0:11 Now, we've been looking at all these
0:12 theoretical conceptual elements in the
0:14 standing position. Let's start getting
0:17 more practical now. Um, when it's time
0:19 for us to hand fight and seek some kind
0:22 of prior advantage before we start
0:23 taking people down. Remember guys, just
0:25 as in jiu-jitsu on the ground, you
0:26 always talk about position before
0:28 submission. In stand position, we talk
0:30 about advantage before takedown. You
0:33 don't just randomly shoot in on people.
0:34 You want to create some kind of clear
0:37 and distinct sense of advantage prior to
0:41 the to the takedown attempt. Um,
0:44 when we work, there are three distinct
0:46 goals when we're hand fighting. If you
0:48 watch my students in competition,
0:49 sometimes people look and they think,
0:51 "Oh, they just come out, they get a hold
0:53 of the guy, they pull and tug for a
0:54 while, the guy gets tired, and they take
0:57 him down." Um, it's never as random as
0:59 that, of course. Uh, the idea is there
1:01 are three clear and distinct goals that
1:03 we're always working with in standing
1:05 position in a hand fight. And once we
1:07 can reliably get to those those three
1:09 goals, it's a lot easier to take people
1:12 down. What are the three goals? Um,
1:14 well, the first goal is to get our
1:15 opponent's hands to the mat. If
1:17 someone's in front of us and they're in
1:18 good stance, it's awfully difficult just
1:20 to take them down from here. If this guy
1:22 has any kinds of defensive skills, it's
1:24 going to be hard. But if you can get
1:27 your opponent's hands down to the floor,
1:29 it's a lot easier in these situations to
1:31 start taking people down to the mat. So,
1:34 one of our big goals, the first goal in
1:37 fact, is to consistently look to to snap
1:39 our opponent's hands down to the mat. If
1:41 his hands are on the mat, means they're
1:43 not on you. Means they're not in front
1:45 of you as a defensive instrument. Don't
1:46 have to worry about guillotines,
1:48 kimoras, all those other nasty things.
1:49 Okay? So, the first big goal that we
1:51 have, we're going to consistently try to
1:53 work this guy's hands down to the mat.
1:54 Don't worry, we'll be showing you some
1:55 concrete methods to do that very soon.
1:57 But conceptually, your first goal in a
1:59 hand fight is to get his hands to the
2:01 mat. If you cannot get his hands to the
2:05 mat, the next big goal is to
2:08 consistently get outside of his elbows.
2:09 When we're outside of our training
2:11 partner's elbows, you have angle on your
2:12 opponent. That's a lot easier to start
2:14 attacking your opponent. As long as I'm
2:17 between my opponent's elbows, it's very,
2:18 very hard for me to get through
2:21 successfully to the legs or mount any
2:23 kind of successful offense. But the
2:25 second we start getting outside of our
2:27 training partner's elbows, now things
2:29 start opening up. Okay, so the second
2:31 great goal of hand fighting is to get
2:33 outside of your opponent's elbows and
2:35 form an advantageous angle, which is
2:38 going to make takedowns a lot easier.
2:40 The third great goal is to create
2:43 situations where my head is lower than
2:45 his head and his hands are higher than
2:46 my shoulders.
2:49 As long as his hands are at the height
2:51 of my shoulders or lower, it's very,
2:53 very hard for me to get through to the
2:55 legs. As long as his head is right in
2:56 front of me, it's very, very hard for me
2:58 to get through to the legs. So, what
3:00 we're consistently looking to do is to
3:02 create situations where, however we've
3:04 done it, we're going underneath our
3:05 training partner's hands, and as a
3:07 result, there's nothing between his legs
3:09 and your ability to get through to them
3:11 with your head. Okay? I want to create
3:13 situations where there's no obstacles
3:16 for my head. As long as my opponent is
3:17 blocking my head, it's going to be
3:19 awfully difficult for me to get through.
3:21 I go down, his head comes down, it's
3:22 hard for me to get through. As long as
3:24 hands and arms and elbows are in front
3:26 of us, lower than my head, it's very,
3:29 very hard for me to get to the legs. But
3:32 if his elbows and his head are higher
3:34 than mine, that's when it's easy to get
3:36 through to the legs. So, this is always
3:39 what we're looking for. Okay. So the
3:42 three goals of standing position are
3:45 first to get his hands down to the mat.
3:48 That always creates easy easy openings
3:51 for take outs. The second goal is to get
3:52 outside of our training partner's
3:54 elbows. The second we get outside of the
3:56 elbows, it's easy to start taking people
3:59 down. And the third goal is to create
4:02 situations where my head is underneath
4:05 my opponent's shoulders, elbows, hands,
4:07 etc. and there's nothing between his uh
4:10 his legs and my my head. If you can do
4:12 those three things, you're going to
4:13 you're going to take a lot of people
4:16 down. So, the whole goal as we hand
4:18 fight, it's not just some random
4:19 smacking your opponent on the head and
4:21 walking around for 15 minutes until he
4:23 gets tired. That's not the goal. It's
4:25 these three things. Get his hands to the
4:27 floor, get outside of his elbows, and
4:29 create a situation where there's nothing
4:32 between your head and his legs. his
4:34 defensive elements, his head, elbows,
4:37 hands are over your head and you can go
4:39 in underneath him and get to his legs.
4:41 If you can consistently get these three
4:43 things, hands to the floor outside the
4:45 elbows and nothing between your head and
4:47 his legs, you're going to take a lot of
4:54 Now, people often talk about hand
4:55 fighting and standing position.
4:58 Certainly that's a huge part of the uh
5:00 equation of success. But just as
5:02 important as your hand fighting is going
5:04 to be your foot fighting. What does that
5:07 uh refer to? Um whenever we go to work
5:09 in these situations, I like to play a
5:12 game with our feet which is going to
5:14 give you a very clear sense of direction
5:16 as to where we should be going it while
5:18 the hand fight is going. So while the
5:20 hand fight is going on upstairs, our
5:23 foot fighting is going on downstairs.
