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…
Category: Jiu Jitsu
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…
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….
John Will Seminar 29 July 2006 – handstand sweep, side back escapes
At Rick Spain’s academy Handstand Sweep Closed Guard, he stands. Underhook his L foot with your R hand,place your L hand next to your L ear. Drive to your R, pushing out over his R knee. Release your guard as he falls. As he hits the floor, pinch your knees together to present a barrier,…
John Will Seminar 8 Apr 2006 – turtle escapes, pillow escape
Warmups Partner up: One stands behind the other and grabs his belt with both hands. Person at front has feet narrow, person behind has feet wide. The front person runs forward with the person behind providing resistance. Do twice the width of the gym, swap partners, then do the same except the person in front…
John Will Seminar 9 Jul 2005 – half guard bottom
At Rick Spain’s gym. The seminar was all on half guard bottom. All descriptions assume you have his right leg between your legs. Key Points Get the underhook with your left arm Get on your right side Getting the underhook If you get the underhook, you get to do your stuff (sweeps, escapes, etc.) If he…
John Will Seminar 9 Apr 2005 – better choke and armbar from mount
At this seminar John presented Rick Spain with his purple belt. Yay! ☺ A better way to get the collar choke or armbar from mount You have mount; open his R collar with your L hand and slide your R hand in deep as if going for the basic collar choke. Lift you R knee slightly…
John Will Seminar 23 Oct 2004 – hooks-in and side back techs
Hooks-in / Butterfly Guard From hooks-in guard, deep grip on collar and grip sleeve. “Old-style” but effective. If he tries to stand, pull him down with the collar so he can’t stand properly. Move back and keep pulling him in and down to pull him off balance and into a hooking sweep. Will work with…
Rigan Machado Seminar 21 Aug 2004
Seimnar was held at Sinosic/Perosh Martial Arts (SPMA) in Concord. You are in switchbase side control on his right. With your right hand, pass the left skirt of your gi over his neck, reach under his head with your left hand and take the gi skirt from you right. Turn to your right, put…