20 Rolling Tips For BOTH Gi and Nogi BJJ

Summary

In this engaging tutorial by Jordan Teaches Jiujitsu, the focus is on 20 essential rolling tips for both Gi and Nogi BJJ practitioners. The video highlights the importance of grip control, maintaining inside position, and understanding body mechanics to dominate your opponent. Through practical demonstrations, viewers learn to execute effective sweeps, submissions, and defenses, making their jiu jitsu game more tactical and intelligent.

Highlights

• Initiating grips from a seated guard offers more offensive options. 🪑
• Drive with your toes when in side control to maintain pressure. 🦶
• Controlling your opponent's legs prevents them from standing up after a sweep. 🚫
• Protect your neck at all costs during a choke—think Wu-Tang style! 🎤
• High hips win scrambles; keep your hips above your opponent's. 🏋️
• Use wedging like feet as tools for leverage in escaping grips and holds. 🚪

Key Takeaways

• Always maintain control of your grips to dictate the fight. 🤲
• Never let your opponent grab your head; it's a major control point. 🧠
• Inside position is key for both offense and defense, keep it tight. 🔑
• Use t-rex arms (elbows close) to protect against underhooks and head grabs. 🦖
• Clear the knee line to escape leg locks effectively. 🦵

Overview

The video kicks off by emphasizing the importance of starting from a seated position in the guard to easily secure grips and execute successful transitions like the lasso grip. This approach not only enhances grip control but also expands your offensive options, giving you a tactical edge over opponents.

Next, Jordan delves into the nuances of maintaining inside position—protecting vulnerable areas from underhooks and head control. By demonstrating the significance of 't-rex arms' and strategic grip breaking, he shows how they prevent the opponent's advances while setting up your own attacks.

The session wraps with tips on the art of movement and leverage, such as winning scrambles with higher hips and turning defense into offense through intelligent use of body mechanics. From preventing opponent's escape post-sweep to utilizing wedges for grip breaks, the video encapsulates how minor adjustments lead to mastering jiu jitsu's finer points.

Chapters

• 00:00 - 01:00: Guard Positions and Grips When in guard position on your back, it can be challenging to take grips due to limited reach. It's advisable to start from a sitting position to enhance grip-taking opportunities. As your opponent approaches, starting on your butt allows for easier grip acquisition, such as the collar and sleeve grips, before transitioning to your back. Experiment with grips like the lasso grip, which would be difficult to achieve from a back-starting position. Alternatively, you may also choose the sit-up guard instead of falling back after securing grips. Being on your butt initially provides more strategic options.
• 01:00 - 02:30: Leg Control and Grip Breaking The chapter 'Leg Control and Grip Breaking' emphasizes the importance of using your legs and feet strategically in martial arts to maintain control over an opponent. It highlights the need to keep your toes engaged to prevent the opponent from driving into you, making it harder for them to escape. The chapter explains that taking your opponent's hands out of the equation makes it easier to execute offensive moves. It particularly discusses the paper cutter choke, where blocking the opponent's hand with your foot is crucial to securing a grip and successfully finishing the move. The main takeaway is to utilize your legs and feet for effective blocking and control.
• 02:30 - 05:00: Inside Position and T-Rex Arms The chapter emphasizes the importance of using tactical grips and positioning in jujitsu, specifically focusing on controlling an opponent's arms and legs. It discusses the technique of trapping an opponent's arms with one hand for an advantage, and highlights a common mistake where practitioners fail to control their opponent's legs, allowing them to stand back up. By preventing the feet from touching the mat, the opponent's ability to stand is neutralized, making it crucial for successful sweeps.
• 05:00 - 08:00: Underhooks and Concepts The chapter titled 'Underhooks and Concepts' discusses the importance of grip control in Jiu Jitsu. It emphasizes that it should become instinctual to manage these grips efficiently, highlighting that not all grips need to be broken—just those that impede your desired actions. The author describes breaking a specific grip that was controlling their leg to execute a sweep successfully. The narrative underscores the necessity of establishing control over your opponent through grips while executing techniques.
• 08:00 - 10:00: Maintaining Center of Gravity and Sweeping Techniques This chapter discusses the importance of maintaining grips in grappling to control opponents and execute sweeps effectively. Without grips, an opponent is not controlled, making it easier to sweep them, whether you are on top or bottom position. The concept of passing a guard, especially a novice’s guard, is simplified by their lack of grips. Additionally, when escaping leg locks, the key focus should be on clearing the knee line, as achieving this puts you mostly out of danger. Keeping an opponent's hips below your knee line, rather than above, is crucial for defending against leg locks, applying the same principle of control throughout.
• 10:00 - 11:00: Posture Breaking and Conclusion In this chapter, the focus is on techniques for breaking posture and escaping holds in martial arts. The key idea is to concentrate on specific body mechanics, such as moving your elbow past the opponent's control points, rather than just trying to free the arm. The chapter also emphasizes the importance of hand positioning. Keeping hands off the mat is crucial to avoid vulnerability and maintain control over the opponent. The chapter uses the example of a triangle choke to illustrate how forcing an opponent's hand to the mat can weaken their defense and open them up for a counterattack.

