Disclaimer before we start....I am probably writing this post as a way to remind myself of this topic. Tonight I am going to go back to training after taking most of December, all of January, and most of February off due to Omicron. Here is a list of things that I know will suck tonight: … Continue reading The First Night Back After A Break

Have you ever watched a video, tried out a technique, and then kicked yourself for not knowing something so simple? Well, that was me recently with an easy way to stand up from the half guard. In the video below Bernardo Faria shows off a method of controlling the wrist from 1/2 guard that he … Continue reading Cross Gripping from Half Guard

This week I took a detour on my study of the front headlock and went back to watching some instructionals about the Kimura. One of the instructionals I studied was Josh Barnett's Championship Level Catch Wrestling. In the instructional Barnett shows an interesting way to set up what he calls the Short Arm Scissors Double … Continue reading The Short Arm Scissor by Josh Barnett