The Truth About My WEIRD New Grappling Style | Coach Kajan Johnson
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Great video! At 49, I received my Brown Belt. Part of the process was a forty minute gauntlet. I had to wrestle a new person, every minute for forty minutes. I had to stand up at the beginning of each round. For three months prior, I did two-a-days. I exercised twice (cycling, running, walking, weights, etc.) if there was no grappling and on the grappling days, I exercised once later in the day. I trained harder, added more rounds, etc. Everyone told me there was nothing you could do to prepare for it. They were right. I was burnt out at about 12 minutes and took a beating for the rest when the gauntlet took place. I tried to fight my hardest against everyone and ended up getting trounced.
Ten months later, at age 50, I had to go through another gauntlet to receive a stripe. However, the whole ten months I prepared differently. I had an epiphany. I would just relax. I have always been good at take downs, so I trained them non-stop. I worked on relaxing and would let them push and pull as they wanted, but waited until they made a mistake and then would take them down.Then I would float on them and submit them only when it was a clear path. (I also worked escapes as much as possible so I wouldn't worry about being trapped or tapped.) My second gauntlet was almost like a dream. On the day of the gauntlet, I helped out with other people's gauntlet and then had my own 40 minute gauntlet. I didn't tire until after 30 minutes and didn't started get beat up until the last three or so minutes. I was only subbed a couple of times near the end. I subbed more people, took more people down and switched the narrative for this gauntlet.
I actually had someone come up to me and tell me my gauntlet was "beautiful." Another person told me it was like watching one of those old Judo masters where they had people come up to them and effortlessly controlled and threw them. My wife told me later that people were commenting how I was out there for an hour and was still fighting (I helped with the other gauntlets before mine). I realized I had found the key and the growth that I was looking for. My Jiu-Jitsu was there for me. Going with the flow and being relaxed (and skilled) helped me survive the hell of a gauntlet while still fighting back when needed.
Absolutely beautiful! I would love a test such as this. Thank you for sharing my friend!
@@coachkajan Thank you sir! Not a problem.
top top top!
if you know you know
@@ijustwannaleaveacommentony6511 Agreed!
That is smart !
Two main points in this video
Point 1.Control the head control the body
Point 2. Gravity works.
Conclusion: Be a Top, never a Bottom.
"The way God meant us to grapple" is such a funny phrase haha. I'm looking forward to this "revival" of ancient/primal grappling. This really caught my attention. Good luck in your next tournaments!
Could've sworn that old school catch was focused on the top as the dominant/most desired position.
Yes I feel if there is one thing it is most similar to it is CACC. Although I believe CACC was underdeveloped on the bottom.
CACC & Judo, Sambo, are huge compliments to Jiu Jitsu
All you have to do is add boxing and Muay Thai.
=MMA
One thing I've learned about Catch is that many of the submissions are meant to lead to a pin. I feel its a different way of thinking than Jiu Jitsu submissions.
Yes! Catch as catch can is exactly this way
I’m a BJJ brown belt and also a police officer. I love pressure passing and keeping head low, but when fighting on concrete, it may not always the be the best idea. The stuff you’re talking about is very applicable to law enforcement type of fighting.
That's awesome
I was a judo practitioner, my children still are . Our club teaches “fighting tall” . I will pray for safety and success for your tournament tour.
That strategy vs wrestlers will get him smoked….
@@tomevers6670😂 if he just stands tall like a judo guy and forgets all the rest of his grappling
My teacher who teaches his own Japanese jujutsu that incorporates very old school judo and all that it has and karate striking and grappling always says that if you are under someone or hit the ground first in fighting you have lost but also emphasized that it does not mean that the fight is over and we are also taught not to have our backs to the ground if possible despite all the techniques we have learned involving such and to keep our head safe. We rather use many hold downs and pins from the standing position for finishing. He has taught this way for the last 50 years
Amazing. Where do you study?
But you havent lost. Thats what the guard/open guard is for.
Maybe you could make an instructional with bJJ fanatics after you compete against those other styles and explain in-depth what you are referring to about this particular style.
I have my own platform for courses. Eventually I’ll make one on this but not before my team decimates everyone with it first.
@@coachkajan Awesome.
