One more video before I head down to Hollywood, FL to train with Leo Kirby. These are the main exercises I practice as part of my warm-ups to develop the ability to stand-up and get to my feet/knees with momentum.
I keep getting told I should check out Scott Sonnon’s Flowfit, since he apparently does these [...]
In semi-related news, I’ll be down at Leo’s gym in Hollywood, FL this weekend. He’s asked me to teach class Saturday morning and I’m planning a lesson on butterfly guard.
Also related, I just got this email:
hey matt, i train with leo and he may have told you already but i got the reverse omaplata in [...]
Been a long, long time. Many of you are pining for updates. Luckily, I happened to have filmed a couple clips.
The first is a few details on my closed guard. Enjoy.
Why do I say “super” so much?
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
Next on my roster for brabo choke analysis is Baret Yoshida.
Let’s get straight to the footage. What he shows is similar to the multitude of videos I’ve already posted, but he does a few things differently that I like.
Brabo Choke from Principles of the Art of Submission by Baret Yoshida
(If you have the book [...]
Continuing the brabo choke theme, I’d like to go over another aspect of this technique.
In the Shinya Aoki footage I analyzed previously, we saw how he sat out and ran himself “under side control” to apply the choke, but he ultimately finished it from the top.
Sprawling to finish it is fine. It’s the most common [...]
Like Bjoern, it was Shinya Aoki that inspired me to work on the brabo choke again. His instructional has my favorite material on the move, and I don’t even speak Japanese. He has very clean technique so it’s easy to follow, and language isn’t a factor in the competition footage.
One of the matches shown on [...]