William - Open Note Grappling ๐
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I teach jiujitsu in East Austin and write a newsletter on the top stories, principles, and techniques from MMA and BJJ Read it for free๐
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Joined April 2021
This past weekend Marcelo Garcia returned to form in ONE Championship.If you want to learn how the best in the world does jiujitsu in a cage and sets up north south chokes read this below๐
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Usyk's career is going to age better than wine
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With this feet crossed and everything. This fucking guy
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Izzyโs striking vs Poatanโs
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18 fights.2440 seconds. After 9 and a half years, Tom Aspinall's professional fighting career has cracked 40 minutes
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Mastery of distance and timing
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Youโre either the best fighter ever or you were never good.
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Hey @AspinallMMA you have the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever.
The idea of competing at ADCC in 2026 has been flowing through the head nonstop since this weekend. What an amazing event.
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I used to think the Pit was a gimmick but itโs just straight cooler.
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"Against who we thought was his toughest test". Literally no one thought a retired Stipe was Jones's toughest test.
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Michael Chandlerโs ability to insert himself into conversations needs to be studied.
Someone sent this to meโฆ full circle. And on the same night Hooker surges back into the top of the division. Kudos, boys. #ufc305
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Cung Le erasure
Why donโt MMA fighters ever try to scissor their opponent? ๐
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The UFC had more than a $100M net profit. They could literally give every athlete on the roster a $100k annual salary and still have more than $40M left over. You can be impressed by the UFCโs incredible story of capitalist triumph and still acknowledge that they pay like shit.
Donโt ever disrespect Dana White and call him cheap or greedy again . He just raised the bonuses from 50k to 300k for UFC 300.
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It's borderline criminal that the UFC has not paired Sandhagen and O'malley up yet.
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OโMalley retracts his leg to avoid Aljoโs leg kick and switches to orthodox by doing so. Push kicks Aljoโs leg in response. Push kicks to the hips / thigh = cool and under utilized
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Dude is so good at trips & throws
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Leon Edwards is just about the worst match-up imaginable for Islam Makhachev.
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Giving retired MMA fighters opportunities to compete in something that isnโt likely to induce brain trauma is a good thing! . Better than Slap, BKFC, etc. .
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Crawford has a better cradle than half the UFCโs roster.
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Craig Jones continuing his WTF career arc by triangling Rinat Fakhretdinov. โฆtwice?
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Superb leg lower body wrestling here. Oliveira shoots.Chandler tries an uchi mata.Oliveira grabs a body lock to trip & shuck to the back.Then Oliveira broom sticks Chandler to take him down. Neat!
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Mackenzie Dern uses the omoplata to get on top. Neat!
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We literally got a real life crane kick and people never bring it up
Rank these KOs:. Holloway vs. Gaethje.Yair vs. TKZ.Buckley vs. Impa.Barboza vs. Etim.Masvidal vs. Askren. GO!.
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This fight was so sick. When Evloev has the right dance partner he is a menace
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Is Khabib the most extreme example of a pressure fighter ever?.Dude would literally sprint and jump into takedowns
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Dern wins the fight with an arm bar!. Dern held guard and elbowed Ribas to cut her.Used submissions to sweep Ribas.Then submitted Ribas from top. Brazilian jiujitsu masterclass by Mackenzie Dern
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Jiujitsu instructors are the new pool boys.
Roryโs ex-wife has allegedly been in a โSituationshipโ with her Jiu-Jitsu instructor for the past year.
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If you think Charles Oliveira has a good guard just wait til you see this kid
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Flying triangle as a single leg defense is definitely all time cool
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This is why we say fuck Craig Jones
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3 examples of striking when the clinch breaks from UFC Paris
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Guram Kutateladze with one of the coolest back takes you'll ever see
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Asakura strips Pantoja's hands to open the RNC but Pantoja just switches to the palm to palm grip to finish it. Lovely
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If Jim Miller doesn't retire a multi millionaire many times over there is no justice in the world.
Jim Miller pulled up to #UFC300 media day with his UFC 100 custom jacket, which he said has been sitting in his closet for 15 years.
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GSP's wins over Hughes, Serra, Fitch, and Penn are four of the worst beatings ever given in the UFC.
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My hot take is that turtling against Islam Makhachevand the Nurmagomedovs is actually the wrong thing to do. If you turtle they'll wrist ride. If you play guard and use butterfly hooks you can get back up
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This is not an arm triangle.
