CACC DWL at Best of the West BJJ tournament

[KJ Gould]

This is from the BJJ tournament at Best of the West 2010. The guy ('Kelly') wins with a Double Wrist Lock.

Now, it's easy to say it's just a BJJ Kimura, however Kelly's coach Sam Kressin (a BJJ Blackbelt & Level 3 Catch Wrestler under Billy Robinson) confirms the application is in fact a Catch style Double Wrist Lock.

Here's his explanation:

There's so many different set-ups and variations of the DWL I've learn from Catch Wrestling but here's a few details you can see in this video. 1st Grab the wrist WITH the thumb (Not a monkey paw grip) Next this is subtle but Kelly doesn't try to lock onto his own hand right away with his "threading" arm instead he two-on-one's his opponents arm to create the pressure to break his opponent's grip. Also Notice how Kelly keeps his opponents arm pulled in short. He's not trying to paint brush or keep the arm in perfect figure 4 alignment. Next he pulls his opponent into him slightly taking his back off the mat. Kelly had to step over the head because the guys head was up so high to take pressure off the shoulder other wise he would have put the shin across the guys face. The arm is pushed up behind the back and away from the guy to create pressure on the shoulder.

The way I learned it in BJJ you don't pull the arm in short you don't stuff it behind the guys back, you don't two-on-one the arm to break a grip or apply better leverage and you NEVER grab with the thumb.

There's a lot more techniques such as pronate the forearm, goose neck the wrist and on and on that can help with finishing this lock but we didn't have to use them in this match.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUlDr9Iozg0

Sam Kressin's site is www.northcountybjj.com/ where he teaches both BJJ and Catch.

[folkstyle]

Sept 1, 2010 8:09:01 GMT -5 KJ Gould said:

This is from the BJJ tournament at Best of the West 2010. The guy ('Kelly') wins with a Double Wrist Lock.

Now, it's easy to say it's just a BJJ Kimura, however Kelly's coach Sam Kressin (a BJJ Blackbelt & Level 3 Catch Wrestler under Billy Robinson) confirms the application is in fact a Catch style Double Wrist Lock.

Here's his explanation:

There's so many different set-ups and variations of the DWL I've learn from Catch Wrestling but here's a few details you can see in this video. 1st Grab the wrist WITH the thumb (Not a monkey paw grip) Next this is subtle but Kelly doesn't try to lock onto his own hand right away with his "threading" arm instead he two-on-one's his opponents arm to create the pressure to break his opponent's grip. Also Notice how Kelly keeps his opponents arm pulled in short. He's not trying to paint brush or keep the arm in perfect figure 4 alignment. Next he pulls his opponent into him slightly taking his back off the mat. Kelly had to step over the head because the guys head was up so high to take pressure off the shoulder other wise he would have put the shin across the guys face. The arm is pushed up behind the back and away from the guy to create pressure on the shoulder.

The way I learned it in BJJ you don't pull the arm in short you don't stuff it behind the guys back, you don't two-on-one the arm to break a grip or apply better leverage and you NEVER grab with the thumb.

There's a lot more techniques such as pronate the forearm, goose neck the wrist and on and on that can help with finishing this lock but we didn't have to use them in this match.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUlDr9Iozg0

Sam Kressin's site is www.northcountybjj.com/ where he teaches both BJJ and Catch.

VERY NICE!

I have posted this vid a few times of my brother at a grappling match where he got to face 2 BJJ guys.

In the 1st half of the clip he used the 2 on 1 to stop the guy from pulling full guard. He was only able to get to half guard. Then you see him starting to work a cradle to get a pass but then was able to crossface him flat. Notice he did not bother to pass the half guard.

Instead he kept walking his free leg towards the head, stepping over the arm as often as possible where he alternated crossfacing the man flat and working on the far arm. His grip was with the thumb also and he got the tap.

In the 2nd half of the vid the beginning of the end for opponent 2 came when he passed and the guy turtled. We talked about him not being in a hurry when he gets that position. To ride and wrestle. As you can see he nearly turns the guy with a 2 on 1 which would have put him in side control for points BUT his opponent fought it off. When the guy DID try to sit out and regain guard my bro had wrist control which allowed him to transition to an arm triangle. He had hes leg tangled so he did a knee slide to free it.The guy would not tap so he switched his hips to a good old fashioned head and arm finish much in the same way you would finish in wrestling and got the tap!!

Lots of wrestling in that vid, he works the submissions in from a wrestling base.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhawJPDVmSA