#19 Effective high level single leg takedowns

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  • @BernardoFlor_Krio
    @BernardoFlor_Krio 2 роки тому +3

    No misses with this series

  • @SkepticalAaron
    @SkepticalAaron 2 роки тому +4

    Damn, that heel detail is brutal. I've never seen that but it makes alot of sense. I grab the heel like that to control movement in leg lock situations so as soon as you did that for the single grip I could feel it just watching.Also curling around and stepping on the foot is a great detail too.

    • @josephbreza-grappling9459
      @josephbreza-grappling9459  2 роки тому

      Yes, all of these details are from my collegiate wrestling coach, Andy Seras. At the time, he was head coach of the Greco World team. Then, he became head coach of the Olympic team. He was an awesome competitor himself-4x NCAA All American, NCAA champion, then in Greco, he won just about everything (Pan Am Games, Worlds, etc) accept the Olympics. They disqualified him and the Swedish competitor for passivity. Don’t think that’s ever happened before or since. He was second in the 1984 Olympic trials, first in 1988 (when he represented USA), second in 1992, and second in 1996. So, he was either in the Olympics or an alternate for 16 years. I started college in 1999, so he was still a bad ass and very tough to train with. He could go forever and my neck has never been the same from his front headlocks, lol

  • @reeseexplains8935
    @reeseexplains8935 9 місяців тому

    I am currently a bjj white belt and I am more interested in takedowns than guard pulling and what you’re saying really helps and made me realize some of the mistakes I was making.

    • @josephbreza-grappling9459
      @josephbreza-grappling9459  9 місяців тому

      All I want is to help get wrestling in BJJ to a good highschool level. That’s certainly possible but people need to train wrestling the right way. I made an instructional with Jordan Preisinger with this in mind. It’s a good system for being able to take the match to the ground and end up in good position

    • @reeseexplains8935
      @reeseexplains8935 9 місяців тому

      @@josephbreza-grappling9459 I did see that instructional video collab you had with Jordan and it’s also really good. That was brought me here. Everything you show is really helpful and stops me from being countered as easily. I like takedowns because then I get the position I like, the mount. Do you have a belt in bjj?

  • @luiscruz5556
    @luiscruz5556 9 місяців тому

    consuming your videos at rapid speed. thank you so much for making this content available for us. i'm a small jiu jitsu guy very interested in wrestling and staying on top. this is super applicable to my game.

  • @workhard3606
    @workhard3606 Рік тому

    The controlling the heel and toes to prevent spin out 🔥🔥🔥 huge detail thank you

    • @josephbreza-grappling9459
      @josephbreza-grappling9459  Рік тому

      Yeah man! This was from my collegiate coach who was an olympian and head coach of the world and Olympic teams. Some guy on instagram though told me on my promotional videos for the instructional that it will never work. LOL

  • @damiontheenthusiast3078
    @damiontheenthusiast3078 Рік тому +1

    Coming from a BJJ black belt who is trying to learn a little wrestling. Thanks for the content. I’ve went through about 5 of your vids so far. Love how you number them. Keep up the good work man.

    • @josephbreza-grappling9459
      @josephbreza-grappling9459  Рік тому +1

      Great to hear! Get a rock solid stance (video #20). It is the foundation. People try to do other things because it’s boring, but you can’t shoot well if your stance isn’t right, yet comfortable; and you can’t defend well if your stance is off.
      It’s all about efficiency. The better your stance is, the more efficient you will be. Then you can get others out of position

    • @damiontheenthusiast3078
      @damiontheenthusiast3078 Рік тому

      Thanks! I’ll check that video out next.

  • @Dmedic2009
    @Dmedic2009 2 роки тому +1

    Thanks guys. Great lesson

  • @Mattchew2232
    @Mattchew2232 3 місяці тому

    Joe, you answered a bunch of questions I had about picking up the leg. I got confused because Pixley and Brandon Reed were saying slightly different things. It feels like you're the counselor and stopped my parents from fighting, haha.

    • @josephbreza-grappling9459
      @josephbreza-grappling9459  3 місяці тому +1

      Hahaha!! Those guys are good wrestlers and it is good to get other’s perspectives. The younger guys tend not to lift at the knee, but I have seen this become a problem with reaching the far leg and leading to more scrambles on the takedown. But it’s really a similar philosophy. This is just really classic North East wrestling

    • @Mattchew2232
      @Mattchew2232 3 місяці тому

      @@josephbreza-grappling9459 Good to know. You're the man!

  • @user-xy4um6bs1e
    @user-xy4um6bs1e 11 місяців тому

    Great video

  • @c_rock3512
    @c_rock3512 2 роки тому

    I love these videos

  • @kimgittings7813
    @kimgittings7813 2 роки тому

    Super informative

  • @Zetzitsen
    @Zetzitsen Рік тому +1

    Did you ever cover the mat returns?

