Monday, 19 September 2016
Sunday, 11 September 2016
Grappling for JKD from MMA - the clinch range series
From my time at PROMAI MMA
Front body clinch (high under his armpits or at the base of the spine) - change level to side body clinch - move round for the single leg - quarter turn to knee tap. Maintain head or ear pressure throughout.
The clinch grip is not 50/50 through the arms. Pin one elbow to the hip and pull the hand towards you as if closing the gap with the blade of the forearm.
Double leg shoot with knee step - side body clinch - lift - change level for shoulder drive.
When shooting in keep the eyes up.
Shoulder control - defend with taking wrist control on far side arm - nearside arm - overlook - lift your elbow but drop the shoulder as you step the rear leg back and around for a throw - the throw will off balance him - transition to snap down head control - pin your shoulder through the control point between his shoulder blades.
Shoulder control (underhook)
Arm control (overhook)
Both sides then Switch sides
Learning points 3 points of pressure contact at all times.
Primary grip neck clinch: This is one of the 4 primary clinches. The optimum choice is 2 primary grips but we looked at a primary and secondary grip (wrist control). Key learning points with neck clinch:
• Eyes up
• Pressure through the head and strong neck posture
• Drive through his chest with your elbow
• Affect his balance with your lead leg
• Strong base and positive spine.
Double neck clinch:
• All of the above with the addition of:
• Use chest to deliver pressure.
• Chin on top of his head.
• Squeeze the elbows together.
Progression was into moving into the side @90 degrees perpendicular for single clinch, deliver 2 or 3 devastating knees then step away in stance ready for action.
Shoulder control: eyes to the centre of his head driving with the forehead, shoulder clamped tight with same arm elbow tight and down, take a secondary grip with the other arm and strong base so your legs and knee position are disrupting his.
Shoulder control with pummel escape and elbow strike: As he attempts to pummel out if provides you with an excellent opportunity, if timed well to elbow strike at close range.
Shoulder control with leg trip and takedown: This works as you move him around and his stance goes long and skinny. As you sweep the leg from under his hip, pull down on the shoulder, as if you are pulling the shoulder down to his hip. Having no base or balance means he should go to the floor with you following him closely into side control.
Shoulder control with single leg capture: Change the level and literally slide your face down his torso as the eyes need to stay up to promote a positive and strong posture. Reach through and around both of his legs as your chest should now be pressing into his hip and thigh, both palms facing down as you grip hand to wrist with your elbow crease behind his knee. Lift high.
Shoulder control with bicep cricket bowl escape: Thrust your bicep into his tricep which will cause his shoulder bones to lift then bowl the arm straight. It feels like you are using your skeleton and not muscle to perform the action whilst disrupting his skeleton. Similar to the leg trip takedown talked about before, you are affecting his structure which is a much harder thing to defend as muscles don’t do anything to stop the motion is done correctly.
Front body clinch: elbows pressure into the sides as if squeezing the lats. Having this done turned you more into a rag doll as your posture is controlled with greater ease. So how do you get out of the double underhooked front body clinch? One way is to get the pummel in when double undercooked by stepping back and turning the shoulder into the opponent. This should create a gap for the arm to swim through, then swap sides to repeat to establish your own under hooks. The key point here was the turning or driving of the shoulder into the opponent as this disrupts their base and grip to a greater extent.
Front body clinch lift from double hip capture. Rag them around and when the hips get close change the level and drop down for the double hip capture and lift, looking up to the ceiling.
Head control into inner forearm choke.
Defence against inner forearm choke: first job is to look up and get the spine positive and drive up. Failing that, turn your face towards him. As Lee put it, “Sniff his side”. This releases the neck slightly and will mean he will need to go to option B, details to follow. As the head turns to face him, drop your level and try to take side control and snake the front arm behind his knee. From here you can lift quite effortlessly and spin into a slamming takedown.
double leg takedown inside the opponent’s guard. Head needs to go on the belly between his elbows rather than on the outside of his torso. We worked on taking a long step and getting the ear on his belly. In some ways this is an emergency technique and good for when you are under striking pressure as a go to. The hands go on the backs of the knees but should not clasp the knees together. Instead think of continuing your forward motion and sweeping the legs out of the way. If you stop, as I did repeatedly, and then try to lift, scoop or move then the technique is much less effective. Your motion is key to this working more effortlessly and effectively.
Front body clinch (high under his armpits or at the base of the spine) - change level to side body clinch - move round for the single leg - quarter turn to knee tap. Maintain head or ear pressure throughout.
The clinch grip is not 50/50 through the arms. Pin one elbow to the hip and pull the hand towards you as if closing the gap with the blade of the forearm.
Double leg shoot with knee step - side body clinch - lift - change level for shoulder drive.
When shooting in keep the eyes up.
Shoulder control - defend with taking wrist control on far side arm - nearside arm - overlook - lift your elbow but drop the shoulder as you step the rear leg back and around for a throw - the throw will off balance him - transition to snap down head control - pin your shoulder through the control point between his shoulder blades.
Shoulder control (underhook)
Arm control (overhook)
Both sides then Switch sides
Learning points 3 points of pressure contact at all times.
Primary grip neck clinch: This is one of the 4 primary clinches. The optimum choice is 2 primary grips but we looked at a primary and secondary grip (wrist control). Key learning points with neck clinch:
• Eyes up
• Pressure through the head and strong neck posture
• Drive through his chest with your elbow
• Affect his balance with your lead leg
• Strong base and positive spine.
Double neck clinch:
• All of the above with the addition of:
• Use chest to deliver pressure.
• Chin on top of his head.
• Squeeze the elbows together.
Progression was into moving into the side @90 degrees perpendicular for single clinch, deliver 2 or 3 devastating knees then step away in stance ready for action.
