In my opinion, these are the most important techniques for a White Belt in BJJ to know.
Every instructor has their priorities but for me, beginners in BJJ should focus the majority of their training on dealing with real world attacks and not on defeating other BJJ player’s attacks.

My thoughts on this common topic

In December, I traveled to Mirco Wendt’s Academy, Monkey Gym Schwerte, to teach a 2 Day Seminar for just the Academy Students.

It was on Pressure & Control: two aspects of grappling and fighting that I feel are not really focused on or understood anymore.

This is how Mirco described it after:

Roy emphasized Jiu Jitsu is the art of control and not the art of Submission.
One of the main tools for control is pressure, so Roy covered the fundamentals for that kind of game, like proper weight placement, body misalignment, air restriction and more…

We were all amazed cause we we had never experienced that kind of pressure before. Great thing about that approach is, the top game player almost never used lots of strength or grips, instead it was absolute effortless to control the bottom person with correct alignment of the own body, misalignment of the opponents body and weight distribution.

What I as a plus 40 year old bjj hobbyist love about that kind of game is, you can play it as young gun, but also as a matured grappler over 40/50, because it doesn’t depend on attributes like strength or flexibility: everybody can do it.

Perfectly in relation to sustainability and longevity, great for self defense, competition or mma.

And, in a personal Message, he told me the immediate success he had with what he learned:
“Hey mate. We played with the “Pressure” game… it is so fantastic.
We rolled for control and I tapped the guys only with pressure and control and without Submissions ?
This happened never before although I am training for almost 10 years now. Thanks a lot for all the gold nuggets.
We really could up our games again after your seminar”

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I will be putting these details and concepts and techniques and many more into my upcoming Pressure and Control DVD going soon

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This is one of my favourite ways to escape this submission and position.

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You have numerous control points when holding someone in side control.
This is important to understand.
Many people begin to lose side control and abandon the whole process and try to make a big desperation movement to a whole new position. This usually just turns into a scramble which only helps their opponent.
As I said you have multiple control points which means that when i lose one of them I can simply focus on another.
In this case, I control the head. When I lose that I control the elbow. When I lose that I control the leg.
In this scenario, all of these stop my opponent getting off their back and taking my back from the Kesa Gatame.
I’ll be going much more in-depth into these concepts and mechanics in my Pressure & Control DVD

Just some videos of me rolling with my Assistant, Erkan Mete.
There’s times to get after it and there are times to play and explore.

I love muscle cutters and often go to them as a first option when I attack the legs.

For me, fighting for a kneeler is a lot of work since it’s such a powerful limb. But, the nice thing with this attack is that it works off their most common defence. And, if they defend the Calf attack, I can go back to the kneeler.

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