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Saw this for the first time this week, and hit it on a brown belt last night. Absurdly simple and effective. Thought I'd share.
Saw this for the first time this week, and hit it on a brown belt last night. Absurdly simple and effective. Thought I'd share.
Thanks. I’ve been getting caught in that god dammed paper cutter. A really strong blue belt caught me the other day. I was so frustrated. I’m thinking to myself. I’ve been training over 10 years and this fucking blue belt caught me in a paper cutter, I suck bad. So it’s been my mission to learn not to get in that position and learn all the escapes I can. I’ll add this one to my drilling repertoire.
It’s so frustrating and humbling to allow people to get you in shitty positions and try and figure out how to get out. You fail a lot but finally when you are able to escape at least once then you feel better. Once I am able to escape most of the time will I stop drilling and putting myself in this shit position.
What I think happens—guys hate working bottom side control. I know I hate working bottom side control. It’s a shit position to be in, it’s no fun being crushed down there and it’s a lot of work to get out. Then you get where super strong blue belts are crushing you in side control as a brown belt and you are pissed at yourself for barely working that position.I'm kind of running into this problem right now. A few years ago I decided focusing on my guard would be more efficient than fighting out of bad positions. I still believe this but the gap in proficiency has widened. My bfly guard might be a brown belt level but my side control escapes are at blue belt level.
I'm kind of running into this problem right now. A few years ago I decided focusing on my guard would be more efficient than fighting out of bad positions. I still believe this but the gap in proficiency has widened. My bfly guard might be a brown belt level but my side control escapes are at blue belt level.
I'm kind of running into this problem right now. A few years ago I decided focusing on my guard would be more efficient than fighting out of bad positions. I still believe this but the gap in proficiency has widened. My bfly guard might be a brown belt level but my side control escapes are at blue belt level.
What I think happens—guys hate working bottom side control. I know I hate working bottom side control. It’s a shit position to be in, it’s no fun being crushed down there and it’s a lot of work to get out. Then you get where super strong blue belts are crushing you in side control as a brown belt and you are pissed at yourself for barely working that position.
The opposite. A lot of people from north south attack the papercutter choke. This technique works against someone who is going for the transition from north south to papercutter.This seems to be a timing thing where the escape is made in the transition to north/south.
Am I correct?
The opposite. A lot of people from north south attack the papercutter choke. This technique works against someone who is going for the transition from north south to papercutter.
I'm feeling overall pretty good about dealing with side control at this point except that I want to get good at moving to deep half in transition. I have an escape in basically every direction except for going there by instinct. I usually just try to reset into closed guard, but I'm starting to like the sweeps and backtakes from there.
What I think happens—guys hate working bottom side control. I know I hate working bottom side control. It’s a shit position to be in, it’s no fun being crushed down there and it’s a lot of work to get out. Then you get where super strong blue belts are crushing you in side control as a brown belt and you are pissed at yourself for barely working that position.