Shoulder control: eyes to the centre of his head driving with the forehead, shoulder clamped tight with same arm elbow tight and down, take a secondary grip with the other arm and strong base so your legs and knee position are disrupting his.
Shoulder control with pummel escape and elbow strike: As he attempts to pummel out if provides you with an excellent opportunity, if timed well to elbow strike at close range.
Shoulder control with leg trip and takedown: This works as you move him around and his stance goes long and skinny. As you sweep the leg from under his hip, pull down on the shoulder, as if you are pulling the shoulder down to his hip. Having no base or balance means he should go to the floor with you following him closely into side control.
Shoulder control with single leg capture: Change the level and literally slide your face down his torso as the eyes need to stay up to promote a positive and strong posture. Reach through and around both of his legs as your chest should now be pressing into his hip and thigh, both palms facing down as you grip hand to wrist with your elbow crease behind his knee. Lift high.
Shoulder control with bicep cricket bowl escape: Thrust your bicep into his tricep which will cause his shoulder bones to lift then bowl the arm straight. It feels like you are using your skeleton and not muscle to perform the action whilst disrupting his skeleton. Similar to the leg trip takedown talked about before, you are affecting his structure which is a much harder thing to defend as muscles don’t do anything to stop the motion is done correctly.
Front body clinch: elbows pressure into the sides as if squeezing the lats. Having this done turned you more into a rag doll as your posture is controlled with greater ease. So how do you get out of the double underhooked front body clinch? One way is to get the pummel in when double undercooked by stepping back and turning the shoulder into the opponent. This should create a gap for the arm to swim through, then swap sides to repeat to establish your own under hooks. The key point here was the turning or driving of the shoulder into the opponent as this disrupts their base and grip to a greater extent.
Front body clinch lift from double hip capture. Rag them around and when the hips get close change the level and drop down for the double hip capture and lift, looking up to the ceiling.
Head control into inner forearm choke.
Defence against inner forearm choke: first job is to look up and get the spine positive and drive up. Failing that, turn your face towards him. As Lee put it, “Sniff his side”. This releases the neck slightly and will mean he will need to go to option B, details to follow. As the head turns to face him, drop your level and try to take side control and snake the front arm behind his knee. From here you can lift quite effortlessly and spin into a slamming takedown.
double leg takedown inside the opponent’s guard. Head needs to go on the belly between his elbows rather than on the outside of his torso. We worked on taking a long step and getting the ear on his belly. In some ways this is an emergency technique and good for when you are under striking pressure as a go to. The hands go on the backs of the knees but should not clasp the knees together. Instead think of continuing your forward motion and sweeping the legs out of the way. If you stop, as I did repeatedly, and then try to lift, scoop or move then the technique is much less effective. Your motion is key to this working more effortlessly and effectively.
Grappling for JKD from MMA - centre control series (the mount)
From my time in Workman Martial Arts and PROMAI MMA
Escapes from top control (mount)
First 3, practise in any order for a few rounds then looked at chaining any 3 motions together. Time to explore and experiment. The first 2 attempts 'fail' and the 3rd is a successful escape.
1: hip up and roll (blocking the arm in the direction you want to roll them).
2: hands on hips and lower knee out to full leg trap.
3: hand under armpits to elevate (as if you are sliding under them).
Technique 4: shrimping. This was practised as a solo drill moving around the floor then with our partners.
Other combination escapes from top control:
Elevation escape - they sit back - use this momentum to push on his hips for the shrimping escape.
Hip up and roll escape - drop hips to the floor and fall to the side and shrimp out. We did this in without our partners to drill the motion then with our partners
Elbow extension drilling
Chest with bicep compression
Grovit
Centre control detail: soles of the feet touching right near his arse, spine long and slightly concave, head higher than his, arms out wide as if free falling and just off the floor. This will put tremendous pressure on his torso. Feet are in tight as this prevents him from really being able to use them to escape the position. Hands out wide to counter any bridging he attempts. Chest relaxed and pressing down on his face. The hands and forearms can be used to re-centre his head under your chest.
Achieving centre control from side control: Establish strong control of his torso and head. Raise the far shoulder of the ground and pass with the following methods.
• Shoot the shin on to belly and pass.
• Passing the leg over dynamically (high arc).
• If they defend the pass by crossing the leg at the knees, pull on the blade of the foot. This should start him trying to defend a lower limb submission therefore he will want to pull the foot away. As you let go the foot will open a nice gap to enable the pass.
Upward and downward shoulder rotation: (DWL) from centre control then transitioning into side control to complete the submission.
From centre control if his arms come high to the head then attack with upward shoulder rotation, if he looks to control your posture with under hooks then look for the downward shoulder rotation. The key point of learning for me tonight was the angle of the arm under. I discovered by practise and observation that it needs to be nearer the elbow than the shoulder for tight and effective results.
Shin choke: pass the shin onto his neck, weight towards the foot or you will get rolled. This one finishes quickly. It looks like a simplified gogoplata from mount.
Triangle: sitting in a nice a high mount offering attack to the head. He should cover up this giving you the chance to gain wrist control, push it to his chest as you step over put the shin behind his neck. Fall to the side as you close the triangle
Leg over sit on arm. Essentially you are sitting on the shoulder joint. This was my first experience of this position. This does require lower body dexterity as you need to essentially triangle his arm. Take a tricep control keeping the arm nice and tight. From this position we then learned a series of submissions.
Fall into an inner leg suppression. It is important to get it in very quick as if you don't they will escape or pass. Secondly arm extension. Thirdly wrist compression.
Calf compression: Heel to heel under their legs, feed one instep over their thigh, manipulate the arm to extend above their head to give them extra things to think about. Turn towards your feet and ensure your shin in tight in behind their knee and calf. Look to grab the foot and pull towards yourself. Your shin bone will compress the back quarter side of their calf causing plenty of distress. Key is keeping weight on them throughout the transition to the leg to avoid escape.
