The 3 Most Important Jiu Jitsu Techniques For A BJJ White Belt by John Danaher

okay guys I here today for the Greatjon Danaher again so guys today Joe is gonna show us here water to treat most important things a jiu-jitsu white belt should know so what are the three most important techniques that a resolution to a white belt guy person should know so we get this question all the time and how would you answer that or John in this there's a sense in which it's an impossible question because you did too is in it it's an ocean of moves so to say okay what are three important things for me

to know three important techniques because the question was head is one of the three most important techniques for us to know now I'm sure you'll agree with me but out of the most important things when a beginner first comes in are usually concepts they're something they can which can go in your behavior across a wide spectrum of situations everybody's techniques tend to be relative eyes more - okay you're in this scenario here apply this technique and see what happens but nonetheless it's still a very important question you know at the end of the day you

only win a match when you go out and apply techniques you can talk all day about concepts this and principles there but at the end of the day you've got to apply a technique on a resisting apartment and in only that way can you win a match so it's an important question and I believe I have three candidates which which we can illustrate in this video which will make you more effective in your first week in jujitsu and on throughout your time in the sport and which also illustrates some important lessons which have important carryovers

into your further development as you go further down the line so I'm gonna start the ball rolling by saying the absolute most important move in all of you - to bar none is the elbow escape okay this this move goes by several different names classically it was always called the elbow escape there's a sense in which that can be a slightly misleading name but don't worry we'll explain it now and it's how that make sense to you okay first let's understand what the hell is an elbow escape it almost gave us a situation where I

start in a poor position pinned by my opponent we need to start off by defining a pin and the sport it's in the sport of wrestling anytime my back and shoulders on the mat you pinned okay and you did too you have to go further than that it's only when my opponent blocks one of my shoulders down to the mat and he's gotten past my legs and he has some kind of direct chess to choose contact or in some cases needed the stomach contact only then does he count as pinning me okay so if I'm

on my back and my opponent is in front of my legs yes I'm on my back but it's not a pin Chris Bernardo has not passed my legs however Bernardo should control my legs and go past and then from here start to come up and control my head and shoulders athira okay now he's pinning me understand also that there are different kinds of pin here right now Bernardo is sibling for one of the most popular all round pins in the sport the side pin he could for example transition to a knee on belly pin when

it comes up place the knee on my stomach and from here he gets additional points in a pin like this he could also transition his hands to the mat go forward into the mountain position and from here he's taking a different form of pen okay and this cause even more points for him in a situation he dependently still penny myth still in the category of pins but it's a different kind of pin if I make the mistake for example of turning my back and then either starts moving around and create the situation where his two

legs open to my hips now he has a different kind of pin this is a very interesting one because now he's no longer chest to chest he's chest to back interestingly in the sport of Jitsu even a Bernardo ended up and fought in position here he would still count as pinning me in this situation you can see that the notion of the pin is quite different in the score Jitsu to most grappling eyes it's not necessarily top and bottom and it's more to do with your body position relative to the legs then it does to

top or bottom most of the time it's the top man is penny providing sponsor legs but a situation like this I'm typically on top of an auto even if we come all the way up here now I'm definitely on top of them but still I'm in benardos pin because he's past my legs and he's established this hooks in upper body control etcetera etcetera so you see that the notion of pinning is quite interested in school especially with the idea of getting past your opponent's legs and fixing yourself to either chest chest or chest the back

position with certain kinds of constraints in mind is if this is you control a position now if there's one method that's gonna get you out of these pins which trumps all the others put together it's the elbow escape okay let's start off by looking at different variations of the elbow escape and showing how it creates a situation where your opponent has passed your legs the act of elbow escaping is essentially the act of putting your opponent back inside your legs now as a complete beginner in this boy you must might be asking okay what's so

special about that you're still on your back I don't care if you put your makes in front of her or not it means nothing to me well we've gotta go on to show other techniques after the elbow escape which will show you the value of putting your opponent back inside your legs you can go from a situation where you're completely losing a match to one we can absolutely turn around and win from underneath your opponent provided your legs are involved in the movements so put in your opponent's back inside your legs after the venue is

a big big deal on the support basically the entire bottom game of jujitsu has almost all sent around the idea of keeping my legs between myself and my opponent if he gets past my legs against and upper body pins he's winning if I can keep my legs to myself in my opponent I have an excellent chance of winning even from bottom position so let's have a look at a situation where I got off to a dreadful start and my opponent got mounted on top of me okay even a complete beginner cannot see that this is

