For gripfighting, YouKnowWho already said it. I want one more hand on him than he has on me. If he has to have two hands on me, I want to get...
I do not know of anyone in the Columbus area instructing in those arts, specifically. A while back master An Tianrong was in town, who I believe...
Wrist locks can work. Claudio Calasans catches people with them all the time. Kote gaeshi from standing is pretty legit, but I always worry that...
Great fundamentals drill, here. It depends on what kind of grappling you want. If by "grappling" you mean "grappling on the ground",...
So, I come from a pretty old-school (carlson-lineage) BJJ background. Heavy on the takedowns, heavy on the crushing top pressure, heavy on the...
I find that there is a bit of a conflict in training. You want to be aggressive, yes, but you also don't want to force things. This means that...
Black Belt in BJJ is going to take a long, long time. I think that starting at late blue belt in BJJ you can do some cross-training without it...
Judo people get out of pins, yes. Usually by turning to their front. Sometimes by getting to hands and knees. Maybe sometimes catching a leg for...
Judo doesn't train escapes from the ground to standing. One of my biggest problems with the art, actually. You might be thinking of wrestling?
No, it isn't illegal. You don't see it as much because BJJ people tend not to hang out in positions where you can use it. Still useful to flatten...
The difference between self defense and learning to fight is that self defense training must contain learning to fight but learning to fight does...
No-gi: Harai Goshi. Why: I can hit it from enough positions that I can seemingly always attack with it. Underhook, grabbing the lat muscle,...
Greco does have applicable techniques to the ground. Any time you can snap your partner's head down into front headlock control, you can work your...
Controlling an arm with your legs does not stop the pin timer. Controlling their *head* and arm, as in a side triangle, does. Or should, at least....
The closed guard is not banned in Judo. It is, however, a great excuse for a referee to yell "matte" and stand the competitors up. In...
Not only are they taught the rear naked choke/hadaka jime, but also Okuri eri jime, kataha jime, sode guruma jime, katate jime, and other chokes...
Yes, you are absolutely allowed to put your feet on the floor. You even see actual standing in newaza sparring sometimes, usually when one is...
The IJF's approach to restricting newaza is no less of a restriction because it is not an official rule change. These new rules are evidence that...
Either BJJ or Judo would work fantastically (if practiced often and enthusiastically) in a 1v1 street fight. I used Judo well before I started...
Judo was not created to be a sportive art. It was created to: 1) continue the martial traditions of jujutsu, which were dying out. To this end...
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