Bicep compression: Feed an arm across his neck and put your weight on this. Already this is an unpleasant feeling from the bottom position. Secure your elbows on the floor either side of his head, palms on the mat too. Same side as arm across, feed your arm through the armpit on to the side of his face so that your palm is on his ear. Now move your elbow back onto his ribs to apply pressure to the bicep. Now grip palm to palm and turn the hands to the sky to finish the compression. If not working you can put the top hand on top of his forearm to cinch it in even tighter.
Calf suppression from sitting centre control: Sitting on his belly turn towards his legs and drive the forearm behind on of his knees. Then use your other side leg to trap your arm in position. Then use your other leg to complete the hold. It looks like a suppression (triangle) of your own arm and his leg. Fall to your shoulder and turn the forearm towards the soft tissue of the calf.
INVERTED CENTRE CONTROL:
Submission from north south: Instead of taking the inner forearm head control (guillotine) you assume a reverse version and insert a fist suppression to the front of throat for a painful and swift submission.
Elbow extension from the same position.
Escapes from top control (mount)
First 3, practise in any order for a few rounds then looked at chaining any 3 motions together. Time to explore and experiment. The first 2 attempts 'fail' and the 3rd is a successful escape.
1: hip up and roll (blocking the arm in the direction you want to roll them).
2: hands on hips and lower knee out to full leg trap.
3: hand under armpits to elevate (as if you are sliding under them).
Technique 4: shrimping. This was practised as a solo drill moving around the floor then with our partners.
Other combination escapes from top control:
Elevation escape - they sit back - use this momentum to push on his hips for the shrimping escape.
Hip up and roll escape - drop hips to the floor and fall to the side and shrimp out. We did this in without our partners to drill the motion then with our partners
Elbow extension drilling
Chest with bicep compression
Grovit
Centre control detail: soles of the feet touching right near his arse, spine long and slightly concave, head higher than his, arms out wide as if free falling and just off the floor. This will put tremendous pressure on his torso. Feet are in tight as this prevents him from really being able to use them to escape the position. Hands out wide to counter any bridging he attempts. Chest relaxed and pressing down on his face. The hands and forearms can be used to re-centre his head under your chest.
Achieving centre control from side control: Establish strong control of his torso and head. Raise the far shoulder of the ground and pass with the following methods.
• Shoot the shin on to belly and pass.
• Passing the leg over dynamically (high arc).
• If they defend the pass by crossing the leg at the knees, pull on the blade of the foot. This should start him trying to defend a lower limb submission therefore he will want to pull the foot away. As you let go the foot will open a nice gap to enable the pass.
Upward and downward shoulder rotation: (DWL) from centre control then transitioning into side control to complete the submission.
From centre control if his arms come high to the head then attack with upward shoulder rotation, if he looks to control your posture with under hooks then look for the downward shoulder rotation. The key point of learning for me tonight was the angle of the arm under. I discovered by practise and observation that it needs to be nearer the elbow than the shoulder for tight and effective results.
Shin choke: pass the shin onto his neck, weight towards the foot or you will get rolled. This one finishes quickly. It looks like a simplified gogoplata from mount.
Triangle: sitting in a nice a high mount offering attack to the head. He should cover up this giving you the chance to gain wrist control, push it to his chest as you step over put the shin behind his neck. Fall to the side as you close the triangle
Leg over sit on arm. Essentially you are sitting on the shoulder joint. This was my first experience of this position. This does require lower body dexterity as you need to essentially triangle his arm. Take a tricep control keeping the arm nice and tight. From this position we then learned a series of submissions.
Fall into an inner leg suppression. It is important to get it in very quick as if you don't they will escape or pass. Secondly arm extension. Thirdly wrist compression.
Calf compression: Heel to heel under their legs, feed one instep over their thigh, manipulate the arm to extend above their head to give them extra things to think about. Turn towards your feet and ensure your shin in tight in behind their knee and calf. Look to grab the foot and pull towards yourself. Your shin bone will compress the back quarter side of their calf causing plenty of distress. Key is keeping weight on them throughout the transition to the leg to avoid escape.
Bicep compression: Feed an arm across his neck and put your weight on this. Already this is an unpleasant feeling from the bottom position. Secure your elbows on the floor either side of his head, palms on the mat too. Same side as arm across, feed your arm through the armpit on to the side of his face so that your palm is on his ear. Now move your elbow back onto his ribs to apply pressure to the bicep. Now grip palm to palm and turn the hands to the sky to finish the compression. If not working you can put the top hand on top of his forearm to cinch it in even tighter.
Calf suppression from sitting centre control: Sitting on his belly turn towards his legs and drive the forearm behind on of his knees. Then use your other side leg to trap your arm in position. Then use your other leg to complete the hold. It looks like a suppression (triangle) of your own arm and his leg. Fall to your shoulder and turn the forearm towards the soft tissue of the calf.
INVERTED CENTRE CONTROL:
Submission from north south: Instead of taking the inner forearm head control (guillotine) you assume a reverse version and insert a fist suppression to the front of throat for a painful and swift submission.
Elbow extension from the same position.
Grappling for JKD from MMA - the leg submission series
Ankle extension against sitting back control:
Sitting on the floor, partner takes your back and wraps his legs around your body, feet resting at groin crease. He makes the error of crossing his legs at the ankles. Pull his feet away but keep them crossed and over hook your same side leg as the leg he has on top. Lever your knee to the floor as you raise your hips fro the finish.
Ankle rotation from side control into 3 variants:
Basic:
Side control - he defends the pass by crossing his legs - reach with the head side arm for the outside edge of his foot the is crossed on the knee. Insert your other hand as if to DWL the ankle - turn his ankle towards his chest for the rotation finish.
Square to him:
As above but move so that you're facing him with his shin across your belly, finish by turning that little toe towards his chest.
