Introduction

• The battle of getting an opponent on the floor is one of, if not the most variable positions in a modern game of jiu-jitsu.

• Most takedown defenses are taught will a solution based strategy in mind first. Where the focus is on a flashy move rather than the end result.

• There is no way to predict how or where you’ll land and as such the defense for takedowns must replicate this.
• A coach will often do takedown defense by having their students do rote repetitions against a non-resisting opponent.
• Others will only place emphasis such as the aforementioned solution-based strategy where the end goal is a named move, such as overhead sweep, claw sweep etc.
• Rather, the focus should be the end goal of the scramble which ultimately are the connections which don’t change in all of jiu-jitsu matches. These are chest-to-chest, chest-to-back or chest-to-hip.
• If a player has gotten into these one of these situations (having beaten the legs) we can then say the guard has been passed and we can now begin working through a hierarchy of pins to then isolate a periphery in order to get a submission

Core Games

Warm up

Context Switching