5:24 The basic idea is pretty simple to
5:26 understand. Once we put hands on
5:28 someone, what we're going to do is we're
5:30 going to create situations where we can
5:32 step up foot to foot on our training
5:35 partner. Your foot will be just outside
5:37 of your training partner's foot. And
5:40 this can be done
5:49 >> Like so. Once we secure that outside
5:51 foot position, this is going to give you
5:54 an ability to make a connection to your
5:57 opponent's knee. So, if I'm in front of
5:59 my training partner and I step in here,
6:01 now my hand can connect right behind my
6:04 training partner's knee. And this is the
6:06 position we're always looking for where
6:08 your foot is just outside your training
6:10 partner's foot and your hand can connect
6:12 to the knee. And of course, you'll be
6:15 able to do this on both sides of your
6:17 training partner's body. So, what we're
6:18 always looking for is to create this
6:20 situation where your foot goes just
6:22 outside his and we're in perfect
6:24 position to connect to our training
6:26 partner's leg. And we should be able to
6:28 do this on demand on either side of our
6:31 training partner's body.
6:33 If you get your foot to that outside
6:36 position, foot to foot, it's going to be
6:37 very easy for you to consistently reach
6:39 down and connect to your training
6:41 partner's knee with either one of your
6:44 hands. And you can do this with your
6:47 inside hand or
6:50 you can do it with your outside hand.
6:53 The idea again is that our foot steps
6:55 just outside his foot and we can come in
6:57 here or we can come in here and get that
6:59 good connection to our opponent which is
7:01 going to make it easy for us to come up
7:04 into good attacking position.
7:06 Now this puts your opponent in something
7:10 of a dilemma. he will quickly figure out
7:12 that if we can consistently get to this
7:14 position, it's going to be very easy for
7:17 you to pick up that leg. So, what do you
7:18 think he's going to do when you start
7:20 stepping to that foot to foot position?
7:22 He's going to step away from you. So,
7:23 when we come in on our training partner,
7:25 we step in foot to foot, he's going to
7:28 step away. But every time he steps away,
7:30 now this foot further away from us, it's
7:32 going to be very easy for us to bring
7:35 those hands straight down to the mat.
7:37 So, we play a dilemma game.
7:40 where if we can get outside foot to
7:42 foot, it's going to be very easy for us,
7:44 pick up the leg and get into good at
7:47 taking position. And if our opponent
7:49 steps back, then it's going to be very
7:52 easy for us to bring the hands down and
7:53 start getting into good at taking
7:56 position behind our training partner.
7:58 And that's the basis of your first foot
8:00 fighting game. Of course, as you get
8:02 more advanced in skill, your foot
8:05 fighting will go in all kinds of other
8:06 directions like foot sweeping, etc.,
8:09 etc. But your first foot fighting game,
8:11 the one you must master first, which
8:13 will garner you the best results in the
8:16 least amount of time, is outside foot
8:18 position, where regardless of how we
8:21 grip our training partner, we can always
8:22 consistently get that foot into
8:24 positions like this. We can get a
8:26 connection hand to our training
8:28 partner's leg. And as a result, it's
8:30 going to be very easy for us to get to a
8:34 leg and it's a good attacking position.
8:36 So we understand now that if we can get
8:38 here, we can get to the leg. If he
8:40 resists by stepping out, then it's going
8:42 to be very easy for us to bring two
8:44 hands down to the mat and start getting
8:46 into attacking position on the floor.
8:49 And we play this simple game. The more
8:52 his feet go back, the more we snap his
8:54 hands to the floor. The more static his
8:57 feet, the more we focus on getting that
9:00 outside foot position and getting
9:02 straight away to our training partner's
9:05 leg. And that's your first foot fighting
9:07 game that you want to play. Outside foot
9:09 position and getting your connection
9:12 hand to your training partner's knee.
9:13 The only way your opponent can stop you
9:16 is to step away, which sets them up to
9:18 be snapped down, hands to the floor. If
9:20 you can consistently play that game with
9:22 your feet while you're engaged in a good
9:24 hand fight with your opponent, you're
9:25 going to gain tremendous tactical
9:27 advantage, which is going to make
9:29 takedowns easy. So to put things in summary,
9:31 summary,
9:34 the hand fight is based around the idea
9:36 of outside elbow position, getting
9:38 outside of our training partner's
9:40 elbows, getting our training partner's
9:43 hands down to the floor and creating
9:46 situations where my head is consistently
9:48 going underneath my opponent's elbows,
9:50 hands, and head so we can get into our
9:53 training partner's legs. And while this
9:54 hand fight is going on, we're
9:57 consistently looking to get outside foot
9:59 position, foot to foot, so we can get a
10:01 connection hand to our training
10:03 partner's foot. His only response to
10:05 this is going to be to step back. And
10:06 that's going to make it relatively easy
10:09 for us to go back into the idea of
10:11 bringing hands to the floor and going
10:13 into our attacks. Then if we can play
10:16 this simultaneous hand fight and foot
10:18 fight, the three goals of hand fighting,
10:20 getting outside the elbow, getting the
10:22 hands to the mat, and getting our head
10:24 beneath our opponent's head and hands,
10:26 and the foot fight, getting outside foot
10:28 position or getting him to react to that
10:30 and step back so we can bring his hands
10:32 down to the floor. We play those two
10:34 games together, hand fighting upstairs,
10:36 foot fighting downstairs, you're going
10:38 to create tremendous advantage to take
10:48 Now, we've been through a lot of
10:50 theoretical elements in the standing
10:52 position that sets the stage to get
10:54 through into situations where we can
10:56 start taking people down. The first big
10:58 takedown that we're going to focus on is
11:00 going to be the high single leg. This,
11:02 in many ways, is the ideal takedown for
11:04 the sport of jiu-jitsu. It's relatively
11:07 low risk. Um, it's relatively simple to
11:08 learn. There's nothing particularly
11:11 difficult about it. It works well at all
11:14 uh weight categories and all age levels,
11:17 all skill levels. Um it's probably the
11:19 single most popular takedown in the
11:21 sport of jiu-jitsu for those reasons. Uh
11:23 this video of course is about how to
11:25 become effective in standing position in
11:27 the least possible time. So if you're
11:28 looking for a takedown that's going to
11:30 get good results in a relatively short
11:32 time frame, you couldn't do much better
11:35 than the high single leg. Now um we're
11:36 going to look at the idea of procedure
11:38 and mechanics. What makes you
11:40 mechanically strong in this position?
