365 Day, 100% Moneyback Guarantee The Power of a Gameplan in Grappling

When it comes to strategy and planning your game in jiu-jitsu pretty much every top instructor will say the same thing…

They’ll tell you, “Attack, attack, attack.”

And this is really good advice.  It applies regardless of whether you’re trying to sweep your opponent, hunting for a submission, or passing his guard.

Moving forward and keeping your opponent on the defensive gives you a huge advantage both from the top and the bottom.  That’s because your opponent is reacting to you instead of setting up his own game. He’s so busy trying to catch up, adapting to a changing landscape, that he doesn’t have the mental bandwidth to launch his attacks on you.  He’s automatically a step behind.

But the reality is that “Attack, attack, attack” is a lot easier to say than to do.

The fact is that most people’s jiu-jitsu is really a bunch of single moves.  This sweep by itself.  That guard pass by itself.

These isolated techniques get thrown at the opponent, but they don’t connect together in combinations and there is no big picture.

Combinations are much more effective than single moves.  And that’s largely because you avoid analysis paralysis.

What that means is simple.  You try your move.  If it doesn’t work then you need to stop, analyse the situation, and plan your next move.  That’s the moment of paralysis.  Instead of automatically knowing what to do next you have to take time to figure it out.

During the time it takes to do that analysis you’re no longer attacking, and that delay gives your opponent a golden opportunity to start launching his own offence.

Doing jiu-jitsu with single moves and no gameplan is like a boxer throwing only giant Hail Mary roundhouse punches one at at a time, hoping that this one punch will connect.  No backup plan, no second attack.

But that’s not how boxing works.  Every good boxer uses combinations, throwing punches in bunches.  The first punch sets up the second punch, the second punch sets up the third punch, and so on…

Your jiu-jitsu should be exactly the same.

Combination attacks embedded in a coherent step-by-step game plan should allow you to flow around the resistance you encounter, and neutralise your opponent’s reactions.  A framework that tells you what … Continue reading Non-Stop Jiu-Jitsu