
Ep. 143: Position Series: The Crucifix, feat. Drew Weatherhead
BJJ Mental Models
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What's the Strategic Benefit of a Crucifix?
A half crucifix is a technique where you use one leg to trap the other arm. It's not only because there's only one leg controlling the leg side arm, it's also because the other leg is on the wrong side of their body. The strategic benefit of going to something like that? Because normally, when you have technical mount on someone, normally it's pretty close to game over at that point. And what can you do in that half crucifix that you couldn't do from technical mount?
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