Ground Road Map Lesson 9
In this lesson Matt starts to review the closed guard. He covers some major posture breaks and how the major mistakes that can be made there. From time to time people will start to put frames in the way to stop you from breaking posture. Matt reviews some methods for dealing with those frames, [...]
Ground Road Map Lesson 8
In this lesson we get our first introduction to the mount and Matt gives us some options for setting up strikes from both closed guard bottom and the mount.
Ground Road Map Lesson 7
This lesson is our introduction to guard bottom. Matt reviews the philosophy behind why we are starting here at this point in the curriculum and how we can begin our drilling.
Ground Road Map Lesson 6
The NUMBER ONE must know submission for self-defense, the guillotine. Matt covers some must know details for this submission while revealing some must know fundamental details that bleed over into all of your other chokes.
Ground Road Map Lesson 5
In this lesson Matt reviews base and starts relating it to the different places someone could grab you, including on the neck.
Ground Road Map Lesson 4
On the tail of our last lesson where Matt was talking about maintaining base, Matt reviews how to hand fight. This is a very important lesson for fighting or MMA, standing or on the ground.
Ground Road Map Lesson 3
This lesson serves as an introduction to stance and base. A great first lesson for learning how to move and settle your weight along side some basics for the clinch range as it pertains to self defense.
Ground Road Map Lesson 2
A continuation of the headlock escape. This lesson also covers a few details for the head and arm, and then leads into Matt showing a headlock escape to lead into an armbar.
Ground Road Map Lesson 1
An introduction to the BJJ road map series. Some must know detials on headlock escapes, and why Matt believes that the headlock escape is the perfect first lesson.