11:41 What's going to make you effective? And
11:43 what's the general procedure that we go
11:45 for? The idea is just take a rest
11:48 sitting uh other foot forward. Um the
11:50 procedure is we're going to start with
11:51 our training partner's feet on the
11:53 ground and we're going to take that foot
11:55 off the ground and then take it up into
11:58 a situation where foot goes from ground
12:00 to roughly between our legs. Okay. Now,
12:01 there's different ways to hold from
12:03 there. We'll be looking at uh shortly.
12:06 And then as a general rule, once we get
12:07 the foot off the ground somewhere
12:09 between our legs, then we're looking to
12:12 take it up further and get it up to our
12:14 chest just like so. So the procedure is
12:15 going to be the foot starts on the
12:17 ground and then we go in, we put it
12:19 roughly for the short period of time
12:21 between our legs and then we take it up
12:24 high to our chest. So starts on the
12:26 ground, goes between our legs and then
12:28 ends up on the chest. That's the general
12:30 procedure that we we work with most of
12:31 the time. It's not the only procedure
12:33 you can use, but it's the best first one
12:36 that you'll be using in most cases. Now,
12:37 the next big question, of course, is
12:39 mechanics. How do you hold the leg
12:41 efficiently? What we don't want to do is
12:43 create situations where you're caught
12:45 underneath your opponent's body weight
12:46 and you're carrying his body weight on
12:48 your head and shoulders. That will
12:49 quickly fatigue you and make you
12:51 relatively easy to counter. So, what
12:53 we're always looking to do once we get
12:54 in on our training partner's leg, we're
12:57 looking for that outside foot position.
12:59 We're looking for a connection with
13:00 either one of our hands and sometimes
13:02 two hands to a leg. Don't worry, we're
13:04 coming back to that very quickly. And
13:06 we're looking for a fairly upright body.
13:09 I don't want to have a rounded spine and
13:10 looking down at my training partner's
13:14 feet like so. We want a relatively flat
13:17 back and our head somewhat upright and
13:19 my hips will be roughly the same height
13:21 as my knees. And it's from here that we
13:23 can make effective contact on a training
13:25 partner and start to push through our
13:28 opponent. It's generally better if we go
13:30 through our opponent to put weight onto
13:33 the other leg. If I just try to pull on
13:34 his leg and bring it up to me, it's hard
13:36 work. So, what we want to do is we want
13:38 to walk through our opponent. So, we
13:40 start this step action where we walk
13:42 through like so. And it's very important
13:45 from there that our head be driving up
13:47 into our training partner. Some people
13:48 like to use the forehead, some people
13:51 use the temple. Regardless of which one
13:53 you want, we want our head here and our
13:55 training partner's upper uh stomach and
13:58 lower chest. If we're up too high, then
14:00 I'm reaching down with my hands. Not
14:02 very good. We want to have everything
14:04 nice and compact just like so. Then
14:05 there's that action of bumping through
14:07 our training partner's weight. And then
14:09 from here, walking through. So, we get
14:12 him walking and away from that leg up
14:14 nice and quiet.
14:18 Now, what we don't want
14:22 is a rounded spine here. Okay? And
14:24 you'll often see people in these kind of
14:26 rounded positions. Always what we want
14:28 here, the straighter our legs and the
14:29 more rounded the spine, the less
14:31 effective we're going to be. So, we want
14:34 athletic bent legs and our head coming
14:36 up into our training partner like so.
14:39 Mechanically, I want to be elbow deep
14:41 around my training partner's knee. If my
14:43 hands are around behind the knee, it's
14:45 very, very hard to be effective here.
14:47 So, we want to get elbow deep around our
14:50 training partner's leg, our temple up,
14:53 legs bent, and somewhat in a stance like
14:57 so. In fact, your basic standing stance
14:59 is essentially going to be the same
15:00 position with very little modification
15:02 to hold the leg. There's very little
15:04 differentiation between your high single
15:06 leg stance and your basic wrestling
15:08 stance. So your stance is more or less
15:11 preserved. Just as I would never stand
15:12 in front of someone like so in a
15:14 grappling situation, but always in a
15:17 good stance. So too when we go in on our
15:18 training pers, start moving them in that
15:20 high single leg position. Look at
15:23 everything's elbow deep, locked in, and
15:25 we're ready to start bringing that leg
15:26 up nice and high in our training
15:31 partner. So procedure, foot starts on
15:33 the floor.
15:36 Then we put it between our legs. And
15:38 then from here, as soon as possible, we
15:41 bring the leg up nice and high. Okay.
15:44 With regards mechanics,
15:47 we want something akin to your basic
15:49 wrestling stance, only you'll be bumping
15:51 into him and getting elbow deep around
15:54 your training partner's leg. Your head
15:57 will be up, legs like so. Try to avoid
15:59 feet together, round the spine, straight
16:02 legs. This is a very ineffective stance.
16:05 Always we're looking for something very
16:07 similar to your basic wrestling stance.
16:09 We're looking for elbow deep around our
16:11 training partner's need like so. So we
16:13 can start bringing weight onto that
16:15 opposite leg and as a result bring the
16:18 leg up nice and high.
16:21 Now grip
16:24 orthodonty has it that when I hold a
16:27 classic single leg whichever arm is
16:31 going around my opponent's leg this will
16:34 be the one which when we lock up like so
16:38 is going to be the hand on top. Okay. So
16:41 orthodoxy is the outside reaching arm
16:44 will be top when we lock our hands. The
16:47 logic is that if I lock the wrong way,
16:49 Placido can grip my wrist and easily
16:52 strip one hand from the other. If on the
16:54 other hand, I lock my hands palm to palm
16:56 correctly. When he goes to strip my hand
16:59 off, it runs into the grip of the other
17:01 hand and so one hand supports the other.
17:05 This is the logic of the position. Um,
17:07 that makes total sense, right? There's
17:10 there's a logic to it. Um, I've always
17:14 believed that how you lock your hands is
17:16 not nearly as important as your
17:18 procedures. The mechanics of hand grip
17:20 will never be more important than your
17:24 procedures as you go through the move.
