Key Takeaways
- A No-Gi BJJ DVD guiding you through the best applications of underhooks for control.
- Contains standing, pinning, and guard examples, using some of Glover’s signature positions.
- Includes both defensive and attacking uses of underhooks.
- BJJ World Expert Rating: 8 out of 10.
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Some of the most fundamental grappling concepts are often the ones we fail at, mostly because they’re only covered as parts of moves, and are not the main focus of your attention. Underhooks are a great example of this.
There is no way you can effectively grappler without underhooks, Gi or No-Gi, but how much do you really understand about the mechanics and dynamics of this staple grappling move? One look at the Underhooks With Uncle Jeff Glover DVD will show you how much you’re falling behind in understanding what underhooks can do for your Jiu-Jitsu.
Conquering the Armpits
So what’s the deal with underhooks? Everyone is constantly talking about them, especially wrestlers and MMA fighters, but what’s the big deal? After all, they’re easy to get, right?
Nope. If you’ve ever tried getting a single, let alone double underhooks from the mount, then you know how elusive they can be. On that note, holding the mount without any means of control in the bottom person’s armpit(s) is nearly an impossible task.
Armpit control is one of those things that is easy to apply to just about everything in BJJ. Think about it – you’re either trying to put your limbs in the opponent’s armpits or trying to clear their limbs from yours. When you thin about underhooks in this manner, it becomes a lot easier to use them.
A great thing about the Underhooks With Uncle Jeff Glover DVD is that Jeff is not a stickler for how an underhook should look. Instead, he offers the concept of underhooks from every applicable position, letting you figure out how you’re going to place your arm.
Jeff Glover’s BJJ
So it’s Uncle Jeff again. This time around, he’s talking about a concept everyone needs. But, before we get into it, why Jeff Glover? After all, plenty of people have tried to cover this subject, and yet, you’ll likely learn more from this playful instructional by Glover than all others put together.
It is exactly whits playfulness that sets Jeff apart from everyone else. When you think about it, the applications of underhooks can’t change – they’re literally set in stone. So, it comes down to who is delivering the information, which, it turns out, matters a lot to those trying to learn from a specific resource, like the Underhooks With Uncle Jeff Glover DVD.
At the end of the day, it is Jeff’s teaching style that will help you figure out what matters and what you should focus on. Admittedly, Jeff does stuff a bit unorthodoxly, but that’s the missing piece of the puzzle – he gives you the freedom to make the moves ‘your own’ which will make it easier for you to fit them in your game.
Underhooks With Uncle Jeff Glover DVD Review
The Underhooks With Uncle Jeff Glover DVD features No-Gi demonstrations of a very comprehensive use of underhooks in all BJJ positions that allow for them. Glover divides the content into three volumes, offering a total of an hour and a half of material.
Part 1 – Standing
The Underhooks With Uncle Jeff Glover DVD kicks off with a focus on the standing exchanges that involve underhooks, which would be almost every version that is worth considering. Jedd talks grip first, as playing with a single underhook is a lot more realistic and effective as opposed to aiming to establish both of them.
Glover also shares how to use the underhook(s) to set up and defend takedowns. If there is one key point to take away from this part of the instructional, it is to use the underhook to clinch and prevent the other person from moving freely, before you think about attacking. Attack examples here include snap downs and the double leg takedown.
Part 2 – Mount & Side Control
Arguably, the most you’ll use underhooks in Jiu-Jitsu is going to be on the ground, from a pinning position. For the most part, it is going to be in an attempt to control the position, but in some cases, underhooks also help you get out of one, as this part of the Jeff Glover Underhooks DVD demonstrates clearly.
The mount and top side control get a lot of attention, with Glover explaining how most situations of control you create anyway, involve some form of underhook, even when it is not the one we usually think about in grappling terms. Jeff covers defensive uses of the underhooks from these positions as well.
Part 3 – Guard
Finally, we arrive at the most complex use of underhooks in grappling. Mess them up from standing and you can re-adjust them. Fail with them from a pin, and you’re still on top. However, if you base your game on underhooks from the guard, and you lose them, you’re likely in deep trouble.
The guards getting attention in this last part of the Underhooks With Uncle Jeff Glover DVD are ones he was known for using a lot during his competitive days. The butterfly guard is first, showing plenty of interesting underhook control variations, including some that Marcelo Garcia used to great effect.
Another staple position of Jeff’s, the deep half guard, also features, offering an interesting take on an underhook, before the focus shifts to back attacks. Rounding everything off is a bit of highly useful information for triangle hunters, detailing how to use them effectively when your leg is trapped in a half guard.
Direct Torso Control
Underhooks are just one way of controlling your opponent. You know that, but what does this control mean, and what part of the body should you strive to control?
Let’s start with control. If you can make someone move in a direction they don’t want to and stop them from going in a direction they want to go to, you have control. As far as grappling is concerned, this is the most realistic expectation of control over another person you can aim for.
On the matter of the body part you’re trying to get to so that you can establish control if I had to pick one, I’d say the torso. Now let me confuse you a bit – every aspect of control you try to have, from a grip to full mount, including Ashi Garami variations, is aimed at controlling the torso.
This is what we refer to as indirect control. Hwoever, the more direct the control is on the torso, the more control you’ll have over the other person. Let’s take underhooks as an example – they attach you to the shoulder, which provides direct control over that side of the torso.
Get two of them, and you now have optimal torso control to start doing whatever it is your game requires. The Underhooks With Uncle Jeff Glover DVD holds plenty of ideas on how to get super creative with underhooks to get control that leads to submission.
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Uncle Jeff Knows!
Easier said than done, but that’s the fun part, right? Next time you’re on the mats rolling, forget about your game for a bit. In every roll, from every position try to get at least one underhook in and see what happens. The Underhooks With Uncle Jeff Glover DVD provides the blueprint, but you’re free to test out the concept of underhooks during open mat so that you realize yourself that you need it.
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