Professor Henry Akins joins the show for the second time to talk about escaping bad positions, using your opponent’s grips against them, developing a mind map and why he feels positional training is so important. Click “Read More” for show notes!
SHOW NOTES:
- His upcoming Pan Pacific seminar tour
- The rapid growth of his website HiddenJiuJitsu.com
- Universal concepts of escaping
- Concepts for escaping the bottom side mount
- Developing multiple options in Jiu-Jitsu vs looking for the easiest way out
- The battle for the under hook
- Recomposing the guard from bottom side is not the only escape option
- Maintaining guard / using the passer’s grips against him
- The fundamentals of passing the guard
- Master Rickson’s advice on passing the guard
- Why learning a concept is worth 100 techniques
- Understanding transitions / developing a mind map
- Why both he and Master Rickson believe so strongly in positional training
- Starting rolls from the feet / learning take downs
- Why not every self defense situation is appropriate to take to the ground
- Standing grappling concepts for self defense
- The Tom Deblass Walmart incident
- Hidden Jiu-Jitsu defined
- Teaching Hidden Jiu-Jitsu without physical contact (online/on video)
- Game plans for non-flexible people
- The intelligent use of strength and energy
- What he feels is the hardest aspect of Jiu-Jitsu to perfect
