This takes deliberate practice, but it’s worth the time and effort

Takes some practice but works like crazy. I did the shoulder variation here in competition kzfaq.info/get/bejne/q5N_ktKH3ba2oH0.htmlsi=YzZptqJHgUMeDs3N

Yeah, I actually had to tell my BJJ instructor why that’s a terrible decision. In Freestyle, I would suplex the crap out of people from the back. You can do it from the side bodylock too, but the side bodylock has issues in that the opponent has offense from there too (I have several videos on that). If someone stands up on you, there is definitely a lot of threat. Stand up on a crazy whitebelt wrestler with freestyle or greco experience and you might get your neck broken. You have absolutely zero advantage to standing up without hand control. Two things that I want BJJ people to learn from wrestling is how to escape with proper hand control and how to properly mat return. Because the current “fetish” in this sport is to get to someone’s back from the standing position, but the mat return skills need a lot of work before that is a useful endeavor.

@@josephbreza-grappling9459 I need to learn a lot from your material, thank you for your awesome information ;-)

@@JSMinstantcoaching my pleasure! Thank you for your interest and support!

@@josephbreza-grappling9459 Thanks for your videos. So much great details. Can you post one about how to break the rear bodylock grip while on the mat before standing up? I break it on my hip if im standing but have trouble breaking the grip while im on the mat.

@@derekmitchell3460 don’t bother. If he wants to hold on to the grip, then granby his stupid fucking face into the mat. Then he will let go. Lol

That’s cool man! I am grateful for those guys dropping that line. They didn’t have to do that. They are building people up instead of tearing them down. That is a fantastic way of doing things I like doing the Granby to get to a position where I put them in trouble from side control or face them and take them down. I am not much of a full guard player or triangle guy, so the half granby to the triangle or full guard just isn’t my game. But I have been caught with triangles off of that when I didn’t respect it. I think that is what makes Jiu Jitsu so cool. You can get into this sort of easy going roll and then oh shit, lol!

Yes, I get that all the time from people. I tell them to hari goshi, sagging headlock, or uchi mata when that guy gets a side bodylock on you and they always say, “yeah but he will try to take your back when you get to the ground.” Well, he was almost to my back from the side bodylock you moron. Same thing if someone gets an over under and I inside trip. “Oh, but now you’ll end up in his guard.” Better than being in his mount you frickin moron. In wrestling, we don’t limit the takedowns we do based on whether they will give us the optimal position. You do what you need to do to get it done. If you think that way, you will lose. You have to use what’s available and move on from there. If I just get away with a granby, I have accomplished what I needed to accomplish, which was to get the hell out of there. Granby camp is the shit

@@josephbreza-grappling9459 it very much feels like an "Letting perfect be the enemy of good" situation. Im just a white belt but it seems to be as you rightly point out if we wait for the perfect time to get where we want to in one go we are going to miss lots off opportunities to put ourselves in a better positions. Id rather be in half guard than side control. Id rather be in guard than in mount, id rather be in side control with one butterfly hook in than in side control with nothing. Same with guard passes. Sure a knee cut might end with you being in quater guard. But Its a huge improvement on being in full guard of half guard. Thanks for your vids btw, always some great perspectives I dont see elsewhere as often.

Absolutely man!! Because there is the entire mental side of this too!! If I make incremental improvements on my position, then you feel yourself losing position over and over. A giant part of the game is mental where you don’t “worry” about what he has but assess it and do what you need to do. That doesn’t always come with time. I have coached many exceptional wrestlers who’s biggest battle is theirselves. They have these expectations of what they want and that’s very far from reality. You just need to be in the moment. It took me a very long time not to treat practice like a competition. But with time, age, and deliberate practice, I was able to just see practice as opportunities to learn and to let OTHERS LEARN! That’s when I truly started to love grappling, because I wasn’t judging myself all the time

Watch my underhook and Russian videos for entry to the bodylock. Always step in the middle. Stepping on the outside of his leg with the waist grab is just an uchi mata, headlock, or hari goshi for him.

Work on your front headlock game. It’s a phenomenal position. I will post a video next week going over my front headlock series

not my question but solid solid advice Joseph is a real deal

I would rather do my own so that some dickhead doesn’t sue me for using footage of them they willingly put on the internet. I have plans to convert my vhs tapes to digital.

