Roll Like This To Increase Your Side Control Defense in BJJ (Chewjitsu Rolling)

[@reyscottm9]

Was really cool meeting you yesterday and letting me snap a few pictures of you with my boy. Thank you for your contributions to the BJJ community!

[@treymiles]

I still can't believe I got to meet you yesterday! Thanks for letting me get a picture with you, and all the great content you've made, and continue to produce!

[@SeagramPearce]

That was actually really awesome to watch the live drilling because its suddenly so clear how you're doing the technique. Looking forward to more like these.

[@royburks7765]

I started doing this before I watched any of your videos. This is where I set up 75% of my submissions. Great stuff.

[@BuschLeaGamer]

A lot of gems here if you watch carefully. Thanks for posting these rolls. Good stuff!

[@Jmnp08]

Also I can always see chewy thinking and really examining the roll and position. Damn. Awesome

[@jamesleigh900]

Hey Chewy, I spent my entire roll tonight working on iron squirrel and it was amazing. I had so much fun and felt really calm. Excellent technique

[@miguelpagan8436]

Thank you Professor Chewy🙏 I use this all the time since 2 stripe white belt. When I learn how to frame with structure, it truly just came naturally ( of course my Professor taught me how to frame) then I just took it from there. I didn’t think it had a name or if some like you just called it that. I just called it in my head advance framing. This is a big part of my game that I am developing still, and with great success. Thank you for the video about the iron squirrel 🐿. It shows me that I am on the right defensive track. OSSS🙏🙏

[@FTWGamerTrue]

i just did this for the first time yesterday without really knowing it and today i find this video. really helped me survive, the power of just a grip and a frame is immense

[@travisrivas5298]

"The Rolling of the Iron Squirrel" sounds like a Wu Tang technique

[@FactsOverFeelings69]

Just wanted to say I'm a huge fan of your videos and my mind was blown when I seen you standing on the podium next to my coach!!! So cool. Wish I could've been there!

[@believebuildconquer1676]

I have been using this since I seen a video you made a while back. Thank you so much! It is a nice defensive level up! 🔥🤙

[@danielashman1753]

I haven’t seen a bjj video made before w this technique. Looks like it takes a bunch of work to put together. But very cool! Helpful! Thank you

[@TheMmapirate]

Thanks for this!! Exactly where i am on the mats and this tool will help me out tons against the big guys!

[@danielmatias8854]

I was just thinking about what I could do to practice defense since I always roll with bigger/stronger opponents, I open youtube and this video shows up on my recommended. The algorithm provides

[@mattborden4641]

Awesome video... Learned a lot watching just once. Will continue to rewatch

[@AllBikesGreatAndSmall]

I love this technique, I used it this week and survived much better.

[@stevenconnolly28]

Great advice Chewy. I find myself here quite a lot as a white belt but I'm comfortable with that. Next step for me should be finding a couple of attacks and if it fails then go straight back and defend. Thanks

[@rodrigobeltran4795]

Thanks for sharing! I found it really interesting!

[@Jmnp08]

Excellent as always

[@oldtimeoutlaw]

I really really like the Iron Squirl technique Chewy, I’m going to try using it, thank you, also please let me know when you plan on visiting Belmar NJ again, I’d love to be able to train with you if your ever back there. Thank you for this vid. Take care, be safe, Peace

[@Mus4shi15]

This beat is so chill. Vibes are always 💯

[@mp9810]

This is great thanks. Am struggling with surviving once people are progressing towards side control.

[@DJIngoB]

Oh wow, this is something I've been doing for a few months now. Never realized this was a formal move with a name. I just thought I got lucky and found something that worked (rare...very very rare for me).

[@medicineandbrazilianjiujit8511]

Incredible! Thank you, Professor!

[@RickyFicarelli]

I have a potentially unique question/request: So I’m a fairly new white belt (just shy of 6 months) & I find my biggest frustration is rolling with other new white belts who are much bigger than me. I’m about 5’7”, 145lbs. When rolling with the upper belts, even if they got significant size on me, I usually walk away from the roll feeling like I’ve learned something. Whereas when I’m rolling with the larger white belts, it just feels like I’m getting absolutely smashed the whole time & nobody is really exercising techniques. To boil it down to a question, what should I focus on when rolling with inexperienced bigger guys?

[@AlexWehpunkt]

honestly: Try to roll as much as possible with more experienced guys. I find it the bigger someone is, the more their first main focus should be to take out the strenght, and that takes most of the people a long time to learn. Especially, if they're bigger then their partner, because the second focus, put ego aside, catches up with them and they come back to overpower you. And no, it's absolutely not unique. It's one of the biggest problems with beginners.

