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