The Power of Fundamentals in BJJ | Rickson, Haueter, Akins, Thornton, Kavanagh

Fundamentals in BJJ if learned well can be a game changer. While many practitioners like to keep looking for new techniques, in this SBG monthly podcast episode listen to some of the greatest BJJ coaches on why it is important to remember and keep practicing your fundamentals.
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The episode features these BJJ masters: Rickson Gracie, Chris Haueter, Henry Akins, Matt Thornton and John Kavanagh.
Make sure to check the new BJJ Q&A with Matt Thornton series on what are BJJ Fundamentals: • BJJ Q&A With Matt Thor...
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[@sbgipdx]

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[@omegathemerciless4561]

Yes I did a seminar with Rickson and he showed me a new look on a basic I have been doing for decades.

[@angel-rq4fz]

Rickson is Very Precious to the world of Martial Art and specifically Jiujitsu ; Many Thanks for sharing Rickson Thoughts on the subject Matter .

[@KennethBrown]

After watching this, I realized that once won't be enough. Repeated viewings will be necessary.

[@JoshTheGrappler]

My professor has sent this to me and I come back to this from time to time. Fundamentals really are forever

[@anthonyflores8156]

I've been training for 10 yrs and the basics always prevail

[@robertstory4163]

I’m amazed how Henry Akins looks like a completely different human in every video. He could be the perfect undercover agent

[@doca8792]

Rickson and Henry are masters of the basics

[@lowreedman]

I'm a 4 stripe Blue Belt and I absolutely love the fundamentals classes and continue to go to them all the time. While I do need to get to the advanced classes more, but I find that I really like the fundamentals and they show up in my rolls and get more and more effective. Great video. Thanks so much.

[@returnfreedom]

Im a 6 stripe blue belt, so you know I know jiujitsu. No one cares about your stripes....im a blue belt would have been sufficient. People getting caught up in their belts...

[@lowreedman]

@@returnfreedom Just stating the fact. I tend to agree that people get caught up in stripes a bit much. I often tell people I am a 9 stripe white belt....

[@FormidableOne]

@@returnfreedom Hes simply stating that he is very close to Purple belt, which is quite a substantial level. Dont hate

[@therainman7777]

@@returnfreedom TRIGGERED

[@returnfreedom]

@@therainman7777 you obviously didn't read the sarcasm lol.

[@yea2100]

Basics are the BEST !!

[@FinleyFuns]

“The foundation crushes everyone.” Fantastically true.

[@cugnaoozen9956]

positionnal sparring is good to refine the techniques and tactics

[@dfpguitar]

Wrestling has always had no stalling / continuous action as a fundamental rule. Ive never watched a BJJ contest but can only imagine people would just grab on tight and stall forever.

[@theundead1600]

Judo too. If you break grip you need to act now or get penalized. If you dont attack for a bit or active defend you get penalized. Bjj should look to wrestling or both judo and wrestling for some basic rule changes. Nice post

[@PauloBerni699]

Some times it does and other times the action is a wild 10 minutes that will challenge ANYONES conditioning and mentality.

[@aplus1080]

I don't think people grab and stall. Maybe at the end of a match.

[@bigb00tyslayer20]

@@aplus1080 basically they stall all match long and they try to do something in the last 10 seconds. Of course not all matches are like that,but most point-based matches are.

[@thataintnomoonsucka]

Never? Dude, go watch some great bjj matches. Gi and No gi. Shit watch Marcelo Garcia vs. Andre Arvloski sparring to see some really good jits.

[@mariowajrak3868]

Masters like Rickson and others should clearly define the fundamental technique, that way The understanding would be universal

[@DavidLee-no9uc]

For ANYONE to complain or question ANYTHING about Rickson Gracie say's more about them than anything they could say about the Grandmaster!.... Rickson Gracie is BJJ Royalty / a God ..... end of story! :)

[@jiujitsu9182]

David Lee no such thing as a human god

[@aaronmestizo]

He is just a man...and lets be honest. The average person does not know or care about BJJ...I have heard people say things like.."Why are those guys rolling around on the floor with karate suits?" ..."Is that Mexican guy the sensei" me: "He's Brazilian, actually."😄

[@returnfreedom]

@@aaronmestizo JAJAJA....Their ignorance is bliss.