a bad bad situation for me and a very good one for Bernardo okay in situations like this we want to form a frame where one forum goes across my training partners hips so that if Bernardo tries to walk forward with his knees and get into a higher and higher Bell it's quite difficult for him I take my elbow and I put it inside my training pot his name I'm gonna start actively looking to invert my knee so that my knee points down to the floor and my foot is higher than my knee if my knee

is higher than my foot and I tried four escape I'm just gonna run helplessly into my opponent's hamstring and I'm never gonna get a hold of my opponent's leg so I have to create a situation where I take my foot higher than my knee and by doing this I can easily scoop my knee underneath benardos ankle and capture it the way we capture it is by going across the second leg and walking this leg so now I've captured the ankle I need to transfer now to the knee so I started at the ankle now I

just turn my hips watch benardos name it comes off the mat and as a result it's very easy for me to go around the corner and capture the whole name if we bring the camera around on this side now now we're gonna repeat the process on the opposite side I'm gonna take my elbow and put it inside Barnardo's knee and as a result I can shift my hips and bring my foot higher than my knee so there's a result my knee comes through like so now if we bring the camera further around now this is

a potential problem when I try to take my foot out it gets caught and I feel it would take some kind of extraordinary flexibility on my pond to get my links around my opponent but if I plant my foot and shift my hips the angle changes between us and as a result it's very easy for me now to lock my ankles around my chain by this lower back okay at this point you are no longer pinned yes you are still on your back but you now have a situation where you're out of the immediate danger

of a pin and from here we'll soon be showing we can get on the offense so once again it's similar for the situation when we can move back around cuñado gets off to a strong start and goes into a mounted pin we start things rolling by getting a hand across and locking a frame where one of my elbows goes inside his knee I never want situations with my arms are around my opponent like so when my opponent can easily get to a higher and higher position and threaten me with all kinds of nastiness from this

situation okay for the back Dominator so we want to frame across the hip and inside the knee now I turn onto my side there's a world of difference between being flat on my back where I'm not particularly effective and one where I turn onto my side where I can be highly effective now from here my foot goes higher than my knee and as a result we can easily bring our training partners ankle to a position where we can walk the figure of four around at that ankle and then turn to get his knee off the

map and his result make a good catch now I came around on this side I bring my elbow inside by trainee pop isn't he on the opposite side I shift my hips out I bring my knee inside Barnardo's hip and we shift the second time so that from here we can quickly lock up close guard on that training partner anticipate a classic escape from the mounted position understand the elbow escape is the most versatile of all the methods of escape in the Sportage it works on almost all of the major pins so for example when

I was across my side and it's now pinning me in a bicycle side pin from the situation I bring my elbow inside my cheney partner's hip I bring my knee to my train Pontus hip you I put my foot higher than my knee so that as I shift my hips out I find the perfect angle to bring my elbow and knee together and as a result from him to stop pushing I change pockets in aligning our body with our training partner if we bring the camera around in this duration you now it's an easy thing

for me to plant my foot on the floor once again a panade rose knee comes towards me you'll notice that my foot is stuck and it's difficult for me to bring my legs around my opponent no problem we plant the foot we shift our hips out we form an angle or even an inflexible person like myself can easily walk up around we find ourselves once again in a closed guard situation again we've recovered our legs without legs around our opponent we're in a position with yourself to get on the attack so once again side pin

situation Bernardo is here and an excellent pinning position we take out elbow bring it inside the hip we take our foot higher than our knee and we stop the action of scooting our hips out and our hips go further and further away from my opponent we get more and more space to bring our legs between ourselves and our power as my knee twisting benardos hips we shift our body you know line with our trading partner and from here we have more than enough space to bring our legs around and lock a simple closed guard position

on our training partner and now we're ready to fight from boredom alternatively I'm a situation with anomalies behind me it has two books in [Music] the elbow escape will work just fine in this situation - first things first this is a potentially very dangerous situation where Bernardo got ahold of my lapels you can start strangling me here so this is a serious serious problem okay so what we want to do here is always to monitor our training partners strangulation hand that's the one that comes over my shoulder and could potentially strangle me in this position

