In BJJ there is a move that inexperienced White Belts will do from dominant positions. I jokingly call it the “White Belt Hug.”

The White Belt Hug is where someone just grabs your upper body and squeezes. This typically makes it worse for the person on the bottom in Brazilian Jiu-jitsu because they are pulling the person’s weight even more down on top of them.

So now you have their top pressure combined with your arm strength pulling them down.

Now while the technique is absolutely terrible for escaping. It can be really irritating because it gets in the way and slows things down.

In this video I show a couple of simple options to counter this technique when someone is in Mount..

The 1st is a simple forearm in the throat to create a frame. Pay close attention to how I use my whole body to break the grip.

The second is a simple option where i go to S mount to setup an armbar.

Again, not a complicated technique, but this was the question I was asked so I hope this helps.

-Chewy
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Via Gordon Ryan:
Good morning guys. Heres a quick clip (i tried to make it 1 minute for ig) on one great option as to how we can control our opponents posture to set up a tight juji gatame from closed guard. When playing closed guard you must start thinking about your partners spine as a lever and the longest end of the lever being the top of their head. The closer you can work your legs to the long end of the lever the easier time youll have controlling your partners posture. Once you have posture controlled via toplock its time to start creating an advantageous angle actually get over our partners face with our leg. The key element to securing your partners elbow within your hip line is that the height of your knee remains higher than the height of your partners ear. I encourage of all of to play around with this while drilling/training. Whenever you are attempting juji gatame from bottom position (in MOST cases) just get your knee above the height of your partners ear. they can posture, stand up, whatever they want and the elbow will not slide out. The second the knee slips below the height of your partners ear you will lose them everytime. Just with this simple insight the finishing percentage you have from bottom position will massively increase. After playing with this share some results in the comments

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This is a concept I have to explain over and over to people. And, some never seem to understand.

All the time now I see examples of this fallacious way of thinking of fighting, namely, that there are perfect or best/worst techniques.

You see videos like the “Perfect Mount Escape” or hear a coach say “this is the best way to do an armlock.”

To me, this shows a gift misunderstanding of fighting and self defence.

Here, I discuss why this is a really damaging way of teaching.

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Getting smashed in Brazilian Jiu-jitsu is important! As a White Belt part of your beginning in BJJ is learning just how vulnerable you are. And when you get smashed and submitted by a higher level belt during rolling it makes you aware of the reality of the martial art.

In this video we have a newer BJJ White Belt who says he has submitted a Black Belt. He feels as though the Black Belt is actually using the full extent of their skill and that he is getting a legitimate tap on him.

His questions is whether or not he should lighten up on this Black Belt during training or keep going.

In this video, I share how I think the Black Belt is letting the White Belt work. I’m nice about it. And because I’m not there I don’t really know. But based on my almost 20 years of Brazilian Jiujitsu I have a good hunch what’s going on.

Many times experienced practitioners know the difficult road that lays ahead for the newcomer to Jiujitsu and so they try to ease the person into it slowly. Playing down significantly in their skill and ability.

In this video I describe a story from my gym to put the situation into context so that it can hopefully be helpful to our friend.

Thanks for watching the video.
-Chewy
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