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Let's begin with some general
reflections on the back position.
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A question we might begin with is
why do I favor the back position
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so strongly?
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Why do I have favored,
above all the other positions
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in submission, grappling?
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There is a fundamental asymmetry
in the human body
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between threats that come to us
from the front, which our body is
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well adapted to deal with
and threats that come from the back.
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In almost any combat sport.
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You will see that a constant
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theme is the idea of achieving
dominant angle upon your opponent.
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It's always to our advantage
to attack from flanks.
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And the ultimate flanking attack
is one way directly
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behind our opponent.
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The human body, as I said earlier, is
well adapted to deal with threats
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coming in from the front,
but poorly adapted to deal with
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threats from the rear.
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We want to
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make use of this asymmetry
as much as possible.
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We engage in this quarter jujitsu.
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The back maximizes our ability
to attack our opponent
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while at the same time
minimizing their ability to
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to counter attack
and come back at us.
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There's
another reason why a favorite.
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This has to do with what
I call the primacy of strangles.
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Whenever we go to submit
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someone in the sport of jiu jitsu,
we have a fundamental choice
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between submission holds
which arise out of strangulation
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and submission holes
that arise out of joint breaking
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as powerful
a weapon as joint breaking is.
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There are always going to be
opponents who are willing to take
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damage
and will surrender a joint in order
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to continue a fight.
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The case of strangulation
is very different.
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It doesn't matter how courageous
or mentally tough your opponent is,
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if they are locked in a very,
very tight stranglehold, they will
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simply pass out.
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I've seen elite
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athletes battle
through severe damage to joints,
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but I've never seen anyone resist
a fully locked in strangle.
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They simply pass out when they try.
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Because of this,
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the BEC is a position I favor
above all others in submission,
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grappling in other contexts
such as in mixed martial arts.
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He may well make a strong argument
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for other positions
being more dominant,
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but in submission grappling.
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I always urge my athletes to work
the way to the back end
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if they're in any situation where
they have an attacking opportunity.
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If there's a choice between back in
any other position,
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I'll always urge them to go
in that direction.
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Nonetheless,
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the contemporary use of the back
and jitsu suffers from some problems.
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When I look at contemporary jujitsu,
I see a vast number of athletes
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who are extremely good
at getting to the back
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and maintaining the back.
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However,
I see a relatively small number
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of athletes who specialize
in finishing from the back.
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With regards
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finishing, one
sees a few outstanding individuals
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people like Roger Gracie,
Marcello Garcia or Philippe Pena,
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who are very strong at finishing
from the back, just as strong
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as they are
at their positional skills from back.
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But in truth,
the majority of athletes
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are far superior
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at positional work from the back
than they are from finishing work.
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One of the problems
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associated with the back is that
there is very little incentive
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for jiu jitsu
athletes to finish from the back.
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The back is, of course,
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one of the highest point
scoring positions in the sport.
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In addition,
by the time you get to someone's
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back, typically you've scored other
points for takedowns, guard passes,
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pins, etc. etc..
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By the time you take athletes
back in most jiu jitsu competition
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scenarios, you're
so far ahead in points that there's
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very little incentive to go on
and actually finish your opponent
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for reasons like this.
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There's this discrepancy
between the strong positional work
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on the back
that I see in most contemporary
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athletes
versus their ability to finish.
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This all came to a to a head
with the rise of submission grappling
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as soon as submission grappling
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came to to prominence
in the due to community, suddenly
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athletes had to convert back position
into submission holds.
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There were many examples
in, say, for example, EBI Overtimes,
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where outstanding athletes
really struggled to to exhibit
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sufficient finishing skills
in these overtime scenarios
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and even in regulation time
without points being offered.
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Athletes
certainly hit the switch from
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just assuming that it was good enough
to get to their opponents back
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to actually having to convert back
position into back finishes.
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And many of them
struggled in this regard.
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The intention of this
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video is to address
this contemporary imbalance
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between the two strong back
positional skills that we so often
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see versus the noticeably weaker back
finishing skills.
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I'll be using the exact same
techniques, concepts and tactics
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that have proven
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so successful for my athletes
in championship competition.
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What is needed is a systematic
approach to finishing from the back.
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The first thing that we need
from this systems based approach
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is the recognition of the reality
that the rear naked strangle
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is the single most high percentage
finish from the bag
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and which ought to be the centerpiece
of any back submission system.
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Nonetheless, like any move
and any system, it has its limits
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and is going to be times where,
no matter how strong our system
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for implementing the rear
naked strangle is, it's going to run
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into sufficient resistance
that we can't get a breakthrough.
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So there has to be a back
up element to the system.
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There has to be
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a means by which we can distribute
attacks over the whole body
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so that rather than just having one
attack to one part of my opponent's
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body, I also ought to have auxiliary
attacks where I can redistribute
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my submission attacks over the length
and breadth of my opponent's body.
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The back system that I offer
you does exactly that.
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There is a main part to the system
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which comprises
a highly effective set of techniques
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based around hand
fighting and leg trapping,
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which make the use of the rear
naked strangle
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much more effective than normal.
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But at the same time,
there is a set of auxiliary
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subsystems
based around the main system.
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So that is the main system of hand
trapping working
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towards
the rear naked strangle should fail.
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There are auxiliary systems
which enable me to use a wide variety
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of other submission holds
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distributed over the length
and breadth of the human body
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so that the back is not limited
to one target.
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Rather, we can use a combination
of the auxiliary systems
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and the main system to exhibit
the most high percentage
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submission in the sport
and back it up with a wide
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variety of attacks
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to the rest of the body.
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If that main system should fail,
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welcome to back attacks
into the system.
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My intention in this video
is to give you a complete rundown
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to the idea of attacking your
opponent from back positions.
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Very often back attack
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methodologies focus only
on a small part of the human body.
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But my intention is to
give you a system which enables you
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to use your whole body
to attack your opponent's whole body
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by distributing the attacks
over your opponent's whole body.
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The finishing percentages go up
considerably.
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In addition, we're going to be
spending a lot of time
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on one rather notorious
element of the bank attack system
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that which involves
trapping our training partners arms
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to greatly increase your
your percentage chances of success
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of working your way
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through into the most important
finishing hole from the back.
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Three naked strangle.
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It's my belief
that the bag represents the single
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greatest opportunity to add to attack
an opponent in any combat sport.
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Jiu jitsu being no exception.
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If you look at
the very structure of the human body,
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the human body is always set up
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well and adapted well to dealing
with threats from the front.
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However, it is very poorly adapted
to dealing with threats from the back
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unless, you know the
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the precise technical methods
of escaping from back,
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you are just simply not
going to be able to do so against
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anyone with even mediocre skills.
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Because of this, I value the bag
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more than any other of its in
any of the of the dominant positions
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in the sport of jitsu.
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More than old belly, more than mount,
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more than cross-eyed,
north south, etc. etc..
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All of these positions are good.
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They all have their virtues.
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However, it's my belief and belief
which I try to inculcate
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in all of my students
that the bag is king of them all.
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It may not score
more points than the mount,
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but in my opinion,
if I am given a choice
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between mounting back in a submission
grappling context,
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I will almost
always go with the back.
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I've been
describing the straitjacket system
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as the centerpiece, the focal point
of the overall back attack system.
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But like any system, the straitjacket
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has its has its limitations.
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Let's have a look at those now.
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I'm behind an opponent.
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One of the great problems
with the straightjacket system
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is it uses only one part of my body,
my arms, to work its way
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into an attack on one part
of my opponent's body, the neck.
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Again, that means
we've got one part of our body
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attacking a relatively small
part of my opponent's body.
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No matter how good of a job
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I do, of trapping my opponent's arms
with my legs, etc., etc.
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it's still a fairly small piece
of real estate to be attacking.
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And as a result,
your opponent can focus
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all of his defenses on one
very small area.
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Now, any time a large set of defenses
are focused on
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a small area, it's going to be hard
to get a breakthrough outcome.
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It's very, very important
that when we work behind people,
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we must be able to do better
than only having
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one part of my body
attacking one part of his body.
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We must be able to distribute
our attacks over the whole body
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so that we become unpredictable in
the nature and scope of our attacks.
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This is exactly
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where the auxiliary systems
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of my back attack system come in.
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As powerful
a weapon as the straight jacket is,
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and despite all the success
it's had in competition,
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it would be a failure on my part
to offer you a bank attack system
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which only enabled one
part of my body to attack
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one small area of my opponent's body.
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The auxiliary systems that we'll be
looking at later in this video series
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enable us to distribute attacks
over the length and breadth
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of your opponent's body
so they become much less predictable.
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And this your attack in such a wider
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scope of real estate
over your opponent's body,
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that achieving the breakthrough
becomes much, much easier.
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This relationship between the main
or central focus of the backstage
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system, the straight jacket,
and then these auxiliary systems
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which have the effect of distributing
the attacks over a much wider area,
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is a central
focus of this video series.
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There's no question that
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the most well-known and
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well publicized part of my back
attack
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system is the straightjacket system.
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This involves the use of our legs
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to pin our training partners arms
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in a position
where they appear relatively helpless
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and open up attacks to the neck
with the rear naked strangle.
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In in competition,
this has been the number
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one method of success on the back
by far.
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For my students, statistically, it's
not even close between
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the straightjacket system and
the auxiliary parts of the system.
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In terms of numbers, the overwhelming
majority of our finishes
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have come from the straightjacket.
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Some of the most notable successes
in the straightjacket system
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have come in submission grabbing
tournaments, utilizing an EBI format.
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An overtime.
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My athletes would select the back
position as their start.
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You have a choice between armbar
positions and back positions.
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My athletes would exclusively choose
back position
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knowing
that they had a system in place
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which gave them a very, very high
percentage chance of success.
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Their
extraordinarily high success rates
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in comparison
with other athletes in epee
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over time position
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garnered a considerable interest
in the straightjacket system.
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Let's begin our study of it now.
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Let's start off with just some very,
very general basic
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talk about the nature of the back
position, in particular
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the incredibly close relationship
between the back position
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and the number one method
of finishing from the back, the rear
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naked, strangle or monthly, all.
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There's absolutely no question
that in
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grappling without the key
and in combat sports like mixed
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martial arts.
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Once someone gets to the back,
the absolute number one
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method of finishing by a landslide
is the rear naked strangle.
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In fact,
the rear naked strangle more or less
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can't be pulled apart
from the rear mount position.
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The two duo.
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So hand-in-hand
are relatively few examples
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in competition where rain extremes
and not apply from rear mount.
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There's some ways you can do
this will be looking at them later,
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but almost always is
a massive correlation
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between the rear mounted position
and the rear naked strangle.
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The straight jacket
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system is designed with this in mind.
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However, it was also designed
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with the idea that there's ways
we could make this close relationship
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even more functionally effective
through the use of our legs to remove
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the main apparatus for our opponents
defensive is his defensive
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arms.
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I want to go over some of the core
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preliminaries of back control,
which will become extremely important
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as we work our way
through the straightjacket system.
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These will be important
even if you were using straitjackets.
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They're just general considerations
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when you hit the rear
mounted position
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and your interest in working your way
through towards the rear
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naked, strangle,
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they form the the as it were,
the conceptual core of working
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successfully from the back
towards the brain and could strangle.
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The first is the notion of a left
right control.
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If I'm behind someone,
it is absolutely critical
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that I have the ability to control
their movement left and right.
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Okay.
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So often I see athletes control
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one side of the body, the right side
or the left side, but not the other.
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And as a result, it's
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relatively simple for your opponents
to go out and start escaping.
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Let's start
with some preliminary ideas here.
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The idea that when my work
behind my training partner,
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I will have one arm underneath
my opponent's arm
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and one arm
going over the shoulder like so.
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Okay.
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The danger here is that, of course,
my opponent can start turning inside
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my arms and when I hit my hooks,
then I'll be demonstrating
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that shoulder
because I'm turning inside my legs.
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Okay, We can never have an opponent
who is able to turn
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because ultimately a turn
will create a situation where I'm
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no longer on my opponent's back
and can fully turn into me.
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Okay.
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So preventing our opponent
from turning left
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and right is a critical,
critical element,
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because if that turn
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should be sustained,
ultimately they'll turn into me
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and I will
no longer be on their back. Okay.
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So this ability to shut down
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turning movements left
and right is absolutely critical.
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Okay.
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Once we get behind someone,
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okay, we have a control hand going
underneath and an arm over the top.
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You'll see that
if I use my left hand as a control
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hand, this will prevent my opponent
from turning to the right.
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As he goes, the turn to the right.
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My elbow behind his body
restrains him.
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However, it does absolutely nothing
to stop my opponent to
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in the other direction.
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So that would be
the duration of his escape.
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Okay.
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I have two arms here
in front of my training partner.
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It's absolutely critical
that I use the elbow on one side
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in front of his shoulder
as well is an impediment to movement.
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I can have my hands
locked in this position or
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I can have them open.
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But one thing doesn't
change my elbow positions.
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I have an elbow
behind him on one side
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and an elbow in front of the shoulder
on the other.
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If my opponent goes to turn in this
direction here, my one on one grip
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makes it difficult.
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Okay, my left hand one on one foot
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prevents my opponent
from turning to the right.
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If my opponent tries
to turn to the left,
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it's my elbow here in his shoulder
that makes it difficult for him.
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Okay, so if I have no hooks in
just my arms controlling my opponent,
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it's absolutely critical that
I control him between my two elbows.
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One elbow is in front of one
shoulder.
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One elbow is behind
the other shoulder.
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And as a result, when he goes
to turn on one direction,
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one elbow will stop him.
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When he goes to turn the other,
the other elbow will stop him.
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And he's being controlled
between my elbows.
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The elbows are the focus
of your upper body control.
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Okay.
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Unfortunately, people
often misunderstand the control is
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the locking of the hands.
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The locking at the hands
simply holds my elbows in place.
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Remember,
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there's going to come a time
when you go to strangle someone.
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You're going
to have to unlock your hands
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and you still have to be able
to control them.
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Okay, my hands are locked.
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I'm no serious threat to my opponent
in terms of strangulation.
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I can control people here all day.
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But at some point,
if I'm going to strangle someone,
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my hands have to unlock and we have
to learn to work with open hands.
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That's why it's important
to understand with a focus of control
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is it's in your elbows,
one behind your opponent
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like so,
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and one in front at the shoulder.
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So if I'm interested in straightening
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someone now
and he goes to move around,
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even though my hands are open,
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my elbows are still
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controlling his movement,
if I always work with my hands
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long, it's hard for me to transition
to strangles.
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Okay, at some point
we've got to have the confidence
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to work with open hands.
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And as he goes to move around,
we control him between our elbows
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going further into this.
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Sometimes you'll only have one hand
on your opponent.
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In these cases,
we have to learn to control
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both sides left
and right through our legs.
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A very, very important concept here
is the concept of diagonal control.
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We've seen that if our opponent can,
to a sufficient distance,
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he can turn into us and actually
get us off the back position.
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Again, if I have my left hand
controlling his upper body movement,
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that will make it very difficult
for my opponent
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to tune in this direction
as we saw previously.
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If I hit my hook on the same side
and only one hook
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now, it's very,
very difficult for my opponent
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to turn to the right with both a hook
and a hand controlling him.
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But it's absurdly easy for him
to turn this way and tune in to me
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and eventually
escape the back control.
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It is absolutely critical
that if we have one hand
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on our opponent and one hook
in, they'd be on opposite sides.
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If I have my right hook in
and my opponent goes to turn
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left, it's my right hook
that makes it difficult for him.
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When he goes to turn to the right,
it's my left hand holding in place.
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This is the principle
of diagonal control.
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Again, if I have only one hook
and one upper body grip,
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they must be on opposite
sides of the body.
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So that movement,
both left and right, is constrained.
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This is what we call
diagonal control.
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As the control goes
through my right leg
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of my opponent's right
hip in a diagonal line
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up to his left shoulder,
which is now controlled by the hand.
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Now, even though I have only one hook
in and one hand on my opponent,
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when he goes to move around, he's
constrained on both sides,
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one side by a leg,
the other side by hand.
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Whenever we have a situation
where we have
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only one hook on our opponent,
it is absolutely critical
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that we work with this
principle of diagonal control.
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If I have
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no upper body grips on my opponent,
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then the onus is on me
to have two hooks in at all times.
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Okay.
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If I have only one who can,
with no avoiding control,
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there's simply no reason why
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my body can easily turn inside
my hooks and turn and face me.
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So if I work in a situation
where I have no effective upper body
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control, I'm not underneath his arms
with either arm and I'm just like,
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so for example, over both arms,
it is critical that I have
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two hooks in some capacity,
whether it be conventional hooks
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or even better, a body triangle
or what have you.
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Okay.
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Again, if I have no control hand
underneath the arms, then
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I need hooks controlling both sides
of my opponent's lower body.
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Only then will
I be able to stop the turning motions
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like in
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an opponent, to take me off his back.
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Let's have a look
at the critical distinction
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between use of a strangle hand
and a control hand.
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Whenever we get behind our opponent,
we need to,
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as it were, cement our chest
to our training partners back.
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That is done through the use of
control hand, which goes underneath
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one of my opponent's
arms and locks in like so calm.
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Now, a natural thing
you might want to think is
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why don't we try to control hands?
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Wouldn't that be better?
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Couldn't
we go underneath both of our training
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partners, his arms, and hold it?