so we want to make sure we monitor that hand and lock it in place defensively like so now even as Bernardo holds the position I'm gonna use the fingers of my training partners strangling hand to point the direction of my escape the escape starts with the head we're gonna take our feet with a plan two foot and I'm going to turn my foot outwards I want to fall in this direction okay as a general rule Bernardo will be interested in me fall in this direction here okay there was some variation to that but - it's

a good general rule now I want to determine which way I fall I don't want him determining which way before how do I win this I take one foot and planted now Bernardo is gonna try and take me to the right side I'm gonna use my left foot to turn out as Bernardo goes to my right by straightening my leg I forced Bernardo in the opposite direction he wanted okay once again from a seated position Bernardo wants to take me to the right I don't kid I just put my foot planted watch my left foot

turns and my toes point the direction I force him to go okay now as he hooks in tight with his legs I want to beat this bottom hook how are we gonna do this I'm gonna Swisher my leg store that he's gonna make it strong hump another I take my foot back finds inside heads and I turn my knees to face the ceiling but not other once it's hid beneath mine so I take my head forward and I put my head underneath his as a result we're able to push forward on that training partner and

bring our knee over his foot there's not much danger of a strangle now so as I'm on as his strangle hand I don't let him go and except my lapel I care over my triny Honda's ankle and I stopped moving out in a way there's a danger now the Bernardo will stop getting up on the top of me into the mountain position so we perform an elbow escape we go over the top it's but now to get someone top of me know Nate's top position okay we finished the elbow escape partners laid out from this

position we go through elbow goes inside to meet what goes in Trumpy now body out and once again we perform the elbow escape okay so once again I know this behind me and a very strong attacking position first monitor the strangle hand we can't have someone just going to strangle us what we're trying to escape so we monitor the strangle hand we bring our feet together I want to force him to fall this way okay even a book but Otto makes a strong resistant body I do this by planting the foot and I turned my

leg out and as a result we determine which side we fall towards now I want to beat this hole because he pull to the type of this hook look how I walk my leg back until I can get a situation going where I can step over there annoying bottom leg we're going to step over it get my hips out and get everything down towards the floor one big problem that many people have here if you bring the camera in is head position as long as benardos head is blowing mine it's very hard for me doing

this to escape so let's take the time to bring out head forward and get bottom head position that's gonna make it much easier for us to get our shoulders down to the mat now elbow down to the floor now but I was forced to come up on top of it look like exit but now there's ankle make that figure of four that we're always looking for and then we just give a simple push and capture his leg in like so now we bring the camera on this side here we put out elbow inside his knee

we complete the elbow escape by bringing found knee there in front of his hip shrimpie now hips out to the side as a result you can quickly lock up a closed guard now can you see a pattern emerging here in the mounted escape the side escape and the back escape we always ended without legs walk around our training partners hips and waist we went for a situation we will pin our probably gotten past our base and he's had a strong dominant pin we put into a situation we hit them and close God you know an

obvious question for you as a complete beginner in the sport is okay what's so special about that I look at this close gunner doesn't look a lot better to me than where you were before that was still on top of me right understand something yes his upper body is still on top of me we were in a closed guard okay so federal gets mounted his chest and shoulders are on top of me but more importantly is hips are on top of my hips that's the real problem that's why it's a strongly dominant position okay no

Bernardo coming to my close Garber knows if I elbow escape can I put Bernardo in a closed guard yes his upper body is still on top of me but you'll notice that my hips are on top of his hips so even though he is upper body top position I had lower body top position even though it looks on the surface on a superficial manner from a superficial point of view that he's on top of me the part of our bodies it's the most important my hips are on top of his so it's not obvious this

is an inferior position I don't yes my upper bodies underneath them but my lower body is actually on top of his lower body and as a result we can start doing good work from here one of the most important moves to start off bottom position from closed guard which will get you thinking in the right terms in this for Jitsu is to understand how we can use a position like closed guard which when you first see it doesn't look particularly promising and turn it into some magic where you can turn fights around for underneath okay

so we're going to go through and we're gonna take a crosscut grip on our training partners key right here we're gonna get a hold of our training partners arm and we're gonna pull our training partners arm on by using our legs my legs pull inwards and as I break the grip we're gonna sin of 25 his arm straight on by into position where the elbow has been beaten you have now gone halfway towards your opponent's back even though you're underneath your opponent you've beaten your opponent's arm so technically though you're underneath you're a fine position

to begin attacking what determines our ability to attack from here is our ability to get out hit higher than his head so we're gonna go through and hold on to our training partners lat muscle we're gonna now take our sick and down and pull it out and stop building up to an elbow so I come back on my elbow and I pop up on the elbow like so as a result my head is now higher than his head now what seemed like a rather unpromising situation your legs wrapped around your opponent you underneath them it's

starting to look a damn sight better now you're halfway behind your opponent now from here we're gonna unweight our bottom leg by putting all the weight on the top leg because I'm higher than my opponent since it's very easy for me to slide around behind my opponent and start to go throw into a fine attacking position I'm gonna post my second leg inside at this point you can see with traded places our opponent had a good pen on us and now you have a good chance to back pin on them so you've gone from a

