Name: The 3 Things John Danaher Wants to Change About Jiu-Jitsu
Uploaded: 2021-05-28T17:37:37.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'The 3 Things John Danaher Wants to Change About Jiu-Jitsu' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-05-28. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'The 3 Things John Danaher Wants to Change About Jiu-Jitsu' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-05-28. Transcript available.

The Joe Rogan experience when you're training athletes for
Jiu-jitsu and one of the interesting things about the Gordon Ryan conversation
that I had recently
I didn't know that you are Gary Tonin striking coach as well. Oh, yeah, yeah
pretty
Amazing that you can do both that you can train them in both jiu-jitsu and also
train them in striking
And I know you have a background in striking, but still when you're training an
athlete like Gary
If you're training someone like Gordon for jiu-jitsu, I'm sure there's some
emphasis on takedowns
But it's not a primary concern. The primary concern is submissions right like
the oftentimes you see
Gordon will sit pull guard all these things that are not
possible in MMA or very rare
What how much of a shift is it to train them for mixed martial arts because you're
clearly training him to strike and training him?
But ultimately this the skill set the best part of their skill set involves in
submission. That's correct
The big challenge for most jiu-jitsu players when they try to apply their their
craft in mixed martial arts is
One can they get it to the ground? That's a challenge in itself
And an even greater challenge is can you keep it on the ground? Okay?
It means nothing if you take someone down if they just spring back up within
three to five seconds. It's it's energy
Spent that had no reward
A sad thing about jiu-jitsu is that when it's practiced
There's almost always a kind of gentleman's agreement that there's going to be
a top player and a bottom player
And if you start in the bottom
You stay in the bottom the moment you get into a mixed martial arts context
that goes right out the window
And now you have two responsibilities
You don't just have to pass your opponent's guard from top position. You have
to hold them down while you're doing it and that's that's not easy
When you look at the notion of escape in jiu-jitsu
The overwhelming majority of escapes in the sport of jiu-jitsu are escapes to
guard position
If you're mounted you elbow escape you put them back in guard
If the guy's got side pin on you your elbow escape put them back in guard
If the guy's behind you you do a forward roll spin back into them put them back
in guard
Ninety percent of the escapes in jiu-jitsu are escapes back to guard position
And so when you start in bottom position you tend to stay in bottom position
Now contrast that with the sport of wrestling
Where the overwhelming majority of escapes are escapes to standing back up to a
neutral position on your feet
That means that when jiu-jitsu players face other forms of grappling
They're not trying to put us back in guard. They're trying to stand up
And jiu-jitsu players never practice against that when they're doing their
daily training
And so suddenly you've got a guy who just assumes for his entire career that if
he's on top
Yeah, the guy's going to play guard and this guy's not playing guard at all
He's just pushing your head standing up and hip-hoping up to his feet
The jiu-jitsu guy's like, well, I had top position. Why aren't you playing
guard?
and so
They're now put into an area where
Nothing in their training has really prepared them for this
And jiu-jitsu is going to have to mature
I've always said jiu-jitsu is one of the greatest products I ever saw in my
life
I wouldn't have invested 30 years of my life into jiu-jitsu if I didn't believe
that with all my heart and all my soul
But like any great product it has its deficiencies
jiu-jitsu always had three major deficiencies
leg locks
takedowns
and thirdly the one that no one talks about the ability to impose top position
once it's gained
A huge part of my career has been
The recognition and the attempt to change these three great faults in jiu-jitsu
As much as I love jiu-jitsu
We've got to take a step back and take an honest look at it. It's got these
three
deeply and entwined faults within it
Leg locks was the most obvious one
in a game which
was supposedly all about control leading to submission
There was an arbitrary rule that 50% of the body couldn't be attacked. That was
lunacy
And over the last 10 years, I believe it's fair to say we've reached a point
where that is no longer the case
That that is a great weakness within jiu-jitsu the younger generation of jiu-jitsu
I would match them
Against any grappling out in the world on leg locks with no fear whatsoever
that
I couldn't have said that 15 years ago
But things have changed now. We need to address the other two great weaknesses
Jiu-jitsu has to do something about the crisis which is starting to emerge
around takedowns and the ability to impose top position
What you're seeing among jiu-jitsu athletes now who go into mixed martial arts
is they just have to turn to other arts
They have to learn wrestling. They have to learn these and there's nothing
wrong with that
But the truth is that jiu-jitsu has become a relative a smaller and smaller
component of mixed martial arts
Rather than what it was when it first started which is a dominant force in
mixed martial arts
Now for most of the athletes jiu-jitsu is something you learn to stay out of
some pesky submission holds
It's not the be-all and focus for most of the athletes in mixed martial arts
Most of them are centered around kickboxing skills and wrestling
I think that we have done a great job of overcoming one out of three great
problems in jiu-jitsu
But there's still two more to go
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