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Wouldn't it make the connection of
chest the back even stronger?
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Yes, it would.
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It comes,
unfortunately, to severe price.
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You've got excellent
control of your opponent now,
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but you are
no threat to your opponent.
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He doesn't need to worry
about a transition
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into a stranglehold because
both of your arms are underneath his.
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I always need an arm over
my opponent's shoulder
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to create
a viable threat of strangulation.
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Could we not say,
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Well, if one arm is a threat
of strangulation, it's a good thing?
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What about two?
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Okay, one and I have two arms
working over my opponent's shoulders.
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Well,
that would be a disaster, because
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now there's no real sense of control.
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My phone can easily
turn inside my arms
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and get into position where I no
longer have my opponent's back.
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So the right way to work
here is always a compromise
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between control
and threat of strangulation.
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And that almost always means
under one arm and over the other.
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This gives the ideal compromise
where at any given moment
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I can work through
into a strangle position with one arm
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and yet with the other arm
keep my chest pinned to my opponent.
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So if he goes to move away
rapidly to the right,
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I can follow the position. Okay.
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If he moves away rapidly to the left
within the control of the position.
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So this is the ideal compromise
between the threat of strangulation,
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which may, as it were,
the submission threat and the
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the ability to control our opponents
movement as much as possible.
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We always want to work
in this fashion
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with one arm under
and one arm over at any given moment.
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There should be the threat
of strangulation at all times.
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My opponent has to respect that,
but at the same time,
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I'm locked
securely enough to the back
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through the use of my two elbows,
in particular, the control hand
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running underneath
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my opponent's arm, that I'm not going
to lose the position
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to any kind of strong defensive
activity on the part of my opponent.
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We're looking at
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the preliminaries to back control.
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You have to excuse me if some of
these seem so obvious or basic, but
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we can't make any kind of
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theoretical understanding
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of the back position overall
without first clearly stating these.
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The third one that I want to look at
now is the idea of a head trap.
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This general
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principle is so
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massively important to understanding
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the back position overall.
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I want to spend
quite a bit of time on it
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and you will see it,
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the implications of it
throughout this entire video.
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Instructional series.
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On the face of it, it's very,
very simple and probably
483
00:25:47,345 --> 00:25:50,582
at least on a subconscious level,
obeyed by almost all of you.
484
00:25:51,650 --> 00:25:54,786
But until you
explicitly understand it,
485
00:25:55,820 --> 00:25:59,324
you'll never understand what it is
you're fighting against
486
00:25:59,624 --> 00:26:01,960
when you're trying
to control people from the back
487
00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:03,895
and they're trying
to escape from you.
488
00:26:03,895 --> 00:26:05,630
Okay. What is a head trick?
489
00:26:05,630 --> 00:26:07,832
A head trap is just the basic idea
490
00:26:07,832 --> 00:26:10,001
that whenever
I get behind my opponent,
491
00:26:10,001 --> 00:26:14,005
I always want to create a situation
where if I'm interested in attacking
492
00:26:14,005 --> 00:26:17,008
with a rear naked strangle,
there are other forms of attack
493
00:26:17,008 --> 00:26:18,510
from impact
that don't rely on a hit trap.
494
00:26:18,510 --> 00:26:20,812
But if I'm working with a rear
naked strangle,
495
00:26:20,812 --> 00:26:24,082
I always want to create a situation
where my head
496
00:26:24,482 --> 00:26:27,819
and my strangle arm
are on opposite sides
497
00:26:27,986 --> 00:26:31,256
and they work in unison
to trap my opponent's head.
498
00:26:32,223 --> 00:26:34,059
Okay, so typically we'll have
499
00:26:34,059 --> 00:26:37,729
a control hand this like so,
and I'll have a strangle hand.
500
00:26:38,229 --> 00:26:39,364
My strangle hand.
501
00:26:39,364 --> 00:26:44,836
In this case, it's my right arm and
my head must be on opposite sides.
502
00:26:45,570 --> 00:26:50,442
The moment my head and my strangle
hand end up on the same side.
503
00:26:51,009 --> 00:26:54,412
You've got no viable threat
of a strangle on your opponent.
504
00:26:54,946 --> 00:26:55,814
Oh, God.
505
00:26:55,814 --> 00:26:58,350
Now it's so easy
for him to start turning inside me
506
00:26:58,416 --> 00:27:01,386
and facing me and destroying effect
of the strangle.
507
00:27:02,153 --> 00:27:05,457
It doesn't matter
whether it's my failure in my head
508
00:27:05,457 --> 00:27:09,094
went to the incorrect side
or his move where he, for example,
509
00:27:09,260 --> 00:27:12,964
grabbed two on one
and then transferred my arm across.
510
00:27:13,164 --> 00:27:15,033
Now the same thing has happened.
511
00:27:15,033 --> 00:27:15,700
Okay?
512
00:27:15,700 --> 00:27:17,102
He's put my arm
513
00:27:17,102 --> 00:27:21,006
in my head, on my strangle arm
in my head on this on the same side.
514
00:27:21,339 --> 00:27:24,576
That's something I as the attacking
player can never tolerate.
515
00:27:25,076 --> 00:27:25,744
I have to stop
516
00:27:25,744 --> 00:27:29,914
whatever I'm doing at this point
and redress this fundamental problem.
517
00:27:29,914 --> 00:27:33,284
Remember, the only way
I can control my opponent
518
00:27:33,284 --> 00:27:36,788
from the back into a renegade
strangle is when my head
519
00:27:36,788 --> 00:27:41,559
and my strangle arm on opposite sides
is the offensive man.
520
00:27:41,826 --> 00:27:45,363
Everything that I do from
this position is designed to preserve
521
00:27:45,630 --> 00:27:48,033
this relationship between my head.
522
00:27:48,366 --> 00:27:50,301
His head and my strangle arm.
523
00:27:51,469 --> 00:27:54,606
They must always, as we saw, be
lined up in such a way
524
00:27:54,606 --> 00:27:59,210
that his head is trapped between mine
and my strangle arm.
525
00:28:00,178 --> 00:28:04,315
Every escape that he goes to work
with is designed to do one thing
526
00:28:04,883 --> 00:28:08,620
to break that relationship.
527
00:28:08,620 --> 00:28:11,690
If I'm working behind someone
528
00:28:11,690 --> 00:28:15,026
and I have an effect of hatred,
if my opponent begins to move
529
00:28:15,894 --> 00:28:18,863
over to the side and go into some
kind of basically escape sequence,
530
00:28:19,097 --> 00:28:22,534
his whole idea, the whole purpose
of what he's trying to do
531
00:28:23,034 --> 00:28:26,738
is to create a situation
where his head moves
532
00:28:26,738 --> 00:28:28,606
in such a way
533
00:28:30,041 --> 00:28:32,177
that my strangle hand
534
00:28:32,177 --> 00:28:36,481
and my head end up on the same side
without a hit drag,
535
00:28:36,648 --> 00:28:40,118
I cannot perform a satisfactory
stranglehold from the back.
536
00:28:40,919 --> 00:28:41,853
It doesn't matter.
537
00:28:41,853 --> 00:28:44,122
He does it by shifting his body or
538
00:28:46,291 --> 00:28:49,227
by gripping
my wrist and moving my arm across.
539
00:28:49,260 --> 00:28:51,362
In both cases,
he's done the same thing.
540
00:28:51,696 --> 00:28:55,667
He's transferred my head
and my strangle hand
541
00:28:55,667 --> 00:28:57,569
onto one side of his head.
542
00:28:57,569 --> 00:29:01,005
The one thing I could never accept,
and the one thing I can never work
543
00:29:01,005 --> 00:29:03,241
against
when it's time to attack the back.
544
00:29:04,142 --> 00:29:07,011
So our whole thing,
when we work behind our opponent,
545
00:29:07,112 --> 00:29:11,082
leading towards a really good
strangle, is to keep situations
546
00:29:11,282 --> 00:29:15,720
where my strangle hand and my head
are on opposite sides of his head.
547
00:29:16,221 --> 00:29:20,058
His head trapped between my head
and my strangle hand
548
00:29:21,126 --> 00:29:23,094
is the offensive man.
549
00:29:23,094 --> 00:29:27,932
My whole goal is to preserve this
relationship as the defense of man.
550
00:29:28,266 --> 00:29:30,802
His whole goal
is to break that relationship
551
00:29:31,202 --> 00:29:33,338
either
by changing the alignment of his body
552
00:29:35,106 --> 00:29:36,941
or by moving
553
00:29:36,941 --> 00:29:40,145
my strangle arm.
554
00:29:42,647 --> 00:29:44,883
This fundamental insight.
555
00:29:44,883 --> 00:29:49,988
The idea of a head trip will run
throughout this straitjacket system.
556
00:29:50,555 --> 00:29:54,159
My ability to create a head trip
and to keep
557
00:29:54,159 --> 00:29:59,564
it is the absolute key to my ability
to succeed from the back.
558
00:29:59,564 --> 00:30:03,768
His ability to break that hit trip
and create a situation
559
00:30:03,768 --> 00:30:07,205
where my strangle arm and my head
on the same side of his head
560
00:30:07,539 --> 00:30:10,308
is the key to his ability to escape.
561
00:30:10,308 --> 00:30:13,411
Once you understand
that absolutely critical insight,
562
00:30:13,411 --> 00:30:15,113
you have a very clear idea of what
563
00:30:15,113 --> 00:30:18,850
the defense of man's responsibility
is and what the offensive means.
564
00:30:18,850 --> 00:30:22,720
Responsibility is a lot of what we do
will become a lot clearer
565
00:30:22,921 --> 00:30:26,591
and a lot easier to understand.
566
00:30:29,127 --> 00:30:31,329
I'm sure you're all aware
by this point
567
00:30:31,329 --> 00:30:34,232
that whenever it comes
time to build a system, a key
568
00:30:34,232 --> 00:30:37,535
element is the idea of identifying
the central problems
569
00:30:37,535 --> 00:30:40,205
of any given position
or scenario in the sport
570
00:30:40,839 --> 00:30:43,875
and building a set of solutions which
571
00:30:44,075 --> 00:30:50,315
when they get to a certain level
of complexity, will create a system.
572
00:30:50,315 --> 00:30:54,619
There are two central problems associ
573
00:30:55,653 --> 00:30:57,055
Overcoming those
574
00:30:57,055 --> 00:31:00,892
two central problems
is basically the story
575
00:31:01,125 --> 00:31:04,028
of the straightjacket system
that I teach.
576
00:31:05,163 --> 00:31:08,066
The first problem is well known
to almost everyone
577
00:31:08,066 --> 00:31:10,235
in the sport of dualism.
578
00:31:10,235 --> 00:31:12,604
This is the problem of alignment.
579
00:31:12,604 --> 00:31:15,874
Once I get behind someone in the rear
mounted position, usually
580
00:31:15,874 --> 00:31:19,878
what happens is our two spines
line up in a straight line,
581
00:31:21,246 --> 00:31:22,881
which shrinks.
582
00:31:25,650 --> 00:31:27,852
Once I get hooks in on an opponent,
583
00:31:28,086 --> 00:31:31,522
there's a degree
to which the hooks in my upper body
584
00:31:31,522 --> 00:31:37,795
groups are designed to keep me
roughly lined up with my opponent.
585
00:31:37,795 --> 00:31:41,733
Almost all of my opponents escapes
involve the idea
586
00:31:41,733 --> 00:31:43,801
of breaking this alignment.
587
00:31:45,036 --> 00:31:48,940
We know that the head trip
is the basis of my alignment
588
00:31:49,340 --> 00:31:51,976
when I can keep a strangle
hand on one side
589
00:31:52,377 --> 00:31:55,113
and a head on the other,
whichever way we fall.
590
00:31:55,113 --> 00:31:58,016
Now we're lined up
with our training partner.
591
00:31:58,549 --> 00:32:01,886
His whole thing is going to be
to get a hold of me, my dangerous
592
00:32:01,886 --> 00:32:04,856
strangle hand, and then from here,
break this alignment
593
00:32:05,556 --> 00:32:09,394
as we fall to one side
and he starts to move his body
594
00:32:11,462 --> 00:32:13,598
over like
so you can see what's happening.
595
00:32:13,698 --> 00:32:17,001
The alignment between us
is starting to break critically.
596
00:32:17,001 --> 00:32:19,003
It started
with the idea of the head trip
597
00:32:19,771 --> 00:32:22,173
as my opponent starts
working his way over my feet.
598
00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:24,842
From here, the alignment gets further
and further.
599
00:32:25,476 --> 00:32:28,513
Now my chest
is moving away from his back.
600
00:32:28,780 --> 00:32:31,449
That's always the fundamental measure
of alignment.
601
00:32:31,449 --> 00:32:34,152
Is my chest
connected to my opponent's back?
602
00:32:34,652 --> 00:32:37,322
As he continues to move further
and further away from me,
603
00:32:37,322 --> 00:32:40,291
the alignment,
the angle between us is increasing.
604
00:32:40,291 --> 00:32:42,093
The chances of me getting successful
605
00:32:42,093 --> 00:32:44,629
student stranglehold
diminish further and further.
606
00:32:45,964 --> 00:32:47,832
So our whole goal when we're behind
607
00:32:47,832 --> 00:32:51,903
someone is to stay aligned.
608
00:32:51,903 --> 00:32:54,238
This is the first problem
that we face
609
00:32:54,772 --> 00:32:56,307
and a big part of our early
610
00:32:56,307 --> 00:33:00,411
discussion will be finding solutions
to this general problem.
611
00:33:00,411 --> 00:33:03,548
The second problem that we face is
612
00:33:05,350 --> 00:33:06,985
one which probably
613
00:33:06,985 --> 00:33:10,021
forms the single most important
part of my back attack system.
614
00:33:11,089 --> 00:33:13,624
This is the deficit problem.
615
00:33:13,624 --> 00:33:16,294
What is the deficit problem?
616
00:33:16,294 --> 00:33:18,896
Where do you get behind someone?
617
00:33:19,364 --> 00:33:21,966
We're always told and indeed
I told you the same thing,
618
00:33:23,034 --> 00:33:27,271
that the amount is one of the
absolute best positions in the sport.
619
00:33:27,271 --> 00:33:29,540
That's my
IT and submission grappling.
620
00:33:29,540 --> 00:33:31,476
It is the best position,
the sport in mixed
621
00:33:31,476 --> 00:33:34,879
martial arts, it's almost debatable,
but in submission grappling.
622
00:33:34,879 --> 00:33:36,481
I believe
this is the ultimate position.
623
00:33:36,481 --> 00:33:37,548
This is the one
you should be spending
624
00:33:37,548 --> 00:33:39,684
most of your time
trying to work towards.
625
00:33:41,219 --> 00:33:44,889
And yet once we get there,
we find something rather puzzling.
626
00:33:44,889 --> 00:33:48,659
Once I get behind my opponent,
let's have a look at how many
627
00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:52,363
defensive and offensive instruments
the two athletes have.
628
00:33:53,231 --> 00:33:56,601
If I'm looking for a really good
strangle, which is our primary focus
629
00:33:56,601 --> 00:34:00,338
when we get behind our training
partners back, a simple question
630
00:34:00,338 --> 00:34:03,341
is how many offensive
instruments do I have?
631
00:34:03,841 --> 00:34:04,175
Well,
632
00:34:05,209 --> 00:34:05,643
given that
633
00:34:05,643 --> 00:34:07,011
most of the time
634
00:34:07,011 --> 00:34:10,815
I have one arm underneath
my opponent's arm as a control hand
635
00:34:11,149 --> 00:34:15,086
that leaves me only one arm
to try and strangle my opponent with.
636
00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:19,090
So most of the time I have one
637
00:34:19,190 --> 00:34:21,192
offensive instrument, a strangle arm.
638
00:34:22,093 --> 00:34:24,662
If I had a body triangle
locked around my opponent,
639
00:34:24,962 --> 00:34:26,397
then I could be a little more liberal
640
00:34:26,397 --> 00:34:29,067
with the control arm
and I could take it out.
641
00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:32,904
And from here
I could work with two arms in unison,
642
00:34:32,904 --> 00:34:36,240
threatening strangles
from both left and right side again.
643
00:34:36,541 --> 00:34:39,510
So most of the time I have one
offensive instrument,
644
00:34:40,678 --> 00:34:41,879
one strangle arm.
645
00:34:41,879 --> 00:34:43,848
And if I had, say, for example,
a body triangle
646
00:34:43,848 --> 00:34:46,117
which connected me
very securely through the lower body,
647
00:34:46,350 --> 00:34:52,056
I would at most have to strangle arms
to offensive instruments.
648
00:34:52,056 --> 00:34:55,359
Let's contrast that
with your opponent and his defenses.
649
00:34:56,094 --> 00:34:56,427
Well,
650
00:34:57,662 --> 00:34:57,962
if we
651
00:34:57,962 --> 00:35:02,400
locked in like
so, my opponent will have up to three
652
00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:05,136
defensive instruments
a left and a right hand
653
00:35:05,903 --> 00:35:07,338
and a jaw
654
00:35:08,406 --> 00:35:11,476
in a situation where I'm controlling
one of my opponent's
655
00:35:11,976 --> 00:35:15,847
hands, he will still have
a defensive hand and a jaw.
656
00:35:16,147 --> 00:35:18,950
This is my one offensive instrument.
