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Joined : 01 Oct 2007 Posts : 52

Hello

Just want to say mate that I loved your self defence clips on yourtube. Good stuff. And its great you're answering questions on here I nearly keeled over when I saw your name.

Can I ask about you learning submission/ground fighting? I'm in the same boat as I've little grappling skills and think I should get them to round off my skills.

How long did it take you to become proficient in grappling, how intensly did you train (how many times a week ect) and also how did your other skills suffer. One of the reasons I've not gotting into grappling is I don't want to forgo my Capoeira and stand up sessions.

Thanks

AXE
Jagunco Smile

Joined : 21 Aug 2007 Posts : 27

Hi Paul,
Here's Bas' reply to your question. Oh, I informed Bas that your real name is Paul, hence he addressed you as such.

Take Care,
Lito
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Wednesday October 3, 2007 at 3:54 pm
Hey Paul!

After my second loss against Ken Shamrock I realized that NOBODY was
going
to stand with me, heck, even Maurice Smith took me down!
I started to train 2 times a day ONLY submissions, only three times a
week
the thai pads, because I knew striking already, so I concentrated on
submissions. It paid of because I won the next 8 by submissions!

It really has to depend on YOU, how far do you want to take it? It's
very
simple, don't do something just because somebody tells you. See if you
can
make a submission better, most of the time you can't, but sometimes you
can!
But another thing that comes with this is that you now THINK about the
submission, not just repeat what they say.

This helped me a LOT!

Some people are strikers and want to learn the defenses for takedowns
and
submissions, they don't realize that when they LEARN to take people
down or
learn how to submitt them, they automatically understand the submission
and
know right away how to stay out of it or even escape it.

Write things down that pop up in your head and try them out in
training.
Trust me, that's what happened to me. My students now rather stand up
with
me than go to the ground, so they think I am even better on the ground
now.
One more time, it's just thinking about your actions and do it a lot!
You
need a good training partner though. I had only ONE in Holland and he
was
also new, but he learned fast. that meant that when I put an arm bar on
him,
with three times he knew how to stay out of it. So I needed a new "set
up"
for that same arm bar, again, if I did it a couple of times he knew how
to
stay out of it, so I came up with another one. This really made me
think and
create different ways to set up techniques and that made me better, and
it
was also good for him of course!

Good luck, don't think too complicated, if it's too complicated and you

don't "feel" it, that technique is just not for you. Try to counter
attack
right away after an escape, that always works too!

Godspeed and Party on!

Bas
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