YouTube has turned out to be a great way for schools to keep in touch with their students. It helps to keep the camaraderie and enthusiasm up with the members and seeing new content is something that I personally really look forward to.

Check out Hurricane’s YouTube channel for more content.

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He also talks about the degree of physical exertion and conditioning that is required to really throw someone. As he says, you’re trying to throw someone 180lbs (or more) who is fighting the whole time to not land on their back. This requires a ton of effort.

The setup that he uses in this vid is an Uchi Mata to a foot sweep to an ankle pick. It’s not only a nice combination, in my opinion a foot sweep is less physically exhausting than a throw, single leg or double leg take down. The combination he shows here is nice in that it leads your partner down a path where they have to give up the foot sweep if you do it right. This takedown finishes with you in a good top position.

The second takedown he shows will land you in an advantageous guard position in the event that the takedown doesn’t work. He calls it a “safe guard pull that could potentially be a takedown”.

Check it out:

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Catch wrestling found it’s way to America where it was used in carnivals as a type of entertainment combat sport, and today professional wrestling tips it hat to catch wrestling. In Brazil during the heyday of Vale Tudo Catch Wrestling was used effectively by Luta Livre fighters against jiu jitsu fighters. Catch wrestling emphasizes inflicting pain and pressure on a fighter’s opponent to cause them to move in a way that the catch wrestler can take advantage of. Kazushi Sakuraba famously used his catch style to defeat Royce, Royler and Renzo Gracie.

Neil Melanson is a huge proponent of Catch wrestling, and I’ve written about his instructional material here before. His approach to grappling is novel if you come from a pure jiu jitsu background, and well worth checking out.

Today one of my team mates sent me the video below from the Snake Pit. Here we see how to counter the De La Riva with leg locks. There is a nice heel hook and toe hold available when  you’re stuck in a De La Riva guard. After seeing the techniques in this video I was struck by the simplicity of the submissions, and was surprised at how obvious they were as options, and also how I had failed to see them in spite of the many times I’ve been caught in De La Riva.

Check out the video below to learn more:

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I especially like the one armed choke variations he shows in this video. I’ve been giving up on the RNC lately because I can’t seem to get it. My partners will tuck their chins or fight for wrist control and I haven’t been able to get past that. Looking forward to trying some of this next class.

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• Kama Jiu Jitsu
  Run by Ryan Young this is the YouTube channel for Kama Jiu Jitsu, and focuses on promoting jiu jitsu as Rickson Gracie taught i.
• Chewjitsu
  The Vlog of Nick “Chewy” Albin, focusing on technique and directly answering viewers questions.
• Bernardo Faria BJJ
  The YouTube channel of world champion and BJJ Fanatics co-founder Bernardo Faria.
• BJJ Fanatics
  This channel features interviews and content from the world’s leading jiu jitsu practitioners.
• Globetrotters in Action
  Featuring video of seminars around the world.
• SBG Portland BJJ and MMA Videos
  The YouTube channel of jiu jitsu black belt Matt Thornton.
• Priit Mihkelson (Jitsvulcan)
  Content from the “Jitsvulcan” and globetrotter, Priit Mihkelson.
• McDojo Life
  Funny videos and breakdowns of fake martial arts. Helping to promote awareness of bullshido.
• Hard 2 Hurt
  Featuring instructional content from “Icy” Mike, focusing on mixed martial arts and street defense.
• Roy Dean
  The personal YouTube channel of Roy Dean, a black belt in Judo, Aikido, Japanese Jiu Jitsu and Brazilin Jiu Jitsu.
• Gracie Breakdown
  Rener and Ryron’s channel, grandsons of Helio Gracie.
• Tristar Gym
  The channel of Firas Zahibi, featuring analysis, Q and A, and instruction.
• Gracie Schwarzwald Jiu-Jitsu
  Video content from Roy Marsh, black belt under Royce Gracie.
• Kurt Osiander Move of the Week
  Kurt Osiander needs no introduction…. GO TRAIN!
• Hurricane Jiu Jitsu
  Video channel of John Lawrence, owner of Hurricane Jiu Jitsu.

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The video below is a perfect example of challenging conventions. The guard break that he shows is essentially a stack pass. He says that we should sit in guard with “active toes” rather than flat feet (I think he’s calling flat feet “seal feet” in the video). His contention is that we should be on our toes, and pressuring down towards our partner so that we can react to things better. He’s not against posturing back, or standing up, but says we should also explore posturing into our opponent when we’re stuck in closed guard.

I’ve tried this pass a couple of times at class this week, I was able to put some pressure on my partners that they weren’t expecting, but I couldn’t quite get the legs to open to pass the closed guard. I’ve since re-watched this video and noticed that I didn’t have the correct angle. I took better notes, and will give this a try in the next class.

He’s also got a few videos for sale at BJJ Fanatics, which I’m looking forward to getting as some point. This one in particular I’m interested in:

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He talks a little about how he uses his frames to get into a “geometrical position” that allows him to extend pressure into his opponent. He calls this the “Diamond Concept”. I have to study this more, but it seems that there are two factors at play. One is always connecting your elbows and your knees to create frames. The second is to extend yourself away from your opponent using those frames so you can recompose guard.

In this video Faria mentions that there is a video coming out by Ribeiro and it sounds like it’s going to be released at BJJ Fanatics. I’m looking forward to seeing that. My wife bought me Saulo Ribeiro’s book a while back, and it’s got great information. I’m sure Xande’s video will be the same.

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This video has some great details. Eddie Bravo walks through a few of the control points of the rubber guard like the “double bag”.

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What’s particularly interesting to me is that to pass in the style of Gordon Ryan, you put your hands on the mat, distributing your weight to your hands while your legs and hips float freely, allowing you to pummel your legs around your opponents.

I’ve always that you should stay heavy on your opponents legs when passing, but this style of passing is opposite of that. I guess in practice the style of passing will change depending on how you want to pass, and what your opponent throws at you. It’s nice to have options.

Click here if you want to goto the full list of videos for the Gordon Ryan Guard Pass Study. 

BJJ Heroes has a great analysis of Gordon Ryan’s grappling style. This is a good read: Analyzing Greatness: The Versatile Game Of Gordon Ryan

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