@@josephbreza-grappling9459 that would be great. would be awesome to see some clips of the moves in action cut into the videos

That’s awesome! Glad to hear it! Actually, that’s a good topic. I’ll put it on the list!

Yes, that’s the finish from there when my arm makes it to the outside (When I clear the space on the granby). I wouldn’t want my back facing him for long, because I would worry about him trying to re-establish back control. In college, I never tried to hold them there long, because they will completely flip out and try to rip your face off with the other hand as they bridge and shrimp. So, I would bail out towards the legs (never towards the head) and take the reversal

Absolutely on the list. We will move it up!

Funny, someone asked me the same thing. I thought this was clear, but this is sort of the issue with not being in person and having me correct your posture/position after I show the technique. I will add it to the list

@@josephbreza-grappling9459 I’m 40 myself maybe it’s old age and learning new things are bit more slow :)

@@wongfamilytcm start with the head shrug video

@@josephbreza-grappling9459 just watched last night! Great video. It looks similar to Peterson roll but would you recommend not doing Peterson since leaves u open for crucifix?

I literally say that at 4:53, lol

It’s easy after you master the basics of the move. I have just been doing it since I was like 15, so it’s hard wired

I can’t make any mat videos for at least a year. Getting ACL reconstruction

This is a seriously underrated video. I cannot tell you how much this concept will save you. It does apply to the ADCC ruleset, as my shoulder is not on the mat. It also will prevent them from lifting my legs if I dump him on his head like this first kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hMuWit12rJm1hYU.htmlsi=Zu2RmN_F0qOBlkN6

Yes, because it is essentially a variant of the head shrug. But the shoulder roll that I do later doesn’t use that. It’s for elevation and helping me create the turn of my hips

No. Not him. I don’t want to say his name, because he’s sort of a private guy.

Send a link. I think I’ve seen it.

@@josephbreza-grappling9459 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jpZ2Z9WVvMulnpc.html

The shoulder granby is for when his pressure is forward a ton.

@@josephbreza-grappling9459 That makes sense. Thanks for the reply!

Can you link it here with the time? It’s super helpful for people.

@@josephbreza-grappling9459 I found it for ya kzfaq.info/get/bejne/d6dmdJifx9KocoE.html from 1:07 probably

Yup, basically just like Dom did. The granby that guy just did was in slow motion, lol

No, you need the head shrug for that. I will get to it. Actually pretty stupidly easy to get out of if they don’t have legs in. It’s why we tell kids never to do that in wrestling. Just go out the back door

There is a complicated variation, where I can get his grips on the wrong side by doing a sit out and hip switch, but I think it’s too much for the channel now. I’ll think about incorporating it into the head shrug video

@@josephbreza-grappling9459 Thank you so much for explaining it ! Will look forward to the video. Please keep up the content, feels like theres so many bad habits taught in bjj that are taught never to do at a young age in wrestling

@@bigmule7200 it’s a sport that’s based solely on preparing you for competition. The people you train with are your competitors, because you have to beat them for the spot on the team every single week. So, you get very particular about not doing stupid shit that will cost you the right to compete. As far as we know, wrestling is one of the oldest sport in the world. Some people think they can reinvent it, but it’s been tried and failed. The oldest forms of wrestling (from records of ancient Greece) had chokes and joint locks. There actually weren’t pins, the guy had to verbally tap.

@@josephbreza-grappling9459 Thats very true. I think your videos analyzing some of what people would consider 'strong wrestlers' in the BJJ scene showed that alot them are still lacking alot of basic fundamentals, cant wait for your vids to slowly bring those holes to ppls attention and fill them!

On my Russian video, I showed how to loosen his collar tie, so that then you can get the Russian (video #22). But you can use that same technique to then get elbow control (videos9, 21, and 27) when he reaches for the tie, or shucking him off (#15)

@@josephbreza-grappling9459 Thanks coach, that was a great video! What is your favorite attack fron the russian tie and from underhook?

