One of the first instructionals I bought was Erik Paulson’s Game Development. This short instructional covers 8 ways of training to develop your grappling.
One of those ‘games’ was attacking by transitioning from submission to submission. The idea being if you master this you’ll create an inescapable web of destruction for your opponent.
Throughout my Jiu Jitsu career, I’ve regularly practiced this game (and the other 7) when sparring, and it’s greatly helped my understanding of submission and how to connect them.
Along with improving my understanding of submissions, there is another benefit to developing this skill.
If your opponent refuses to tap you can transition to another submission without causing injury.
This is incredibly important in training, as you get to develop your technique safely even if your opponent is being an idiot or doesn’t realise the danger. To give you an example of how this looks, check out this short video.
In the video, you’ll see I catch my opponent in a triangle, he defends and I transition to an arm bar.
That arm bar is on, but as my opponent doesn’t tap, which leaves me with two options: push harder and risk injury or transition to a tighter submission.
I chose option two and switch to a K-Arm Bar. At that moment my opponent knows there is no escape and taps.
This is a great example of training smart and training safely. Give this training method a try next time your sparring and let me know how you get on.
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