Masafumi Matsumoto At the end of my previous post, I shared a video of a match between Tainan Dalpra vs. Jeferson Guaresi. I recommended you to take a look at how Tainan passes Jeferson’s guard. Here’s the video if you haven’t watched it. How Tainan chains his guard passing options and changes sides is impressive, but you’d …
I typically go for the knee cut pass as my main guard passing option. I have a specific preference when it comes to this pass, and it has been working well for me. But I recently decided to make a few adjustments to how I pass the guard. I’m still getting used to them, but …
Berimbolo has been around for many years since the Mendes brothers popularized it from around 2008 or so. It’s still often considered as an advanced, complicated, and modern move. But don’t let that general perception fool you. You should learn at least how it works. After all, someone will try berimbolo-ing you, and it sucks …
The vast majority of people are doing the vast majority of things wrong the vast majority of time. — Ryan Hall If you want to keep improving your BJJ skills and don’t want to be disappointed later (or when it matters), always be on the lookout for false positives. False positives make you think you …
It would be great if you had access to world-class coaches and training partners. Most people don’t. If that’s the case for you, does that mean you will never become a great BJJ player? I bet it will be much easier if you can train with an already well-established team, but I don’t think it’s …
I know I’m joining the bandwagon pretty late… But I started watching the Daisy Fresh documentary series recently. I feel like most of you have watched it, but in case if you haven’t, it’s a FloGrappling’s documentary series on the Pedigo Submission Fighting team, a.k.a Daisy Fresh. Heath, the team’s founder, converted an old laundromat …
Let’s say you feel you haven’t been making much progress. Hitting a plateau is a familiar feeling when you practice BJJ. Here are some ideas about what to do to get out of a plateau. 1. Work on related positions & techniques. If you like using triangle and have been predominantly using triangle but nothing …
Recently, I watched a video of a match between two up-and-coming, high-level grapplers. I had known the result before watching the video, but not exactly how the match went. To be more specific, how one player scored points against the other player. So when YouTube suggested this video, I took a look at it out …
I’m inclined to believe BJJ is a relatively safe sport despite the fact we all try to strangle each other or break each other’s leg. Provided both players in a match/roll are skilled enough and know what they are doing, their chance of getting hurt, I bet, is low enough. Even in a competition setting, …
You might have already watched Squid Game. It’s a new Korean series on Netflix. I’ve only watched its first episode, and it reminds me of some Japanese comic book series I read ages ago as a teenager (the director of Squid Game admits this series partly influenced him). Anyway, in this first episode, there’s a …