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”.
The Art of Teaching BJJ – Finding balance between Order and Chaosby Wim Deputter
The day I started truly learning Jiu Jitsu, was the day I gave my first private…
“If you want to master something, teach it.
The more you teach, the better you learn.
Teaching is a poweful tool to learning – Richard Feynman”
Once gym’s reopen, I’m going to implement this concept more in my own classes.
I was always allergic to overstructured classes. Too much order destroys creativity. (wim deputter)
You need creativity for progress and to make an activity fun to begin with.
Too much chaos however will also halt progress as it lacks direction.
If you keep walking circles in the forest, you will never reach an edge.
You need to reach an edge to be able to appreciate the forest as a whole.
Understanding the bigger picture gives you more appreciation for the smaller parts of the system.
Beginners need more order, advanced practicioners in any field need more chaos. Classes should always reflect that.
It’s my (untested) believe that this will also follow the pareto principle; more or less, beginners need 80% of your class structured and guided, 20% free exploring and experts vice versa with gradations in between.
Order needs chaos and chaos needs order. (wim deputter)
But, if I had to choose between one of the other, I would always choose chaos.
Out of chaos you still have good things randomly happen and some degree of order emerges naturally.
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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.
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.
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 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.”
Wim Deputter VS Muuig Atlantuig. Photo by Morgane Gielen[/caption]
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.
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!
Wim Deputter ‘A General Introduction of The Mirroring Principle and The Baby Bridge’
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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!
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”
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.
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.
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.
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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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Wim Deputter doing specific leglock training with Steven Royakkers
“Have as much fun defending from ‘bad’ positions as you have attacking from ‘good’ positions. Panicking, spazzing and disconnecting are the opposite of what is jiu jitsu. You are on this mat to learn jiu jitsu. No matter if you are in a ‘good’ or ‘bad’ position, you can still be doing jiu jitsu.”
Who is “attacking” and who is “defending” in this photo? The ‘”fireman” position is one of the pillars in Wim Deputter’s “Mirroring Principle”
That is the first piece of advice I give beginners on my mat these days. And, if I could go back in time, it is the one piece of advice I would give to my white belt self.
Offensive Defense – Defensive Offense
There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ positions in jiu jitsu. Only positions you know what to do or don’t know what to do.
In some positions you can be less mistakes away from tapping than your opponent.
But if you don’t make mistakes and do the right thing at the right time, you can make every position work.
By truly believing that, you are more inclined to look up “weird” or “losing” positions.
This gives you a better chance to fight from those weird positions than people who hold dogmatic believes.
The photo below was taken at a seminar I taught at Kaiser Sports in Olzstyn, Poland last year. Take a close look at the exact armbar position of Przemysław (partner on bottom).
Wim Deputter teaching armbar defense at Kaiser Sports in Olzstyn, Poland
It’s hard to believe, but from everything that I “discovered” so far the last few years, it’s actually harder to finish the submission here, than it is to escape (given no mistakes are made).
Often when people think about escaping, they think about disconnecting and getting away from the “dangerous” position.
By doing this, you will get at best a reset to a neutral position.
“Offensive defense” means staying connected. Don’t try to get away from, but instead, spend time in the “dangerous” positions.
Figure the positions out and try to solve them, not escape or break them. Make defense seamlessy transition into offense and bypass the neutral reset. Find the logic in every position.
The more disconnected two grapplers are, the more possibilities of movement there are, the more chaos.
Explosive and strong people hold a significant advantage over weaker people in most grappling related circumstances. The more disconnected a position is, the exponentially bigger that advantage is. The more connection, the least possibilities and chaos. More connection means more predictable. The more predictable the situation, the more the methodical technical grappler can shine.
If you have a good understanding of back defense, playing “panda” is easier than it looks. Click the photo for The Mirroring Principle “Backdefense and being offensive with someone on your back”.
Offensive Defense
Offense is starting from a ‘good’ position and slowly working your way towards a ‘better’ position. Defense is starting from a ‘bad’ position and slowly working your way towards a ‘better’ position. Both offense and defense are a battle for improvement and they meet in the neutral point were neither holds an advantage.
From this perspective, there is no difference between offense and defense.
You can’t teach offense without being aware of the defense, you can’t teach defense without being aware of the offense. Stay connected and realize they are both one and the same.
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