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Invisibilest Jiu Jitsu

Invisibilest Jiu Jitsu

Rolling with your eyes closed

 

I often get asked why I close my eyes when rolling / competing.

 

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The answer is very simple. There are four reasons:

1). You feel better. Once you are close, it is all about connection, angle, posture, weight distribution, breathing and pacing.

2). Your eyes deceive you. By closing your eyes you become immune to feints.

3). It calms your nervous system and it prevents it from overloading. Every time you react, your nervous system ininvigets more tired and your reaction time diminishes.

4). Last but not least… it prevents accidental eyepokes

Invisible Jiu Jitsu, taken very literally 😄

 

Do you roll or compete with your eyes closed?

 

 

 

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The 50/50 Truck – Improve Backtake

The Truck is one of Jiu Jitsu’s most interesting positions and ways to take your opponent’s back.
Mastering the Truck can be one of the quickest ways to improve your level and understanding of Jiu Jitsu.

It’s also one of the more “flashy” positions. So Bonus Points for style 🙂

There are two downsides however:

1). The Truck is a bit complex and can be hard and scary for a beginner to master or even begin.

2). The Truck is a 50/50-like position; you and your opponent have equal options. If you fail in your entry or the opponent simply has better posture, grips, timing or transitions, you end up giving your back instead of taking your opponent’s.

The Drill in this video aims to fix both of these issues by focusing and explaining what happens in the middle part of the Truck.

Understanding the moment where both you and your opponent have equal options is the key to understanding every exchange in Jiu Jitsu and in this case the Truck Backtake.

Equal options for both players, 50/50 Truck



Have a look at my video and led me hear your thoughts in the comments!

This is part 1 of a new series on the Truck. Stay tuned for part 2 “The Most Complicated Drill in Jiu Jitsu” in the next few days 😉

 

If you would to see a whole class dedicated to the concept of 50/50 games? I highly recommend you watch the following class as well: “What I learned from Backhold Wrestling”.

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Dealing With Younger Explosive Opponents

“Give the opponent what he wants until he does not want it anymore”

 

Younger explosive players tend to favor an open guard and distance. Distance is crucial if they want to use their physical attributes to the maximum.

Spider guard is very often the initial open guard that gets used as an initial step towards a more favorable attachment.

The most common way to deal with spiderguard, is to to move away, bring the opponent’s feet to the floor, keep them pinned, make an angle and pass.

This is definately a good valid strategy.

However, spider guard is most often preferred by younger and faster players who tend to be more explosive than the older generation of grapplers.

The last thing I want to give a younger explosive opponent, is the space to move as that is when his physical attributes will shine the most.

My strategy is the opposite.

“Give the opponent what he wants, until he does not want it anymore”, is the pathway of minimal effort and maximum efficiency.

Whenever a foot is placed on my body as a frame, I want to give “a reason” to that foot.
I start to add more pressure to that foot.

This achieves a number of things:
1). The opponent will have to carry my weight, thus making him tired
2). Space is denied, the opponent can’t work
3). There are less options, thus less complexity. The game becomes slower and more predictable.

In order for the opponent to be able to work his game, he needs to create space.
He can achieve this by pushing, framing + walking away or bring you out of balance and move away as you recover the center.

When passing, you have to keep your weight forward (for pressure) and centered for balance.
Once the opponent gets tired, he will react by making an angle. The angle makes the frame of his feet and legs weak. Your constant forward pressure against the now weaker frames, allow you to progress your pass to the next line of defense (knees and arms), where you can repeat the same process again until you pass the opponent’s guard.

You can find an example of this process in action on the video below.

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The King’s Gambit – Baiting The Triangle Choke

The King’s Gambit – Baiting The Triangle

Chess and BJJ’s most “aggressive” opening

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Do you want to see Wim Deputter’s way to defend the triangle choke and use it to pass the guard in action and explained? Click here!

 

“A gambit in chess is a move where you sacrifice material in order to gain structural, positional or other advantage”

 

In Brazilian Jiu Jitsu we have “gambits” as well.
If your defense is well, you can bait your opponent with a submission and use his or her eagerness to your advantage.

My favorite BJJ gambit, the core of my game, and the one I have practically made my “career” on, is baiting the Triangle.