657
00:35:18,950 --> 00:35:21,619
So no matter whether
no matter how we hold our opponent,
658
00:35:22,053 --> 00:35:23,988
you're always running at a deficit
659
00:35:23,988 --> 00:35:27,692
in terms of offensive versus
defensive instruments.
660
00:35:28,593 --> 00:35:32,597
If I have two free hands,
he's got two free hands and a jaw.
661
00:35:32,797 --> 00:35:33,564
So I've got two.
662
00:35:33,564 --> 00:35:36,234
He's got three defensive instruments,
I've got two offensive,
663
00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:38,035
three defensive.
664
00:35:38,035 --> 00:35:41,973
If I'm controlling one of his arms,
I've got one offensive instrument
665
00:35:41,973 --> 00:35:46,110
and he's got two hand and a jaw
defensive instruments to stop me.
666
00:35:47,411 --> 00:35:48,946
Now that's crazy.
667
00:35:48,946 --> 00:35:51,949
On the face of it, we get told
this is the ultimate
668
00:35:52,083 --> 00:35:55,353
attacking position
and that when you get there, you find
669
00:35:55,386 --> 00:35:59,490
no matter how you can figure
your arms, you're always outnumbered.
670
00:35:59,490 --> 00:36:02,393
Your opponent will always have more
defensive instruments
671
00:36:02,827 --> 00:36:06,030
than you have offensive instruments.
672
00:36:06,030 --> 00:36:07,698
That's that's horrible news.
673
00:36:07,698 --> 00:36:08,032
Yeah.
674
00:36:08,032 --> 00:36:10,168
This it's supposed to be the ultimate
attacking position in the sport.
675
00:36:10,535 --> 00:36:12,837
And yet, in the context
of a submission grappling match,
676
00:36:13,171 --> 00:36:16,207
your outnumbered no matter
how you configured your arms.
677
00:36:16,908 --> 00:36:19,877
That's the fundamental problem
of the deficit.
678
00:36:19,877 --> 00:36:21,979
And a big part of what we do
when we work
679
00:36:22,180 --> 00:36:25,183
the back system is learning
to overcome that problem.
680
00:36:26,017 --> 00:36:28,653
Now, interestingly,
the alignment problem
681
00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:33,057
and the deficit problem
run right next to each other.
682
00:36:33,991 --> 00:36:36,827
You're going to have to solve
both at the same time.
683
00:36:37,261 --> 00:36:38,429
This is not sequential.
684
00:36:38,429 --> 00:36:42,133
You don't do one and then the other
one can in live combat.
685
00:36:42,133 --> 00:36:44,202
Most of the time
he's trying to escape,
686
00:36:44,202 --> 00:36:48,139
as you are trying to both hold him
and strangle him at the same time.
687
00:36:48,139 --> 00:36:52,009
You can learn them sequentially,
but in live training
688
00:36:52,009 --> 00:36:55,112
in combat, you're going to have
to perform them side by side.
689
00:36:56,180 --> 00:36:57,615
We're going to start first
690
00:36:57,615 --> 00:37:00,751
looking at the alignment problem
and then we'll come back to
691
00:37:01,886 --> 00:37:06,357
the deficit problem.
692
00:37:06,357 --> 00:37:06,991
We're looking
693
00:37:06,991 --> 00:37:11,229
first at the alignment problem,
the first of two central problems.
694
00:37:11,229 --> 00:37:13,864
Whenever we're working on
someone's back towards the rear,
695
00:37:13,864 --> 00:37:18,336
naked, strangle, it's very,
very important
696
00:37:18,336 --> 00:37:19,103
if we're going to offer
697
00:37:19,103 --> 00:37:22,006
any kind of solutions
that we have a crystal clear
698
00:37:22,673 --> 00:37:26,110
understanding of what the problem is
that we're trying to solve.
699
00:37:26,410 --> 00:37:30,915
The good news is it's very,
very easy to render it crystal clear.
700
00:37:31,315 --> 00:37:34,785
Let's look at a situation
we're behind someone
701
00:37:34,852 --> 00:37:37,555
and we have hooks in
on our training partner
702
00:37:38,923 --> 00:37:43,261
and we have a control hand underneath
our training partners on a strangle
703
00:37:43,261 --> 00:37:46,998
hand over time, it doesn't matter
with our own hands a lot more often,
704
00:37:49,667 --> 00:37:51,202
whenever
we get to this kind of position,
705
00:37:51,202 --> 00:37:54,372
we know what our opponents gambit is,
is to break the alignment
706
00:37:55,006 --> 00:37:58,142
and ultimately
get my chest off their back.
707
00:37:58,276 --> 00:38:01,545
And critically,
and the most important thing is
708
00:38:01,545 --> 00:38:05,149
they must break
what we are calling the head trip.
709
00:38:05,383 --> 00:38:08,219
The situation
where my head and strangle arm
710
00:38:08,219 --> 00:38:11,389
are on opposite sides,
trapping their head in the middle
711
00:38:11,622 --> 00:38:14,158
so that they can be subject to a ring
they could strangle.
712
00:38:14,792 --> 00:38:17,962
Okay, remember, there's
no way for me to effectively attack
713
00:38:17,962 --> 00:38:20,965
the reneged strangle
without a head trip.
714
00:38:20,965 --> 00:38:24,402
So their whole game is to break
alignment, get my chest
715
00:38:24,402 --> 00:38:29,206
off their back, and critically create
a situation where I no longer have
716
00:38:29,206 --> 00:38:33,144
their head trapped
between my head and my strangle arm.
717
00:38:33,144 --> 00:38:33,611
Okay,
718
00:38:35,179 --> 00:38:36,480
The process
719
00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:40,318
of accomplishing
that is incredibly predictable.
720
00:38:41,786 --> 00:38:45,222
When my opponent falls,
he wants to fall to a given side.
721
00:38:45,790 --> 00:38:50,227
As a general rule, he wants to fall
to what we call the open side,
722
00:38:50,494 --> 00:38:53,331
where there is a hole between my
723
00:38:53,331 --> 00:38:55,433
and the rest of my body.
724
00:38:55,433 --> 00:38:58,803
Through this gap,
my opponent's head can start to move.
725
00:38:59,570 --> 00:39:01,472
If he falls
in the opposite direction,
726
00:39:01,472 --> 00:39:04,408
he just falls right into my arm
and the head trap has never broken.
727
00:39:05,276 --> 00:39:08,179
Okay,
so it's very much in his interest
728
00:39:08,179 --> 00:39:11,782
to start going in this direction
when he goes to pitch over
729
00:39:11,782 --> 00:39:16,721
to the side, we get an incredibly
predictable sequence of events.
730
00:39:17,221 --> 00:39:19,924
You'll notice I hit my two hooks in
731
00:39:19,924 --> 00:39:22,560
for him Is the defensive man.
732
00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:25,463
Everything begins
with one critical step.
733
00:39:26,430 --> 00:39:29,100
He must
beat what we call the bottom hook.
734
00:39:29,567 --> 00:39:32,203
If you look at my two feet,
you will currently see that
735
00:39:32,203 --> 00:39:35,005
my left foot is lower than my right
foot.
736
00:39:35,373 --> 00:39:37,441
That's
because we've fallen to one side.
737
00:39:38,042 --> 00:39:39,510
Initially
738
00:39:40,745 --> 00:39:43,981
we started with my two feet
symmetrically positioned
739
00:39:44,281 --> 00:39:45,883
at the same height.
740
00:39:45,883 --> 00:39:50,054
But when we fall to one side,
one of my feet, in this case, my left
741
00:39:50,054 --> 00:39:54,392
foot is converted into a bottom hook
and my right foot, a top hook.
742
00:39:55,025 --> 00:39:59,764
My opponent's opening gambit
is always to beat the bottom hook
743
00:40:00,998 --> 00:40:02,700
when they start to move out.
744
00:40:02,700 --> 00:40:06,470
Watch
how many he beats the bottom hook.
745
00:40:07,505 --> 00:40:10,141
The moment that occurs, he's going
746
00:40:10,141 --> 00:40:13,210
into the first step of his escape
sequence.
747
00:40:13,210 --> 00:40:14,245
Go back.
748
00:40:15,246 --> 00:40:18,182
So once again,
we have a top hook and a bottom hook,
749
00:40:18,749 --> 00:40:22,153
even a relatively small movement
on the part of our policy.
750
00:40:22,153 --> 00:40:25,222
How small we can make the movement
a relatively small movement
751
00:40:25,456 --> 00:40:27,258
will enable him
to beat that bottom hook.
752
00:40:27,258 --> 00:40:29,226
It doesn't take a lot.
753
00:40:29,226 --> 00:40:32,963
Now, what does that leave us? We need
754
00:40:34,131 --> 00:40:36,300
the real focus of my control.
755
00:40:36,300 --> 00:40:39,069
When I'm behind someone is my knees.
756
00:40:39,904 --> 00:40:42,740
As long as my opponent
is between my knees,
757
00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:45,543
I can always recover the back
with minimal effort.
758
00:40:46,177 --> 00:40:50,281
It doesn't take much for me from
this position just to push my knee
759
00:40:51,415 --> 00:40:55,653
and recover that hook.
760
00:40:55,653 --> 00:40:57,054
Please remember this.
761
00:40:57,054 --> 00:40:59,623
When you're the offensive man
controlling the bag,
762
00:40:59,957 --> 00:41:03,861
the measure of whether you're
controlling the lower body is always
763
00:41:04,195 --> 00:41:07,364
is your opponent inside
your knees or not.
764
00:41:08,065 --> 00:41:10,935
The knees are your focus of control.
765
00:41:10,935 --> 00:41:13,904
He has to beat the hook first,
766
00:41:13,904 --> 00:41:16,106
but ultimately
he has to beat the knee.
767
00:41:16,841 --> 00:41:20,211
That means his next movement
will always be to slide
768
00:41:20,244 --> 00:41:23,647
over and across my knee.
769
00:41:23,647 --> 00:41:25,783
Now, what's my point
gets to this position.
770
00:41:26,116 --> 00:41:28,719
Things are looking good for him
and very bad for me.
771
00:41:29,253 --> 00:41:31,422
I've lost more than the bottom
hope now.
772
00:41:31,422 --> 00:41:35,426
I've lost the bottom rope
and the bottom of the.
773
00:41:35,426 --> 00:41:37,561
I still have some things in my favor.
774
00:41:37,561 --> 00:41:40,464
I've still got a hit trip
here, my strangle arm
775
00:41:40,931 --> 00:41:43,400
and my head is still on opposite
sides of his head.
776
00:41:44,134 --> 00:41:46,604
My opponent needs to address this.
777
00:41:46,604 --> 00:41:49,507
So the next move for him,
having just beaten my foot
778
00:41:49,673 --> 00:41:52,142
and then my knee is to beat my head.
779
00:41:52,610 --> 00:41:55,846
So what he wants to
do is bring his head forward.
780
00:41:56,947 --> 00:41:59,583
Once the
head goes forward, he can move it
781
00:41:59,583 --> 00:42:01,752
across to the other side.
782
00:42:02,753 --> 00:42:05,956
He's now accomplished
the third critical step.
783
00:42:06,757 --> 00:42:09,393
He beat my foot,
then he beat my knee.
784
00:42:09,727 --> 00:42:12,129
Now he's beaten my head.
785
00:42:12,129 --> 00:42:14,365
Now, the last thing for him to do
786
00:42:14,365 --> 00:42:16,901
is to beat me with the inside
shoulder.
787
00:42:17,501 --> 00:42:20,704
My opponent brings
his elbow up, brings it between us,
788
00:42:21,005 --> 00:42:24,341
and drops
his inside shoulder to the floor.
789
00:42:24,341 --> 00:42:26,844
The moment
the inside shoulder touches the man,
790
00:42:26,977 --> 00:42:28,846
there's simply
nothing left on my part.
791
00:42:28,846 --> 00:42:30,848
Offensively, from the rear position.
792
00:42:30,848 --> 00:42:32,816
There's a sense now in which
793
00:42:32,816 --> 00:42:35,886
I have only the appearance
of my opponent's back at this point.
794
00:42:36,387 --> 00:42:39,390
Okay, there's no stranglehold
I can apply from here.
795
00:42:39,390 --> 00:42:41,191
The angle's all wrong.
796
00:42:41,191 --> 00:42:43,394
It's very,
very difficult for me to recover
797
00:42:43,394 --> 00:42:45,563
position here
because the shoulders touch the mat.
798
00:42:46,163 --> 00:42:47,698
And at this point, for all intents
799
00:42:47,698 --> 00:42:49,900
and purposes,
your opponent is effectively escaped.
800
00:42:50,701 --> 00:42:51,835
From this point on.
801
00:42:51,835 --> 00:42:54,405
It's very much in my interest
to switch to another position.
802
00:42:55,839 --> 00:42:58,509
So what
we have here is a crystal clear
803
00:42:58,509 --> 00:43:01,779
description of the process of escape
from the back.
804
00:43:02,580 --> 00:43:05,516
The interesting thing to note
is it's entirely predictable
805
00:43:05,683 --> 00:43:07,918
and entirely sequential.
806
00:43:07,918 --> 00:43:10,387
It has to go in a certain pace,
807
00:43:10,387 --> 00:43:13,857
in a certain direction
and a certain step by step procedure.
808
00:43:14,692 --> 00:43:17,528
The more you know
and understand about the procedure,
809
00:43:17,828 --> 00:43:19,663
the easier it's going to be for you.
810
00:43:19,663 --> 00:43:23,601
Is the offensive player
to shut it down and stay aligned.
811
00:43:24,101 --> 00:43:26,136
Let's go through that procedure
one more time
812
00:43:26,136 --> 00:43:29,373
so you clearly understand
what you're trying to fight against.
813
00:43:29,773 --> 00:43:33,544
That's going to make the idea of
staying aligned on resisting opponent
814
00:43:33,777 --> 00:43:39,283
so much easier for you to understand
in the next few sections.
815
00:43:39,283 --> 00:43:42,753
So we know that
from a starting position
816
00:43:42,987 --> 00:43:46,991
with an underhand,
an overhand and two hooks in
817
00:43:47,391 --> 00:43:49,693
we're in a pretty solid
attacking here.
818
00:43:49,693 --> 00:43:52,763
Okay.
819
00:43:52,763 --> 00:43:56,900
My opponent's defensive movement
almost always involves a pitch
820
00:43:57,301 --> 00:44:02,072
to one side that creates a top hook
and a bottom hook.
821
00:44:02,072 --> 00:44:06,543
The moment we get here, we are now
in a situation where his first gambit
822
00:44:06,644 --> 00:44:11,482
is always pass over the bottom hook.
823
00:44:11,482 --> 00:44:15,953
That's always step number one,
so that if my opponent
824
00:44:15,953 --> 00:44:19,056
never goes over the bottom
hook, you'll never get over my knee.
825
00:44:19,890 --> 00:44:22,793
If he can't get over
my knee, he'll never beat my hip.
826
00:44:23,627 --> 00:44:24,461
Okay?
827
00:44:24,461 --> 00:44:27,965
It's always in these situations
critical that he starts
828
00:44:28,966 --> 00:44:30,701
with the bottom hook.
829
00:44:30,701 --> 00:44:33,103
Then the next movement,
this raise your arm
830
00:44:34,538 --> 00:44:36,807
is to beat this knee
831
00:44:36,807 --> 00:44:39,443
as he scoots over the knee.
832
00:44:39,443 --> 00:44:43,947
I've just lost even more control
of my shoulder now.
833
00:44:44,081 --> 00:44:46,350
I still have an effective Hedrick.
834
00:44:46,350 --> 00:44:49,920
I still have a strangle hand on
one side and the head on the other.
835
00:44:49,920 --> 00:44:52,956
So there is, believe it or not, still
some threat of strangle from here.
836
00:44:53,490 --> 00:44:56,560
Okay, I could transition from two
to other attacking positions here.
837
00:44:56,560 --> 00:44:58,295
Still have a stranglehold.
838
00:44:58,295 --> 00:45:01,799
So that's why for him, the next third
step is to beat the head.
839
00:45:02,332 --> 00:45:04,935
So he goes forward with the head.
840
00:45:04,935 --> 00:45:05,202
Okay.
841
00:45:05,202 --> 00:45:07,071
If he doesn't go forward
with the head,
842
00:45:07,071 --> 00:45:08,672
then I can glue my ear to his.
843
00:45:08,672 --> 00:45:10,474
And when he tries
to get his hip to the floor,
844
00:45:10,474 --> 00:45:12,076
my head will be in the way.
845
00:45:12,076 --> 00:45:14,078
So he has to go forward and around.
846
00:45:15,446 --> 00:45:18,782
And now he's beaten
my head at this point critically.
847
00:45:18,782 --> 00:45:21,218
He's beaten what we call the head
trip.
848
00:45:21,618 --> 00:45:25,522
He's got my head and my strand alarm
on the same side as his head.
849
00:45:25,789 --> 00:45:28,058
That's good for him. It's
terrible for me.
850
00:45:28,058 --> 00:45:29,493
It means that from now on, there's
851
00:45:29,493 --> 00:45:32,463
no more viable
threat of a stranglehold.
852
00:45:32,463 --> 00:45:35,432
Okay, The last remaining
piece of the puzzle
853
00:45:35,432 --> 00:45:39,169
is to beat me with the inside
shoulder and get back to the floor.
