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Static Bridging – a Common Mistake in Sparring
There are two fundamental ways to escape from most pinning positions: escapes based on ‘shrimping’ style hip movement...
Double Ankle Control Position for Footlocks
Today’s topic is a slightly unusual control position for footlocks. Control positions are methods of positioning your...
Competitive 2 Person Drilling
We’ve talked about solo drills and partner drills. There is a final category of drills I’d like to talk about: compet...
Two-Person Drills
Two-person drills are important training methods to develop skills on the mat. They can be used to warm up at the beg...
One Simple Tip for Surviving the Smother
There’s nothing worse than tapping out to a smother. It is one thing to get caught in a nice technical choke and havi...
Targeted Sparring Concluded: Bad Positions
In this last installment on fine-tuning your sparring time I would like to talk about starting your sparring sessions...
Targeted Sparring: Position
A ‘position game’ is usually characterized by tight transitions between positions, an emphasis on maintaining a posit...
Mobility and Position
There are two basic games in grappling: the ‘mobility game’ and the ‘position game’.
The mobility game is based on sp...
A Roadmap for Grappling
When an uninitiated person sees grappling in action for the first time it seems very chaotic and confusing. There are...