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This was the follow up th-cam.com/video/zOp8M_LtEos/w-d-xo.htmlsi=8pjguabPfYhEQObE I have reasons for why I stress the importance of certain concepts

Yes they have to push back for a lot of things to work. Gotta get their hands out of the way. I have more info on the stalling opponents and different stances on my instructional

Of course it is! I have tons of footage of it and the ball and chain (on the instructional) from my wrestling days. I just quit posting my wrestling footage since it was a lot of work to move from VHS to digital and nobody gave a shit.

Yeah it was rough in person. On the sound of the original, you just hear me saying “oh shit, oh shit…dammit man.” Felt terrible for that guy

If he can do a crotch lift on you then it means you’re back is rounded off. If your back is straight then he can’t reach over the back and get a crotch lift and throw you. It means you are leading with your head down and yes you should get thrown because you are way out of position

@@josephbreza-grappling9459 thanks so much. Yes, you are right, I was actually a bit out of position because I didn't care so much because my ground game is superior (got the sub). I will be more careful in the future and try to avoid that.

Awesome man, I am glad you like it. I have been coaching wrestling a long time. I take pride in the system I developed. I had excellent coaches. You can give people a system that works at the highest level but make it digestible. If people work what I put into both instructionals, then they have the tools to deal with legit wrestlers. I want my guys to be able to wrestle against good wrestlers. Anything less is selling them short In terms of granbys, I learned all of that at the granby school of wrestling back in 1996. My friend on my team still calls me “granby king” to this day, lol

@@josephbreza-grappling9459 Had some time to mess around with it during open mat yesterday, and it's sooo good! Can’t wait to drill it into muscle memory. Haha, you’ve definitely earned that title! Thanks for putting in all the extra effort, Joe. Hope it'll be a success so you can put a dent in those medical bills.

@jeroen8890 thanks brother! I am glad you like it. Knowing how to ride how to escape rides is huge

Sorry to hear that you have to go through it. You will heal! Work hard and listen to it. I was able to do pretty hard Randori in judo a few days ago. I have been able to do newaza but no standing. Now it looks like I can stand again! So 11.5 months later and it’s really close to being “back.” You got this!!

Yup!

Yes it was very bad. This is why we teach how to fall. You never post…unless it’s the Worlds or Olympics. That’s different. But in general never post

@@josephbreza-grappling9459 The slow mo hurt me

@@jonathandebruyn6781 it hurt all of us. It was hard to see. Guy never made a sound. Took it like a man

Lol!! Well it wasn’t wrestling that ruined my knee. It was judo

Yeah man, like I said on the video too, all the details matter. You can’t “just stand up” on someone with skill to hold you down. This is why I made the new instructional (rides escapes) and virtually none of it is on TH-cam. When you turn your foot sideways, they can’t drive your knee to bend and fold you over. It’s a break. Definitely even works better with shoes on

Win the head position always

If you don’t have your ear on the chest and you don’t circle to the front, then you are at risk for kani basami. I try to keep my forehead in the ribs and circle front. I don’t stay in a position for any length of time at all. The pinching of the leg is the way we teach kids to get their leg into position to shelf it across the thigh for when I lift. If you watch how I do it to Jordan on the instructional in fast motion (which is on my instagram I believe) the entire time from shot to finish on the ground is like 1.5s

@@josephbreza-grappling9459 Very helpful. I think part of what I'm hearing is that you can shelf the leg without pinching, but it's easier if you do. And if you take the other precautions you mentioned, kani basami isn't as big a risk. Am I understanding correctly? Also, I thought you were supposed to stay on the side in a single leg- sounds like you're saying to put pressure with your head and circle to face them. Hopefully I interpreted that correctly! Appreciate you. I'll look for that video.

@@Mattchew2232 the first move off the single is running the pipe. The second if he doesn’t go down is to lift and trip. Your head should always be in his ribs when you come up off the single. Ear on the chest is what turns you sideways and gets you uchi mata’ed. You don’t push once you are up to both feet. You pull but circling to the front and that is the same motion of running the pipe. It takes away kani basami and uchi mata/hari goshi/headlock

@@josephbreza-grappling9459 Super helpful. I really appreciate your thoughtful answers. Is it wrong to not try and run the pipe first? I see Brandon and Pixley teaching moves like lift and trip first from single leg, but maybe they are assuming a certain amount of knowledge.