854
00:45:39,369 --> 00:45:41,472
And now he's truly won the position.
855
00:45:41,705 --> 00:45:43,741
I pretty much have to pay the champ.
856
00:45:43,741 --> 00:45:45,876
Now we go to something else entirely.
857
00:45:45,876 --> 00:45:48,645
Yeah,
So that's the entirely predictable
858
00:45:49,046 --> 00:45:51,849
sequential pattern
of your opponent's escape.
859
00:45:52,249 --> 00:45:55,352
That's how we're going to break
alignment in the overwhelming
860
00:45:55,352 --> 00:45:58,355
majority of cases
when you work against them.
861
00:45:58,355 --> 00:46:01,625
Once you have a clear picture
of what they're trying to accomplish,
862
00:46:01,992 --> 00:46:09,900
your ability to shut
that down will go up dramatically.
863
00:46:09,900 --> 00:46:12,970
We're looking at this idea
of overcoming the alignment problem.
864
00:46:13,070 --> 00:46:15,539
The alignment problem
is absolutely fundamental
865
00:46:15,539 --> 00:46:18,776
to your ability
to succeed from back position.
866
00:46:18,776 --> 00:46:20,677
If you can't stay aligned
with your opponent,
867
00:46:20,677 --> 00:46:22,412
you're not going to be stranding
anybody.
868
00:46:22,412 --> 00:46:24,982
Okay,
So our first concern, stay aligned.
869
00:46:24,982 --> 00:46:27,751
Keep your chest
on your retreating partners back.
870
00:46:27,951 --> 00:46:30,254
And more than anything
else, preserve this
871
00:46:30,521 --> 00:46:33,056
this critical element
that we call the head trap,
872
00:46:33,390 --> 00:46:37,227
where our opponents head is trapped
between our head and strangle hand.
873
00:46:37,227 --> 00:46:40,531
As long as his head is positioned
between my head and my strangle hand,
874
00:46:40,831 --> 00:46:41,999
I can win a guy.
875
00:46:41,999 --> 00:46:44,067
I can go through and finish
with a really good strangle.
876
00:46:44,401 --> 00:46:46,570
As long as my chest
is glued to my opponent's back,
877
00:46:47,337 --> 00:46:49,339
I'm going to be able
to maintain that hatred.
878
00:46:49,339 --> 00:46:53,544
But the moment they begin
that process of misalignment,
879
00:46:53,844 --> 00:46:57,981
I have to stop whatever I'm doing
and address that fundamental problem.
880
00:46:58,482 --> 00:47:02,085
We just saw in the previous section
that the process
881
00:47:02,252 --> 00:47:05,522
of breaking alignment
on the part of the defensive athlete
882
00:47:05,856 --> 00:47:07,257
is entirely predictable.
883
00:47:07,257 --> 00:47:08,926
You know exactly what he has to do.
884
00:47:08,926 --> 00:47:13,397
He has to beat that bottom hook.
885
00:47:13,397 --> 00:47:14,131
Knowing this,
886
00:47:15,766 --> 00:47:17,267
we can start to bring about
887
00:47:17,267 --> 00:47:22,039
or show some simple tactics
to protect that bottom hook and start
888
00:47:22,506 --> 00:47:26,577
and stop the process of misalignment
from even beginning.
889
00:47:26,910 --> 00:47:31,915
Remember, this is a sequential move
that my opponent goes through.
890
00:47:31,915 --> 00:47:34,651
If I stop the first step
in the sequence,
891
00:47:34,885 --> 00:47:37,054
none of the other elements
are going to work.
892
00:47:37,054 --> 00:47:40,257
So protecting that bottom hook
is a critical, critical thing.
893
00:47:40,858 --> 00:47:44,027
We've seen that when we fall
with conventional
894
00:47:44,761 --> 00:47:48,332
symmetrical hooks, it's very,
very easy for my opponent
895
00:47:48,332 --> 00:47:50,767
to beat the bottom hook,
even a minimal movement
896
00:47:50,968 --> 00:47:52,502
that enables him
to beat the bottom hook.
897
00:47:52,502 --> 00:47:55,272
It doesn't require much on his part.
898
00:47:55,272 --> 00:47:56,707
So we've got to be better than this.
899
00:47:56,707 --> 00:48:00,177
We can't just have all hooks
in this conventional phase
900
00:48:00,477 --> 00:48:02,312
locked in like so.
901
00:48:02,312 --> 00:48:05,148
One of my favorite things to do in
this position is to switch
902
00:48:05,282 --> 00:48:08,552
to a position
which I call the post rear mount,
903
00:48:09,219 --> 00:48:13,957
where I take my foot and I post it
for my training partners, hit it.
904
00:48:13,991 --> 00:48:17,261
I don't just put my foot here
basically without any effect.
905
00:48:17,561 --> 00:48:18,996
I use weight.
906
00:48:18,996 --> 00:48:22,599
I push like a bridging motion off
my opponent's hip
907
00:48:22,900 --> 00:48:26,837
that puts large amounts of weight
through my opponent's
908
00:48:26,837 --> 00:48:30,774
hip and makes movement
quite difficult.
909
00:48:30,774 --> 00:48:34,711
Then I take my other foot
and I bring it up to the posted foot
910
00:48:35,312 --> 00:48:38,415
so that president will tell you
he feels weight through his hips
911
00:48:38,882 --> 00:48:40,584
when he goes to move
the hips as well.
912
00:48:40,584 --> 00:48:42,452
It's very, very difficult.
913
00:48:42,452 --> 00:48:44,755
The function of this is twofold.
914
00:48:44,922 --> 00:48:48,458
First, it puts weight
in my opponent's hips, and secondly,
915
00:48:48,458 --> 00:48:53,563
it greatly increases the elevation
of the bottom hook here.
916
00:48:53,730 --> 00:48:57,134
The bottom hook is so low
that even a small movement beats
917
00:48:58,101 --> 00:49:00,537
the moment
I switch to a post rear mount.
918
00:49:00,771 --> 00:49:03,106
Now my opponent has to move
so much more
919
00:49:03,373 --> 00:49:05,175
in order to beat the bottom hook.
920
00:49:05,175 --> 00:49:06,510
But there's a problem.
921
00:49:06,510 --> 00:49:08,278
I'm bridging off the hip.
922
00:49:08,278 --> 00:49:09,613
So when he goes to move
923
00:49:09,613 --> 00:49:13,250
the extra distance to beat the bottom
hook, it's incredibly difficult.
924
00:49:13,583 --> 00:49:15,552
He's locked in place.
925
00:49:15,552 --> 00:49:19,856
Moreover, this position facilitates
very well
926
00:49:19,890 --> 00:49:23,060
a transition to the ultimate method
of predicting the bottom hook,
927
00:49:23,360 --> 00:49:25,362
which is the figure for body law,
928
00:49:25,362 --> 00:49:27,898
where I physically grab
a hold of my own leg.
929
00:49:28,198 --> 00:49:30,467
And from here I want body lock.
930
00:49:31,001 --> 00:49:33,503
Now we have a closed set of wedges
931
00:49:33,503 --> 00:49:35,639
around their training partners
abdomen.
932
00:49:35,639 --> 00:49:37,574
When he goes to beat the bottom hook,
933
00:49:37,574 --> 00:49:40,544
the bottom hook is reinforced
by the other leg.
934
00:49:41,044 --> 00:49:44,181
It's extremely difficult
now for him to untie my legs
935
00:49:44,181 --> 00:49:47,417
in this position
and get over that bottom hook.
936
00:49:48,185 --> 00:49:51,989
I have a choice between locking
my body triangle outside my training
937
00:49:51,989 --> 00:49:55,325
partners legs, which for me
personally is the preferred choice.
938
00:49:55,659 --> 00:49:59,363
Or I can walk inside
my training partners legs
939
00:49:59,663 --> 00:50:01,531
kind of a compromise where
940
00:50:01,531 --> 00:50:05,168
I have a hook in with my right leg
plus a body triangle.
941
00:50:05,402 --> 00:50:07,237
Also very, very effective.
942
00:50:07,237 --> 00:50:10,440
Again, it strongly reinforces
that the bottom hook
943
00:50:10,707 --> 00:50:14,878
when my opponent goes to turn
and pivot out,
944
00:50:14,878 --> 00:50:17,881
it's extremely difficult for him
now to beat that bottom hook.
945
00:50:18,582 --> 00:50:21,184
Another option
that I have to protect, the bottom
946
00:50:21,184 --> 00:50:24,588
hook is to go underneath
my training partners leg.
947
00:50:24,588 --> 00:50:28,492
And from here, across my feet,
underneath my training partners
948
00:50:28,492 --> 00:50:29,793
hamstring muscle like.
949
00:50:29,793 --> 00:50:33,096
So when my opponent goes
to turn out of the bottom hook
950
00:50:33,497 --> 00:50:35,899
my two feet
are locked together again.
951
00:50:36,099 --> 00:50:38,335
It may not be quite
as strong as a body triangle,
952
00:50:38,535 --> 00:50:40,704
but it's plenty strong enough
in most cases.
953
00:50:40,971 --> 00:50:43,073
We hit a close set of wedges.
954
00:50:43,073 --> 00:50:44,875
My feet are locked.
955
00:50:44,875 --> 00:50:46,743
Make sure in these situations
956
00:50:46,743 --> 00:50:50,280
that you go over
your training, partnership and walk.
957
00:50:50,847 --> 00:50:53,116
Don't just go behind your opponent's
back and lock.
958
00:50:53,250 --> 00:50:55,652
You won't have an adequate control
of the hips.
959
00:50:55,652 --> 00:50:59,156
From here we lock feet
point in opposite directions.
960
00:50:59,423 --> 00:51:02,059
Now, when my opponent goes
to scoot his body out
961
00:51:02,059 --> 00:51:05,796
and this along, for instance,
hips are completely controlled by
962
00:51:05,796 --> 00:51:06,696
my crossed feet.
963
00:51:07,998 --> 00:51:09,499
So once again,
964
00:51:09,499 --> 00:51:11,968
we've seen that
if we have conventional hooks
965
00:51:11,968 --> 00:51:14,805
on our training partner, it's
extremely easy
966
00:51:15,639 --> 00:51:17,941
in my point
to blow up the bottom hook because
967
00:51:18,241 --> 00:51:22,145
first there's no weight
on my opponent's hips and second,
968
00:51:22,512 --> 00:51:25,215
the distance that he has to travel
is so small
969
00:51:25,415 --> 00:51:28,051
because the elevation of the bottom
hook is so low.
970
00:51:29,519 --> 00:51:32,956
So we need to do something
to reinforce that bottom hook.
971
00:51:33,657 --> 00:51:36,426
What I generally use
as a rule of thumb is this
972
00:51:36,960 --> 00:51:40,730
When my training partner is
big through the waist and my own legs
973
00:51:40,730 --> 00:51:44,000
are relatively short, I typically go
with the posterior amount
974
00:51:44,634 --> 00:51:46,670
that puts weight on the hips
975
00:51:46,670 --> 00:51:49,973
and greatly increases
the elevation of the bottom hook.
976
00:51:50,440 --> 00:51:54,411
So when he goes to slide
over the bottom hook, it's very,
977
00:51:54,411 --> 00:51:55,912
very difficult.
978
00:51:56,046 --> 00:51:58,148
If my opponent is slim
through the waist
979
00:51:58,548 --> 00:52:02,018
or if you have the gift of long legs,
then from here
980
00:52:02,252 --> 00:52:03,820
I will go with a body triangle.
981
00:52:04,821 --> 00:52:07,257
My preference is on the outside.
982
00:52:08,024 --> 00:52:10,760
But you also have the choice
of a body triangle
983
00:52:10,861 --> 00:52:15,031
with the leg on the inside.
984
00:52:15,031 --> 00:52:16,533
If my opponent
985
00:52:17,067 --> 00:52:20,003
is weak through the waist and
that doesn't feel like it's possible,
986
00:52:20,403 --> 00:52:22,772
then from here I will lock
987
00:52:23,073 --> 00:52:26,343
with my feet underneath
my training partner's leg
988
00:52:26,710 --> 00:52:31,348
and across the ankle remount like So
this is perfectly safe.
989
00:52:31,515 --> 00:52:32,516
There's no kind of
990
00:52:32,516 --> 00:52:35,452
foot locked danger from here
because I have only one who can
991
00:52:36,153 --> 00:52:37,587
in a position like this.
992
00:52:37,587 --> 00:52:39,589
This does an excellent
993
00:52:39,589 --> 00:52:42,425
job of preventing my opponent
from turning the hips
994
00:52:42,959 --> 00:52:46,496
and going into an escape
because my legs are locked together.
995
00:52:46,730 --> 00:52:49,933
It's a closed wedge,
difficult for my opponent to dislodge
996
00:52:50,867 --> 00:52:53,303
in an emergency
where I have an opponent
997
00:52:53,370 --> 00:52:56,139
who has a big waist and I feel
I cannot lock a body trying
998
00:52:56,139 --> 00:52:58,108
when I feel excited to move out.
999
00:52:58,108 --> 00:53:02,245
I personally am not averse
to the idea of locking my feet.
1000
00:53:03,613 --> 00:53:05,115
I know what you're thinking.
1001
00:53:05,115 --> 00:53:08,084
We always get told from
the first days and you think this is
1002
00:53:08,251 --> 00:53:09,753
some kind of abominable sin
1003
00:53:09,753 --> 00:53:11,221
and we should never cross our feet
in the rear.
1004
00:53:11,221 --> 00:53:11,888
Mount,
1005
00:53:12,422 --> 00:53:15,559
please bear in mind that it's only
dangerous for me to cross my feet
1006
00:53:15,692 --> 00:53:19,095
when my feet are positioned
poorly inside my opponent's hips
1007
00:53:20,530 --> 00:53:23,200
with my feet across,
outside my opponent's hips.
1008
00:53:23,200 --> 00:53:25,902
The danger here is minimal.
1009
00:53:26,102 --> 00:53:31,775
However, I will say, even in cases
1010
00:53:31,775 --> 00:53:35,378
where I've poorly positioned
my feet between my opponent's legs,
1011
00:53:36,346 --> 00:53:39,449
you should never really attempt
to a situation
1012
00:53:39,449 --> 00:53:43,520
where your opponent puts
on a simple foot lock over your legs
1013
00:53:43,520 --> 00:53:47,023
from the rear mount is a very,
very simple solution to that problem.
1014
00:53:47,290 --> 00:53:50,227
I'll go over it now
just since many people will tell you
1015
00:53:50,760 --> 00:53:54,564
if you lock a body triangle
or cross your feet from rear mount,
1016
00:53:55,432 --> 00:53:58,134
you're going to be finished
by a simple foot lock
1017
00:53:59,569 --> 00:54:00,837
in top level competition.
1018
00:54:00,837 --> 00:54:04,674
I've literally never seen anyone
apply a body triangle
1019
00:54:04,975 --> 00:54:08,645
and then get submitted
by any kind of foot lock counter.
1020
00:54:08,645 --> 00:54:11,348
Let's have a look at this
very simple thing now.
1021
00:54:11,881 --> 00:54:12,148
Okay.
1022
00:54:12,148 --> 00:54:15,151
One of the great cliches of jujitsu
is if I put my feet inside
1023
00:54:15,151 --> 00:54:16,186
my training partner's legs
1024
00:54:16,186 --> 00:54:20,023
and then I cross my feet, my opponent
can like a triangle over my legs.
1025
00:54:20,023 --> 00:54:22,025
And then when we fall to the side,
1026
00:54:22,025 --> 00:54:23,526
he can arches 40 back
1027
00:54:23,526 --> 00:54:25,929
and from here, put pressure
on my feet and submit me.
1028
00:54:26,029 --> 00:54:28,698
Okay,
If I'm naive, that's entirely true.
1029
00:54:28,932 --> 00:54:30,600
If I were teaching a beginners
course,
1030
00:54:30,600 --> 00:54:32,002
I would do what everyone else does.
1031
00:54:32,002 --> 00:54:34,537
I would teach people not
to cross their feet in this position.
1032
00:54:34,671 --> 00:54:35,505
Okay.
1033
00:54:35,505 --> 00:54:39,576
But bear in mind, at top level
competition may have motivations
1034
00:54:40,810 --> 00:54:43,380
going far beyond the beginners class
to cross your feet
1035
00:54:43,380 --> 00:54:46,516
or like a body triangle,
and your opponent may well try
1036
00:54:46,516 --> 00:54:48,618
some kind of foot lock counter
and these situations
1037
00:54:49,653 --> 00:54:52,789
bear in mind one simple fact
all of these football
1038
00:54:52,822 --> 00:54:56,026
counters involve
an arch on the part of your opponent.
1039
00:54:56,259 --> 00:54:59,863
His head must move
backwards, his pelvis forwards,
1040
00:54:59,863 --> 00:55:02,599
and when he arches, the pressure
rises.
1041
00:55:03,233 --> 00:55:04,100
Okay.
1042
00:55:04,100 --> 00:55:07,137
Knowing this, whenever I'm behind
someone and they go for any kind of
1043
00:55:07,137 --> 00:55:10,407
foot lock counter, all I do is
take my two hands out like so.
1044
00:55:10,607 --> 00:55:13,143
And I post my hands on my training
partner's head.
