Anyone train BJJ?

Matt200goal

75% gi, 25% no-gi. No real preference - some stuff works better one way or the other, but the fundamentals/principles seem to apply in both.

Matt200goal

Tonon is a beast; I enjoy watching him roll.

AllisonSmith254

If anyone plans on watching the UFC fights tonight, don't forget to watch the prelims, Tx bjj black belt Diego Ferreira is fighting tonight, oss!

Matt200goal

I DVR'd and watched later. Sage Northcutt - really?

AllisonSmith254

LOL ^^^^^right.

Matt200goal

That seems to be the talk of the entire on-line BJJ community...can't wait until the gym tonight to hear what the purple & brown belts say about it...

Matt200goal

Another view of it - a Von Flue Choke & not a Head & Arm Triangle...

Gonna have to physically try both sides of it (& have some pedantic/semantic questions - isn't a VF choke just a special sub-set of H&A chokes. Same as D'Arce, Anaconda, etc. All same principle, just different geometry/set-up?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjjCvU33jas

Matt200goal

OK - have tried it out with a couple of brown belts. I could not finish them from that position, nor could they finish me.

Pure static/set-up in our case - can't disconnect the fact that it was the 2nd round and he got ground & pound'd for a bit leading up to it.

jakkrk

I train Gi and no gi. Ususally 2 days for each. I also train through a Machado affiliate. No gi is CSW through Erik Paulson. Still relatively new (no stripe white) but in no hurry. I know it will all come together. I don't have a favorite competitor and as Im usually on the bottom, most of my game is defense. But for offense from the bottom, I like the gogoplata. Its hard to hit but if you can, works well.