Key Takeaways
- A wrestling DVD taht goes over teh most effective ways to break down people from the all fours (referees) position.
- Features: tilts, turns, leg rides, Nelsons, claw rides, thigh prys, and a bunch of effective breakdown staples.
- Contains essential cross-body and crab rides details essential for BJJ back attacks.
- BJJ World Expert Rating: 7 out of 10.
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Leg riding is not a novel thing in BJJ anymore, but that doesn’t mean people know how to set them up properly and effectively. Rides are super-reliable ways of ensuring your opponent can’t shake you off and stand up, but they do come with conditions that define their effectiveness.
A few of these conditions, mostly in the setup portion of leg rides, are the main focus of the Leg Riders Blueprint Aaron Nagao DVD. It is a great resource to help you find effective and simple ways to force people to lie down on the mat and stop them from getting up with ease. Yeah, I know, that’s exactly what you needed.
The Art of Breakdown to Turn
These two terms are likely unfamiliar to the everyday BJJ practitioner, yet they’re staples of any wrestling class anywhere around the world. While not every aspect of wrestling is applicable to BJJ, there are those that are indispensable once you figure out that they work like a charm.
It just so happens that takedowns are the least transferable things to BJJ. If you’re looking at wrestling to expand your grappling game, mat work, along the lines of mat returns, breakdowns, tilts, rides, and turns should be at the top of your list.
Since wrestlers are the most difficult grapplers to hold down, teh solution to this problem lies, of course, in wrestling. There are numerous ways to break down an opponent who is defying a pin and attempting to stand up, some of which involve turning and rolling as the main means to an end.
It takes most wrestlers years to figure these things out through constant practice, but you can shorten that timespan significantly by looking at the condensed options presented in the Leg Riders Aaron Nagao instructional.
Young Wrestling Phenom Aaron Nagao
I love how we’re seeing wrestling experts as coaches in BJJ more and more these days. I’ve always claimed that we can learn a lot from anyone, regardless of sport or age, and Aaron Nagao is the perfect example in support of my approach.
The redshirt junior Penn State star is one of the best young grapplers who will undoubtedly do big things in combat sports, as long as he can keep away from injuries. After sustaining a long-term injury early last year, he had to undergo surgery, but the All-American has made a full recovery now.
With a list of titles in the NCAA and a bunch of record achievements in his wrestling career so far, Aaron decided to try and share some of his knowledge as he was recovering from his injury. Already reaping results on the mats this season, his Leg Riders Blueprint Aaron Nagao DVD provides a valuable insight into how he does some of his best mat work.
The Leg Riders Blueprint Aaron Nagao DVD Review
The hour-and-a-half-long Leg Riders Blueprint Aaron Nagao DVD is a three-part wrestling instructional that covers a subject rarely taught and explored in BJJ. Seeing as breakdowns and turns are precursors to rides, this is exactly the DVD you need to skyrocket your pinning and control success:
Part 1 – The Thigh Pry Grip
When attacking the referee’s position in wrestling (it’s obvious how this translates to BJJ), rides are a great way to get the back to the mats for that all-important pin. The grip that allows for most rides to work is the infamous thigh pry, something we don’t really do in BJJ, but should.
In the first, fairly short part of the Leg Riders Blueprint Aaron Nagao DVD, the focus is on the thigh pry and the claw grip, and how to attach to the opponent’s hips so that you can attack their legs with rides. The spiral ride, a common, simple option and an easy-to-get ankle ride, eases you into the concept and motions.
Part 2 – Breakdowns
The more direct way to use rides, especially leg rides, is to break the opponent on all fours to the mats. Breaking them down involves at least one shoulder and hip to touch the mats, something covered in great detail in the Aaron Nagao Leg Riders DVD.
Aaron uses many different techniques to achieve the breakdown, not all of which are really applicable to BJJ. However, most of the things he shows are very valuable, especially against he modern, super-annoying defensive turtle system. All the half Nelson moves, the figure four spread, the Broomstick, and the reverse bundle are tailor-made for Jiu-Jitsu.
Part 3 – Turns
Saving the best for last, the most attractive way, which is also the most technical, to break opponents down, appears in the final volume of the Leg Riders Blueprint Aaron Nagao DVD. Here, Nagao goes over different random tilts and turns first, with the Shultz turn your best bet for BJJ.
About half of the volume focuses on the cross-body ride, which is a kind of twister-like position and is super helpful for Jiu-Jitsu grapplers. Tilts, roll thoughts, and turns are the main options explored from the cross body, introducing a very effective and different way to attack the back.
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Attaching vs. Pinning
The one thing we get wrong in BJJ when it comes to holding people down is that we get caught up in the complexities of our overly elaborate positions. Thinking that the key moment in side control is the angle at which you hold the bottom person’s lapel is common among people who’ve never had to hold down a wrestler.
If you truly want to learn how to guide people where you want them to go in grappling, try to impose your game on a wrestler. Since most of you will fail miserably, let me offer a general concept that I found very useful.
Instead of only thinking of pinning as control, think of your attachment relative to the opponent’s body as a means of control as well. Namely, holding a front headlock from the knees is not a pin, but it does a great job at controlling someone. The same happens in an Ashi Garami, a Kimura grip, or the Truck position.
Such attachments that allow you to follow someone through many different planes of motion while not losing your position are what inevitably lead to a pin or submissions. It is also something wrestlers train constantly, while we in BJJ largely ignore it. The Aaron Nagao Leg Riders DVD can fix this for you.
Ride On!
Rides are becoming a very useful tool in BJJ lately, largely as a result of Craig Jones and the B-team, who use them constantly, and with great effect in their games. There are plenty of other similar aspects of wrestling, though, that we can use to improve our BJJ. The Leg Riders Blueprint Aaron Nagao DVD offers some of those, such as breakdowns, turns, and tilts. Wrestlers swear by them for mat returns, and now you can see exactly what that is.