@@coachkajancoach can you sum up exactly what the style is? Like the basic principles of it, I’m still a little lost as to what it is. Thank you!
Click bait, don't see what's so different
What's up with all the God haters? Bro is trying to show us something interesting, and he feels blessed by God. It doesn't run that deep
They're in the Communists cult bro
Well, because a large sect of fake Christians have been actively using God's name to blaspheme and spread hate.
They worship crosses and flags. Saints and make idols out of sinners.
As Christians, we have failed our God. The flocks anger is justified. Hundreds of years of blood and gore in the name of wordly things. All while God being proclaimed the reason why.
We failed God and the flocks reaction to God is represented in that.
Do better Christians
They are taken by Lucifer.
Because that sounds like the beginning of either mental illness or a cult
It sounds a little culty
But it's not that weird
You just made a light bulb go off in my head. I've never thought of grappling that way before. I'd love to learn more about your grappling style and adapt it into my own game.
Try it!
Finally someone open minded here
I think a style like this would be extremely beneficial to learn! Can’t wait to see you apply it against all the competition.
Let’s go!
I once got to roll with a very stinky purple belt from my gym. I didn't notice the stench until we started rolling. I am a blue belt, and normally I have an alright time with the guy since he is older, maybe in his 50s. My ONLY goal that round was to not let him get any type of chest to chest. I maintained top position the whole time and dominated him. Listening to your idea mase me realize that I was keeping top position AND my head up as much as possible. So yeah, if that ain't PRIMAL, nothing is 😂😂😂
Im not even a grappler but yeah this was funny 😂
"I once got to roll with a very stinky purple belt from my gym." - I Would Have Forfeited The Roll! He either needs to wash with water and soap or we don't spar.
@MayGemini1987 i think you missed the point there
keeping your head up, top position in a street fight , helps notice other attackers
@@srinigypsy Yeah I did miss the point....and I'm forever done talking about it....... [ *END* cause I ain't coming back to this video to comment again] I have to go to work now. Goodbye for good, people.
Homie only accepts the tap if you accept Jesus Christ into your heart
😂
Jesus didn’t tap
ha ha ha!
Imagine facing some guy in a tournament and he gets you in an ankle lock but tells you he won't let go until you accept Jesus as your Lord and saviour..?🤣🤣😂
@@StephenVTrantrue when he was on the cross his arms broke and he didnt tap out
Not only in grappling but I think focusing on relative head position is also the truth in striking. When my boxing coach gave me some simple heuristics on how to position my head relative to my opponent it really opened up everything. In a few months I was able to pull counter, interact with my opponent's guard, hand fight, and just integrate everything way more fluidly. Skills I tried to understand for several years became way more accessible.
I'm not pursuing combat sports anymore but my few years of experience in bjj/judo/wrestling felt like they showed a similar direction to what you're talking about and it really seems like this direction is closer to the truth of how we're built and how we're supposed to use our bodies. Everyone fixates on the patterns they see in outcomes, classifying them, and working backwards from there. You've probably heard about that guy using Ecological Dynamics to explore bjj(Greg...Souders?) and I feel like his experimental process is uncovering a similar set of ideas. Keep it up, I hope your journey takes you to the top!
That’s really cool man. I’ve never heard of Greg Souders but you definitely peaked my interest. Looking him up right now. Thanks for your take and the info!
Can you share those head positioning heuristics as it relates to your opponent? I'm interested in getting in striking and would like to learn as much as I can .
What are the striking heuristics?
@tristargymwestcoast oh man. Enjoy the deep dive. Greg, Scott Sievewright, Rob Cole, Ed Ingamells, Kabir Bath. I'd throw in Priit Mikhelson. His Defensive BJJ is solid and now he's getting into EcoD. Rob Gray too. He's the science guy but has no martial arts background.
Bro...... discovered some basic concepts of Folkstyle wrestling.
100%
He did say in the video that he knows that what he's "rediscovered" has been around forever
Nah, bro. God showed it to him. God was just tired of his subpar grappling, so he taught him stuff I see daily at my gym.
It seems to me that when blades were the primary consideration in the application of grappling this is how we grappled. “Head up” is actually “head and shoulders up,” this frees you for use with a large bladed weapon. Absolute dominance.
