Last night during our Fundamentals of BJJ class at Crossroads Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu we began with working a self defense technique from the standing position. This class focused on defending the rear naked choke from the standing position. The basis for all of the self defense moves in the Crossroads Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu curriculum emphesize that you […]
Last night during our BJJ Team Training class at Crossroads Brazilian Jiu-jitsu we continued adding techniques to our Kimora system. In BJJ having options is never a bad thing, as our overall goal is to develop a set number of options we can execute at the correct time. If you do not have enough options […]
In BJJ it is always Position before submission! This means that before you can attempt a submission you must put your opponent in a position where they can not hurt you. In last nights Jiu-Jitsu class we focused on controlling the fight from the side control position. We spent the class alternating between drilling […]
This past Saturday at Crossroads Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu we drilled a sequence of techniques to create a flow drill. A flow drill is what we call a series of techniques that create an endless loop and allows each person to practice each of the techniques. Saturday our flow drill consisted of 4 techniques which looped through […]
Last night during our team training class we continued our study of the Triangle choke. The triangle is a strangulation submission where you use your legs and your training partners shoulder to reduce blood floor through the carodid arteries. The reduced blood flow will cause a person to feel sleepy and eventually fall asleep. The […]
Today during Team Training we continued working Butterfly Guard sweeps, starting with a review of the butterfly Guard Sweep we have been working on for the last week. This gave everybody and opportunity to increase their understanding of the mechanics of the sweep and sharpening up some the skills we already knew from previous classes. […]
Just as expected Rodrigo Gracie Grandson of Carlos Gracie Sr. put on an amazing seminar last week at Crossroads Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in Connecticut. Rodrigo has been learning Brazilian since he could crawl from his family. The Gracie’s are the most famous Martial Arts Family in the world having displayed there technical prowess both in self […]