Ep. 191: Old Bastard Jiu-Jitsu, feat. Mike Mahaffey
BJJ Mental Models
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How to Maintain Your Base on Top
Stevie Rimmer explains the importance of base, posture and structure. Base is the thing that is going to scale the best depending on an opponent's body size or dimensions. When we talk about posture, we're talking about the strength of your spine. But there's still a pretty hard limit in terms of the amount of pressure you want to put on your spine. And same wit, same wot structure, right? You're talking about using your arms and your legs as frames and managing distance with them too. I mean, i've certainly been in situations where i wasn't properly framing my wrist just if you make a mistake with it. It doesn't even get into things like
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