@Mattchew2232 run it first, because it is what I use to shelf it and bring it up. They chain together. He will be so off balance and over correct right as you begin the lift and trip. Again, I am doing this in like one motion without pausing. Meregali literally held Pena’s leg in a single for 15s. I wouldn’t get a second in college so I learned to do the damn thing

Hahaha!! Those guys are good wrestlers and it is good to get other’s perspectives. The younger guys tend not to lift at the knee, but I have seen this become a problem with reaching the far leg and leading to more scrambles on the takedown. But it’s really a similar philosophy. This is just really classic North East wrestling

@@josephbreza-grappling9459 Good to know. You're the man!

I guess if he can do it, then that means that everyone else can/should? The issue with watching the elite is that people without much wrestling experience think they can shortcut what it takes to emulate what they are doing at that level. I would argue that the people with breakdown channels have done more harm than good, because they take examples of freak elites doing things. Most with breakdown channels never wrestled. As far as I know, only Earn Your Gold wrestled. The biggest names are not wrestlers. They are wrestling fans who wrestle with their mouths. The reason in wrestling that we are taught to do the inside trip on the overhook side is because it traps his weight on that foot so that when you drop, he doesn’t step out and now have you in a compromised position. In judo, I do an inside trip on the underhook side, but the mechanics are totally different and I can put weight on it by holding the gi. In judo, you catch the foot on its way forward and prevent it from ever touching the ground. This takes a lot of time to master. I have a long history of getting people who never wrestled to the state podium in a short time. Those who shut up and listen get on the podium. Those who point out the few caveats are what we call “gentlemen wrestlers.” They know everything but can’t make the team. They become the breakdown guys who know everything but can’t do anything in real life.

Thank you, but I would rather have subscribers who are here to learn than just here to bicker and fight others on my page. I am not an influencer and will never be. My full time job is a professor of neuroscience. Most of the time I am either doing neurosurgery or teaching

I appreciate your support. I won’t let you down. This is my best work. It’s to the point and dense, but not bogged down with too many details. It will get people to be more effective in BJJ using wrestling techniques. I think we are trying to get it launched by the end of the week. Wrapping some things up

Yeah man, that is the goal here. For people to have a resource that they can revisit and study. The only real problem I run up against is that a lot of people want entertainment, not instruction. So they want more and more and more and think that will make them better. What I have already shown would allow someone to dominate with wrestling in BJJ. More isn’t better-mastering the content I have shown will make someone very difficult to deal with, even against someone with legitimate wrestling experience

Yes, I did a video with Jordan Preisinger for an ad for wrestlingforbjj.com and covered this topic. I don’t do it exactly like everyone else does, and I think this works better. Hopefully that will be out soon. Timing, level change, push/pull. These are concepts in wrestling that work from every position. The problem I see in a lot of the BJJ guys I coach is they have none of those. This is common with highschool wrestlers too, but with good coaching, you get them to focus on how to set these things up. You can’t just try your best push off a collar tie. Not only is that just going to put you in bad position, it just doesn’t work

Hopefully in a few weeks. I ain’t sayin shit yet, lol

Thanks man! Yes this is actually meant to be revisited over and over. One of the biggest issues with teaching people these days is that they always want something new. I don’t even think they care how effective it is. It’s the fetish of knowing more moves. But in my experience that isn’t what wins matches. Do you need to know 10 mount escapes or like 1 that’s your go to and 1 more if that’s not working? I would say it’s best to be amazing at one than kinda ok at 10. Same goes from a lot of positions. Being effective in every one of those positions is what will carry you forward. The amount of bullshit out there is scary. I refuse to be part of it. I am showing you all what made me a successful wrestler and even as an old ass broken man, what keeps me being successful in BJJ. It’s all the same, just different rule sets for scoring and that changes the strategy. For example in judo, I am not going to try to submit my opponent from side control or mount, because the rules let you win by pin. When the pin (osaekomi) is on, I am a fool if I let him get any space because I want to submit him. This is why in judo, you see arm bars and chokes from the back, not mount, because that’s not playing to the strength of the rule set

