Alright, so you are making progress in Jiu-Jitsu – you are learning techniques and details bit by bit…
But you just can’t seem to apply them when it comes to sparring or competition.
Why is that so?
Well, there is a good chance that you are relying on successful application of one technique at a time.
Which is, as emphasized by John Danaher himself, a big mistake.
Because, to really be successful at applying techniques, you need to apply them in clusters.
Here is what Danaher had to say about the topic in a recent social media post:
Every time you go to apply a move you must have another in your mind to follow up that move should it fail.
Just as a good general never commits all his forces into battle at the same time, but always keeps a reserve to exploit the openings created by the first push, so too, the good jiu jitsu player has a follow up mapped out even as he is committed to his current move.
This doesn’t mean that you should think that the first move isn’t going to work from the get-go however:
Don’t let this way of thinking reduce your commitment to the first move – you have to really make the opponent think the first move is the real attack and really try to defend it – that’s what will create the openings for a second or third move.
Tunnel vision is never the right perspective for good jiu jitsu.
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