- [Patrick] Hi guys, Patrick Fulop here.
This is Effective Martial Arts
and in this lesson,
a very cool sparring session
with commentary by yours truly.
With Rodel that you see right here,
the orange belt on the side.
A little jab over here testing the distance.
Blocking, leg kick, checked.
Going on top, going low.
Here, Rodel's been training with us
just under a year
and he's been improving really fast.
You're gonna get to see a lot of cool techniques
in this video.
Leg catch, but, I slip it out.
Here, working the distance
shield block, leg kick,
making him lose his balance a little bit.
High jab, low jab.
Body kick.
I like to start really slow usually
in striking and in sparring rounds,
Just to feel the other person out,
see what they got,
see their range,
see their moves,
try to read the patterns.
I think that's a good strategy
to adopt in striking.
Also, you want to start nice and relaxed
so that both partners feel comfortable.
Let's slip over here, body shot again,
little duck under, little angle step,
going high, going low.
I'm trying to see what he's all about here.
Striking, striking.
Obviously, we're controlling the power of our strikes,
that's very important for safety.
Check out our safe sparring video
for exactly how to do so.
We do not hit,
we touch with our strikes,
but with correct technical execution.
Playing with the head movements over here.
He strikes again,
I'm staying out of the range.
Working the angles, a little bit of foot work over here.
Turtle Block, Answer the Phone.
Leg kick, going on top, going low.
Here on top.
Leg kick to the head,
very controlled,
very important for safety, guys.
Here, inside leg kick again,
not too hard.
Block counter, going into the Clinch.
Trying to break the posture.
Over/Under, grabbing the head.
Looking to see if I can get a Guillotine.
And, probably go for a Rollback Guillotine.
I'm trying to get on top,
but he's done a good job of blocking my hips
so I'm forced to switch my position,
gets my hips on the other side
so I'm controlling the head on that side.
Wrap it up and Guillotine finish.
He should have gone to his toes
in order to relieve the pressure
on the choke and escape the choke.
We're gonna see the Guillotine and defense in a future video.
A little bit more striking here,
punch and body kick.
On top,
body kick again, landed.
Jab, got pretty long reach with the hands.
Body kick, bring the hips forward,
high, low, high,
little uppercut, grabbing the head again.
Wrapping up the head,
and I'm going for just a "throw to the side" takedown.
Wrapping up the Turtle,
I'm trying to put my hooks in over here
to attack the back,
making sure I post with my hand on the ground
at the same time so I don't fall forward.
Once I have my hooks in,
I work on sinking in the choke.
Going for the back-mount, there we go,
and the choke is there underneath the chin
and then squeeze.
You always wanna get your position first
and only squeeze when you have it.
That's true for all submissions.
Rodel again, punch on top.
He's working his strikes over here.
Body shot, wrap him up again.
I go for a Locked Double over here.
Locking my hands and switching the angle
so go for a side control position over here
so now he has my head and he does not let go
even though I pass the Guard
and that would be a mistake
because that allows me to go for a
Von Flue Choke.
That's what we're working for here,
connecting my hands, working the fingertips,
working the grip.
I'm driving my left shoulder into his neck
and locking his arm in place
and putting pressure with his own shoulder
and there's the tap.
So there's the Von Flue Choke.
Look it up.
We will be covering that in a future video as well.
There we go, here, body kick, blocked.
Striking again, body kick.
Here, working the distance,
little bit out of range,
Turning Side Kick again.
Let's see, nice body kick.
Block with the forearms, working the distance.
Trying to bait him with my head forward,
I like to do that sometimes and draw them out
and that's a good opportunity
after that to counter sometimes.
Strike on top, cached the kick, leads me to the double.
Now, I'm going to test him again,
I told him to let go of the head,
I'm telling him right now to let go
but now he can't, at this point.
He's trying to, but I'm locking him in.
I want to make it harder myself.
I was able to land the strike (meant submission) once,
and I tell him how to defend,
but I'm still able to finish that submission again.
Very important, if you're able to land something
once, twice, on your partner, coach 'em.
That's what I'm doing now.
I'm explaining to him how to get out of
that particular submission.
So, if the person shoots on you
and you wrap up the head
but then they pass your guard,
you want to let go of that head
and frame immediately
and start creating distance.
