Some submission defense nuggets…
How to solve complex problems through application of first principles.
In this clip below, I demonstrate how I problem solved a particular North/South Kimura defense once my opponent had already isolated my bottom arm. (The preferred way to defend this shoulder lock involves keeping your bottom arm free).
Notice the biomechanical connection between what’s going on in this situation and the Rickson-style elbow escape from mount bottom, where instead of shrimping you use your own leg to flare your opponent’s foreleg into external rotation, which compromises their knee’s ability to maintain connection to you. Even though those positions involve completely different orientations to one’s opponent, the same fundamental first principles are at work:
I share all of this and MUCH more in my new instructional series with BJJ Fanatics:
First Principles Submission Defense, Volume 1: Arm Lock Defense
First Principles Submission Defense, Volume 2: Choke Defense
