APH-2025-021

Energy System: Endurance (BJJ)

Difficulty: Rebound

Intention:

On the rare occasion I taught a gi class and revisited some classic material. The “brabo” or “bread / paper cutter” choke is a classic submission from side control and mount, but also from closed guard.

It offers good positional (posture) control and aside from it’s own choke series offers opportunities to transition to other chain attack series — such as triangle-armbar(s)-omoplata, etc.

Learning the sequence from both guard and mount helped people understand how you need to be positioned for an armbar vs. omoplata (for example) — creating an angle vs. “just throwing your leg in front of their face.”

As usual, I consider my “teaching pace” to be “endurance” because while I’m active and moving, it’s a lot lower intensity than when I’m actually training.

Work:

1.5 Hour Class:

• 15 minutes warm up drills: inside control, head pummeling
• 45 minutes drilling below sequences (plus a couple extra details about similarities between takedowns and sweeps)
• 5 x 1 min “score or submit” from (ea.): closed guard, closed guard w/ brabo grip, closed guard with brabo grip and one sleeve grip
• 5 x 1 minute sparring from “bad position”, mounted brabo grip

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