1045
00:55:13,710 --> 00:55:17,947
When he goes to arch back into
the move, I simply stiff arm and post
1046
00:55:18,281 --> 00:55:21,518
go and there's this
no pressure whatsoever.
1047
00:55:21,751 --> 00:55:24,354
It doesn't matter whether I have
a body triangle or cross feet.
1048
00:55:24,821 --> 00:55:25,622
Okay.
1049
00:55:25,622 --> 00:55:28,892
When he goes to move his head
set or sit around my, my,
1050
00:55:30,827 --> 00:55:32,062
around my hands
1051
00:55:32,062 --> 00:55:35,131
and go down to the floor, etc.,
I just follow the head with my hands.
1052
00:55:35,498 --> 00:55:35,865
Okay.
1053
00:55:35,865 --> 00:55:38,001
When he goes to arch
and break my feet,
1054
00:55:38,001 --> 00:55:39,869
he simply can't exert any pressure.
1055
00:55:39,869 --> 00:55:41,905
And while he arches,
there's no reason
1056
00:55:41,905 --> 00:55:45,275
now why I can't just turn my feet
and extract them and move out.
1057
00:55:45,542 --> 00:55:47,544
It's the simplest thing to counter.
Okay.
1058
00:55:48,244 --> 00:55:49,679
Don't be intimidated
1059
00:55:49,679 --> 00:55:52,382
by the idea of someone
attacking your feet in this position.
1060
00:55:52,615 --> 00:55:53,083
Same thing.
1061
00:55:53,083 --> 00:55:56,886
If I have a body triangle, you'll see
people try to walk over the legs
1062
00:55:57,220 --> 00:55:58,188
like so
1063
00:55:58,188 --> 00:56:02,392
drive me to one side or the other
and go to finish in these positions.
1064
00:56:02,659 --> 00:56:03,793
Whenever you see this going
1065
00:56:03,793 --> 00:56:06,196
on, they have to arch into you
when you see them tried to.
1066
00:56:06,196 --> 00:56:07,130
I just posting it
1067
00:56:08,231 --> 00:56:10,433
and they simply
can't build any pressure whatsoever.
1068
00:56:10,700 --> 00:56:14,070
And we just point switch here
or cross my feet.
1069
00:56:14,070 --> 00:56:16,172
My opponent goes into a braking
position,
1070
00:56:16,172 --> 00:56:17,941
goes to exert full pressure.
1071
00:56:17,941 --> 00:56:20,510
We put a hand in behind go
1072
00:56:20,510 --> 00:56:22,445
and it's so easy to stiff
arm them off,
1073
00:56:22,445 --> 00:56:26,116
extract the foot and go back
into your finishing position.
1074
00:56:26,116 --> 00:56:32,255
So don't be intimidated by the threat
of foot lock counters to the back.
1075
00:56:32,655 --> 00:56:33,490
Yes, I agree.
1076
00:56:33,490 --> 00:56:34,557
And a beginner's class.
1077
00:56:34,557 --> 00:56:36,559
Beginners
shouldn't be crossing their feet,
1078
00:56:36,559 --> 00:56:39,963
but at advanced levels
there's times that warranted.
1079
00:56:40,296 --> 00:56:43,199
And in a few cases
where someone even attempts
1080
00:56:43,967 --> 00:56:45,935
for low count
as they're so easy to counter
1081
00:56:45,935 --> 00:56:48,071
and stop,
don't be intimidated by them.
1082
00:56:48,071 --> 00:56:52,275
Continue doing what you're doing.
1083
00:56:52,275 --> 00:56:56,379
We're looking at the first of the
central problems of the back system.
1084
00:56:56,813 --> 00:56:58,815
This is the so-called alignment
problem.
1085
00:56:59,149 --> 00:57:00,150
We've seen that whenever
1086
00:57:00,150 --> 00:57:03,920
we're behind our opponent, we have to
stay roughly aligned with them.
1087
00:57:04,254 --> 00:57:07,557
We have to keep our chest
locked to our training partners back.
1088
00:57:07,891 --> 00:57:10,293
And critically,
we have to create a situation
1089
00:57:10,293 --> 00:57:13,596
where we maintain a head track,
where my opponent's head
1090
00:57:13,830 --> 00:57:16,666
is positioned between mine
and my strangle arm.
1091
00:57:17,200 --> 00:57:20,103
As long as I have a head trip,
I have a viable method
1092
00:57:20,103 --> 00:57:22,138
of going through
to get a really good strangle.
1093
00:57:22,772 --> 00:57:26,142
If I cannot maintain
that I have no method of
1094
00:57:27,143 --> 00:57:29,078
attacking
successfully with a strangle.
1095
00:57:29,078 --> 00:57:30,847
Your opponent knows that.
1096
00:57:30,847 --> 00:57:34,250
And so everything they will be doing
will be to create misalignment
1097
00:57:34,451 --> 00:57:37,554
and ultimately to break the head trap
and free their head.
1098
00:57:38,087 --> 00:57:40,790
If they can do that,
they're almost certain to escape.
1099
00:57:41,991 --> 00:57:44,894
We've seen that the process
1100
00:57:44,894 --> 00:57:49,666
of braking alignment is exactly that,
a process that has a first step.
1101
00:57:49,666 --> 00:57:53,036
And that first step is for your
opponent to beat your bottom hook.
1102
00:57:53,736 --> 00:57:56,506
Once they beat the bottom hook,
they have to beat the bottom knee,
1103
00:57:57,106 --> 00:57:58,641
then they have to beat your head.
1104
00:57:58,641 --> 00:58:00,710
And ultimately beat you
with their inside
1105
00:58:00,710 --> 00:58:03,179
shoulder to get both shoulders
down to the floor.
1106
00:58:03,713 --> 00:58:05,081
If they can successfully do
1107
00:58:05,081 --> 00:58:07,951
those things in a sequence,
they can escape from your back.
1108
00:58:09,152 --> 00:58:11,721
We've seen that as the offensive man.
1109
00:58:11,888 --> 00:58:15,859
Our whole goal is to prevent them
beating that first hook,
1110
00:58:16,459 --> 00:58:18,728
the first method of defending
1111
00:58:18,728 --> 00:58:22,165
the bottom hook that we looked
at was basically through
1112
00:58:22,165 --> 00:58:26,636
reconfiguring our legs, using body
triangles, crow's feet, etc., etc.
1113
00:58:26,669 --> 00:58:29,806
to reinforce the position
of the bottom hook.
1114
00:58:30,406 --> 00:58:33,142
That's not the only base, that's
not the only method of doing it.
1115
00:58:33,710 --> 00:58:36,412
So there's going to be times
that despite your best effort,
1116
00:58:36,613 --> 00:58:38,948
your opponent does
beat the bottom hook
1117
00:58:38,948 --> 00:58:42,385
and then it's going to come down
to mobility on your part.
1118
00:58:42,385 --> 00:58:46,189
You must be able to move around
your opponent's body and recover
1119
00:58:46,923 --> 00:58:50,360
a lost hook or a lost.
1120
00:58:50,360 --> 00:58:52,896
This is the next skill that we're
going to look at right now.
1121
00:58:54,430 --> 00:58:57,233
Let's look at a situation where
I'm behind my training partner.
1122
00:58:57,667 --> 00:59:00,203
We know that once
we get behind our training partner
1123
00:59:00,403 --> 00:59:04,173
and we have hooks in step
just like so
1124
00:59:05,475 --> 00:59:08,244
it's very much in his interest
to pitch over to his side
1125
00:59:08,244 --> 00:59:10,313
and create
what we call a bottom hook.
1126
00:59:11,614 --> 00:59:13,449
Once we get to a position like this,
1127
00:59:13,449 --> 00:59:16,486
the whole first gambit is going to be
to beat the bottom hook
1128
00:59:16,920 --> 00:59:21,291
and then ultimately beat
the bottom knee, then beat the hip
1129
00:59:21,858 --> 00:59:25,295
and ultimately get their inside
shoulder down to the mat.
1130
00:59:25,728 --> 00:59:27,864
That's the sequence of the escape
1131
00:59:29,365 --> 00:59:32,835
it's our desire to stop the sequence
as early as possible,
1132
00:59:33,002 --> 00:59:35,672
and that means stopping it
at the bottom hook.
1133
00:59:36,239 --> 00:59:38,074
We looked at them.
1134
00:59:38,074 --> 00:59:41,244
We looked at the idea of preventing
them ever beating our bottom, two
1135
00:59:41,244 --> 00:59:44,581
reinforcement, body
triangles, crossed feet, etc., etc.
1136
00:59:45,281 --> 00:59:47,116
Now we're going to have a situation
where they did
1137
00:59:47,116 --> 00:59:49,452
beat the bottom hook
and we had to learn to recover.
1138
00:59:50,219 --> 00:59:53,957
So for a situation where I'm behind,
plus he does and he falls
1139
00:59:54,090 --> 00:59:57,627
and successfully beats my bottom
hook, let's bear something in mind.
1140
00:59:57,760 --> 01:00:01,831
Yes, he beat your bottom hook,
but he didn't beat the bottom knee.
1141
01:00:02,332 --> 01:00:06,302
Remember, he doesn't
create misalignment at the lower body
1142
01:00:06,302 --> 01:00:11,007
until he beats your knees
when he gets outside of my knee.
1143
01:00:11,074 --> 01:00:12,141
That's the problem.
1144
01:00:12,141 --> 01:00:13,876
He's he's winning the alignment
battle.
1145
01:00:13,876 --> 01:00:17,080
Now, again
here, he's just beating the hook.
1146
01:00:17,080 --> 01:00:19,048
And the hook can always be replaced.
1147
01:00:19,048 --> 01:00:22,585
How? Simply
I just take my leg and extend it.
1148
01:00:23,753 --> 01:00:27,256
This takes my knee further out
and increases
1149
01:00:27,256 --> 01:00:30,660
the distance that he must move
in order to beat the bottom knee.
1150
01:00:31,060 --> 01:00:33,830
So as soon as I lose the foot, my
1151
01:00:33,830 --> 01:00:37,100
first thing is I move the knee.
1152
01:00:37,100 --> 01:00:39,769
Now it's a bigger distance
for him to move.
1153
01:00:39,769 --> 01:00:42,372
Now my foot goes in a pattern,
in a sequence
1154
01:00:42,572 --> 01:00:44,674
that starts on the ball of the foot
1155
01:00:45,842 --> 01:00:48,211
and then I go to the heel.
1156
01:00:48,211 --> 01:00:51,180
Now we're in a position
where I can put my foot on the floor
1157
01:00:51,414 --> 01:00:55,585
and switch my body
in the opposite direction.
1158
01:00:55,585 --> 01:00:59,022
Now my foot comes up
and I like a body triangle,
1159
01:01:00,089 --> 01:01:02,792
or if my opponent's
so back to the waist,
1160
01:01:02,792 --> 01:01:03,960
they can't accomplish this.
1161
01:01:03,960 --> 01:01:06,729
I put on a posterior mount
and as a result
1162
01:01:06,996 --> 01:01:09,532
we've recovered
the hook on the other side
1163
01:01:09,866 --> 01:01:12,735
and we've positioned it
so he won't be able to continue
1164
01:01:12,735 --> 01:01:16,172
the process
of continually beating bottom hook.
1165
01:01:17,206 --> 01:01:17,507
What we
1166
01:01:17,507 --> 01:01:20,777
want to do once we've recovered
the bottom hook
1167
01:01:21,244 --> 01:01:24,514
is to prevent having to keep
recovering recovery and recovering.
1168
01:01:24,781 --> 01:01:27,216
Remember, ultimately
we want to finish this guy.
1169
01:01:27,383 --> 01:01:29,252
We want to stop him in his tracks.
1170
01:01:29,252 --> 01:01:31,954
I need a static opponent
in order to submit him.
1171
01:01:32,522 --> 01:01:35,425
I can't even a situation where
I'm constantly following movement,
1172
01:01:35,425 --> 01:01:37,427
following his movement,
following his movement.
1173
01:01:37,427 --> 01:01:38,294
I have to follow his
1174
01:01:38,294 --> 01:01:41,531
movement to a degree, then stop him
and then finish him.
1175
01:01:42,265 --> 01:01:44,233
We don't want to just create a cycle
where I just go
1176
01:01:44,233 --> 01:01:46,669
left, right, left, right,
trying to recover a bottom hook.
1177
01:01:47,136 --> 01:01:50,940
Once we recover a bottom hook, then
it's time to fall to the other side
1178
01:01:51,074 --> 01:01:54,043
and position our legs in such a way
that he can't beat the bottom hook
1179
01:01:54,043 --> 01:01:56,813
on the other side
and keep a sequence of escape going.
1180
01:01:57,346 --> 01:02:00,583
We want to shut down his sequence
and then shut down movement.
1181
01:02:01,017 --> 01:02:02,852
And then when I have
a static opponent,
1182
01:02:02,852 --> 01:02:05,221
then we can start going in
and finishing people.
1183
01:02:05,221 --> 01:02:06,422
So let's have a look at this again.
1184
01:02:08,024 --> 01:02:10,626
We start off behind our opponent.
1185
01:02:10,626 --> 01:02:12,495
We've got our arms. Well set.
1186
01:02:12,495 --> 01:02:15,998
The head trap is in place,
and then from here we start falling
1187
01:02:17,133 --> 01:02:18,634
over to the side.
1188
01:02:18,634 --> 01:02:19,602
Okay?
1189
01:02:19,602 --> 01:02:23,072
Now, as my opponent beats the bottom
hook, you can see right now
1190
01:02:23,072 --> 01:02:26,609
there's a minimal distance that he
has to move in order to beat my knee.
1191
01:02:27,110 --> 01:02:28,177
Okay, I've done it.
1192
01:02:28,177 --> 01:02:30,379
I have done
nothing to protect my knee here.
1193
01:02:30,379 --> 01:02:33,750
I haven't made it move far
or anything like that.
1194
01:02:33,750 --> 01:02:37,720
But the moment I put my foot out,
now the distance he has to travel
1195
01:02:37,720 --> 01:02:39,122
is greater.
1196
01:02:39,188 --> 01:02:41,090
It's going to make my job easier.
1197
01:02:41,090 --> 01:02:42,992
Now I push off the floor.
1198
01:02:42,992 --> 01:02:45,895
I use my right leg to pull.
1199
01:02:45,895 --> 01:02:47,196
Make your body go this way.
1200
01:02:47,196 --> 01:02:49,465
Look how his direction is going
this way in the escape.
1201
01:02:49,832 --> 01:02:51,501
Look at the effect of my right leg.
1202
01:02:51,501 --> 01:02:52,668
It turns.
1203
01:02:52,668 --> 01:02:55,037
And in the direction that I want.
1204
01:02:55,037 --> 01:02:57,140
Then I push off the floor
1205
01:02:58,007 --> 01:03:00,343
and I bring him back
in the opposite direction.
1206
01:03:00,343 --> 01:03:03,379
So his whole goal was to escape
to my left.
1207
01:03:04,013 --> 01:03:08,818
Okay, Over my left bottom hook,
he successfully beat the bottom hook.
1208
01:03:09,185 --> 01:03:11,154
He wants to continue going left.
1209
01:03:12,121 --> 01:03:13,623
That's his goal.
1210
01:03:13,623 --> 01:03:16,492
So I increase the distance
he has to travel.
1211
01:03:17,493 --> 01:03:19,595
Then from here I bring my foot up.
1212
01:03:19,896 --> 01:03:23,733
My knee is now so far out behind him
that when I retract my foot,
1213
01:03:23,733 --> 01:03:26,736
put it in my training partner's
buttocks when I push off the mat now
1214
01:03:26,736 --> 01:03:30,873
he wants to go left and index
get get in turn to the right.
1215
01:03:31,440 --> 01:03:33,476
Now, here's
something I want to avoid.
1216
01:03:33,476 --> 01:03:35,478
I don't just want to put a hook in
and then
1217
01:03:35,478 --> 01:03:37,513
plus you to do the same thing
on the other side.
1218
01:03:37,814 --> 01:03:40,750
And this escapes and beats
my hook on the right side.
1219
01:03:40,750 --> 01:03:43,286
And now he's going,
I don't want to create situations
1220
01:03:43,286 --> 01:03:45,288
where
I'm following a cycle of escapes.
1221
01:03:45,721 --> 01:03:50,159
I want to beat his cycle of escape.
1222
01:03:50,159 --> 01:03:52,261
So as I lose my training partner
1223
01:03:52,862 --> 01:03:57,200
on one side,
he goes over the bottom hook.
1224
01:03:57,633 --> 01:04:01,571
I increase the distance that he needs
to travel by putting my foot out.
1225
01:04:01,938 --> 01:04:05,374
I bring my foot in,
but not many members.
1226
01:04:05,374 --> 01:04:08,911
The knee that he has, the
beat of the foot, when I turn
1227
01:04:10,346 --> 01:04:12,215
it, bring him over the other side.
1228
01:04:12,215 --> 01:04:15,852
But I keep my new bottom
hook down, my right hook
1229
01:04:15,852 --> 01:04:19,956
so high that it's an easy thing
for me to either go post, rear mount
1230
01:04:20,256 --> 01:04:24,493
if my legs are short
and his waist is white or body lock.
1231
01:04:24,493 --> 01:04:26,863
If my legs alone
and his waist extend.
