Key Takeaways
- A No-Gi BJJ instructional covering quick and effective ways to kill collar ties.
- Contains early and late collar tie stripping solutions, covering distance management too.
- Features advice on how to train wrestling for BJJ in terms of intensity, rules, and rounds.
- BJJ World Expert Rating: 8 out of 10.
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How do you deal with the collar tie grip in Jiu-Jitsu? If you’re not sure what it is and why you need to know how to solve it, you’ve never grappled someone with experience or a good wrestler. You are in for a rude awakening once that happens.
If you know exactly what I mean, or simply want to be proactive, then a look at the Dima Murovanni Kill The Collar Tie BJJ Trendsetters DVD won’t hurt. It is concise instructional that you can go through quickly, and use immediately on the mats. That’s exactly what you want when you grip fight – efficiency.
What’s A Collar Tie?
Grips are the one subject I always dread teaching, as people get bored quickly with it and lose attention, ending up doing needless repetitions of useless motions. That said, grip fighting remains the very first method of engagement we use in grappling, and knowing both how to grip and how to get rid of grips is essential for grappling success.
Collar ties are those pesky grips that people in No-Gi (and sometimes Gi) use to control your posture and manage distance, by grabbing behind your neck with one of their arms. The grip can end up being very difficult to strip off if you don’t know how and opens up lots of opportunities for your opponent.
The worst thing about collar ties is that you can’t really do much, particularly while standing until you get the grip off. This often leads to people trying everything they can think of to strip it, which basically gives the collar tie holder a free pass at doing whatever they want.
And no, grabbing a collar tie of your own, once you’re caught with one is not the solution, and won’t neutralize the opponent’s initial grip. Wrestlers are highly aware of this and address collar ties immediately which is something we skip over in BJJ. Now, you can use the Dima Murovanni Kill The Collar Tie BJJ Trendsetters DVD to correct this.
The BJJ Coach Everyone Wants – Dima Murovanni
Belts don’t really matter in BJJ anymore, and that statement is not only true for competitors. We’ve always seen athletic blue and purple belts with Judo or Wrestling backgrounds make quick works of black belts.
However, these days, we also see a lot of people who teach before they reach the black belt. Again, nothing too new, as we’ve all seen academies led by colored belts. What’s new in that regard is that people get so good at coaching that they end up creating world-class grapplers from raw talent, way before they even ner the black belt level.
One such example is Dima Murovanni, a German-based, coach who currently holds a brown belt under Robert Nestor. Operating out of Nestor’s BJJ Akademie in Berlin, Dima has been the mastermind behind some of the top athletes who are killing it on the professional scene, even though they’re not black belts yet.
Some of Dima’s “products” include prodigy Josef Chen and Linus von Schrenk, whose success led to Dima being wanted by a host of other world-class grapplers. Namely, Margot Ciccarelli, Owen Jones, and Brianna Ste-Marie are just some of the athletes who asked Murovanni to help them out.
Josef Chen’s travels and association with the B-team also opened the door for Murovanni, who ended up joining the coaches of Craig Jones’ popular Austin-based gym. This helped him establish himself firmly as one of the best new coaches in Jiu-JItsu and start launching his instructionals, one of which, called the Dima Murovanni Kill The Collar Tie BJJ Trendsetters DVD is up for review today.
Dima Murovanni Kill The Collar Tie BJJ Trendsetters DVD Review
The Dima Murovanni Kill The Collar Tie DVD is part of his BJJ Trendsetters series and is another No-Gi instructional by the popular B-team coach. It contains three volumes, each covering a key aspect of dealing with collar ties in BJJ, with the material amounting to a total of an hour and a half.
Part 1 – Collar Tie Basics
the opening portion of the Dima Murovanni Kill The Collar Tie DVD begins by covering the essentials of collar ties, which do not get nearly the same attention defensively in Jiu-Jitsu, as they do in wrestling.
Dima first explains the key differences between using the tie in these two grappling settings, and what constitutes a good BJJ collar tie, based on the rules and goals of the sport. This sets the tone for him to begin covering ways in which you can strip it off, and keep it off.
The first few key aspects are all about your positioning and body structure. Using the head and shoulders are staples of early collar tie prevention in wrestling and works like a charm in BJJ as well. Being aware of the opponent’s hands and the distance between you are two more big things to constantly consider when grip fighting, both standing and on the mats.
Part 2 – Dominating the Arms
Once body positioning and distance management are covered, Dima’s attention switches to grips, explaining how your arms can help you stop collar ties in their tracks with a smart combination of grips. Elbow ties feature heavily in the opening sections of this part of the Dima Murovanni DVD.
As the volume unfolds, Dima also includes underhooks, explaining all options that those present and the dangers you need to be aware of. Different methods of collar tie stripping, such as the deadlift method, pushing and pulling the arms and elbow controls, round this part of the DVD off.
Part 3 – Overties and Frames
The final portion of the Dima Murovanni Kill The Collar Tie BJJ Trendsetters DVD keeps focusing on grips you can use to render collar ties useless, with overties now getting most of the attention. Mercy grips emerge a lot as a great option to control the opponent’s arms, along with some wrestling-inspired framing.
Bofer bringing everything to a conclusion, Murovanni also talks about the 2-on-1 grip, a.k.a. the Russian Tie. Closing arguments come in the form of crucial advice on training methodology, intensity, and how to set up wrestling training for BJJ.
Grip Stripping Essentials
Back when I started training BJJ, everything was about grip stripping. The norm was that if you’re in someone’s closed guard, you don’t do anything until you strip their grips away. Well, that ended up providing us with some very boring grip-stripping rounds that led nowhere apart from damaging our finger joints.
The two key aspects of grips that people seem to miss constantly in BJJ are to have a purpose with your grip whenever you’re holding one and to know when to leave an opponent’s grip and when to strip it off. Not an easy thing to figure out, I know, but there are two ways you can go about it.
You can either just grapple and leave it up to experience, which will require years of content training to develop the necessary awareness. Alternatively, you can set up scenarios and checkpoints in terms of holding and stripping that define when you address grips.
It is difficult to make a distinction between holding and stripping grips in terms of importance, but as a rule of thumb it is more difficult to make someone let go than grab them, so stripping should probably get a bit more attention, especially if you’re not sure what’s going on.
Given how ‘boring” and difficult to explain the subject is, not many good instructions are available to help you out. The Dima Murovanni Kill The Collar Tie BJJ Trendsetters DVD is one that is useful, albeit only in terms of the collar tie grip in No-Gi.
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Kill the Tie!
Why would you let someone grab and hold a collar tie when you understand now how much power it gives them over distance and posture? The Dima Murovanni Kill The Collar Tie BJJ Trendsetters DVD puts this in perspective really well, along with offering plenty of different ways to address collar ties, both before they become a problem and after you’re stuck in one. You’ll have to learn them at some point, so you might as well start today.
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