Controlling your opponents movement in Jiu-Jitsu
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Controlling your opponents movement in Jiu-Jitsu is one of the most important aspects of your BJJ game. There are many forms of physical control in Jiu-Jitsu – positional control, balance control, grip control – the list is long; but the single most important form of physical control is control over an opponent’s movement. If you can achieve this, victory is just a matter of time. What you will find is that control over an opponent’s movement is really the sum of all the other forms of control added together. It is the final ideal of control that you must seek.
Committing to a move in Jiu-Jitsu
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Committing to a move In Jiu-Jitsu is essential to victory.: In BJJ, moves that almost worked don’t count. A move has to be taken from start to completion if it is to have an impact on the match. Timidity is thus not a virtue when performing moves against resistance. Even if you are using a move to set up another, there has to be sufficient commitment to its application to get a real reaction out of your opponent to set up the following move. Going into a move half heartedly actually makes you quite vulnerable to a counterattack since you have to sacrifice your defensive elements in order to enter into offense. If the opponent is not threatened by your move he can simply counter attack in the middle of it and easily score. So when it’s time to go – GO!! Enter the move with positive force and then you’ll have a much better chance of success. Don’t hang back and second guess yourself – now is the time to believe in the skills you’ve worked so hard on and go in with commitment
Off Balancing your opponent in BJJ
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Off Balancing your opponent in BJJ is one of the keys to good guard play. If your opponent is out of balance then being under their weight is no impediment to you. If you can interrupt their balance there is nothing they can do to you until their balance is recovered – and in that brief time there is a LOT you can do to them. Once you get a grip on your opponent, step one is to attack their balance – everything else you plan to do becomes easier when you start with this.
Jiu-Jitsu doesn’t have to be perfect, just on time
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Jiu-Jitsu doesn’t have to be perfect, just on time. that is a great quote from the book Jiu-Jitsu university by Saulo Ribeiro. Some moves come naturally…others…not so much: I’m sure you’ve had the pleasant experience of learning a new move and everything just felt smooth and natural from the start and within a short timeframe you were applying the move successfully in sparring against good people. I’m equally sure that you’ve had the unpleasant experience of learning a new move and feeling like it’s damn near impossible for you to even demonstrate it satisfactorily forget about employ it on a fully resisting opponent. Don’t get too discouraged by this. I’ve had plenty of moves that initially felt absolutely hopeless when I first learned them. My experience was that typically persistence brought the level of these difficult-to-learn moves up to a satisfactory level. They never felt like a favorite move but they were good enough to get reactions out of opponents and lead into my favorite moves – and that’s good enough to make the struggle to learn them worthwhile! Remember – a your execution of a given move doesn’t have to be perfect to be effective. It only has to be better than your opponents ability to defend it. An imperfect move often slips past an imperfect defense
Jiu-Jitsu starts with a plan
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Jiu-Jitsu starts with a plan. Start with a plan: Every time you come toward your opponent from a neutral position there are myriad opportunities for both of you. One possible approach is to let your opponent initiate and react to that. Many athletes do very well with that approach. I generally prefer to see athletes take a more proactive approach, particularly in matches with a shorter time limit. Map your plan out BEFORE you make contact and you’ll have an immediate sense of direction that will put you in the drivers seat from the start. Of course you’ll still need to be able to adapt and improvise in response to rapidly changing circumstances since we never know exactly how an opponent will respond to our moves, but as a general rule it’s better to have an opponent of equal size and skill level reacting to you than rather than you to him, especially in matches of shorter duration
Martial Arts is not a pastime, it’s a way of life
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My good friend said that Martial Arts is not a pastime, it’s a way of life. Thankfully, I’ve never had to say that Martial Arts is something I used to do. Admittedly, the only important endeavor in my life I ever gave up on was my marriage, and although I’ve made the best of that decision, there’s still a part of me deep inside that knows I was the one who gave in and stopped doing my best. I told myself I’m no longer in love with my wife. But the truth was that I no longer wanted to do the things necessary to stay in love with my wife. I think our martial arts practice is very similar. At the beginning of our journey, everything seems so new and exciting, and we put lots of effort into practice and gradually things seem mundane and less exciting so we stop trying as hard and, inevitably like my marriage, we tell ourselves we’re bored, or we have other things that get in the way. And like me, instead of reaffirming our commitment and efforts we quit never really understanding that the answer to staying in love with martial arts is to love the martial arts. To continue to work hard and reignite our passion every time we come to the dojo. For me and my marriage it’s too late, but for you and your journey to black belt and beyond, you always have a chance to stay in love with the martial arts. The answer always has been and always will be showing up to class, regardless of how you may feel and training with focus and diligence.
written by Renzo Gracie blackbelt Gene Dunn
Story of the boy with a bad temper
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A sweet lesson on patience
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Master Royler Gracie seminar at Savarese Jiu-Jitsu Lyndhurst
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Master Royler Gracie seminar at Savarese Jiu-Jitsu Lyndhurst! Royler Gracie is the son of Gracie jiu jitsu Grandmaster Helio Gracie and a legend in jiu jitsu and submission wrestling of his own merit, having been the first “King of BJJ’s Featherweight Division” setting the record of world championships at the time. Royler Gracie also ventured in mixed martial arts (MMA) ending his career in 2006, and excelled as a coach, leading the Gracie Humaitá academy in Rio de Janeiro, developing fighters like “Megaton” Dias, Alexandre Ribeiro, Omar Salum, Renato Barreto and many others. The seminar will be held at the Academy of Professor Chris Savarese, who eared his blackbelt from Gracie.
Main Achievements:
- World Champion (1996, 1997, 1998, 1999)
- Pan American Champion (1997, 1999)
- ADCC Champion (1999, 2000, 2001)
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