I’ve utterly gotten out of the behavior of posting up courses on right here, as I have been utilizing a spreadsheet since final yr as a substitute. Rather more environment friendly! However I do wish to maintain utilizing this weblog to collate Instagram movies like in earlier posts, particularly as Instagram has gotten more and more annoying about itemizing all of the vids on a hashtag. 😉

First up, I needed to avoid wasting the vids I took of my courses on the ‘superhero touchdown’ posture inside guard. I labelled it as ‘superhero pose’ on the vids, as that is one syllable much less: unsure which one I want but. The previous is extra descriptive, the latter is faster to say. Anyway, I realized it from Chris Paines on the Artemis BJJ München Camp 2023 (I am going to more than likely do extra camps there, through which case you possibly can e book them right here). It’s a posture I can bear in mind Priit displaying at one in all his mega lengthy weekend seminars at Chris’ health club just a few years again. Because it was Priit, I discovered the reason complicated and it by no means actually caught, regardless of a number of hours of Priit lectures.

Chris is a wonderful Priit translator. Within the house of a few minute, he was in a position to condense that down and make it very straightforward to grasp. I’ve tried to proceed that course of, so I am slapping a hopefully evocative identify on it, with just a few easy factors to clarify the mechanics. I referred to as it superhero touchdown as a result of it seems to be very similar to the pose you all the time see superheroes do after they hit the ground after flying in to cease the villain. Particularly, that is a 3 level touchdown (I suppose technically 4, however primarily three): hand, foot, knee. You possibly can argue the foot of the knee leg makes it 4 factors, however there is not a lot weight on the foot again there.

That very same place works surprisingly effectively inside guard, with just a few tweaks. Think about there’s a stick operating from the highest of your head to your tailbone, that should keep in alignment. You additionally wish to maintain every part pointed forwards, notably your knees. The hand on the bottom breaks the same old rule of guard prime that you do not put your hand on the mat. Nevertheless, due to the positioning and alignment, you’re placing all of your weight by that arm, which means it method much less susceptible to kimura and the like.

The hand additionally does not must be on the mat (I am going to typically base off my fist, that feels extra snug). You possibly can put that hand on their collar, or most likely the perfect of all, on their arm pinning it to the mat. One other good possibility is getting that arm by their head, in the event you handle to maneuver up their physique sufficient. You possibly can then successfully cross-face them by inserting it tight sufficient to their head to drive their ear in direction of their shoulder, misaligning the backbone.

Chris informed us on the camp that he is had his health club do that and just about nothing else for about 2 years. That has resulted in all people having to get significantly better at guard, as a result of you must work more durable to interrupt it down when anyone will get good at utilizing this posture. I am planning to include this into my courses on passing, ultimately I am going to work it up right into a seminar I can train at camps. It combines effectively with how I already train my passing intro, so I feel there’s loads of scope to play with it extra.