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