


Step your left foot to the outside of your opponent’s right foot.Assume your right hand is grabbing the collar.

Start by getting a cross collar grip on your opponent.It is easy to learn and thus should be part of every BJJ practitioner’s arsenal. Also a common guard sweep, this can be applied standing as well. This is a takedown you only see in BJJ, as it leaves takes your opponent down face first, which doesn’t score in judo.
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They are pointless in sub-only rulesets and in IBJJF tournaments are only worth 2 points plus they can be negated by your opponent pulling guard. įrom a competition perspective, it is true that many rulesets do not reward takedowns. Look at BJJ’s MMA hero, Demian Maia he only really started succeeding against high level competition after extensively working on his wrestling. The most common issue high level Brazilian jiu jitsu artists face when transitioning to MMA is getting the fight to the ground in the first place. In MMA, one needs only to look at the dominance of wrestlers today to see the importance of takedowns. Īs another often repeated phrase goes “the ground is the last place you want to be in a street fight”. And while BJJ training will give you a powerful advantage if it does go to the ground, ideally you want to avoid it and make your escape as quickly as possible. Having good takedowns also means having good takedown defence which is a very important part in a self-defense scenario particularly if there are multiple opponents involved.
