What do you think: how important is wrestling in Jiu-Jitsu? Particularly in no-gi?
Well, almost every professional and elite Jiu-Jitsu competitor will say that wrestling is vital to your success on the mats.
For example, Stuart Cooper interviewed a number of elite grapplers during a recent Grappling Industries event, and many of them said that wrestling is a must!
Dante Leon, a 2x IBJJF No-Gi world champion, is the first one to admit it:
It’s gotten past the point where it’s something that’s important. [Now] it’s imperative, it’s completely necessary, it’s something that has to be done.
And I think the next generation [of no-gi BJJ athletes] would be well-advised to start with that as soon as they can.
So you’d like to improve your wrestling, right? More specifically, your takedown shots?
Here’s a great drill that you can do to become better. It’s done against a stationary partner.
Nick Rodriguez demonstrates it below:
Score Takedowns And Get To The Back With The System Nick Rodriguez Learned In The Blue Basement And Medaled With At ADCC.
- No six pack? No problem. Nicky Rod shows the wrestling and back takes he uses that anyone can do to shoot, score, and always be attacking.
- Wrestle and win like ADCC Silver Medalist Nick Rodriguez as he shows the takedown combinations and back takes that became the winning system against the world’s elite black belts.
