Scissor Guard

I stumbled upon these videos of the Scissor Guard on Youtube. The reason it is of interest is because I am finding myself in the Scissor Guard position but didn't really have too many clues of what to do but meet my knees and elbows together and put my feet on the hips and push and roll then go to closed guard.

Scissors Guard: The Basics


Scissors Guard: Switching Sides to Gi Choke

We had learned this technique in class however the setup definitely shed some light of other ways I could use it.



Scissors Sweep

The Scissor sweep it is one of the most basic sweeps in BJJ however this variation sets up from the chest rather than the waist and hip which seems to break the posture to the side more than the traditional technique.



Scissors Sweep: Wide Base Variation



Scissors Guard: Double Sleeve to Hip Bump Sweep



So for the next few weeks I will be playing with these techniques and mixing it up.

The Newaza of Tsunetane Oda

The following videos feature Tsunetane Oda who is attributed to have created Sankaku-jime (Triangle choke).

Enjoy!

Follow up to Takedowns from the Knees

I want to share a very interesting post that appeared on Judo Forum by the poster, Happiness Is A Warm Gun on entries to newaza.

“One of the senseis I trained excessively with was a newaza specialist, who frequently would remind me that the best way to enter newaza was rarely with a sacrifice throw, which makes you start newaza on your back, but instead with sasae tsurikomi ashi, de ashi barai, and other attacks that frequently leave the opponent kneeling if they aren't successful. He would even just pull guys down onto their knees by both lapels, and because there are so many dangerous submissions available from sprawl, the threat of being pulled to one's knees made most people plant their feet and straighten up as soon as he would yank down on their lapels, which invariably rooted in place and left them vulnerable to a variety of different followup attacks.”

This is interesting since lately the throw type takedowns have not been too successful lately for me but getting the opponent on all fours and using Obi Tori Gaeshi and various turnovers has worked extremely as well as jumping into sweeps.

Nathan (my instructor) has suggested using the get to the feet position as one method to move quicker on my entries and I will try this and report the results in the future.

Below I would like to share some videos from newaza genius Katsuhiko Kashiwazaki

Another version of Obi Tori Gaeshi