You do not want to hold onto someone's head
when they are in Side Control on top of you.
They will counter, Von Flue Choke you.
So, we'll see how now I'm going
to test him in the application.
I go in for the Clinch.
Body kick, get a hip motion moving forward,
reaching far, leg kick, little Side Kick to the leg,
that's a nice one.
Side Kick to the face, switching up the hight,
a little head movement, body shot, lunging forward,
reaching distance, nice wide base.
Thigh punch, there body kick again, side kick.
I think I'm gonna go for another takedown
and see he's wrapping up the head
but he let it go.
Which is very good, what I was going for.
I was coaching him to do so.
I still got the guard past though,
he's keeping his elbows in which is pretty good.
Working a little bit of elbows Ground & Pound,
staying heavy.
Now, here I start wrapping up the arm
for Americana Shoulder Lock.
I feel I could finish it
but I decide to coach him on how to escape.
I'm telling him, "Elbow to your ribs".
You want to bring your elbows to your ribs,
there we go, and that's what he does.
Very important to coach your partners
when they have less experience so they get something
out of it as well when you have a sparring session.
Now, beat down position over here,
great position for Ground & Pound.
Locking the arm with my shin
over here so he can't escape it,
and now I'm coaching him on how to do so.
Palm to the ground, elbow towards the top,
but that gives me the opportunity to go to mount
and I still have the arm locked over here
so type of S-Mount
and I take my Americana Shoulder Lock again
because he did expose his elbow
and I want to practice that submission too,
so I go nice and slow.
Get the finish, get the tap.
We reset on top.
So, it's a valuable experience
for somebody who has less experience
to practice with somebody who has more,
so you get to see what the attacks are.
It's a valuable practice time as well
when you're dealing with
somebody who's less experienced.
You can land moves that you don't necessarily
land all the time and you can really
refine your offensive skills.
Rollback Guillotine, this is a very nice move,
Rollback Guillotine, but he pushes me off,
does a great job and he's fighting my hips,
doesn't want me to get back on top,
very good defense from Rodel right here,
but I keep on holding onto his neck
and right back to my Mounted Guillotine.
I try to finish with one arm,
can't do it because he's grip fighting well,
so I need to connect my hands
and that's where I get the tap.
So, there we go, Mounted Guillotine.
Again, we will cover that in a future video, don't worry.
But look it up in the meantime,
there's great content out there.
So, back to the striking range, working Turtle Block,
now I'm trying to kinda test my Turtle Block.
I want him to really strike me,
so I just kinda Turtle and let him strike me
and we'll see how effective my Turtle block is.
Let him go loose, but then I'm gonna use that to counter,
here, there we go.
I kind of make him feel comfortable
and then not expect a counter
and then that's when you counter.
Nice Lateral Drop, so pushing forward, creating a reaction
and then switching direction immediately.
Nice little takedown.
Play that again if you wanna see it,
so feel free to rewind any moves
that you've liked in this sparring session.
Now, I'm in North/South,
I'm going for the North/South Choke.
So, he's trying to relieve the pressure
by pulling on my shoulder, but he can't quite get it.
And I do wanna get the finish
because I wanna practice my finish.
I'm gonna drop my shoulder to the mat
and really wiggle in place, make final adjustments
and that's where I get the tap.
Now, even though he has tapped,
I want to tell him how to escape,
so I'm telling him now to push on my head,
push on my chin, and elevate my head
and that's a great defense for the North/South Choke,
because you're preventing the person from squeezing
by pushing their head away.
So, it forces me to transition to something else.
So, there we go, now I'm on top, Side Control.
He's flaring the elbows a little bit but it's good
prayer position, he's using them to frame.
Now, I go to the Knee-On-Belly Position.
Nice platform to strike, Knee-On-Belly,
and he gives me an arm so I take it,
and pull the slack out of it
and finish the Armbar against the elbow like this.
Again, I will coach him now on how to escape the Armbar,
very important, or actually, how to prevent.
So, from Knee-On-Belly, I'm telling him,
"Guys, knees, elbows to the ribs, elbows to the ribs".
You do not have your elbows,
you're making space for the guys to come in,
but if you have your elbow glued to your ribs,
the person will not be able to isolate the arm,
and will not be able to do the Armbar submission
or many other submissions for that matter.