1232
01:04:27,730 --> 01:04:31,534
In this way, we protected the bottom
hook on one side
1233
01:04:32,235 --> 01:04:39,876
and then reinforce it on the other
to break his cycle of escape.
1234
01:04:39,876 --> 01:04:42,712
We're looking at the alignment
problem when we get behind someone.
1235
01:04:43,145 --> 01:04:46,649
If I cannot stay aligned
with my opponent, no amount of other
1236
01:04:46,983 --> 01:04:49,352
skill in my back attacks
is going to count for anything.
1237
01:04:49,485 --> 01:04:51,787
I have to be able to stay aligned.
1238
01:04:51,787 --> 01:04:55,625
We've seen that the process
of my opponent in mis aligning
1239
01:04:55,625 --> 01:04:58,761
the body is an entirely
predictable sequence of steps.
1240
01:04:59,395 --> 01:05:01,464
And if we can learn to shut down
those steps,
1241
01:05:01,797 --> 01:05:03,332
you can preserve the alignment
1242
01:05:03,332 --> 01:05:05,101
and ultimately
get through to a situation
1243
01:05:05,101 --> 01:05:07,603
where you can control your opponent,
stop them from moving,
1244
01:05:07,803 --> 01:05:09,205
and then start to bring in the hand
1245
01:05:09,205 --> 01:05:11,240
fighting system
that we'll be looking at shortly
1246
01:05:11,574 --> 01:05:13,910
and get through
to a strangulation win.
1247
01:05:15,077 --> 01:05:18,281
Now, in the previous sequence,
we saw that
1248
01:05:18,281 --> 01:05:23,019
if our opponent gets over a foot,
they're on the beginnings of escape.
1249
01:05:23,419 --> 01:05:23,819
Okay?
1250
01:05:23,819 --> 01:05:27,023
But ultimately they have
to beat my hook and then my knee.
1251
01:05:27,523 --> 01:05:30,459
We saw how to recover
if they beat the bottom hook.
1252
01:05:31,160 --> 01:05:33,629
What if the guy's a high level
and he doesn't
1253
01:05:33,629 --> 01:05:36,933
just beat the bottom hook,
He beats the bottom knee as well.
1254
01:05:36,933 --> 01:05:38,701
Well,
then we need to go to the next level
1255
01:05:38,701 --> 01:05:42,538
of sophistication as that is
the offensive man and go to recover.
1256
01:05:42,838 --> 01:05:45,274
Let's look at that process now
1257
01:05:45,274 --> 01:05:49,178
from a situation where I'm behind
Placid Earth and from here
1258
01:05:49,178 --> 01:05:53,282
he pitches down to one side
and beats the bottom hook.
1259
01:05:53,616 --> 01:05:55,885
We know that we're supposed
to protect the
1260
01:05:56,218 --> 01:05:58,921
at this point and bring our opponent
back to the other side.
1261
01:05:59,188 --> 01:05:59,956
Okay.
1262
01:05:59,956 --> 01:06:01,924
Unfortunately, he knows that, too.
1263
01:06:01,924 --> 01:06:04,427
He does a good
job of going over the knee
1264
01:06:05,461 --> 01:06:08,130
now, the moment he does
this, there's good news and bad news.
1265
01:06:08,531 --> 01:06:11,400
The good news is you've still
got a hope to work with here.
1266
01:06:11,400 --> 01:06:13,636
So you do have some control
of your opponent's body.
1267
01:06:14,170 --> 01:06:16,505
The other piece of good news
is still got a head trap.
1268
01:06:16,973 --> 01:06:17,974
Okay.
1269
01:06:18,174 --> 01:06:21,377
My seatbelt grip around my opponent
still puts me in a position
1270
01:06:21,377 --> 01:06:25,448
where my head is on one side
and my strangle arms on the other.
1271
01:06:25,448 --> 01:06:28,351
Okay, so the strong seatbelt
purpose is preserving me and
1272
01:06:29,051 --> 01:06:31,454
is preserving my head trap
to some degree here.
1273
01:06:32,188 --> 01:06:35,391
Now, the bad news is he's
actually beaten the knee,
1274
01:06:35,558 --> 01:06:38,361
so it's not like the previous
situation come back a step
1275
01:06:38,761 --> 01:06:39,662
where I could use
1276
01:06:39,662 --> 01:06:42,631
my leg underneath him to shovel him
back where he came from.
1277
01:06:42,732 --> 01:06:45,267
Well, again,
I don't want to have that option.
1278
01:06:45,701 --> 01:06:48,704
So what I'm going to do instead
is I'm going to direct my opponent's
1279
01:06:48,704 --> 01:06:51,507
head in the same direction
that he wants to go.
1280
01:06:52,274 --> 01:06:56,679
Remember, his whole thing now is
to bring his head here to the side.
1281
01:06:56,912 --> 01:06:57,880
Okay.
1282
01:06:58,080 --> 01:07:00,349
So as his head
is moving in that direction,
1283
01:07:00,383 --> 01:07:02,985
I'm going to point my head
in the same direction.
1284
01:07:03,386 --> 01:07:06,889
I can't head my head static
while his head is moving.
1285
01:07:07,189 --> 01:07:10,226
If his head moves in, wise
memory static, I lose the head trap.
1286
01:07:11,260 --> 01:07:12,194
Okay.
1287
01:07:12,561 --> 01:07:15,398
So as I see his head moving,
I move mine.
1288
01:07:15,564 --> 01:07:17,700
How do I do it to my bottom leg?
1289
01:07:18,100 --> 01:07:21,570
I take the balls of my feet
onto the mat and I push
1290
01:07:21,804 --> 01:07:25,508
and I bring my head to the mat before
his head gets in front of mine.
1291
01:07:26,242 --> 01:07:29,712
I'm in the perfect position
now to start a tripod in action
1292
01:07:30,012 --> 01:07:32,381
where I push
and tripod over my training partner.
1293
01:07:33,049 --> 01:07:37,920
Now I lift and I take my knee
and I put it right behind my training
1294
01:07:37,920 --> 01:07:42,124
partner's up so that my knee emerges
a second time.
1295
01:07:42,591 --> 01:07:45,628
Remember the whole key
here is your knee position.
1296
01:07:45,961 --> 01:07:50,132
The tripod is just the mechanism
to recover the position of your knee.
1297
01:07:50,132 --> 01:07:51,834
That's all it is.
1298
01:07:51,834 --> 01:07:56,405
Once my knee comes out, I can return
my opponent to the other side
1299
01:07:56,672 --> 01:07:58,974
and put my foot
in a nice high position
1300
01:07:58,974 --> 01:08:01,110
where he won't be able
to go easily over the top.
1301
01:08:01,110 --> 01:08:03,879
And again,
I'll either go to a post rear mount
1302
01:08:03,879 --> 01:08:05,915
if he's been through the waist
in my legs a short
1303
01:08:06,215 --> 01:08:08,184
or I'll go to a body triangle.
1304
01:08:08,184 --> 01:08:13,355
If his waist is thin and my legs are
long, let's have a look at it again.
1305
01:08:13,355 --> 01:08:16,358
Remember,
the basic thing that we're pushing
1306
01:08:16,358 --> 01:08:20,062
here is the idea that the knees
are the locus of my control
1307
01:08:20,396 --> 01:08:24,767
when it comes to aligning
my opponent between my legs,
1308
01:08:25,801 --> 01:08:29,038
the bottom of the bottom extremity
1309
01:08:29,038 --> 01:08:32,475
of my leg, the hook just holds
the knee in place.
1310
01:08:32,475 --> 01:08:35,111
That's all it's designed to do.
1311
01:08:35,111 --> 01:08:38,214
But what actually is the measure
of whether my opponent is aligned
1312
01:08:38,214 --> 01:08:41,984
with my lower body or not
is whether it's between my knees.
1313
01:08:41,984 --> 01:08:43,752
So once he beats my knee,
1314
01:08:43,752 --> 01:08:46,822
I need some kind of mechanism
to recover the knee.
1315
01:08:47,490 --> 01:08:48,624
And that mechanism is.
1316
01:08:48,624 --> 01:08:52,528
TRIPATHI Okay,
So if we start off on the other side
1317
01:08:52,528 --> 01:08:53,462
this time
1318
01:08:56,298 --> 01:08:58,801
twist around like so
1319
01:08:58,801 --> 01:09:00,836
we have an opponent,
we've got hooks in
1320
01:09:00,836 --> 01:09:02,671
on our training partner like this.
1321
01:09:02,671 --> 01:09:05,674
I see him pitching over to the side
1322
01:09:06,041 --> 01:09:09,211
and I see my opponent beat
the bottom hook and the bottom knee.
1323
01:09:09,578 --> 01:09:12,715
You can clearly see
my left knee has been beaten.
1324
01:09:13,015 --> 01:09:14,583
It's behind him now.
1325
01:09:14,583 --> 01:09:15,484
So I place
1326
01:09:15,484 --> 01:09:19,355
the ball of my foot on the floor
and I begin a race for head position.
1327
01:09:19,655 --> 01:09:22,458
He wants to beat my head
by getting his head to the mat.
1328
01:09:23,492 --> 01:09:25,594
I want my head underneath his.
1329
01:09:26,362 --> 01:09:28,831
So my head also goes to the mat.
1330
01:09:28,831 --> 01:09:31,000
Now a tripod action.
1331
01:09:31,000 --> 01:09:33,836
That tripod puts me up into position
where I can
1332
01:09:34,770 --> 01:09:38,440
and expose
my knee on the other side of his body
1333
01:09:38,841 --> 01:09:41,944
so that I reposition
in between my knees a second time.
1334
01:09:42,778 --> 01:09:45,714
Now, my Hook here drags him back,
1335
01:09:46,649 --> 01:09:49,852
and you can clearly see that
my knee has been reestablished.
1336
01:09:50,686 --> 01:09:53,055
I now have a knee on either
side of his body.
1337
01:09:53,289 --> 01:09:56,225
We've knee position
and now it's a matter
1338
01:09:56,225 --> 01:09:58,894
of preventing him
going over the second hook.
1339
01:09:59,762 --> 01:10:02,298
As a result, we now have back
1340
01:10:02,298 --> 01:10:05,267
position recovered when he tries
to slip over the bottom.
1341
01:10:05,301 --> 01:10:08,571
Well, it's difficult
and if I like the body triangle
1342
01:10:09,038 --> 01:10:11,640
even more so,
let's have a look at that again from
1343
01:10:11,640 --> 01:10:15,578
another angle.
1344
01:10:15,578 --> 01:10:19,882
We've been looking at this idea
that when we control our opponent,
1345
01:10:20,249 --> 01:10:23,919
we always want situations
where we have knees on either
1346
01:10:23,919 --> 01:10:28,023
side of him, that's what constitutes
alignment or misalignment.
1347
01:10:28,123 --> 01:10:28,591
Okay?
1348
01:10:28,591 --> 01:10:32,561
His whole thing ultimately is to beat
my knees in these situations. So
1349
01:10:35,464 --> 01:10:36,532
my a situation where we
1350
01:10:36,532 --> 01:10:38,701
link up with our training fund
and we have two hooks in
1351
01:10:40,269 --> 01:10:44,039
when we fall over to the side,
you can clearly see
1352
01:10:44,206 --> 01:10:47,910
if he goes over, he beats the foot
first and the knee second.
1353
01:10:48,277 --> 01:10:51,180
I now have two knees on
one side of his body.
1354
01:10:51,180 --> 01:10:53,449
That's good for him bad for me.
1355
01:10:53,449 --> 01:10:55,751
I need a knee
on each side of his body.
1356
01:10:56,151 --> 01:11:00,489
So from here we're going to Tripod
and get our head to the floor.
1357
01:11:01,290 --> 01:11:04,760
We're going to continue that tripod
and get our knees off the mat
1358
01:11:05,427 --> 01:11:09,932
so that I can lift and expose
and get my knee back in place.
1359
01:11:10,599 --> 01:11:14,236
Now, once again, I have a knee
on each side of his body.
1360
01:11:14,903 --> 01:11:18,807
I have a hook here in his
leg which enables me to pull
1361
01:11:19,875 --> 01:11:22,144
and end
up in position where both knees
1362
01:11:22,811 --> 01:11:26,215
are on one side of his body,
each as a result.
1363
01:11:26,448 --> 01:11:30,152
From here, it's an easy thing for us
to lock up either the figure of four
1364
01:11:30,452 --> 01:11:31,687
or a post mount.
1365
01:11:31,687 --> 01:11:35,291
So when he goes to escape a second
time, it's a very difficult thing.
1366
01:11:35,624 --> 01:11:44,433
You know,
we can play our attacking game.
1367
01:11:44,433 --> 01:11:46,268
We're looking at the alignment
problem.
1368
01:11:46,268 --> 01:11:49,838
The basic idea here
is that if we can't stay successfully
1369
01:11:50,272 --> 01:11:53,008
with our opponent, no amount of hand
1370
01:11:53,709 --> 01:11:56,011
fighting and trapping of arms
is going to have
1371
01:11:56,011 --> 01:11:58,947
any effect whatsoever upon us that
he cannot escape the overall position
1372
01:11:59,214 --> 01:12:00,916
and none of our strangles.
1373
01:12:00,916 --> 01:12:02,284
None of our sophisticated means
1374
01:12:02,284 --> 01:12:06,121
of locking our opponents arms
down are going to be of any value.
1375
01:12:06,422 --> 01:12:09,625
Our first thing you've got
to stay aligned with your opponent.
1376
01:12:09,625 --> 01:12:10,292
We've seen that
1377
01:12:10,292 --> 01:12:13,529
the process of misalignment
that my opponent's trying to create
1378
01:12:13,862 --> 01:12:15,064
is entirely predictable.
1379
01:12:15,064 --> 01:12:17,099
It begins
with beating the bottom hook
1380
01:12:17,433 --> 01:12:19,501
and then ultimately
beating the bottom knee
1381
01:12:19,501 --> 01:12:22,538
and then going to a situation
where his head beats my head
1382
01:12:23,138 --> 01:12:25,741
and then finally his shoulders,
both of them on the mat,
1383
01:12:25,741 --> 01:12:27,543
particularly
the inside shoulder. And he's out.
1384
01:12:28,577 --> 01:12:29,745
We've seen
1385
01:12:29,745 --> 01:12:32,581
to try and shut down and combat this.
1386
01:12:32,581 --> 01:12:35,250
Let's look at another method,
the switching our method
1387
01:12:35,851 --> 01:12:39,288
to a situation
where behind a training partner like
1388
01:12:40,356 --> 01:12:42,491
and he's done a good job
1389
01:12:42,491 --> 01:12:44,660
of pitching over to the side
1390
01:12:45,661 --> 01:12:48,097
and is threatening
to go over the bottom hook
1391
01:12:48,697 --> 01:12:52,167
and even the bottom knee
in these situations.
1392
01:12:52,167 --> 01:12:55,571
What I often do, particularly
when I'm worried my opponent
1393
01:12:55,571 --> 01:12:59,708
will eventually beat the head, that's
the most worrisome of them all.
1394
01:12:59,708 --> 01:13:02,277
Back on a piece of my head
is pretty much gone at this point.
1395
01:13:03,579 --> 01:13:07,950
What I often do in situations
like this is switch my arms.
1396
01:13:08,183 --> 01:13:11,053
I currently have a left hand
control arm
1397
01:13:12,020 --> 01:13:14,022
and a right hand strangle on.
1398
01:13:14,590 --> 01:13:16,191
My opponent knows that.
1399
01:13:16,191 --> 01:13:18,193
And so he's
trying to go in the same direction.
1400
01:13:18,193 --> 01:13:21,764
My strangle arm is pointing
beat the head and move on out.
1401
01:13:22,197 --> 01:13:23,031
Okay.
1402
01:13:23,132 --> 01:13:26,301
Whenever I see this is a real danger
and I feel I'm about to lose
1403
01:13:26,301 --> 01:13:31,173
the head, I will take my strangle arm
and convert it into a control.
1404
01:13:31,874 --> 01:13:34,877
So as my opponent
goes to make his escape, I punch out
1405
01:13:35,577 --> 01:13:38,647
and I go underneath
my training partners arm.
1406
01:13:38,647 --> 01:13:41,150
So I now have two control arms.
1407
01:13:42,618 --> 01:13:43,719
I go underneath
1408
01:13:43,719 --> 01:13:46,321
my own hand and grip his wrist.
1409
01:13:47,523 --> 01:13:52,027
Now, as I lose the battle for hit
position, I relinquish my hand.
1410
01:13:52,327 --> 01:13:54,730
My opponent goes into
what he thinks is his escape.
1411
01:13:55,130 --> 01:13:57,766
I lift my arm through and pull
1412
01:13:58,700 --> 01:14:01,036
in, switch sides on my phone, my gun.
1413
01:14:01,303 --> 01:14:06,008
And now we're right back
and we're ready to attack once again.
1414
01:14:07,242 --> 01:14:10,813
We started off
with a fairly conventional situation,
1415
01:14:10,813 --> 01:14:14,283
two hooks in I have a control hand
and a strangle hand.
1416
01:14:14,683 --> 01:14:18,187
My opponent beats the bottom hook
and is starting to threaten
1417
01:14:18,187 --> 01:14:20,522
to beat the head
and come all the way out.
1418
01:14:21,423 --> 01:14:25,661
I will initially switch
my hands and go through
1419
01:14:26,261 --> 01:14:29,398
so I now have to control. It's true.
