SharonPape
Joined: 16 Jun 2014
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 Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 12:18 pm Post subject: Enhance Your Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Experience |
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Whether you've just started taking BJJ Singapore or submission grappling or are considering giving it a try there are several things you can do to enhance your experience in the sport. Over the span of several years as a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practitioner and competitor, I've learned some painful lessons that, in retrospect, could have been avoided. Today I'd like to share with you several Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu techniques and how to avoid them.
Be aware of dangerous submissions. These are Brazilian Jiu-Jistu techniques or submissions that can cause serious injury BEFORE you have the opportunity to tap out to due to pain. Typically one can feel the increasing pain of an arm bar and tap out without much consequence but watch out for these:
1. Heel Hooks: This is a leg lock that is applied by your opponent hooking your heal in the crook of his elbow and twisting the leg. This applies immense twisting pressure to the knee joint. Most people do not feel pain in their knees until damage has been done. When to tap out? When you notice your opponent hook the crook of his elbow around your heal.
2. Knee Bars: This is similar to an arm bar but is applied by hyper extending the knee joint. When to tap out? When you notice that your opponent has isolated one leg with his head facing your foot and begins to extend your leg. Don't do what I did and wait until I felt pain in my knee.
3. Neck cranks: Any neck submission that causes a tap out due to pain as opposed chokes which involve cutting off air to the lungs or blood to the brain. The "can opener" or "Boston crab" are names for neck cranks where your opponent is in your closed guard. He grabs the back of your head with both hands and pulls your head down toward his chest to cause pain. This technique is dependable at the intermediate or advanced levels but a beginner should tap out to avoid injury.
4. Bicep slicers: A "bicep slicer" can be described the following way: You are defending an arm bar by holding your own hand thus preventing your opponent from extending your arm. He then triangles his legs over your arm using his arm, that originally was trying to pull your arm out, as a lever to cause crushing pain to the bicep muscle and immense expanding pressure to the elbow. When to tap? When your opponent changes tactics from trying to break your grip to extend your arm and begins to triangle his legs around your bent arm. This submission may not cause the same career ending injury that a heel hook can but can put you out for weeks.
5. Knee Compression/ calf crank: Similar to the bicep slicer but applied to the calf muscle and knee joint. Again the attackers arm is placed behind the bend in the knee and used as a lever as the victims' leg is bent with the heel being push towards the rear end. This painfully expands the knee joint and puts crushing pressure on the calf muscle. |
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