@@Arpedzio1God loves him more than the other grapplers 😂
you should look up Glima, its Viking battlefield wrestling. The rules are simple, take your opponent down and the first one to stand up wins. Its all about getting back to your feet after a successful takedown because on a battlefield you have to worry about multiple attackers at all times. its a cool system
I agree that a good top game tending towards the pin should be dominant. Especially for self defense
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I think you make some great points, and I am excited to see how your system develops.
Now 1 wrinkle in your theory. You make a great observation that we are upright bipeds, and I think that shows where the system can go wrong. As bipeds the strongest part of our bodies are our legs, so attacking high can allow our opponents access to the power of their legs whereas low attacks can compromise the power of the legs. You can see this in NCAA Wrestling where the Double and Single score the most.
I am really curious to see how you deal with this problem. Subscribed!
you’re on to something brotha 💪🏽🔥
I think you really have something special here. You could revolutionize the grappling game like it has been with leg locks
I appreciate your love for martial arts and you sharing what you learn
🙏🏽👊🏽❤️
I think you're really tapping into something special here, I'm excited to see the development of this system, please keep posting more!
I have been doing the same thing for years, I stay relaxed, I don't fight against what my opponent is doing. Its almost as if your opponent needs you to resist so he can submit, most times no movement on my part, the opponent doesn't know what to do. If I am on top I stay on top I don't try to submit, my position is my submission. I try to exhaust everybody. I don't even sweat, and I don't breathe hard most of the time, some days I train 3 times per day. Some days 18 6min rolls. I can go weeks without being submitted, I may get 1 submission per day out of 18 rolls, and I am not trying to submit it just happens. I give opponents my back, I don't try to escape, I make them escape being on my back.
So basically you just play defence the whole time ? Man your really boring lol your one of those guys I taped years ago. Had a class mate make a bet he I couldn’t tap him in 5 mins, I actually regret taking that match.
He did everything in the book to just be defensive . Finally I locked on his leg and wasn’t gonna do any sub with it. This idiot then decides it a good idea to just jump outta my arms outta nowhere, instead this idiot lands on his knee smashing it out.
I regretted it because for me it was just having fun but for him he was just playing defence and trying to escape. In the end he lost the bed and his knee due to his stupidity.
He was very bitter after that. Even though he jumped on his out knee and it wasn’t from a move I initiated 🤷♂️
Good thing you said you don’t do a lot of movements. Many inexperienced players think a fast move can save them but they end up hurting themselves
@@ssmd7449 Right now I am experimenting with my body position to stop submissions. While my opponent is has set his mind on submitting me they make so many mistakes and leave space for my escape or I submit them, I am patient. I wish you can see the faces of all the people that try to submit me, they look so confused its priceless. Only really really skilled people can submit me, and they work up a huge sweat to do it, when I am hardly breathing and if they make a mistake, I am fast to submit. Most of the students will not roll with me because it makes them look bad so I am avoided, because their ego cannot handle it. to them its all about tapping. I can roll 18 rounds a day without any issues. When I get tapped because I made a mistake my partner is so happy as if they tapped Rickson. I stay comfortable in all bad positions because of my body position.
Love it. I've never had any real issues with BJJ, but I've always had issues with it as anything but a supplemental art. Great skill set, super useful, easy to teach and train and great for getting/keeping in shape. With that said it has a lot of shortcomings as well. Namely once you get tied up the winner tends to be the guy who's buddy jumps in first and nobody wants to be ground fighting on a city street with broken glass and shit everywhere. It sucks, trust me. What you're describing seems to address those issues pretty well. Looking forward to seeing more!
The search for the meta truth is the way.
Would like to speak with you. Currently run a communication business with a foundation in martial arts. Your concepts are clear but there is further intrigue. Do you have a link - would pay for an hour of your time.
Hmm I'm genuinely interested to see the results, you got yourself a sub. Can't wait to see how this goes good luck.