@@effectivejudowrestling3362 I really don’t have “moves” but run systems. I show those in the videos. I take what they give me and don’t think about it otherwise. It’s important to have that mindset

@@josephbreza-grappling9459 yeah i know wjat you mean coach, let's say the opponents weight is back and you have a russian tie, what would you go for? Also same case with the underhook

It depends on what he does. Study video #6 and #22. The series depends on his reaction. I cover what you’re describing

Lol!! Bro, I am 43 years old and definitely not a gymnast. Takes a little practice, but anyone can do this. And it’s incredibly useful for reversals

I can’t see that… Try getting comfortable with the shoulder roll I show first. That will work against a lot of people. Often will break their grip and give you a chance of getting hand control and doing the stand up I show

@@josephbreza-grappling9459 yeah im comfortable with the shoulder roll thats what im doin right now when i get to the turtle position. But in the technique you show here it feels like im going to break my neck basically accidentally land on my neck

So you are doing the shoulder roll the way I show it at 7:05 or the shitty traditional Granby with no explosion? With the head granby, my hand is still on the ground as a post. I went to the Granby school of wrestling where they teach this directly for 3 practices a day for a week. It’s no joke. 6hrs of intensive drilling. It takes A LOT of practice

No shots allowed…front headlock to the back all day. I am going to post that next week

No shots allowed? I'd go overhook kick throw, I don't know if it works or not. maybe arm drag to back take

@@counterkidnapping1737 thanks for commenting! The reason I’d go with a front headlock to the back is that it doesn’t require anything from him really. If he is pushing, I can snap him down into a front headlock. I have more control then from an overhook or armdrag. The drag doesn’t work well on people who are backing away. You can force a front headlock if you have to, but you can’t force the drag very well. The drag works well if they are pushing, but like I showed in my armdrag video, you can go around and around in circles if you don’t do it the Greco way (in the traditional way, you have the same move-both can drag). Also, having to deal with the front headlock is horribly exhausting. If you don’t get it the first time, you can keep going back to it and wear people out. You’ll eventually get it and are expending little energy while he is really having to do a ton of work. There’s also little offense for him other than the drag. As long as I keep my elbow high (the one that’s controlling the chin) and control is far elbow. He’s gonna pay for it down there. I’ll post that video soon next week!

@@josephbreza-grappling9459 wow thank you coach. You acknowledge me. My wrestling skills isn't good enough compared to you

Well, we will fix that!! The beauty of Andy Seras’s system is that you can take a beginner and turn him into a champion. Back when he ran Atlas wrestling club, we (a few of us college guys) would help out and work with high school and middle school kids at the club. Seras and Reardon (my head coach) produced numerous high level wrestlers from teaching this system. Many had zero experience when they started and within a few years won the state tournament and qualified for Nationals. I helped coach the national team for several years. Coaching kids is really what makes you develop good systems, because you have to use techniques that will work when people are tired, slippery, and need to score to win. Andy’s systems are all about gaining control, so that wherever he moves, he puts himself into trouble

Granby is the best option to break the grip when the rule set doesn’t make you (you can’t lock hands from that position in scholastic wrestling). I show this on my Granby video kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mZiZjdOmlq3dZqc.html I am not doing it from a standing position, but the same concept applies. He has to let go or he will faceplant or break his shoulder (if done correctly). I don’t wear the gloves and don’t like to comment on things I am not an expert on, because there are enough bozos out there doing that-like BJJ coaches who teach wrestling but have never wrestled a match in their life. However, will say this, my grip a one handed over grip on my hand and I would think I might have a better grasp here with a small glove than without. But then again, I could totally be wrong and am fine with that. It’s like wrestling with and without shoes on. If you never have wrestled without shoes on, then you don’t know how some classic wrestling positions just don’t work.

@@josephbreza-grappling9459 That is super helpful info and cleared up a lot of questions I had about the position. Thank you so much for the thoughtful reply!

My pleasure! Anytime

That’s exactly right brother!

Did I stutter, LOL? That is how his name is pronounced. Anibal Nieves kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mKuaebGrspi5hZs.html 1:10 Nieves was also tough as hell man. John was just the man

Lol!! Yeah, started when I was 11. I went to Granby camp in 1995. It’s an amazing technique camp. Billy Martin was a legend!

Joe doesn't age! In fact, lately, he has been aging in reverse. Like Benjamin Button.