Another Rickson Gracie Video

The music on this video is pretty bad but I always like watching Rickson roll.

Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Training and Some Drills

Just thought I would write a short blurb about a pretty sweet move I learned the other night at classs. We have a few blue belts and purple belts that like to give away the omo plata from the guard and then when you try to finish it they jump over your head and take side control. This led to me trying to block them jumping over me by sitting up quicker but then I find I dont get the omo plata set as well. So the other night we learned a new technique to combat this isssue. Basically when your opponent tries to throw their legs over your head to avoid the submissions and take side control you wrap your arms around both their legs and roll over to your stomach and end up in their side control. I hope this makes sense but if not drop me a comment or leave a post over on www.MMAHUB.com and I will try my best to clarify it.

I got a comment that asked for a few more of the drills we do in class to be posted so here are a few. We often times set the clock for 5 minutes and see who can do the most arm bars in 5 minutes. Who ever is running the warmup watches everyone and if anyone does any half assed armbars they are made to do 50 pushups so generally they are pretty good arm bars. It really pushes your cardio while trying to execute the movement properly. We also do what we call spinning drills which is when you have one person get down on their hands and knees then the other person rests their chest on the other persons back. Then we spin around them with our wieght on their back. You cant use your hands at all so you have to rely on your feet and the opponenets back. So you basically just go around them again and again switching directions after a direction change is called out. It is a very tough drill to do for 5 min straight.