My Jiujitsu experience is amateur, no belt. But I recall BJJ purists have a hard time with people who just stand up out of guard, but also know how to stay out of holds. This makes perfect sense.
excellent system, I compete in armored combat/buhurt events (full contact medieval combat with 60+lbs of real armor) and you're basically a dead man when your back in on the ground with all that gear. Shooting for double legs is a death sentence cus someone just has to sprawl and push on your 16lb helmet and now you're a dead man on all fours. So judo and grecco are king in our sport. Armor and weapons changes the grappling game dramatically and seems very inline with what youre describing. you should try it in the future local clubs usually have loner gear if you wanna try it out 👍
Wild! I never thought of the weight of armour in those situations. Even now with all the gear the military uses, I imagine they’d have similar issues. I’d def be down to hit some people with some swords haha!
@tristargymwestcoast its loads of fun, and the armor saves you from alot of head trauma so you can spar heavy without hurting eachother
Im convinced. Been thinking about a more "relaxed and efficient " way of grappling and you came out with this. Just waiting for a program now ✌️
Same point of view I developed by myself. Anxious to learn more from your perspective.
I completely relate to that had pretty much same injury on the neck as you, same whole arm was numb couldnt even get my head straight for several months. Few months later a friend attempted similar technique to what i did and got hurt (kataguruma) and now he is paralysed from neck down. I had a pretty solid double leg but now dont use it as much bcs of fear getting hurt like that again and low shots in general, everyday i do neck training since that day. Me and my Coach ( also had neck injury) we play this style now and is much more effective in passing, in takedowns and everything. The guy on bottom has to carry your weight at all times which makes it really exhausting. When passing we adopt that deadlift posture and position hands on shoulders, head and hips of the opponent. I come from Sambo background brown belt in BJJ and my Coach is judo black belt, BJJ 4th degree black belt and pro mma fighter. If you are ever in Miami please come by our gym would love to connect these styles and share info. Hope you feel better by now if you want to reach out lmk. Our gym is called MMA monsters. Thanks for sharing this info!
Copy that, I’d love to come and train!
@@coachkajan more than welcome when you are down here. Thx for the content!🙏
Getting paralyzed from attempting a Judo move is crazy. Did he have neck problems before this?
Love to see unique views. Good for you dude, keep pushing the ball down the field
Love this and can't wait to explore this further
Excellent video. Love this channel. Wise combat wisdom in this one. Awesome. Thank you for your work, love it!
Some very good points here your on to something putting this together while not forgetting the primal aspect and basics.
thank you for bringing this to light. I've thought this as well since I've started a jiujitsu couple years ago but lack the understanding of other styles or grappling it it's entirety to properly execute or theorize it. I think it stems from primarily training with weapons that it always seemed like a better safety and control position of having the best elevation and posture
As a multi-discipline grappler who is raising 2 sons to be as well, I have to say I am intrigued. My personal style is more top down dominate so I want to see this in action. Subscribed.
I had that same neck injury from shooting a double took forever it did come back to almost normal. The fun part is it forces you to come up with a new way to do takedowns or stand up grappling so if you look at it from that perspective it is what martial arts is all about really making it work for you
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I've had great success with sumo techniques in Gi jiu jitsu. It's the major antithesis to BJJ and so sumo is it's natural counter, even in philosophy. You're onto something
It's cool to see you find your own style. I like when people think outside the box. I teach a takedown class at my BJJ gym. Most takedowns classes are nothing but single leg and double leg takedowns. I got sick of watching beginners shoot in and get front headlocked or guillitoned. So I stop teaching shots. Now I just teach no gi judo takedowns (because gis are dumb) and greco wrestling. It sounds like it's in line with your style. People still like to single leg me. Usually I can just wrap their necks and twist, and choke to defend.
You sir are on to something. I've been teaching this for almost twenty years now. I came to this knowledge through the practice of multiple different arts and integration of them. One of the things I want to remind everyone is; humans are bipedal and fighting on your feet is always preferable to fighting on the ground. You can still grapple and finish people from a stand up position if you understand how to control a person's center through control of their extremities.
You are definitely on the path!
Thank you my friend
You have impressive martial ability. Can't wait to see more.🙏🏼
Hey man, it sounds like what you’re getting at is something like the mastery of posture, and maintaining it as the primary goal of grappling.
Chris Paines has discussed this idea on his channel as well, and talks about how it largely negates a lot of standard jiujitsu.
In particular is insanely hard to sweep or takedown someone who is just keeping their spine aligned and refusing to abandon their posture, and you’ve clearly seen that in your “statue” defense against takedowns. And he discusses that a similar concept can even be used In guard if you’ve already lost the head height advantage of top position.
