learn-jiu-jitsu-online.com: June 2015

Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Can You Survive on the Ground?

Sorry I'm a little late getting today’s blog out.

Today let’s focus on a little ground self-defence. We have had discussions before on the difference between sport grappling and self-defence so I won't go into again here but if you haven't read that article you can check it out HERE:

Street self-defence from top of Guard
Surviving the Knee on Belt Ground and Pound!

No matter what style of martial art you study you should have some basic idea of what to do if you get taken to the ground. Now standing back and saying “Well I just wouldn't let them get that close to me to be able to take me to the ground.” Just isn't realistic. Even IF you were a master at keeping your distance and keeping all attackers at bay wouldn’t you still want to be able to handle yourself on the ground in case s*&t happened?

Have a look at these videos which will give you a few idea of what you can do if you find yourself in

the bottom of somebody's scarfhold.

Escaping the Scarfhold

When practicing these types of ground self-defence remember that your attacker is likely mad at you and that works in our favour. The angrier they are then the less tactile they are likely to be. This makes our defences work better and allows us to use their aggressiveness against them.

As always is you are looking for more great videos or to learn the wonderful art of jiu-jitsu please check out our web site at www.learn-jiu-jitsu-online.com. There you will our distance education program so you can learn jiu-jitsu anywhere at your own pace.

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Cheers,

Jamie Rickard (Sensei)

Head Instructor

Koketsu Kai - Tiger's Den Jiu-jitsu and Grappling

Located at:

SMA/Patry Total Fitness

745 Development Dr

Kingston, Ontario

www.tigersdenjiu-jitsu.com

www.learn-jiu-jitsu-online.com

Wednesday, June 17, 2015

What to do when your hip throw doesn't work

So today lets get back on topic.

Lets look at a few possible follow up techniques to a failed hip throw (Ogoshi). Chances are that if you have a hip throw in your syllabus you likely already have a few follow up techniques for it built right into your system. This is great, but I like options.

Here are three possible options, at least one I sure you haven't see and will likely surprise you with it's simplicity and effectiveness.

==>Hip Throw Follow ups<==

Cheers,

Jamie Rickard (Sensei)

Head Instructor

Koketsu Kai - Tiger's Den Jiu-jitsu and Grappling

Located at:

SMA/Patry Total Fitness

745 Development Dr

Kingston, Ontario

www.tigersdenjiu-jitsu.com

www.learn-jiu-jitsu-online.com

Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Jiu-jitsu on-line!

Well today is a little shameless self promotion. Next week I will have more of our usual content as well look at some follow up techniques from a failed hip throw.

But for today....

Have you ever considered doing jiu-jitsu?

Do you currently study jiu-jitsu (BJJ or TJJ)?

Do you study another martial art?

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This is what we teach at

Koketsu Kai Tiger's Den Jiu-jitsu and Grappling

I have been exposed to many styles of jiu-jitsu from all around the world and in my opinion none are as complete or as powerful as Jukoshin. I'm not going to stand a on podium and say it's the best style of jiu-jitsu ever, but it's certainly the best that I have been exposed to.

Jukoshin by itself it's very powerful but combined with BJJ, Karate, Judo, Taekwondo, kick boxing, etc. it can be even more powerful. So if you have ever thought of taking up jiu-jitsu or adding another style to what you already know I would highly recommend Jukoshin Ryu Jiu-jitsu.

Not near a Jukoshin instructor... than have a loot at our on-line distance education program.

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Cheers,

Jamie Rickard (Sensei)

Head Instructor

Koketsu Kai - Tiger's Den Jiu-jitsu and Grappling

Located at:

SMA/Patry Total Fitness

745 Development Dr

Kingston, Ontario

www.tigersdenjiu-jitsu.com

www.learn-jiu-jitsu-online.com

Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Blocking Drill – Adding liveness

Today let’s look at a nice drill you can practice to add liveness to your training. Unlike other sport oriented martial art techniques, self-defence based techniques are hard to practice in a free or “live” way. Now when I refer to liveness I’m referring to a randomness of attack or technique.

Once we have learned some techniques we need to start adding some liveness or randomness into our drills. When we learn a technique it’s typically in a very static way. We know what’s coming and what we are going to do. This is often referred to as “kata” or maybe “kumite”. When we hear the work kata we often think of martial arts like karate, any pre-set series of movements, with a partner or without, is a kata.

The thing is that in a fight we are not typically going to have time to think about what their attack is going to be or what we want our response to their attack to be. They are going to attack and we need to respond. We need to take what they give us and work with it.

So how do we add this element of randomness and still stay safe? Well one way is the SHARK BAIT OR CIRCLE DRILL that we talked about before. Another way is to add randomness but narrow the focus.

The “Liveness” Drill

This drill is designed to be done with two people, one attacks and the other defends.
Two (2) types of attacks are agreed on, (straight punch and hook punch), (hook punch and front kick)…
The defender then selects two techniques, one for each attack.
The drill is then ready to start.
The attacker attacks with either of the two selected attacks and the defender must respond to the attack. The defender is NOT told which attack will be used by the attacker.
Start slow, the speed and aggressiveness can be slow increased as both people become comfortable with the drill.
Make sure to very your timing and move around a little, don’t stay too static.

As your skill with this drill improves you can add additional attack options. (straight punch, hook punch, front kick)… You could even add the element of weapons, with rubber knifes and padded batons, just have the attacker start with their hand behind their back.

Another version

As above only the attacker and defender stand back to back. The attacker shouts “GO” and then turns around and attacks. The defender turns to defend. This will further reduce any visual clues as to what the attack will be (especially if using weapons).

Remember start slow!

As with any drill remember to use your head, respect your training partner and stay safe.

Once we know a bunch of techniques why don’t we train like this all the time, wouldn’t it be better? No not really. Our ability to adapt and adjust would become very good but our technique would suffer. You see we still need the “kata”. It’s through the practice of the kata that we can work on the never ending list of small details in an effort to perfect the technique. This simply cannot be done in a random setting.

I will leave the discussion about good technique vs. perfect technique for another day.

Cheers,

Jamie Rickard (Sensei)

Head Instructor

Koketsu Kai - Tiger's Den Jiu-jitsu and Grappling

Located at:

SMA/Patry Total Fitness

745 Development Dr

Kingston, Ontario

www.tigersdenjiu-jitsu.com

www.learn-jiu-jitsu-online.com

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