    • @josephbreza-grappling9459
      @josephbreza-grappling9459  Рік тому +1

      I did briefly on my stand up video. But, I covered it in more detail on my instructional-like depending on whether he has a whizzer or not

  • @BMO4ever
    @BMO4ever Рік тому

    Do we use the same moves you showed here if we catched his foot with the other side.
    You showed attacking left foot with right hand. What if we got his right foot with our right hand?

    • @josephbreza-grappling9459
      @josephbreza-grappling9459  Рік тому

      Are you asking if you lift his foot and it’s on the outside of his body? Because I am confused…I have his left foot with my left hand.

    • @BMO4ever
      @BMO4ever Рік тому

      @@josephbreza-grappling9459 oh yes I said it wrong. I mean do we use the same technique, if we have his left foot with our right hand in high level single. I think they would still work in pretty much the same way, right?

    • @josephbreza-grappling9459
      @josephbreza-grappling9459  Рік тому

      No way. If his foot is on the outside, you need another technique. I haven’t shown that yet. You can’t lift and trip. If you try, he will hit the mat, switch and take your back

    • @BMO4ever
      @BMO4ever Рік тому

      @@josephbreza-grappling9459 ok good to know. Then I am looking forward to see the techniques from there.
      Btw. There are two more positions regarding middle level single leg that I have to ask about.
      In a high crotch position (I think that's the name. I mean when your head is on the outside in a middle level single leg) I generally try to push my shoulder as much as I can to his hips and hold his knee to take him down.
      When my head is on the inside (I don't mean forhead on chest) I circle to the other way pushing my hips to his upper leg and pulling his ancle. I try to act like you showed in Video 2.
      I didn't find videos from you on those two positions. But what I found on youtube told me to do that. I could only test them on lower level wrestlers however. And even it was hard. Especially the first one. Will or have you maybe allready covered those positions?
      And can you also cover more low level single?

    • @josephbreza-grappling9459
      @josephbreza-grappling9459  Рік тому +2

      @@BMO4ever there are important details about how to cut the corner with your head on the inside single. If you are getting sprawled on, then there are very specific things you need to do. I must keep my arms straight until I can get my elbow behind his knee. Now I can drop my hip and circle like I show in #2. In #39, I go into more detail about how I windshield wiper his leg out, which takes his weight off me. It will always be a fight, but once you know exactly what to fight for and have good technique to do it, then your life will get easier as you’ll get more efficient. I can make a video on what to do when you are getting sprawled on hard from there and how to cut the corner

  • @joeg7096
    @joeg7096 2 роки тому

    how are you getting such a big reaction to make them belly down just from throwing off that collar tie?

    • @josephbreza-grappling9459
      @josephbreza-grappling9459  2 роки тому +1

      Because my entire body is behind it. I’m posting at the elbow-not the hand, and I’m driving into it. He’s only got one foot on the ground and when I push he’s got nothing to balance on, because I’m pushing into the only “frame” he’s got anchored to the mat. That one and the overtie and circle to the back work so well it’s ridiculous. BUT, you better follow up on the hip if you do the throw by, because if he’s got no shoe on, you need to control his hips. With a shoe (wrestling), you’ve got more time to follow up. That friction will anchor him to you.
      This is a demonstration, but if you’re doing this live, you run them down. He’s been wrestling a long time, so he knows where that’s going to go. If he doesn’t turn, and I push hard into him (not doing that here, but I would) he would fall straight to his back hard. I never did it very hard here, but 6:08 where I pull and and his weight comes in with a little hop, then push and put your body behind it-it will work in a live setting. It was a high percentage score for me in D1. Give it a try. When people grab your head like that, it’s because they are doing it for balance. Get rid of their lifeline and they go to their back, hard, or turn and go hands to the mat. Obviously it would be a fight after this. We aren’t wrestling live or anything.

    • @josephbreza-grappling9459
      @josephbreza-grappling9459  2 роки тому +1

      Follow through in a mean way. Don’t be nice about it. Their hands will do a wheelbarrow like thing and you get on their back and let them know what’s up, lol! I actually wasn’t even doing it like I would have in a match. In a match, I was definitely not a nice guy. Once I got in control, I maintained control and I made sure the other guy knew it.
      There’s a lot of psychology to wrestling. You should never let anyone get away with anything because it gives them hope. Take away their hope and you will break them (psychological break). Your goal should always be to break them. Then the match gets easier for you to do what you want

  • @tadwrites
    @tadwrites 2 роки тому

    Great stuff! Are there any good options for those times the leg is on the other side of your body? I feel like that situation occurs more often when coming up on sweeps and the guy getting swept doesn't want to concede the sweep and you are standing there with a leg and relatively square hips.

