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Wrestling to BJJ: Short Version
Work in progress as I add videos My experience as a state placer in high school wrestling was that you can be pretty good at wrestling with only 4-5 moves.
This guide is my attempt to give you a winning BJJ game in the simplest, shortest way possible with 4-5 common things you need to know. I’m assuming you already have a good takedown in your arsenal, so I won’t cover that.
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A Wrestler's Guide to Starting BJJ: Long Version
This is a living document that will change as I update my thinking over time. I’m a black belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. I was also a fairly successful high school wrestler. I also have ADHD, which means I tend to focus on a handful of simple one or two step concepts in my grappling instead of learning 10,000 complex moves.
When I started it was all “get used to being on your back” and “learn guard.
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