Lmfao

Shouldn’t be long

Shouldn’t be long

Shouldn’t be long. You’ll be one of the first to know brother

Thank you! The fundamentals done well are what wins matches. You can and should always work on being an absolute master of the fundamentals. I am still not a master-it’s a lifelong process I have a love/hate relationship with the internet’s excessive access to information, because I feel a lot of it is misleading. Fancy highlight reels are what gets views and it’s not realistic. Nine times out of ten, the execution of the fundamentals are going to be what wins matches. And so the viewers don’t get an accurate representation of what wrestling really is. They ought to attend highschool and/or college wrestling tournaments to get more exposure to actual wrestling. They will then see why I teach what I teach

@josephbreza-grappling9459 You sound like a tremendous teacher. I hope your channel blows up, you deserve it, man! I have studied from a variety of grappling styles for 20 years - jiu jitsu, Judo, freestyle & Greco-Roman wrestling, and catch. If there's one lesson I've learned, it's that balance and posture are EVERYTHING, and you can never stop optimising yourself.

@@jamesr2936 thank you man! Yeah, 100%, position is super super important. It’s one of the reasons I don’t like my wrestlers or BJJ guys abandoning the single leg for the bodylock, because you were in excellent position and taking away one of his powerful legs. Now you’re often reaching and out of position during the transition and giving him the ability to get his lift with the inside leg and use the overhook to break your posture. Most of the system I teach is from what I learned from my collegiate wrestling coaches. If you’re a greco guy, and have some years, then you probably heard of my collegiate coach, Andy Seras, who was the USA Greco coach for the world and Olympic teams. I learned a lot from him. My head coach, Brian Reardon, was also a master technician and strategist

@josephbreza-grappling9459 That's incredible that you learned under Andy Seras. It is apparent in your teaching that you've had some excellent coaches. I also appreciate your humility and that you are a lifelong learner. I always noticed the best wrestlers never stopped learning; arrogance gets exposed quickly. Glad I found your channel and I'll keep an eye for new content.

@@jamesr2936 I consider myself super fortunate to have worked with amazing coaches all my life. I am definitely lifelong learner-even in my profession, which is a neuroscience professor. I saw that the biggest hole in my game was my stand up skills with the Gi on. So I heard through the grapevine that the University I work at had some incredible judokas. That is when I started working with them. Now it is what I do for the vast majority of my training. It was a good move too. They are not all egocentric. They don’t “own” me-in fact my coach encouraged me to work with Jordan Preisinger and see whether he was comfortable with belt testing me. We do newaza under BJJ rules at the university judo club, but we do a A LOT of stand up judo too. I am learning super fast, because they are such good instructors. I love learning new stuff and man their understanding of using the jacket is like nothing I have ever experienced. So I will take this wherever it goes and hope for the best

I am probably going to do some videos on some CJI and ADCC matches, but on patreon, since this platform hits me for copyright infringement constantly. If the only videos that haven’t been flagged are my own technique videos and even was hit from music, which is actually free use. So it’s unbelievably annoying to make breakdowns on here. The answer to your question regarding Nolf and Ruotolo is not a few sentences. They have their strengths and the rules of the game play into this bigtime

It is extremely important, but more points are scored offensively. Seth is hard to score on and that works for him, Fix, and a few others. But by in large offensive wrestling always the best option for producing champions

Talk about a man who was no stranger to competition. He really put the grind on and dominated for years and years. One of my favorite in the sport

Thank you for supporting me brother! Yeah we recorded a lot of live speed takedowns and I believe granbys. The thing about the low and slow stand up is that it works well. It’s about control. If you lose the hand control you need to get it back and then work to get out. People who just stand up without hand control will get frickin slammed.

I have covered this, so last time I address this question, lol. I made a video on it with Jordan Preisinger and he posted it on his page. In short, people in freestyle aren’t doing it the way people in BJJ are. They aren’t running people across the mat when they have inside hip position. This is something I and others learned when I was like 13. You get to the waist and stop fucking pushing. Pushing makes your chest get way out of alignment with your knees and now you are out of your stance and extended. When it’s done properly, you pull the guy into your lap. The internet broke when I first said to avoid transitioning from the single to the bodylock, because you’re likely going to keep pushing and get thrown. Kyle puts the breaks on and he denies them inside hip position. He pulls them and suplexes. Look at my video with Jordan. I show it there. It’s not a judo counter. It’s common to wrestling and judo. In wrestling it’s called a whizzer kick. If you watch highschool wrestling then you would see it’s extremely common. The reddit commenters are so surprised that I “predicted it,” but that’s because the level of wrestling is highschool JV and you’ll see it 50x in a tournament People in BJJ would be well off watching highschool wrestling. People in BJJ with zero wrestling background want to watch the Olympians and then try to emulate what they are doing. This is akin to trial week white belts trying to roll like the Miyao brothers

