useful ground techniques for the novice
Well,i cannot say what is a must for everyone as far as your bag of tricks,but i would say the sprawl is the number one defense against a defender trying to change levels on you.Shadowing,or mirroring his movement is another common technique used hand in hand with sprawling and shooting.Kind of a chi sau of footwork so to speak.As for basic moves i say learning how to sprawl and then learning how to strike from your back and get your hips back under to return to your feet would be a good first step.Regardless of what grapplers say,there are advantages to not going to the ground,though i like to be there if it's a semi-controlled situation where i won't get jumped by someone i didn't initally see.Learning how to use your basic checkpoints to unbalance an opponent on the way in is the beginning to understanding grappling.It's mostly common sense.When someone shoot your drop to their level and give ground with your feet while trying to maintain contact with your hands.If they get past that point you can use forearms and shoulder bumps accompanied by laying on top of them to slow the action.If someone happens to get in on you so quickly that you can do none of the above them simply use their momentum against them and don't attempt to match their level,but run over them instead,or walk over would be a better description.There is such a thing as getting too deep.When they shoot "too" well you can take a couple of step over their centerline and unbalance them to their back or at least get it to a mad scramble instead of you getting taken down.I know this is all basic stuff,but you'd be surprised how many people try to learn 100 techniques rather than get the basics sharp.
hope that was what you were asking,
-Devildog
;) It's Good When It's Used Right
The thing I've always heard from traditional jujutsu teachers not Brazilian grappling is that most off the techniques don't work unless the opponent is caught off guard or he is tricked into receiving an attach. I've studied it for a while now and have found that that's the truth with using wrist, leg locks and so on. In traditional jujitsu one of the first basic moves is Hokodori when an opponent grabs your wrist and you spread the fingers wide and follow threw with the hands going up. And if you advancing you can push the opponent to the ground very easily. But that's not what people think about today when you say jujutsu they think of the UFC and grappling. I think that's a shame. :( :( :(
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Why Striking Can Handle > One Attacker and Grappling Can't...
It has nothing to do with being Bruce Lee. It has to do with positioning. I can move, keeping the oppenents moving, trying to always keep one of them between myself and the others. Its not easy... often impossible. But it can be done, at least for a few critical seconds, against several opponents. Once one is on the ground, this option is gone.
I'm not favoring one over the other... just giving my interpretation of an often mis-interpreted martial arts "truism."
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