Ground Self-Defense Essentials | Defending Strikes and Setting up a Sweep

Gary Berger — Tue, 27 Apr 2021 08:30:01 +0000

Knowing how to defend strikes while on the ground is the most important skillset you must develop in your groundwork.

This means it should be trained as often as possible.

We covered some Fundamentals in how to defend strikes while on the ground in a previous video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhBXIJZ-jwI&t=1s).

These are just introductions and not deep dives into these techniques.

However, these are essential skills.
If you cannot effectively defend strikes while on the ground then your groundwork is basically useless for protecting yourself.

The paradox is that in order to protect myself from damage, it often makes it more difficult to set up sweeps and submissions while doing so. That’s because I need space to submit him or sweep him.
But, space is also what he wants in order to powerfully hit me.

So, people don’t understand how to do both.

In essence, one way I can do it is in transition as he begins to try to make space. Crucially, I fill the space as he does until I have the opportunity to attack.

In this situation, my opponent tries to get to his feet to pull free and attack. But, he then gives me the opportunity to attack the Tripod Sweep.

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If You Can't Defend Strikes, then You Don't Know Jiu-Jitsu

Gary Berger — Mon, 26 Apr 2021 14:07:29 +0000

Every martial arts develops to be more focused on defending itself than defending what “untrained” people will do.

BJJ is no different.

The vast majority of schools focus predominantly or exclusively with defending submissions.

Students rarely, if ever, learn or train how to deal with people trying to hit them – standing or on the ground.

Even if the person started BJJ classes in order to learn how to protect themselves, they never really learn how to protect themselves against the SINGLE MOST COMMON ATTACK they will have to deal with if they are attacked.

Or, if they do it’s a rare class once in a blue moon.

This is why many people (and even some BJJ instructors) believe is that if you want to learn to defend yourself, BJJ isn’t the Art you should choose.

So, here, Erkan and I give an introduction in how to approach defending strikes on the ground. This isn’t just a matter of a few techniques you need to learn but a foundational realignment on how you approach your grappling.

This is why it takes practice – because you fight like you train. And, you can’t adopt a whole new style of grappling when punches start flying.

This is also why I focus so much of my instruction on teaching control (even from the bottom).