17:26 No matter how strongly you lock your
17:28 hands and how correctly you lock your
17:30 hands, if your opponent does a good job
17:32 of setting his defensive stance, um,
17:34 it's pretty easy for him to break the grip.
17:36 grip.
17:38 So, instead of focusing too much on how
17:40 we grip our hands, let's focus more on
17:42 procedure. And the procedure we're
17:44 always looking to to get into is the
17:47 idea of quickly getting the weight onto
17:49 the other leg, keeping your opponent
17:51 moving, and keeping them out of balance.
17:53 That's more important than the mechanics
17:56 of gripping your hands. So, no matter
17:58 how well I've positioned myself here
18:00 with my hands, if Placid does a good job
18:02 getting his foot to the outside, getting
18:04 that wizard in place, bringing his head
18:06 underneath my head, and then from here,
18:08 gripping on my hands, even though I've
18:10 done everything right with my hand grip
18:12 when he fights from this position, it's
18:15 good. It's going to be hell go for me to
18:18 prevent separating my hands. Okay, this
18:20 is he's in a good strong defensive
18:22 position. But even if I grip my hands
18:25 incorrectly in ways which most people
18:27 would say are just flat out wrong like
18:29 like so if we wrestle with the position
18:32 now but I keep them out of balance I'm
18:33 going to be able to quickly get him up
18:36 into position. So the procedure of
18:39 keeping him out of balance, keeping him moving
18:40 moving
18:42 and getting the leg up as high as
18:44 possible as early as possible almost
18:46 always garners better results than
18:48 worrying too much about which hand is on
18:50 top of the other. I'm not going to say
18:52 it's unimportant. There is a logic to
18:54 the classic hand position. But my point
18:57 is that the procedure of getting the guy
18:59 moving out of balance and getting the
19:02 leg up high quickly uh is more important
19:04 to you than which hand is on top or how
19:06 you're gripping, etc., etc. Okay. So,
19:07 when we're in front of a training
19:09 partner, once we start getting that leg
19:11 up, let's really focus on the idea that
19:13 from here it's the procedure trumps
19:15 everything. We're in a position where we
19:17 start getting that leg up. So getting
19:19 weight changed by this leg and then
19:22 getting this guy moving around the back.
19:24 This is your most important concern
19:25 rather than worrying too much about
19:28 which hand is on top of the other. And
19:29 of course the other thing here is always
19:32 going to be posture. Once we get that
19:35 leg up, elbow deep, head up, legs bent
19:36 into our opponent like so. So when he
19:38 goes to get into a defensive position,
19:40 you're going to work this guy around,
19:42 move him, keep him out of balance like
19:44 so. Okay. Next big thing with procedure.
19:46 When I want to make this guy move, I get
19:49 my foot behind the other foot as early
19:52 and often as possible. What we're always
19:55 looking to do stunts when we first come
19:57 in our training partner is get that
19:59 outside foot position. One, I'm outside
20:01 his foot. Then when we make contact on
20:03 our training partner, we're looking to
20:07 go past him and get our foot past that
20:09 second foot. And that's what gets him
20:11 out of balance. That's what gets us in
20:13 good position. That's what makes it easy
20:16 to bring the leg up higher. So starts
20:19 when we first go in, this is our position.
20:20 position.
20:23 Then we go past him as the leg comes up
20:26 and we step here so that we get him
20:29 hopping backwards. So there's two
20:32 outside foot positions.
20:35 Outside foot position one, stepping up.
20:36 Outside foot position two. And that's
20:38 what gets him out of balance, gets him
20:40 moving, and that's what makes for a good
20:43 single leg. So once we first come in on
20:44 our training partner, there's our first
20:47 connection. We're elbow deep around the
20:50 leg as we step, get right past them.
20:52 That's what makes it easy to bring the
20:54 leg up high and get some good position.
20:56 Okay, once we get Sorry, we're going
20:58 through a lot of stuff here, but this is
21:00 all important stuff. Once we get the leg up,
21:02 up,
21:04 it's important in these situations.
21:07 Don't be shallow with your hands, okay?
21:09 Don't be holding with your fingers. Make
21:10 sure it's like almost like an ankle
21:13 lock. Your fist is higher than his shin.
21:15 If my fist is lower than his shin,
21:18 really easy for him to get to my elbows
21:20 and start working the foot out. Working
21:23 the foot out and getting away from us.
21:25 Okay. So, when we lock in here from the
21:27 camera's perspective, you should be able
21:29 to see my thumbs. so that we're in here.
21:33 Secondly, never have ass back, shoulders
21:34 forward. It's really easy for him to
21:36 start pulling me in and bring his foot
21:39 back into a good defensive position.
21:42 From here, always hips forward, facing
21:45 square towards our training partner. And
21:47 from here, we can start moving our
21:49 training partner this way, across in
21:53 front and around behind us.
21:56 Again, always in here. Never head
21:58 forward, hips back. Always hips in,
22:00 shoulders forward. So when he puts hands
22:01 on you, he's going to grab you by the
22:04 head and pull you in. This is where you
22:05 can do good work. Keep this guy out of
22:07 balance. That'll set up all of your
22:09 ability to manipulate your training
22:11 partner speed and keep them out of
22:12 balance. Okay, so this is where we
22:14 operate from. All the way in with the
22:17 hips, confident, shoulders back, hips
22:21 forward, legs out. Okay, so let's
22:22 quickly try to summarize all the stuff
22:31 elbow deep, back straight, legs in an
22:32 athletic position, which is actually
22:35 very similar to your basic wrestling
22:38 stance. Doesn't change that much. Okay,
22:40 so always this is our basic position.
22:44 The more rounded our spine, the more the
22:46 head comes down and the straighter our
22:48 legs, the more our opponent can put his
22:50 chest on our back and force our head
22:52 down. That's going to make things very
22:54 difficult. If we ever find ourselves in
22:56 a bad position, we're always going to
22:59 return to a good stance. And then from
23:01 here, when he goes to put weight down,
23:04 he can't put it on my head. If I expose
23:06 the back of my head to my opponent's
23:09 chest, that's when I carry his weight.
23:11 So, always from here. We want to create
23:14 situations where if he tries to cover
23:17 the back of my head, he can never do it.
