What if I told you you could learn how to do Rear Naked Chokes from a UFC veteran with more than two dozen submission wins and is a BJJ black belt? You’ll likely ask where the seminar is taking place and how much it costs.
Well, in this case, we’re not walking about a seminar, but rather an instructional. The Finish Every Fight Gerald Meerschaert Back Attack DVD is the UFC middleweight’s attempt to introduce wrestling-based efficiency to finishing submissions from the back. Even though the instructional is far from having any sort of ‘wow’ factor, there are a couple of useful things inside. Read on.
Key Takeaways
- 3-volume No-Gi BJJ DVD lasting barely over an hour – could be a single BJJ class.
- A demonstration of back attacks which are overly complicated to be effective.
- Includes useful information on dealing with the referee’s position.
- BJJ World Expert Rating: 5 out of 10.
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Effective Finishing From The Back
How do you best finish someone from back control? Well, that is not always going to be a choice you can make. While you can dictate the position, and force your game from the back, you most likely won’t be able to hit the Rar Naked Choke even nearly as much as you want.
People are very effective at defending the most common choke attacks from the back, as they’ve been caught in them numerous times. That said, the way to improve your success rate with these submissions is not by practicing them more, but rather by diversifying your submission threats from the back.
Why not introduce triangles from the back to help your choking efforts? Even if they can’t lead to a strangle, you’ll get excellent arm exposure to transition to armlocks without ever leaving the back. Or, why not add leg locks to the game, confusing your opponent’s defenses even further?
The more versatile your submission arsenal is from a given position, the more effective you will be with a specific attack that you pick. This Finish Every Fight Gerald Meerschaert Back Attack DVD as clunky as it is, touches upon the importance of this approach in most of its content.
UFC’s Middleweight Gerald Meerschaert
Gerald Meerschaert is a BJJ Black belt and an MMA fighter, currently on the middleweight roster of the UFC. Boasting an impressive record of 36-17-0, Meerschaert knows a thing or two about grappling, as proven by his 28 submission wins as a pro-MMA fighter.
The 36-year-old American fighter has been competing in MMA since 2007, dominating the cage in Titan FC, King of the Cage, and finally, the grand stage of the UFC since 2016. Training under Duke Roufus, Gerald Meerschaert has a very effective style of grappling, aimed mainly toward MMA needs.
He has proven this point the hard way, as his professional grappling career, at least thus far, has not been anywhere near as stellar as his MMA performances. Gerald lost his only two pro grappling matches the first to Joe Pyfer in Fury Grappling Pro and the second to Craig Jones in Polaris in 2023.
That said, there is something to be gained from Gerald’s experiences, and he found it prudent to issue the Finish Every Fight Gerald Meerschaert Back Attack DVD recently. Whether it helps absolve his grappling mishaps or confirms them, is down to this review.
Finish Every Fight Gerald Meerschaert DVD Review
The Finish Every Fight Gerald Meerschaert Back Attack DVD is a NO-Gi instructional divided into three volumes, each lasting a different amount of time. The total running time of the DVD is just over an hour, which is very short by modern standards, especially given the subject matter.
Part 1 – Passing to Headlocks
In a weird way, to begin a DVD that claims to focus on back attacks, the Finish Every Fight Gerald Meerschaert Back Attack DVD begins by addressing passing. There are only a few chapters per volume of the DVD, with Meerschaert divulging information in large chunks.
This part only has three chapters, one of which is the intro. The following two parts go over standing passing as a means of opening up the front headlock. Gerlad focuses on ankle control to find his way past the legs and attack the headlock. All the material is presented in just over 10 minutes.
Part 2 – Attacking the Referee’s Position
After the surprisingly short, and somewhat information-ridden first volume, this Gerald Meerschaert DVD goes on to explore how to attack the referee’s position, which, whether intentional or not, is forward-thinking by Gerald.
Since modern BJJ defense systems are introducing the referee position into grappling, understanding how wrestlers break it down, and using wrist traps to break the structure is immense. Gerald leads us through three chapters, outlining how to take the back by way of controlling wrists, ankles, and combinations of both.
Part 3 – Rear Naked Chokes
After the lightly longer second part (around 25 minutes), the Finish Every Fight Gerald Meerschaert Back Attack DVD finally gets to the subject described all along – finishing from the back. This part of the instructional is longer, exceeding thirty minutes, and covers everything bunched up in one chapter – the rear naked choke.
In all fairness, Gerald does provide information on the entire process, from fighting to sneak the hand under the chin, to wrapping your arm around the neck and finishing using different grips and squeezes.
Improve Your Back Attacks With Wrestling
The past of BJJ is largely rooted in wrestling, as is its future. I came into the spot somewhere in the middle, when wrestling was mostly shunned, due to the extravagant nature of Gi BJJ. However, wrestling has been slowly creeping back in the past decade, finally smashing the doors a few years ago with the rise of the pro-No-Gi scene.
Since then, open-minded people in Jiu-Jitsu have benefited immensely from the huge wealth of knowledge that wrestling has to offer. Namely, apart from improving standing, wrestling has helped us develop better pins, more purposeful and precise transitions, and figure out a way ho to defend every BJJ attack there is.
But there is more. Wrestling can also help improve key BJJ positions, like for example, back control. We’ve seen glimpses in Eddie Bravo’s Twister and Truck, but that just leaves a whole lot more to borrow. Whichever position you’re thinking about, try to introduce some wrestling to it. The Finish Every Fight Gerald Meerschaert Back Attack DVD opens the door to such an approach and it will pay off!
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Get The Tap!
Chasing the tap is the ultimate goal of BJJ and, regardless of what people might say, it doesn’t matter where it comes from. However, what should be the easiest thing to do in Jiu-Jitsu – apply a submission, is actually the most difficult part.
Picking the mind, figuratively, of a UFC veteran on the subject of strangling people from the bag is always a good idea. In all honesty, this Finish Every Fight Gerald Meerschaert Back Attack DVD doesn’t really bring too much value, with the exclusion of a couple of things, but it does offer something important – a different approach to becoming more efficient with submissions.