If the Footlock is the sneaky Thief, the Armlock Queen and The Choke King, we can consider baiting the Triangle “The King’s Gambit” of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu”.

Gambit’s can played if you know the position, structure and possibilities well. If you have a system to answer the different reactions the opponent might throw at you.
And all of this has to rest on a solid, systematic defense in case you make a mistake in your system.

For years I have understood the top part of the triangle better than the bottom. My Triangle Choke Defense was better than my choke itself.
I always found it easier to beat the triangle than to finish it. Something was missing on bottom, something didn’t make sense.

I have been willing to make an instructional on this topic for a long time. But to bring something out, you have to understand all aspects to it. One important ‘piece of the puzzle’ was missing on the bottom triangle.

Until today. Today I discovered something new. Something not generally known and used.

I will start filming the next installement of The Mirroring Principle “The King’s Gambit” this week.

And where there is a King there is a “Queen’s Gambit” in the future as well.

“The Thief’s Gambit” is, for now, still a work in progress 😀

Check out the link in bio for an example of “The King’s Gambit” in action.

 

In the mean time, here you can see an example of The King’s Gambit in action on competition and a basic intro.

 

 

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Sneaky Hip Throw And Back Take Combo From The Body Lock

Sneaky Hip Throw and Back Take Combo By Wim Deputter BJJ Brazilian Jiu Jitsu

In this video I go over some options from the Body Lock position.
I show an easy setup for a Hip Throw and a way to Enter the Truck from standing, as well as some other options.

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A Hip Throw Setup from the standing Body Lock, a standing truck entry and more! Click to watch!

Hip Throws are often hard in Jiu Jitsu.
To execute a proper Hip Throw, you need hip connection first.

This is quite hard to achieve, given the fact that many BJJ Practicioners (at least on training and competition) prefer a bent over posture and often pull guard before a meaning full hip connection can be established.

Because of this, it is often hard to train hip throws. Much harder at least than the more common Wrestling Take Downs that work from Headcontrol and / or Single and Double Legs.

What I offer with this video, is a very functional, logical and systematic approach from the Body Lock position, resulting in a Hip Throw or Back Take.
I’m not going over ways to get to the Body Lock. This might be the topic of another video, in case there is demand for it.
One common scenarion to get there, is after you established an underhook from half guard bottom, managed to get to Dogfight and your opponent stands up.

This particular setup has been part of my game for many years. I hope it may help you out as well and give some incentive to train a very often underdeveloped part of many a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu practicioner’s game.

Stay tuned for my upcoming video and article. I will cover The standing Back Take more in-depth!

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The Four Threats in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (by Wim Deputter)

The Four Threats in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Wim Louis Deputter 

There are four ways to make your opponent react to you and guide him or her into making a mistake by Wim Deputter

In BJJ there are four main ways to make your opponent react to you. A properly executed threat, should in general leave your opponent only two options. In the following article I will list these four threats from weakest to strongest.

“Don’t react to your opponent, make your opponent react to you. Reactions can be predicted and taken advantage of.”

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1) Off balancing:

An opponent out of balance has the choice to let you come on top or recover his balance by posting and pushing back against the force pushing him out of balance.


2) Pressure:

Pressure, when not adressed, will drain your opponent of his stamina. The opponent has to create space either by pushing (bad) or framing, bridging and hip- or shoulderescaping.


3) A lock:

The threat of a lock blocks your opponent from moving in one direction and gradually forces him into the opposite direction.
The opponent has the choice between going with the direction of the force or possibly injurying a limb.


4) A choke:

The choke is the king of the four threats in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.

While a lock can be ignored at the price of possible injury, a properly executed choke has to be adressed. The opponent has the choice between defending his neck, with his hands or by turning his chin in, or passing out.
In a roll outside of a competition environment, were time and points act as an external oppressor, the threat of a sweep or takedown can be largely ignored.

You only lose position.

Pressure can be ignored for a good amount of time, until you are completely drained.
With a lock you still have the ‘choice’ of risking your limb.

A properly executed choke is the only threat were all choice is taken away.

Like I remember Chris Haueter  saying in his speech at the BJJ Globetrotters Camp: “When possible, always be choking”.

