Key Takeaways
- A No-Gi BJJ DVD instructional on developing crushing pressure from the top.
- Over two hours of suffocation, smothers, pressure passing, and crush principles.
- Provides a pressure game from side control, mount, and passing.
- BJJ World Expert Rating: 8.5 out of 10.
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You know that feeling of someone being in your mount and you feel like the entire gym has gathered to help him put pressure on you. While you can’t focus on anything else but the devastating realization that you can’t breathe and you can’t get them off you the moment when you finally get out (probably by tapping) you’ll start thinking about doing the same to someone. Or, even better, the person who did it to you.
The Liam Resnekov Lung Ride System DVD teaches you exactly how to achieve this crushing pressure from the top. It contains a guide to placing purposeful pressure which aims to crush from the moment you start to pass, to the moment you reach mount. Then, you get to discover how quickly people give up when they can’t breathe, even though you’re not doing any technical choke or strangle.
Pressure-Focused Grappling
Telling someone in grappling that they’re strong is somewhat of an insult. Telling them they’re heavy is one of the best compliments you can give a grappler (try not to say it off the mats, though).
Exerting pressure on the bottom person takes time and training, especially if you want to keep that pressure strong as you maneuver into better positions or set up submission holds. However, there is another way to use pressure, which is a lot more efficient in BJJ terms.
Instead of using pressure as a placeholder while you transition to a better position or submission, think about it as the end goal. You don’t just have to pressure while you’re passing – keep the pressure on, even increase it after you pass, trying to constrict the opponent’s torso so much that they gasp for air even though their neck is completely free.
We saw how powerful chest crush submissions are when Josh Barnett submitted seasoned veteran and ADCC champ Dean Lister with one in Metamoris. The Liam Resnekov Lung Ride System DVD delivers a blueprint on how to methodically learn and apply torso crushing and smothers to your grappling game.
Liam Resnekov – A Life of Grappling
Head BJJ instructor of VT1 Team in Chatswood, New South Wales Liam Resnekov is not a name instantly recognizable to those who don’t live down under. Locally, though, he is somewhat of a combat sports legend. Trained in Gracie Jiu-Jitsu, and ranked second-degree black belt, Resnekov has 12 other black belts helping him run all classes in the Academy which teaches both BJJ and MMA.
Originally born in South Africa, Liam Resnekov started his martial arts career early, ending up with a huge resume in different combat sports that all contribute to MMA. On top of that, he is a recognized stunt performer and fight choreographer as well as the man behind several popular Australian UFC fighters.
The combination of lifelong combat sports training, competition, and coaching, along with the demands of being a stunt performer give Liam a unique insight into human motion, which he relies on heavily as a coach. His Liam Resnekov Lung Ride System DVD is a bestseller for a reason.
Full Liam Resnekov Lung Ride System DVD Review
This Liam Resnekov Lung Ride System DVD contains different volumes, each with a different running time. All in all, you get just over 2 hours of details on how to crush people from the top in No-Gi, starting in their guard and ending in mount without releasing pressure for a second.
Part 1 – Explaining Suffocation
As the Liam Resnekov Lung Ride System DVD opens, Liam starts by describing the types of suffocations available in grappling. Do not mix these up with chokes, as suffocations are much more panic-inducing and brutal, banking on being dirty.
Before the gets to the just of smothering folks better than King Ryan does, Resnekov first explains how body connections work, what to look for when trying to pressure someone into submission, and the principles of compressions. He also touches upon the role of breathing in BJJ, before concluding with a warning about the use of the techniques that follow.
Part 2 – Crushing The Torso
The real pressure starts in the second part of the Liam Resnekov Lung Ride System DVD with the Aussie explaining how to crush your opponent’s chest, mostly from side control variations.
As the volume progresses, Liam explores how to crush guards to get to side control, and also presents transition options to the mount. You guessed it, the mount is all about pressure once again, and this time, it leads to suffocation finishes which follow in the next volumes. A cool add-on is the option to crush the torso from the back, which I had never seen before.
Part 3 – Guard Crushing
One of the dumbest things ever from closed guard is to try to squeeze the opponent’s body with your legs. Crushing pressure in guard works, though, but only when you’re using it to dismantle and pass guards.
Resnekov covers the half guard and quarter guard, offering crush-based ways of dealing with frames and any other aspect of pass prevention you might run into from a guard player. You can be sure they won’t be doing any attacks while you’re placing such pressure from the top.
As the third volume of the Liam Resnekov Lung Ride DVD concludes, you’ll also find useful leg rides based on what we know in BJJ as the staple position, offering even more ways to crush the opponent from the top.
Part 4 – Smothers
The part I expect most will jump to immediately in the Liam Resnekov Lung Ride System DVD is the fourth volume, which covers 8 different ways of smothering your opponent from the mount.
Stuff you’d expect, such as the mother’s milk submission features heavily, but so do other ‘waterboarding’ concepts as well as other types of suffocations and smothers that seem like Eddie Bravo himself named them: the Conan, the Whisperer, the Chiropractor, etc. What they have in common is that they all work, and more importantly, combine easily with each other.
Part 5 – How to Breathe
A surprising addition to the Liam Resnekov Lung Ride System DVD, which could’ve been your standard 4-part instructional, is a fifth part that outlines how to breathe. This not only allows you to be more efficient in BJJ but also understand exactly what you’re trying to obstruct when opting to smother people like Liam.
The Art of The Smother
Smothers are often frowned upon in Jiu-Jitsu as being dirty moves, but what they are I perfectly legal and useful moves. Moreover, they are not at all easy to master and have nothing to do with your weight and size. They’re just as technical as any choke, if not more, and everyone can do them successfully.
Smothers introduce a very powerful aspect to your grappling game – panic. To be more precise, the panic part refers to the state you’re going to cause your partner. People tend to do stupid stuff when they find themselves under extreme pressure, even if they are experienced BJJ black belts. Maintain the compression long enough and if you don’t get a tap you’ll get panicky reactions.
In other words, you’ll get a freebie to a submission or another position you may prefer, without the risk of losing your position. Once you release smother without the bottom person tapping, they’ll instinctively focus on breathing for at least a few seconds, leaving you more than enough time to do your thing.
What you do in the wake of a smother is down to you, but the pressure itself, as well as setting it up is all outlined in the Liam Resnekov Lung Ride System DVD.
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Ride The Lungs!
This Liam Resnekov Lung Ride System DVD is one of the best-named grappling instructional I’ve seen, at least in terms of delivering on the title. Chest compressions, crushing pressure, and different ways to smother and suffocate are just some of the things you’ll learn from Liam in this DVD. The best part is that all these moves are legal for all belts and in both Gi and No-Gi.
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