100% defensive situation to a 100% offensive situation now from here we're gonna go throw our training partner make a strong blamin and we're going to take a lapel grip or a training partner like so okay we're gonna take our second hand don't worry I'll show you once we emerge from this top position and grab our opponents opposite lip helper as a result we can go down towards the floor and start the engine pulling our opponents on top of us if we bring the camera round in this direction let's just look at my hand position I've

taken my thumb and gone inside my training partners lapel and as a result we're now on a situation where I can use my left town my left hand to take this leg out of my training partners jacket by bringing the rappel down now from here we start to exert the strength of our legs into the strangulation I take my right foot and pass it over and inside my training partners armpit so that I can employ a pushing force with my right leg as my two legs push away we get a strong pulling force as my

entire body weight comes back into the strangle so as my hip moves away from my opponent all my body weight goes back and into the strangle while all the strength of my legs goes forward into the strangle and it creates an immensely strong scissoring force which will strangle an opponent in a very short war time okay so what have we got - what's the big picture we've got we've got a sense in which we started off in the spirit of jutsu in a very poor defensive situation opponent was in a powerful pin from where they

could easily defeat us and we saw that the key to getting out of a pin situation in jujitsu is to recover our legs we don't care if we get put on our back but we do care if we get put on our back and our pony gets past our legs so your number-one prerogative is to get your legs back between you and your opponent so that you can use the strength of your legs to wrestle a bigger stronger opponent from bottom position the absolute king of methods of doing this is the elbow escape and you

would be well off if you just spend your first year of units and just practicing elbow escapes of course you need to know other things but that wouldn't be a bad start believe me now once you get good and adept at the elbow escape you can get out of dangerous pins and start putting your opponent back in some variation of god we looked at probably the most low known variation that close God or our ankles look around our opponent now when you first look at close God doesn't look that special okay it looks a little

strange to be honest with you and it might not strike you as a position where you'd go out and win fights from but understand that because your hips are on top of your opponent's hips the most important part of your body is actually in top position even though the rest of your body is underneath your opponent and as a result you can start performing some incredible moves from there one of them terms of the nature of the fight around completely that's a transition where I'm in close guard to one where I beat my opponents arm

and swivel around behind my opponent taking advantage of the fact that my hips are on top of his hips and as a result we can get around into probably the most well known form of victor in the sport of jiu-jitsu the art of strangulation let's understand something about strangulation using the lapels if we just take a seat position by the way if you look at the night explaining camera if you look at benardos jacket and of course my jacket too you'll see that the material involved in the lapel is very very similar in nature to

the material of the belt and you will start to understand that really what the gear is in there's a very obvious sense in which the ghee is simply a belt or a noose woven into a set of sleeves okay so you will see how the belt mirrors the action of the lapel okay and just as a rope around your training partners Nick could be used as a superb method of strangulation probably the most efficient method of strangulation so - this lapel is essentially that rope around your opponent's neck just as a murderer would use a

rope to strangle so to ajidasu player can use this superb lapel as a murderer's rope around this opponent's neck we want to make use of it whenever we can now we're behind someone just as we could use this kind of strangulation technique with a belt so - we can go in on a training partner and create that same kind of effect of strangulation effect we can do even better because here I'm only using the strength of my hands to enact the strangle but when we employ the dominant pins of Buddhism we can start to employ

by far and away the strongest part of the human body the legs if we bring the camera over here now as my legs toss over my training partner shoulders I have a pushing force with my legs and the pulling force of my entire body weight which creates incredibly strong strangulations okay the key idea in these strangles it's the idea of slack removal when I go in on my training partner I want my second hand taking all the slack out of my training partners lapels just as when we work with a murderer's rope the idea here