[@TravisStevens96]

140 lb fresh blue belt. Honestly I started focusing more on keeping them in some kind of guard. When you know what the consequences of getting passed by the bigger guys are you’re more desperate to keep them at bay. It took me like 6 months before I was able to reliably hit anything on them but it made my guard way harder to pass. Now I’m working on baiting them into the lower posture pressure game and using techniques to get behind them ie collar drags, arm drags and stuff like that. Hope that helps

[@miguelpagan8436]

Hi 👋 Im 5’5” at about 170, and trust me not fat😄. 2 stripe blue belt, oh and I’m 55 years young. I kind of felt the as way like you, and I finally realized at one point, that the difference was, the bigger JJ player that was advance, had a game plan. And it was such a more pleasant roll in most cases. Know the white belt, (with few exceptions) don’t. So all I did was say to myself , was sharpen my defense against all white belts no matter how many stripes and it also gave me longevity, for very minimal injuries against them. Then as I rolled with the same white belts for a while, then I use what ever attacks I had, and I truly started to enjoy my rolls with other white belts, and minimal injuries. Just about no matter what size. It’s so funny , because my defense was exactly what chewy is addressing, I just didn’t think it had a name, I just called it for myself advance framing. I know corney 😂. I got so good at it, that know I use it on all levels of JJ. Sometimes it will last a minute, and a lot of times I servive the hold 5. It’s not much but I hope it helps.

[@luiscardozo9721]

6’1 155 blue belt here. One thing that one of my professors told me that helps is with bigger guys like that just try and take their back or sweep them and keep heavy top pressure

[@Mocool68]

Work on learning how to remain calm under pressure

[@JPuxHenri]

What if they try to get to position 2/kesa gatame? What should be the natural response from the iron squirrel to face it? Before they reach it or immediately after? Thank you so much coach. Great channel and great content. Awesome music too!!!

[@ryanpatterson3900]

I'd stop pushing for half a second, throw your legs up in the air, then sit up hard while pushing your legs back to the mat and your arms frame on your opponent. Usually returns me to butterfly guard. You see a simpler version of this at 7mins in the video.

[@JPuxHenri]

@@ryanpatterson3900 🤙🤙🤙

[@coachjsfitness312]

Hey been doing BJJ for a month now, your videos have been super helpful in supplementing my training thanks. Where can i get a chewjitsu shirt?

[@makekotor3722]

Awesome video. Also, you have mentioned before how students would become very proficient with techniques after drilling 700-1000 reps. When focusing on that amount, did your students focus on getting that many on both sides simultaneously or just focusing on one side to start off with?

[@CJfunctional]

Was just working on this today

[@ClaarTube]

Awesome.

[@lostsoul1555]

Thanks coach🙏 Now… on to watching

[@John-qz2sy]

I will be using the iron squirrel 🐿. My fundamental defense needs some polishing.

[@jansendawe9212]

Tricep and head control.

[@Tearfree709]

yo you gotta do a video on how you get that beard lookin so fresh!!!!

[@tededo]

Dean lister, jeff glover, priit mikhelsson, ryron gracie, and now nick albin. Défense artists

[@nicklam66]

pls make more of these kind of beginners roll vids

[@ashjacobs576]

Old video, I know, but I thought I'd post. Can you do a live roll video with focussed on defensive rolling, and submitting from below? I'm working on my defensive game, and shutting every pass attempt down, and hitting submissions from below. Would love to see if you have some good tips. :)

[@carissagash8602]

Great video, love the kid with the zebra print shorts 🤼‍♂️

[@darrinpeszko2423]

I just got back in training after 10 years off. I also have cerebral palsy I’m looking for some back and lower body stretching exercises. Thanks

[@alecbradford3388]

Chewy, how about a Kimura attack compilation?

[@peterjacksonanton4814]

Would love a knee bar video from you if you don't already have one. Mainly how to tighten it up with your legs so they don't escape

[@jpjp3873]

Iron squirrel is no joke!

[@Blinkz]

Here’s a question, I’m sure most people have a answer for, what do you do if you start at a gym, everyone’s super nice and great, and your very first training partner is another beginner beginner, but 25 years older. No problems, but as you go to the gym more and more, you naturally meet other people, and possibly more suitable everyday partners… now when you go, you feel obligated to partner up with the day 1 guy, but your other training partner who you train more with more regularly gets shafted. What do you do? Any advice from anyone would be super helpful.

[@oramac7237]

Great video! Thank you! One question: all the footage shown was no-gi. I'm guessing this works just as well for gi rolling, but can anyone confirm/deny this?? Thanks!

