Breakthrough moments

[HomerPlata]

How about posting some breakthrough moments? For example, realising you had to position your body in a certain way to properly finish a sub, or getting specific timing to hit a sweep correctly. Come on, you know you want to :icon_chee

 

[Bruce Calavera]

Never being directly in front of my opponents bellybutton while I have him in guard makes EVERYTHING so much easier.

 

[Wrestleben]

When I truly discovered the purpose and mechanics of an underhook (from all positions).

 

[hughes fan]

When I realised how to position my non-sweeping leg properly so I could get the sweep a lot easier.

 

[platfox]

getting on your hip and fighting tooth and nail from getting cross faced and flattened out when in bottom half.

 

[Rws177die]

Learning S mount and being able to land arm bars from the mount with controled movements.

 

[Red Harvest]

Coming from a long wrestling background, I'll never forget how much my game changed when I realized it was ok to be on my back. LOL

 

[Shemhazai]

Understanding how to use my weight in side control. Realizing the effectiveness of getting up on my elbow to stop various guard passes. Discovering the importance of grip fighting.

 

[MMA junkie]

When rolling with my friend who outweighs me by about 100 lbs (but he is very careful not to smash me with pure strength), I had to think and feel his weight shifting to even close to performing any sweeps/passes. It helps me a ton.

 

[newerest]

learned that the focal points of breaking posture are the wrists elbows and the head

how to properly control their head to break their posture, and hipping out in guard

 

[redaxe]

learning how to set up and use an armdrag was a pretty big breakthrough in my guard game. suddenly i felt a lot more powerful against larger opponents.

 

[newerest]

learning how to set up and use an armdrag was a pretty big breakthrough in my guard game. suddenly i felt a lot more powerful against larger opponents.

I only recently started grabbing peoples wrists in my guard, sounds stupid I know but I for some reason just never did it. I never learned a proper arm drag but through watching enough video on it I hit it all the time. it changes shit a lot man, big deal

 

[Carrera26]

I have a lot more strength in my core than in my arms and legs. The closer my target is to my core, the more of that strength I can use.

Something I learned in Judo, but for some reason took me a while to firgure out on the ground.

Also, the more I learn, the more I realize that BJJ and Judo concepts are the same thing. Physics is physics and everything works better with posture, angle, leverage, and unbalancing.

 

[HomerPlata]

Thanks everyone, some really good posts there. I'll let you know when I get a "eureka" moment of my own...

 

[sgtlunajuice]

when a training partner showed me the importance of cutting an angle when going for triangles.

 

[MMA junkie]

learning how to set up and use an armdrag was a pretty big breakthrough in my guard game. suddenly i felt a lot more powerful against larger opponents.

Can you expand in this? On the setup. I understand it may be hard to put in words. A video link would be great also.

 

[SuperSuperRambo]

Never cross your arm over your center line when in someone's guard. Suddenly everyone stopped submitting me.

 

[redaxe]

Can you expand in this? On the setup. I understand it may be hard to put in words. A video link would be great also.

Aesopian did it much better than I can. This isn't the only way to do it, but it is a good way: http://www.sherdog.net/forums/f12/stupid-simple-armdrag-434125/

I tend to do it more from closed guard, and once I get the arm across I work relentlessly to break my opponent's posture so he can't pull his arm back out. From there I alternately threaten the back take and the pendulum/flower sweep.

When you are in guard, once you get both of his arms on one side of your body it opens up so many attacks.

 

[lakergirl52]

I trained in No Gi for a couple months before I started training Gi (only been doing that for a few weeks). Realizing how different things are and that it's like a completely different animal. Not like spanish to Portuguese, but more like english to chinese.

 

[dkaki]

i just recently learned that i needed to turn an angle for the shoot... alot of guys helped me here..