is we want to take the slack out of the noose here the noose is ineffective is a strangulation implement but once we create that ligature around our training partners and they can take the slack out that's when it we come to superb instrumental strangulation so - when we work in like so we use a two on one lapel feet we feed the lapel onto the thumb we bite out hand up into a strong strangulation position now the right hand takes all the slack out of the jacket okay I have never applied to strangle hand yet

and you can see Bernard is already starting to feel the effects of the strangle now when the legs go over the top we have this incredible ability to use the legs to push and the upper body to pull and as a result we create enormously strong strangulation so running through all of this very quickly now let's start off with Bernardo what a melted pin okay we're gonna work our way out of the mounted pin using the elbows game the King method of putting our legs back in a situation we can use our legs to find

our opponents upper body okay once we've done that we use the closed guard position we use the fact that our hips are on talk about opponents hips to shimmy around behind our opponent and go from an bottom position which is somewhat neutral to a strongly dominant position where you're behind your opponent and you can use the incredible power of strangulation - in dimension your favor so once again we start off on a mount situation we need to capture the foot first so our first target is gonna be the foot we turn and capture the foot

the second target is going to be than me then if we bring the camera on this side we move around the body now the second sorry the third target is gonna be this knee so we elbow escape and walk and then the fourth target it's gonna be powerful its hips we go around the corner and capture the hips with our legs now even though I'm underneath Bernardo my hips are on top of him so it's Bernardo ghost won't talk to me here we're gonna go through and take our training putters arm on fire I use

my legs to pull my training partner mindlessly I'm fooling with my arms it's actually my knees pulling behind even with no hands you can see the pull with the knees is a very strong one okay however his bracing arms make strong braces but I will stop my legs pulling them in so we need to be able to take the arms on by we are pulling effectively with the legs now I've exposed our training partners back so that even though we're underneath our hips are on top and get my head high higher than his head as

a result I can create an unweighted leg look out my left leg pulls my hips off the floor and my right leg becomes weightless and as a result we can quickly go in and start scoring a flying attacking position from here we fix up that first lapel grip from this position we can't we go down towards the floor and we tilt my train partner over then from here we find either the wrist the second lapel and in some cases the pants okay they're all excellent alternatives but for now let's focus on slight removal to come

in here and feed our leg over the top of our training partner and end up in a perfect position to go into strangulation the key element here is the use of the legs going in one direction and the upper body going in the other so they're even with a single finger we can create enormous V strong strangulation pressure so this creates a sense in which when I don't we work with the key themes of the sport Judaism the idea that ultimately we always want to ever recover from a bad start okay if you look at

an untrained fighter probably the single most common thing you see is they if they get also bad start in every other when they lose okay one of the great things about dudes who player you can get off to a terrible start and come back strong the number one myth of codex from the one that you were using throughout your time in the sport of Jitsu is the elbow escape but I'm sure you agree with me that was probably your your heaviest first moments and you don't super the time you first started any no escape yes

Roger I think was very good because it's you did pretty much like an overview of like how to escape from bad position from side control from all from back then how to sweep and how to get it back because if you stop on top of rope I'm coming from wire that's considered sweet and you also work in this triangle so we covered the essential clear ideas of defense top and bottom position these are key themes in the school gypsy everything begins with defense okay you you have to battle couple them a bad position then your

idea of working effectively from bottom position one of the absolute key themes of jutsu okay most grappling stars if you're on bottom you're losing simple as that in jujitsu you can absolutely win on almost all of your matches from bottom position if you so favored that method and then finally the idea of turning a situation where we would chest the chest with our opponent when we were Chester back it's always our favourite thing if you get behind people life's good okay that's it that's an easy place it's not winning fights from so as much as

possible we're trying to push the dynamic of every match towards chance to back situations if we get Chester back that's when we can start taking advantage of this murderers rope which is around our necks every time we put on a jacket if you can get a hold of that when you're behind people you have a lot of success in this was a great overview for all the white dogs out there and also not only white routes but I think it's always good to review all this stuff it's funny I'm sure you agree this is the

happiest times is teaches you have you come and teach beginners fast yeah my favorite things of the trial are the fundamentals even though I'm mostly known as someone who teaches more advanced classes it's the fundamentals that always put the biggest smile so I guys guys I hope you guys enjoyed and then we are like a lunch all the fundamental series from John and then the first one in Russia was escapes between escapes and now we're about to watch the guy retention that's gonna happen enjoy 2019 in case of you are watching after that so make

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