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[Einheri]

The leftovers here in F12 are salty ass upper belts who know how to grapple, and now we mostly need advice on knee surgeries, hiding your money during a divorce, and how much Metamucil to mix in with your creatine smoothy. The grappling details we have down, it's LIFE that we suck at, my young Paduan.

Accurate.

 

[LeonardoBjj]

- I want to improve my takedowns and takedown defense.

 

[shunyata]

- I want to improve my takedowns and takedown defense.

Keep rolling with all the wrestlers and judo guys you can get your hands on.

If they don't come to your gym, go to theirs.

 

[LeonardoBjj]

Keep rolling with all the wrestlers and judo guys you can get your hands on.

If they don't come to your gym, go to theirs.

- Only judokas here, we had a wrestling coach on the continent, but i think he moved to US years ago. I used to get a good katagatame.

 

[Einheri]

Keep rolling with all the wrestlers and judo guys you can get your hands on.

If they don't come to your gym, go to theirs.

It seems like 10-20% of Judoka here also train Jiu-Jitsu. Probably not hard to find.

 

[Rallarsvingare]

I was at a grappling training camp this saturday visiting one of my old training partners. He moved to the base of mountain in the middle of nowhere to a town with like 20 houses and half of them is training in his gym. We used to do MMA but he retired from MMA 2018 and only did grappling since then. Which is like what all my old training partners in my age did, Im the only old guy left doing MMA.

But back to the training camp, one of the parts was leg locks, the modern stuff. I used to be great a leglocks like 15 years ago. But I was just a fan of japanese MMA with fighters like Rumina Sato and Imanari. I also had the oppurtunity to train with a polish sambo/MMA fighter back then who showed me tha basics, it wasnt any systematic approach but a good view on how leg locks works. A few years(2013 or 2014) later I did learn a bit of leg lock system from Ian Entwistle that was quite useful and still have some ideas that works but thats mainly because it different from the Danaher or 50/50 leglock games.

But against the modern day leglock nerds its all useless. Their systematic approach leads them to getting the tap 9 out of 10 times. I can still scramble and survive the attacks to get a top position but I want the tap. The most useful moves I still have are the catch wrestling moves, mainly toe holds but theres also a calf slicer setup I use when they try to scramble and get out. I feel like the toe hold is a forgotten submission in the modern day leglock game.

 

[Little Mac]

So I would like to talk about how recently how refreshing on the Basics again at my Gym has been really helping me out.

I was already a Blue Belt, thinking I had a decent handle on things. But once the school became a Gracie CTC and I started going through the Combatives curriculum, it was like hitting reset in the best way.

The structure made me realize how many gaps I had in my fundamentals. I used to rely on athleticism and scramble through sparring, but now I’m way more calm and efficient. Techniques I thought I knew started making more sense, and I stopped wasting energy on stuff that didn’t work. Sparring feels smoother now—less guessing, more reacting. It’s wild how going back to basics actually leveled up my game.

Sure some folks in the BJJ community aren't crazy about Gracie University and The Combative Program, and rightfully so due to some certain aspects that even I disagreed with in the past. However the Master Cycle program I also do in my Gym also goes over how to counter what is taught in Combatives as well as learning what the new and old sporting techniques are . All in All happy with what I'm currently working on in my school.

 

[randomg1t]

I was at a grappling training camp this saturday visiting one of my old training partners. He moved to the base of mountain in the middle of nowhere to a town with like 20 houses and half of them is training in his gym. We used to do MMA but he retired from MMA 2018 and only did grappling since then. Which is like what all my old training partners in my age did, Im the only old guy left doing MMA.

But back to the training camp, one of the parts was leg locks, the modern stuff. I used to be great a leglocks like 15 years ago. But I was just a fan of japanese MMA with fighters like Rumina Sato and Imanari. I also had the oppurtunity to train with a polish sambo/MMA fighter back then who showed me tha basics, it wasnt any systematic approach but a good view on how leg locks works. A few years(2013 or 2014) later I did learn a bit of leg lock system from Ian Entwistle that was quite useful and still have some ideas that works but thats mainly because it different from the Danaher or 50/50 leglock games.

But against the modern day leglock nerds its all useless. Their systematic approach leads them to getting the tap 9 out of 10 times. I can still scramble and survive the attacks to get a top position but I want the tap. The most useful moves I still have are the catch wrestling moves, mainly toe holds but theres also a calf slicer setup I use when they try to scramble and get out. I feel like the toe hold is a forgotten submission in the modern day leglock game.

i've noticed that whatever modern leglocking stuff i try to implement, it usually works pretty well.

but i can't retain it in my head to save my life. i swear to god i must've gone through danaher's droning bullshit 10 times over, i see something that might work for me, try it out, it works, and next week i have no clue what it was.

and then some broccoli haired 17 year old is telling me he's trying out k-guard entries into backside 50/50 heelhooks and i'm sitting there staring at him like he's speaking vietnamese.

 

[Rallarsvingare]

i've noticed that whatever modern leglocking stuff i try to implement, it usually works pretty well.

but i can't retain it in my head to save my life. i swear to god i must've gone through danaher's droning bullshit 10 times over, i see something that might work for me, try it out, it works, and next week i have no clue what it was.

and then some broccoli haired 17 year old is telling me he's trying out k-guard entries into backside 50/50 heelhooks and i'm sitting there staring at him like he's speaking vietnamese.

Kind of the same feeling I have.

Some of the escapes and defenses get stuck in my head when they work. I have never watched any full DVDs but Ive watched loads of free clips on youtube from Danaher, Ryan, Giles, Craig Jones and a bunch of modern elite grapplers and their takes on leglocks. However the offensive moves and the counters might work once or twice but then they probably caugt me a few times already in the same roll.

Whenever I feel like im catching up they are already way ahead of me, and like you said its like theyre speaking a different language and when you finally begin to understand its like they learnt a new language.

As I said earlier the only thing that works is the toe holds Ive been doing for about 20 year now. Achilles lock and heel hooks is impossible. Toe holds are not in their system yet so Im lucky.