I think if you combine this idea with learning to isometrically maintain a slight brace in the upper body, your ability to apply techniques and resist them are both multiplied to the point it seems like bs.
It would be really cool to see a discussion between you and Chris,to my knowledge you’re the only ones excitedly interested in articulating the effects of posture for bjj
Haters will likely come after me for for saying this, but Tai Chi (when it used to be a fighting art) is very heavily rooted in this principle
@@The_Taiji_Viking 100% agree
Bro, you are one of if not the only guy thinking outside the box on TH-cam. Instead of just being a ‘move database’ you are always providing weird and interesting concepts.
PLEASE keep going with this. I troll you a lot but I watch all your shit and you are a very intelligent thinker (when it comes to to grappling ;) )
Develop this and I will buy it. This is what I need, some form of ‘combat grappling’
Go with this creative inspiration. It leads to innovation. I am a BJJ brown belt. I totally agree with all of what you say here and am thinking of implementing this theory, which only in part has come to me, and only gets unnoticed use. It pays to focus on key concepts like this - those little things - which can change anyone's game up from night to day. I respect your work and am a long time fan of Firas. Thanks for this golden post, and good luck...to your opponents - they will need it!!!
Always watched, this in particular made me sub. You’re thinking in 4D my friend, ossss
Love this, reminds me of some of the stuff the book “Keep Rolling” covers
Where can we learn more about this method of grappling?
points learned from this video.
1. Keep your head away from your opponent
2. Keep your head higher on a vertical and horizontal plane
3. Control the opponents head
When you mentioned grappling a snake it clicked: you're a genious.
Happy my ramblings made sense!
Genius.
😆🤣😂
Yes, this happens in ground fighting pinched nerves that take training specific muscles to fix the issue plus using the body different than you did before. My pinched nerve is in my lower back, it seems like i can't fix it, at one point i thought i would be paralyzed. I mean it hurt bad to stand. I learned to do bunch workouts to help the pain. Good luck on the ground fighting journey.
How are you feeling now man? I’m new to bjj and I do stretches yoga and I’m studying the skeletal muscular system with a free course online that a university offers for free. I have accepted that my body is going to take damage but I just want to mitigate it as much as possible.
I'm not a grappler, but this makes intuitive sense. It'll be cool to see how you do in this broad experiment.
I'm intrigued for sure
Im a white belt but I also discovered that pushing on the back of the head while sprawling would shut down single legs from guys 10x better than me, and they would switch to something else.
I also hate fighting from butterfly and half guard and I find just standing up while framing a lot easier.
While passing guard going to north south with some leg drags seems a lot more economic than trying bodylocks.
Im not good at bjj yet, but I do things you talk about in your video and I feel like I progress faster than other white belts that started with me, I even go toe to toe with some blue belts at times.
I would love to learn this brother. Makes more sense even in a street fight as you want to stay on your feet...you're not crazy at all😎👍🏽❤️🔥🔥...fire content brother
Thanks for sharing Kajan. Spine and neck injuries are terrifying.
Subscribed. May the Lord bless you on this journey. I'm here to see the challenge
I am a Bjj purple belt, who had similar if not worse neck injury , end my replacing my C3-C4 cervial disc with artificial replacement surgery 2 years ago. I had just lots of my game , applying similar concept as you mentioned in this video ( lest inverted position, less shooting , more upwritst stand when wrestle...) the problem I'm facing now is the more distance I keep my neck away from others, I open more chance for them to attack the leg ,(shoot / leg lock ) which I also had knee injury history . like to hear what your advices.
I love this video!
I don't fully agree with everything he's saying, just from my own grappling experience, but I am more than willing to be proved wrong!
This is the true spirit of a fighter and martial artist! Going out and testing your skills and style of fighting against others to test it's validity and effectiveness. That is what the firtst UFC was about and these are the types of people we need as a martial arts community!
Wish you all the best and lots of success!
This resonated big time with me, weird I’m going through a simile symptoms in my arm but I’ve been going in the same direction you are in my martial arts journey.
Keep posting super excited to see your journey.