Probably leaning into them instead of lowering your level with your legs. Probably also giving up head and hip position. Watch greco and you will see they never lean but squat lower and use what I showed on my instructional with Jordan and a recent YT video. If you are taller, you should be destroying everyone with underhooks. You have tremendous leverage to lift them with your legs under their hips and take all their power away. You should also have a much easier time dominating the push pull and snap which will make their elbows flare from their side and you dig the underhook. Set ups aren’t taught at all or at an incredibly low level in bjj. It’s imperative that I make you give it to me rather than me telegraphing every aspect of it while not winning the battle of head and hip position

@@josephbreza-grappling9459 Wow huge thanks for the reply, I wrote that comment last night before realizing your video was 2 years old so I wasn’t expecting a response, I’ve been watching a bunch of Iranian underhook videos lately so it’s in my algorithm and then your video just popped up (I’m a subscriber but for whatever reason I didn’t check your channel)

I wrestled for so long that I am kinda over the slippery game. I want to learn how to deal with the jacket, because it’s so technical. You can’t just slip out of shit and use athleticism to be faster and stronger. The rabbit hole of jacket wrestling is just so deep. I also like the rules more. If I throw you and you land on your side, I can pin you and win that way. Or, if you turn to turtle, I can either turn and pin you or try to submit. The former is more likely. If you don’t have a choke or armbar right away they call it back to the feet. So sort of like freestyle wrestling in that if nothing is happening it goes back to the feet. I absolutely love doing BJJ for the exercise and mental part. But I think there are too many issues with how scoring and out of bounds works. I am not that motivated to play a game where someone could pull guard and hold you there for dear life and get an advantage or something. If they hold you in side control at least that is a dominant position. I am just very in to judo. I also think I am catching on super fast because my coaches are awesome and are helping me to mold my game with my wrestling skills. I actually have good guard passing and guard retention/sweeps. I love BJJ. I just think BJJ in the gym and competition are not the same things. But judo is basically the same…like you can’t just grab someone’s gi and play anti judo like you can play anti BJJ. You will get shido’ed off the mat. In BJJ, they really need to enforce stalling and call stalemates for positions with no progress

Thank you for your kind words and your support. I am sure that our instructional will serve you well. We spent a lot of time making sure that the concepts were emphasized. My plan is to continue to teach wrestling to BJJ guys, because I feel that once they see the power of the fundamentals done well that they will strive to be proficient in them. The problem with a lot of people is they think oh this is what olympians do and so that’s what I should do. No, you should wrestle like a highschool wrestler and then like a college wrestler if you get that good. The other issue is that people rely on these fucking breakdown guys and the vast majority of them never wrestled. They show what will get them views, not what is fundamental and used at all levels. Highlight reels don’t tell the real story of what is happening. You have to attend tournaments and watch this shit in person. You will see that whizzer counter to the side bodylock like 30-50x in a highschool tournament. You will see it less in college because people aren’t foolish and stop pushing if they are around the waist. I never taught BJJ mechanics on the channel, because my expertise is in wrestling. But the issue is these BJJ people know that the $ is in takedowns so they will lie on their resume to get you to buy their shit. And then you will get frustrated that your wrestling isn’t working and go back to pulling guard. Guard pulling is ok when it benefits you. Meregali should have just kept playing guard against Pixley, because Pixley would have been penalized for not engaging and then Meregali could have played guard and advanced his position. Wrestling Pixley was foolish. I would pull guard against Pixley, lol

It depends on where his hands are. If they are chest wrapped then I peak out. If they go to the front headlock then I drag out

​@@josephbreza-grappling9459 your videos and responses are super helpful man thank you a ton!

Anytime brother

It’s not necessary. You’re wrestling him not the mat, so your position is about getting an advantage on him. I have heard this for years and never understood where that came from.

Anaconda can be a problem. You can’t dump once he has it. I didn’t have plans for covering that. Locked hands has legit solutions. I have some good solutions to some things and can work other details out with Alec. He is a wizard with all kinda of stuff.

Thank you