Stop Top Pressure with This One Tool - The "Forward Shift"

The forward shift is an essential tool for practitioners of every level. In jiu-jitsu we can become overwhelmed with choices: sweep or submit, upper or lower body attacks, standing or ground. Here we talk about how focuing on just a few core elements, like frames the forward shift, trims everything down to a more manageable size. You can use defensive frames to reclaim space, and learning to use the forward shift gets you back into an attack position after being squashed. Studying just a couple of pieces lets you take things one small step at a time, which then leads to a few small steps each day. Before you know it, you've incrementally added the skills you needed without feeling buried beneath an overwhelming mass of material.
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[@amechi]

Don't mind me while I add this to the list of things I wish I'd been taught 20 years ago.

[@bzglick]

😄😄😄

[@PaulJohn283]

Yea I learned it in the early 2000’s and never see people doing it now, even at like brown and black belt. Everybody seems to just want to work from a flat butterfly and I’m like why when it’s much more effective and efficient from sitting up.

[@JacobOfJedi]

Brian, your youtube channel serves as a gold mine with a wealth of information and invaluable tips. Your contributions to the jiu jitsu community are truly commendable. I also look forward to more series on bjjfanatics. Thank you for your dedication! Stay blessed!

[@bzglick]

Glad to help - thanks for watching!!

[@luiscruz5556]

here after watching your more recent forward shift video. excellent details in both. thank you, brian.

[@sway71]

One thing that helped me a lot with this technique is pulling the legs in just slightly before extending and sitting up. It gets you a little more under their center of mass and usually causes them to pull back, adding some strength to your extension.

[@JSMinstantcoaching]

This is how John Danaher shows it also, so I am glad you share that detail ;-)

[@kyleisthename]

Love your vids Brian. Awesome stuff.

[@bzglick]

Thanks 👍

[@okinawajapan1]

Yes! THIS is my struggle. The first two minutes explains my difficulty exactly being older, weaker and slower, relying on technique and not using frames well. I'm always on the run and never get a chance to become offensive.

[@PnPModular]

Love this style of conceptual learning/discussion, can learn so much from this thank you

[@bzglick]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@hudsonvalleystrongdads3090]

This is great, that’s an exact spot I get caught in if I don’t get a traditional over/under butterfly sweep to begin with. Reinforcing that frame is personally my missing link.

[@JSMinstantcoaching]

Very informative details, elbows flaring, and frames to "manage" the pressure with the 2 versions forward shift, excellent !

[@sirilorivera8516]

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@professor_earn]

Is framing on the neck preferable to a bad underhook (and to an overhook)? Some people time their passes when the bottom player attempts a forward shift

[@JSMinstantcoaching]

Yes and this is a point in Gordon's passing series for side body locks, he suggests to time it right when it occurs ;-)

[@PaulJohn283]

💰 💰💰

[@bzglick]

😊😊😊

[@navinthiyambarawatte5121]

That’s exactly what happens I shrimp and get smashed, I’ll try the thing it looks like grabbing the elbows and putting your pants on.

[@JSMinstantcoaching]

Nice metaphor there ;-) I ll take it

[@djignatin4043]

Thank you Brian. I train Japanese Jujutsu and BJJ. I enjoy your videos very much.

[@admiralsuperior3]

What is Japanese jujutsu?

[@djignatin4043]

Japanese Jujutsu is the original. Japanese Jujutsu led to Judo. Judo led to BJJ. I am a second degree black belt in JJ or Shodan rank.

[@dmytropetrenko930]

Thanks for the amazing vid., Brian. Would you please cover approach against the stalling opponent