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Don’t Do the Work for Them! Misery Leads to Openings in this Competitive BJJ...
In last Monday’s technique breakdown Leverage is the Ultimate Giant Slayer, I referenced a tenant of efficient grappling that I wanted to both clarify and expand upon for today’s strategic concept...
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Stuck on a BJJ Plateau? Earn Your Flight Wings and Watch Your Grappling Take...
As our grappling journey takes us from beginner to novice, there are a number of technique styles that become important to start playing with. These styles are the answers to when the fundamentals are...
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Training, Seminars, and the Wisdom of Long-Time Black Belts — Jiu Jitsu ROI
I grappled with a few different ideas for this week’s concept piece (pun not originally intended). I will likely revisit some, but after another amazing seminar this last weekend, I found myself...
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Entanglements, Chaos & Extraction: Avoiding Surrender or Retreat in a Tricky...
Dan Faggella‘s latest video on escaping X-Guard combines a couple of the grappling elements I’ve wrote about recently. These are the concepts geared toward the novice to intermediate level, but...
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Jiu Jitsu ROI Part 2: The Wisdom (and Style) of Long-Time Black Belts
In last week’s concept piece, I examined the great wisdom that is held by long-time black belts. I recommended that students make opportunities to learn from multiple long-time black belts within their...
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Add the Achilles Lock to Your Arsenal Without Making it Your Achilles Heel –...
This week’s technique video offers some nice, flow drilling options that are perfect for any level of grappling practitioner. The focus of the video is on core concept drills that apply to passing...
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Mindset: Milestones vs. Accomplishments – Be the Black Belt Who Never Quit
Over the last few months we’ve covered quite a bit about goal-setting and about the journey of Jiu-Jitsu. From challenging our fears and insecurities, to setting our own personal goals and practice...
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Even When You’re Flat and Broke, Don’t Forget to Tip Your Attacker! –...
Last month, I took a look at how to disrupt and limit our opponent’s success from a more advanced perspective and position in the technique breakdown Entanglements, Chaos & Extraction. This was a...
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Examining Push/Pull Theory in the Arts – Using Action, Reaction and Leverage...
In the technique breakdown we examined in October’s article Learn to Let Go, Coach Dan briefly mentioned a very important martial arts concept—the push/pull theory. We hear about it throughout martial...
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Oh, What a Tangled Web We Weave! – Two Sides to Every Grappling Story
Over the last month, two of the weekly technique breakdowns offered options to consider from otherwise tricky grappling positions. The first (Entanglement, Chaos & Extraction) discussed a more...
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Complex Skill Sets, Expectations & Self-Reflection – Measuring Improvement in...
A couple of conversations and posts this last week had me thinking about improvement goals in BJJ or the fighting arts in general. The first conversation involved a simple mathematical concept of...
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As we bounce between beginner and intermediate levels of technique breakdowns, I want to point out that it is important to understand how these flow together (even if some of the technique is ahead of...
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Bridging the Gap Between Fundamental Movement and Advanced Scrambling:...
To close out the multi-article technique analysis on advanced entanglements used to turn tricky positions into favorable outcomes, we’ll take a look at Dan Faggella’s third video installment in his...
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Wanna Roll? You Talkin’ To Me? Well I’m the Only One Here – BJJ Deep Thoughts
Ah, yes, the constant question in BJJ: “You wanna roll?” Perhaps the nicest challenge (or occasional threat?) we regularly receive or make. Countless articles have been written on how to roll from a...
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Entering the Eye of the Storm – Exploring Tornado Guard as a Path Around a...
A few weeks ago, as part my breakdown of Dan Faggella’s Entanglement Protocol video series, I compared the intricacy of advanced chess theory to the intricacy of higher level grappling studies. In Two...
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Wash, Rinse, Repeat! Drilling Complex Grappling Movements to the Point of...
In my technique article from last week regarding Technical Extraction from Entanglements, I touched on how BJJ fundamentals become the building blocks for more complex techniques. Interestingly enough,...
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Orientation and Reorientation: Mapping a Path to Proper Extraction by...
Okay. I lied. Inadvertently, but, nonetheless, I must eat my words. Two weeks ago, in my article on Technical Extraction, I suggested it was my close-out technique analysis on Coach Dan’s Entanglement...
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Your Gym or Mine? From Speed Dating to the Long Term Commitment: How to...
As we approach 2016, many take the time to set new goals for the upcoming year. Whether that is formal New Year’s resolutions (not my personal favorite), or just a great time to re-evaluate goals in...
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The Leg Lace – Breaking Down the Technique and the Interwoven World of...
Styles may make fights, but if MMA has taught us anything, it is that the blending of styles makes the truly complete fighter. From the beginning of The Ultimate Fighting Championship—where boxers with...
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Self Defense and Jiu Jitsu 2.0 – What is This World Coming To?
Recently we (at Science of Skill) have seen an increased interest in looking at Jiu-Jitsu, grappling arts, and all fighting arts as they relate to self defense. So, for this week’s concept piece I’m...
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