Just had a thought, each type of animal should fight how it travels; wolf on all fours, eagle with its wings & claws, the human in an upright position
I feel like this makes sense 100% I’ve always been told my style isn’t like a wrestler or a bjj guy but more of an all around grappler. No one can pin it down but after this video it makes sense and I guess I’ve been naturally doing this style since I started grappling 2 years ago. Comes natural to use the strongest limbs first for pinning and frames and then stack up high with head up for the weight to be directly down and then from their I can work and majority of the time have hands free
What styles have you been training?
Ringen, Glima, Catch. You are rediscovering old concepts. Happy for you anyway, keep going.
i have a Neck Hernia and i love Wrestling Judo and Jiu Jitsu, your grappling style makes me want to pursue my passion again, Subcribed !
Stand grappling is great. I here just for thumbnail, didn't watched it to the end but standing grappling is great and the thumb made me remember it. Taiji style
waiting for those video competing in different styles, hope you system is successful
For safety, this is a brilliant strategy. Reduces the number of available risky maneuvers forcing you to stay in the safest positions
Edit: I love that you give God credit for the creation. We can only discover and innovate.
I also realized it's the same principle in arm wrestling. You always want to be above your opponent's hand and forcing them to hang off you
I think the most unique thing I notice about your style is the focus on posting/pushing, distance management, and more outside position. I've noticed a lot of MMA fighters I roll with are intrinsically much better at this because they understand the distance management needed for generating effective ground strikes. The posting/pushing is interesting because I think a huge amount of jiu jitsu is focused on pulling people in, and it goes along that it is indeed very difficult to do jiu jitsu on people that are more stingy about engaging on their terms, just staying high and pushing people away/posting when they try to engage until you get to engage on your terms is really effective(could argue a lot is just stalling and I think thats a problem with jiu jitsu rulesets not having more aggressive stalling calls like wrestling/judo but thats a whole different conversation).
The outside position thing I've been thinking about a lot lately myself and observing, especially how you'll notice russian/eastern european wrestlers a lot more comfortable with outside position/ties than the wrestlers of other countries, whereas the orthodoxy in both jiu jitsu and a lot of western wrestling is inside position.
Closest thing I can think of to what I've seen you do is there was a pretty interesting little section on one of Danahers takedown dvds, about takedowns for self defense, and he had a whole section covering "Standing vs Ground SVG position" where he pointed out the advantages of just taking someone down and then soccer kicking and/or kneeing them.
I feel this, I have issues with my high crotch and doubles as they damage my neck always. I have developed a more upright judo Greco style that is surrounding preserving my neck, especially with heavier opponents. Good stuff
Very interesting points, would like to see more.
Thanks for sharing your passion and insight into grappling. I swear I heard Chael Sonnen mention keeping your head and or shoulders above your opponents several years ago...
I appreciate your lessons, thank you.
I adjusted my approach to focus on these ideas yesterday while rolling and it went REALLY well. I almost exclusively go to deep half, so this was a massive shift in my game but it felt awesome.
Love to hear it! Smash away.
You’re out of your mind… in a good way!
Seriously that’s interesting. Looking forward to seeing how you do in your quest to test out this philosophy across various disciplines.
This is absolutely beautiful
One of the things about ancient combat is the implication of melee weapons. Many of the techniques in old styles of Japanese Jujutsu as well as HEMA are specifically aimed at getting higher and taller than your opponent so that you can deploy some sort of weapon or avoid the opponent's weapon.
I appreciate you sharing your knowledge. It’s weird how martial artists can still have revolutionary game changers by learning fundamentals of other combat sports. People can go really far by concentrating on technique and application of a small tool bag.
I like it. Please drop some meta basics for this system 🙏🏽
I discovered a little peace of this myself because one of my favorite rolling partner's and good friend is extremely good at guillotines so i had to constantly keep my head up and use backtakes and more upright takedowns its funny because we would talk about ancent grappling and referenced the pankraton statue you show in this vid from time to time lol good stuff ill definitely be watching how it gos
Very beautiful and aesthetic style, wondering how your philosophy takes into account the opponent underneath having the positioning to lift you upwards/slam?
Thank you. That’s a good question actually. I think it’s much harder lift the shape that I’m making unless you first corrupt it. When it does happen I turn to goop until I can regain balance and position. I know that’s a little vague but you’ll get it once you see it.
