The Open Guard JBW feels the closed guard is not the best guard for students to learn first, and that the current popular teaching model of closed guard first is flawed. Closed guard does not allow you to control the distance in a striking situation. Also, the guy in your guard is learning about posture…
Author: Andrew Nerlich
JBW 5 April 2008 – Shell, Omoplata
>At Rick Spain’s Academy. Using the Shell Hands on hairline, not too high. Elbows must be in so he can’t get an underhook. Run at him until forearms contact chest. He should grab instinctively. Wing one elbow up and duckunder to get his back. Drill – get his back, push him away, run at him…
John Will Seminar 20 Oct 2007 – X Guard
X Guard An advanced hooking guard. Per the hourglass teaching model, several entries and several sweeps. What you do when he stands up in your hooks in / butterfly guard. Entries Leg Drag You have hooks in. He stands. Reach across with your left hand and grab behind his left knee. Pull yourself toward his…
Rigan Machado Seminar 15 Sep 2007
Held at Ultimate Fighting Arts, Penrith (nice gym, lots of steel and glass). Mostly black, brown and purple belts. Anthony Lange, Peter King, Elvis Sinosic, Anthony Perosh, Luke Pezzuti, Darko Zaric were all there. The techniques covered were almost exclusively sweeps. Sweeps You are sitting, he is standing with his R foot between your legs. Your…
John Will Seminar Jul 28, 2007 – MMA defence from bottom, darce
MMA strategy – Under Mount Opponent is on top, punching. SHELL. open hands or closed gloves in the forehead, elbows down and close together, stopping him moving up to your armpits, keeping him low on your hips. Crunch up to reduce the area to be covered and keep the head off the floor. Hands must…
How to succeed at 21st Century Wing Chun
In response to some unoriginal and repetitive posts from Wing Chun-converted-to-MMA zealots on another forum: How to succeed at 21st Century Wing Chun YOUR AIM Too many delusional losers – who we on the 21st Century Wing Chun Internet Jury (21CWCIJ) call Clueless Theoreticians (CTs) – believe the end game of training is to learn…
JOHN WILL SEMINAR 31 MAR 2007 Shell in depth and takedowns
The Shell – protective structure, very similar to Rodney King’s Crazy Monkey. With gloves – fists clenched, palm toward head, finger end of the gloves on your head at the hairline. No gloves, hands open, palms on the forehead. Forearms held close together, elbows down so that strikes cannot slip between them. Chin tucked, shoulders…
John Will Seminar 29 October 2006 – Triangles,knees in guard. passing half guard, visor
Any time you see his arms “one in one out”, close your legs around his neck/shoulders for the high guard. Squeeze your knees. Grab his head. You have his R arm on the inside. Open your feet, but keep squeezing with your knees. Put your L foot on his R hip, still squeezing your knees….
Martial Arts: A Post-modern Approach
This came about after I read a long essay on post-modernism in programming by Larry Wall, one of the developers of the Perl programming language. Larry Wall clams Perl is a post-modern programming language. After much reading and listening to Jordan Peterson’s lectures, podcasts, and talks as well as getting older and hopefully a little…
Surviving Violent Crime
Living in the 90s (and later) Random, senseless, violent crime occurs with frightening regularity. Port Arthur – nowhere is safe Backpacker Murders – Does anyone still hitchhike? Kicked to Death in Bondi Home Invasions in the Asian community Small Business – a tough (and dangerous) way to make a buck Martial Arts and Violent Crime…