20 Rolling Tips For BOTH Gi and Nogi BJJ Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 when you're on your back in your guard it can be difficult to take ribs because it's hard to reach you should try to be on your butt as much as possible so you can take grips as my opponent approaches i'm already on my butt and ready to take rips in this case the collar and sleeve and then i fall to my back i then transitioned to the lasso grip these grips would have been hard to get if i was on my back to start you also have the option to place sit up guard instead of falling to your back once you have grips starting on your butt gives you more options when inside control make sure to have
• 00:30 - 01:00 your toes engaged on the mat so you can drive into your opponent if you don't they can drive into you easier and if they can drive into you easier then they can escape easier people use their hands to defend and prevent submissions you want to take their hands out of the equation so you can make offense easier for yourself in this paper cutter choke if i didn't block my opponent's hand with my foot first it definitely would have been harder to secure my grip and finish not impossible just harder in most cases it'll be your feet or legs that block
• 01:00 - 01:30 their grips and the back is a great example i trapped their arms and making my one hand against their none the more tactically you can make your jujitsu an unfair fight the better a common mistake i see people make all the time is they knock their opponent down but they don't control the legs and their opponent gets right back up resulting in no sweep if you control their legs and prevent their feet from touching the mat then it's literally impossible for them to stand back up i mean try standing without your feet on the mat it's literally a prerequisite to standing every time i
• 01:30 - 02:00 sweep someone i control the legs it should become muscle memory and instinctual for you jiu jitsu is a grip battle and you need to get used to breaking grips not all grips just grips to stop you from doing what you want to do like in this case my opponent's left grip isn't stopping me from doing anything that i want to do it's his right hand controlling my leg once the grip is broken the sweep is easy and look what i do as i finish the sweep i control the legs speaking of grips it's critical to have grips so you can control your opponent look what happens
• 02:00 - 02:30 when my opponent doesn't have grips on me it's an easy sweep because i'm not being controlled whether it be top or bottom you absolutely need grips why is it easy for me to pass this brand new white belt guard it's not black belt magic it's his lack of grips to escape leg locks the most important concept is to clear the knee line once the knee line is cleared you're basically 99 out of danger this is the only real thing i think about when defending leglocks it's how do i get their hips below my knee instead of above the same concept applies
• 02:30 - 03:00 throughout all leg entanglements and the same for escaping arm bars kamoras and americanas too if you focus on how to clear your elbow past her hips or point of control then it'll be much easier than just thinking how do i get my arm out of here you need to keep your hands off the mat for two reasons your hand won't be controlling your opponent if it's on the mat and you leave yourself vulnerable to attack like in this triangle i force my opponent's hand to the map because i know it'll separate his arm from his body and leave him vulnerable to the triangle knowing it's a threat if you accidentally put your
• 03:00 - 03:30 hand on the mat you need to get it off of there right away like here i post on the mat to stop the sweep and bring it back inside as soon as i feel the triangle threat you can't accept getting taken down or swept you need to fight hard to get back on top if you get knocked down in a tournament they won't get their two points if you get back up right away and in my opinion it's much better to be on top anyways it's not over until it's over if there's one tip i know will 100 percent improve your jiu jitsu right away it's do not let people grab your head this should be your
• 03:30 - 04:00 biggest priority where the head goes the body must follow unless your opponent is a zombie but that presents its own problems if my head does get grabbed it becomes my only objective to get the grip off of me so i can move freely and do the things that i want to do things i couldn't do with my head controlled inside position is most importantly the space between your armpit to your knee and your shoulder to your neck but really it's your arms and legs too we cannot let people have control of these spaces defending turtle is a great example if nikki can gain control of
• 04:00 - 04:30 inside position then she can attack chokes and back tanks how do i defend this guillotine attempt i keep my shoulder glued to my neck this stops my opponent from getting under my neck from taking inside position this is a cool case study my one leg takes inside position between my opponent's shoulder and neck and the other leg between the armpit and the knee acquiring inside position is what led to this arm bar here i have inside position with my head and now under hook my opponent's knee shield is a great example of inside position on me once i get past that i
