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Congratulations bro! I remember you from back in the day. Glad to see you are still training and going strong.

Body shot KO is a merciful option for this type of situation. Just drop him with a body shot next time if you aren't prepared to put him to sleep. Then stand over him and tell him to remember that pain next time he thinks he can just walk through shots with no defense. How did this guy make...

More people at the gym now than before the pandemic.

WTF is this Giving "unwanted hand jobs" to FOUR different boys aged 15-17 is properly called being a child molester. Period. This is literally serial child molestation. Permanent ban is the absolute MINIMUM solution here.

IBJJF specifically designs their background check system to be easy to get around. It's the exact opposite of a genuine attempt. First off, all Brazilians are automatically exempt. No background checks needed for anything, ever, if you are a Brazilian. Americans are required to go through...

Sounds like you are already dropping in at a few other places in your area. Which places do you like training at the most? Consider joining there. You can just outright tell the gym you are thinking about joining. Your situation is pretty common. The gym will probably be glad to have you.

They are asking because they intend to immediately sell your contract to a servicer for cash upfront. It's same thing as when small mortgage companies sell your mortgage to bigger banks. This isn't how most BJJ gyms do it. Most BJJ gyms just pick up their revenue every month using auto bill...

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Glad to hear you are back on the mat Bill!

The problem with the "just business" mentality is that it always works both ways. And most students I have found who approach things with the "just business" approach have a complete lack of awareness of their business value to the school owner. A business transaction works both ways. It has...

He was so awesome at that takedown. I think he did do it that way to fake a spinning kick to set it up. I don't know of any special name for doing it that way.

I agree the rule changes are behind some of it. I was more referring to things like the side kick stomp to double leg entry. Also heel strikes to the kidney from closed guard were oddly illegal for some time, but they've been made legal again many places and you still don't see them coming back.

Exactly. We've both trained in TMA before so we have seen this happen. It's not a good path to go down. The whole marketing concept behind "invisible jiu jitsu" is that there are a set of hidden old school details that have mysteriously become lost with time. And the ones pushing it just...

We definitely do respect Roger and Kron for their achievements. My coach literally studied Kron to prepare the Atos guys for potential matchups in ADCC 2013. Kron was a beast competitor and totally respected for it. It's worth noting what they prepared for though. They prepared for his...

I know I've already said a lot but I was thinking more about the Kron example. That is actually very illustrative of why I approach things this way. A potential match against Kron someday is basically what I have to train for. I'm Masters 2 Black Light this year. Kron was Middle and I think...

I had a feeling this response would come up eventually. I'm a BJJ black belt that competes at the bigger IBJJF tournaments in Masters still (COVID has been an issue but hopefully the 2021 schedule comes up soon). I came up in that competitive type of style (my coach is part of Atos and coached...

I agree that there is a time and place for this stuff. My point above was that in my experience, the time and place for this stuff is against relatively unskilled and less aggresive opponents. That's still a valid time and place, but it's a limited one that explains why this isn't seen more...

So in side control, the opponent has one arm closer to your head and one arm closer to your hips. In the Ryron video, he is demonstrating trapping the arm closer to your head. It's also possible to trap the arm closer to your hips (you use your other arm to do that). That trap version is...

This video from Ryron shows a similar concept with trapping the arm as well as the head. One of my students went to a seminar with Ryron and Rener once and they spent a lot of time on this idea. It was also done the other way as well (grabbing the head with the other arm and grabbing the lower...

I've seen similar ideas (not exactly the same but pretty close to this) a lot from the Helio side of GJJ. It seems to be a family of escapes that involves hugging the opponent to you close to at least partially trap him vs the standard idea of making space everywhere. Bluntly I think this...