Black Belt Superfight @ Manchester Open

The first ever black belt match took place at the Manchester Open BJJ Championships on 21st April 2012. Was a great show of technical Jiu Jitsu featuring Ryan Hunter from Combat Base and Scott Pickering from Team Sukata. Enjoy.

New IBJJF Rules

Make sure you know the rules or you are not fully prepared.

Click here.

Paper Cutter Series

This not meant as an instructional, just a reminder for the guys that have trained this recently in class. It's all about angle and pressure.

Another good paper cutter entry is covered on CBNE blog here.

Choke Details
Grip first; hold their right lapel with your left hand and 'jab' it off their shoulder. Right hand 'upper cuts' under their right arm pit and grabs the collar, effectively giving you the paper cutter grip.

Go to drop seionage (as Helen demonstrates) or osoto gari (as Pete demonstrates) keeping the grip.

Notice that straightaway the shoulder must pressure the ribs/chest and the top of the head must put pressure on their neck and jaw to turn their head away from you. This is crucial to make the choke work, you don't want them looking at you.

Stuff the arm through and trap it with your knee before circling the arm over to choke.


Arm Bar Details
From paper cutter grip, keep your hands in that position and start to step up. The left arm with give a little neck crank when straightened so use that to minimise their movement.

Keep your left hand gripping their collar.

As you sit back, keep the driving pressure of your shin into their neck and stretch everything out so there is minimal chance of escape.

In Helen's version she lets go of the collar at the last minute and throws the right leg over for extra control.


JJM Shin Choke Details
First saw this performed by Jean Jacques Machado and was impressed by his thinking of using other body parts to finalise his choke because of his "disadvantaged" hand.

A version of this was recently revived by Roberto 'Cyborg' Abreu to great effect.

Bring the shin up to pressure their neck while keeping the paper cutter grip.

Following the line of their jaw reach across their throat and grip the opposite side lapel. Pull lapel across and you drive shin into their neck.

The angle of the shin is crucial, it needs to be driven on an angle not straight. For competition you don't want knee on the face so angle your knee to face their left hip/ribs.

Go practice.

Training At Combat Base UK trailer

Knee Ride - The Trailer

3 Arm Attacks from Knee Ride

A real mix of influences from Chris Haueter, Marcelo Garcia, Judo and traditional Jiu Jitsu.

Elbow Crush

1.     Pop up to knee ride; underhook the far arm as though you are going to spin to the far arm bar. Everyone knows this so will be waiting for the transition to escape.

2.     Straighten the arm out for the elbow crush and step your left leg over their head then sit back and finalise.

Shoulder Lock

1.     Pop up to knee ride; underhook the far arm as though you are going to spin to the far arm bar. Everyone knows this so will be waiting for the transition to escape.

2.     You try to straighten the arm out for the elbow crush but you find you can’t straighten their arm out. Gable grip your hands together and still sit back.

3.     Pull the arm into your body and using your full rotational force, not just arms, turn anti-clockwise to finish the shoulder lock.

4.     Switch arms to traditional kimura if you need to.

Straight Arm Lock

1.     Pop up to knee ride; underhook the far arm as though you are going to spin to the far arm bar. Your opponent frames against your left knee/grabs your gi pants so you can’t step over their head.

2.     Keep your position but reach down with your left hand to lift their right arm up under your armpit and clamp down hard with your elbow to your ribs.

3.     Slide your shin into their armpit as far as you can and sit back. Immediately throw your left leg over their face to finalise.

 

Important details with description below

 

Elbow Crush Details:

Clip 1 - If they try to escape the arm when you have knee ride catch it between the side of your head and shoulder.

Clip 2 – Don’t try to ‘choke’ or gable grip the elbow, the opponent can rotate the arm and escape.

Clip 3 - Use your hands to cup the elbow instead so they can’t rotate the arm out, cupping gives better control until you get to the point of no return.

Clip 4 - Don’t lay back with the arm or you will lose it and not make sufficient leverage to finalise.

Clip 5 – Stay sat up and as you pull the elbow in towards you, slightly crunch your top half forward. Make it a full body move rather than an arms move.

Clip 6 – If you feel off balance, shuffle yo’ ass back a little while keeping control of the elbow. You will find the sweet spot easier with repetition.

Shoulder Lock Details

 

Clip 7 – VERY IMPORTANT!! Learn how to efficiently break the grip. A lot of people seem to try to strength the grip break (God knows enough people have tried it on me) but you need some science with your strength. From my old traditional martial arts days you always tried to ensure you are trying to break towards the weak part of the grip, the path of least resistance.

If the opponent has a standard grip then you should always pull in the direction the knuckles are facing. In this clip Helen pulls the hand towards her as the knuckles are facing that way.

Clip 8 – If switching to a standard kimura, make sure you do not lose control of the arm. Common sense really but worth mentioning.

Clip 9 – You can come up to control opponent’s head to finish off the kimura but again look at how the grip has to be broken.

Arm Lock Details:

Clip 10 – When your opponent braces against your leg to stop you stepping over, pull their arm up at the elbow, the weakest part of their arm. Slide your shin as hard as you can into their arm pit, you will need it shortly.

Clip 11 – Driving the shin into the arm pit will stop them getting up or at least severely hamper their attempts at getting up. The leg is very important and must be driven hard into the armpit. Can’t stress this too much.

Clip 12 – If your pressure is not enough or if you lean back too much, you can get rolled.

If you do get rolled, keep the same structure and throw your left leg over their face to finalise from your back.

North South Choke

Helen demonstrating the North South choke as featured in this month’s Jiu Jitsu Style magazine.

UK BJJ at th Euros 2012

Glad to see that UK BJJ seems to be growing in stature with a few firsts at the Euros this year.

Our own Adam Adshead was the first ever UK brown belt to medal at adult with his silver medal.

Followed later that day by Luke Costello from Barra becoming the first ever UK brown belt to win gold at adult, double gold to be precise.

Then the day after Oli Geddes from RGA became the first ever UK black belt to win a match at an IBJJF major.

Onwards and upwards.

Pontefract gym Xmas schedule

24th December - closed
25th December - closed
26th December - closed
27th December - open
28th December - open
29th December - open
30th December - closed
31st December - closed
1st January - closed
2nd January - closed
3rd January - closed
4th January - open

Back to normal after that

It's not who's best it's who's left

Quote:

"out of 10 white belts who start BJJ  it is said that 1 will make it to blue belt

From 10 blue belts maybe 1-2 will get to purple...and so on

The factors that allow for someone to eventually reach blackbelt are not necessarily physical assets or talent.

If we can say that it is primarily mental/psychological factors that allow/result in 1 white belt eventually  reaching black belt

It could be just that the black belt  just has far more passion for BJJ than the others who didn't continue.

We might also conclude that the black belt has a far greater degree of resilience (rebounding from slumps, injuries and training interruptions); perseverance; lack of ego etc."


What keeps you training?
What do you enjoy most?
Would not getting promoted lead you to quit?
What might cause you to quit eventually?

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