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Any combination of "completely under opponents base" and "actively managing distance with legs" is "opponent is going to get swept unless there is an incredibly large skill or size discrepancy"
Any combination of "completely under opponents base" and "actively managing distance with legs" is "opponent is going to get swept unless there is an incredibly large skill or size discrepancy"
Yes, in bjj competition. Guy kicked my but using it, my instructor teaches it and loves it. I think it's a pile of monkey excrement.
Dont you lose to get silver?
Contribute something productive dude. The x guard debate has been exhausted and it's not what the thread is about. use what tech you want, your business.You think a position/guard that you got your butt kicked with is crap? Even if you don't like using it, the fact that you were beat with it should show it's not crap.
And just how many gold medals do you have?
Yeah that's a good move, but I consider it more single leg x or a leg entanglement. Much of it is semantic tho.
Exactly.Judo newaza is its own beast, here is Travis Stevens getting choked the fuck out with a bow and arrow by a German back in sept 2015, he was already a BJJ blackbelt and had competed in Metamoris by then.
Exactly.
And Travis himself is open about it, he says that he only uses judo in judo competitions and bjj in bjj competitions.
In every grappling match i have seen him he pulled guard.
Make sense...Conor's second arm is doing the job the second X hook would normally do because Nate is standing way the hell narrow. Connor didn't have to bust through the multiple layers of defense you'd normally have to in order to complete the sweep
Hm, ok. Thanks.The other foot can float in x guard, so I'd consider it to be x guard. The distinctive aspect of x guard is crossing that outside leg through the crotch to pressure the far hip. The other foot is then more float-y, it can push on the knee, hook behind the knee, hook behind hip, etc.
He's also using an overhook, but again I'd consider that a pretty basic and common variation.
If I fought MMA, I wouldn't LOOK to be on the bottom at all. But if I did wind up on bottom, I would sure as shit look for a 1LX or butterfly guard, not closed or half. Closed/half just seems to get you smashed unless you're significantly better than your opponent, and skill differentials are rarely that big.If you go into an mma fight looking to do x guard you will get the beat down of your life for sure and that is a promise.
I would actually like more judo players to start competing in bjj. You can actually do more judo tech under bjj rules. In the US freestyle judo and sombo scenes are so small that you could beast in their (stateside) tournaments but still have bad tech.
And your threads are epic.
"Judo as Kano envisioned." True poetry lolThanks.
I'm training at a Royce affiliate now, say what you will about the SD stuff in the curriculum, it really doesn't take away from anything, I enjoy that when we stand (and we start many rolls standing) I can enjoy doing the Judo as I learned it, add in some of the wrestling I did, and pretty much take people down without worrying about if I'd be DQ'd in Judo comp (then get subbed by the darker colored belts )
I feel like the BJJ I'm learning is closer to Judo as Kano envisioned it than Judo is now.
Some of my bjj classmates had some mma fights. Those wrestlers are really good, hard to control. There is no position that their strength can't get them out of or make dangerous. Good luck.If I fought MMA, I wouldn't LOOK to be on the bottom at all. But if I did wind up on bottom, I would sure as shit look for a 1LX or butterfly guard, not closed or half. Closed/half just seems to get you smashed unless you're significantly better than your opponent, and skill differentials are rarely that big.
He feels his judo would give him an unfair advantage in bjj tournament and he's just testing/refining his ground work.
Judo is his job. I'd be very surprised if he had the same mentality toward it. I think he would say he would do whatever it would take to win.
I don't Travis would be concerned about having an unfair advantage when competing against high level guys at Copa Podio.
Having an unfair advantage is like the holly grail of high level athletics
He has a long podcast interview where he mentions why using judo isn't worth it in bjj: serious danger to knees from guard jumpers, flying armlock, guard pullers and the rules allowing stalling on the feet.
He also briefly mentioned somewhere else not wanting to adapt his throws to bjj so that he doesn't mix up at judo.
I'm not worried about it. Wrestling isn't a cheat code.Some of my bjj classmates had some mma fights. Those wrestlers are really good, hard to control. There is no position that their strength can't get them out of or make dangerous. Good luck.
That he developed at renowned Jukoka Renzo Grazie's academy.
I think you are missing the point. If you want good hands, you train with a boxer. If you want to kick, train with a taekwondoist. If you want good ground work..you get the point. Other martial arts contain punching, kicking and grappling but the above arts are specialized.He's a BJJ brown, or black.....but come on, pretending like an Olympic Judoka only knows a bow and arrow choke bc of BJJ? fuck off, mate
I'm not worried about it. Wrestling isn't a cheat code.