When you have strong submissions in your arsenal – as long as you have a heartbeat and time on the clock – you’ve always got a chance: One of The greatest things about submissions is that they can turn an entire match around in a moment. Regardless of what has transpired already in a match – no matter how far behind you are on the scoreboard – a submission overcomes everything and can give you the win. One of the greatest favors you can ever do yourself is thus to train deeply in submission skill. It will be your equivalent of a KO punch. Submissions make you dangerous and at a deeper level, they create a sense in you that you always a chance of victory no matter what. Here, blue belt junior Nathalia Santoro finds herself down 9-4 in a wild match with just seconds on the clock. Training with back master Gordon Ryan pays off as she locks in a strangle on the buzzer to take a great win. Nothing gets us through adversity better than a sense of hope – and strong submissions create a very strong sense of hope indeed because they are the one weapon that can instantly overturn the entire narrative of a match so far and give you victory out of defeat.

Knowing how to defend, escape, and counter the heel hook leglock attack is super important. In this excerpt from https://www.grapplearts.com/modern BJJ black belts Matt Kwan and Rob Biernacki show how the berimbolo can be applied to defend and even counterattack the heel hook when your opponent has you in ‘ashi garami’, the most common and popular entanglement for leglocks. The berimbolo isn’t just a guard attack – it can be used to escape many different situations in both gi and no gi grappling.

The versatility of front headlock position: one of the most commonly occurring positions in all of submission grappling is the front headlock/guillotine position. From feet to floor, top or bottom there are so many ways to enter into this position whether as a reaction to an opponent’s move, or as a proactive entry that we initiate ourselves that it is almost inevitable that it will occur on multiple occasions in the course of a match. As such, it must be part of your game. The good news is that there are many fine stranglehold’s that can be done from there – many guillotine and kata gatame variations – all of which can turn a match in your favor in a very short time frame. Here, developing junior @drewthewickd_mma uses a nice sequence that begins as an arm in guillotine and transitions to a high elbow guillotine attack from top position as the changing circumstances of the scenario unfold. This ability to get quickly to a controlling front headlock and then use that control to move through all the many potential strangleholds from there is a truly valuable combat skill that you can use every day you train.

In this clip coach Zahabi tells his story on how he started to coach and train mma fighters. He talks about when was the turning point in his life and when he decided to make a coaching his career choice and when the Tristar gym began to be successful.

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Garry Tonon back at work the morning after victory: I am always impressed by a strong work ethic and no one surpasses that of Garry Tonon. Here he is the morning after his big victory last night at @onechampionship here in Singapore teaching at the big Squad Super Seminar at @evolvemma teaching how to escape from the very move he used last night to get another big win. People here are deeply impressed by Mr Tonon’s teaching ability. Everyone already knew he was a great athlete but everyone here is amazed at the clarity and effectiveness of his teaching as well. Soon he will be making an instructional video with @bjj.fanatics on his mastery of escapes! Keep your eyes peeled for that one!!

Gordon Ryan teaching a masterclass on attacks from closed guard: Gordon Ryan wows the big crowd at @evolvemma gym here in Singapore with his closed guard game. Mr Ryan will be putting out a whole video on our closed guard system later this year for @bjj.fanatics It’s amazing to see the crowd react to his teaching here and then take those concepts to the mat and live sparring and get the moves to work very quickly. Later on tonight it’s training time with @garrytonon in his preparation for his fight in @onechampionship – all action here in Singapore ??

I am so proud of this young man: Here in Singapore at the @evolvemma Squad Super Seminar young Nicky Ryan, just seventeen years old teaching a masterclass on his favorite aspect of Jiu Jitsu- back control and finishes – to an audience of over one hundred international Jiu Jitsu enthusiasts at one of the best gyms in the world. It’s incredible to watch someone so young display such artistry and teach so commandingly. He will soon be releasing a video on Back Mastery for @bjj.fanatics and judging by the awed reactions to his teaching here in Singapore he will make it one of the very best ever made – amazing to watch this lesson unfold!

Gym monsters: Most people in Jiu Jitsu know me through the fine work of my competing students. Their incredible success in competition gained international attention and generated great interest in our training methods, tactics and techniques. Understand however, that my training room has many people in it who chose never to compete or to compete very rarely, on a very informal, sporadic basis. Let me assure you of something – some of the toughest people in the room you have never heard of. I always loved this kind of thing – a student who trains part time and doesn’t really have competitive aspirations but who can go up against the best people in the world and go toe to toe with them without a problem. These are the gym monsters – athletes who work their craft in the dojo and whose goal is entirely internal – but their skills are as good as any. A legend in the blue basement is my student Shy Ace – a true gym monster. He spends most of his time in night clubs and on motorcycles but has a game that can shock the hell out of even world champions. Here he is going up against Kasai Grappling standout and silver medalist Tex Johnson and heel hooking him in short order after spontaneously entering a local grappling show after Gordon Ryan told he should give it a shot for the hell of it. One time when he was a white belt he went against Cyborg Abreau and survived a ten minute match without a problem. He has the best mount escapes I ever saw – he did one private class with me many years ago as a white belt and asked what should I learn first? I told him escapes come first and he is basically unmountable at this point. One time I asked a famous world champion to try to stay mounted on him for as long as he could – the longest time was around seven seconds in ten attempts! Take a lesson from this – even if you have no competitive aspirations and don’t train as often as the competition team – you can still be an absolute monster on the mats – I’ve seen it MANY times – indeed, there’s a good chance you have to – almost every good dojo has its own unsung and unknown mat monsters that can shock and inspire us. Maybe one day you can become a feared gym monster yourself! ??

After training in the blue basement, I sat down with Australian grappling sensation Craig Jones to talk about his upcoming appearance at KASAI Pro 5 and see how he’s been improving his game since his breakout performance at ADCC 2017.

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