Hancuffin fools.

So. I was trying some handcuffing during live rolling today

It is really hard and really specialised. But I found I was looking for things and developing skills I don't normally do.

Especially back takes. My focus wasn't on the neck. But on securing the arms. Which made my back takes instantly better.
This is really interesting.
 
So. I was trying some handcuffing during live rolling today

It is really hard and really specialised. But I found I was looking for things and developing skills I don't normally do.

Especially back takes. My focus wasn't on the neck. But on securing the arms. Which made my back takes instantly better.
Could you talk more about this?
 
Could you talk more about this?
So if you look at the videos above. I was basically trying to hit those concepts. Just doing live rolling with the BJJ guys.

Essentially I would try to get a top position. Hit a gift wrap with those crossed arms. To get the top arm I move to a seated back take. But sort of let them post and go for the post then reach behind their back and get that hand cuff. (I mostly tried to pull the arm. Then wedge my foot in there to secure it. Then Kimoura the bottom arm. )

Or go for the bottom arm. Kimoura then handcuff.

Or force them in to turtle. And take that belly down handcuff.

Which is all kind of good back take dynamics. The theory being you don't take someone's back then desperately attack the neck because they desperately defend it.

You take their back take their hands away and have a free shot at their neck.

I didn't use commands to sort of pain compliance myself another arm and I didn't reef anything on. So it was just a jujitsu match.

I got a couple of the newer guys. Lost control a heap of times and had to reset everything. And sometimes never got out of guard and had to just play a straight jits game.

But all in all I found it a legitimately fun exercise that didn't effect their rolls much. And I think really broadened my outlook.
 
So. I was doing this on my own. The top arm gets a kimoura the bottom arm gets the dagastani handcuff. Depending on what i can catch.


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This gift wrap traditionally leads itself to a back take. But I would just seat them a bit and dagastani handcuff. Then shove my foot in there to hold it because I don't have that 2nd guy.
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So. I was trying some handcuffing during live rolling today

It is really hard and really specialised. But I found I was looking for things and developing skills I don't normally do.

Especially back takes. My focus wasn't on the neck. But on securing the arms. Which made my back takes instantly better.
Part of what makes it really hard is controlling Both arms.
 
So if you look at the videos above. I was basically trying to hit those concepts. Just doing live rolling with the BJJ guys.

Essentially I would try to get a top position. Hit a gift wrap with those crossed arms. To get the top arm I move to a seated back take. But sort of let them post and go for the post then reach behind their back and get that hand cuff. (I mostly tried to pull the arm. Then wedge my foot in there to secure it. Then Kimoura the bottom arm. )

Or go for the bottom arm. Kimoura then handcuff.

Or force them in to turtle. And take that belly down handcuff.

Which is all kind of good back take dynamics. The theory being you don't take someone's back then desperately attack the neck because they desperately defend it.

You take their back take their hands away and have a free shot at their neck.

I didn't use commands to sort of pain compliance myself another arm and I didn't reef anything on. So it was just a jujitsu match.

I got a couple of the newer guys. Lost control a heap of times and had to reset everything. And sometimes never got out of guard and had to just play a straight jits game.

But all in all I found it a legitimately fun exercise that didn't effect their rolls much. And I think really broadened my outlook.
Thanks for that! That really makes sense to me even though I have almost no jujitsu skills.
 
Thanks for that! That really makes sense to me even though I have almost no jujitsu skills.
You really need jujitsu skills.

The times basically anything worked for me was when I had good timing and saw good opportunities.

You probably don't need a lot of techniques. But you would need time on the mat applying them.

Otherwise If you were going to just find something guy and start playing with these ideas. I would suggest being very careful about wrenching arms behind backs to win. As you could hurt people.

But yeah. There is probably enough information on the internet to get a pretty good base for just that specific stuff.
 
Mabye the major element missing is back takes. Which you want to get good at as they are pretty consistent concepts for this idea.


 
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You really need jujitsu skills.

The times basically anything worked for me was when I had good timing and saw good opportunities.

You probably don't need a lot of techniques. But you would need time on the mat applying them.

Otherwise If you were going to just find something guy and start playing with these ideas. I would suggest being very careful about wrenching arms behind backs to win. As you could hurt people.

But yeah. There is probably enough information on the internet to get a pretty good base for just that specific stuff.
I would train jujitsu if I had more time. Ever the real enemy…
 

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