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How to Defeat the Bigger Stronger Opponent NOW AVAILABLE

It’s here! The How to Defeat the Bigger, Stronger Opponent DVD set is in stock, and ready to ship right now. Emily Kw...

Critical Submission Details

Are there any submissions out there that you just can’t finish?  You can set it up, lock it on, and strain for all yo...

Three Timings for Getting Out of Submissions

Recently I was discussing MMA fighter Ben Henderson’s ability to slip out of submissions. And that turned into a gene...

Detailed, Advanced Omoplata

In the past few years I’ve made some big changes to my omoplata armlock attacks.  The omoplata has always been one of...

Submission Grappling Armlock

This armlock has been part of the Japanese Ju-Jutsu arsenal for hundreds of years; here’s how it’s applied in a moder...

Classical Ju-jutsu Armlock

Here’s one classical approach to applying the armlock that has morphed into the ‘Americana’ or Figure 4 Armlock in mo...

A Drill to Rescue the Armbar from Guard

At a seminar I attended, martial arts legend Dan Inosanto once distinguished between the techniques used in a martia...

New DVD – “Step-by-Step Submissions”

I just want to tell people that I’m adding another DVD to my Roadmap for BJJ Package. It’s tentatively titled “Step-...

Catch and Release – What to do if your opponent just won’t tap?

Back when I was mostly training in Judo I heard that there were some traditional dojos in Japan where tapping out to ...

Jiu-jitsu, a Game of Inches

One of my favorite expressions is that “jiu-jitsu is a game of inches”. Sometimes a whole match can be decided by the...

Armbar Defense vs. Crossed Ankles

 A reader writes: Q: How do I escape the armbar when my opponent is crossing his ankes? A: Crossing the ankles during...

Submissions as Sweeps

Submissions end fights, and sweeps take you from the bottom to the top. At first glance they seem like very different...
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