Key Takeaways
- A two-part No-Gi DVD blending together trips and throw techniques for BJJ.
- Contains a bunch of different trip-throw combinations, executed from either underhook or overhook control.
- Features bonus submission follow-ups, as well as effective mat return tactics.
- BJJ World Expert Rating: 8 out of 10.
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The best way to throw someone down is to trick them into messing their balance up. If you decide to only attack one aspect of their structure, such as posture, you’ll likely hit a brick wall, and end up messing it all up. Or worse, you’ll be forced to pull guard and butt scoot.
The solution to this issue lies in dilemma attacks. The Trip Throw Dilemma Michael Pixley and Heath Pedigo DVD offers a way to combine Judo and wrestling into a simple system that will allow you to finally start taking people down at will. Or pulling guard better, if you’re dead set on being the subject of BJJ memes.
The Story of BJJ Dilemmas
It was Danaher who introduced the concept of dilemmas in BJJ under that name, providing a very concise and detailed explanation of how threatening at least two things at once forces opponents into making bad decisions, allowing you to capitalize on at least one of your attempts.
Others before him used the same tactics, from the Gracies onwards, and even people before them, probably. I’ve heard it explained as baiting, trapping, leading, faking, etc. Regardless of the name, it comes down to tricking your opponent into messing up, by offering them two scenarios that they don’t like as their only options.
In essence, it is the illusion of an option, as whatever the outcome is, it favors you. With dilemmas, you usually like to combine end-range movements such as a submission with a pass or sweep that, allowing each to enhance the threat and effectiveness of the other.
You can also use dilemmas to take people down, ranging from pulling guard and doing takedowns (the guard pull-ankle pick being one widely used example) to combining different types of takedowns to achieve your goals.
The Trip Throw Dilemma Michael Pixley and Heath Pedigo DVD presents one such example of a choice that your opponent won’t find easy to make. Your only task in succeeding with ti is presenting it in a way that leaves no other options open.
Michael Pixley and Heath Pedigo
The Daisy Fresh team has really pushed the boundaries on BJJ in more ways than one. From putting together a team out of nowhere and in the middle of nowhere, to producing world-class competitors and even changing the template of BJJ instructionals.
One thing we often see from the team’s founder Heath Pedigo is that he participates in the instructionals of all his students. The credits are shared, but it still remains within the team and we viewers get to see two perspectives rather than one. Imagine if Danaher and Ryan did that too.
In terms of bios, Heath Pedigo is a black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu under Rodrigo Vaghi. He founded the Petigo Submission Fighting Team from Mount Vernon, IL, which became known as the Dasiy Fresh team. He has been training and competing since the late 90s, which puts him among the pioneers of submission grappling in the US.
Michael Pixley, on the other hand, is a Heath Pedigo purple belt, and the Daisy Fresh team wrestling coach. The former NCAA and NAIA Champion announced himself to the world by taking out Nicholas Meregali at the ADCC, leaving lots of questions about whether belts really mean anything in BJJ anymore.
Nevertheless, the focus of today’s article is on the Trip Throw Dilemma Michael Pixley and Heath Pedigo DVD, a joint effort that introduces a blueprint to developing a dilemma question for standing that few will be able to answer.
Trip Throw Dilemma Michael Pixley and Heath Pedigo DVD Review
The Trip Throw Dilemma Michael Pixley and Heath Pedigo DVD is a two-hour-long instructional that covers a simple way of using underhooks and overhooks to launch dilemma attacks while standing. It is a No-Gi instructional featuring Daisy Fresh team members.
Part 1 – Overhooks
This Trip Throw Dilemma Michael Pixley and Heath Pedigo DVD is beautifully divided into two portions, the first of which addresses how to get people to the mats relying on overhooks. Of course, it presents a dilemma, offering leg attacks in the form of trips, paired with hip and upper body throws.
The main culprits in the first volume are ankle picks and inside leg trips, made possible by the overhook that denies the opponent a chance to counter. While these can prove difficult to finish, as opponents can still escape by raising their foot off the mats in time, Pixley and Pedigo fortify them with a couple of Judo throws, one of which is dubbed the Meregali throw. Read into it as you want.
Part 2 – Underhooks
The second part of the instructional stays on the same track, although there is a change in the main method for control, swapping the overhook for an underhook. Most of the second part of the Trip Throw Dilemma Michael Pixley DVD covers shoulder crunch-controlled attacks, transitioning to headlock as needed.
The dilemmas feature low foot trips and drag downs, paired with the occasional leg-sweeping throw. Judo drops also appear, offering a great addition to a few wrestling-inspired mat returns that the Daisy Fresh team loves to use.
As the final part comes to a conclusion, Pedigo and Pixley offer a very cool concept I never realized before, which is bundling trips together in a way that affects both legs, making it fairly impossible to defend against.
Two Dimension of Takedown Setups
Dividing the body into upper and lower in terms of management is the ultimate way of controlling people in grappling. It may be standing, or on the ground, it may be top or bottom, and even offense or defense – the goal remains the same.
In wrestling, they refer to it as bunching – getting the head and feet as close together as possible. I like to call it folding. This is what you want to force your opponent into if you want to control them, regardless of where you are. It is also what you don’t want to give away as well.
Since people who have grappled a while understand this, they won’t be easy to fold, which now means you have to alternate attacking different parts of their body, usually at both ends. Going for headlock and footsweeps, for example, is a great combo, but it can also be difficult to pull off against folks with good posture habits.
That leaves us with the Judo classics of using upper body throws from clinching positions combined with inside and outside trips. Sprinkle a bit of classic wrestling control in there, so that you’re not reliant on the GI and you have the blueprint offered in the Trip Throw Dilemma Michael Pixley and Heath Pedigo DVD. It works.
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Throw or Trip?
So, the dilemma is whether you’ll succeed with a throw or a foot sweep? The Trip Throw Dilemma Michael Pixley and Heath Pedigo DVD has everything you need to start asking such Shakespearean questions out of your grappling partners, even though you’ll have the advantage of knowing the final answer.
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