Today’s video is all about Cross Collar chokes in the gi and the small details that make them work in Brazilian Jiu-jitsu.

This technique video is partly an attempted to help my newer White Belt and Blue Belt BJJ practitioners. But also an attempt to share some useful details on making collar chokes (like the X choke) work from Guard.

You see for a long time with my Jiu-jitsu training I just didn’t have much success with collar chokes. I just figured they “weren’t my thing” or however you want to word it. But after picking up some small adjustments on the wrist, holding times and gripping the collar. Now I’m much more successful with collar chokes during rolling.

Hopefully the video will be useful to you and your Brazilian Jiu-jitsu training.
-Chewy
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Today’s rolling video is a primarily focused on me using a mixture of back takes and armbars.

In particular you’ll see the shotgun armbar used as well as some of the rolling back takes I’ve used in competition recently. If you watch you’ll also see me fail with the shotgun armbar and have to switch to other options.

Hope you enjoy the video and that it sparks some ideas for you and your training.
-Chewy
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Will BJJ training get you ripped? That’s the basic question from our buddy Brandon. He said he’s been thinking about getting into BJJ primarily because he was to lose a few pounds.

He’s seen where a lot of people get in shape with the “gentle art” and was wondering if it would help him in his quest to get abs that he can wash his clothes on in a pinch.
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I’ll confess the last part was my own addition. . .

To answer Brandon’s question and maybe yours if you were curious about the same thing. The answer is a big resounding no.

Simply put. Diet is the building block that your performance and health is based upon. And when it comes down to losing weight it boils down to calories in and calories out.

​In the video I’ll talk more about how Brazilian Jiu-jitsu can help you lose weight but how it’s not the only thing that’s needed if you want to lose weight and get leaner.

-Chewy
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In today’s video I go through my gym bag and show you the things I bring with me to BJJ training. This video is in response to a lot of questions I’ve gotten from a lot of White Belts in Brazilian Jiu-jitsu who are curious about what they should bring with them to training.

I include the normal stuff that you’re probably familiar with. But I also include a few things thats maybe you don’t know about or didn’t think of.

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Hope the video helps!
-Chewy
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Today’s BJJ Q&A is about a guy who’s a bit of a BJJ escape artist and he says it’s creating a problem when he travels to other gyms. Here’s what’s going on. . .

The Brazilian Jiu-jitsu student asking the question is flexible and is able to fight out of some seriously tight spots when caught in submissions. Well when he travels to other gyms, people don’t always know that he’s able to maneuver like he does and thinks that he’s just trying to avoid getting submitted and being irresponsible.

So he sends a message with a specific situation that happened during one of his Brazilian Jiu-jitsu travels and wanted to know what I’d do in the situation.

In the video I explain how to use this situation as a great training tool.

Thanks for watching the video!
-Chewy
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In today’s video I answer a BJJ competition question where a young guy had his very 1st Brazilian Jiu-jitsu tournament and was in a situation where he had a guy in an armbar and the guy didn’t tap.

He said his opponent’s arm was crackling and popping and so he stopped instead of continuing. Because he did this the opponent came back and made the match much closer where it eventually came down to a decision.

His question is whether or not I would have broken the arm or not in competition. So in this video I explain what I would have done in similar competition situation.

Hopefully this video is helpful to you if you’re ever in a situation with a submission and you’ve gotta make a decision to break it or not.

-Chewy
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Today’s video is the 4th part of the series I started showing a really powerful, but sneaky, armbar I use in BJJ. If you’d like to go back through the series then use the link below.

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The last part of the series I showed how to do a north south choke from the armbar position. Today I show how to setup a Kimura attack as a decoy. Basically what happens is as we attack the Kimura (which is a legitimate submission threat that you can finish anytime) the person is no longer thinking about their original arm or neck. This allows us then to transition to those submissions easier . . . if of course we decide not to finish the Kimura.

Hope you’re enjoying the armlock sequence.

And if you’d like to see more. I’ll be releasing a armlock focused submission course coming up soon. If you want more info simply keep your eyes out or sign up to my Chew Crew daily newsletter by using the link below:
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Thanks for watching the video!
-Chewy
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Today’s Q&A comes in response to a question about what kind of work someone should do in order to keep their BJJ and MMA training going and to possibly do this kind of stuff full time. So in this video I share some stories from my experience and from one of my Black Belt’s experience that could be useful to you.

