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The BJJ Crucifix Position and Your Best Submission Options From There

The crucifix is a very important position in BJJ and No Gi grappling. Like the rearmount the crucifix puts you behind...

How to Train BJJ with an Injured Neck

Necks are delicate things.  Seven small stacked cervical vertebrae protecting all the nerves in your spinal cord and ...

Three Powerful Neck Crank Defenses

Neck cranks are undeniably powerful submissions often used in submission grappling. Rather than constricting the trac...

Neck Cranks And Their Place In Jiu-Jitsu

If you’ve ever been in some sort of hold and the muscles and joints in your neck started to feel pain, you’ve been ne...

How To Do the Twister the Easiest Way

The Twister is a flashy and hellishly effective submission made famous by Eddie Bravo. It’s now illegal in IBJJF comp...

Marcus Soares technique 3: Half Guard Pass and Cervical Choke

Marcus Soares and Denis Kang demonstrate a Half Guard Pass and a Cervical Choke. (1) To avoid getting swept in Denis...

Cattle Catch Neck Crank

Thanks to Eduardo de Lima for demonstrating this technique, and to Matt Kirtley for taking the photos and writing the...

A Confusion of Crucifixes

  With the addition of the Crucifix Series, I felt I should address a common confusion people have when they try to d...

Emergency Rx for Cranked Necks and Strained Backs

Yesterday I was training my side mount escapes. My partner and I repeatedly started with me pinned, and then we worke...

Denis Kang: Double Leg Tackle Counter to Neck Lock

This may seem like a flashy technique, but it definitely works.  It can be used standing or on the knees to get to a ...

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 ...

How to Train Dangerous Submissions

In the previous article we discussed some of the most dangerous submissions in grappling, and ended with the question...
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