Ep. 140: Defensive BJJ, feat. Priit Mihkelson
BJJ Mental Models
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What's the Difference Between Side Control and Hawking?
In Hawking, the important thing is you can still move in the directions that you want to move and your opponent can't really do anything to your head. Whether or not your spine is twisted is somewhat irrelevant. There's a lot of positions where you might have a bit of twist in your body and that's okay as long as you're the one who's doing it and it's not your opponent doing it to you. I don't know why upper body defenses are so understudied but we've got some good escapes like Gordon Ryan,. And then we have people like Telus Cariton, Jeff Glover - he doesn't care how he does his moves just let us watch him fight.
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