Some members of North10 BJJ attended the annual Gracie Barra Leyton seminar with Mestre Maurico Robbe. Mestre Robbe is an 8 stripe red and black belt and has trained several BJJ world champions. This is only the second time Mestre Robbe has visited the UK but from past experience he teaches some vital fundamental techniques. Mestre Robbe was accompanied by Henrique Santana and new Gracie Barra Leyton Black Belt, Thiago.
Day 1
Guard Pass
The first technique Mestre Robbe introduced to the group was a guard pass. The pass itself was not new to most of the practitioners but there were some incredibly useful concepts which made the pass much more effective.
1. Pressure
By posturing and gripping your opponents lapel, Mestre Robbe effectively nullified his opponents ability to not only launch an attack from the guard, but to basically move at all.
Once this pressure had been established the leg under hook pass was proved easy to initiate.
2. Keep hold of the leg
When practising the pass there was tendency by the group to let go of the under hooked leg. Mestre Robbe explained that holding leg stops your opponent replacing the guard and also made for a tighter submission.
Submissions
The submission we drilled were a collar choke executed before and after the guard pass, something we have drilled during the regular North10 BJJ class.
However we were also introduced to a new submission. This was applied after a successful guard pass, from side control, but importantly, the set up stemmed from still keeping hold of the leg.
The submission is a collar choke with one arm, the had which controls the head in side control, whilst the other hand let's the under hooked leg go and pushes down on the head.
Scarf hold submission
Having worked a submission of the guard pass Mestre Robbe then turned his attention to the scarf hold position. We worked a pummel drill to stop your opponent escaping side control, before transitioning to scarf hold.
The important thing to remember here is to ensure you have a secure base with you legs braced behind and in front of you. It is also important to ensure you have your leg under your opponents head, keeping his head, elbow and shoulder off the floor and 'locking' the position by grasping your own leg. The submission was applied via arm bar on the arm closest to you.
We ended the first day with several rounds of sparring.
Day 2
The second day started with a light warm up before we began training some new techniques.
Effective Side Control
During Mestre Robbe's last visit he spent a long time introducing the finer points of effective side control. Today we touched on this briefly with the emphasis placed on controlling the shoulder by pulling your opponents lapel and taking a 35 degree angle towards your opponent.
Submissions
From side control we then executed the American technique. The first attempt consisted of executing a very tight Kimura, applied by utilising the arm which is controlling he head. If the first attempt is thwarted we then practised taking the mount position.
Mount Americana
The Americana from the mount was applied from the scenario of your opponent holding both his lapels as a form of defence. By using the Gi itself, Mestre Robbe was able to free the arm to apply the America.
Mount escape
The mount escape we practised was quite detailed. First you secured the arm to stop a possible choke attempt. Then the foot is secured to stop your opponent posturing and stopping your bridge escape. Lastly the hand is placed upon the hip before the bridge escape is executed.
Collar choke
We also worked a choke from the mount. Mestre Robbe stressed that the choke should be applied with both thumbs inside the Gi rather than one hand placing the thumb inside and one hand taking an 'overgrip' on the shoulder. Mestre Robbe also gave an excellent detail on maintaining the mount, by throwing your weight over to the 'weak side' i.e. the side without the arm to posture, you essentially thwart the mount escape.
Collar choke escape
Mestre Robbe also illustrated a collar choke escape, but showed that if properly applied it was still possible to apply the choke whilst being 'rolled over'.
Collar choke from guard
If your opponent is able to roll you out of the mount, we were shown an excellent hip escape movement which still allows you to apply the choke.
Kimura arm bar combination
Mestre Robbe demonstrated a great Kimura - Arm bar combination. Again, some excellent detail was provided by taking the controlling around your opponents arm, instead of inside.
Arm bar defence
This was a nice defence to an arm bar from the mount, escaping the hip and the bringing the elbow to the floor.
Sweep
Finally Mestre Robbe demonstrated a sweep applied by killing one arm and sweep the knee on the same side as the arm.
We ended the session with some interval training which consisted of rolling with a different partner for two minutes with a minimal rest in between.
The seminar ended with a graduation ceremony with some students receiving stripes and new belts. Overall, the seminar more than lived up to expectation and turned out to be a great learning experience.
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