Concepts and principles for defense in brazilian jiu jitsu
Stronger, younger or heavier people have to give up with lighter or older people.
If you add to this that generally having experience in other martial art will not save save you from tapping a lot, the frustration of losing too much in the begining becomes one of the fundamental causes of quitting for many people.
Understand that giving up is the way to learn and progress in Brazilian jiu jitsu.
It takes time to understand that losing is one of the most important aspects for learning and progressing in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and that it is more important to learn to defend than to learn to finish early, not only because without a good defense you are more vulnerable, but also because it must be understood that the defense is the most solid and lasting foundation and resource you will keep.
As Helio Gracie pointed out many times, a good defense is what allows someone who is lighter, weaker or older to win, or at least not losing, against younger and stronger opponents.
Also Rickson Gracie has said several times that what allows you to tire out a stronger opponent to generate the right moment for your attack.
Learning to defend in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is something that will accompany the practitioner throughout life, differnt from attacks that will become more difficult with age.
Once this principle and philosophy is understood, let's see some important issues to learn and improve the defense in Brazilian jiu jistu.
First we must understand that defending means maintaining a correct position of our extremities, and taking advantage of angles and anatomical structures that deny openings for submissions.
Secondly, we must learn that the correct defense is the essential step to a good escape, be it from a submission or from a position. Escaping with positional gaps is the cause of most sumissions.
In third place we must understand that the best way to learn to defend correctly is by knowing the mechanics of attacks and positional controls, learning escape techniques and constantly testing them.
Fourth and in relation to the above, we think that learning to defend means getting into trouble and working on specific situations like positions and initiated submissions.
I don't think it's efficient or effective to teach that the best way to defend is not to see yourself in the situation.
Fifth, I think it is necessary to work on improving the defense at all levels. It is not only who starts who must defend and who has spent the longest time only looking to attack.
We will always fight with people of a higher level, physical condition and younger, so it doesn't matter what belt you have, defense is and will be the basis of Brazilian jiu jitsu at all times.
For this reason, always work your defense with people of a higher level who force you to improve it.
Finally, it is essential to understand that the best defense is not exactly to be completely closed without risking anything.
It is necessary to learn to defend the initiated submissions and escape from control positions.
Taking all of the above into account, we leave some recommendations to improve positional and submission defense in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu:
- Define the positions and submissions that you have the most problems defending.
- Ask your teacher and classmates techniques to get out of them.
- Train them during free practice days by doing reps and then specific sparring starting in the position or with the submission on.
- Do Specific sparring, asking your teammates to start in those situations and restart if you fail the escape.
Finally, there is something as important as all the above and that must also be understood from the first day in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu: Defending does not mean risking an injury by persisting in a escape that has proven to be ineffective.
Try as many times as necessary but take care to continue learning.
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