John Will Seminar

What a great day. John is a fantastic and inspirational coach. We've all got a ton of stuff to work on.

We spent the afternoon working on half-guard. John has had a look at what he thinks I should be working on to develop a game that suits me.

This alone is something that we have struggled with as we spent all but a few weekends of the year just trying to work our collective BJJ game without input from outside. So when we have the likes of John and Rodney across it gives us a major boost in our development.



The evening seminar was a mix of things that all linked together. John and I had discussed what we had been working recently and what we thought people might be missing and he planned the session based around that. John took us through some great, hig-percentage moves from closed guard, looking at timings to break people down working to sweep them. After plugging in a batch of sweeps John switched to attacking from here with a great set up for armbars and triangles.



From here we switched to passing the guard looking at breaking down a pass incrementally and waiting for them to give you the energy, space or movement needed to complete the pass - something John calls the Patience Point. A fantastic idea which takes a lot of the ‘battle’ out of passing guard.

As a natural progression John worked us through some knee ride material - at which point Gaz began to wish he'd picked someone lighter to work with. John was emphasising how grips work and how they can be set up before you take the knee ride.

To finish off we looked at setting up the spin choke from here. A great cross-lapel choke that uses rotation to lock it in and feels like a monster. I want to play with that on a lot.

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