23:20 I give them the temple here, not the
23:23 back of the head. We should always put
23:24 the weight down. We should always be
23:27 able to recover by pushing in and
23:29 bringing that temple up. I always want
23:32 to be in that basic athletic position.
23:33 Similar to your stance, I always want to
23:35 be elbow deep. I always want to be
23:38 stepping past that leg to get weight off
23:40 the leg that I'm holding and create
23:43 situations where we can bring the leg up
23:47 high. And from here,
23:49 our feet always pointing towards our
23:52 opponent. Hips forward, chest back, hand
23:54 high. And we're in a good position now
23:57 to take this guy down to the mat. Okay.
24:00 The basic procedure, his his feet start
24:02 on the ground.
24:06 Then we come up for a split second
24:09 between our legs. And then as we step
24:12 past, we bring them up nice and high. So
24:14 foot starts on the ground, then between
24:18 the legs, and then up. And the best
24:20 advice I can give you is this.
24:22 When you make contact with your
24:24 opponent's leg,
24:26 your procedure
24:29 cannot be delayed. You don't have to be
24:30 the fastest guy in the gym. I'm not
24:32 asking you to be a speed slim, but you
24:35 can't procrastinate either. The more
24:38 time we spend in this position, even if
24:40 your stance is good and you're doing
24:43 everything right, it's hard work. And if
24:45 your opponent's good, he's eventually
24:46 going to start breaking your stance and
24:49 causing problems. And every act to
24:53 regain your stance is an energy drain.
24:55 So, what I'm going to ask you is that
24:57 when you get it on the leg, get it up
25:00 early and get it up often. Okay? Try to
25:03 make sure that in these situations,
25:05 you're consistently walking through your
25:08 opponent and getting that leg up earlier
25:10 rather than later. So, when you have a
25:12 good single leg in in front of you and
25:14 you're in here, don't delay in this
25:17 position. Okay? That's where you you
25:18 work hard in that position. That's
25:20 tough. A lot of things can go wrong.
25:23 Guillotines, kimoras, all kinds of bad
25:25 things. So once we come in on our
25:27 training partner, we we're in that high
25:29 single leg position. The earlier I can
25:32 get his foot up to my chest, the happier
25:34 we are. So don't delay in these
25:36 positions. Once we bring that leg up,
25:38 we're walking through this stuff and
25:41 that leg comes up in short order. Okay?
25:42 Again, you don't have to be the fastest
25:44 guy in the gym, but you can't be a
25:47 procrastinator. So once we come in on
25:49 our training partner's leg, this is not
25:51 the position we want to stay.
25:55 rather the more we can start the action
25:57 of bringing the leg up as early as
26:00 possible, the happier we're going to be.
26:02 Okay? Sometimes you have to do it in two
26:03 stages. It goes between your legs and
26:05 you bring it up. But if you have a
26:06 situation where you can just bring it
26:09 straight up, that's money in the bank.
26:11 So regardless of how it happens, once we
26:12 go in on our training partner's leg,
26:15 we're always looking to get that leg up
26:17 as early as possible. If we do have to
26:18 bring it up between our legs, we don't
26:21 delay in that position. Okay? it comes
26:23 up and then smartly the leg comes into
26:26 good position and we're ready to attack.
26:27 So those are your basic mechanics and
26:35 Now we've looked at the mechanics and
26:37 procedures of the high single leg. Now
26:39 it's time to get you guys into drills
26:41 where you're starting to step into the
26:43 movement as you would in a competitive
26:45 situation in sparring or competition.
26:48 There are four stepping patterns that
26:49 we're going to look at uh in the next
26:52 few sections. Um all four are highly
26:54 effective ways for you to go from a
26:56 classic grappling stance into the high
26:58 single leg position. The first one we're
26:59 going to look at is the one which I
27:01 believe most people do get the best
27:02 results with in the least amount of
27:05 time. That's where we're going to step
27:07 with our foot outside of our training
27:10 partner's foot and our outside hand is
27:12 going to reach outside of our training
27:17 partner's leg. And this can be done
27:19 on both sides of the body. Okay. So the
27:22 pattern is outside step and my outside
27:26 hand reaches. When we reach,
27:28 let's make sure we never make contact
27:31 just with the fingers. We want to go
27:33 wrist deep around our training partner's
27:36 leg. So that
27:39 when I grip the leg, my fingers touch
27:42 the inside of the knee. So that when
27:45 plac goes to move his leg back and away,
27:46 there's such a good connection that I'm
27:48 going to be able to walk through my
27:52 training like this body. Now fellas, the
27:54 whole thing about the outside reach is
27:56 that we want to start wrist deep around
28:00 the knee and build to elbow deep. When
28:03 you go to control someone's leg,
28:06 you want to be elbow deep around the leg
28:09 here. If my hands are shallow with my
28:10 lock right behind my training partner's
28:12 knee, it's hard to hold on against a
28:15 good guy. So, we always want this elbow
28:17 deep. And from here, you really do
28:19 control people. But you don't start
28:21 elbow deep.
28:23 When we first go in on our chinny pump,
28:25 it's going to be in here. When he goes
28:27 to kick the leg back, it's going to be
28:29 tough cuz you've got a good connection.
28:31 And as we walk through our chinny pump,
28:34 we build up to elbow deep. and we get to
28:36 that situation where we start with the
28:39 wrist and then we come through elbow
28:40 deep around our training partner's leg,
28:42 head up, back straight and in good
28:44 position to attack.
28:47 So, we're going to start off
28:49 demonstrating it with inside hand
28:53 position. My hands inside. And as we've
28:54 seen earlier, when it's time to pull
28:59 someone, we want to make sure our thumbs
29:02 come from in front to behind. And once
29:03 we can do this, we can start the action
29:05 of pulling training partner's leg
29:08 forward. Now we're outside step. We get
29:10 around our training partner's leg. And
29:12 you'll see that my fingers come around
29:14 almost to the kneecap. My head is up
29:16 temple into my training partner. So when
29:18 he goes to move away, it's going to be
29:20 tough. And as a result, we can quickly
29:22 walk through this guy and get elbow deep
29:23 around our training partner's leg and up
29:26 into good position.