Instead of talking about a specific type of job I focus on a mindset and prioritization

Hopefully after watching the video you’ll have some ideas on what you could do but then also how you could adapt the ideas for your own life and training.

By the way, when I say 25k in sponsorships. I sort of misspoke. It’s more along the lines of over 25k in training opportunities and experiences. This number is since 2016 and is a combination of seminars (many of which I give away free to the students so they have a chance to train with high level people), flights, fees for competitions, dinners for coaches, gatherings and parties for students and even some free memberships for students who hit tough times but still wanted to train.

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Hope the video gives you some useful ideas to Chew on.
-Chewy
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Today’s BJJ Q&A video comes from a Brown Belt who asked a question back when he was a Blue Belt competitor. Today’s question isn’t about a Brazilian Jiu-jitsu competition and more about social dynamics with being promoted in our martial art.

I explain the situation in the video about him wondering if he could have multiple BJJ coaches be involved with promoting him to a BJJ Black Belt.

In the video I share 2 stories that may be useful. 1 was where I was a part of a co-promotion. The other is situation where I have 2 students who don’t get promoted by me.

Hopefully the video helps you if you’re in a similar situation?
-Chewy
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Recently I got a question regarding Sport BJJ and Self-Defense. The question was from someone who doesn’t train Brazilian Jiu-jitsu yet. And they said that they didn’t understand why you practice a sport BJJ style technique for an art that prides itself on self-defense.

In this video I share some ideas on why people in Jiu-jitsu practice sport style techniques even though it may not be the best option for self-defense.

I also share why in a lot of cases what keeps people training is not the self-defense techniques but rather the connection to people formed through the sport training.

Again, this is my opinion and experience. If you’ve been training for a long time you’re more than welcome to share yours in the comments below.

-Chewy
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In this video I reply to a bunch of comments that I’ve received recently and just answer them off the cuff.

In the video I reply to a comment about leavining your ego at the door.

What I thought about the recent Rodolfo Viera fight.

Why high level belts take it easy on White Belts. So If you submit one, they’re probably taking it easy on them.

How I improved my knee health.

And what kind of comments I’ll delete from the channel.

I also mention the info about the Chew Crew youtube membership offered on the channel now for .99 cents.

Hope you enjoy the video.
-Chewy
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In today’s video I share a powerful armbar that I’ve been using during BJJ training for the last 6-7 months. The armlock is also super sneaky because it doesn’t use the normal grips of most armbars in Jiu-jitsu. I also show some details on how to hide your grips a bit. Again, the purpose is to use different grips that the person is unfamiliar with so they don’t feel it coming. . . until it’s too late.

In Brazilian Jiu-jitsu I call this idea “flying under the radar” and use it whenever I can. You can breathe new life into BJJ techniques simply by changing the grips you use to set it up.

This will be the 1st video to start an ongoing armlock series from side control that you follow on the channel. This is one of the areas I’ve been working on personally so I figured I’d share some of the things that have been working for me.

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Hope the technique and ideas are useful to you.
Thanks for watching.
-Chewy
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Today’s Q&A Chewy Ramble video I answer a question from a Purple Belt named Nick who’s moving into the role as an assistant coach. He says his game is focused on sweeping but he knows he needs to teach other things to his students so they can progress.

So his question to me is about how to teach moves you’re uncomfortable with as a new Brazilian Jiu-jitsu coach.

In this video I give some ideas as to how I teach and how I taught as a new BJJ coach. How I show techniques I’m not the best with but how they’re still useful to the students. I also talk about the ideas and usefulness of having a rotating curriculum as well as some general philosophies on being a coach in Jiu-jitsu.

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If you’re forced to roll with higher belts in BJJ, will it hinder your progress? This is the question today from a White Belt who’s recently been placed into a higher level Brazilian Jiu-jitsu class.

Here’s what happened. His BJJ coach divided the training groups up due to covid concerns. He had the White Belts go to 1 class time. And then the colored belts (Blue, Purple, Brown, Black) to another. Well our friend was the lone White Belt who got plugged into the higher belt class.

So his question is about whether or not this situation will hinder his Jiu-jitsu training.

In this video I share some perspectives from my own experience in the hopes that they’ll be useful to anyone in a similar situation.

I hope the video is useful to you!
Thanks for watching.
-Chewy
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