[@dmvbawse4265]

Advice for you in life because you are clearly young. Question everything

[@dmvbawse4265]

That was basically what ever great philosopher said.

[@JSMinstantcoaching]

Are the fundamentals techniques ? concepts ? both ? You say shrimping, weight distribution, connexion. I saw one video of Rickson speaking of 4 pillars if I could remember correctly. 1/ breathing 2/ leverage 3/ connexion 4/ weight distribution. Those could be fundamental concepts ? and positional training ?

[@thedoctor7151]

Jujitsu is a healing art

[@diablohashcraft8040]

Yes, after jujitsu I need healing for my back, shoulder, elbow and ankle.

[@thedoctor7151]

Maybe I should have said: it was.

[@oreocarlton3343]

DDS succes proves this, Danaher is a huge fundamentals guy, he just added leglocks, unlike 10th planet that focused on fancy techniques that work only rarely

[@davibourne3856]

Rubber guard can be very efficient though but you must be proficient in full guard in order to break the opponent posture. But I agree that 10th planet hss a lot of techniques that is hard to pull that off.

[@returnfreedom]

Tell you what, as much as those 10 planets stuff is very gimmicky, rolling with a person that is all leg lock and rubber guard centric can be a real challenge, the more you roll with those types, the more you start to figure their game out, just like anything. You will know those types, when they wear spats, have long hair, have a ben eddy mustache and do yoga.lol

[@bigb00tyslayer20]

@@returnfreedom and they wear flashy rashguards haha :D

[@ztj95]

lol go to the Martinez brother’s 10th planet and see how you fair against their “fancy techniques that rarely work”

[@oreocarlton3343]

@@ztj95 I wouldnt fair obviously...my point was that mechanism with less moving parts are more reliable. More complex bjj techniques dont work as well when someone has a strenght advantage unlike advanced basics approach. That being said, Bravo tapped out a Gracie with help of rubber guard, but rubber guard isnt a complex position

[@nothinbutms]

sorry for poor translation, and i might even stilll be wrong... but i understand this as if you do end up on bottom, the priority should be getting back on top rather than prioritizing keeping opponent pinned so they can't do anything on top?

[@TrishCanyon8]

Repeated positional training for deeper learning. 🎉

[@kace999]

"White belt moves at a black belt level" - Been my goal since I started. Must be doing it right, because I'm still a white belt lol

[@hunterholistichealth]

Class video. Thank you 🙏🏼

[@wm6549]

He makes a lot of sense as usual.

[@robindavis7023]

Great information, thanks for this.

[@commonsense99]

My big fan Rickson Gracie but if you ever interviewed Gordon Ryan? All sports evolve and I think he might help evolve everybody's game too.

[@milanzivkovic5790]

thank you for the video

[@Presence_o_Mind]

What irks me about all of this is that these guys talk about how these fundamentals are being lost, these were the same schools that kept everything close to the chest. All of this shit was secret back in the day. Unless you went to a school as a guest or came from one of the original schools, you were learning a refurbished version of sport jiu jitsu. Now that the lineage is getting watered down, they're preaching that it needs to come back. Thanks for not showing us in the first place. Guys are training for years and then being blown away at these seminars speaks volumes to me on the art form's tendency to trade secrets. Unless you're in the family, you're only getting spoonfed some of the details, but not all. Case and point is Ryron and Rener finally pushing the 32 principles DVDs. This, to me, was a direct reaction to John Danaher's videos exposing so many concepts that now the Gracie family felt hard pressed to cash in on the action before they become yesterday's news.

[@jon7523]

Appreciate the info, but the audio is lacking 😑

[@toejamr1]

Seriously. This sounds like maybe the main audio file failed and they had to use a backup microphone

[@horatioredgreenblue2130]

Thanks for posting proper Rickson martial art BJJ - so much garbage out there.

[@markhassan6203]

Competition destroyed Judo don’t let it destroy BJJ.

[@toejamr1]

I don’t think it will destroy BJJ. There is no set way of thinking in BJJ which will let it evolve around competition based BJJ. Most practitioners do not compete and that is ok.

