Technique Thursday: Single Legs

[jack36767]

In light of Dan the conman's idiocy and the fact there's actually been a lot of talk about single legs and how they sync with sweeps and especially half guard. I thought it would be helpful to post some good technique about head inside singles from successful wrestlers and coaches

Hope it helps at least a few people and hopefully Dan doesn't shit post on it
(Dan these are qualified people teaching this, please don't embarrass yourself till you have shown hitting a leg scissors vs a tree top)

Really basic sweep single series that focuses on mat finishes and not requiring being a hulk, fits really well with half guard

Another clinic on sweep single to mostly high finishes

Lou Rosseli new head coach at Oklahoma


A really good clinic on the Knee Pull Single, it is still a head inside single you just reach with the inside arm of the side you are attacking to grab their knee and slingshot yourself to the single leg. It's especially versatile because it allows you to attack an inside single to both sides without changing lead legs, the mechanics are similar to a high crotch (Frank Molinaro's left handed high crotch often turns into a head inside single)


This is a clinic by Chris Bono about the high single which is usually shot straight on like a double more often than not, great for stump armed people


Hope this helps some people out, I'll probably post more relevant vids or try to answer any questions, whether it be technique or how incorporate it into my bjj. And I'll try to post good stuff on an area every week

 

[Ton]

Thanks for posting those.

 

[jack36767]

Thanks for posting those.

No problem, hope it helps

 

[Clinchster]

Mmmrph. Good shit. My single leg percentage is poop.

 

[Bar]

Will a judo club get mad if i show up wearing bjj gi top?

 

[Thrawn33]

Will a judo club get mad if i show up wearing bjj gi top?

Depends.

At my competitive clubs we didn't care for newbies as long as it was a real (judo or BJJ) gi. Hell we had the all black "ninja gi" as a loaner for rookies (i wore it for a while myself). Obviously as time went on and they wanted to compete a straight blue or white judogi was needed.

Don't want to compete? We didn't care how many patches were on it.

I have known of some clubs (in the US) where it was fowned upon, but they had some "Sensei Guy" type coaches who would try to be more Japanese than the Japanese......slaughtering their players to spite their "master" was good fun.

As an aside one d-bag sensei type had his players bowing to him before they spoke to him at a tournament.....his players were brutally outmatched and said low-Dan "master" wasn't fighting. Meanwhile me and my jolly bunch of hooligans are ribbing our 40-something 5th dan coach before his seniors finals match in the advanced division.

 

[ben35]

Great stuff, thanks. Always want to improve my single. Jack, I want to ask you. A lot of videos you and other people post spend time on finishes where you are outside the legs. Not with his leg between your legs or where you are between the legs, but where you've cleared his leg and are outside it. I wonder if I am missing something because when I can get there, I usually finish but I almost never get there and I almost wonder why even try. Usually, they are able to keep their leg between mine, often hooking with the foot or driving in as I try to move back to clear it. So I usually either try to run the pipe or switch to a double. Is their some trick to getting there?

 

[jack36767]

Great stuff, thanks. Always want to improve my single. Jack, I want to ask you. A lot of videos you and other people post spend time on finishes where you are outside the legs. Not with his leg between your legs or where you are between the legs, but where you've cleared his leg and are outside it. I wonder if I am missing something because when I can get there, I usually finish but I almost never get there and I almost wonder why even try. Usually, they are able to keep their leg between mine, often hooking with the foot or driving in as I try to move back to clear it. So I usually either try to run the pipe or switch to a double. Is their some trick to getting there?

You don't move back to clear it, take a jab step just like a throwing a jab with your lead leg closest to him, driving off your back foot, using your head and body to bump their body forward this will create the space to get their leg up

 

[Uchi Mata]

Very useful, thanks for posting. I have a lot of trouble not cutting the angle enough on my sweep single, and then I can never finish. I'll work on this stuff.

 

[jack36767]

Very useful, thanks for posting. I have a lot of trouble not cutting the angle enough on my sweep single, and then I can never finish. I'll work on this stuff.

Glad it helped

 

[cjd]

Great stuff, knee pull to both sides is my jam

 

[Uchi Mata]

Mmmrph. Good shit. My single leg percentage is poop.

I know those feels. Where are you at in Indiana? I grew up and first started training in Bloomington.

 

[jack36767]

Great stuff, knee pull to both sides is my jam

The knee pull is one of the most underrated variations in my opinion

 

[ben35]

You don't move back to clear it, take a jab step just like a throwing a jab with your lead leg closest to him, driving off your back foot, using your head and body to bump their body forward this will create the space to get their leg up

Ok, that makes total sense, I can see how that works. Going to work it next time. Thanks.

 

[jack36767]

Ok, that makes total sense, I can see how that works. Going to work it next time. Thanks.

Glad it made sense and good luck

 

[Who's Laughin' Now?]

I'm single-leg dumb, thanks for this!! TONS to practice, lucky I have some partners that like to start from their feet.

 

[Clinchster]

I know those feels. Where are you at in Indiana? I grew up and first started training in Bloomington.

No shit? Bloomington is about a 2 and 1/2 hour drive from me, I'm down in New Albany at a gym called "porto de Carro" it's ran out of a little cross fit gym called "Work out Industries." It looks like a hokey gym, but the guys there are solid and beat my ass more than any other gym I've been to, so it works for me. It's ran under a new Fabio Santos black belt Jason Dempster. Typically will all save up some money and pitch in for Fabio to come down and give us our promotions and what not. Kinda cool. So did you start Judo up in Bloomington or just BJJ? who'd you train with?........think the only judo guy I know is Mike brown? I think he's from Ohio though, not sure. You ever roll with Chris Lytle? I think he used to train just right up there at the American top team in Indianapolis.

 

[Uchi Mata]

No shit? Bloomington is about a 2 and 1/2 hour drive from me, I'm down in New Albany at a gym called "porto de Carro" it's ran out of a little cross fit gym called "Work out Industries." It looks like a hokey gym, but the guys there are solid and beat my ass more than any other gym I've been to, so it works for me. It's ran under a new Fabio Santos black belt Jason Dempster. Typically will all save up some money and pitch in for Fabio to come down and give us our promotions and what not. Kinda cool. So did you start Judo up in Bloomington or just BJJ? who'd you train with?........think the only judo guy I know is Mike brown? I think he's from Ohio though, not sure. You ever roll with Chris Lytle? I think he used to train just right up there at the American top team in Indianapolis.

I started Judo at IU in 2000, BJJ shortly after with Greg Lucas (though I didn't learn much from him). I actually founded the IU Judo club, though I later got kicked out for political reasons. I have a lot of family just outside New Albany actually, in Floyd's Knobs and Elizabeth (out by the casino). Most of the BJJ I learned in Indiana I learned from a BB named Dax Razzano in Bloomington, super cool guy. Never got to roll with Lytle, though I always wanted to.

 

[jack36767]

I started Judo at IU in 2000, BJJ shortly after with Greg Lucas (though I didn't learn much from him). I actually founded the IU Judo club, though I later got kicked out for political reasons. I have a lot of family just outside New Albany actually, in Floyd's Knobs and Elizabeth (out by the casino). Most of the BJJ I learned in Indiana I learned from a BB named Dax Razzano in Bloomington, super cool guy. Never got to roll with Lytle, though I always wanted to.

My friend and teammate from Centergrove said that Lytle is one of the best human beings/people he had ever known

 

[Uchi Mata]

My friend and teammate from Centergrove said that Lytle is one of the best human beings/people he had ever known

Hah. I went to Center Grove up until 7th grade. And I've never heard anyone say anything bad about Lytle.