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Roger Gracie Shares Details For A Stealthy Baseball Choke Setup

Nov 21, 2018Articles

Roger Gracie Shares Details For A Stealthy Baseball Choke Setup

Roger Gracie is known as the GOAT of Jiu-Jitsu, with his 10 black belt world titles and his recent submission victory over Marcus Buchecha which cemented his legacy.

Gracie is known as the master of gi chokes, most notably cross chokes. This form of baseball is in some ways a reverse cross choke.

Starting from knee on belly Gracie shares unforgettable detail that will enable you to checkmat your opponent and ultimately put them to sleep if they don’t surrender.

Interestingly while Roger periodically shares details on youtube he’s been a big opponent of online learning in the past saying things like:

Copying YouTube positions not training the basics. Maybe it’s the biggest mistake of the kids today, who gets carried away with berimbolo and the like and forgets the rest…

He also was asked by Hywel Teague of BJJ Hacks:

Can Youtube be bad a thing for a BJJ practitioner’s developmemt?

I agree, especially in the beginning. It’s very important that you don’t create bad habits. You need to have a very strong structure and then you can learn anything you want. Then you won’t make silly mistakes. At one point, watching too much technique on Youtube is bad because when you try them, you open yourself up completely and you don’t defend the way you should and you end up getting tapped out on the mat…So it’s alway good to be open to learning new things but don’t forget your foundations, that’s why I think that my Jiu-Jitsu is so strong, because I have a very strong foindation. My basic is very strong, so it’s hard for me to make silly mistakes, so it’s easy for me to learn new things, and I can know how far I can go. That’s the tricky part: knowing how far you can go before retreating. So if you don’t have the basics, you end up going too far in the middle of a war zone.

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