A fight to put last weeks BJJ 101 classes in context
Here’s something people don’t really think about until they start training: most people don’t train Jiu-Jitsu.
That matters more than almost anything.
When you put someone in a position you’ve practiced — mount, back control, side control — they don’t suddenly get smarter or more technical. They react the way people naturally react. which is 90+ percent of the time WRONG on the ground. They turn the wrong way. They push when they shouldn’t. And they give you openings without you having to force anything.
That’s why Jiu-Jitsu can feel like a superpower early on. Not because you’re doing anything fancy, but because you already know what they’re going to do next — and most of the time, it’s exactly the wrong thing.
Escapes are important
This week we’re working mount escapes and transitions, and this is where it all ties together. People think staying tight and not moving will protect them. It won’t. From the top, you can create motion just by understanding how people react under pressure or in a fight a few well place strikes is more than enough to get the action going in your favour.
Watch this fight and think, even without strikes, how similar the sequences are to what you are learning as your foundations of top control and finishing sequences.
That’s the value of really owning these key sequences in advance. You’re not guessing — you’re waiting.
Not rocket science folks the formula is there we just have apply it
watch you in a bit
— Coach
