Here Josh Griffiths Head Instructor at Clockwork Jiu Jitsu finishes his match with a Kimura
What did you think…getting a belt from Josh was easy! You don’t want to know what I had to do to get mine!
Kenny Florian will be giving a seminar at Clockwork BJJ next Friday, October 16th at 6:30pm.
The seminar fee is $75.
Kenny will be showing his best no gi techniques.
Questions? Call: 212.675.0300 or email.
Hope to see you all there!
Here’s some video of Clockwork BJJ in LAncaster PA at the Grapplers Quest Tournament.
Rome Za under 130 blue belt finals
Rome Za giving up 20lbs in the semis of the blue belt under 150lb division
Here are 3 matches from last weekends competition. Congrats to everyone who headed down to Philly.
This is a choke from the sitting back position, (and it’s very similar to the clock choke.)
With your top hand, try to get a deep lapel grip. do this but sliding your thumb under the lapel, pointing your knuckles up and sliding your hand as far up the lapel as you can to get a deep grip. try to flick the guys chin up with a turning motion of your wrist. If you get a bad grip, don’t be too discouraged, you can still finish, it will just take more patience.
Next get a decent, but not too high grip with the other hand, the bottom hand.
Lean over to your side and you pull your tom-grip arms, elbow hard to your hip as you drop your head and get ear to ear.
Finish by giving a had hug as you squeeze, turning your choking grip arm, pulling your elbow closer to your hip, and extending your other arm at the elbow to tighten the lapel.
I think it’s easier to finish this choke by also pulling your bottom hand up into your opponents neck as you pull back with that arm. You donlt have to wait for the lapel to do all the work. Hug the neck with this hand hard by trying to touch your fingertips to the back of their neck.
IF you can’t get the grip, attach with a backward eziekel choke:
S grip your hands.
post your top-arm-side foot on their hip hip
spin your arms as you push with your foot. (You’re spinning to a positions similar to the Bow-and-Arrow position)
Get the Eziekel, gripping inside your back hands sleeve
Rotate your back hand around to the near side of their neck.
Choke, by pushing this had forward into the side of their neck. (Make sure your far hand wrist bone is perpendiculal to thier neck to get the pincher-like pressure here which is the finish)
Pretzel Foot Pass
This is an open guard pass to use when your opponents has their feet on your hips and a same side collar sleeve grip set.
Start standing. Your opponent is on the on the ground, feet on your hips, gripping your right arm, with their left, and your collar, with their right.
1. Grab their lapel with you right (trapped) arm.
2. Stuff their foot on your free side between your legs and prepare to smash their knees down. -grab their foot above their toes -step back with your leg on that side as you push the foot down between your legs. -When their foot’s between your legs, clam them together so it doesn’t pop out.
3. Smash their legs down. grab the top of their knee with your free hand as you drop your right knee down, stapling their left leg. Keeping your lapel grip with your right hand, move yoru elbow so that it is up on top of their knees, pinning their knees down to the side. Next, slide your left knee up behind their knees. Once you’re heavy, on top of their knees, reach around and grab the back of their jacket with your free have.
4. Free your trapped right leg by kicking it back as you keep your other knee, your left knee, up behind their knees.
5. Pretzel time. (This details is awkward, but important and protects you from ending up in half guard or back in guard.) while keeping your left knee behind their knees, rotate your left foot and ankle over and across both their feet so that you ar stapling them down.
6. Finish the Pretzel. Now move your right knee (this was the trapped leg) up and over their legs. Placing your right knee down between their knees and your left knee.
7. Unstaple and roll them back to side control. Keep your lapel grip. kick your feet around. sag heavy on their chest as you roll them back towards you with the lapel grip and establish side control. (the lapel grip stops them from turtling away from you.)
Rumino Sato is a legend in MMA and submission Grappling know mainly for his dynamic and flying attacks. Here is a highlight and a recent match. Don’t try this stuff at home…….