He jumped the arm triangle?! ๐ . @JimmyFlick returns to the Octagon for the second time this year coming for another victory ๐ช #UFCVegas93
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Small detail HUGE difference.Watch what Moicano does with his head. When BSD digs an under hook Moicano drives his forehead into BSD's face or puts his head on the shoulder of BSD's under hook.Now BSD can't sit forward.Then Moicano can dig his own under hook or cross face. Beauty
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Push kicks to the hips and thigh are so undervalued .You just can't close the distance when someone is kicking your thigh. In closed vs open stance it's free money
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This isn't a real choke.This isn't anything. Where are Sean & Mick finding these guys?. I'm two fake chokes away from thinking they started pulling these guys from WWE's development pipeline
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Everyone that does jiujitsu for more than 2 years has this scar.
I havenโt Staph itโs only burned skin on the mat Iโm ok ๐ mtfks
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โThink of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.".
College wrestler says he could โ100%โ beat up UFC champion Alex Pereira ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ
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DJ retires and says he has fallen in love with jiujitsu. He's going to pursue his passion in the gi. The GOAT gets it.
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Find a random Gracie .Sign a fight.Milk this rivalry for all its worth.Forever.
TAISEI SAKURABA WITH A 26-SECOND KO WINโผ๏ธ . Making his father proud with a perfect MMA debut โจ . [ #RIZIN_DECADE | LIVE on ]
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โHere in Joe Bidenโs Americaโ aka Abbotโs Texas. Injecting politics in to everything is the weirdest personality tick.
Grappler Gordon Ryan just had his truck Stole in Austin, Texas and is offering a $5,000 reward
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How can you not love Pantoja?.He's a maniac.Dude just jumps on anything he sees
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Why would I learn to sprawl when I could simply do a back roll and break my opponentโs arm?
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People call this guy an analyst
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Wrestling is fake.Just hug them and run forward
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PFL is best for the fighters. ONE is best for the fans. UFC is best for our corporate overlords. Bellator is best for the memes.
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Alexander Volkanovski is one of the best UFC fighters ever. He re-negotiated his contract for a recent reported pay of 750,000. If Volk made that for every single UFC fight (16) he would have made 8 MILLION LESS than Ngannou did yesterday. Explain how Ngannou fumbled the bag๐.
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I don't think it's going to be tonight but someone is going crack Aspinall really really badly sooner or later. Chin up โ
.Feet crossed โ
.Head behind hips behind feetโ
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No joke but this might be the coolest grappling finish ever in the UFC. Calf slicer-back take-ground and pound is ninja shit.
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Today someone signed up at my gym because of CJI. They've never trained a day in their life but they walked straight into our doors to sign up without even trying a class because of how much they liked the event. Anecdotes aren't data, but man that sounds like CJI won.
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Kron's jiujitsu is so interesting.He barely uses grips or common open guards.It's basically all closed guard, head locks, passing, and back takes. The way Kron grapples is like the Platonic ideal of BJJ It almost looks like he's never trained anything other than BJJ from the 90s
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Guys I promise you you can talk about a sport without making it annoyingly political
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My mom is bisexual. I split time between my 2 moms and my dad growing up. Never thought about it ONCE until a girl singled me out in elementary school to ask me how weird I felt. I never felt weird. She felt weird because her parents didnโt prepare her for the real world.
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Craig Jones is about to start a media tsunami and I feel bad for whoever gets in his way
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I'm a on a big judo kick so I'm watching a bunch of Fedor. He was so ahead of his time. Fedor hops in with punches.They clinch on the ropes.Goodridge walks forward.Fedor frames to make space for a knee.Goodridge tries to pummel .Fedor repummels and runs through a knee tap
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Men will literally start wrestling instead of going to therapy.
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What's stopping Jailton Almeida from doing this to everyone at 205?
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Ilia Topuria's schtick isn't a big deal and he's cool
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It turns out that to move mountains you only need to offer more money
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Islam Makhachev has the best top half in MMA today. Look at how tight he is here. Poirier is just stuck eating Islam's cross face and belly punches. As Poirier tries to block some Islam takes his wrist, locks the kimura, and rides it to the back. He's fucking great
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BJJ black belt uses grappling. More at 11.
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12 year olds in Iowa do this with no hands everyday.
๐จAnthony Joshua strengthening the neck with his entire body weight โผ๏ธ ๐จ
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@CCLegaspi @espnmma Events like this are exactly why weight misses should come with a one point deduction.
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Do we think Curtis Blaydes makes it to CJI?
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Stoliarenko's arm bar forced McCann to roll because of the pressure on the elbow. Cage position is irrelevant for the belly down arm bar. Here is Lachlan demonstrating how you can finish it. Tell me you don't know jiu-jitsu without telling me you don't know jiu-jitsu
Legitimately the funniest 1 second in MMA history. Pic 1 is a Stoliarenko making a terrible decision to go for an armbar that cannot be completed due to cage position. Pic 2 is McCann tapping after she chose to fling herself into an impossible position to make the armbar work.