29:29 So it'll look like this. We start off
29:31 inside tie our training partner. We
29:33 practice the idea of stepping up into
29:35 position. We come in on the opposite
29:37 side. We pick up our training partner's
29:39 leg and we're up in good position. And
29:42 we should be able to go side to side,
29:44 get into our training partner's leg. So
29:45 when we first come out, we start making
29:48 contact. We draw the leg in and we get
29:50 our training partner's leg up. We hit
29:52 that outside step and bring our training
29:55 partner's leg up. So every time we draw
29:59 the leg in, we get that leg up. Now, the
30:01 faster we make the outside step, the
30:03 better. You don't have to be the fastest
30:05 guy in the gym, but what we want to do
30:07 is create a situation where as I pull
30:10 the leg to me, I don't step after the
30:13 fact. As I make the pull, I'm already
30:16 stepping so that we meet each other like
30:19 a a collision. When he goes to pull the
30:21 leg away, it's going to be tough. We
30:22 start that action of walking through.
30:24 And now we're elbow deep around our
30:26 training partner's leg in good position.
30:29 So the drill looks like this. We
30:32 practice picking that leg up and going
30:34 from one side to the other and getting
30:36 that leg up between our legs
30:38 consistently bringing the leg up and
30:40 getting elbow deep around our chin
30:42 leg and picking the leg up in
30:44 that fashion. So we get used to this
30:47 idea of constantly walking ourselves
30:49 into good position. Your foot outside
30:52 his foot elbow deep around the leg. your
30:55 foot outside his foot and walking
31:06 Never do we do this grab and stop. He
31:09 pulls the leg back, he's gone. We always
31:13 walk through a training partner's body,
31:14 elbow deep around the training partner's
31:16 hook. Walking through the center of
31:19 mass, elbow deep. Walking through center
31:23 of mass, elbow deep.
31:26 That's always what we're looking for.
31:30 Never making the mistake of reaching and
31:32 stopping. He pulls back and it's all
31:35 gone. We always want that notion of
31:37 walking through, keeping this guy out of balance.
31:38 balance.
31:47 Now, the second method of going into the
31:49 high single leg. In the previous
31:50 section, we looked at the idea of
31:53 outside step, outside reach. Now, we're
31:55 going to look at the idea of outside
31:58 step, but inside reach. Okay. Previously,
32:04 we looked at the idea that our hand
32:06 comes all the way around and grabs just
32:09 inside the meniscus in front of the
32:11 kneecap. It's like so. So, when your
32:12 opponent goes to pull away, there's such
32:14 a good connection that you'll be able to
32:16 stay fixed to your opponent's leg. Now
32:18 we're looking at the idea of the same
32:20 outside step, but we're reaching with
32:22 the inside hand. This time, instead of
32:24 going all the way around, we're just
32:27 going to be finger deep camera facing
32:30 the other way.
32:33 The knee uh square stance athletic, the
32:36 knee has tendons behind the knee. Okay?
32:38 And your fingers are going to catch
32:40 right there at the tendon. So when Plus
32:42 goes to move his leg back, it's like a
32:44 handle. Very hard for him to get away.
32:47 Here you have to grip all the way around
32:48 behind the knee and there's a danger of
32:50 your opponent turning his knee away and
32:53 kicking out. When you have an inside
32:56 reach, you the the knee tendon functions
32:58 like a handle. Your fingers catch into
33:00 it like a handle on a briefcase. And
33:03 when he goes to turn out, he runs right
33:06 into your hand. So, it has the advantage
33:08 your opponent can't turn out. Outside
33:10 reach, pretty easy for Barcel to turn
33:13 out and kick away. inside reach. It
33:15 turns out he'll never do it and you'll
33:17 say around your opponent and in.
33:19 However, like all good things, that
33:21 advantage will come at some other form
33:23 of price. And the price of an inside
33:26 reach is number one. Your length of
33:30 reach is shorter. When I work with an
33:33 outside reach, I can reach a long way.
33:34 So, if my opponent goes to move his leg
33:36 back, it's a long reach to stay in on
33:38 the gun. When I work with an inside
33:40 reach, my reach is significantly
33:42 shorter. So if I my oppon's got fast
33:45 reactions, moves out, it can come up
33:47 short. Okay? So you're getting a more
33:50 robust grip because you're gripping the
33:52 handle of your opponent's knee tendon,
33:54 but it's coming at the price of a
33:57 shorter reach. Okay? The other great
33:59 disadvantage of it is it requires two
34:03 steps. In situations like this, I start
34:05 off with my inside hand, but at some
34:07 point I have to get elbow deep with my
34:10 outside arm. So when I go through my
34:12 training partner, I have to switch off
34:15 to get my elbow deep grip. Okay. So the
34:18 advantage of an inside reach is you are
34:20 using a handle on the back of your
34:22 training partner's knee. Plus, if you
34:26 grip with an inside reach, uh, relax. Do
34:29 you see my tendon in the back of the knee?
34:31 knee?
34:33 Plus grips it. Now it's hard for me to
34:35 get like a handle. Hard for me to move
34:37 away. And because the grip is on the
34:39 inside, I can't check out. Plus, I reach
34:42 on the outside, it's pretty easy for me
34:44 to turn my leg out. He grips on the
34:46 inside, it's impossible. That handle is
34:48 very, very powerful mechanism for controlling
34:49 controlling
34:51 and a positive. But this comes at a
34:54 price. An outside reach gives tremendous
34:57 length of reach and inside reach much
34:59 shorter. Okay? So, we have to do a good
35:02 job of getting there. Secondly, I can't
35:04 finish with an outside reach. I have to
35:06 walk through and then get elbow deep in
35:09 the usual finishing position. So, it
35:11 takes two steps instead of one. So,
35:12 those are the pros and cons of this
35:14 movement. With that in mind, how do we
35:16 drill this? When we work in with our
35:18 training partner, there's always going
35:20 to be that outside step. Only now we're
35:22 reaching with the inside hand. And as a
35:24 result, we can get that leg up nice and
35:26 high into good single leg position. So,
35:28 when we first come in, there's the
35:30 outside step, inside reach. Let's have a
35:32 look at it again. I draw my train
35:34 partner. There's the inside reach with
35:36 outside step. When he goes to pull the
35:38 leg back, it's tough and it's pretty
35:40 easy for us to come up into good
35:42 position. Again, we draw our training
35:44 partner around. There's the outside
35:46 step, the inside reach. We get elbow
35:47 deep around our training partner's leg
35:49 and we're in good position to put this
35:51 guy down. On the other side, we go in
35:53 outside step, inside reach, walk
35:56 through, and get into good position. So
35:58 there's always this sense in which we
36:01 step outside, reach inside, and then end
36:02 up elbow deep around our training
36:06 partner's leg. There's the outside step
36:09 and the inside reach. We walk through
36:11 and now we're elbow deep around our
36:13 training partner's leg. Head up, back
36:20 Now, we've been looking at stepping
36:22 patterns to get into the high single leg
36:24 situation. We started the ball rolling
36:27 with what I believe is the most
36:29 important uh stepping pattern for most
36:30 people to begin with. And this is the
36:34 idea of outside step outside reach.