So, I just left a comment on another video of yours, the one where you were at 10th Planet. That video caused me to find this video... and the things I noted in the 10th Planet video... seeing some of your work in judo, the use of the knees, not being chest to chest... was brought up in this video but this video explained your theory. Look forward to watching all of your videos.
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Incredible Video
Thanks Coach. You're shining the light on the original intent of combat sports, that being a safe and preparatory way of training for combat. You're seperating that intent and purpose back out from the modern sports that have diminished the combative nature of warfare grappling. When the Most High God works in our lives many things become clearer. The principle of keeping the head, neck and spine safe with upright posture is evident in other martial arts such as Taichi, which has also been watered down in modern times. I used Ali as an example of this head up and out of harms way principle recently while teaching. He's a fine case study for this in boxing. I like to say "the spine is like a stack of checkers, in that it's strong when properly aligned but upset that alignment and jt crumbles." Godspeed!
Thank you for this. From my studies it really looks like Im going to learn Taiji Chuan next.
Really interested in learning this
coach kojan, as a professing follower of Jesus I was prayerful about this principle of grappling and have now used it in live rolling against higher belts than I in jiu jitsu as I am only a white belt. It worked tremendously and I had much more control and had control of all the matches. I’m going to continue to press into the lord and bringing this into my live rolls. I would love to learn more of what you’ve learned so eventually I could teach others and my kids. Thank you for sharing Kojan
The way you explain the style reminds me of how bears wrestle eachother actually. Gain top position, flip opponent over, or overpower them down, and control while mauling.
I think it is effective if you are already proficient in the 'B side' grappling as you call it.
Many traditional martial arts have passed down the same concepts as the primal kombat system, but down the generations the familiarity with the 'B side' techniques faded. That's why during the first UFC competitions, the ones staying upright or on top were too unfamiliar with the "B side", and had no defense against it.
Again, I think your insight is very valuable, but only if you are sufficiently familiar with the B side grappling.
Man I think almost the same. Like ever since I started MMA I was like "I hate going for the legs, there is something missing in BJJ and freestyle wrestling". Since then I tried to apply some pankration and greko-roman wrestling into my game and I felt like "This is it, this is my game, punches are way easier to connect, I feel way stronger and more confident doing the pins u showed in video (even if some would call them dirty - it's hella effective) and I thing this is the raw, instinct like way of fighting. I felt like there is the way humans were supposed to fight but then something went different, maybe flashier (don't know yet, on my way of discovering). Already hyped waiting for more videos about yr style!
My recent challenge that helped with passing is stay as upright as possible. Never compromising posture.
Great observations. You should also look at arts like Shuai Jiao. Older arts were also developed for the use on a battle field against multiple opponents and weapons. This changes the context of how you engage in grappling.
good stuff. thank you
It's really interesting me how people don't really understand the why behind all these things, and then think they've discovered something new.
Glad you found something that works for your game you have a right to express your faith in your video good for you
Interesting insights.
God bless.
I've had that happen to both my left and right arm/scapula/chest/lat/triceps in two separate occasions. You need to heal the outer sheath of the nerve which is what insulates it, like the rubber in the outside of an electrical wire, by taking lots of B Vitamins which the body uses to rebuild it. Also high rep exercises fir the next with bands will help build connective issues and bring blood to heal the area. That being said it will take time. 1-2 years for full recovery depending on several factors. But if you don't train your neck directly it will always be susceptible to this kind of injury. B vitamins are water soluble so your body will just get rid of what it doesn't use so don't afraid to take some with every meal and drink plenty of water.
I'm trying to understand this could you please help me to comprehend this new method please, Your saying keep your body vertical n if your on the bottom on the ground keep your head up higher than your opponent?
Very interesting concept that I want to try!
But one question: is this also effective for smaller people grappling with bigger opponents?
I'm 5'2", 110 pounds, and I'm not sure the game you mention is the one I should go for. Happy to hear your thoughts.
I once shot a take down that my neck connected to the guys hip check and i qas almost knocked out. I survived but it messed me up for a few weeks.
Anyway, i just received my brown belt and I'm going to really consider this talk in what I do moving forward.
I've been playing with this concept for a while now. My grappling style is more akin to Judo and Greco so I fell into this line of thinking naturally
Love jt