Shoulder locks, triangles and so on, will not be possible
as long as the elbow is stuck to the ribs.
Now, I'm coaching him on the Kneel on Belly escape.
One of the escapes is to spin under, like so.
Obviously, it's a new drill,
but it's a nice way to practice,
is to kind of see the application and techniques
and then we'll drill them later.
So, open guard situation, down guard standing,
I'm trying to control the legs,
now I'm trying to explore a little bit
my Ground & Pound, so bringing the hips forward
and landing a couple strikes over here.
Now, very important to have hip pressure
so you don't fall back, and have a nice, wide base
so the person can't make you fall.
Now, when we're practicing Ground & Pound,
you don't even need to touch, really.
I'm going to touch his face,
I'm going to land my strike, but, you guys, no power.
You don't need any power in this situation
for the other person to know that they're open.
They can see it and they feel it, okay?
But you don't need to hurt your partner.
Safety is very important.
So, pinning the wrist down, that's a very nice move
made popular by Khabib Nurmagomedov,
so pinning one arm and using the other one to strike,
that's a very nice little Ground & Pound
technique for you guys.
So, controlling one arm and then striking.
Now, I go into guard pass and I coach him on how
to redirect my energy and retain guard.
Now, open guard situation again,
he's trying to get in on the legs, going for a sweep,
I'm staying heavy, a nice, wide base
and allow him to sweep me and then I'm coaching
him on what to do after.
You want to sweep the guy and then you want to immediately
get up on top by controlling the ankles,
but he over-commits and allows me to sweep him again.
So, that's a common mistake when we're starting
guard passing, over-committing,
which will lead to a sweep or sometimes a submission.
So, now I'm in here, I coach him again
on how to control my ankles, sweep me, and I ball up.
Here, he gets on top.
Now I'm in on a leg, I wanna practice a little bit
of my leg locks over here.
So, wrapping up a leg, some type of an Ashi Garami position,
Ashi leg entanglement,
I'm trying to hold onto the leg
and I'm coaching him on the defense at the same time.
I'm telling him what to do to escape.
Push away, try to clear the knee line, fight the grip,
controlling the top leg, over here,
trying to immobilize him, but he escapes
and I wrap up the inside triangle leg position,
or otherwise known as an Inside Sankaku,
in order to isolate the leg
and I go for an inside Heel Hook on that side.
Now, he's fighting it,
I'm coaching him on trying to punch me,
so I'm seeing if I'm safe from punches over here.
And there we go, so the leg is here, now I have the bite,
I'm warning him that the tap is coming,
he's not necessarily experienced Heel Hooks in the past,
and I want to go extra slow on the finish.
I do wanna know where my finish is,
and I wanna be able to finish,
but I'm gonna go super, super slow.
Give him time to tap and he feels it and taps.
Heel Hooks are very dangerous because there's not
a lot of give in that ligament in the side of the knee.
Now, this was a birthday present for Rodel,
so I said we'll go a couple rounds and have fun
and I was expecting him to have enough at this point,
but he said he wanted to continue, so great!
I was happy to oblige and have more fun.
So, now another situation here, I gave him my back.
I said, "Hey, let's start from here".
So, that's another important tool
when you are practicing with people
who have less experience, put yourself in bad situations
and help them practice their offense, review your defense.
See, I'm dropping my back to the mat
and I'm coaching him on how to retain
back control by switching sides.
I'm coaching him on how to get the grip he needs to choke.
A little bit of mistake here, crossing the ankles.
He goes under and he lets go of one over hook,
again, that's another mistake.
You do not want to let go of any one of the hooks,
and see my right hip here is free because he has no hook,
and I'm gonna use that to escape.
I'm just kinda hanging out there,
doing a little bit of grip fighting in the meantime,
controlling the arms.
That's pretty much the only thing you can do
when you're in side back control,
you really want to have good grip
fighting going on, and there it is.
I just spin around into top Half-Guard,
because he did not have his hook in.
And here I give him my back again,
I say, "Hey, let's go. Take my back."
And he sinks the arm underneath the chin,
but now he doesn't post on his hand in order to retain,
stay low on the back, which allows me to do
the Shake Off escape, as you can see here.
So, when you are in top Turtle and you have the back,
you want to be ready to post so that you don't slide off.