36:36 Okay, which is very very useful for most
36:38 people to work with. The idea is when we
36:39 hit our high single legs, we're always
36:42 looking to get our foot outside of our
36:44 training partner's foot and then connect
36:47 to our training partner's leg. Okay.
36:50 Then we look at the idea of uh inside
36:53 reach of an outside step. That shortens
36:54 our reach, but it gives us a very good
36:57 handle to work with on elusive, strong
37:00 opponents. Now, we're going to look at a
37:01 situation a little different. It's going
37:05 to be two steps instead of one. Now, why
37:06 would we do this? Why would we take two
37:08 steps when everything is working just
37:10 fine before with one step? The reason is
37:12 simple. If you were paying attention to
37:14 my footwork, you'll see that in all of
37:16 the the the two methods we've looked at
37:19 so far, we were doing it from open
37:23 stance or kinky situations. We either
37:25 started with opposite stance. He's got
37:26 right foot forward and I've got left
37:28 foot forward. And then the step is very
37:31 small to get that outside step position.
37:33 Or we move the guy so that his leg came
37:37 to us and it becomes an uh an open start
37:39 situation. And then we can get into our
37:40 training partner's leg.
37:42 A natural question to ask is, well, what
37:46 if plus and I are both standing with our
37:49 right foot forward here and I just want
37:52 to go in on my training partner's leg.
37:54 It's going to be kind of weird to just
37:56 go to an outside step here. Okay? Plus
37:58 could stop me with his hands and it's
37:59 going to be hard. It's going to be
38:01 difficult. So what we do in these
38:04 situations is we go with an inside step,
38:07 a very small inside step and then we
38:09 take a second step that gives us outside
38:13 foot position. So instead of just going one,
38:14 one, one,
38:16 one,
38:19 one. Now from the closed dance
38:22 situation, we go one, two,
38:29 one, two. And that gives us an excellent
38:32 position to work from. So as we're here
38:33 in front of our training partner, we're
38:35 just going to go inside step, inside
38:38 reach, and then outside step. That gives
38:40 us elbow D position on our training
38:42 partner, and we're ready to go. This is
38:44 a really good stepping pattern for us to
38:49 use, guys. My favorite time to use this
38:51 method is when I attack my opponent's
38:54 front leg. If I want to attack my
38:56 opponent's rear leg, it almost always
38:58 makes more sense to move my opponent
39:01 first. So, we get him moving and that
39:03 gives us the perfect outside step. But
39:06 if I I feel like cannot move this guy.
39:08 You come up against some guys moving
39:10 around and you just feel like the stance
39:12 is so freaking strong, you feel like
39:13 you're never going to be able to move
39:15 them. In those situations, we may just
39:17 have to attack his legs without moving
39:20 them first. So, in these situations,
39:25 it's step one. One, one, one, one, and
39:27 two. And we go right past our opponent.
39:29 What we don't want to do is step like this.
39:31 this.
39:34 Okay? You've got to start with an
39:36 athletic stance. And that first inside
39:39 step, the inside step just lowers my
39:41 level and puts me in athletic stance. If
39:43 I just try to step with my rear foot,
39:45 one big step, you have no athleticism
39:46 here. And you you're going to get
39:48 countered very easily. So everything
39:52 starts with a small inside step that
39:55 puts me in a position now to reach and
39:57 take the big outside step. Now we're in
39:59 good position to get this guy out of
40:02 balance. This stepping pattern is almost
40:05 always used on the lead leg. If you're
40:07 going to attack your opponent's rear
40:09 leg, I recommend the first two measures
40:12 that we looked at. But if I want to
40:14 attack this guy's lead leg without
40:16 moving him or without switching my
40:20 stance, it goes like this. One, two. And
40:22 now we're up in good position. We can
40:23 bring that leg up nice and high and
40:25 attack our training part. If you start
40:27 opposite stance, same thing. If we're
40:28 standing with our left foot forward and
40:30 he's got left foot forward, same thing.
40:32 Small movement. And then from here, we
40:34 step around behind our training partner.
40:36 We're a good position now to get this
40:38 guy moving and bring the leg up nice and high.
40:40 high.
40:43 So, right foot forward.
40:44 From a situation where we've got hands
40:47 on, that's our movement. Inside step,
40:50 inside step, inside step, inside step,
40:52 outside step.
40:55 So, two movements. Inside step and
40:58 reach, inside step and reach. Inside
41:00 step, outside step. And now we're
41:02 elbowing partner's leg in a good
41:04 position to bring everything up high.
41:07 Okay. So, this is a very practical,
41:08 quick method of getting to our
41:10 opponent's lead leg when we're not
41:13 moving him around, uh, using two steps
41:20 Now, we looked at this idea of getting
41:23 to our opponent's leg in a classic high
41:25 single leg type situation. You'll notice
41:27 a commonality in the three methods we've
41:30 demonstrated so far. I reached for my
41:33 opponent's leg one hand at a time. So
41:36 for example in the outside step outside
41:38 reach we stepped and we reached around
41:40 our training partner's leg then we move
41:42 through our training partner and we got
41:47 our hands connected okay in the case of
41:49 outside step inside reach same thing one
41:51 hand reach for the leg we move through
41:53 our training partner and then we get our
41:55 hands connected elbow deep around our
41:58 training partner's leg okay so there was
41:59 always that idea that we were reaching
42:03 with one hand now um no matter how good
42:05 of a job you do of stepping through your
42:07 opponent's body, getting it getting it
42:09 moving, setting them up, etc., etc.,
42:11 reaching with one hand does have its
42:14 limitations, okay? No matter how precise
42:16 you are with gripping around the knee
42:18 and getting wrist deep around the calf
42:19 muscle and all these other tricks you
42:22 can employ, gripping with one hand just
42:23 has inherent limitations. It's just not
42:25 that strong. A good rule of thumb in
42:27 grafting in general is that locked
42:29 hands, no matter how you lock them, are
42:32 massively stronger than unlocked hands.
