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Grapplearts (Submission Grappling)·79w ago
A New School Knee Ride Escape
Every once in a while, a new way of doing things comes along that is so much better that it has to get added to your repertoire right away. The Uno Reverse Card Escape vs the knee ride is one such technique! You start on the bottom of the…
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Grapplearts (Submission Grappling)·92w ago
Revolutionary Omoplata
A Technique that Bridges the Gap between Sweep and Submission By Stephan Kesting Originally published in Grappling Magazine in 2002. The omoplata is all the rage these days: it’s a submission, a sweep, and a setup for other submissions and…
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Grapplearts (Submission Grappling)·154w ago
How To Do The ‘Imanari Roll’
The Imanari roll is absolutely one of the coolest submission attacks out there. It’s unorthodox, it’s fancy, but unlike many other flashy moves it’s it’s also quite high percentage. If you do it correctly you get straight into the 411…
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Grapplearts (Submission Grappling)·178w ago
The Single Leg X Guard – A Surprising Way to Pull Guard…
Should you pull guard in competition? And if you decide to pull guard, then how do you do it correctly? In a certain sense, I am uniquely unqualified to answer these questions… You see, much of my BJJ comes from 8th degree black belt…
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Grapplearts (Submission Grappling)·183w ago
NEW INSTRUCTIONAL!! 30 Second Fight Finishes
Elliott Bayev is one of the most detail-oriented instructors I’ve ever met. His first instructional with Grapplearts was The Spider Guard Masterclass, which many people called the best BJJ instructional they’ve ever seen. Elliott is now…
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Grapplearts (Submission Grappling)·232w ago
A Deep Dive into the Technical Details of the Omoplata
In this episode Steve Kwan from the BJJ Mental Models podcast grills me about the omoplata, the most versatile submission in all of jiu-jitsu. Here’s the conversation. We go pretty deep and get quite technical! And while I’ve got your…
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Grapplearts (Submission Grappling)·269w ago
What is Kuzushi in BJJ and What Can It Do For You?
Let’s talk about Kuzushi in BJJ, and why it’s a critical skill to develop if you want to have good guard sweeps, submissions and backclimbs. When you learn a technique from the guard like a new sweep it usually works great at first. You’ll…
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Grapplearts (Submission Grappling)·271w ago
Top 10 Throws and Takedowns for BJJ
I’ll go ahead and say it: every practitioner should have at least a couple of throws and takedowns for BJJ. Yes, it’s true that pulling guard is an option in sport BJJ competition, but ultimately this is a martial art, which means we have…
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Grapplearts (Submission Grappling)·282w ago
The Step-by-Step Armbar from Mount
The armbar from mount is often taught as the ‘CPR’ armbar where you’re mounted on your opponent, he sticks his arms straight up, you put both your hands on his chest and swing around into the armbar. It’s slick, it’s smooth, and it looks…
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Grapplearts (Submission Grappling)·335w ago
How to Get Great at BJJ Defense
Want to tap out less? Let’s take a look at how to get really good at defending against submission attacks. Today I mostly want to talk about training methodology, not specific techniques per se. Of course there are definitely many specific…
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Read on sourceGrapplearts (Submission Grappling)·337w ago
Free Audio Download of The Roadmap for BJJ
The Roadmap for BJJ book tries to help you make sense of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu by breaking down the underlying 6 fundamental positions of art. It focusses the hierarchy of BJJ positions (i.e. which positions are better than others) and then…
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Read on sourceGrapplearts (Submission Grappling)·343w ago
3 Tips to Tighten Any Joint Lock Technique
It’ s not easy to tap out a high level grappler with a joint lock. First of all their submission prevention is tight. They do everything they can to stop you from getting the submission in the first place. Next, their defense and escape…
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Grapplearts (Submission Grappling)·343w ago
The 6 Steps of a Good Submission
Did you know that there’s an actual physics and biomechanics-based procedure that’ll definitely help you tap out many more people in BJJ? At a high level there’s so much more more to getting a choke or an armlock than simply seeing an…
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Grapplearts (Submission Grappling)·361w ago
How To Do The Crab Ride in BJJ and No Gi Grappling
The Crab Ride is one of the hottest new positions in BJJ used by competitors like Rafa Mendes, Gianni Grippo, the Miyao brothers, Mikey Musumeci and more. It looks kind of like you’re doing the butterfly guard on the back of your…
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Read on sourceGrapplearts (Submission Grappling)·380w ago
A Three Step Open Guard Strategy
Are you flailing around in your guard, trying to react to your opponent, without a clear plan of what to do? If so then this video and podcast episode is for you! When you’re using the open guard there’s a definite series of steps and…
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Grapplearts (Submission Grappling)·400w ago
The Butterfly Sweep from Half Guard
The half butterfly guard is a variation of half guard where you entangle one of your opponent’s legs with your inside leg and then insert a single butterfly hook under his thigh with your outside leg. As such this position combines aspects…
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Grapplearts (Submission Grappling)·411w ago
Getting Back to Your Feet in BJJ
If you boil down the thousands of guard techniques in BJJ they really fall into one of five categories… Sweeps that allow you to reverse the position and get to the top Submissions where you choke or jointlock your opponent Strikes with…
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Grapplearts (Submission Grappling)·414w ago
Podcast Episode 47 – Prison for 15+ Years for a Knock-Out?
In every story about every streetfight the centrepiece is the big haymaker that landed and knocked somebody out cold. It’s a compelling story, but the reality is that whenever you do this you automatically run a very serious risk of…
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Grapplearts (Submission Grappling)·416w ago
BJJ Wristlocks Everywhere!
For some reasons wristlocks in BJJ just don’t get no respect. Many grapplers consider it OK to tap out to armlocks, triangle chokes, shoulder locks or lapel chokes, but for some reason wristlocks are considered super cheesy. However the…
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Grapplearts (Submission Grappling)·417w ago
A Surprise Triangle Choke from Butterfly Guard
This transition from butterfly guard to triangle choke is one of my new favourite techniques. I learned it from BJJ black belt Rob Biernacki and it starts sitting up in the butterfly guard, and fighting for the powerful two-on-one grip. In…
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