Sitting on his leg:
As above bit sit on the leg that is not being controlled. This will greatly limit his ability to move or escape.
Fake the ankle rotation to set up for full mount:
Lee said this was something Rickson used to do attack the foot in side control, as if going for the submission, his opponent would feel this and pull the leg away thus setting themselves up to be easily passed from side control into centre control (mount)
Knee extension from side control:
Person on their back recovers for a full leg trap (half guard) - press down on the face to stop the body turning - step over and sit on his torso - underhook his knee and hug it to your chest - keeping it tight lean back and lie next to him (bring the leg with you) - squeeze your knee together - head next to his foot - look back over your head as you push your hips for the finish.
Calf compression from side control:
Lee did this to me several weeks ago, it took two weeks for the bruising to go down after the 2 days of swelling on the leg!)
Find yourself in a similar position (sitting on his belly as above) - underhook the leg behind the knee so the hand is just past. You want ultimately to rotate the wrist bones into the top of the calf. Before the rotation you need to trap his leg, fall to your side, figure four your legs then turn the wrist for the finish. This one is tricky for me to articulate, I can visualise it just struggle to put it down into words that make sense.
Sakuraba leg attacks:
Setting up the ankle rotation from open bottom control.
Rolling with the ankle rotation so you end up on your back.
Sitting in reverse mount so that you are straddling one of his legs. Go for the knee bar, he prevents by blocking with his other foot, go for the ankle rotation, he extends so fall back for the knee extension finish.
Sitting on the floor, partner takes your back and wraps his legs around your body, feet resting at groin crease. He makes the error of crossing his legs at the ankles. Pull his feet away but keep them crossed and over hook your same side leg as the leg he has on top. Lever your knee to the floor as you raise your hips fro the finish.
Ankle rotation from side control into 3 variants:
Basic:
Side control - he defends the pass by crossing his legs - reach with the head side arm for the outside edge of his foot the is crossed on the knee. Insert your other hand as if to DWL the ankle - turn his ankle towards his chest for the rotation finish.
Square to him:
As above but move so that you're facing him with his shin across your belly, finish by turning that little toe towards his chest.
Sitting on his leg:
As above bit sit on the leg that is not being controlled. This will greatly limit his ability to move or escape.
Fake the ankle rotation to set up for full mount:
Lee said this was something Rickson used to do attack the foot in side control, as if going for the submission, his opponent would feel this and pull the leg away thus setting themselves up to be easily passed from side control into centre control (mount)
Knee extension from side control:
Person on their back recovers for a full leg trap (half guard) - press down on the face to stop the body turning - step over and sit on his torso - underhook his knee and hug it to your chest - keeping it tight lean back and lie next to him (bring the leg with you) - squeeze your knee together - head next to his foot - look back over your head as you push your hips for the finish.
Calf compression from side control:
Lee did this to me several weeks ago, it took two weeks for the bruising to go down after the 2 days of swelling on the leg!)
Find yourself in a similar position (sitting on his belly as above) - underhook the leg behind the knee so the hand is just past. You want ultimately to rotate the wrist bones into the top of the calf. Before the rotation you need to trap his leg, fall to your side, figure four your legs then turn the wrist for the finish. This one is tricky for me to articulate, I can visualise it just struggle to put it down into words that make sense.
Sakuraba leg attacks:
Setting up the ankle rotation from open bottom control.
Rolling with the ankle rotation so you end up on your back.
Sitting in reverse mount so that you are straddling one of his legs. Go for the knee bar, he prevents by blocking with his other foot, go for the ankle rotation, he extends so fall back for the knee extension finish.
Grappling for JKD from MMA - side control series
Jumping over to the opposite side. HEAD TO HEAD PRESSURE IS KEY. This stops him trying to get his arm out.
Closing with the suppression by grabbing your opposite bicep. This gives you more depth and tightness on the arm in side.
Closing the suppression with the palm to palm grip. Flatten your hips down and get perpendicular to him. This give more space for his arm that is in but is tighter on the side you are closing with the bicep on the neck.
Shoulder and bicep from side back control.
Shoulder and bicep from sitting back control.
All throughout each submission was the necessity to keep the head pressure
Side control escapes drilling x 4 individual and then chaining them in sets of 3
1: knee escape
2: hip up and roll
3: swim under the lat and swim out
4: inverted under the belly spin and escape
Submissions from inverted side control - using the legs.
inverted side control whilst holding your own leg
switching positions from side to inverted
Elbow extension by hooking with the top leg
Shoulder rotation
Elbow extension as he escapes the shoulder rotation by crossing the legs
Attacking the elbow extension straight away from inverted by hooking your ankle over the wrist
Bicep compression from pre elbow extension: top arm under (through his elbow crease) and same leg crossing over into what looks like a triangle or figure four position. This is because you are better balanced here as we'll as the arm and leg tie up works better from here. Small part of the forearm near the wrist bone will be digging in nicely to the bicep.
Bicep compression when opponent is in turtle position: Side back control and wrist control on his outer arm. Feed the other through as you dive over and elegantly face plant. Squeeze the knees together (your shins will now be on his torso and neck respectively) making sure his arm angle is straight from the shoulder to the wrist (whilst folded) to complete the compression.
Side control to leg attack, as if hunting for the knee extension: They cross their legs to prevent to submission so you manipulate the heel, lever the forearms. This causes his lower shin to be compress his lower calf, if fails then the knee extension is there.
Upward shoulder rotation (DWL): From control we can start to look for submissions. The worst case scenario is that you don’t get the sub but his arm is now depleted and thus a less effective tool for him. Best case is a submission. If you have control of his arm then take your time with this, rushing will create gaps and errors. When you have wrist control, use the head high knee against his head and same side elbow.
Key learning points were maintain the angles of 90 degrees. In upward grab his and your own wrist as close to the hand as possible, paint a straight line with the back of the hand on the floor.
