Ep. 191: Old Bastard Jiu-Jitsu, feat. Mike Mahaffey
BJJ Mental Models
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How to Play Bastard Pressure, Right?
When i didn't quite understand what base meant and how to get it, you know, i was struggling to make myself heavy. It took me a long time to figure out that you don't need to be constantly squeezing and tense all the time. That is very important if you want to play that plodding pressure game. If you're really tense and rigid, it's easy for them to push off of you. You're basically giving them a handle that they can push and drive against. But if you're loose and you're just kind of really relaxed and almost kind of like wobbly, if they try to frame against you, you just kind of wobble a bit.
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