And give him the guard pass again.
So I'm in a bad position, he gets here, top mount,
work a little bit, the defense against the Ground & Pound,
so protecting myself by burying my head
and controlling the body.
And on the way down, boom, Bridge and Roll to escape the
Full Mount position, we saw that in the Full Mount video.
So, here, now he's got some type of a grip,
some type of his forearm is in my neck,
but it's not really a submission and he's forcing too much,
so I'm telling him to relax,
it's not worth the effort to try to finish there,
it's not really a submission.
So, here, I'm telling him here to break my posture,
very important.
So, whenever your partner,
you feel he doesn't really know what to do,
he's not really doing the right thing,
you can definitely coach him and that's good.
If you have more experience, if you're an instructor
especially or if you're a coach of some kind,
you do want to help the people you spar with
if you have more experience.
Now, Guillotine defense.
I'm seeing if he's able to finish the Guillotine.
As you can see, I'm tripoding on my toes,
a lot of shoulder pressure in the chest,
preventing him from going to his right side,
which is what he would need in order to finish
the Guillotine, but I'm pinning him to the ground
so he can't do so and I'm grip fighting at the same time.
Can't quite see this there, but I'm grip fighting
the Guillotine grip in order for the choke not to work.
So, right here, fighting grip,
and eventually I'm freeing my head, there he goes.
So, I'm back in his guard,
working a little bit of ground and pound some more,
isolating both wrists with one hand
in order to land a strike.
So, I'm coaching him now on escaping
the grip that I'm doing.
So, if I pin one arm over here,
he wants to get that arm free, that's his priority
because otherwise he will eat some strikes
as long as I'm controlling one of his arms.
So he must let it get free, that's what
I'm telling him right now.
He does and that allows him to pursue the interaction.
A little Half-Guard over here, Knee Shield,
now working my Ground & Pound again,
trying to get rid of the Knee Shield, but he brings it back.
I'm coaching him on how to frame on the shoulder,
in order to prevent against those punches
and the other shoulder will do the job
of blocking the other side.
I can come under with an upper cut
but he needs to goaltend both options,
on top and underneath, with that arm,
but then his goal would be to escape
once he's safe from strikes.
You just wanna work on his frames,
creating distance and technical getup
to get back to his feet. Beautifully done.
And we're back to striking range.
So, back to striking.
A couple punches, blocked,
working the angles, the distance.
Adjusting my headgear.
Nice little combo, but he was there for the counter.
So, strike.
Now what I'm telling him is, "You come in
and then when you finish your interaction, you come out".
And he does the same mistake again,
so now I'm gonna show him how it's done.
So, come in, strike, come out.
So, a lot of top fighters do that,
come in, come out.
Demetrious Johnson is the best probably for those
types of evasive movements so don't be there,
and Rodel applies it beautifully right after.
So, he strikes and he's outta there
so I can not counterstrike him at this point anymore.
So, very good striking strategy for you guys.
A little leg kick, almost lose my balance,
strike, strike, block and counter.
A little Answer the Phone technique,
blocking the leg kick.
There, to the face, to the body, kicking,
Side Kick to the knee, very effective strike.
I like it a lot.
Turning Side Kick, controlled obviously,
you wanna control the power of those strikes.
Little Shield Block, and goes on top, top and bottom.
I'm changing my posture a little bit,
and yeah, Jumping Jab, very cool.
Jab again, working on his defense.
Working the body, leg, body.
He's doing a good job of mixing the variety of strikes.
Here, I like that little trip on the way out,
this gives us the Clinch very often.
Here, wrapping up the head, I'm going for an Anaconda Choke,
to wrap up the hand underneath the armpit
and do kind of a Rear Naked Choke grip and spin around.
I don't feel I can finish it from here,
I don't really have the right angles,
so I switch and get to my knees.
And it's always better to be on top anyways,
and I switch it in, sink my arm in
in order to get the D'Arce Choke,
D-apostrophe-A-R-C-E or it's also known as Brabo Choke
and there it is, lift the shoulder,
lift the elbow in order to get the finish.
And that's our little sparring session
and Rodel's birthday party,
so go ahead and leave in the comments below
congratulate him on this little session.
He did a very good job, less than a year of training,
so a very good student and Martial Artist.
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