Elbow extension: As he fights to escape by straightening the arm you can now look at the elbow extension. Make sure his elbow is off the floor as this adds to the pressure and the sub will come on a lot quicker.
Striking whilst controlling: attack the arm with elbow strikes to do nothing other than cause pain and frustration to him. You can dig the tip of the elbow into the head of the deltoid muscle which will be tense and thus cause lots of pain.
Shoulder control: Use the shoulder to pin his shoulder or face to the mat, use the head to keep the gaps tiny so there is no room for him to work an arm in for underhooks.
Escaping side control by getting to the knees using lat control: Firstly you need to create space as if his side control tight there will be none. Push the head or angle your body away to create a gap between his shoulder pressing down and yours. When the gap appears work the arm in and through for the underhook and most importantly is to turn to your knees as quickly as you can. From here wrap the arm around and grab a hold of his lat muscle. This will enable you to pull on it for 2 effects.
Number 1, if he braces against the pull then you have a solid structure to work against to get the legs out from under him. Number 2 is that he pushes back into to you so you simply roll him back over you. Your forearm will be against his hip so you are pretty much effortlessly using his structure to sweep him. Very little power is needed, just his applying his momentum against him.
Calf compression: Naturally they should have the cross leg defensive position to prevent your attempts to move to top control and then want to slide the knee into your centre to begin escaping from side control. This is the bait. Allow their knee to come inside, as it does insert your forearm around and behind the knee. An overhook rather than an underhook, a tight one. Now for the tough part. Step over and insert your foot between his legs and close to his hips. It is hard because it require swift dexterity. It also means his leg is tightly wrapped. From here use the forearm bone on the outside of his calf for the pain.
Side to top to side control to side. Time to be creative with passes from side to top. Tried to use knee on belly and invert side control to control the base to move through the positions. Really tough as soon as they pull half guard you are done and it was their turn
Downward shoulder rotation series (DWL) From side control, from bottom control, into elbow extension, hip facing elbow = dsr, hips facing back of the elbow = extension
Chest spin pass to other side when the opponent looks to turn in on their side to escape. Pull the shoulder and press the head down so that they look at
their belly, maintain pressure through your chest and spin to opposite side for side control. If, in defending, they get the knee in, you can switch to inverted side control. Grab and lift the tricep as you sit your hips through into his armpit. Hips are off the floor and weight through his rib cage. If they chose to defend badly by extending an arm then you can go the head and arm triangle (shoulder and bicep suppression I think).
3 escapes from side control.
1: elbow to knee to create space and get to shin in ground control. Wrap other leg around their back and manipulate your hips to recover to full ground control.
2: lower hand drives and squeezes through his armpit gap and get double shoulder control. As you hip up and drive extend the scooped arm and roll him over.
3: pin his head high knee by placing your elbow on the floor and trying to squeeze it to your own hip. Manipulate your body so to elongate and narrow his base. Bridge and roll him over into side control.
Inverted side control:
Key points: leg side leg sweeps under own hips, weight on his chest, tight bicep grip and elbow clamp, no gap between you and his armpit so he can't escape, hips off the floor and weight driving into his chest.
Knee extension: he goes to hook a leg in escaping from the inverted side control so dive for the foot and pull it into to the side of your neck. Feet on his arse, knees clamped together, one hand control his foot as the other wraps the lower leg to your chest. Extend and arch backwards with tight control for the sub.
Forearm with shoulder suppression: Let him escape by trying to push the face. As his arm straightens push past it and throw the head to the floor as you get your hips to the floor quickly too. Palm to palm grip and drive down with the shoulder hopefully closing the sub off.
Reversal sweep: Keep him moving and disrupt his base, feel for the gap and roll him over (timing not strength).
Closing with the suppression by grabbing your opposite bicep. This gives you more depth and tightness on the arm in side.
Closing the suppression with the palm to palm grip. Flatten your hips down and get perpendicular to him. This give more space for his arm that is in but is tighter on the side you are closing with the bicep on the neck.
Shoulder and bicep from side back control.
Shoulder and bicep from sitting back control.
All throughout each submission was the necessity to keep the head pressure
Side control escapes drilling x 4 individual and then chaining them in sets of 3
1: knee escape
2: hip up and roll
3: swim under the lat and swim out
4: inverted under the belly spin and escape
Submissions from inverted side control - using the legs.
inverted side control whilst holding your own leg
switching positions from side to inverted
Elbow extension by hooking with the top leg
Shoulder rotation
Elbow extension as he escapes the shoulder rotation by crossing the legs
Attacking the elbow extension straight away from inverted by hooking your ankle over the wrist
Bicep compression from pre elbow extension: top arm under (through his elbow crease) and same leg crossing over into what looks like a triangle or figure four position. This is because you are better balanced here as we'll as the arm and leg tie up works better from here. Small part of the forearm near the wrist bone will be digging in nicely to the bicep.
Bicep compression when opponent is in turtle position: Side back control and wrist control on his outer arm. Feed the other through as you dive over and elegantly face plant. Squeeze the knees together (your shins will now be on his torso and neck respectively) making sure his arm angle is straight from the shoulder to the wrist (whilst folded) to complete the compression.
Side control to leg attack, as if hunting for the knee extension: They cross their legs to prevent to submission so you manipulate the heel, lever the forearms. This causes his lower shin to be compress his lower calf, if fails then the knee extension is there.
Upward shoulder rotation (DWL): From control we can start to look for submissions. The worst case scenario is that you don’t get the sub but his arm is now depleted and thus a less effective tool for him. Best case is a submission. If you have control of his arm then take your time with this, rushing will create gaps and errors. When you have wrist control, use the head high knee against his head and same side elbow.
Key learning points were maintain the angles of 90 degrees. In upward grab his and your own wrist as close to the hand as possible, paint a straight line with the back of the hand on the floor.