[@oreocarlton3343]

Im seeing more and more bjj guys crosstraining in Judo, Olympic Judo rules are lame btw

[@toejamr1]

Oreo Carlton that’s because we need to learn takedowns lol.

[@thelister4910]

Combat BJJ Worlds will keep this from happening completely.

[@jeffreagan2001]

In a self defense situation, which I understand is what Rickson Gracie advocates for practicing jiu jitsu, it seems to me a good idea to get your opponent in a controlled position and wait for the police to arrive. Attain position but don't worry about a submission. Stalling, while keeping your opponent from hurting you, will keep you alive. Hold them in side control or in your guard with neck and tricep control (see Ryron Gracie KZbin: video kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z5WQeY16lLdjbtU)

[@sbag11]

You are right on, bugman. What Rickson is saying here seems to contradict what Rener and Ryron are teaching as true self-defense Jiu-Jitsu. And I totally agree with Ryron's philosophy. Rickson, as great as he allegedly is, has a history of saying some controversial things. 400-0 in fights? Low-talking the skills of pretty much every mma champion since the late 90s while actively avoiding fights with them? I'm not saying Rickson wasn't a great Jiu-Jitsu fighter, but the fact is his fame and mystique stem mostly from reports of others, not the least of which was Royce saying he was 10x better. He's fought a list of virtual nobodies, some of whom gave him a lot of trouble, and none of whom could make it past the preliminary card of a UFC. Hell, he wouldn't even try to avenge Royler's two ass whippings at the hands of Eddie Bravo in grappling-only matches. I think the guy has some wisdom, but I think he is wrong here...stalling is a fundamental of Jiu-Jitsu.

[@carreromartialarts]

The problem if you only do basic jiujitsu is that after a while it gets boring doing the same thing over and over

[@sbgipdx]

That's a problem of not understanding depth. The point is that the details go much further than most people know.

[@therainman7777]

I don’t think that’s actually a problem though. The philosophy featured in this video is simply that you should spend the time to truly master the fundamentals, and probably do that first, before you start worrying about some of the newer, more “advanced” techniques like 50/50, worm guard, berimbolos, etc. This philosophy is also stating that if you truly master the fundamentals, you can win in any situation with them, including against these newer techniques. However, the philosophy is not saying you must ONLY work on fundamentals or ONLY use fundamentals in sparring or competition. Just that you should 100% have a base of total fundamental mastery. Once you have that, you have this foundation that you can rely on in any situation. And once you’re there, of course you’re free to practice and even use these more advanced techniques. The point is that if-and when-they fail, because like all more complex techniques, they tend to have a higher failure percentage, that you have the foundation to fall back to. But by all means, keep your jiu jitsu fun and interesting-learn and use the advanced stuff too, once you have the fundamentals mastered.

[@sbgipdx]

@@therainman7777 Well said.

[@BigTiddyGothGrappler]

Tell that to ppl still playing counterstrike, dota, wow classic. Nah.

[@noturnleftunstoned72]

99% of the top 50 BJJ athletes who compete in IBJJF tournaments are on steroids. It's ridiculous. Everybody knows it yet nobody does shit about it. What a joke.

[@MaadLuck]

Do we even wanna practice guard?????? Wont be doing that on the streets

[@bobsalad4379]

unless you have to sister

[@benbray4982]

I used to think this. Better to be controlled in guard on the bottom and looking to sweep or defend rather than scramble and get pinned in mount or side control. Damage limitation, positional improvements, take opportunities that come up. Don't be the one to give the opportunity.

[@EagleTrue]

In jiu jitsu we never stall, WE CONTROL

[@alexaugustin9713]

very common for people to stall in competition, avoiding sacrifice to get subs.

[@EagleTrue]

@@alexaugustin9713 what people call stalling is in reality controlling. If you can't escape the control, you can't attack.

[@thataintnomoonsucka]

@@EagleTrue Well said man.

[@alexaugustin9713]

that will mean you are in a pure defense art of controlling. I beleive finishing should be the main goal. I guess its one of the big differences between self defense and competition bjj, and why I prefer sub only, no time competitions.

[@EagleTrue]

@@alexaugustin9713 no it's not pure defense because it's the same principle with wrestling in MMA.