1420
01:14:29,398 --> 01:14:31,633
I no longer have the capacity
to strangle my opponent,
1421
01:14:32,267 --> 01:14:35,637
but I'd rather stay on his back
and work back to a stranglehold later
1422
01:14:36,104 --> 01:14:38,841
than just lose everything right here.
1423
01:14:38,841 --> 01:14:42,244
One good way for me to work from here
is to go across
1424
01:14:42,478 --> 01:14:45,247
and cross grip
my training partner at the waist.
1425
01:14:45,948 --> 01:14:49,651
I put my hand through and as I lose
the head, he starts moving away.
1426
01:14:49,918 --> 01:14:53,255
I pull and I put this arm back in.
1427
01:14:53,755 --> 01:14:57,659
So what have we done with preserve
the head, Try to.
1428
01:14:57,659 --> 01:15:00,696
I have a stranglehold on
one side, my head on the other.
1429
01:15:01,697 --> 01:15:04,833
Then I just reposition my legs
1430
01:15:04,833 --> 01:15:08,103
and I find myself back in a position
where I can dominate the back.
1431
01:15:08,804 --> 01:15:17,479
Let's look at it from another angle,
1432
01:15:17,479 --> 01:15:20,516
from a situation
where I'm behind my opponent
1433
01:15:20,516 --> 01:15:25,153
and I feel
my opponent is getting away from me.
1434
01:15:25,153 --> 01:15:27,789
Not only
is he beating the bottom hook,
1435
01:15:27,789 --> 01:15:30,392
but he's starting to beat the head
as well.
1436
01:15:30,392 --> 01:15:32,528
From here I go through
1437
01:15:32,528 --> 01:15:35,597
and punch in a new control hand.
1438
01:15:35,597 --> 01:15:39,167
I go across and cross group
my training partner's far wrist.
1439
01:15:40,202 --> 01:15:43,038
I slip my wrist underneath
and his place
1440
01:15:43,105 --> 01:15:45,841
just comes out my lock here and here.
1441
01:15:47,242 --> 01:15:51,413
As a result, I can easily
turn my opponent over and recover
1442
01:15:51,413 --> 01:15:54,683
the position
and go right back into a fine
1443
01:15:54,683 --> 01:16:05,027
attacking situation.
1444
01:16:05,027 --> 01:16:09,965
We're starting to get into the
the nuts and bolts of the main
1445
01:16:10,232 --> 01:16:13,101
core element of my back attack system
1446
01:16:13,235 --> 01:16:16,505
is jacket system.
1447
01:16:16,505 --> 01:16:20,676
Most of you are aware
that this is based around the idea of
1448
01:16:21,610 --> 01:16:24,479
a specific set of hand fight
1449
01:16:25,814 --> 01:16:29,117
techniques which ultimately
create a situation where I can use
1450
01:16:29,117 --> 01:16:31,687
one of my legs
to trap an opponent's arm
1451
01:16:31,954 --> 01:16:33,755
and then from there
take away their ability
1452
01:16:33,755 --> 01:16:35,524
to defend themselves and go through
1453
01:16:35,524 --> 01:16:37,726
and to successfully applied
Stranglehold.
1454
01:16:39,394 --> 01:16:42,397
So far we've been looking
at the central problem
1455
01:16:42,397 --> 01:16:46,168
that runs alongside
what we're calling a deficit problem.
1456
01:16:46,168 --> 01:16:47,769
Okay, We had the alignment problem.
1457
01:16:47,769 --> 01:16:48,937
We saw some
1458
01:16:48,937 --> 01:16:52,341
some ways of getting around that
that will enable us to stay aligned
1459
01:16:52,341 --> 01:16:55,077
with our opponent long enough
that we can create a static opponent
1460
01:16:55,377 --> 01:16:58,714
and then we come to our next problem,
the so-called deficit problem.
1461
01:16:59,047 --> 01:17:01,149
This is the idea
that when I get behind my opponent,
1462
01:17:01,550 --> 01:17:05,220
I find rather, to my surprise,
perhaps, that at most
1463
01:17:05,220 --> 01:17:09,157
I have two offensive instruments
and usually I have only one
1464
01:17:09,391 --> 01:17:10,292
offensive instrument.
1465
01:17:10,292 --> 01:17:13,562
A single strangle on your opponent,
on the other hand,
1466
01:17:13,795 --> 01:17:18,567
has at least two and often
three defensive instruments.
1467
01:17:19,701 --> 01:17:20,268
He has two
1468
01:17:20,268 --> 01:17:22,604
defensive arms and a defensive jaw
1469
01:17:24,106 --> 01:17:25,941
at the very if I'm trapping one,
1470
01:17:25,941 --> 01:17:29,311
he'll have one defensive arm
and a defensive jaw.
1471
01:17:29,511 --> 01:17:31,546
This is my one offensive arm.
1472
01:17:32,180 --> 01:17:34,216
So no matter how you configure
your arms,
1473
01:17:34,383 --> 01:17:36,451
you're always going to be
the outnumbered guy.
1474
01:17:36,451 --> 01:17:37,619
When you're attacking from the back,
1475
01:17:37,619 --> 01:17:38,587
you'll always have more
1476
01:17:38,587 --> 01:17:41,223
defensive instruments
than you have offensive instruments.
1477
01:17:41,957 --> 01:17:44,559
So we need some kind of system
that gets us around
1478
01:17:44,559 --> 01:17:47,796
this fundamental problem that
redresses this fundamental imbalance.
1479
01:17:48,096 --> 01:17:50,232
It's no good calling this
the ultimate attacking position.
1480
01:17:50,232 --> 01:17:53,301
If you're outnumbered
every time you use it, that's exactly
1481
01:17:53,301 --> 01:17:55,570
what the straightjacket system
is designed to do.
1482
01:17:56,538 --> 01:17:58,807
Now, before we get into
1483
01:17:59,474 --> 01:18:02,678
the nuts and bolts of hand
fighting our way through to success
1484
01:18:02,678 --> 01:18:06,481
and strength of people, it's
very important that we address
1485
01:18:06,782 --> 01:18:10,419
a very widely held notion
in the sport of jujitsu,
1486
01:18:10,919 --> 01:18:14,823
which I'm hoping to dispel
in this video series.
1487
01:18:15,524 --> 01:18:19,561
This is the idea that there is
a strong side and a weak side
1488
01:18:19,961 --> 01:18:22,230
When I work to strangle
someone from the back,
1489
01:18:22,998 --> 01:18:25,300
probably
One of the most commonly held cliches
1490
01:18:25,300 --> 01:18:28,570
in the sport of jujitsu is that once
I get my hooks in my opponent,
1491
01:18:28,904 --> 01:18:32,240
there's a side which is easy for them
to escape the weak side
1492
01:18:32,607 --> 01:18:36,011
and a side which is hazardous
for them to escape the strong side.
1493
01:18:36,478 --> 01:18:39,881
Let's first understand why
people thought this way for so long
1494
01:18:40,348 --> 01:18:44,152
and then make some notes from there.
1495
01:18:44,152 --> 01:18:44,786
Okay?
1496
01:18:44,786 --> 01:18:46,388
Once I get behind my opponent,
1497
01:18:46,388 --> 01:18:48,390
we know already that
we have a control arm
1498
01:18:48,390 --> 01:18:50,726
that goes underneath
my opponent's arm
1499
01:18:50,726 --> 01:18:54,362
and a strangle hand that goes over
the top of the shoulder.
1500
01:18:54,362 --> 01:18:57,733
This creates a sense
in which there's an opening.
1501
01:18:59,000 --> 01:19:01,303
As I hit my hand,
you know, my chief on the shoulder
1502
01:19:01,737 --> 01:19:04,339
between my hand, my upper body,
1503
01:19:05,440 --> 01:19:07,542
the opening is only on one side.
1504
01:19:07,843 --> 01:19:10,278
It's on my opponent's left hand side.
1505
01:19:10,278 --> 01:19:11,580
There's no opening here.
1506
01:19:11,580 --> 01:19:13,882
My arm leaves, no opening whatsoever.
1507
01:19:14,249 --> 01:19:15,984
But the space between my hand
1508
01:19:15,984 --> 01:19:19,054
and my shoulder on the left hand side
does create an opening.
1509
01:19:19,788 --> 01:19:24,392
And through that opening, my opponent
can start to move his head.
1510
01:19:24,893 --> 01:19:27,462
And once his head moves
through that opening, he's
1511
01:19:27,462 --> 01:19:30,565
broken
the single most important element
1512
01:19:30,665 --> 01:19:34,202
in all of that control,
which is the idea of a head trap,
1513
01:19:34,770 --> 01:19:36,004
where my opponent's head
1514
01:19:36,004 --> 01:19:39,307
ought to be caught between my head
and my strangle hand.
1515
01:19:39,708 --> 01:19:42,644
That's the only position from where
I have a viable threat
1516
01:19:42,878 --> 01:19:44,646
to strangle my opponent.
1517
01:19:44,646 --> 01:19:48,250
The moment my strangle head and head
go to the same side.
1518
01:19:48,683 --> 01:19:50,585
The cat's out of the bag
and it's lost.
1519
01:19:50,585 --> 01:19:53,054
There's no more viable
threat of a strangle.
1520
01:19:53,054 --> 01:19:56,124
Okay. And in this sense, I agree.
1521
01:19:56,124 --> 01:19:58,560
It does look like
this is the weak side.
1522
01:19:59,361 --> 01:20:00,362
Okay?
1523
01:20:00,662 --> 01:20:04,866
If my opponent forced to the side
in this direction here, it's
1524
01:20:04,866 --> 01:20:08,970
very, very difficult for my opponent
to break the head tread again,
1525
01:20:09,237 --> 01:20:12,274
even as he goes to move out at all
times.
1526
01:20:12,274 --> 01:20:16,111
He's still caught in that fundamental
head track that positions his head
1527
01:20:16,578 --> 01:20:20,048
between my head
and the strangle hand.
1528
01:20:20,515 --> 01:20:21,316
Okay.
1529
01:20:21,316 --> 01:20:26,688
Once again, a different angle.
1530
01:20:26,688 --> 01:20:31,560
When I work behind
my training partner,
1531
01:20:31,560 --> 01:20:34,563
we know that
in situations where I fall
1532
01:20:35,730 --> 01:20:37,732
to a given side,
1533
01:20:37,732 --> 01:20:40,569
most of the jiu jitsu world
will tell you he's fallen to what
1534
01:20:41,703 --> 01:20:44,472
would be considered my weak side.
1535
01:20:44,639 --> 01:20:48,877
Okay, but this is an opening
between my hand and my upper body
1536
01:20:49,411 --> 01:20:51,880
and through opening,
my opponent can move his head
1537
01:20:53,215 --> 01:20:57,052
in such a way that he breaks
the single most important element
1538
01:20:57,052 --> 01:20:59,955
in the entire back control,
leading to a strangle
1539
01:21:01,022 --> 01:21:03,258
series the idea of the head trap.
1540
01:21:03,725 --> 01:21:08,730
Now he's positioned my strangle hand
and my head on one side of his head.
1541
01:21:09,164 --> 01:21:11,433
That's great news for him,
and it's terrible news for me.
1542
01:21:11,933 --> 01:21:15,770
In order to strangle someone,
I always need my head and my strangle
1543
01:21:16,104 --> 01:21:21,176
and on opposite sides of his head,
because there's an opening here
1544
01:21:21,176 --> 01:21:25,080
between my hand and we have a body
he can exploit that
1545
01:21:25,513 --> 01:21:29,517
go through the opening
and now break the head tread.
1546
01:21:29,517 --> 01:21:31,419
And now there's
simply no chance of a strangle.
1547
01:21:31,419 --> 01:21:33,355
I have to scramble to something else.
1548
01:21:33,355 --> 01:21:34,322
Okay.
1549
01:21:34,322 --> 01:21:37,359
So that's why most of the Jitsu world
considers this
1550
01:21:37,859 --> 01:21:41,529
the weak side.
1551
01:21:41,529 --> 01:21:43,031
When my athletes first started
1552
01:21:43,031 --> 01:21:46,468
entering high level competition
and finishing people regularly
1553
01:21:46,902 --> 01:21:50,906
with strangle holes from the back,
people were shocked by the fact
1554
01:21:50,906 --> 01:21:55,210
that not only was a falling
to the weak side,
1555
01:21:55,810 --> 01:21:58,346
they were pushing the action
in that direction
1556
01:21:58,380 --> 01:21:59,915
as though it was something desirable.
1557
01:22:01,016 --> 01:22:03,218
This was very, very surprising.
1558
01:22:04,219 --> 01:22:08,056
Why do I not consider myself
with strong and weak side?
1559
01:22:08,056 --> 01:22:09,291
Don't even use the terms.
1560
01:22:09,291 --> 01:22:11,493
I guess
if we talk about undecided oversight,
1561
01:22:11,860 --> 01:22:15,430
my back system is neutral
with regards for in left or right.
1562
01:22:15,430 --> 01:22:18,300
I just don't care.
1563
01:22:18,300 --> 01:22:21,069
In some cases
I actually favor falling
1564
01:22:21,069 --> 01:22:22,771
to what
most people would call the weak side
1565
01:22:22,771 --> 01:22:24,572
because it actually makes it easier
for me
1566
01:22:24,572 --> 01:22:27,042
to use my legs to trap my opponent's
arms.
1567
01:22:27,042 --> 01:22:29,177
I'll come back to that shortly.
1568
01:22:30,345 --> 01:22:32,814
Well,
the truth is that once you understand
1569
01:22:32,814 --> 01:22:36,051
what your opponent needs to do
to get out of these positions
1570
01:22:36,051 --> 01:22:39,454
and you have a good set of responses
1571
01:22:39,454 --> 01:22:44,326
to those to those elements,
it doesn't really get any easier
1572
01:22:44,326 --> 01:22:48,163
or more difficult
for him to escape on either side.
1573
01:22:48,163 --> 01:22:48,797
If I have
1574
01:22:50,699 --> 01:22:51,433
an opponent in a
1575
01:22:51,433 --> 01:22:55,503
position like this,
as long as I'm cognizant of my head
1576
01:22:55,503 --> 01:22:57,772
position,
he's not going to beat my head.
1577
01:22:58,506 --> 01:23:01,276
Moreover,
as long as I'm focused of my hand
1578
01:23:01,276 --> 01:23:04,646
position, I'm not going to leave much
of an opening for him to work with.
1579
01:23:05,280 --> 01:23:07,215
Okay. Yes, it's true.
1580
01:23:07,215 --> 01:23:10,585
If I fall to the side with my hand
poorly placed.
1581
01:23:10,685 --> 01:23:11,386
Yes, it's true.
1582
01:23:11,386 --> 01:23:13,955
There's a giant gap and my opponent
can bring his head through that gap.
1583
01:23:13,955 --> 01:23:14,756
That's good.
1584
01:23:14,990 --> 01:23:16,758
And yet it's easy for him to get out.
1585
01:23:16,758 --> 01:23:17,659
Okay.
1586
01:23:17,692 --> 01:23:22,297
However, if I'm always ear to ear
with my training partner
1587
01:23:22,564 --> 01:23:26,701
working as I should be with my head
forward or my training partner,
1588
01:23:27,002 --> 01:23:30,238
and I'm not simply lackadaisical
with the arm around the neck,
1589
01:23:30,472 --> 01:23:34,342
but rather creating what
we call a closed circle.
1590
01:23:34,843 --> 01:23:38,613
A closed circle
is where my strangle hand goes over
1591
01:23:38,613 --> 01:23:43,351
my training shoulder
and my chin touches my own hand.
1592
01:23:44,686 --> 01:23:46,121
Now there's
1593
01:23:46,121 --> 01:23:49,357
simply no hole for my opponent's
head to move through.
1594
01:23:50,058 --> 01:23:55,363
Remember, if my hand is poorly placed
and my head is poorly placed,
1595
01:23:55,463 --> 01:23:59,267
yes, there's an open hole
for my opponent to move through.
1596
01:23:59,267 --> 01:24:00,668
But when my hand is properly
1597
01:24:00,668 --> 01:24:04,606
placed in my head,
my chin covers my own hand.
1598
01:24:04,906 --> 01:24:06,141
When he goes to move out in that
1599
01:24:06,141 --> 01:24:09,544
direction, there's
no hole for him to go through.
1600
01:24:10,078 --> 01:24:13,581
The hole on the left
side is just as securely closed
1601
01:24:13,748 --> 01:24:15,850
as it would be on the right.
1602
01:24:15,850 --> 01:24:20,355
Okay, I cannot stress this enough
when I add to this
1603
01:24:20,488 --> 01:24:23,091
the idea of a protected bottom hook,
1604
01:24:23,525 --> 01:24:25,593
whether it be with a body locked
1605
01:24:26,661 --> 01:24:29,097
or with a post re amount,
1606
01:24:29,964 --> 01:24:32,200
I close the circle in the upper body
1607
01:24:32,200 --> 01:24:34,602
and I close the circle
with the lower body.
1608
01:24:35,470 --> 01:24:40,842
When Placido
goes to move out of here,
1609
01:24:40,842 --> 01:24:44,212
he finds it's just as difficult
as if I fell to the other side.
