Am I seeing a different video to the rest of you? Or am I missing some sarcasm tags? I'm seriously not getting what people are excited about by that video.
it's interesting in that he's trying to perform the techniques with a bit more of a "pressure" veneer. i liked the irimi nage stuff at the end of the video the best.
Granted he's bigger than his training partners, but all the same, in the opening 68 seconds he uses something that is recognizable as an aikido wrist lock (we call them kotegaeshi and nikkyo) five times to get a dominant grappling position.
i've used the principles of ikkyo in my bjj rolling, especially from the open guard when someone is trying to pass my said guard. i've had someone kotegaeshi me while rolling--a purple belt did it to me. the principles of irimi nage are most evident with something like an arm drag, but this applies not only to bjj, but wrestling.
if you look chadderz, the principles are everywhere. you mention you want "brazilian aikido". well you already have it--i believe.
Turns out I was watching a different video (or part of it) The original link starts at three minutes something, when all there is to see is a load of essentially compliant drills.
i liked that part the best lol, because it showed how one would use irimi. but you're right, compliant drills. another example of the principle of irimi in bjj action i think is arm triangle choke.
Just adding that I'm not sure why people lump wrist locks into the "low percentage" category Of course they are better used as part of a broader technique/chain, more appropriate with a jacket on and strikes help a lot in the set up, but I use them quite often in BJJ rolling In the vid he's using them pretty effectively effectively to disrupt even with gloves on. And, in my view, if he either dropped his weight more or stepped further away he'd have thrown with a few of those that he bailed out of
Agreed! And he'd be safer from a broader fighting/self-defense perspective. Sure, in context, this was a friendly training session obviously under a sport grappling ruleset. That's totally fine. But on the "street" maybe the opponent would have a knife in his other hand, and if he did -- in this video he was clearly close enough to cut/stab as he fell. Even without a knife, he could have punched the bigger guy in the face, or poked his eyes like the Three Stooges. But that can be corrected by stepping backwards on an appropriate angle so as to stretch out the uke's arm (the guy who is falling is uke) and also lowering the wrist by lowering your own weight. Together, that reduces joint flexibility, making it more likely that he'll go down (and making him go down faster and harder :evil, and it also reduces the chance of his other hand reaching you in any way.
I suspect it's down to the prevalence of all the "grab my wrist" type videos that are portrayed as valid self defence. Wrist locks are perfectly viable/useful within context and as part of a larger skill set imo.
Agreed I also think that, for various reasons, they tend to be trained in unpressured contexts so not many people develop the level of skill required to apply them
There's a separate thread on this in the BJJ forum & I train the locks a little differently from Aikido so I don't want to derail this thread But I've found similar techniques to the two forms that he uses in the video work quite well