There are a LOT of subtleties that you have to observe when you do that though, and changing the position of your hands, your head, or your body by a couple of inches can change this from a high-percentage takedown to an ineffective waste of your energy that lands you in a bad place.
Watch Bernardo Faria compete in the BJJ Mundials: in almost every match he pulls half guard, secures a Single Leg, comes up to his feet, and takes his opponent down.īasically you reach down, grab one of his legs, lift it off the ground, and topple him over. The Single Leg Takedown is another hugely important technique in Wrestling with a lot of application in BJJ. In MMA it’s more common to stay up on the feet, but both variations are equally valid for BJJ.
Many Freestyle Wrestlers use the penetration step because their opponents are usually quite bent over and they need to get as low as possible to hit this move. The biggest differences between these variations include head position (is the head to the side or in the middle of the chest) and whether you drop down to your lead knee as you shoot (the penetration step). There are lots of different variations for the Double Leg. But it’s also NOT just a football or a rugby tackle – this is a highly technical manoeuvre with sophisticated setups and followups. You can’t use the Double Leg if you’re afraid of commitment: you have to hit it hard and fast. This takedown is a mainstay in BJJ, Wrestling and MMA (unfortunately the Judo illuminati has completely banned it, to the detriment of the sport in my opinion). If you grapple then you should be able to do at least a basic Double Leg. Here are the 10 throws and takedowns for BJJ that you see most often in high-level competition… 1, Double Leg Takedown So for us the key is to get one or two throws to work for reliably for you, and then you’re off to the races. The groundwork in BJJ is so important that we have even less time to train standup. If knowing more throws was the most effective way to win matches don’t you think that that both Wrestlers and Judoka would have figured this out already?
Nobody.Īlmost all of a high-level Judoka’s training is geared towards honing the mechanics for whatever limited number of throws they use, working on the setups for them, and getting thousands of thousands of repetitions. What those throws are might vary from player to player, but there’s nobody out there hitting 50 different throws in the Olympics. You don’t even have to learn all 10 techniques mentioned on this page – in fact that would be both inefficient and ineffective.Ĭonsider Judo… Most top Judo players only have two to four reliable throwing techniques – that’s it! They specialise in a small number of throws that most suit their body type, personality, and fighting style. You DON’T have to learn a thousand throws to become a competent grappler. But if you include all the major variations of those 67 throws then you’d be well into the hundreds before you were done.Īnd then if you add the throws and takedowns from Freestyle Wrestling, Greco-Roman Wrestling, and Sambo it gets ridiculous: probably a thousand techniques or more…īut it’s actually a lot simpler than that. In the original Judo syllabus, for example, there were 67 different throws you had to learn. The first thing to know is that there are TONS of different throws and takedowns in Grappling. In this Grapplearts article you’re going to learn about the top ten throws and takedowns you see most often in high-level BJJ competition. Yes, it’s true that pulling guard is an option in sport BJJ competition, but ultimately this is a martial art, which means we have to at least occasionally consider the self defense aspects of what we’re doing.Īre you going to pull guard in a streetfight? Not bloody likely. I’ll go ahead and say it: every practitioner should have at least a couple of throws and takedowns for BJJ.
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