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I’m sitting here at my office watching a beautiul display of Jiu Jitsu in MMA at UFC on FOX. Mike Swick is taking on the always durable, Matt Brown.

In the first round, Matt Brown gets a nice takedown and starts working from the top. He’s able to secure a beautiful D’arce choke. In an interesting move, Brown falls to full guard in an attempt to finish the submission. On one hand, pulling guard with this move can control the opponents hips, not allowing them to get distance away from the choke. On the down side, it can take the leverage, and the ability to put your weight down from the top, into the choke. Swick, understanding his advantage, and ends up keeping Brown flat on his back. Brown is unable to get any torque from that position. He’s not able to get his weight on top of Swick’s head. If he could do so, forcing the chin to the chest, that could cut off the air, and the blood to the brain. Swick is then able to pull out of the choke and end up on top.

Continuing from guard, Brown now starts fishing for wrist control, looking for a triangle. He is able to force Swick’s arm through his leg, achieving the arm in/arm out position. From here, Brown is able to lock in a full on triangle. This is not a new set up, this is old school BJJ at it’s best. The advantage is, in MMA, when an opponent choses to throw strikes, they take their arm off their body, giving the bottom player the ability to control it.After the choke is in, Swick does an awesome job of defending. Knowing that Brown has to pull the head down and squeeze the legs together in order to finish him, he quickly throws both legs over Brown’s body to give him leverage to break the hold. As Swick extends his hips, and Brown is forced to let go. In an attempt to counter, Swick transitions into one of trademark moves, guillotine aka the “swick-o-tine” off the scramble. He’ wasn’t able to lock the hands together and finish. The lock is broken, and the round ends

Matt Brown goes on to K.O.’s Swick standing in the following round with a devestating combination, but it was a really exciting grappling match while it was on the ground. We’ll played sirs!

Alder Hampel
Head Coach 10th Planet Van Nuys
www.10thPlanetVanNuys.com

This is an extension of the push kick drill we showed in our last vid. Now we add in chopping the leg over the face.

Posted by: Mike Frausto

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Here’s another basic armbar drill we use to prepare out guys for competitions. Push, kick, push, kick.

Posted by: Mike Frausto

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10th Planet is known for its lockdown, twister, rubber guard and spiderweb. But that’s not all we do, basically anything that works is incorporated into the system. As long as it’s nogi jiu jitsu, it’s 10th Planet. Here’s a basic armbar drill we use to prepare out guys for competitions.

Posted by: Mike Frausto

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This week at 10th Planet Van Nuys we’ve been going over attacks from the vice grip. Here is an old video of Eddie showing a butterfly pass to a darce choke.

Posted by: Mike Frausto

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This should work really well for our system.

Brent shows what how to make the d’arce choke work when flipping your opponent on his/her side with the vice grip doesn’t work

Brent shows how to set up the d’arce choke from the turtle position

10th Planet Jiu Jitsu Rochester Technique: Drop Shoulder Throw to D’arce (No-Gi Judo)

Chris Herzog aka Coach in the mf’n house

Darce Choke from Sprawl Sean Bollinger 10th Planet Jiu Jitsu Grappling Riverside CA.

Brandon Quick show a counter to the Darce into an Americana

Eddie Bravo brown belt and rubber guard master: Sean Bollinger demonstrates the Marce choke from butterfly guard.

Here’s my boy Chris showing a slick way of getting to the D’arce choke from a shitty position like side control. Nice and slick, I’m going to drill this.