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Remember when people said Craig Jones couldn't help prepare Volk for Islam?.He's a BJJ guy and he can't wrestle?. Well here Volk uses a whizzer + stepping over his opponent's back to escape Islam's takedown. ๐ Craig uses the same technique to stop Volk's cage wrestling
Craig must get sadistic pleasure out of big brothering Volkanovski
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You know GM3 is a good good grappler because he stays in 3/4 mount to finish the arm triangle choke
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Nicky Ryan subs JT Torres with a straight ankle lock. Wow
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Every time a UFC fighter gets a back body triangle the commentators will say ."You need to get the lock to the bottom to escape". that's not really correct. Watch how Jay Rod escaped Tainan Dalpra's back body triangle at WNO 24
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This is the most embarrassing submission loss possible and it's not close.
Scorpion Rib Crush pulled off by Shokhrukh Yokubjonov at Fight Nights RDD Series 1
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Jumping the guillotine to a triangle choke is a classic.Pimblett tried it against Leavitt as well. No clue what Green was trying here for defense. Almost did everything opposite to how you're taught to defend a triangle
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I'm a simple man.i love front kicks of all varieties.
OโMalley retracts his leg to avoid Aljoโs leg kick and switches to orthodox by doing so. Push kicks Aljoโs leg in response. Push kicks to the hips / thigh = cool and under utilized
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Judo is olympic lifting with people.
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Getting Gable would be like getting a better Daniel Cormier in his prime. He would run through his division.Heโs almost guaranteed to pick up a title. The problem is he doesnโt want to fight and thatโs basically where it ends.
Blue chip prospect ๐. What is Gable Steveson's ceiling if he pursues MMA full-time?
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Cary Kolatโs YouTube content is arguably the best online resource to learn grappling.
There are days where I think about what an absolute beating that dude Obe took in all those Cary Kolat instructionals.
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Doesn't get much better than this
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David Terrell is the scariest person you've never heard of. Never conceded a point at ADCC and was built like an absolute cave man. Every grappler in Central/Northern California who was training before the 2010's has a horror story about him.
Evan Tanner(30-4) vs David โThe Soul Assassinโ Terrell(5-1). UFC 51: Super Saturday. February 5th 2005. Requested: @HoodAyatollah
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Gilbert Melendez is almost completely erased from MMA history but he was one of the most fun lightweights ever
Gilbert Melendez and Ron Kruck at Tachi Palace. 21 years ago at WEC 10 and tonight on LFA commentary. #LFA199
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RDR throws GM3 to the floor.GM3 tries to wrestle up.RDR counters with a guillotine attempt.RDR sprawls on GM3's next wrestle up and spins to his back.GM3 rolls over so RDR takes mount.RDR walks his hand up into the arm triangle and gets the tap by rotating off mount. Pretty sweet
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Classic d'arce set up. Passing half guard/knee shield.Drop your shoulder .Reach through to grab the neck and close the figure 4. Beautiful. We love to see it
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Here is my completely arbitrary list of the 10 best submissions from 2024. First up.Roberto de Souza's triangle yesterday because of recency bias .Bonus points because triangles are my favorite submission.
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It's always interesting to see how striking opens up jiujitsu techniques.There's so much funk in here after the knockdown. K guard.Leg passes.Octopus guard. Just beautiful scrambling and striking
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Really smart of Ngannou to use the crab hook here.He still has his base and can just unload on Ferreira. Dude has godlike power
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Tatsuro Taira joins Ivan Salaverry as fighters that use the body triangle to break people
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Jiujitsu instructors fucking their students. A tale as old as time.
Tom Brady has โacceptedโ Gisele Bรผndchenโs romance with jiu-jitsu instructor began โyears agoโ: report
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Itโs telling that some of the promoters and managers donโt respect what Ngannou is doing but the athletes do. Understand that Ngannou is fighting for freedom for athletes . Donโt be a bootlicking naysayer.
"Donโt let success get to your head, and you should never let failures get to your heart.". Anthony Joshua sends a classy post-KO message to Francis Ngannou and hopes to "link up with him and see if we can do some good work for the African community." ๐
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CJI viewer experience has been flawless for me. Step 1 - Go to Youtube.Step 2 - Go to BTeamโs channel.โฆthats it.
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So smooth it looks like he's demoing it for a seminar.
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Pantoja vs Erceg was a great study on to get up in MMA. Erceg showed two valuable skills: .-forward shifting from butterfly .-constantly digging under hooks.Pantoja got strikes in but these allowed Erceg to kick him away to stand or turn and turtle. Just beautiful MMA grappling
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Never seen someone get so close to a heel hook and then justโฆstop. Why did Garry get a dead to rights leg entanglement and not torque the knee?
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Crystal clear example of why Craig is building a brand off the limitations of modern grappling and not accepting bottom position
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