42:34 So, there's many cases where locking
42:36 your hands makes a lot of sense. If you
42:38 got an opponent with quick reactions,
42:41 fast down blocks, it often makes sense
42:43 to get two hands to a leg at the same
42:45 time so you can connect your hands as
42:47 early as possible. And take advantage of
42:49 the fact that locked hands are
42:52 significantly stronger than unlocked. If
42:54 you can get two hands to a leg quickly
42:56 and move through your opponent, you're
42:57 going to put a lot of people down. So,
42:59 this can be an excellent addition to
43:01 your attacking arsenal for the high
43:03 single leg. But like all things in
43:06 jiu-jitsu and life in general,
43:08 it it's better in some ways, but comes
43:10 at a price that we'll look at now.
43:13 First, what is uh left foot forward?
43:14 What does two hands to a leg refer to?
43:16 It refers to situation where when we
43:18 make our step, instead of going with one
43:20 hand and then getting his leg up, we
43:23 just go straight two hands to a leg.
43:25 Okay. Now, as we saw earlier in the
43:27 mechanic section with regards grip, you
43:29 got a bunch of different options. The
43:32 classic grip, which 99% of people teach
43:35 is to go outside hand around and then go
43:38 underneath with the inside hand and lock
43:41 like so. That's the classic time grip.
43:46 Um, the truth is the real uh effort here
43:48 is not so much to to lock your hands in
43:51 any particular way. It's to get any lock
43:53 and then get him moving quickly. My
43:55 personal favorite way of locking the
43:56 hands here is a little different. I like
43:58 to get around my training partner's calf
44:00 muscle and snake the calf muscle and
44:02 then connect my hands as much like so.
44:04 So, technically, this is a wrong grip.
44:07 Uh my my top hand is in a position where
44:10 he can easily strip my hands and pull
44:12 them apart. But the emphasis here is not
44:13 on the lock of my hands. It's just
44:15 getting my hands locked in any way,
44:16 shape, or form and quickly getting them
44:18 out of balance. So, we just quickly get
44:20 them moving. Okay? It's it's hard for
44:22 the guy to to access your hands and
44:23 split your hands when this is done
44:26 properly. So, uh I'm not going to tell
44:28 you guys how to lock your hands. I'm
44:30 just going to say don't fixate on the
44:31 lock of your hands so much as getting
44:33 your hands connected any way you can and
44:34 quickly getting him out of balance. So,
44:36 he's hopping on one leg and head moving
44:37 backwards and that way you can get the
44:39 leg up quickly into good position. So,
44:41 we're going to stand in front of our
44:43 training partner, kinkyu situation. And
44:44 then from here, we're going to practice
44:46 quickly just connecting two hands
44:47 together on our training partner's leg.
44:49 So, we can get two hands to a leg. He
44:51 switches stance. And then from here, we
44:53 make that outside step. And we quickly
44:55 get two hands to a leg. So, there's
44:57 always that movement. And then two hands
44:59 go to a leg. He switches stance. We make
45:01 that first step. We get used to the idea
45:03 of a partial repetition and then two
45:05 hands to a leg. He switches stance, we
45:07 move in, and we get two hands to a leg.
45:09 The Vog is right in like so. And when he
45:12 goes to to split up our hands and move,
45:13 we're always looking to get him out of
45:14 balance as early as possible. And then
45:16 from here, the legs come up and we're in
45:19 a good position to work. So, putting
45:21 this in another kind of context, how
45:23 we're going to set this up. We're going
45:24 to move him towards our training
45:26 partner. Hands in place like so. As we
45:28 split our hands, we just quickly get
45:30 them. We get two hands to the leg. Hands
45:32 in front of us. And we get two hands to
45:34 a leg. Hands in front, two hands to a
45:37 leg. My favorite way to hit this one is
45:39 in kinkiatsu situations where he has
45:42 opposite stance because then the
45:44 movement is very small. We easily get
45:47 that outside step and as a result two
45:49 hands to a leg comes in very easily.
45:51 Then from here we get the legs up and
45:55 moves it. So again we step in catch and
45:58 then quickly bring the legs up nice and high.
46:00 high.
46:04 In the case of IT situations, we have to
46:06 make two steps where we come in, step
46:09 out and then we go in and get two hands
46:12 to a leg. So once again, if we have both
46:14 of us right hand side forward and from
46:16 here we come in one, two, and the leg
46:20 comes up. Two steps, one, two, and the
46:22 leg comes up.
46:26 One, two, and the leg comes up.
46:29 One, two, and the leg comes up. Then
46:30 from here we're right back in good
46:32 position getting this guy moving. So the
46:35 stepping pattern
46:39 opposite stance from here and we're two
46:41 hands to a leg. Very short motion
46:45 snatching the leg.
46:48 Same side stance. One, two, and into the
46:51 leg we go.
46:54 Bang. Bang.
46:57 First step gives us connection. So we
46:59 get our hands connected around our
47:02 shitty partner's leg
47:05 off that the big step that gets us into
47:07 position to bring the leg up nice and
47:10 high. So once again, opposite stance,
47:12 usually a fairly small motion. Two hands
47:22 Then we practice walking through
47:26 and bringing the leg up nice and high.
47:28 When we're both on the same side, here's
47:32 the first motion. Step and going in.
47:36 Step going in and bringing the leg up
47:39 nice and high. So in this way, we have
47:42 that getting two hands to a leg.
47:43 Significantly more difficult for my
47:45 opponent to pull away. When we get two
47:48 hands in, when he goes to step out, it's
47:51 a good connection. And then that motion
47:53 pushing with the head and bringing
47:55 everything up nice and high gives us an
47:57 immediate strong connection to our
47:59 opponent's leg. It's difficult for a
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