Elbow extension: As he fights to escape by straightening the arm you can now look at the elbow extension. Make sure his elbow is off the floor as this adds to the pressure and the sub will come on a lot quicker.
Striking whilst controlling: attack the arm with elbow strikes to do nothing other than cause pain and frustration to him. You can dig the tip of the elbow into the head of the deltoid muscle which will be tense and thus cause lots of pain.
Shoulder control: Use the shoulder to pin his shoulder or face to the mat, use the head to keep the gaps tiny so there is no room for him to work an arm in for underhooks.
Escaping side control by getting to the knees using lat control: Firstly you need to create space as if his side control tight there will be none. Push the head or angle your body away to create a gap between his shoulder pressing down and yours. When the gap appears work the arm in and through for the underhook and most importantly is to turn to your knees as quickly as you can. From here wrap the arm around and grab a hold of his lat muscle. This will enable you to pull on it for 2 effects.
Number 1, if he braces against the pull then you have a solid structure to work against to get the legs out from under him. Number 2 is that he pushes back into to you so you simply roll him back over you. Your forearm will be against his hip so you are pretty much effortlessly using his structure to sweep him. Very little power is needed, just his applying his momentum against him.
Calf compression: Naturally they should have the cross leg defensive position to prevent your attempts to move to top control and then want to slide the knee into your centre to begin escaping from side control. This is the bait. Allow their knee to come inside, as it does insert your forearm around and behind the knee. An overhook rather than an underhook, a tight one. Now for the tough part. Step over and insert your foot between his legs and close to his hips. It is hard because it require swift dexterity. It also means his leg is tightly wrapped. From here use the forearm bone on the outside of his calf for the pain.
Side to top to side control to side. Time to be creative with passes from side to top. Tried to use knee on belly and invert side control to control the base to move through the positions. Really tough as soon as they pull half guard you are done and it was their turn
Downward shoulder rotation series (DWL) From side control, from bottom control, into elbow extension, hip facing elbow = dsr, hips facing back of the elbow = extension
Chest spin pass to other side when the opponent looks to turn in on their side to escape. Pull the shoulder and press the head down so that they look at
their belly, maintain pressure through your chest and spin to opposite side for side control. If, in defending, they get the knee in, you can switch to inverted side control. Grab and lift the tricep as you sit your hips through into his armpit. Hips are off the floor and weight through his rib cage. If they chose to defend badly by extending an arm then you can go the head and arm triangle (shoulder and bicep suppression I think).
3 escapes from side control.
1: elbow to knee to create space and get to shin in ground control. Wrap other leg around their back and manipulate your hips to recover to full ground control.
2: lower hand drives and squeezes through his armpit gap and get double shoulder control. As you hip up and drive extend the scooped arm and roll him over.
3: pin his head high knee by placing your elbow on the floor and trying to squeeze it to your own hip. Manipulate your body so to elongate and narrow his base. Bridge and roll him over into side control.
Inverted side control:
Key points: leg side leg sweeps under own hips, weight on his chest, tight bicep grip and elbow clamp, no gap between you and his armpit so he can't escape, hips off the floor and weight driving into his chest.
Knee extension: he goes to hook a leg in escaping from the inverted side control so dive for the foot and pull it into to the side of your neck. Feet on his arse, knees clamped together, one hand control his foot as the other wraps the lower leg to your chest. Extend and arch backwards with tight control for the sub.
Forearm with shoulder suppression: Let him escape by trying to push the face. As his arm straightens push past it and throw the head to the floor as you get your hips to the floor quickly too. Palm to palm grip and drive down with the shoulder hopefully closing the sub off.
Reversal sweep: Keep him moving and disrupt his base, feel for the gap and roll him over (timing not strength).
Grappling for JKD from MMA - the triangle
Leg with shoulder suppression(triangle) to downward shoulder rotation (kimura)
If they try to defend the triangle by hooking the freearm under your hips, this prevents you from passing the leg across your hips to close the choke. Hold his head tight and keep his structure folded, swap the legs over as this will apply more pressure to his shoulder and not the neck. Keep your alignment on the same plane as his chest. Squeeze your knee towards your chest and begin to manipulate the arm around your leg for the double wrist lock (upward shoulder rotation). A key point when applying the DWL is to pin your elbow to your chest as the fulcrum. The will ensure his ability to escape is limited. Now you can line your torso off line to him to get the arm.
Escape from shoulder with leg suppression (triangle):
Separation - getting the head away from the shoulder which the opponent is trying to close off. Posture up, lift the chin, the eyes, push on his torso and get the knees behind his hips.
The next step of the ladder is to pass a leg on to his chest, this will cause further separation and make the breaking down of your posture extremely difficult. You might end up in a 50/50 fight for legs submissions but better this than getting choked out.
He might now go for the elbow extension as the arm is extended whilst you are on your knees.
Option one as he looks to pass the legs is to simply rip the elbow out past his hips.
Option two is to fold the arm back to your hip and chest spin 270 degrees over his legs into something looking like side control.
With fist suppression (pulse side of the neck) from triangle
Fist choke (fist to centre of throat) from triangle
If they try to defend the triangle by hooking the freearm under your hips, this prevents you from passing the leg across your hips to close the choke. Hold his head tight and keep his structure folded, swap the legs over as this will apply more pressure to his shoulder and not the neck. Keep your alignment on the same plane as his chest. Squeeze your knee towards your chest and begin to manipulate the arm around your leg for the double wrist lock (upward shoulder rotation). A key point when applying the DWL is to pin your elbow to your chest as the fulcrum. The will ensure his ability to escape is limited. Now you can line your torso off line to him to get the arm.
Escape from shoulder with leg suppression (triangle):
Separation - getting the head away from the shoulder which the opponent is trying to close off. Posture up, lift the chin, the eyes, push on his torso and get the knees behind his hips.