[@sneeheee0674]

I just did my first bjj lesson😄

[@phillythepenguin1297]

Sometimes when I'm rolling I get confused with what to do when someone else trying to work the butterfly guard on me. I also have no skill in using the butterfly but I was still wondering how do I escape or stop someone from using butterfly guard and how do I use it for myself. Links to videos or advice would be great

[@yessr7535]

I would love a guillotine (nogi) video, I heard John Danaher and many others say that one move you NEED to be good at is the guillotine so maybe one video hitting it from different angles during roll would be lovely! Ty Oss!

[@magcitrate]

I have a question. I was yelled at not to cross my feet from back mount, because of ankle lock concerns. I cross my legs from back because I’m usually in closed guard and have made my way to my opponent’s back. I don’t have traditional hooks down by the crotch. My legs are crossed near the belly button. What’s wrong with this? I personally don’t see anything wrong with it.

[@Phospion]

rickson did it. thats what i tell people when they say that shit to me. i have shorter legs and crossing my feet near the belly button area just feels better sometimes, if u are aware of what to watch out for its pretty hard to get surprised by it

[@AJH3518]

How do i get past the iron squirrel if they are doing it to me ?

[@cunn1n6ham]

Love those Rickson forearms/frames…iron squirrel is a dope name!

[@mattf9076]

I am interested in the mount escape @ 6:24

[@cristianlira9778]

Hi Chew, I love your channel, just a suggestion, the reflection on your KZbin button is very annoying on this video intro, move it a couple of inches to the right or left and we will see the button but not the reflection, everything else is great!

[@anonoumos]

hey Chewie, did you get vaccinated? just wondering if u got vaccinated and still got covid from rolling. nice rolls

[@nednoah1]

I request a north south escape video haha

[@martialartsvocationalschoo3319]

Are you aware that there are a ton of similarities to the Muay Thai clinch?

[@starlord5930]

Hi Chewy, my name is Shawn. I'm a blue belt at Hassetts in Williamstown of NJ. Btw it's perfectly ok to use my name or any other info in this email. Here's my request. Lockdown stuff! Really been trying to use it lately. Also maybe truck stuff. Seems to me that the electric chair from lockdown and the banana split from truck are pretty similar. The banana split is just an inverted electric chair with different grips!! With the lockdown I'm finding hard to get my partner in the electric chair. I think it might be because a black belt in the gym uses it a lot so they're wise on how to defend. Or it's just because I suck at it. However I am able to reliably get into the lockdown either from pulling guard or from catching a leg when they're moving positon. I'm also trying my best to use it on both legs so I don't get dependent on one side. I've been trying to think of other ways to get to the truck. I figured out that if you're in bottom half and get the lockdown if you pull your legs up and use your under hooks to push them above you then you can make it seem like you're taking the back. But really I'm getting my right foot over their calf and grabbing with both hands on their other leg. More accurately their shin. Then roll back for the truck and go for the banana split. Other ways to get here would be super helpful. I tried going for the truck from the back but I just ended up losing position. I'm sure there's a way but I'm just a shitty blue belt and couldn't figure it out while live rolling. Thank you for all the great videos!! You and Rogan are the main reasons I signed my kids up and them myself. P.S. I love the black GI of yours from Origin I got. Very comfy and durable. The belt on the pants is a game changer!

[@counterkidnapping1737]

Can't you shrimp and frame at the same time? All the opponents you showed in the vid didn't get their knees in your hip

[@dustinmueller2290]

Sound advice 🤙🏼 Has anyone ever told you that you look like Isaac Butterfield 🤔

[@chrish8496]

Can I reqest an Iron Squirrel t-shirt!?

[@justinw9449]

Hello, question not pertaining to this video. I am 46 years old and started GB jujitsu 2 months ago. I enjoy it and am very humbled I have been to about 15-18 classes, I shoot for at least 3 classes a week. My professor has spent about a total of 3 minutes actually focusing on me. Everything I have learned has come from the other students.I am thinking of switching schools, to find a more hands on instructor. Any advice?

[@corneliuswellington6670]

Stay away from big-box academies. Not necessarily big named ones, but ones with large classes. I made that mistake a few times not realizing soon enough what you're realizing now. Find a gym with smaller class sizes and see how that works out. Also stay away from places that have school gigs that are mandatory for you to purchase to roll there. These school look at you more as a paycheck and less as an individual. There are good schools that practice this financial strategy, but ultimately I've learned they care more about making profit than teaching people.

[@joeblinko737]

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[@anisayusuf1825]

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