At the end of the day, basics are what wins.

 

If you are just starting in BJJ, your understanding and mastery of the basics are what will dictate your whole journey.

 

If you are far down the road: blue belt or beyond, you may have missed a few steps and that could be what is causing you to struggle.

 

You may need to relearn few things.

 

 

For Example,  did you know there is one little detail that will make the difference between hitting a scissors sweep or not?

 

A lot of people that learn some of these fundamental sweeps like the scissor sweep rule them is ineffective because as they progress and start rolling, they are not able to succeed with them.  This is all due to the lack of subtleties in the details.

 

If you are trying to do a scissor sweep on your opponent, the difference could be inches.  If you attempt this sweep and your partners butt is on their heels or near their heels, this means you will never be able to hit the sweep.  We are talking inches.

 

The simple trick to finishing the scissor sweep is to pull your partner on top of you so that their base is directly over you and their lower body is light.  Take their butt off their heels.  If you do this, you would be surprised to see how easy it is to sweep them.

 

These same principles of inches can be applied to numerous techniques that many people do wrong.  Techniques like the arm bar, the bow &arrow choke, the hook sweep, escapes, and so much more.

 

If you never master the basics, don’t even bother learning anything else, it probably won’t work.  Just as a house sits on its foundation, your advanced BJJ moves sit on the foundation of its basics. If the foundation isn’t strong, the house will crumble and your BJJ is the same way.

 

Bernardo Faria probably has a lot more in common with you than he has with the athletic freaks that you picture winning the Jiu Jitsu World Championships.  He is friendly to everyone, he snorts when he laughs and he is laughing almost all of the time, and he is really into using his computer;not exactly the typical picture of a “tough guy..”

 

When he gets to the gym he isn’t very good at doing the warmups..  He can’t really do a cartwheel and if you were watching him shrimp or roll you wouldn’t say “wow, I bet that guy is a killer!”   He’s just not that fluid.  But when it comes time to slap hands and start rolling or get on the mat at the World Championships – everything changes.   Bernardo’s lack of elite athletic ability doesn’t really matter – because he has a much better system for sweeping than his opponents.  While we will never say that his or anyone’s moves can’t be stopped, we can comfortably say that they haven’t been stopped!

 

We know he has an incredible understanding of the fundamentals because he has used the fundamentals to win 5 Black Belt World Championships including the adult Black Belt Open Class.  Bernardo has beaten so many of Jiu Jitsu's household names including Xande Ribeiro, Leandro Lo, Rafael Lovato, Roberto Cyborg Abreu, Josh Hinger, Erberth Santos, Yuri Simoes, Luiz Panza, Braulio Estima and the list goes on and on...

 

 

IN THIS COURSE

 

Part 1:

 

• Intro

 

• Jumping Closed Guard

 

• Pulling The Open Guard

 

• Posture When Standing 

 

• Double Leg

 

• Double Leg From Knees When Opponent Sprawls

 

• Single Leg

 

• Fighting For Grips

 

• Harai Goshi

 

• O'Goshi

 

• Morote Seoi

 

• Intro To Closed Guard

 

• Scissor Sweep

 

• Pendulum Sweep

 

• Arm Bar From Failed Pendulum Sweep

 

 

Part 2:

 

• Hand On The Belt Sweep

 

• Kimura From closed Guard

 

• Cross Choke From Guard

 

• Inverted Arm Bar

 

• Arm Bar From Closed Guard

 

• Both Hands On Both Legs Sweep

 

• Underhook Leg Sweep

 

• Basic Spider Guard Sweep (Opponent On Knees)

 

• Spider Guard Sweep When Opponent Stands

 

• Triangle From spider

 

• Balloon Sweep

 

• Regular Tripod Sweep

 

• Opposite Tripod

 

• Collar + Sleeve Balloon Sweep

 

Part 3:

 

• Intro To Lasso

 

• Intro To De La Riva

 

• Butterfly Hook Sweep

 

• Butterfly Sweep Without Underhook

 

• Knee Shield Basics

 

• Lapel Single Leg

 

• Bridge For Half Guard Sweep/Retention

 

• Using Hook To Go From Half To Closed

 

• Top Closed Guard Posture

 

• Opening The Closed Guard Controlling The Sleeve

 

• Toreando Pass

 

• Double Under Pass

 

• Closed Guard Strait To Side Control Or Half Guard

 

• Collar + Sleeve Triangle

 

Part 4:

 

• Opening Closed Guard When Opponent Hides Sleeve

 

• How To Pass Spider Guard

 

• How To Pass Foot On The Hip Guard

 

• Top Half Guard Posture 

 

• Passing Half Guard

 

• Passing Half Guard To Mount Using Hooks

 

• Half Guard To Knee Slice

 

• Knee Slide Control To Mount

 

• Stepover Side Control To Mount

 

• Arm Bar From North South

 

• Kimura From North South

 

• Turning Arm Bar 

 

• Cross Choke From Side Control

 

• Knee On Belly Basics

 

• Near Side Arm Bar From Knee On Belly

 

Part 5:

 

• Far Side Arm Bar From Knee On Belly

 

• Choke From Knee On Belly

 

• Arm Bar From Mount 

 

• Americana From Mount

 

• Cross Choke From Mount

 

• Double Attack From Mount

 

• Flip Over Back Take

 

• Foot Hook Back Take

 

• Clock Choke From Turtle 

 

• Rear Naked Choke

 

• Collar Choke From Back

 

• Modified Collar Choke From Back

 

• Bow And Arrow Choke

 

• Upa Mount Escape

 

• Elbow Escape From Mount

 

• Bridge Escape From Side Control

 

Part 6:

 

• Side Control Escape To Single Leg

 

• Bridge And Turn Side Control Escape

 

• Side Control Reversal

 

• North South Escape With Elbows In

 

• North South To Single Leg

 

• Knee On Belly Escape

 

• Basic Back Escape

 

• Turtle Back Escape

 

• Turtle Escape

 

• Arm Bar Escape

 

• Arm Bar From Closed Guard Escape

 

• Triangle Escape

 

• Backwards Roll

 

• Front Roll

 

• Hip Escape 

 

• Upa 

 

• Technical Stand Up

 

• Sprawl

 

 

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