The next step of the ladder is to pass a leg on to his chest, this will cause further separation and make the breaking down of your posture extremely difficult. You might end up in a 50/50 fight for legs submissions but better this than getting choked out.
He might now go for the elbow extension as the arm is extended whilst you are on your knees.
Option one as he looks to pass the legs is to simply rip the elbow out past his hips.
Option two is to fold the arm back to your hip and chest spin 270 degrees over his legs into something looking like side control.
With fist suppression (pulse side of the neck) from triangle
Fist choke (fist to centre of throat) from triangle
Grappling for JKD from MMA - bottom control series (from your back)
These methods were from Workman Martial Arts and PROMAI MMA
Shin choke (gogoplata)
Elbow extension (arm bar)
Triangle
Shoulder rotations (DWL)
Shoulder with bicep
Inner forearm choke
Chaining submissions from bottom control (guard) - downward shoulder rotation (double wrist lock) to - leg and shoulder suppression (triangle) to
elbow extension (arm bar)
Elbow extension to gogoplata
Grovit
Half guard recovery: Top player needs to pass the legs to side control, bottom player then needs to shrimp out and recover what is almost an invisible half guard. Lower leg is through their legs whilst higher leg (hamstring) is on the far shoulder. The drill continues as a pass and recovers drill. It is a great drill to develop fluidity of the hips and awareness of your back of the floor. It is generally better to be on your side.
Posture breaking: underhook an arm, palm to palm grip and pull him down on to you. Compress his tricep with top forearm. A very important point is that you must use the body and the arms to apply pressure. In this position arms are pulling down as chest is squeezing up. Several options now: Attempt to create pain on the tricep, arch the chest to pass the arm over to then grab far side lat and escape out or allow him a small space to try to escape by pulling his across your chest.
Arm across escape: Scissor your arm so that one is on his tricep and the on his face, and as if opening his posture. Control the head then you control the body.
Outside leg over: As you scissor turn your head towards his knee so that you are now perpendicular. As I have attacked the right arm initially, this move now means I need to pivot to the left. As I am pivoting I need to move my hips. The outside leg, for this example it was my right leg, sweeps over his face. The hamstring needs to right on his face.
Compress yourself: To enable tight control pull the knees into your chest and squeeze his back with your calves. The idea is that you are almost making yourself into a ball. This will make the position very tight for him. It is possible even without using your hands to establish control for a good 5 seconds. To make the control even tighter reach up and pull his near side shoulder down into your legs and tighten your vice like grip.
Sweep: Control a forearm and pin the hand to the floor, same side leg pinned across his back, reach over and clasp the tricep of the arm on the floor. Post up onto your hand and hip up for the sweep into top control.
Super grip shoulder control: Over the traps so the shoulder is forced down and the elbow pins the head to prevent movement.
Guard pass: Sitting back and sticking knee in the centre of his hips will open his guard.
Transition from side to inverted
Downward shoulder rotation (DWL) with the leg
Own leg grab with head control
Elbow extension with pushing the shoulder down
Ankle extension: Starting from an open bottom control position, he has one foot one your hip so this is ankle you are going to attack. Wrap the forearm under the calf as you step up to have both feet close to his hips and as you sit your hips go close to your heels. As you lie back squeeze the knees together and allow the forearm to slide down his leg. You should feel the bridge of his foot against your lat or top of the shoulder. Make sure that forearm bone (radius) is nice and tight and the bottom of the calf muscle. Look behind and over yourself to complete the ankle extension.
Defence to this and that is as soon as they start to lie back you need to relax the leg, shoot the foot behind him and sit up by pulling on his neck for anchorage. Maintaining the neck control you can pass to the side or either with a crushing knee on belly control.
Downward shoulder rotation series (DWL) into elbow extension, hip facing elbow = dsr, hips facing back of the elbow = extension
Leg lock from the open guard position. Start is if going to pass with shin over their thigh and make sure that the foot is placed deep under their thigh. When you look to pass with the shin it will be much deeper and have an opening of the hips preventing him from escaping easily to another position. Instead of passing hold the high leg and sit back as you come under his leg with yours. You are essentially clasping his leg between yours. Now that you have his leg clasped you can begin to work on the lower part of his leg for the submission.
Achilles compression: With his toes under your armpit insert your inner forearm bone against his tendon to apply pressure.
Heel hook: this is a much more devastating submission due to the potential long term injury the leg can suffer. With his toes under your armpit roll towards them lifting the far side shoulder off the floor.
Knee bar: As he stands to stack your guard, underhook an ankle and move your hips to allow taking him down by manipulating with your legs. As he goes down wrap his leg for the knee extension. Get the hips against his knee to act as the most powerful fulcrum.
Calf suppression: Could be my new most favourite sub. From open guard, keep his mind active with your hands as your lower shin looks to 'rest' on the back of his knee. When the time is right swim under his arms, take your head towards the foot you are going for, this will help to give you more power and leverage in the compression. Put that foot back with your lower shin compressing nicely against his calf. A sweet, sweet submission.
Guillotine baiting inside guard to jumping pass into head and arm triangle.
Folded elbow extension: Straight elbow extension = classic arm bar image. The arm is straight from the wrist to the shoulder and away from the body. Folded elbow extension = The arm is folded across their centreline from the shoulder.
Inner leg with shoulder suppression detail (TRIANGLE):The ‘with’ part of the technique refers to using part of his body. In this case the shoulder under his chin. We worked from bottom control and opponent helped to drill the technique by looking to pass guard by under hooking one leg and thus giving the move up to you
• Capture own shin behind his head as soon as inner thigh on neck.
• Have own lower leg across the back of his neck, perpendicular to your hips.
• Ankle not foot under crease of knee – ensure a tighter control.
• Heel of top leg at his side and not on his back.
