went to side control, I worked his left arm and put a figure 4 on it, I used my knee to break his grip and applied a kimura.

I worked on getting out of side control. I tried to bump up and roll him off me, so I bumped up again and dropped my knee and rolled him off, hooked my leg over his body and pressed down on his neck and broke off his headlock.

I also worked on a turtle escape, he was on me and I worked trying to get my hips out and rolled to my right, I’m not sure if I did that right.

Squealing pig: starting from your opponents closed guard, grip his pants and your right elbow in, take your left arm and get his right leg over your shoulder like you are going to pass, reach for his collar good and deep with your left hand. At this point you should be standing and have already begun to start stacking him. Take your right hand and grab his belt or his pant material above his butt, your head should move from one side of his leg to the other side. Your hand should still be holding on to his collar from here are applying a collar choke and at the same time pulling his weight on top of him. Be sure not to let him try and escape. If done correctly you should get an immediate submission. Thanks Big Brian.

collar choke, guard passing, kimura, side control, submission