All of the Gracie Jiu Jitsu self defence techniques we teach can be performed with or without the Gi. Training without the Gi brings speed and nothing for someone defending to hold onto. The Gi provides friction making it more difficult to escape and demands that your technique for escaping is really sharp. The Gi also teaches you to apply … Read More
Developing Our Standing Self Defence Techniques
Dealing with a deep Guillotine is difficult – we have a number of defences for early Guillotine attempts but when a Guillotine is deep, you need a well worked plan to survive and escape. We practice Gracie Jiu Jitsu self defence and spend a lot of time dealing with submission attempts in common scenarios – the deep Guillotine being one … Read More
Control and Submit
Recent lessons have focused strongly on Mount escapes and Mount retention – however, we are also looking at armbars. It’s so important to control someone’s posture before attempting to finish a submission. The Mount escape techniques we are majoring on are the elbow escape and a modified version of the classic trap and roll. There are so many steps and … Read More
Training Without the Gi in August
Enjoying training without the Gi at BJJ Lifestyle Team in Long Ditton, near Kingston. All of the Jiu Jitsu we learn, develop and practice can be done with or without the Gi – recently, we have been looking at side control. Our exclusive interest is Gracie Jiu Jitsu self defence. We focus on clinching and takedowns every training session, spend … Read More
