I recently got promoted to Black Belt

[Brent Smith]

Beautiful. Congrats!

[scottross]

That's awesome Stefan, congrats on the promotion.

For those that I have showed the Swiss Teepee, Stefan is the Swiss whom the technique is named after. He showed me the technique when he visited HQ last year.

[Stefan Rüegg]

Thanks a lot!

In September I will pass by at the HQ again, and will stay for 7 days.
I'm looking forward to train with you guys again.

cheers
stefan

Congrats!

[Stefan Rüegg]

Cool !!!! Thanks Scott

[Enrique "Kiko"]

Stefan is the Swiss whom the technique is named after

Having a good move named after you in jiu jitsu is so damn cool. How does that officially even happen? Imanari, Gokor, DeSouza *control," etc

[scottross]

You shouldn't name the move after yourself, but people will often name a move after the person who made the move popular.

For instance, the Dead Orchard predates Nathan Orchard's jiu-jitsu career but he is the one who made it popular by repeatedly destroying people in competitions with it.

That having been said, technique names only stick if there isn't already a technique that is related or similar. Also, a technique should fit into a system of nomenclature (the name should make sense relative to other technique names).

Show the Art recently released a video with Nathan Orchard doing an Imanari Roll to a Knee Bar. Nathan had dubbed that technique the Rolling Honey Hole, which fits the 10th Planet system of nomenclature pretty well (ala Rolling Kimura) but its probably now best known what is was called in the video - an Imanari roll. That technique actually came to us from Garry Tonon, whom I believe described it as similar but not the same as an Imanari roll. Tonon offered no name, so the technique was nameless when Nathan picked it up.

Of course, in this case, the Swiss Teepee isn't popular yet but I think it is an extremely solid choke and I've shown it to a lot of people over the last year. A lot of people commented that it looked like a Teepee, so naming it the Swiss Teepee in deference to Stefan made sense.

[Stefan Rüegg]

You shouldn't name the move after yourself, but people will often name a move after the person who made the move popular.

For instance, the Dead Orchard predates Nathan Orchard's jiu-jitsu career but he is the one who made it popular by repeatedly destroying people in competitions with it.

That having been said, technique names only stick if there isn't already a technique that is related or similar. Also, a technique should fit into a system of nomenclature (the name should make sense relative to other technique names).

Show the Art recently released a video with Nathan Orchard doing an Imanari Roll to a Knee Bar. Nathan had dubbed that technique the Rolling Honey Hole, which fits the 10th Planet system of nomenclature pretty well (ala Rolling Kimura) but its probably now best known what is was called in the video - an Imanari roll. That technique actually came to us from Garry Tonon, whom I believe described it as similar but not the same as an Imanari roll. Tonon offered no name, so the technique was nameless when Nathan picked it up.

Of course, in this case, the Swiss Teepee isn't popular yet but I think it is an extremely solid choke and I've shown it to a lot of people over the last year. A lot of people commented that it looked like a Teepee, so naming it the Swiss Teepee in deference to Stefan made sense.

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[Marc Baker]

Congratulations on your promotion, Stefan!

[gene k]

Congrats!

[Stefan Rüegg]

Thank you all, I really appreciate it!
See you guys soon at the HQ.

Cheers stefan