Ep. 201: Position Series: Closed Guard, feat. Brianna Ste-Marie
BJJ Mental Models
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The Rise of Nogi in the G?
When you're wearing a G, it's kind of like a tractor beam, right? You can just grab onto someone and just pull them towards you. In Nogi, it's much harder to lock someone down like that because you don't have those strong controls. The two setups that I've used the most often, like against good opponents in competition, would be one super simple. So if someone's willing to tie up with me, I don't like jumping guard from a distance. It scares me. But if they're wanting to like collar tie on me or whatever, usually I feel pretty comfortable to jump guard from there.
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