This is one of my older articles that I wrote in the past and got uploaded by multiple Brazilian Jiu Jitsu related websites. I will first post all of my older articles, after which I plan to start writing on the regular again.
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Pressure, being one of the four threats in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, is something you will have to learn how to deal with. That’s is exactly what my instructional ‘A General Introduction to the Mirroring Principle and the Baby Bridge’ was designed to do; a postural approach on defending and dealing with pressure. Tired of suffering on bottom and getting smashed? Be sure to check it out!

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Wim Deputter ‘A General Introduction of The Mirroring Principle and The Baby Bridge’

 

 

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Counter for the knee cut pass (Wim Deputter / Brazilian Jiu Jitsu)

Enter ‘The Rocking Chair’ – Counter for one of the most common passes in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu 

 

Are you a half guard player? Does your guard often get passed with the knee cut?
Do this adjustment and turn the situation to your advantage!

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An analysis of one of the most common guard passes in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu: The Knee Cut Pass

The knee cut, knee slice, knee slide, cut through pass,… however you call it, it’s a guard pass every half guard player will have to learn how to deal with. It’s one of the most common passes in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu at every level.
The regular way to play deep half guard, is to fight for the underhook and reach for an undergrip on the far leg.

Once the opponent starts to cut his knee through, there is a gap behind his leg. This allows you to let the far leg go and instead weave your bottom arm behind the cutting leg. Congratulations! You just entered “The Rocking chair” 🙂 Not only did you counter the knee cut guard pass, from here you can also transition to a modified Dogfight.

From Dogfight you have a lot of options, which I will explain the next few weeks in my “The Rocking Chair”-series.

Stay tuned! 🙂 

Check out part 1 Wim Deputter‘s next series: Enter “The Rocking Chair” 

 

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The hidden framework of Jiu Jitsu (a bjj hack by Wim Deputter)

The hack to make you understand Jiu Jitsu and improve faster

There is a hidden framework in Jiu Jitsu.  The red line through all of your techniques. The bjj unifying principle that all techniques have in common. Learn this and it’s like a hack that makes you understand jiu jitsu faster.

What do all techniques have in common?

The way your core, your body moves.

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Watch this short video by Wim Deputter and learn the hidden hack!

In jiu jitsu we have to learn to exert strenght with our core. Our frames (arms and legs) are merely conductors that transmit the pressure from our core to our opponent. If we keep our frames rigid and our body connected, every movement we make, will be felt by our opponent.

If we realize that movement is so important, it makes sense that we have to move as efficient as possible. The most effective way to apply pressure on our opponent, is by using rotation from the core.
If our frames are conductors, then our core is like a battery; it’s the one part of our body that can generate strength most efficiently with minimal exercition.

In this video I will show you how to rotate as effectively as possible. It is shown here from a defensive perspective. The challenge for you is to see the applications in offense and reactions on top that counter it.

This is a perfect introduction to my BJJ Fanatics instructional: ‘A General Introduction to the Mirroring Principle and the Babybridge’. 

In the next video, you can see an example of how this sequence can by used offensively by Cody Maltais.

A common problem, and serious threat, when holding the guillotine in bottom side control, is the Von Flue Choke. Cody shows how you can not only use the Babybridge to defend the Von Flue Choke, but also use ‘Head – Shoulder – Knees and Toes’ sequence, to get back to your knees, while mantaining the guillotine. This way you can keep a constant threat.

Be sure to check out the rest of my channel. Don’t forget to give a thumbs up and subscribe!
If you see other applications of this concept or anything else I show on my channel, feel free to send me 🙂

 

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The Rules of Pressure

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Wim applying pressure to pass a training partner’s guard , photo by Morgane Gielen

The Rules of Pressure in Jiu Jitsu

Moving the body of your opponent requires energy, especially if it’s a strong person.
Instead of moving your opponent, be tight; get a grip, bring your elbows to your hips and your hips to your elbows, turn in a hip.
Make it hard for your opponent to move because of your pressure. Make your pressure so unbearable he has to move. Make it so tight every move he makes, costs him energy.
When your opponent has moved, the situation has slightly changed, adapt to the new situation by changing your grip(s) and move yourself a bit closer, maybe turn in the other hip. Keep repeating this pattern and thus climb the ladder, inch by inch closer to your goal: submitting your opponent.

Check out Wim Deputter’s Instructional; The Mirroring Principle – The Hidden and Essential Mechanics of Pressure Passing

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