Setting up and finishing the ezekiel choke

[@kickboxer205]

Jules is a great human being and a great teacher. An honor and privilege for me to train with him and call him my big brother. Oss

[@dmtjnani9951]

Lifting that right elbow; what a detail. Aum & Oss

[@AndreCruzXampa]

nice move, simple and effective. congrats !!!

[@CraigJones-d3u]

Great way to explain details

[@dustinbarrett3926]

Wow, so detailed! I learned a lot from this.

[@rcaw75]

Fabulous

[@gang22BHveteranojj]

OTIMOS DETALHES MESTRE..........OSSSSSSS

[@AndreCruzXampa]

Felicia is having fun ...

[@impolitikful]

Jules is a rough roll

[@TheeLoveland87]

Professor, how do you stop the bridge and roll when committing to the ezekiel?

[@EOW-nv1nc]

Widen your knees out. Sometimes works,. When it doesn’t and you get rolled, it really doesn’t matter, you still have the choke.

[@SParanagama]

An effective cross face *should* ideally prevent the roll because the opponent is forced to look the other way via your shoulder

[@edgarhack2042]

Head control and low hip positioning helps prevent them from bridging you over and when the Ezekiel is on it's so fast and hard to bridge you over

[@EOW-nv1nc]

Who’s that old guy sitting there?

[@Patch57055]

This is exactly how the great Hidehiko Yoshida choked Royce Gracie out in Pride. You guys keep learning from judokas. After stealing newaza, next step should be to steal the rest of the art!

[@sorayateffaha7003]

Lol. Credit is given where credit is due. Go to any Jiujitsu dojo and you will see Master Maeda’s picture on the wall. To steal is to take credit and no one here is making that claim. Not sure why you got your nickers in a twist. If not for Jiujitsu today, Newaza would still be a secret art. Brazilian jiujitsu is not the newaza of yesterday, and advanced the combative art to defend and fight from top and bottom. Cheers.

[@Patch57055]

@@sorayateffaha7003 Because you seem like an expert, explain to me what the difference is between "newaza of yesterday" and "newaza of today"

[@David-re1vl]

@@Patch57055 I think @Soraya Teffaha already explained it perfectly. The popularization of BJJ brought the ground techniques into the light of popular view. I could watch 100 hours of Judo tournaments and not see the amount of ground technique seen in a single professional BJJ match. Even in a competitive Judo school, how many hours are spent on the ground vs throwing? Those techniques are now not only being exposed to recognition, but to public scrutiny... to public innovation. Maybe Judo had something like a "berimbolo" or "De la Riva" guard 80 or 100 years ago; but until BJJ, what were my chances of ever seeing one much less learning it?

[@Patch57055]

@@David-re1vl so basically, there is no difference. They just stole those techniques and took credit for inventing them. For your information, theee are traditionnal judo schools everywhere. The full version of judo is still taught today, it didn't disappear 100 years ago. I have no problem with people just teaching one part of a martial art, but you have to give credit to who invented the art. The Gracies have been lying for decades, and have created a cult.

[@David-re1vl]

@@Patch57055 The Japanese didn't invent grappling either, so who did they "steal" it from? People have been grappling for as long as there has been combat. Humans have always had four limbs, the number of techniques and moves are finite and get discovered, forgotten and rediscovered. The art of Pankration still exists today, and goes back to at least 600 B.C. and looks a whole lot like modern MMA. MMA didn't "steal" it. It was reborn as a result of the desire to fight within a similar rule set. The Gracies never claimed to invent this stuff, they have always given credit to the Maeda and a couple others. They rediscovered techniques that they made work best for them. They did keep them close to the chest because no one in the western world was doing them at the time, so gave them an advantage for a while. Again, it makes absolutely zero difference if some obscure Judo schools were retaining all this knowledge. No one was seeing it and no one cared. It would still be shriveling on the vine today if the Gracies hadn't dragged it out into the light for the whole world to rediscover.