• Hip up to get his arm across, feed it necessary during the hip up.
• Pull down on back of head to speed up the suppression.
• To close even more, hook your arm around the opponent’s leg that is on the same side as your inner thigh on his neck. Most people perform the suppression square on to opponent. By turning to look down your leg that is over his neck it closes the suppression very quickly thus his chances of escape are dramatically reduced.
Shin choke (gogoplata)
Elbow extension (arm bar)
Triangle
Shoulder rotations (DWL)
Shoulder with bicep
Inner forearm choke
Chaining submissions from bottom control (guard) - downward shoulder rotation (double wrist lock) to - leg and shoulder suppression (triangle) to
elbow extension (arm bar)
Elbow extension to gogoplata
Grovit
Half guard recovery: Top player needs to pass the legs to side control, bottom player then needs to shrimp out and recover what is almost an invisible half guard. Lower leg is through their legs whilst higher leg (hamstring) is on the far shoulder. The drill continues as a pass and recovers drill. It is a great drill to develop fluidity of the hips and awareness of your back of the floor. It is generally better to be on your side.
Posture breaking: underhook an arm, palm to palm grip and pull him down on to you. Compress his tricep with top forearm. A very important point is that you must use the body and the arms to apply pressure. In this position arms are pulling down as chest is squeezing up. Several options now: Attempt to create pain on the tricep, arch the chest to pass the arm over to then grab far side lat and escape out or allow him a small space to try to escape by pulling his across your chest.
Arm across escape: Scissor your arm so that one is on his tricep and the on his face, and as if opening his posture. Control the head then you control the body.
Outside leg over: As you scissor turn your head towards his knee so that you are now perpendicular. As I have attacked the right arm initially, this move now means I need to pivot to the left. As I am pivoting I need to move my hips. The outside leg, for this example it was my right leg, sweeps over his face. The hamstring needs to right on his face.
Compress yourself: To enable tight control pull the knees into your chest and squeeze his back with your calves. The idea is that you are almost making yourself into a ball. This will make the position very tight for him. It is possible even without using your hands to establish control for a good 5 seconds. To make the control even tighter reach up and pull his near side shoulder down into your legs and tighten your vice like grip.
Sweep: Control a forearm and pin the hand to the floor, same side leg pinned across his back, reach over and clasp the tricep of the arm on the floor. Post up onto your hand and hip up for the sweep into top control.
Super grip shoulder control: Over the traps so the shoulder is forced down and the elbow pins the head to prevent movement.
Guard pass: Sitting back and sticking knee in the centre of his hips will open his guard.
Transition from side to inverted
Downward shoulder rotation (DWL) with the leg
Own leg grab with head control
Elbow extension with pushing the shoulder down
Ankle extension: Starting from an open bottom control position, he has one foot one your hip so this is ankle you are going to attack. Wrap the forearm under the calf as you step up to have both feet close to his hips and as you sit your hips go close to your heels. As you lie back squeeze the knees together and allow the forearm to slide down his leg. You should feel the bridge of his foot against your lat or top of the shoulder. Make sure that forearm bone (radius) is nice and tight and the bottom of the calf muscle. Look behind and over yourself to complete the ankle extension.
Defence to this and that is as soon as they start to lie back you need to relax the leg, shoot the foot behind him and sit up by pulling on his neck for anchorage. Maintaining the neck control you can pass to the side or either with a crushing knee on belly control.
Downward shoulder rotation series (DWL) into elbow extension, hip facing elbow = dsr, hips facing back of the elbow = extension
Leg lock from the open guard position. Start is if going to pass with shin over their thigh and make sure that the foot is placed deep under their thigh. When you look to pass with the shin it will be much deeper and have an opening of the hips preventing him from escaping easily to another position. Instead of passing hold the high leg and sit back as you come under his leg with yours. You are essentially clasping his leg between yours. Now that you have his leg clasped you can begin to work on the lower part of his leg for the submission.
Achilles compression: With his toes under your armpit insert your inner forearm bone against his tendon to apply pressure.
Heel hook: this is a much more devastating submission due to the potential long term injury the leg can suffer. With his toes under your armpit roll towards them lifting the far side shoulder off the floor.
Knee bar: As he stands to stack your guard, underhook an ankle and move your hips to allow taking him down by manipulating with your legs. As he goes down wrap his leg for the knee extension. Get the hips against his knee to act as the most powerful fulcrum.
Calf suppression: Could be my new most favourite sub. From open guard, keep his mind active with your hands as your lower shin looks to 'rest' on the back of his knee. When the time is right swim under his arms, take your head towards the foot you are going for, this will help to give you more power and leverage in the compression. Put that foot back with your lower shin compressing nicely against his calf. A sweet, sweet submission.
Guillotine baiting inside guard to jumping pass into head and arm triangle.
Folded elbow extension: Straight elbow extension = classic arm bar image. The arm is straight from the wrist to the shoulder and away from the body. Folded elbow extension = The arm is folded across their centreline from the shoulder.
Inner leg with shoulder suppression detail (TRIANGLE):The ‘with’ part of the technique refers to using part of his body. In this case the shoulder under his chin. We worked from bottom control and opponent helped to drill the technique by looking to pass guard by under hooking one leg and thus giving the move up to you
• Capture own shin behind his head as soon as inner thigh on neck.
• Have own lower leg across the back of his neck, perpendicular to your hips.
• Ankle not foot under crease of knee – ensure a tighter control.
• Heel of top leg at his side and not on his back.
• Hip up to get his arm across, feed it necessary during the hip up.
• Pull down on back of head to speed up the suppression.
• To close even more, hook your arm around the opponent’s leg that is on the same side as your inner thigh on his neck. Most people perform the suppression square on to opponent. By turning to look down your leg that is over his neck it closes the suppression very quickly thus his chances of escape are dramatically reduced.
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