• 04:30 - 05:00 have inside position with my knee which leads to the knee slide pass now his t-rex arms prevent me from getting more inside position on him this may look silly but t-rex arms are super important you need to keep your elbows glued to your body this prevents inside position like getting your head grabbed or your partner taking an underhook look how as i pass my opponent's guard he gets his t-rex arms in right away this makes it hard for me to control him because i can't grab his head even if i do get my head grabbed at least my t-rex arms will
• 05:00 - 05:30 prevent the underhook i can use one frame on the hip and the other to get underhook for myself t-rex arms make escaping so much easier ignoring t-rex arms and letting someone get the underhook like this is worst case ontario very difficult to escape as is reaching up in mount t-rexes can't reach up like that and neither should you elbows close to your body is a much safer way to escape this goes for pretty much any position these are just some examples under hooks are almost always a good idea they can be used for such a
• 05:30 - 06:00 variety of offense like this backtake or like how i wrestle the top position here they can be used for sweeps they can be used for passes they can also be used for takedowns they're so versatile and powerful because they're example of inside position you want to go path of least resistance as much as possible just like bruce lee says be like water find your openings when faced with resistance one way go the other way this will make you much more technical over time i could have finished the
• 06:00 - 06:30 guillotine here but the omaplata was the easier path i could have stopped my opponent from rolling but the arm bar was easier path this is my strain face pretty right you want to use it as little as possible i mean you still have to use it just the less you strain and the more you can flow the better when getting choked with any choke you need to protect your neck i mean wu tang even has a song dedicated to this it's priority number one fight the hands you cannot reach down for the hooks unless your neck is protected that's how i
• 06:30 - 07:00 choked both these guys they went for the hooks instead of the hands but here reaching down for my hook is okay because my opponent has control of my choking hand as he escapes i just take his back again with the kimura grip the kimura trap guide is still coming by the way watch how i escaped the star stroke like in previous videos i mentioned i don't have a thousand escapes memorized i just fight the hands concepts are way more important than individual techniques my channel is very conceptual so please subscribe and leave a like or
• 07:00 - 07:30 comment if you haven't already to win scrambles you need to keep your hips higher than your opponent's hips as i get arm dragged i just focus on keeping my hips higher which keeps my opponent's hips down and unable to come up for the back take here i use my butterfly hook to lift up my opponent's leg in the air which stops his hips from lifting once i get my hips higher i've won the positional battle i almost get swept here and my only focus is to get my hips higher once i do i get back to my feet you want to keep your butt down to have a low center of gravity once your buck
• 07:30 - 08:00 comes up and off your heels you're much lighter and easier to be swept although all the way up with your hips engaged can be very good as well see how my opponent approaches with their butt up i'm able to get her weight loaded perfectly above my hips using my feet this makes the sweep very easy even on this much larger opponent it's not much of a strain loading people's hips above yours makes them light you want them on or past your center line look how i shoot my hips underneath my opponent the more he goes past my center line the lighter he
• 08:00 - 08:30 becomes loading the hips means getting their weight on top of your hips think about this concept and i know your sweeps will improve if you were pulling excalibur sword out of the stone you'd have to use your feet as wedges same thing for when something is stuck in jiu jitsu you need to use a wedge to pry it out like here i used my left foot to pry my opponent's grip off my pants now i'm able to move freely now that i'm not being controlled by that grip you want to break posture in your guard which means keeping your opponent's head down
• 08:30 - 09:00 it really limits the mobility of your opponent and makes it hard for them to pass or do anything really meanwhile you can attack from broken posture or use them posturing up against them to set up an attack like right here i let my opponent posture as i enter into leg entanglement alright thanks for sticking around until the end of the video let me know what your favorite tip was also i do have a patreon if you're interested in supporting the channel