Private Lesson Concept: Central Problems, Triage and Dealing with Dilemmas
Solve First Problems First.
Over the last two weeks in my NoGi classes, I’ve been teaching submission defense.
More specifically, I taught clamp escapes and early to mid stage armbar escapes from the Gordon Ryan Submission Defense Upper Body Joint-lock Defense instructional.
One of the central themes when teaching any kind of defense or escape is this: You’re already in trouble.
Working from behind is not fun. And the further behind you are, the more challenging any kind of escape becomes. Thus, it’s much harder to work from late stage armbars (when your arm is already extended) than it is to work out of the clamp position.
So, the important thing to keep in mind is always this: The further you are down the funnel of getting submitted, the much more challenging it is going to be to get out.
In today’s email, you’re going to understand the idea of central problems and how you need to be “triaging” to find the most urgent problems to deal with.
This is important in jiu-jitsu because at any moment, you’re going to find yourself in a world of problems and it becomes difficult to figure out which problems are most important. Further, if your opponent is skilled, you’re going to find yourself on the wrong end of multiple attacks, also known as “dilemmas.”
So how do we problem solve?
You’ll find out after the jump.
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