    • @josephbreza-grappling9459
      @josephbreza-grappling9459  2 роки тому +3

      Absolutely!! I can show some of that! It’s actually a great position

    • @PYROMARU
      @PYROMARU 2 роки тому

      I m also interested in that one :)

    • @josephbreza-grappling9459
      @josephbreza-grappling9459  2 роки тому

      I was planning on recording this on Tuesday and I broke my floating rib. Gonna be a minute, lmao

  • @LuisVLowned
    @LuisVLowned Рік тому

    What can I do if they put their leg to the far side. Not inside, the outside hip.

    • @josephbreza-grappling9459
      @josephbreza-grappling9459  Рік тому +1

      Are you talking offensively (you have single) or defensively (he has the single)?

    • @LuisVLowned
      @LuisVLowned Рік тому

      @@josephbreza-grappling9459 offensively. Do I want to switch to a double and if so please show me how.

    • @josephbreza-grappling9459
      @josephbreza-grappling9459  Рік тому +1

      If it’s at the mid level, then you switch to “The Barzegar” like I showed in video #37.
      ua-cam.com/video/9PPLyWNFK0Q/v-deo.html
      If you end up with a high single on the outside, there’s a few things I can show from there and it’s already on the list

    • @LuisVLowned
      @LuisVLowned Рік тому

      @josephbreza-grappling9459 thanks I just watched the video, I appreciate it!

  • @Mattchew2232
    @Mattchew2232 3 місяці тому

    Hey Joe. I recently got to ask Brandon Reed why he doesn't pinch his legs with his single leg. He said that doing so puts him more at risk for a leg scissor/kani basami. Brandon's legit (as you know), so I just wanted to know your opinion on the matter. Do you still pinch your knees with the single leg in Jiu-Jitsu?

    • @josephbreza-grappling9459
      @josephbreza-grappling9459  3 місяці тому

      If you don’t have your ear on the chest and you don’t circle to the front, then you are at risk for kani basami. I try to keep my forehead in the ribs and circle front. I don’t stay in a position for any length of time at all. The pinching of the leg is the way we teach kids to get their leg into position to shelf it across the thigh for when I lift. If you watch how I do it to Jordan on the instructional in fast motion (which is on my instagram I believe) the entire time from shot to finish on the ground is like 1.5s

    • @Mattchew2232
      @Mattchew2232 3 місяці тому

      @@josephbreza-grappling9459 Very helpful. I think part of what I'm hearing is that you can shelf the leg without pinching, but it's easier if you do. And if you take the other precautions you mentioned, kani basami isn't as big a risk. Am I understanding correctly? Also, I thought you were supposed to stay on the side in a single leg- sounds like you're saying to put pressure with your head and circle to face them. Hopefully I interpreted that correctly! Appreciate you. I'll look for that video.

    • @josephbreza-grappling9459
      @josephbreza-grappling9459  3 місяці тому +1

      @@Mattchew2232 the first move off the single is running the pipe. The second if he doesn’t go down is to lift and trip. Your head should always be in his ribs when you come up off the single. Ear on the chest is what turns you sideways and gets you uchi mata’ed. You don’t push once you are up to both feet. You pull but circling to the front and that is the same motion of running the pipe. It takes away kani basami and uchi mata/hari goshi/headlock

    • @Mattchew2232
      @Mattchew2232 3 місяці тому

      @@josephbreza-grappling9459 Super helpful. I really appreciate your thoughtful answers. Is it wrong to not try and run the pipe first? I see Brandon and Pixley teaching moves like lift and trip first from single leg, but maybe they are assuming a certain amount of knowledge.

    • @josephbreza-grappling9459
      @josephbreza-grappling9459  3 місяці тому +1

      @Mattchew2232 run it first, because it is what I use to shelf it and bring it up. They chain together. He will be so off balance and over correct right as you begin the lift and trip. Again, I am doing this in like one motion without pausing. Meregali literally held Pena’s leg in a single for 15s. I wouldn’t get a second in college so I learned to do the damn thing

  • @MK-ev6ov
    @MK-ev6ov 2 роки тому

    I’ve been fascinated lately with how many shortcuts wrestling has to take the back from standing.
    One thing I was thinking about last night was when you pick up a single, couldn’t you feasibly use it to spin the guy around and get his waist from behind… mat return and take back?
    I saw a Marcelo video where he gets the high (I don’t know what to call it) russian two on one grip on the leg and he reaps the opponents supporting leg with the back of his. It causes the guy to get hands down to the mat and he takes the back.
    Stuff like this is what I’m thinking about recently

