• Search for:

• Links

  • 

• Blogroll

  • Blake Fluhart Blog (BlakeSparks)
  • Blog o' The Jimmy (Ben Olas)
  • Fighting Out Of
  • Georgette's JJ World
  • Heavy Judo
  • Jiu Jitsu Map (Jason Miller)
  • jiujitsusavedmylife
  • Logan BJJ (Dave Iles)
  • Master Pedro Sauer
  • Meerkatsu
  • Passion is the Purpose (Dutch)
  • Tap Often

• Recent Posts

  • The Dedicated are Always Tired
  • Finally Females
  • 11. Two-Handed Wrist Grab
  • The Rolie Polie Defense
  • Critical Eye

• Categories

  • 88 Techniques
  • BJJ Notes: The Book
  • Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu: Theory, Philosophy, and Technique
  • Jiu-Jitsu and the Universe
  • Uncategorized

• Archives

  • May 2012
  • April 2012
  • March 2012
  • February 2012
  • January 2012
  • December 2011
  • November 2011
  • October 2011
  • September 2011
  • August 2011
  • July 2011
  • June 2011
  • May 2011
  • April 2011
  • March 2011
  • February 2011
  • January 2011
  • December 2010
  • November 2010
  • October 2010
  • September 2010
  • August 2010
  • July 2010
  • June 2010
  • May 2010
  • April 2010
  • March 2010
  • February 2010
  • January 2010
  • December 2009
  • November 2009
  • October 2009
  • September 2009
  • August 2009
  • July 2009
  • June 2009
  • May 2009
  • April 2009
  • March 2009

I’ve been working on self-defense techniques for along time now, but I’ve really been studying them closely the better part of a year now. I think they’re valuable and since there are roughly seventy-five of these techniques on the black belt test, It’s a good idea for me to really give them some of my [...]

Professor Sauer’s 88 techniques from “White to Blue” has a lot of cool moves in it, but I think the coolest move in the series is Standup in Base. You’re sitting down, chilling, one knee up, the other down, your elbow resting on the up knee and your other hand behind you supporting some of [...]

The Elbow Escape Movement is what most of us know as the shrimp. As an insructor, some times the shrimp is a hard thing to teach, especialy to kids–it’s just so unnatural–at least at first. It’s an awkward L. Pushing with the feet or foot in tandem or with just one leg, inside or outside [...]

The Teeter Totter is a test of your abdominals; it’s basically a captital L you make with your body. It helps you sit up to escape say an arm bar (or at least to get off your back while someone has your arm). Teeter totters make me fart, but they really do help me get [...]

The bridge, the bump, the upa, whatever you want to call it, it’s a pretty important part of jiu-jitsu. It’s the space creator. The upa is power coupled with movemnet and it is what allows us to improve our position when someone is trying to immobilize us. Creating space is crucial to our movement. If [...]

I’ve been over and over these techniques (professor Sauer’s 88), learning and teaching them, and after I watched this, I found things that I didn’t know, things that were new. That’s why we should always go back, back to the beginning. We should revisit what we think we know, and we’ll undoubtedly be surprised with [...]

. . . In life it seems that we are always pressured to move forward–always forward, rarely back. The back roll in jiu-jitsu is taking that backward motion and adding momemtum to it, so that even if you’re going backwards all is not lost, you will still end up on your feet. Sometimes it’s necessary [...]

The forward roll, in my opinion, is one of the most practical techniques we learn in the art of jiu-jitsu. It is. I remember my Mom enrolling my sister and me in the P.A.L. judo program when I was in the second grade. All I remember learning was the front roll. Days after I’d learned [...]

The gi belt has always been a pain in my ass. There are a thousand and one ways to tie the belt, and the two that I know, suck. The belt always comes undone–sooner or later it’s wrapped around my ankle or on my partner’s head any where except around my waist. That’s been happening [...]