Having difficulty with your opponent in your half guard?
It's common for beginners to get stuck with their opponents in half guard when they don't understand the key points to keeping their opponents from immobilizing them or passing their half guard.
The first key strategy is bringing your head is close to your hips.
One of the worst things you can do is let your opponent trap your head facing the opposite direction of his leg that you have in half guard. This will enable him to pin you flat against the ground which will open up possibilities for him and greatly reduce them for you so your first strategy should be to get your head close to your hips or your opponents stomach. This way you will have better leverage for sweeping or moving him and he'll have less opportunity for controlling your head.
You'll want to master being able to break your opponents posture from here and controlling him.
Working in two or three good sweeps from the half guard will help give you options that you can use as opposed to learning as many sweeps as possible that will only overwhelm you early on.
The same with set ups and reversals, arming yourself with two to three techniques that you quickly can master and put to use is alot more practical than trying to learn tons of techniques and not being able to aply them.
A video resource that I highly recommend is Marcello Monteiro's Half Guard Attacks DVD.
Packed with techniques to give you an edge in not only the options available to you but the specific details on making the moves work during sparring.
It gives clear instructions on implementing sweeps, reversals, counters and attacks from half guard that no one's game should be without.
Just some of what you'll learn:
-Half guard techniques for taking your opponents back and moving to side control.
-Half guard to Roleta sweep.
-Half guard to arm drag techniques for attacking the back.
-Attack setups from the Half guard.
-and much much more...
You can order the DVD at www.bjjcoach.com
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Royce Gracie Interview; Interesting Points.
Check out this interesting interview with Royce Gracie, Royce brings up some important points even though I don't totally agree with his ideas and methods.
One of the main points that Royce misses out on is the evolution brought on in the game.
I do agree that sport Jiujitsu is a whole different animal than MMA, and that it is very far removed from both MMA and the street, that’s why it has it’s own distinct set of rules.
I’m not against it as long as people see it for what it is.
I do like what Relson is doing rules wise with his tournament, by keeping with his fathers rules.
It's important to make changes in sport BJJ to prevent stalling and playing for points. This is one of the biggest weaknesses of sport BJJ and the fact that you can stall and play for points only brings the art down. By implementing rules where you can't hold a position for longer than 30 seconds or hold onto sleeves for long either also helps to push the pace of the match and create urgency to dominate your opponent.
MMA isn’t street self defense either and it’s important to make distinctions, as for ruining a martial art, only the people practicing the art can do that. If everyone agrees to better rules that support more realism and action then this will help the sport maintain it's interest and applicability to fighting.
If people want real self defense and the instructors are being honest about their goals in teaching the art then I don’t see why this is a problem.
Most people can tell the difference between street and sport.
I prefer watching MMA as well to pure sport tournaments but both have their place as watching a sport tournament of Jiujitsu for what it is, is interesting as well although currently far removed from the self defense applications.
You can check out the interview here:
http://www.insidebjj.com/2010/09/01/royce-gracie-interview/
One of the main points that Royce misses out on is the evolution brought on in the game.
I do agree that sport Jiujitsu is a whole different animal than MMA, and that it is very far removed from both MMA and the street, that’s why it has it’s own distinct set of rules.
I’m not against it as long as people see it for what it is.
I do like what Relson is doing rules wise with his tournament, by keeping with his fathers rules.
It's important to make changes in sport BJJ to prevent stalling and playing for points. This is one of the biggest weaknesses of sport BJJ and the fact that you can stall and play for points only brings the art down. By implementing rules where you can't hold a position for longer than 30 seconds or hold onto sleeves for long either also helps to push the pace of the match and create urgency to dominate your opponent.
MMA isn’t street self defense either and it’s important to make distinctions, as for ruining a martial art, only the people practicing the art can do that. If everyone agrees to better rules that support more realism and action then this will help the sport maintain it's interest and applicability to fighting.
If people want real self defense and the instructors are being honest about their goals in teaching the art then I don’t see why this is a problem.
Most people can tell the difference between street and sport.
I prefer watching MMA as well to pure sport tournaments but both have their place as watching a sport tournament of Jiujitsu for what it is, is interesting as well although currently far removed from the self defense applications.
You can check out the interview here:
http://www.insidebjj.com/2010/09/01/royce-gracie-interview/
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