    • @josephbreza-grappling9459
      @josephbreza-grappling9459  2 роки тому +2

      In 31 years of wrestling, if I had a dollar for every failed takedown I have seen from this position, I would be a wealthy man. BJJ has this fetish with this position, but frankly their mat return skills frickin suck and there are more full proof ways of securing position. I don’t stand alone in this logic. I was literally talking with some of the assistant coaches of the University of Michigan wrestling team over the holidays and we were talking about how these “kids” (high school and collegiate wrestlers) need to learn the hard way (losing matches) before they start listening to us old guys.
      As a general rule, I really try hard to prevent my students from chasing the back from a standing position. It’s a highschool level wrestling mistake that has a lot of consequences and not a high percentage score-especially when it’s later in a match. Most people’s mat return skills frickin suck. They think they have good mat return skills, but they really don’t when it matters most. You want to have positional control over your opponent, and while it appears that you do when you are behind him from a standing position, you really don’t unless you are dry and he is a scrub with little fight in him.
      If you hit a duck under for example, the highest percentage score is to catch that far knee and drive him over it. If you come up to the waist and walk around the back, you will get frickin slammed by someone who knows how to throw you from there. I will use the chin whip or makikomi (if I want to send a message). The result can be very bad for the person who initiated the move. I have KO’ed people several times with makikomi in competition and dislocated someone’s shoulder from there. Why? Is it because I’m a prick? No, it’s because In Freestyle wrestling, he was on my back and was going to suplex me. So my option was to slam him before he slammed me.
      Marcelo would have been an incredible wrestler if he went into that sport. People like to think they can emulate him, but I promise you that only 0.0001% of the population has that kind of explosive power. Most of the time he is just getting to people’s backs from athleticism. If you have that, great, but it goes with age. Also, there’s always someone out there with more athleticism than you. I relied on athleticism for a long time, but once I made it to high level wrestling, I had to use technique over strength and athleticism.
      Chasing the back and relying on a mat return is a fools game. If someone mat returns me, I have a ton on wrestling I can do from there (standing switch, granby, etc), which will put me on your back, but on the mat where I am safe from getting slammed

    • @MK-ev6ov
      @MK-ev6ov 2 роки тому

      @@josephbreza-grappling9459 great and nuanced response. Thanks!

    • @josephbreza-grappling9459
      @josephbreza-grappling9459  2 роки тому

      @@MK-ev6ov my pleasure! It is something I have been coaching for a long time. My video #25 produced a lot of cyber tears, but it wasn’t necessary directed at Danaher…that sequence of coming up to the waist is something myself and many D1 coaches have told our students to avoid (for the reasons I showed in that video). Chop the tree down low. When he has both feet on the ground, he has the power of his hips. You definitely don’t want that. Coming up the waist is like getting into a fight and giving the other guy a knife to make it even. Don’t get into a battle where he has an equal opportunity to have offense. Take his legs out by chopping the tree down low. Pin his hips to the mat. Get to side control or mount, and you can still get to the back. But just being able to get to the back without the control steps literally is the opposite of “position over submission” because I would argue you don’t have great position yet. If his hips are plastered to the mat, he can’t move well, but you can move well and advance to more dominant positions.

    • @MK-ev6ov
      @MK-ev6ov 2 роки тому

      @@josephbreza-grappling9459 I actually have seen your commentary on danaher’s techniques before and had completely forgot that were talking about the same thing now. It’s weird how the brain works. Maybe getting old.
      What if you duck under and do some bastardized wheel barrow move to get their hands down… then take the back….. just spitballin to see if I can make it make sense.

    • @josephbreza-grappling9459
      @josephbreza-grappling9459  2 роки тому

      If you get them to their hands and feet, then you can use wrestling to get them down to their knees. You need traditional scholastic wrestling for this.
      You can’t do a gut wrench the way Danaher shows in his new instructional from there…he doesn’t do it right. He is too low on their waist (like a hip wrench which does nothing). His mechanics from that position were pretty low level. It’s full of mistakes that will just get you in trouble against a knowledgeable wrestler. A knowledgeable wrestler will just high leg over and put you into full mount. Especially the way he is teaching it.
      For the gut wrench to work (where you don’t get yourself in trouble) you need to first get them to their hands and knees. Even better of you break them flat or to their elbows at a minimum. You need to use wrestling to get them there. If they are on their hands and feet, they can still move too much and can get you into trouble.
      I didn’t show how to break them down from that position yet, but I can once my broken rib is healed.
      I did show the proper way to gut wrench from when they are in a turtle position or on hands and knees on video #42.