Ep. 234: Gripfighting From the Bottom, feat. Jon Thomas
BJJ Mental Models
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The Importance of Grip Fighting
The right answer is probably going to be the one that allows you to put pressure and is energy efficient, but you're going to have to do some trial and error in the positions to solve it. So grip fighting again, it's a bit of a abstract thing because there's so many prerequisites based off of the skills that you have. In theory, if I was really good at passing the triangle choke position, like getting out of the triangle and smashing passing someone, you could give someone a triangle choke just to pass up. That's not necessarily wrong if it wins the match. But sometimes on top, trying to like force a particular pastor trying to never let them get a grip could
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