Building a gas tank and pushing through your walls is a mindset, and this video demonstrates it perfectly! I promise! Me and @Charlie Christodoulou did not do this exercise to show off. It was a coincidence(proof in the other post "Beat the clock" ) We have our new post comp class ritual to do. MMA class was already running late, so we had to do it knowing our Head Coach @Carlos Gomes wants to share a message with the group. What we didn't know, what he will be talking about😅 You have to make that choice as you step on the mat, that today, you are in charge of your mindset and self-talk. You gotta commit to yourself and your training partners.

There are a few wrestling techniques I believe BJJ world needs to embrace more, and cradle is one of them. Here is a video from my latest wrestling class where you can see how versatile they are. More content on cradles will be posted, but for now, I want you to start thinking and looking for them. Every time you have access to head and behind your opponents knee, there is a cradle. This move gives you a lot of control, allows you to slow down the pace if you need to, and you can progress to subs or better positions like mount or even back takes.

One of your easiest set ups that provokes reaction from which you can chain wrestle, or get an access to a leg/back is elbow pass. Highly recommend working on it! Easy to do, very little if any drawbacks if you get it wrong.

First of all i just want to say i won my second match on my first comp against a blue belt from decision/advantages and it was because of my wrestling based off what you said about head position and pressuring forward and attempts. So thanks for your help I’m finding it really valuable. My question is, in my first match my opponent kept getting a strong grip on my left wrist from the top. My reaction was to lift my arm up and try to cut the corner to get around to the back, but I couldn’t get high enough around the corner to secure the position. Looking back, I wondered whether that wrist grip could actually be an entry to a single leg: so If someone has a strong grip on the top of my wrist and I’m already lifting my arm up which was creating an opening to her leg, is it a legitimate setup to level change and shoot a single leg, using the shot itself to break the grip? Or is that unreliable/not sensible 😬 ? Just my game plan is to practice shooting for the first time for my next comp and I was wondering if that was a legit set up to practice?

I really struggle to take in and remember information - this might be a bit of daft question with no answer but are there any strategies I can use to take in information better that I am being taught on the mat?