Your dream has been realized: I’ve got a video camera.
And after fighting with cables and software, I now have the means and knowhow to edit and share movies.
One of the subscribers to my journal had emailed me some questions and I’d been offering advice. He asked if I could film any of it and I [...]
Back in the days of MMALibrary.com, Jeff Rockwell had put up a series of half guard sweeps. He taught starting from a sitting guard and diving in deep as a counter to combat base. I’ve used my internet sleuthing to recover them so I could add them to my notes here. I’m currently focusing on [...]
I want to show how I’ve redefined the trigger position for myself and what this means to how I’m getting the choke.
For the longest time, I thought of the brabo as only being available when they underhooked me. This is how it’s taught from half guard and when they escape side control. So the trigger [...]
The next point to cover is how to deal with their underhooking arm.
Like in the triangle, you want to cross their arm. Also like the triangle, it’s not completely necessary, but it’s best form, the cleanest technique and makes for the smoothest finish. They can use that arm to create a little space (so their [...]
More notes from my brabo choke homework.
Thinking Like It’s a Triangle
This may seem obvious to you, but it took me a while think of the brabo as a triangle choke. Yeah, I knew literally that it’s an arm triangle—that’s not what I mean. I had a “just slap it on” attitude towards it, where I’d [...]
A recent ankle injury has caused me to change the focus of my game. The main areas I’m working on are standing from guard and snapping down to the front headlock then doing brabo chokes. I’ve also been working on the wrestler’s sit-out simply because it’s a skill I’ve never really developed and figured now [...]
From Jeff Rockwell:
Very simple, but very effective against an opponent who doesn’t frame his top arm properly when performing an elbow escape.
From Jeff Rockwell:
Escape from brabo choke in half guard and side control.
From Leo Kirby:
Jorge Vidal is one of the instructors at our gym. He is a De La Riva black belt and a great competitor. He recently lost in the Pan Ams to my other instructor, Edson Diniz, who went on to lose in the finals to Marcelo Garcia. It was pretty impressive to me that [...]
It’s almost a curse word. It’s the worst part of class, next to warm-ups. You may wish you could skip it and get on to the fun stuff.
Yet drilling is a necessary and important aspect of learning, regardless of how loved it is. You’ve got to build muscle memory somehow.
The disdain for drilling likely comes [...]