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Arm Drag & Russian System 07 | Butterfly Guard 3 – Russian & Drag to Arm Trap RNC (Mar. 30, 2025)

Gary Berger — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 09:00:55 +0000

In this class, we were covering using the Arm Drag and the Russian 2 on 1 from various positions and exploring its uses.

In the last video, I show how to use both to get to the back from Butterfly Guard and then some details on setting up the Rear Naked Choke.

Here, I go a little further into bypassing their defences in order to get the Rear Naked Choke

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Gary Berger — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 00:42:45 +0000

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“The Dilemma” | Lee King’s Double Attack from the Back

Gary Berger — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 11:15:39 +0000

Lee King is one of my first students and is the Head Instructor of Hold Fast Jiu-Jitsu in Southern Pines, NC.

He will be visiting Germany to teach at the 2nd Black Forest BJJ Camp in September.

If you like my style of teaching and my content, then you can get much more at my Patreon with over 600 videos.

You can find it at https://www.patreon.com/roymarshjiujitsu

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* Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Schwerte (Schwerte, Germany)
* Kinetics BJJ Soignie (Soignie, Belgium)
* Gracie Zug (Zug, Switzerland)
* Roy Marsh Jiu Jitsu Nordeifel (Nordeifel, Germany)
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Do you have a System and are you Working to Improve it?

Gary Berger — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 13:00:52 +0000

A friend of mine once said, “the only techniques you know are the ones that you can execute live.”

I’ve known so many people that try to learn every technique under the sun but most of those are irrelevant if you can’t make them work.

The better plan is to build a system and constantly work to refine it only adding techniques that fit into that system.

Then, the battle plan is to funnel them into your system. The way I explain it to my students is “You don’t have to be great at Jiu-Jitsu, you have to be great at YOUR Jiu-Jitsu. And, then make your opponent fight in the arena of your Jiu-Jitsu.’

But, again, rather than learning a lot of random techniques to convince myself that I am very knowledgeable I’m more focused on expanding or refining my system.

The first clip is a technique I use a lot because it’s vital if you play guillotines to stop an educated opponent who understands he needs to pass to the safe side.

And, I still use it all the time. But, because I use it all the time I was able to work out one of the weaknesses of it.

And, that is if I’m really working to drive his head down from the Butterfly guard for a more effective choke then my hooking leg becomes weak and it’s harder to keep connected to his leg.

Therefore, it’s harder to keep the hook and sweep him if he then jumps to the safe side.

So, I’ve developed some techniques to deal with this.

In the second clip, you can see one that I use.

I use my back leg to block and catch his leg so that I can reinsert my hook and complete the sweep.

This is why it’s important to develop your own system and then work to constantly explore it and increase its effectiveness.

Then your combative goal is to learn how to funnel your opponent into your system.

This is a far better use of your time than learning all the “best” techniques from a bunch of random systems which don’t actually fit together.

One final note to understand my system here. Often after, I sweep, I will post my foot on their hip and elevate my hips. This allows me space to readjust my grip and to use gravity into the choke.

But, Frank here is incredibly strong and was doing a good job hand fighting. So, I concede the reversal because I knew that he’d have a harder time fighting my hands on bottom and because he’d have his hips elevated which would mean I could easily sweep him and get back on top if I wanted.

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The Most Successful Gracie Fighter Of All Time, with Robert Drysdale and Stephan Kesting

Gary Berger — Fri, 26 May 2023 17:37:24 +0000

Not only is Robert Drysdale a BJJ and ADCC World Champion, he has also conducted extensive research into the history of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. In this interview, he reveals some of what he’s discovered, including…

01:54 – The first wave of jiu-jitsu in Brazil – Helio Gracie and Carlos Gracie
04:35 – Exhibition and carnival fighting in Brazil
06:55 – Traditional jiu-jitsu style vs modified judo
12:14 – Training methods of the Gracie Academy in the ’30s, 40s and ’50s
18:43 – The second wave practitioners
19:47 – Waldemar Santana
22:49 – Carlson Gracie and the Rua Figueiredo Magalhães school
33:19 – How BJJ rule changes changed the sport
42:31 – Rolls Gracie
48:51 – Self-defense and Vale Tudo training
55:28 – Rolls Gracie death
1:00:55 – The Carlson Gracie tragedy
1:13:54 – Carlos Gracie Jr.
1:21:03 – Future rule changes, luta livre, and the sportification of jiu-jitsu
1:35:10 – The Rise and Evolution of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, the book

You can grab Robert’s book, the Rise and Evolution of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, which goes into MUCH more detail on these topics at https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Evolution-Brazilian-Jiu-Jitsu-Democratization/dp/B0C1JCNQ1P

Note that today’s episode was also published in my audio podcast, The Strenuous Life Podcast, as episode 387. Please find it at the links below:

The Strenuous Life on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/strenuous-life-podcast-stephan-kesting-grapplearts/id320705565?mt=2

The Strenuous Life on Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cDovL2tlc3RpbmcubGlic3luLmNvbS9yc3M=

The Strenuous Life on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5NTGdrtMZv8JcxpUBcdREx

The Strenuous Life on Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/stephan-kesting/grapplearts-radio-podcast

Cheers,
Stephan Kesting

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7 Reasons Why Carlson Gracie was the First Modern MMA Fighter

Gary Berger — Tue, 23 May 2023 23:45:04 +0000

Carlson Gracie fought in 18 Vale Tudo matches, brought jiu-jitsu to the masses, and innovated many of the MMA training practices we now take for granted.

These points come from Robert Drysdale’s excellent book, The Rise and Evolution of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, available on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Evolution-Brazilian-Jiu-Jitsu-Democratization/dp/B0C1JCNQ1P

I’ll be talking to Robert Drysdale about this topic on episode 387 of The Strenuous Life Podcast.

If you’d like to subscribe to audio-only form this podcast please find it at the links below:

The Strenuous Life on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/strenuous-life-podcast-stephan-kesting-grapplearts/id320705565?mt=2

The Strenuous Life on Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cDovL2tlc3RpbmcubGlic3luLmNvbS9yc3M=

The Strenuous Life on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5NTGdrtMZv8JcxpUBcdREx

The Strenuous Life on Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/stephan-kesting/grapplearts-radio-podcast

Cheers,
Stephan Kesting

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Learn How to Survive this Deadly Situation | Being Kicked on the Ground

Gary Berger — Wed, 10 May 2023 10:52:05 +0000

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Patreon Unlocked | Using Knee Strikes on the Ground

Gary Berger — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 11:00:31 +0000

This is from a class I taught on using strikes on the ground. Here, we covered the use of knees but also some important self-defense advice.

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My Upcoming Seminar at Gracie Zug | Apr. 14, 2023 in Zug, Switzerland

Gary Berger — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 10:33:21 +0000

I will be returning to Gracie Zug to teach a seminar on two of my most powerful weapons: the Side Control and the Guillotine Choke.

Check out some scenes from a recent side control seminar to see how mine is different.

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Patreon Unlocked | Counter These Common Ways to Open the Guard

Gary Berger — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 09:56:58 +0000

This is a continuation of our exploration on how to break down an opponent’s posture when they’re in our Closed Guard.

If you like my style of teaching and my content, then you can get much more at my Patreon with over 600 videos.

You can find it at https://www.patreon.com/roymarshjiujitsu

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I am also available for seminars, so please contact me if interested.

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