Ep. 234: Gripfighting From the Bottom, feat. Jon Thomas
BJJ Mental Models
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How to Be a Successful Guard
John: I have 20 years of specific training in all these different positions. So it's just like, it seems like it would be this massively complicated process for me to make these fast paced high level decisions on what I want to do in a position. But you can, there's nothing you could do to rush that, right? Know what positions will commonly be important,. Like building off sleep groups, which is like a shallow lasso, a deep lasso, collar, sleeve. Those are going to be super good. A half spider, knowing what to do off of an ankle grip - maybe like a key mastery type thing.
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