1610
01:24:44,913 --> 01:24:48,149
Remember, what determines
the ease of his escape is not
1611
01:24:48,149 --> 01:24:49,918
whether it's left or right, it's
1612
01:24:49,918 --> 01:24:52,520
whether or not there's an open circle
for him to move through.
1613
01:24:52,954 --> 01:24:55,924
That's what determines
the ease of the escape. Yes.
1614
01:24:56,424 --> 01:24:59,360
If my feet are open
and he just hops over the foot.
1615
01:24:59,627 --> 01:25:00,395
Yes, it's easy.
1616
01:25:01,596 --> 01:25:04,466
Yes. If
my hand is poorly placed in my head
1617
01:25:04,466 --> 01:25:08,803
as polling place, yes, it's easy
for him to move his head through.
1618
01:25:08,803 --> 01:25:11,339
But if I close the circle
around his waist
1619
01:25:12,740 --> 01:25:16,010
and then close the circle
around his head and shoulders,
1620
01:25:16,511 --> 01:25:21,783
now when he goes to move, it's
1621
01:25:21,783 --> 01:25:24,219
no more difficult
for him to escape lift than it is.
1622
01:25:24,219 --> 01:25:24,953
Right.
1623
01:25:25,787 --> 01:25:29,724
Once you understand
these simple ideas, you will see that
1624
01:25:29,724 --> 01:25:33,461
in fact a good back
system will always be neutral
1625
01:25:33,461 --> 01:25:37,632
between escaping to the underside,
which is the other side.
1626
01:25:37,632 --> 01:25:41,569
What creates a strong a weak side
is not whether you go left or right,
1627
01:25:41,803 --> 01:25:45,006
but rather feelings and posture
on the part of the athletes.
1628
01:25:46,307 --> 01:25:48,877
Once we work with this principle
of the closed circle
1629
01:25:48,877 --> 01:25:53,281
in both upper and lower body,
your back attacks will become neutral
1630
01:25:53,481 --> 01:25:56,050
as to whether you go left
or whether you go right
1631
01:25:56,251 --> 01:26:01,856
with your opponent.
1632
01:26:01,856 --> 01:26:04,492
We've been looking
at the straightjacket system and
1633
01:26:06,461 --> 01:26:09,097
we've seen essentially the
straightjacket system was responds
1634
01:26:09,097 --> 01:26:12,167
to two main problems, two
central problems, as we call them.
1635
01:26:12,400 --> 01:26:14,202
First was the alignment problem.
1636
01:26:14,202 --> 01:26:16,738
This is the idea
that when we are behind our opponent
1637
01:26:16,738 --> 01:26:19,674
or wish to strangle, there always
has to be some degree of alignment.
1638
01:26:19,908 --> 01:26:23,044
Again, that's based around the idea
of my strangle
1639
01:26:23,044 --> 01:26:26,247
arm on one side
and my head on the other.
1640
01:26:26,247 --> 01:26:29,284
If my head ever comes
to the same side as the strangle arm.
1641
01:26:29,517 --> 01:26:31,519
This is no struggle for me.
1642
01:26:31,519 --> 01:26:32,520
It's a disaster.
1643
01:26:32,520 --> 01:26:35,857
You always need opposite hit,
opposite strangle on.
1644
01:26:35,857 --> 01:26:37,258
Once we get to the situation,
1645
01:26:37,258 --> 01:26:40,662
we've seen that it's relatively easy
for our opponent to break alignment
1646
01:26:41,095 --> 01:26:44,365
as long as we have our feet
in fairly conventional positions.
1647
01:26:44,499 --> 01:26:47,268
Now, if my opponent
going over the foot,
1648
01:26:47,535 --> 01:26:50,271
then over the knee,
then he can start getting hit.
1649
01:26:50,271 --> 01:26:51,339
The floor showed him
1650
01:26:51,339 --> 01:26:54,075
that now he's broken
the alignment between my body and his
1651
01:26:54,342 --> 01:26:56,611
and essentially he's
escaped from the position.
1652
01:26:56,878 --> 01:26:59,480
And that's the first thing to point
out how we overcome this.
1653
01:27:00,815 --> 01:27:02,817
The second
was the so-called deficit problem.
1654
01:27:02,850 --> 01:27:05,520
When you actually do
get behind someone, there's problem.
1655
01:27:06,120 --> 01:27:09,390
I have usually a control
arm underneath his arm
1656
01:27:09,891 --> 01:27:12,860
and I have a strangle hand
at the very most
1657
01:27:12,860 --> 01:27:16,030
if I have a body trying to strangle,
I can work with.
1658
01:27:16,764 --> 01:27:19,367
Most of the time it's
just one strangle him.
1659
01:27:19,367 --> 01:27:22,770
My opponent has three
defensive instruments.
1660
01:27:23,538 --> 01:27:24,005
Okay?
1661
01:27:24,005 --> 01:27:26,808
He is a primary defensive arm,
1662
01:27:27,542 --> 01:27:30,311
a secondary defensive arm,
1663
01:27:30,311 --> 01:27:32,547
and he has his chin.
1664
01:27:32,547 --> 01:27:35,083
So he has three things to stop me
from strangling him.
1665
01:27:35,083 --> 01:27:38,386
You, on the other hand,
have usually only one offensive
1666
01:27:38,386 --> 01:27:40,855
instrument and most two.
1667
01:27:41,656 --> 01:27:44,359
So when you go to strangle
someone from the back, you're always
1668
01:27:44,359 --> 01:27:48,730
outnumbered he's got three or two
or three defensive instruments.
1669
01:27:48,730 --> 01:27:50,832
You got one
or two attacking instruments.
1670
01:27:51,799 --> 01:27:52,567
And we need
1671
01:27:52,567 --> 01:27:55,737
some method to overcome that deficit.
1672
01:27:55,737 --> 01:27:57,205
Now we saw that basic
1673
01:27:57,205 --> 01:28:00,875
method is use our legs as hooks over
our training partner's arms
1674
01:28:01,175 --> 01:28:05,446
and create situations where we create
an uncontested strangle hand.
1675
01:28:05,446 --> 01:28:09,317
But it's just my strangle hand
against my opponent's chin.
1676
01:28:09,317 --> 01:28:11,786
And then eventually we can
we can get a breakthrough.
1677
01:28:12,654 --> 01:28:14,656
There's a third problem
that often emerges here.
1678
01:28:14,656 --> 01:28:16,891
The problem of the pin down
1679
01:28:16,891 --> 01:28:19,427
orthodoxy has it
that when I get behind someone
1680
01:28:19,694 --> 01:28:23,731
and I'm working with a right strangle
hand, I should typically fall to my
1681
01:28:23,731 --> 01:28:28,303
right hand side in order to maximize
my chance of success.
1682
01:28:28,870 --> 01:28:30,204
There's definitely some logic to it.
1683
01:28:30,204 --> 01:28:31,572
It's not it's not a foolish opinion.
1684
01:28:31,572 --> 01:28:34,042
It's that there's a rationale for it.
1685
01:28:34,042 --> 01:28:37,779
We explain what that was in terms of
if I fall to the side
1686
01:28:37,779 --> 01:28:38,980
of the underarm,
1687
01:28:38,980 --> 01:28:40,682
there's more space for my opponent
1688
01:28:40,682 --> 01:28:42,417
to get his head
and shoulders to the floor
1689
01:28:42,417 --> 01:28:44,552
and break the alignment
that talked about earlier.
1690
01:28:44,819 --> 01:28:48,723
Again, however, there's a problem.
1691
01:28:48,723 --> 01:28:51,993
When I fall to the side of this
railing where I fall
1692
01:28:51,993 --> 01:28:56,698
in this direction, the leg on that
side gets pinned to the mat
1693
01:28:57,699 --> 01:28:59,701
his body weight is on the leg.
1694
01:28:59,701 --> 01:29:02,003
So when he starts grabbing my arms
1695
01:29:02,003 --> 01:29:05,340
and I want to use my leg
to hook his arm, I can't because he's
1696
01:29:05,340 --> 01:29:08,743
literally pinning my leg to the floor
and body weights pin my leg.
1697
01:29:09,210 --> 01:29:10,211
So, yes, it's true.
1698
01:29:10,211 --> 01:29:12,380
There's some degree of additional
security.
1699
01:29:12,714 --> 01:29:15,283
It's more difficult
to break alignment.
1700
01:29:15,583 --> 01:29:16,484
But on the other hand, it's
1701
01:29:16,484 --> 01:29:20,254
almost impossible for me now
to overcome the deficit problem.
1702
01:29:20,588 --> 01:29:23,291
My opponent will always have
his defensive hands and chin
1703
01:29:23,558 --> 01:29:26,327
outnumbering my offensive
1704
01:29:26,427 --> 01:29:27,895
weapons now.
1705
01:29:27,895 --> 01:29:31,766
So by falling to the same side,
an Australian, I essentially pin
1706
01:29:31,766 --> 01:29:32,900
my own leg.
1707
01:29:32,900 --> 01:29:36,871
Now my legs can't be used to help me
to trap his defensive arms
1708
01:29:37,138 --> 01:29:40,942
and create an uncontested strangle
hand and get through to the finish.
1709
01:29:41,542 --> 01:29:44,145
So that's why very often from here
1710
01:29:44,946 --> 01:29:49,350
I like to see my athletes fall away
from the strangle hand
1711
01:29:49,751 --> 01:29:52,487
because this creates
an unweighted leg.
1712
01:29:53,254 --> 01:29:55,456
That unweighted leg now has mobility.
1713
01:29:55,723 --> 01:29:58,526
If I can simply just place
my training partner's hand
1714
01:29:58,526 --> 01:30:02,730
below the line of his chest at any
given moment, I can come over the top
1715
01:30:02,964 --> 01:30:05,199
and use my leg, trap his arm.
1716
01:30:05,867 --> 01:30:09,137
Now, for the first time we've got
an uncontested strangle hand.
1717
01:30:09,170 --> 01:30:12,073
There's nothing. There's no hand
left for him to fight my hand.
1718
01:30:12,073 --> 01:30:14,308
But both his hands are occupied.
1719
01:30:14,308 --> 01:30:16,310
One by my hand, one by my leg.
1720
01:30:16,310 --> 01:30:17,044
I have a free
1721
01:30:17,044 --> 01:30:20,748
hand to work against my opponent's
jaw and go in and finish.
1722
01:30:21,149 --> 01:30:25,052
Okay, so there's a sense
1723
01:30:25,052 --> 01:30:27,722
in which
by falling to the underarm side,
1724
01:30:28,089 --> 01:30:30,691
I create the possibility
of overcoming this.
1725
01:30:30,691 --> 01:30:33,661
This third problem,
the problem of the pinned leg.
1726
01:30:33,661 --> 01:30:35,963
But there's another way
I can do it, too.
1727
01:30:35,963 --> 01:30:42,970
If my point is in total position,
I can hook his arm
1728
01:30:43,104 --> 01:30:45,873
before I commit to the mat,
and in that way
1729
01:30:46,107 --> 01:30:48,109
I can safely fall to the side of the
1730
01:30:48,109 --> 01:30:51,212
straight line because my leg
is not yet pinned by his bodyweight.
1731
01:30:51,646 --> 01:30:55,950
When I work in positions like this,
I can put my leg in prior
1732
01:30:56,551 --> 01:30:59,454
to me falling down to the floor.
1733
01:30:59,454 --> 01:31:01,055
And as a result, when we go down,
1734
01:31:02,123 --> 01:31:05,493
we now end up in
a situation where even though, yes,
1735
01:31:05,493 --> 01:31:08,596
his body weight
is on top of my strength line,
1736
01:31:08,596 --> 01:31:11,332
the arm was thin
before I committed to the floor,
1737
01:31:11,365 --> 01:31:13,367
before
my leg was pinned by body weight.
1738
01:31:13,634 --> 01:31:15,870
Now there's a sense
this is actually a positive thing.
1739
01:31:16,370 --> 01:31:18,372
Now his body weight is not only
1740
01:31:19,273 --> 01:31:22,944
pinning my leg, it's
pinning his right arm on this body.
1741
01:31:23,211 --> 01:31:25,880
And so it's even harder for him now
to escape the stranglehold.
1742
01:31:26,180 --> 01:31:29,884
It's a that, again,
from another angle, from a situation
1743
01:31:31,319 --> 01:31:34,155
where we start off in front of our
training partner and I wedge
1744
01:31:35,223 --> 01:31:39,060
the knee and behind
is step over the top from here.
1745
01:31:39,060 --> 01:31:41,496
When I roll my training partner over,
1746
01:31:41,496 --> 01:31:44,699
you can see the arms
trapped underneath the body.
1747
01:31:45,700 --> 01:31:46,067
And as a
1748
01:31:46,067 --> 01:31:49,303
result, when he tries
to pull his right arm free, it's
1749
01:31:49,303 --> 01:31:52,540
almost impossible with our combined
body weight is pinning in place
1750
01:31:52,874 --> 01:31:54,675
now, right
place and second hook over.
1751
01:31:54,675 --> 01:31:57,111
Yes, we've fallen
to the side of Australian,
1752
01:31:57,111 --> 01:31:59,914
but we've done
so after we trapped the arm
1753
01:32:01,749 --> 01:32:05,286
facing in this direction.
1754
01:32:05,286 --> 01:32:09,690
From here I go in and hook over
my training partner, his arm.
1755
01:32:10,358 --> 01:32:13,327
Now when we fall over,
1756
01:32:13,327 --> 01:32:17,031
you can see the arm as well, trapped
underneath both of our body weights.
1757
01:32:17,298 --> 01:32:21,502
I've fallen to the strangle
hand, done so in a way
1758
01:32:21,502 --> 01:32:24,472
which permitted me to hook
my opponents
1759
01:32:25,740 --> 01:32:28,509
defensive arm
because I made the hook prior
1760
01:32:28,509 --> 01:32:30,411
to falling down
to the side of the stream.
1761
01:32:30,411 --> 01:32:33,514
And what we can't do
1762
01:32:33,514 --> 01:32:35,082
is sitting
1763
01:32:35,883 --> 01:32:36,584
start off
1764
01:32:37,685 --> 01:32:40,254
on the floor,
fall to the side of the screen,
1765
01:32:40,254 --> 01:32:44,191
and now it's going to be impossible
for me to hook with my right leg.
1766
01:32:44,191 --> 01:32:44,725
My opponent's
1767
01:32:44,725 --> 01:32:47,395
right arm is he's literally
sitting on top of my right leg.
1768
01:32:47,728 --> 01:32:48,329
Okay.
1769
01:32:48,629 --> 01:32:51,933
I would have to, under these
circumstances, make a switch of side.
1770
01:32:52,266 --> 01:32:54,835
And then from here. Now I walk.
1771
01:32:55,403 --> 01:33:00,007
However, if I do wish to fall towards
the side of a strangle hand
1772
01:33:00,341 --> 01:33:03,611
and take advantage of the security
of falling in that direction,
1773
01:33:03,611 --> 01:33:07,315
then I must make my hook prior
to committing to the ground.
1774
01:33:07,582 --> 01:33:10,184
So it's typically done
in some kind of total situation.
1775
01:33:10,184 --> 01:33:12,486
For example,
if I go in on my training partner,
1776
01:33:12,553 --> 01:33:15,256
catch
now when we commit to the floor.
1777
01:33:16,857 --> 01:33:19,026
Yes, with form to the strangle side,
1778
01:33:19,560 --> 01:33:23,798
we do have the arm trapped arguably
in the best possible way because now
1779
01:33:23,798 --> 01:33:27,034
both of our body weight is helping
to assist in the pin of that arm.
1780
01:33:27,301 --> 01:33:30,271
And now we have an uncontested
scramble here and we're ready
1781
01:33:30,271 --> 01:33:33,274
to go through and finish.
1782
01:33:33,274 --> 01:33:36,510
So the problem of the pinned
arm states very clearly
1783
01:33:38,713 --> 01:33:41,582
that if we're
already in a rear mount position,
1784
01:33:41,782 --> 01:33:44,352
we ought to fall away from
1785
01:33:44,986 --> 01:33:48,122
the strangle hand, the exact
opposite of what we normally get told
1786
01:33:48,422 --> 01:33:52,159
if we're going to use our leg to hook
our opponents arm and hold it down
1787
01:33:52,159 --> 01:33:56,030
and overcome that deficit problem,
if, on the other hand,
1788
01:33:56,263 --> 01:33:57,531
when we're not yet down
1789
01:33:57,531 --> 01:33:59,734
the floor, we're in a safe example
turtle position
1790
01:33:59,934 --> 01:34:02,036
and we hooked the arm
prior to falling.
1791
01:34:02,036 --> 01:34:04,305
And then it's fine to fall down
to the side of the string.
1792
01:34:04,472 --> 01:34:05,806
In some ways even better,
1793
01:34:05,806 --> 01:34:08,976
because now both your body weight
is literally pinning
1794
01:34:08,976 --> 01:34:11,112
your opponent's arm behind his back
in a way that makes escape
1795
01:34:11,178 --> 01:34:13,214
extremely difficult.
1796
01:34:13,214 --> 01:34:13,881
When you
1797
01:34:14,348 --> 01:34:17,084
when you understand the problem
of the pin down in these fashion,
1798
01:34:17,084 --> 01:34:20,421
it becomes very obvious
which way you ought to prefer falling
1799
01:34:20,755 --> 01:34:23,024
depending upon the situation
in which you find yourself.
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