Hey all,
Over the past couple weeks, there were a couple videos of Jean Jacques Machado relating to defense that has had me itching to post. I understand that this is the next topic of discussion for Eddie's book(s), but I felt to post anyway. When I mention defense "Inception style" in the title, for those of you that have seen the movie Inception and know how it is all about dreams, dreams within a dream, and even dreams within dreams WITHIN dreams, I think about all of jiu-jitsu in this manner, how jiu jitsu is made up of moves & positions, positions within positions, positions within positions within positions, etc. It's like the Matrix. It blows my mind every day...
Anywho, the videos below are on Youtube. The first is Jean Jacque talking with Eddie on a podcast about Rickson, but about 5:45 in he starts talking about 'feeling' jiu-jitsu, how "in order to do less, you need to learn more" (Eddie: 'That's some Yoda shit right there'), how there are specific things one can do to preemptively counter any submissions that someone throws at them. As a case study, I watched the second link below of Jean Jacques and Eddie sparring. At precisely 49 seconds in, Eddie sits up to try to sweep Jean Jacque, catches his wrist, and goes for a Kimura. What fascinated me (and I rewinded this at least a dozen times) was how Jean Jacques arm and elbow were conformed in a position that would make it impossible to bring his arm around his back and get finished. It's as if he didn't mind being on his side because it allowed him to use his gravity to make his elbow extremely heavy, preventing any submission potential. The whole sequence lasts about ten seconds, but it blew my mind in the sense that Jean Jacques really probably did not feel in any danger from the submission, even though Eddie had the kimura grip. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I feel that this principle with the arm could work if someone got the grip in full guard as well. He didn't have a need to grab his leg or anything (i.e. further lines of defense); it just seemed like it was angled with enough weight on it to give him the surefire confidence to assure that he wouldn't be tapped....something we always hear in dieting about how "an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure."
On the podcast, Eddie was asking Jean Jacques to 'not worry about getting too technical on this podcast', even going as far to apologize to some listeners that wouldn't understand some of the things. Jean Jacques mentioned some general defensive thought processes, but he didn't get extremely technical on the podcast. I though I'd use this opportunity to reach out to anyone to discuss any very, very technical positions that they've seen or used to preemptively take options away for being submitted, specifically (for what I need most) pertaining to being in bottom half-guard and not getting darced/neck-tied. That seems to be my biggest issue lately, though I've had much improvement just by learning to duck my head in, establish the clinch, and have a high elbow on my underhook. Any and all discussion would be greatly appreciated, even about not getting triangled, armbarred, you name it...anything that anyone has dealt with recently and has fresh on their mind. :)) oss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNzQkLfCnOo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXcWVz9OCfw
